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Intel Loses Another Prominent Linux Engineer - Now Going To NVIDIA In the past few months at Intel between layoffs / corporate reorganizations and some deciding to pursue job opportunities elsewhere, there have been unfortunate impacts to their Linux engineering resources. Intel over the summer lost some prominent Linux engineering talent and in turn has even led to upstream Linux drivers being orphaned along with other driver maintainers departing and various other staffing changes. Unfortunate for Intel, another notable Linux name has left the company... |
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Wine 10.15 Released With Initial NTSYNC Bits, Unicode 17.0 Support Wine 10.15 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux as well as powering Valve's Proton for Steam Play... |
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Intel i915 vs. Xe Graphics Driver Benchmarks For Meteor Lake: Extra Performance In 2025 Last month I provided a fresh look at the Intel Arc A-Series graphics between the i915 and Xe kernel graphics drivers for Linux systems. The aging i915 driver is the default for the Alchemist GPUs but there is "experimental" support with the modern Xe kernel graphics driver. There were some performance advantages for the Arc A-Series if switching over to that newer driver option. Similarly, there are advantages with Meteor Lake too when moving from the i915 to Xe Linux drivers. Here are benchmarks to quantify that advantage. |
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Intel Linux Graphics Driver Seeing 2~5% Faster Shader Compilation Times, Up To ~20% A few days ago I wrote about Intel fixing some Panther Lake Xe3 graphics performance issues ahead of launch. The downside of those performance optimizations for Panther Lake was that they led to longer shader compilation times. The good news though is that some separate improvements were merged now for Mesa 25.3 to help enhance the Intel graphics shader compilation performance... |
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Linux Mint 22.3 Planned To Bring More Wayland Improvements While Linux Mint 22.2 was just released one week ago, Linux Mint developers are planning for a Linux Mint 22.3 update before year's end... |
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Fish Shell 4.0.6 Released With Many Fixes Fish 4.0.6 is out as the newest update to this shell that with Fish 4.0 was rewritten in Rust from C++... |
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Samba 4.23 Released With SMB3 Over QUIC, SMB3 Unix Extensions By Default Samba 4.23 is out today as the newest version of this SMB protocol re-implementation for file and print services interoperability with the Microsoft Windows world... |
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Linux 6.17 Fix Lands To Address Regression With "Serious Breakage" In Hibernation This week's round of power management fixes for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel are on the more notable side with fixes for both AMD and Intel P-State drivers plus addressing a system hibernation issue that could lead to "serious breakage" and stems from a Linux 6.16 regression... |
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Fwupd 2.0.16 Released With New Search Feature, Fixes For FreeBSD Firmware Updates It was just two days ago that Fwupd 2.0.15 released with new hardware support and other improvements. That has already been replaced by Fwupd 2.0.16... |
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Bcachefs Outlines Plans For Shipping As A DKMS Out-Of-Tree Kernel Module With Linus Torvalds having recently marked Bcachefs as being "externally maintained" following ongoing disagreement over the generally accepted Linux kernel development practices, the plans were laid out today for shipping Bcachefs as an out-of-tree DKMS module... |
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Fedora 43 Beta Being Released Next Week Fedora 43 Beta is declared a "GO" and ready for release next Tuesday... |
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Linux 6.18 Will Further Complicate Non-GPL Out-Of-Tree File-Systems Out-of-tree file-system drivers not licensed/compatible with the GPL will have a new obstacle to deal with come time for Linux 6.18 later this year... |
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Apache Software Foundation Unveils Its Branding Overhaul With New Logo & "The ASF" Name The Apache Software Foundation announced last year that they would be changing its corporate logo and overhaul its branding after being criticized by American Indian activists. Today they announced the brand new Apache Software Foundation branding... |
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Linux Patched For New "VMSCAPE" Vulnerability Affecting Intel & AMD CPUs The Linux kernel was just patched moments ago for a new CPU security vulnerability... VMSCAPE. VMSCAPE affects both Intel and AMD processors... |
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CUPS 2.4.13 Print Server Released With "Important" Security Fix CUPS 2.4.13 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used, open-source print server. Driving this new point release is for addressing an important security vulnerability as well as a second less notable security issue... |