With the Linux kernel now limiting 32-bit systems to 4GB of memory even with the 'HIGHMEM' Kconfig option, an issue was uncovered where if the system was still populated with more memory than addressable by 32-bit systems, the kernel would crash

Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia has been pursuing the Fair DRM Scheduler as a 'fair' scheduling policy to help with multiple applications/processes aiming to make use of the GPU concurrently

Ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window opening up in just one month, the new Zblock allocator was queued up into Andrew Morton's 'MM' tree of memory management material likely destined for the next kernel merge window

Mold 2.38 is out this weekend as the latest feature update to this open-source, high-speed linker.

The SHA-256 code within the Linux kernel's cryptography subsystem is in the process of being refactoring so that it's available via the crypto's library API and also opening it up to support architecture-optimized implementations.

The XPG Alpha Wireless Gaming Mouse boasts a 16K DPI sensor and retails for $65~80 USD but turns out it doesn't even work properly under Linux without a pending kernel patch.

A patch currently residing within Andrew Morton's 'MM' memory management branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window is an addition by Red Hat for introducing deferred THP insertion to khugepaged

Merged today to the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library is an APV decoder and APV bitstream muxing and demuxing capabilities

Theo de Raadt announced today the release of OpenBSD 7.7, the 58th release for this BSD operating system over the past two decades.

Linux 6.15-rc4 is now available after a rather eventful week and about one month to go until the stable Linux 6.15.

A fresh take is being pursued around allowing the Linux kernel's out-of-memory (OOM) behavior to be customized using BPF programs.

Another change to look forward to with GNOME 49 come September is better/faster direct scanout for more applications thanks to a change that was merged to the Mutter compositor this past week.

Wayland Protocols 1.44 released on Sunday and with it comes one new protocol addition.

With the release of Ubuntu 25.04 this month I've looked at its performance on x86_64 laptops and desktop hardware to nice gains on server.

The Trinity Desktop Environment as a long ago fork of the KDE 3.5 desktop released TDE R14.1.4 on Sunday as the newest maintenance release with various bug fixes and minor feature improvements.

The AMD-XGBE Linux network driver has seen a set of patches published for it in enabling the 'new' AMD Ethernet Device codenamed Crater.

Kdenlive 25.04 is out today as the newest feature release to this KDE/Qt-aligned non-linear, open-source video editing application.

Separate from last week in uncovering a big performance regression on Linux 6.15 affecting workloads like Nginx and that regression getting fixed, I unfortunately discovered another heavy-hitting regression on Linux 6.15.

Meson 1.8 was released this afternoon as the newest update to this popular, cross-platform and open-source build system / build automation tool.

MoltenVK 1.3-rc1 was released today as the first test release of this updated Apple iOS / macOS / tvOS / visionOS layer that implements the Vulkan API atop the Apple Metal drivers