Software — Open Source — February 18th, 2025

AIDA64 drops Windows 95, 98, and Me, adds Radeon RX 9000 series support
If you have a PC with Windows 95 or Windows 98, bad news: AIDA64 can no longer work on it. Finalwire has released a new version of the app, and it dropped support for Microsoft's operating systems, which were released in the last millennium.
February 18, 2025 — Source

AMD Continues Preparing openSIL Concept For Phoenix & Turin Processors
One of the AMD software projects we are very bullish on for the future is openSIL for opening up more of the CPU silicon initialization code for what will eventually replace AGESA across all client and server processors that is aiming for production readiness with Zen 6. In turn, AMD openSIL should allow easier/better Coreboot support. One of the development milestone release targets did slip but they remain working on preparing AMD openSIL releases for Phoenix client and Turin server hardware.
February 18, 2025 — Source

Bluestar Linux is a gorgeous MacOS-like take on KDE Plasma that's easy to use
Honestly, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Bluestar Linux.
February 18, 2025 — Source

GNOME 48 beta is another nail in X11's coffin
Our first look at the default desktop for Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 'Plucky Puffin'
February 18, 2025 — Source

How to set up 2FA for Linux desktop logins for added security
If you want to add an extra layer of security to your Linux desktop operating system, it can be done in just a couple of minutes.
February 18, 2025 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.3.1 released
KDE Plasma 6.3.1 has been released, addressing several minor issues to improve the overall desktop experience. These fixes include resolving problems with non-KDE applications crashing, updating the collation for Updatemodel, and enhancing Dr Konqi's Sentry functionality. The update also addresses issues related to color pickers, keyboard activation, datetime testing, weather, and wallpapers.
February 18, 2025 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.3.1 Released With A Few Dozen Fixes For The Week
For those that typically wait for the first point release before moving to a new software version, KDE Plasma 6.3.1 is out today with a few dozen fixes for the week since the Plasma 6.3 debut.
February 18, 2025 — Source

Latest AVX-512 Optimization For FFmpeg Shows Wild Improvement On AMD Ryzen
Merged today for the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library was yet another AVX-512 optimized code path... Compared to the pure C code, the AVX2 code path was 10.98x faster while this new AVX-512 code path clocks in at 18x the performance of the common C code.
February 18, 2025 — Source

Libxml2 2.12.10 released
Nick Wellnhofer has announced the release of Libxml2 2.12.10, which is expected to be the final release of the 2.12 branch. This update includes security fixes, regression corrections, bug fixes, and enhancements in portability, such as sanitizer version checks and compatibility with package version files.
February 18, 2025 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.12.15 released
Linux kernel 6.12.15 has been released to address an issue with XFS.
February 18, 2025 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.12-20 released
Steven Barrett has released a new Liquorix kernel derived from Linux kernel 6.12.15. The Liquorix Linux kernel is an enthusiast Linux kernel that is optimized for low-latency computing in audiovisual production, reduced frame time variations in games, and unparalleled responsiveness in interactive systems. It is available for Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux.
February 18, 2025 — Source

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080/5090 Performance With Neat Video 6 On Linux
Last week NeatLab released Neat Video 6 as the newest version of their video engine to reduce noise and enhance video quality that can be used with the likes of DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut, and Premiere Pro software. Neat Video 6 features a faster render engine, optimized CPU + GPU performance, enhanced memory management, and other improvements. Neat Video 6 continues to support Linux natively when it comes to DaVinci Resolve usage as well as various OFX hosts like Natron / Flame / Mistika / Fusion Studio / Nuke.
February 18, 2025 — Source

OCCT Now Available on Linux, Steam and Steam Deck
OCCT, a premier software for PC stability and performance testing, is now available on Linux, compatible with Steam Deck, and will soon be available on Steam. This release marks a notable achievement for the community, serving the needs of overclocking enthusiasts, hardware aficionados, gamers, and IT professionals overseeing Linux-based servers. OCCT Linux provides straightforward installation, robust features such as CPU and GPU stress tests, and is ideally suited for server environments.
February 18, 2025 — Source

openSUSE Spin Achieves 100% Bit-Identical Packages For Reproducible Builds
There is an openSUSE project called Reproducible-openSUSE "RBOS" working on a proof-of-concept for constructing openSUSE in a bit-identical manner as part of the broad Reproducible Builds effort to be able to reproduce builds bit-for-bit against what is being compiled by the distribution vendor or other software distribution. The openSUSE RBOS has achieved 100% bit-identical packages as a major milestone.
February 18, 2025 — Source

PostgreSQL Lands Self-Join Elimination Optimization
More than seven years in the making, merged yesterday for PostgreSQL is a self-join elimination "SJE" feature as a performance optimization for some queries.
February 18, 2025 — Source

Qubes OS 4.2.4 released
Qubes OS 4.2.4 has been released and represents a stable release that brings together security patches, bug fixes, and updates from the prior stable version. The installation method provided is both secure and convenient, utilising a current ISO. The update encompasses all security enhancements, bug resolutions, and an improved Fedora template. Additional information can be found on the downloads page.
February 18, 2025 — Source

Right now, there is no right or wrong SASE answer
Adoption of SASE, or secure access service edge, is accelerating -- especially, according to IDC, at organizations of over 1,000 employees, while it's estimated the global SASE market will grow from last year's $1.83 billion to over $17 billion by 2033.
February 18, 2025 — Source

Ubuntu Linux LTS Releases May Offer Additional Intel Graphics Driver Updates
Ubuntu developers at Canonical are looking at including more Intel graphics driver packages as part of the hardware enablement "HWE" stacks shipped as part of Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) point releases. This would provide more comprehensive coverage of newer Intel driver components with future Ubuntu LTS point releases to benefit both the integrated and discrete graphics.
February 18, 2025 — Source

Wasmer 6.0 Wires Up Support For Multiple Heterogeneous Backends
For those interested in WebAssembly for the "run anywhere" prospects and container-like secure execution, Wasmer remains one of the leading WASM runtime options. Wasmer 6.0 Alpha 1 is out today as the latest to further along this quest.
February 18, 2025 — Source

Who needs Windows 11? FreeXP is a modern version of Microsoft's greatest OS, powered by Debian Linux
I appreciate calling Windows XP "Microsoft's greatest OS" will elicit snorts of derision from a good number of you. That honor probably belongs to Windows 7, or maybe even Windows 10 (once Microsoft ironed out the many problems that plagued it from the start). But certainly, Windows XP was a classic, and a huge step up from the operating systems that preceded it.
February 18, 2025 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 17th, 2025

CodeWeavers Hiring More Developers To Work On Wine & Valve's Proton
The friends at CodeWeavers have relayed work that they are looking to hire multiple Wine developers to join their paid team working on upstream Wine as well as their CrossOver products, Valve's Proton downstream for Steam Play, and related Wine-based tech.
February 17, 2025 — Source

Flowblade 2.18.1 released
A new version of the Flowblade video editor has been released, addressing an issue with the Credit Scroll generator in the Flatpak package.
February 17, 2025 — Source

How to solve the dreaded Blue Screen of Death on Windows PCs
A blue screen signals a massive system crash. Windows collects more data than you think. With a special tool, you can display the most important information about a blue screen and eliminate the cause.
February 17, 2025 — Source

Intel PyTorch Extension 2.6 Brings More Xeon 6 Optimizations
Intel software engineers overnight released the newest version of the Intel Extension for PyTorch. The v2.6 release brings new optimizations for current-generation Xeon 6 processors as well as new large language model (LLM) performance optimizations.
February 17, 2025 — Source

ISD 0.5 Released For Interactive systemd Management
A few weeks ago I wrote about ISD as a new open-source project for interactively managing systemd that aims to be more user intuitive especially for those that aren't veteran Linux server administrators. ISD has continued evolving and out today is ISD v0.5 with the latest enhancements for better managing systemd.
February 17, 2025 — Source

KVM-Powered MatterV 0.7 Can Run Unmodified VMware VMs
MatterV 0.7 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source virtual machine management platform built atop KVM. MatterV aims to make it easy to manage VMs across different environments while with today's v0.7 release adds the ability to run unmodified VMware virtual machines atop KVM.
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Limine 9.0 Bootloader Drops EXT4 File-System Support
Limine 9.0 is out today as the newest major release for this open-source modern multi-protocol bootloader and boot manager. Limine also boasts its own Limine Boot Protocol in addition to the native Linux support and chainloading/multiboot capabilities.
February 17, 2025 — Source

Linux kernel 6.12.14 released
Linux kernel version 6.12.14 is now available:
February 17, 2025 — Source

Linux kernel 6.13.3 released
Linux kernel version 6.13.3 is now available:
February 17, 2025 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.78 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.78 is now available:
February 17, 2025 — Source

MariaDB 11.7.2 and MariaDB 11.8.1 released
The MariaDB Foundation has announced the release of both MariaDB 11.7.2 and MariaDB 11.8.1.
February 17, 2025 — Source

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Through GeForce RTX 5080/5090 GPU Compute Performance
Complementing the recent Linux GPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 looking at both the Linux / Steam Play gaming performance as well as GPU compute and other areas, in today's testing is a wide multi-generation look seeing how the NVIDIA GeForce performance has evolved going back to the GeForce GTX 980 Maxwell GPUs up through the newest GeForce RTX 5080/5090 graphics cards.
February 17, 2025 — Source

Popular Linux distro for WSL is almost here, and you can help test it out TODAY
The promised release of an official Fedora image for the Windows Subsystem for Linux is getting closer, and you can help out on the test day.
February 17, 2025 — Source

RADV Lands Initial DCC Support For AMD GFX12 / RDNA4 GPUs
Last month when the state of the open-source RADV Vulkan driver for RDNA4 GPUs was outlined, it was noted that cooperative matrix support was missing along with DCC support and Vulkan Video for these upcoming Radeon RX 90x0 GPUs. Vulkan cooperative matrix support ended up being merged earlier this month while hitting Mesa Git today is the DCC support that is important for RDNA4 performance.
February 17, 2025 — Source

Wayland Protocols 1.41 Released With Color Management Support
Wayland Protocols 1.41 is shipping today with the color management protocol added for enabling high dynamic range (HDR) support on the Wayland-powered Linux desktop.
February 17, 2025 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 14th, 2025

"AM" 9.4.4 released
The "AM" 9.4.4 release introduces two new functionalities: the option to hide, which prevents the CLI from seeing, listing, updating, and managing selected applications, and the unhide option to reverse the hide action. This is beneficial for users managing multiple fixed version applications and controlling updates. The command "am hide $APP1 $APP2 $APP3" renames the remove script to remove.old, thereby designating the app as a "system" or "independent" application.
February 14, 2025 — Source

An 'unfortunate incident' hits latest Ubuntu 24.04 point release
The Noble Numbat has been besieged with delays
February 14, 2025 — Source

Asahi Linux lead resigns from Mac-based distro after tumultuous kernel debate
Hector Martin cites burnout, and Rust for Linux oppostion, in resigning.
February 14, 2025 — Source

Chimera Linux 20250214 update launches with new apk-tools, Kernel 6.13, and official PowerPC support
Just in time for Valentine's Day, the much-anticipated 20250214 update for Chimera Linux is here! This version introduces an improved package manager, a more modern kernel, and broadened hardware compatibility.
February 14, 2025 — Source

Dynamic Triple Buffering Merged For GNOME 48
As quite a Valentine's Day treat, the long-in-development dynamic triple buffering support for GNOME's Mutter compositor was just merged ahead of next month's GNOME 48 desktop release!
February 14, 2025 — Source

Evolve Core 1.7 released
Evolve Core 1.7, an advanced GTK Theme Manager designed to enhance the customization of the GNOME desktop experience, has been released. It is compatible with GTK 4 themes and provides sophisticated color editing options. The updates consist of an enhanced themes tab for improved stability, refined terminal output, the introduction of a new runInBash wrapper, various bug fixes, the addition of a new AT+ themes section, access to the GNOME Extensions Store, enhancements to widgets, and a newly designed launch preview page.
February 14, 2025 — Source

Fwupd 2.0.6 Adds Support For HPE Gen10/Gen10+ Servers
Fwupd 2.0.6 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used open-source solution for system and peripheral device firmware updating under Linux.
February 14, 2025 — Source

GNOME Software May Eventually Drop RPM Support In Favor Of Flatpaks
Stemming from the ongoing discussion around the issues raised with Fedora's Flatpak package of OBS Studio and how Flatpaks should be prioritized within the GNOME Software app center/store, the future of RPM support within GNOME Software raised.
February 14, 2025 — Source

Linux 6.15 To Ensure PlayStation 5 Controllers Use The Correct Driver
A change queued up by an Amazon engineer ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle will ensure that PlayStation 5 controllers on Linux load with the correctly desired driver.
February 14, 2025 — Source

PHP 8.3.17 and 8.4.4 packages for Fedora/RHEL released
Remi Collet has released PHP 8.3.17 and 8.4.4 packages for Fedora and RHEL-based Linux distributions.
February 14, 2025 — Source

Show Your Love For Linux Hardware Coverage This Valentine's Day
If you wish to show your appreciation for all of the Linux hardware reviews, Linux benchmarking, and open-source news provided on Phoronix each and every day, you can join Phoronix Premium this Valentine's Day weekend at a discounted rate.
February 14, 2025 — Source

Streamlining Compliance with Revenera's New Copyright Management Feature
We've moved on from the age-old argument on whether Open Source Software is needed for software development. As we understand, 70-80% of all software produced comprises of Open Source Components. These components often come with specific licensing requirements, one of which is the need to provide proper copyright attribution to the original authors. This ensures that the creators of the open source software receive recognition for their work, fostering a culture of respect and appreciation within the developer community.
February 14, 2025 — Source

Ubuntu Making Progress On Replacing initramfs-tools With Dracut
As a follow-up to the news from last October of Ubuntu considering Dracut to replace initramfs-tools for initrd generation, that work remains ongoing with some improvements since having been prepared for the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release but it remains overall an active affair.
February 14, 2025 — Source

Valkey 8.1-rc1 Delivers Fresh Performance Improvements
Valkey as the open-source in-memory store forked from Redis is preparing for its next feature release.
February 14, 2025 — Source

Vulkan 1.4.308 Brings NVIDIA's Provisional Present Metering Extension
Vulkan 1.4.308 was quietly released last week and besides a few fixes what makes it interesting is the provisional VK_NV_present_metering extension.
February 14, 2025 — Source

VSCodium 1.97.2.25045 released
A new version of VSCodium, an open-source alternative to Visual Studio Code (VSCode), without Microsoft branding and telemetry features. The latest version, 1.97.2.25045, is now available for download, including all updates from the most recent VSCode release.
February 14, 2025 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 10th, 2025

4MLinux 48.0 Beta released
A new beta version of the lightweight 4MLinux is now available for testing.
February 10, 2025 — Source

Formerly Known As YQPkg, Myrlyn Package Manager GUI Adds Repository Configuration
You may recall the YQPkg package management tool announced last year that's been talked up by openSUSE developers as a Qt-based package manager GUI and alternative to YaST. It's now known as Myrlyn and has added repository configuration as its newest feature.
February 10, 2025 — Source

GIMP 3.0 RC3 Released For A Final Round Of Testing
GIMP 3.0 RC3 is out today as what is hopefully the last release candidate before the long-awaited stable release of GIMP 3.0 as this long in development free software alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop.
February 10, 2025 — Source

IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 192 is available for testing
IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 192 is now available for testing, introducing a new kernel based on Linux 6.12, collectd 5, enhanced compression and decompression for the DELFATE algorithm, along with various minor bug and security fixes. The kernel release presents notable enhancements, including accelerated AES-GCM encryption and decryption for Intel and AMD CPUs equipped with VAES and AVX-512, memory alignment optimization that can boost TCP performance by up to 40%, support for TCP fraglist GRO, and scheduling enhancements for improved responsiveness to load spikes.
February 10, 2025 — Source

Microsoft Continues Enhancing Its Azure Linux 3.0 Distribution With February Update
Microsoft engineers released Azure Linux 3.0.20250206 overnight as the newest monthly update to this in-house Microsoft Linux distribution that is used within their Azure cloud infrastructure and a variety of other purposes at the Redmond company.
February 10, 2025 — Source

Netrunner 25 Shockworm is a gorgeous KDE Plasma Linux distro and a great Windows 11 alternative
The creators of Netrunner have just released a new iteration of their Debian-based Linux distribution, Netrunner 25 "Shockworm." This update offers enhanced security patches, a fresh desktop background, and an interface that's smoother than ever.
February 10, 2025 — Source

New Proposal To Raise The Linux Kernel's Default Timer Frequency To 1000Hz
A patch sent out on Sunday by Google engineer Qais Yousef is proposing to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz.
February 10, 2025 — Source

Python 3.14 Lands A New Interpreter With 3~30% Faster Python Code
Merged last week for Python 3.14 is a new tail-call intepreter that aims to offer significantly better performance with around 10% faster performance in PyPerformance or around a 40% speed-up in Python-heavy benchmarks. This tail-call interpeter can even outperform the current Python JIT compiler but for maximum performance benefits Python should be built with Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO).
February 10, 2025 — Source

RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low Latency Encoding Support
Adding to the Vulkan Video support for Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver is honoring of the low latency encoding options.
February 10, 2025 — Source

Union Hopes To Address KDE's Fragmented Ways Of Styling Apps
KDE/Qt apps can be styled many different ways with Qt widgets, SVG-based styling, Qt Quick, and other routes for styling of applications. That fragmentation of different ways to styling KDE apps can probe problematic for UI designs and lead to a less cohesive user experience. KDE developer Arjen Hiemstra is hoping to change that with the Union project.
February 10, 2025 — Source

Ventoy 1.1.01 released
Ventoy 1.1.01 has been released and optimizes the VTOY_LINUX_REMOUNT implementation for all Linux distributions while deprecating the VTOY_LINUX_REMOUNT option.
February 10, 2025 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 7th, 2025

AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan 2025.Q1.1 released
AMD has released an updated open-source driver for Vulkan, introducing new features such as an update to the Khronos Vulkan Headers, performance enhancements for yquake2, and resolutions for the black border issue in the Gnome window.
February 7, 2025 — Source

AMDVLK 2025.Q1.1 Brings New Performance Tuning & Fixes
AMDVLK 2025.Q1.1 is out this morning as the first update of the year to this official AMD open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems.
February 7, 2025 — Source

Apache NetBeans IDE 25-rc2 released
The second release candidate for Apache NetBeans IDE 25 has been released for testing with several updates, including ensuring that Gradle init respects the configured Java Runtime, preventing release candidates from interfering with the Maven index, addressing infinite loops in Fruchterman-ReingoldLayout, and increasing Maven indexer query limits.
February 7, 2025 — Source

Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer
Following arguments on the Linux kernel mailing list the past few days over some Linux kernel maintainers being against the notion of Rust code in the mainline Linux kernel and trying to avoid it and very passionate views over the Linux kernel development process, Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin has removed himself from being an upstream maintainer of the ARM Apple code.
February 7, 2025 — Source

Bcachefs Preps More Fixes For Linux 6.14, Continues Tracking Down Other Bugs
With the Linux 6.14 kernel Bcachefs has its last big planned on-disk format upgrade before removing the "experimental" tag on this copy-on-write file-system. Well, that's the hope at least. In addition to some early fixes last week, some additional Bcachefs fixes are now pending for merging to the mainline kernel while continuing to track down some other bugs.
February 7, 2025 — Source

GCC 15 Compiler Showing Off Nice Performance Improvements On AMD Zen 5
With the GCC 15 compiler having progressed to its final stage of development prior to the GCC 15.1 stable release in the likely March~April time frame, I've begun testing the updated GNU Compiler Collection on some test systems. Overall GCC 15 is looking nice and on AMD Zen 5 "znver5" in particular seeing some solid gains over GCC 14. Here are some initial performance benchmarks of the GCC 15 compiler.
February 7, 2025 — Source

GNOME's LocalSearch Metadata Extractor Ditches GStreamer For FFmpeg
While the GNOME project has long been closely tied to the GStreamer multimedia framework, GNOME's LocalSearch has decided to abandon its GStreamer use in favor of using FFmpeg/libav directly.
February 7, 2025 — Source

Godot 4.4 Beta 3 released
The third beta version of Godot 4.4 has been released. The Godot developers are in the process of preparing a release candidate and invites users who have not yet participated in the beta releases to take part.
February 7, 2025 — Source

IO_uring Zero-Copy Receive Support Ready For Linux 6.15 Networking
It's looking like IO_uring zero-copy receive support should be ready for the Linux 6.15 kernel cycle this spring.
February 7, 2025 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.12-16 released
Steven Barrett has released another Liquorix kernel derived from Linux kernel 6.12.12. The Liquorix Linux kernel is an enthusiast Linux kernel that is optimized for low-latency computing in audiovisual production, reduced frame time variations in games, and unparalleled responsiveness in interactive systems. It is available for Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux.
February 7, 2025 — Source

'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama
Open source project chief hits out at 'social media brigading'
February 7, 2025 — Source

MinGW-Glib2, Galera, Podman, MariaDB, Keepalived, Buildah, Bzip2 updates for AlmaLinux
AlmaLinux has been updated with various security enhancements, which include mingw-glib2, galera, mariadb, podman, mariadb:10.11, keepalived, buildah, and bzip2:
February 7, 2025 — Source

Minimal Linux OS runs in a 6MB PDF document in Chrome — LinuxPDF leverages RISC-V emulator
DoomPDF dev returns with a new GitHub project.
February 7, 2025 — Source

NVIDIA Publishes RTX Neural Texture Compression "RTXNTC" Beta
NVIDIA on Thursday published their first public beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression "RTX NTC" software development kit.
February 7, 2025 — Source

Pebble founder already has open-sourced PebbleOS running on new hardware
It comes less than two weeks after Google open-sourced PebbleOS.
February 7, 2025 — Source

Podman and Trivy updates for SUSE
SUSE Linux has received two security updates: SUSE-SU-2025:0382-1, a critical upgrade for podman, and SUSE-SU-2025:0056-1, a moderate update for trivy:
February 7, 2025 — Source

Serpent OS Working Toward Second Alpha, More Immutable OS Features
Despite Serpent OS development said to be slowing down to a lack of funding, they are hoping for the best and aiming to push forward with this original, from-scratch Linux distribution.
February 7, 2025 — Source

Software giant Red Hat gives owner IBM lift to shed its stodgy identity
At IBM's Investor Day event in New York City this week, the first the company has held since 2021, a word executives stressed was "software."
February 7, 2025 — Source

U.S. Senate's Proposed Bill: 20-Year Prison Terms for Using Chinese AI Models
Imagine this: you're scrolling through your favorite AI repository, excited to test out a new model that promises new capabilities. It's open source, widely discussed, and seems like a fantastic option. But what if downloading that model could land you in prison for 20 years or leave you facing a $1 million fine?
February 7, 2025 — Source

VSCodium 1.97.0.25037 released
A new version of VSCodium, a version of VSCode that excludes Microsoft branding and telemetry features, has been released. The latest update encompasses updates, fixes, refactoring, continuous integration, audio playback improvements, enhancements, patches, version repository usage, new extension endpoints, and the activation of reh-web.
February 7, 2025 — Source

Vulkan Cooperative Matrix Merged For RDNA4 GPUs With RADV, DCC Support Inches Closer
Last week when RADV lead developer Samuel Pitoiset with Valve was commenting on the AMD RDNA4 state with the Mesa RADV driver it was noted that Vulkan cooperative matrix support, Vulkan Video encode/decode, and DCC support were still missing. But in the past week one of the items is now crossed off the list and another is continuing to see new patch activity.
February 7, 2025 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 5th, 2025

AMD Announces Open-Source "Schola" Library For Reinforcement Learning
AMD announced today the release of Schola 1.0 as an open-source reinforcement learning library that is being made available under an MIT license and as part of their GPUOpen software collection for helping game developers.
February 5th, 2025 — Source

AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation Patches For Linux Updated, Intel RAR Eyed Next
One of the set of patches for the Linux kernel that we have been looking forward to but that wasn't wrapped up in time for the recent Linux v6.14 merge window was the work enabling use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction on Zen 3 CPUs and newer for broadcast TLB invalidation. This can lead to a nice performance bump in some workloads while the eighth iteration of those patches were posted overnight.
February 5th, 2025 — Source

Bisecting The Linux 6.14 Performance Regression With System76 Thelio + AMD Threadripper
Yesterday I showcased Linux 6.14 Git performance worse than Linux 6.13 and 6.12 in a number of multi-threaded workloads. Due to that initial discover being on the lone AMD EPYC Turin 2P server that is always busy running through new benchmarks for future content as well as I am being persistently short on time and constantly under pressure due to the state of the web/ad industry, I didn't expect to get around to digging deeper into the problem in the near-term.
February 5th, 2025 — Source

CISA orders agencies to patch Linux kernel bug exploited in attacks
​CISA has ordered federal agencies to secure their systems within three weeks against a high-severity Linux kernel flaw actively exploited in attacks.
February 5th, 2025 — Source

cURL 8.12 Released With Its Rust Hyper Backend Removed
Back in December was word that cURL would be dropping its "Hyper" Rust HTTP back-end due to little demand and lack of developer interest for that experimental code. The cURL 8.12 release is out today with Hyper stripped out.
February 5th, 2025 — Source

Firefox-ESR security update for Debian 12
A security update for Firefox has been issued for Debian GNU/Linux 12 (Bookworm) to resolve several security vulnerabilities that may allow for the execution of arbitrary code:
February 5th, 2025 — Source

GNOME Mutter 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, Gdctl Utility
The GNOME Mutter 48 compositor beta is now available for testing as part of this week's GNOME 48 beta milestone.
February 5th, 2025 — Source

Intel Is Reportedly Preparing New Battlemage Graphics Cards, New Device IDs Appear In Linux Graphics Driver Code
Intel has added three more PCI IDs to the Mesa 3D graphics driver code that suggests more Battlemage discrete GPU solutions are coming soon.
February 5th, 2025 — Source

Linux 6.14 Features Include The AMDXDNA Ryzen AI Driver, NTSYNC, Uncached Buffered I/O & Much More
Now that the Linux 6.14 merge window wrapped up this past weekend with the release of Linux 6.14-rc1, here is a recap of all the great new features, hardware enablement, and other improvements to find with this kernel.
February 5th, 2025 — Source

Linux Foundation Announces The SEAPATH 1.0 Hypervisor
The Linux Foundation by way of their LF Energy initiative announced today the release of SEAPATH 1.0, a security-hardened real-time hypervisor.
February 5th, 2025 — Source

MariaDB 11.4.5, 10.11.11, 10.6.21 and 10.5.28 released
The MariaDB Foundation has announced the release of the latest stable versions in its long-term series: MariaDB 11.4.5, 10.11.11, 10.6.21, and 10.5.28, all of which will be maintained for five years.
February 5th, 2025 — Source

New Linux Patches Yield Up To 3.3x Faster AES-CTR Performance On AMD Zen 5 CPUs
Google engineer Eric Biggers is known for some of his great crypto performance optimization patches to benefit the Linux kernel and his most recent patch series is yielding some very tantalizing results for AMD Zen 5 processors whether it be the Ryzen 9000 series, Ryzen AI 300 series, or EPYC 9005 server processors.
February 5th, 2025 — Source

NVIDIA Engineer Talks Up sched_ext Linux Scheduler Possibilities At FOSDEM
Merged last year for the Linux 6.12 kernel was sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler possibilities by allowing schedulers to be implemented as eBPF code and dynamically loaded into the kernel. This allows for rapidly developing new schedulers as well as exploring other new possibilities around more intelligent kernel scheduling decisions.
February 5th, 2025 — Source

OpenShift, Libsoup, OVN, Camel, OpenStack, Kernel updates for RHEL
Red Hat has announced the release of multiple security updates, which include Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh Containers for version 2.5.8, as well as updates for libsoup and various versions of OVN ranging from 22.09 to 24.09:
February 5th, 2025 — Source

Red Hat Developing "F-UKI" As Their Newest Open-Source Project
Red Hat engineer Anirban Sinha presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend in Brussels on F-UKI, a new project being worked on at Red Hat as part of the confidential computing push for loading guest firmware within a Unified Kernel Image (UKI) for confidential VMs.
February 5th, 2025 — Source

Ubuntu Linux on WSL gets massive upgrade with new tar-based install that makes Microsoft Store optional
If you are a Linux fan that is forced to use Microsoft Windows for some reason, you know how valuable Windows Subsystem for Linux is. If you aren't familiar, WSL allows you to run a Linux environment from within Windows -- no virtual machine needed. It's pretty wonderful.
February 5th, 2025 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 3rd, 2025

Alpine Linux In An Infrastructure Crisis With Equinix Metal Sunsetting
Last week I wrote about the crisis plaguing X.Org / FreeDesktop.org with losing out on their cloud/server infrastructure due to losing out on their free server resources provided by Equinix at the end of April. It's not only FreeDesktop.org and all those hosted projects now rushing to find hosting alternatives and sponsorships to cover new costs, but it turns out the Alpine Linux project is also in a similar position.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source

Apple makes Swift Build open source; Swift Playgrounds slightly renamed
Over the weekend, Apple announced that it is making Swift Build open source. This is the build engine used by both Xcode and for the company's internal projects.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source

Ardour 8.11 released
Paul Davis has announced the release of a hotfix release of Ardour, addresses two significant issues:
February 3rd, 2025 — Source

Cloud Hypervisor 44 Released With New Performance Improvements
Cloud Hypervisor 44 is now available as the newest version of this security and cloud minded Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) that operates atop Linux's KVM and the Microsoft MSHV Hypervisor.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source

Cyber security implications of DeepSeek's open-source AI model
Experts discuss the cyber security ramifications following the shock release of DeepSeek's open-source AI model
February 3rd, 2025 — Source

Data Centres Can Cut Energy Use By Up To 30% With Just About 30 Lines of Code, Research Shows
New research has found that data centres can reduce their energy usage by up to 30% simply by altering around 30 lines of code in the Linux kernel's network stack.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source

Faux Bus Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Better Deal With Simple Devices
Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is proposing "Faux Bus" as a new "fake" bus solution for simple devices.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source

Open Licensing Promotes Culture and Learning. That's Why EFF Is Upgrading its Creative Commons Licenses.
At EFF, we're big fans of the Creative Commons project, which makes copyright work in empowering ways for people who want to share their work widely. EFF uses Creative Commons licenses on nearly all of our public communications. To highlight the importance of open licensing as a tool for building a shared culture, we are upgrading the license on our website to the latest version, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source

OpenAI Goes After DeepSeek with Free o3-mini Model and Deep Research
ChatGPT gets more powerful and adds new features.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source

OpenAI launches 'deep research' AI agent for ChatGPT
Your very own research assistant on ChatGPT.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source

OpenAI o3-mini versus DeepSeek R1: AI Coding Comparison
Choosing the right AI language model can feel like trying to pick the perfect tool from an overflowing toolbox—each option has its strengths, but which one truly fits your needs? If you've found yourself debating between OpenAI's o3-mini vs DeepSeek R1, you're not alone. These two models have been making waves for their impressive capabilities, but their differences can make the decision tricky. Whether you're tackling complex coding challenges, analyzing intricate datasets, or simply looking for a reliable AI partner, understanding how these models stack up is key to making an informed choice.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source

OpenAI unveils deep research agent for ChatGPT
Takes a bit more time to spout a bit less nonsense
February 3rd, 2025 — Source

OpenAI Unveils Deep Research, An Advanced AI Model Designed To Tackle Complex Tasks Autonomously
The AI industry is getting more intense as companies aggressively focus on bringing forward cutting-edge technology and making the next breakthrough. While OpenAI has established itself firmly in the field and has extensively expanded its services, DeepSeek has been getting considerable attention lately for its cost-effective model. The China-based startup has even surpassed ChatGPT in the Apple App Store charts.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source

OpenAI's Altman says 'no plans' to sue China's DeepSeek
OpenAI chief Sam Altman said Monday the US company has "no plans" to sue Chinese startup DeepSeek, which rattled Silicon Valley with its powerful and apparently cheaply developed chatbot.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source

OpenAI's 'Deep Research' Gives Students a Whole New Way to Cheat on Papers
OpenAI's new Deep Research for ChatGPT is made to create research papers, though Google Gemini 2.0 has a very similar feature.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source

Run DeepSeek R1 Locally: Unlock AI Power Without Sacrificing Privacy
DeepSeek R1 is an innovative AI model celebrated for its remarkable reasoning and creative capabilities. While many users access it through its official online platform, growing concerns about data privacy have prompted a shift toward running the model locally. By setting up DeepSeek R1 on your own hardware, you can maintain full control over your data while using the model's full potential. This guide by Futurepedia provides a detailed, step-by-step approach to help you get started and setup locally in just 3 minutes. As well as covering essential tools, hardware requirements, and practical applications.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source

Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek
According to the language of the proposed bill, people who download AI models from China could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source

'Tiny' Linux 6.14-rc1 released: What's new in 500,000 lines of modified code
Even a small kernel update brings significant changes. Here's what's improved.
February 3rd, 2025 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 24th, 2025

Apache NetBeans IDE 25-rc1 released
The first release candidate for Apache NetBeans IDE 25 has been released for testing, featuring various enhancements aimed at optimizing the development workflow. Improvements encompass Gradle, Maven, Ant, Java, Groovy, PHP, VSCode, Web, Web.jsf, OCI Cloud Assets, JS CDT Debugger, CSS, JS, and UI.
January 24th, 2025 — Source

ChimeraOS 2025-01-24 (7a488b9) released
Another pre-release of ChimeraOS is now available for testing, reverting the previous kernel update and adding additional gamepad support.
January 24th, 2025 — Source

Don't want your Kubernetes Windows nodes hijacked? Patch this hole now
SYSTEM-level command injection via API parameter *chef's kiss*
January 24th, 2025 — Source

Fedora Preparing For A Data Center Move For More Power & Space For Possible RISC-V
It's not only AI start-ups running into space and power capacity bottlenecks but the Fedora Project has been pushing the limits of its main data center and is preparing for a move to a new data center to allow for more physical space and power capacity. In turn one item mentioned is allowing space for possible RISC-V build systems for Fedora.
January 24th, 2025 — Source

GNOME 48.alpha released
GNOME 48.alpha, the initial unstable release in the 48 series, is now available for testing. The beta version is planned for February.
January 24th, 2025 — Source or Source

GNOME Showtime Video Player Won't Be Ready Until GNOME 49
While there are many exciting new features in the GNOME 48 Alpha as well as a new app with Decibels becoming the official audio player, there isn't a new official video player for this desktop release.
January 24th, 2025 — Source

KDE neon 20250123 released
KDE neon 20250123 has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
January 24th, 2025 — Source

Linux 6.14 Adds Support For Blaize BLZP1600, SpacemiT K1 & Snapdragon 8 Elite SoCs
The four SoC pull requests were sent out today for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window. These pull requests are principally about various ARM SoC and platform hardware additions/changes but also an increasing number of RISC-V SoC activity too.
January 24th, 2025 — Source

Linux 6.14 Delivering Better Read Performance For CIFS
The Common Internet File System (CIFS) as an implementation of the SMB protocol for commonly sharing files with Windows systems will enjoy better read performance with the Linux 6.14 kernel.
January 24th, 2025 — Source

Linux rolls out the welcome mat for Microsoft's Copilot key
But what the heck should it do?
January 24th, 2025 — Source

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Linux GPU Compute Performance Benchmarks
While there have been a lot of GeForce RTX 5090 Windows gaming benchmarks since the review embargo lift yesterday, for those more fascinated by this high-end Blackwell desktop graphics card for its GPU compute potential on Linux, this article is for you. Up today are my very initial GPU compute benchmarks for the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition on Linux with NVIDIA graphics card comparisons across the prior RTX 20, RTX, 30, and RTX 40 series too.
January 24th, 2025 — Source

NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal & Volta Support Looks Like It Will Soon Move To A Legacy Driver
Now that NVIDIA is rolling out the "Blackwell" GPU driver support, it looks like the NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta generations will soon be moving to a legacy driver branch.
January 24th, 2025 — Source

Several Linux DRM Drivers Orphaned Due To Developer Health
Several of the upstream Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers have become orphaned due to the unfortunately declining health of their lone driver maintainer.
January 24th, 2025 — Source

Vulkan 1.4.306 Published With Two More Extensions
Vulkan 1.4.306 was published this morning as the newest routine specification update to this graphics/compute API.
January 24th, 2025 — Source

WINE 10 is still not an emulator, but Windows apps won't know the difference
New double-digit vintage goes well with all sorts of things
January 24th, 2025 — Source

XFS Code For Linux 6.14 Improves Realtime Device Support
In addition to the Bcachefs features and new Btrfs code for Linux 6.14, the XFS file-system changes were merged on Thursday for this next version of the Linux kernel.
January 24th, 2025 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 22nd, 2025

AMD Announces The AMDGPU Composition Stack "ACS" For Advanced Linux Desktop Features
An unexpected surprise today are AMD Linux software engineers announcing a new project a bit further outside the scope of their open-source graphics drivers... The AMDGPU Composition Stack "ACS" is for delivering new advanced features atop Wayland for bettering the Linux desktop display capabilities.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source

AMD Radeon On Linux 6.13 + Mesa 25.0-devel vs. NVIDIA R565 Linux Graphics/Gaming Performance
Ahead of the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series graphics "Blackwell" and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 series "RDNA4" later in the quarter, I figured it would be worthwhile having a dedicated article looking at the latest upstream Linux graphics/gaming performance for current generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 and AMD Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source

AMD Releases Orochi 3.0 For HIP & CUDA API Switching At Run-Time
Back in April 2022 was the announcement by AMD's GPUOpen team of Orochi as a library for HIP/CUDA API run-time switching. Making use of Orochi allows for dynamically targeting either AMD HIP or NVIDIA CUDA at run-time to ease the distribution/usage of apps wanting to target both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs from the same software build. Today Orochi 3.0 was released.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source

Apache HTTP Server 2.4.63-rc1 released
The release candidate for Apache HTTPD webserver 2.4.63 has been made available, featuring a number of updates. These tasks involve updating the redirect-carefully example BrowserMatch configuration to align with more recent client versions, addressing potential crashes on error paths, extending timeouts for ACME server verification and certificate issuance, and adjusting the log level from error to debug when Stapling is enabled but a certificate lacks an OCSP responder URL.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source

Arch Linux Installer Adds Wayfire As A Desktop Option, Btrfs Improvements
Archinstall 3.0.2 was just tagged as the newest version of this quick and easy, text-based installer for the Arch Linux operating system.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source

Free Software Foundation Marking 40 Years Old With A New Logo
In October it will mark 40 years since the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded by Richard Stallman. In marking forty years of supporting the free software movement, they have been running a logo contest to memorialize the milestone. Today that new logo was unveiled.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source

Grafana security update for AlmaLinux 8
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January 22nd, 2025 — Source

Implementing Zero Trust Security in Kubernetes
Adopting these strategies will enable organizations to enhance their Kubernetes security posture and better defend against evolving cyber threats.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source

Important Changes To Intel TDX Coming With Linux 6.14
Important code restructuring to the Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) code is landing for the Linux 6.14 kernel to make it more robust moving forward and preparing for future features around this confidential computing / trusted execution environment (TEE) functionality built into the newest Xeon processors.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source

Intel Calls For More Modular PC Designs, Easier Component Replacement/Upgrades
In an Intel blog post today they outlined their desire for a more modular PC design to enhance repairability and reduce e-waste. It's very much along similar lines of the Framework Computer upgradeable and easily serviceable laptops. With some luck hopefully we will be seeing more modular PC designs moving forward.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source

Linux 6.14 Working To Make It Less Painful Debugging Early Boot Issues
Linux kernel developers are working to make it easier to debug early boot issues such as Kexec failures as currently dealing with such situations can be a frustrating and time consuming headache for figuring out the problems prior to the kernel being fully brought online.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source

Linux's KUnit Will Now Default To Using Hardware Acceleration For Faster Testing
Surprisingly a change not made years ago, the Linux Kernel Unit Testing "KUnit" framework with the Linux 6.14 kernel is set to use hardware acceleration by default for faster testing where available.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source

LLVM Lands Initial Support For IBM SystemZ "arch15" Target: IBM z17 / Telum II
Merged this week into the LLVM compiler codebase is initial support for "arch15" within the SystemZ back-end. Arch15 likely correlates to the IBM z17 mainframes with Telum II processors.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source

Qt 6.9 Toolkit Beta 2 Now Available For Testing
The second of three planned betas for the Qt 6.9 cross-platform UI toolkit is now available for testing ahead of the planned stable release in March.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source

Steam for Windows, Mac, Android & Linux 2025
Download Steam, the most popular digital distribution PC gaming platform.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source

This lightweight Linux distro is the easiest way to revive your old computer. How it works
If you want to breathe life back into a slow or aging computer, Linux Lite 7.0 is a lightweight (and easy to install) distribution I highly recommend.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source

Ventoy 1.1.00 released
Ventoy 1.1.00 has been released, which includes Shim updates, eweOS ISO support, and bug fixes.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source

Very Promising Linux Patch Optimizes TLB Flushes During Page Reclamation
Google engineer Vinay Banakar sent out a patch this week for the Linux kernel's memory management code to optimize TLB flushes during page reclaim and are showing very promising results.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source

Wine 10.0 brings Arm Windows apps to Linux, still is not an emulator
Wine compatibility layer is the heart of many Windows app translation projects.
January 22nd, 2025 — Source or Source

Software — Open Source — January 20th, 2025

AMD Seeking Feedback Around What Radeon GPUs You Would Like Supported By ROCm
An engineer from AMD by way of their Nod.ai acquisition is seeking feedback from the community around what other Radeon graphics cards you would like to see supported by the ROCm support on Linux. This community wishlist extends to ROCm Windows support as well but at least there the HIP Rutime/SDK on Windows already supports more consumer GPUs than Linux.
January 20th, 2025 — Source

Bcachefs Sends In "The Last Big On Disk Format Upgrade" For Linux 6.14
Following the Bcachefs pull requests being rejected during the Linux 6.13 cycle by the kernel's Code of Conduct committee, the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is kicking off with a big pull request so that the upstream kernel can get back into sync with the latest development code for this cycle. This pull also contains the last anticipated major on-disk format upgrade prior to the removal of the "experimental" flag for this copy-on-write file-system.
January 20th, 2025 — Source

Busybox, Libreoffice, Tryton-Server, Rsync updates for Debian
Debian GNU/Linux has undergone multiple security updates, encompassing busybox, libreoffice, and tryton-server for Debian 11 LTS, libreoffice for Debian 12, and a rsync regression update for Debian 8/9/10 ELTS.
January 20th, 2025 — Source

Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q4 Adds Battlemage GPU Support
Intel software engineers overnight published their new quarterly release of the Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel, the collection of the company's patches against this open-source multimedia library for enhancing the Intel GPU acceleration support while the patches work their way for upstream FFmpeg.
January 20th, 2025 — Source

Kernel and .NET updates for Oracle Linux
Oracle Linux has been updated with multiple security enhancements, featuring a kernel bug fix for the unbreakable Enterprise kernel, as well as security updates for .NET 9.0 and .NET 8.0:
January 20th, 2025 — Source

Kernel and Chromium updates for SUSE
SUSE Linux has released several security updates, including Kernel updates, as well as a security update for chromium:
January 20th, 2025 — Source

Kernel and Python updates for Ubuntu
Ubuntu Linux has received updates focused on security, addressing vulnerabilities related to Linux Kernel (Xilinx ZynqMP) and Python:
January 20th, 2025 — Source

Linux 6.14 Adding "STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN" To Address A Performance Pitfall
Among the VFS pull requests sent out this weekend in advance of the Linux 6.14 merge window formally opening were the VFS direct I/O (DIO) updates that introduce a new STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN field for addressing a possible performance pitfall.
January 20th, 2025 — Source

Linux 6.14 To Allow VirtualBox Guest Support On ARM64 VMs
The Linux 6.14 kernel will enable the VirtualBox guest drivers to be built for ARM64 Linux virtual machines (VMs).
January 20th, 2025 — Source

Linux kernel 6.13 released
So nothing horrible or unexpected happened last week, so I've tagged and pushed out the final 6.13 release.
January 20th, 2025 — Source

Linux Mint 22.1 Xia arrives fashionably late
Both the Ubuntu and Debian-based editions get Cinnamon 6.4 and other goodies
January 20th, 2025 — Source

Many Scheduler Improvements Ready To Better Enhance The Linux 6.14 Kernel
Ingo Molnar sent out the big batch of scheduler enhancements bright and early today for helping kick off the start of the Linux 6.14 merge window.
January 20th, 2025 — Source

More Rust Code Is Coming For Linux 6.14 Along With Hitting Another "Major Milestone"
For the Linux 6.13 cycle the Rust code was hitting a "tipping point" with more Rust kernel drivers expected soon. For Linux 6.14 there is indeed a lot more Rust code being primed for this next kernel version.
January 20th, 2025 — Source

OBS Studio 31.0.1 released
OBS Studio 31.0.1 has been released, featuring a range of hotfix changes and new functionalities. These encompass resolving crashes on macOS attributed to hand gesture reactions, addressing malformed scene collection files, and tackling issues related to PipeWire screen sharing. The update has resolved a potential deadlock and freeze on macOS when exiting OBS, as well as addressed an issue related to screensaver inhibition on Linux.
January 20th, 2025 — NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Arrives For Linux Testing
Earlier this month at CES was the announcement of the GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" series. Among the first of these consumer Blackwell GPUs is the GeForce RTX 5090 flagship graphics card that is set to retail for $1999 USD. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founder's Edition graphics card arrived at Phoronix a few days ago to begin Linux testing.
January 20th, 2025 — Source

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Open-Source Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver Lands Ray Query Support
The "TURNIP" open-source Vulkan API driver within Mesa for supporting Qualcomm Adreno graphics is now able to expose accelerated ray query support for ray-tracing with newer Adreno GPUs.
January 20th, 2025 — Source

PHP 8.4.3 and 8.3.16 for Debian 11 LTS and 12
Ondřej Surý has released PHP 8.4.3 and 8.3.16 packages for both Debian GNU/Linux 11 (Bullseye) LTS and 12 (Bookworm).
January 20th, 2025 — Source

PoDoFo update for Ubuntu
A PoDoFo security update is available for Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS, and 22.04 LTS:
January 20th, 2025 — Source

RADV Vulkan Driver Support Being Worked On For The GPU Found In The Sony PS5 & BC-250
Open-source developers are working on allowing the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver to support the "Cyan Skillfish" graphics processor IP found within the Sony PlayStation 5 APU as well as the AMD BC-250 mining cards.
January 20th, 2025 — Source

Tiff, Redis, Poco, and more updates for Debian
Debian GNU/Linux has received several security updates, including tiff, redis, libtar, and hplip updates for Debian ELTS as well as tiff, redis, poco, 389-ds-base, and libebml for Debian 11 LTS:
January 20th, 2025 — Source

Windows versus Linux gaming performance shows why AMD is better than Nvidia... mostly
Recently, we conducted our performance overview of an in-place upgrade from Windows 11 23H2 to 24H2 with some scenarios showing interesting outcomes.
January 20th, 2025 — Source

Wine 10.0 Expected This Week For Improving Windows Software On Linux
After six release candidates going back to early December, it looks like Wine 10.0 stable will be ready to ship this week. This is largely as expected with the annual Wine stable releases tending to come around mid-to-late January. Here's a look at what's ahead for this stable release for enjoying Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms.
January 20th, 2025 — Source

Software — Utilities — January 20th, 2025

BackUp Maker Pro review: File backup made easy and efficient
If you're looking for file backup with pro options and more security than Windows File History, this program delivers.
January 20th, 2025 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 17th, 2025

10 Linux apps I install on every new machine (and why you should, too)
If you're wondering which apps take priority on your new Linux machine, these 10 will help you get the most out of the OS.
January 17th, 2025 — Source

5 lightweight Linux distributions that will bring your old PC back to life
If you have an aging computer and want to repurpose it, these lightweight Linux distributions will serve you for years to come.
January 17th, 2025 — Source

AMDXDNA Submitted For Linux 6.14 With Kernel Accelerator/Graphics Driver Updates
LINUX KERNELDue to Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) lead maintainer David Airlie of Red Hat going on holidays the next two weeks, he's preemptively submitted the DRM/accelerator feature pull request ahead of the Linux 6.14 merge window officially opening.
January 17th, 2025 — Source

Deepin 25 released
A preview version of Deepin Linux 25 has been released for testing. The core features include the Solid operating system, which sets core directories as read-only mounts to prevent unauthorized modifications and utilizes differential update technology to reduce download times and data usage. The desktop environment has undergone comprehensive optimization, including QML restructuring of the Control Center and Notification Center, enhancing the user experience and providing a more intuitive graphical interface.
January 17th, 2025 — Source

Fedora 42 Boot Splash Screen Looks To Workaround GPU Drivers Taking Too Long To Load
FEDORALinux kernel graphics drivers have been growing too much in size that they are taking too long to load at boot time for quickly lighting up the display to present the nice Plymouth boot splash experience. This has led to situations of the Plymouth boot splash screen falling back to its simple text-based interface after timing out.
January 17th, 2025 — Source

GNU Coreutils 9.6 Released With Changes For POSIX 2024, More AVX2 & AVX-512 Use
GNU Coreutils 9.6 released today as the updated version of these core utilities common to Linux systems and elsewhere.
January 17th, 2025 — Source

Godot 4.4 Beta 1 released
Godot 4.4 beta 1 has been released, indicating the commencement of the feature freeze for version 4.4. The timeline for release is contingent upon the efficiency of addressing bug fixes and the identification of new bugs during the beta phase. Users are invited to conduct testing and report any bugs to facilitate an efficient beta phase and prompt release.
January 17th, 2025 — Source

In Case You Wondered, RADV Doesn't Work On AMD CDNA Instinct Accelerators
Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team landed some changes on Thursday to the open-source RADV driver within Mesa around GPU checks for the hardware supported by this popular AMD Vulkan driver on Linux systems.
January 17th, 2025 — Source

KDE neon 20250116 released
KDE neon 20250116 has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
January 17th, 2025 — Source

Linux 6.14 To Add Support For SpacemiT's "Energy Efficient AI" RISC-V CPUs
RISC-VThe upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel is poised to introduce initial support for SpacemiT platforms, the Chinese computing chip company developing "next-generation RISC-V high-performance CPUs." For this next Linux kernel release the SpaceMiT Key Stone K1 octa-core RISC-V AI CPU with SpacemiT X60 cores will see support.
January 17th, 2025 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.125 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.125 is now available:
January 17th, 2025 — Source

Linux kernel 6.12.10 released
Linux kernel version 6.12.10 is now available:
January 17th, 2025 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.72 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.72 is now available:
January 17th, 2025 — Source

Linux Mint 22.1 "Xia" released!
The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 22.1 "Xia".
January 17th, 2025 — Source

Many Exciting Features & New Hardware Support Expected For Linux 6.14
LINUX KERNELLinux 6.13 is bringing many exciting features for its stable debut expected this Sunday. But following that it's onward to the Linux 6.14 kernel merge window for which it will be yet another very exciting round from completing the NTSYNC driver to adding new hardware support and much more. Here is a preview of some of the changes expected to be submitted for the Linux 6.14 cycle.
January 17th, 2025 — Source

NVIDIA Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver 550.144.03 released
NVIDIA has announced the release of an updated Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) 550.144.03 display driver, which includes bug fixes and enhancements.
January 17th, 2025 — Source

PHP 8.3.16 and 8.4.3 packages for Fedora/RHEL released
Remi Collet has released PHP
January 17th, 2025 — Source

Pip and GIMP updates for Gentoo
Gentoo Linux has been updated with security enhancements, including GLSA 202501-03 addressing arbitrary configuration injection and GLSA 202501-02 which resolves multiple vulnerabilities in GIMP:
January 17th, 2025 — Source

RadeonSI UVD/VCE Video Acceleration Improvements Merged For Mesa 25.0
At the start of the new year I talked about patches improving AMD Radeon video encode/decode for older GPUs. That work to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver's UVD and VCE support has now been merged ahead of the Mesa 25.0 code branching coming up in just over one week.
January 17th, 2025 — Source

Vulkan 1.4.305 Published With Three New Extensions
Vulkan 1.4.305 has been published as the newest version of the Vulkan API specification for high performance graphics and compute.
January 17th, 2025 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 13th, 2025

A happy Linus Torvalds is offering to build a guitar pedal for one lucky Linux dev
Linus Torvalds, the Linux boss-man, often draws eyes due to his interesting and often very expressive takes whether it is regarding hardware or software.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

A Microsoft-Contributed Change To Linux 6.13 Is Causing A Last Minute Ruckus
A change to the Linux 6.13 kernel contributed by a Microsoft engineer ended up changing Linux x86_64 code without proper authorization and in turn causing troubles for users and now set to be disabled ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable release expected next Sunday.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

Alibaba Engineers Work To Address Suspend/Resume Bugs With The AMD Graphics Driver
Alibaba engineers have recently been working through some AMD Linux kernel graphics driver bugs uncovered during suspend-and-resume testing with AMD graphics cards.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

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AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation Linux Patches Reworked In 4th Spin
A nice Christmas surprise for 2024 was Meta engineer Rik van Riel posting Linux kernel patches for making use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction found since Zen 3 processors for broadcast TLB invalidation.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

DXVK 2.5.3 Brings More Fixes For Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 On Vulkan
Philip Rebohle working for Valve has just released DXVK 2.5.3 as the newest update to this Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 implementation over the Vulkan API that is used for enjoying older Windows games on Linux.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

DXVK 2.5.3 released
DXVK Version 2.5.3 has been released, featuring updates for Windows that enable the exclusive full-screen mode. The feature resolves concerns related to variable refresh rate displays, enhances performance, and improves HDR capabilities. Recent updates include the resolution of a regression that was causing rendering issues in D3D8 and D3D9 games, the correction of invalid shader code generation for uncommon texture operations in D3D11, and the mitigation of potential problems related to NaN tessellation factors in D3D11 hull shaders.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

GCC 15 Compiler Enters Its Final Stage Of Development
Richard Biener of SUSE announced today that the GCC 15 compiler has entered its stage four of development, which is the last stage focused only on regression fixes and documentation updates.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

GNOME Shell 48 Alpha Introduces Screen Time / Health Breaks, Mutter 48 Alpha Out Too
The "48.alpha" releases of GNOME Shell and Mutter were tagged on Sunday for this week's release of the GNOME 48 Alpha in leading up to the GNOME 48.0 stable release in mid-March.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

How to create system restore points on Linux with Timeshift - and why you should
Concerned about something going wrong with your Linux system? If so, Timeshift can help return things to a working state should something go awry.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

Hyprland Wayland Compositor Lands HDR / Color Management Support
Hyprland is now the latest Wayland compositor supporting the color management protocols and allowing High Dynamic Range (HDR) color support with capable displays.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

Intel Battlemage Showing Off Nice OpenCL Gains With Newest Open-Source Compute Stack
Last month with the launch of Intel Battlemage with the Arc B580 graphics card, there was fairly nice open-source GPU compute performance but with some outliers... Today it's a pleasure to report that with the newest open-source GPU compute stack as of this past week, there are some nice Xe2 / Battlemage improvements for enhancing the performance of some OpenCL workloads and also correcting the performance of some workloads that were in poor standing on launch day.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

Intel Gigabit Ethernet Driver To Speed-Up With AF_XDP Zero-Copy For Linux 6.14
Queued up into the networking subsystem's "net-next" branch last week ahead of the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is AF_XDP zero-copy support for the common Intel Gigabit Ethernet "IGB" driver. With this the AF_XDP performance improvements can be quite dramatic in leveraging this zero-copy path.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

Linux Attack Vector Controls Updated To More Easily Controlling CPU Security Mitigations
Last year an AMD engineer proposed the notion of "Attack Vector Controls" for the Linux kernel to re-think how the CPU security mitigation handling is done and making it easier for system administrators/users to toggle the mitigations they are concerned about or not.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

Linux Foundation Announces Initiative to Support Chromium Ecosystem
The open-source Chromium architecture is the backbone of many internet browsers, including Google's Chrome. Google, Microsoft, and others have expressed support for the initiative.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

Microsoft pulls a Windows as it breaks Linux on Intel CPUs and angers AMD in the process
Earlier today, we reported about a happy and content Linus Torvalds, who is offering to make a guitar pedal for one of the lucky Linux devs out there since he is pleased with how things have been this holiday season and the progress with the Linux kernel version 6.13.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

Oracle OLED Wants To Help Improve The Debugability Of The Linux Kernel
Oracle today announced the Oracle Linux Enhanced Diagnostics (OLED) as their newest project that aims to enhance the debugability of the Linux kernel.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

Say goodbye to Windows 11 and switch to MX Linux 23.5 for a faster PC
Tired of the constant updates, bloat, and resource demands of Windows 11? Aren't we all? MX Linux could be the perfect solution to your woes, and thanks to its lightweight nature -- especially compared to Windows -- it could make your PC run even faster!
January 13th, 2025 — Source

This new Linux handheld PC could be a tinkerer's dream come true
Currently in development, the Debian-powered Mecha Comet could be a Linux phone, drone controller, or interface for your car. If you dream it, you can make it.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

This portable, lightweight Linux distro has an old-school feel
If you need a lightning-fast, portable Linux distribution to run on aging hardware or spin up a quick server, 4MLinux is a great option.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

Software — Utilities — January 13th, 2025

VLC celebrates 6 billion downloads with new AI subtitles feature
The world-renowned video player app will use open-source AI models that can run locally on the device.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

ZenTimings 1.35
A free, simple and lightweight app for monitoring memory timings on Ryzen platform.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

Software — Windows Os — January 13th, 2025

How To Remove A Microsoft Account From Windows 11
Despite Apple's popularity, Windows remains the most popular operating system for desktop PCs, with a market share of over 70%, according to most estimates. There is also an abundance of lightweight Windows laptops in the market that rival the MacBook Air. This is largely thanks to the platform being available for installation on a wide range of devices, including custom-built PCs, laptops, 2-in-1 convertibles, and everything in between.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

How to shut your PC down at a specific time on Windows 11 and 10
Here are seven ways to turn off your computer automatically.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

Microsoft to force new Outlook app in Windows 10 with no way to block it
Designed to replace the current Mail and Calendar apps, the new Outlook can only be removed after it's been installed.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

Windows 10 PCs will be forced to install the new Outlook app in February
There's no way to block the forced installation, but at least you'll be able to uninstall it afterwards.
January 13th, 2025 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 10th, 2025

12 Years After Haswell, Intel Open-Source Graphics Developers Still Make Occasional Fix
The Intel Haswell CPUs were originally introduced back in 2013 and great for the time. Under Microsoft Windows the driver support has long been obsolete but under Linux with Intel's open-source driver support there is still even the occasional fix all these years later. Coming up for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle in 2025 is a fix to benefit Haswell and similarly aged Intel platforms with integrated graphics.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

A new initiative will fund and support open-source Chromium projects
The Linux Foundation will manage the new Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers initiative.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Auto-Cpufreq 2.5.0 released
A new version of Auto-Cpufreq, an automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux, has been released and features support for EPB settings, includes bug fixes, enhancements for Fedora 41 (TuneD), an improved TuneD detection mechanism, systemd service management, and addresses permission errors for various commands.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Blumenkrantz Boosts Zink Performance By 150% For Everspace, Possibly Helping Other Games
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics driver team who is known for his work on the Zink generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation has made another mighty round of improvements for helping the gaming performance.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Budgie 10.10 Scheduled for Q1 2025 with a Surprising Desktop Update
If Budgie is your desktop environment of choice, 2025 is going to be a great year for you.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Building a Sample Kubernetes Operator on Minikube: A Step-by-Step Guide
Build a Kubernetes Operator on Minikube to manage custom resources, automate tasks, and extend functionality using the Operator SDK.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Chromium and WebkitGTK2 updates for Debian
Debian GNU/Linux has been updated with two security patches: A chromium update for Debian 12 (Bookworm) and a webkit2gtk update for Debian 11 (Bullseye) LTS
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Experimental Linux Address Space Isolation "ASI" v2 Patches: I/O Throughput Lower By 70%
Google engineers and others have been talking about Address Space Isolation "ASI" for the Linux kernel to better deal with speculative execution attacks and other CPU vulnerabilities. Last summer there were some new "request for comments" patches working on Linux Address Space Isolation and today a second iteration of those RFC patches were published.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Free-software warriors celebrate landmark case that enforced GNU LGPL
On the Fritz: German router maker AVM lets device rights case end after coughing up source code
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Git 2.48 Released With Initial Support For The Meson Build System
Git 2.48 is out today as the newest feature update to this leading distributed version control system.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Google, Microsoft, and others team up for Chromium browser alliance under Linux Foundation
"Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers"
January 10th, 2025 — Source or Source

KDE neon 20250109 released
KDE neon 20250109 has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Lenovo Discovers Situation Of Linux Dropping PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSDs To Gen 1 Speeds
A change made to the Linux kernel in June 2023 has led to a situation where PCIe Gen5 NVMe solid state drives could potentially drop down to Gen1 speeds... Lenovo engineers spotted this issue and bisected the problem along with coming up with a solution.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.71 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.71 is now available:
January 10th, 2025 — Source

More Intel Xeon Clearwater Forest Enablement Merged For Linux 6.13
Squeezing into the mainline Linux 6.13 kernel code today as part of the latest batch of "fixes" are two additional enablement bits for the upcoming high-density Intel Xeon Clearwater Forest server processors.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Alpha 5 released
System76 has announced the release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Alpha 5. The release features an early version of the COSMIC Media Player, User Settings, and critical updates to Alt+Tab, variable refresh rates, and additional enhancements. The COSMIC Media Player has been designated as the default media player, and the team is currently developing a COSMIC-native codec installation application to succeed sessioninstaller.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Proton worldwide outage caused by Kubernetes migration, software change
Swiss tech company Proton, which provides privacy-focused online services, says that a Thursday worldwide outage was caused by an ongoing infrastructure migration to Kubernetes and a software change that triggered an initial load spike.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Pulseaudio-Qt 1.7.0 released
Nicolas Fella has announced the release of Pulseaudio-Qt 1.7.0, a Qt wrapper for libpulse utilized by plasma-pa and kdeconnect-kde. The release incorporates enhanced functionality and addresses bug fixes, while discontinuing support for Qt5. Changelogs detail the removal of Qt5 support, updates to compiler settings, and the addition of module support.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Python, Thunderbird, xfpt, Kernel, Go Networking updates for Ubuntu
Ubuntu Linux has received a series of security updates, addressing vulnerabilities in Python, Thunderbird, xfpt, the Linux kernel (Azure), and Go Networking.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Servo Browser Engine Adds Dark Mode, Some XPath Support
The Servo open-source web browser layout engine project has published their newest monthly recap to highlight the progress they made during December 2024. They ended the year on a high note with getting dark mode support working and other features wired up -- including enough to now be able to read Discord messages but not yet enough to actually post messages on Discord.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Thanks to Nvidia, there's a new generation of PCs coming, and they'll be running Linux
OK, maybe you wouldn't pay three grand for a Project DIGITS PC. But what about a $1,000 Blackwell PC from Acer, Asus, or Lenovo?
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Ubuntu Considers Taking It Easier On Software Updates Over Weekends
Ubuntu developers are looking at extending their policy of not releasing stable release updates (SRUs) around the weekend as well as not phasing them up to 100% during those weekend times either.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Ubuntu Linux arrives on HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board
The RISC-V development ecosystem is expanding with the introduction of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the HiFive Premier P550, a collaboration between SiFive, ESWIN Computing, and Canonical. This integration brings the power of Linux to developers using the HiFive Premier P550, offering a seamless development experience within the RISC-V ecosystem.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

VKD3D-Proton 2.14.1 Brings A Few Fixes For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan
Hans-Kristian Arntzen with Valve has just released VKD3D-Proton 2.14.1 as this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan implementation.
January 10th, 2025 — Source or Source

Wine 10.0-rc5 Brings Another 31 Bug Fixes
Wine 10.0 is working its way toward a stable release likely in the next week or two, but today there is Wine 10.0-rc5 with the latest round of fixes.
January 10th, 2025 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 9th, 2025

10 Linux apps I install on every new machine (and why you should, too)
If you're wondering which apps take priority on your new Linux machine, these 10 will help you get the most out of the OS.
January 9th, 2025 — Source

AMD Secure TSC Support Might Finally Be Ready For Landing In The Linux Kernel
Going back to January 2023 were patches for enabling Secure TSC support for use by SEV-SNP guests with AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" and newer processors... Two years later and after sixteen rounds of revising the Linux kernel patches, it looks like the AMD Secure TSC support is finally ready for landing in the mainline Linux kernel.
January 9th, 2025 — Source

COSMIC Alpha 5 Desktop Brings COSMIC Media Player As Default, VRR Updates
Building off the COSMIC Alpha 4 release from early December, COSMIC Alpha 5 is now available as the newest stepping stone toward the first stable release of this Rust-based open-source desktop developed by System76 for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution.
January 9th, 2025 — Source

End of Firefox? Google joined by Linux, Microsoft and more to make Chrome, Edge better
The Linux Foundation, alongside Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Opera, have announced today the formation of the new Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers. As the name suggests, this group has been formed for the support of open-source Chromium browsers so that they can continue to receive the necessary resources, be it financially, or in some other form.
January 9th, 2025 — Source

GNOME Mutter Merges Support For Wayland Timing & Queuing Protocols
After being in development the past year, merged today to Mutter Git ahead of GNOME 48 is support for the Wayland timing and queueing protocols.
January 9th, 2025 — Source

Google & Linux Foundation Launch "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" Fund
Google and the Linux Foundation today announced the creation of the "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" fund to help provide funding to open-source developers working on Chromium-based open-source projects.
January 9th, 2025 — Source

Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well
Simply the best FOSS desktop OS there is, outside of the Windows and Unix families
January 9th, 2025 — Source

Intel Compute Runtime 24.52.32224.5 Brings More Battlemage Optimizations
The Intel Compute Runtime 24.52.32224.5 release was made earlier today as the newest update to this open-source Linux and Windows compute stack for Intel graphics hardware for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero implementations.
January 9th, 2025 — Source

Intel PMT Telemetry Now Available For Battlemage Graphics Cards
The Intel PMT open-source software support has now been updated for Platform Monitoring Technology Telemetry with the new Battlemage discrete graphics cards.
January 9th, 2025 — Source

KDE Frameworks 6.10 released
KDE Frameworks 6.10.0 has been released and consists of a series of monthly releases that deliver a diverse range of essential functionalities through mature, peer-reviewed, and thoroughly tested libraries, all accompanied by favorable licensing terms. The release encompasses a range of new features, including Baloo, Breeze Icons, Extra CMake Modules, ECMAddAndroidApk, EMGenerateHeaders, GridDelegate, KConfig, Docs(DESIGN), KDeclarative, KDocTools, KKuiAddons, Kirigami, KNewStuff, KQuickCharts, KSVG, KTextEditor, KWallet, KXMLGUI, Network Manager Qt, Prison, QtMultimedia dependency, and QQC2 Desktop Style.
January 9th, 2025 — Source

KDE Gear 24.12.1 released
KDE Gear 24.12.1 has been released and encompasses more than 180 programs, numerous libraries, and various feature plugins. This update incorporates bug fixes for Kasts, Konversation, and Telly-Skout, facilitating more seamless program description updates.
January 9th, 2025 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta released
KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta has been released, featuring the migration of snap-kcm and Spectacle from KDE Gear to enhance integration with KWin. Districts have the option to select their preferred version, with Qt 6.8 being recommended for updates following the release.
January 9th, 2025 — Source or Source

KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.16 Brings Power/Performance versus Color Accuracy Preference
KDE developers today released Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.16 as the newest feature update to this set of non-standard Wayland protocols used by the Plasma desktop.
January 9th, 2025 — Source

Linux Foundation Announces the Launch of Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the launch of Supporters of Chromium-Based Bowsers. This initiative aims to fund open development and enhance projects within the Chromium ecosystem, ensuring broad support and sustainability for open source contributions that will drive technological advancement.
January 9th, 2025 — Source or Source or Source

Linux kernel 5.10.233 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.233 is now available:
January 9th, 2025 — Source

Linux kernel 5.15.176 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.176 is now available:
January 9th, 2025 — Source

Linux kernel 5.4.289 released
Linux kernel version 5.4.289 is now available:
January 9th, 2025 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.124 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.124 is now available:
January 9th, 2025 — Source

Linux kernel 6.12.9 released
Linux kernel version 6.12.9 is now available:
January 9th, 2025 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.70 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.70 is now available:
January 9th, 2025 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.12-11 released
Steven Barrett has released a new Liquorix kernel derived from Linux kernel 6.12.9. The Liquorix Linux kernel is an enthusiast Linux kernel that is optimized for low latency computing in audiovisual production, reduced frame time variations in games, and unparalleled responsiveness in interactive systems. It is available for Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux.
January 9th, 2025 — Source

LLVM Clang Lands Targeting Support For The SiFive P550 RISC-V Performance Core
Upstreamed to LLVM/Clang overnight is now targeting support for the SiFive P550 RISC-V core with the "-mcpu=sifive-p550" option.
January 9th, 2025 — Source

Microsoft's Azure Linux Introduces New AMD Graphics Driver Options
Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution known as Azure Linux is out with its 3.0.20250102 update today. One of the interesting changes in this release is adding new AMD driver package repositories for allowing Azure Linux users to fetch the latest official AMDGPU driver packages or alternatively the newest "preview" driver packages.
January 9th, 2025 — Source

Mold 2.36 Linker Brings More Optimizations & Compatibility Improvements
Rui Ueyama released Mold 2.36 as the newest update to this open-source linker that aims to deliver maximum performance at all costs.
January 9th, 2025 — Source

OpenAI Shuts Down Developer Who Made AI-Powered Gun Turret
The DIY robot used ChatGPT's Realtime API to respond to commands to aim and fire a rifle.
January 9th, 2025 — Source

Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Model Launches For $120 USD
One of the leading rare complaints over the Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer (and the more recently launched Raspberry Pi 500) is that it tops out at just 8GB of system memory... 8GB was enough years ago and still is if planning to use the Raspberry Pi for lightweight desktop and embedded scenarios and other situations where you don't need too much RAM for the four ARM cores, but for those wanting more, today the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB is being introduced.
January 9th, 2025 — Source

Tails 6.11 out now with more protection against partitioning errors that can wipe data
The Tails team has just announced the latest version of their ultra-private Linux-based operating system, Tails 6.11. Each point release typically brings with it a new feature or two, and this time is no different. With this update, you get better detection of partition errors, which can help you save your persistent data before it's too late.
January 9th, 2025 — Source or Source

Software — Open Source — January 8th, 2025

AMD Linux GPU Driver Preps OEM i2c Bus Support Used For RGB Control & More
A set of patches posted this week for the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver is beginning to expose additional i2c buses that are used by some OEM/AIB partners for implementing RGB lighting controls and other extra functionality with Radeon graphics cards.
January 8th, 2025 — Source

Alpine 3.18.11, 3.19.6, 3.20.5 and 3.21.2 released
Alpine Linux versions 3.18.11, 3.19.6, 3.20.5, and 3.21.2 have been released, incorporating a regression fix for CA certificates.
January 8th, 2025 — Source

FEX 2501 Brings JIT Performance Improvements, Changes Needed For Denuvo Support
FEX 2501 is now available as the newest feature release to this open-source emulator that allows running x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 Linux hosts.
January 8th, 2025 — Source

Intel Preps Nice NPU Driver Improvements For Linux 6.14
For those with an Intel Core Ultra system bearing the company's Neural Processing Unit (NPU), some nice driver enhancements are on the way for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle.
January 8th, 2025 — Source

Intel's Clang Code Begins Landing For OpenMP Offloading To SPIR-V For GPU Execution
Intel software engineers have been working on allowing OpenMP offloading to their Intel GPUs by way of targeting generic SPIR-V, the common intermediate representation used across Vulkan / OpenGL / OpenCL drivers. The initial patches to that work have now landed in upstream LLVM/Clang 20 for OpenMP offloading to SPIR-V.
January 8th, 2025 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.3 To Offer Better Night Light Mode On HDR Displays
KDE KWin developer Xaver Hugl is out with a new blog post on his quest of providing optimal High Dynamic Range (HDR) display experience with the KDE desktop. The latest focus by Xaver has been on fixing the "night light" mode support under KDE Plasma on HDR displays.
January 8th, 2025 — Source

Linux 6.14 Preps UHBR For Intel Panther Lake, Lower Alchemist GPU Power Use With Whitelisted CPUs
Intel software engineers this week sent out two pull requests landing more of their final kernel graphics driver feature changes destined for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel.
January 8th, 2025 — Source

Nvidia Project Digits: A Linux-powered desktop for AI developers
The most powerful desktop of all time will be arriving soon - and it will be running Linux.
January 8th, 2025 — Source

Open3D v0.19 Brings Cross-Platform GPU Support Via SYCL
Open3D v0.19 is out as the newest feature release to this open-source library for 3D data processing in C++ and Python. Open3D provides various 3D data structures, processing algorithms, 3D visualizations, physically based GPU rendering, and machine learning integration with the likes of PyTorch and TensorFlow to offer powerful 3D data processing capabilities.
January 8th, 2025 — Source

OpenAI's Sam Altman sued by sister, alleging years of sexual abuse
Sam Altman, along with his parents and brothers, vehemently deny the claims by Ann Altman.
January 8th, 2025 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 7th, 2025

AMD's GPUOpen HIP RT 2.5 Released With Fixes, GFX1200 RDNA4 Support
AMD's GPUOpen team today released HIP RT 2.5 as the newest version of this ray-tracing library for HIP. This library in turn is used by the likes of the Blender 3D modeling software for ray-tracing acceleration on Radeon GPUs.
January 7th, 2025 — Source

Brotli, Javapackages-Tools, Libvirt, and more updates for Oracle Linux
Oracle Linux has issued multiple security updates, which encompass bug fixes and enhancements for a range of packages, including brotli, javapackages-tools, libvirt, podman, microcode_ctl, python-requests, 389-ds:1.4, idm:DL1, go-toolset:ol8, virt:ol, virt-devel:rhel, sos, sysstat, sos, and postgresql:
January 7th, 2025 — Source

Budgie 10.10 Desktop Releasing This Quarter As Wayland-Only
For fans of the Budgie desktop environment that got its start out of the Solus Linux distribution, the Budgie 10.10 release expected later this quarter will be their first release that is Wayland-only.
January 7th, 2025 — Source

Cross-Vendor Mesh Shading Being Worked On For OpenGL
While it's very rare in recent times for a new OpenGL extension -- especially one that is exciting -- given the continued great adoption of the modern Vulkan API, in 2025 we are looking at an interesting addition to OpenGL with cross-vendor mesh shading via a proposed GL_EXT_mesh_shader implementation.
January 7th, 2025 — Source

CXL Block Device "CBD" Looking Very Promising For The Linux Kernel In 2025
Originally proposed for the Linux kernel nearly one year ago was CBD as the CXL Block Device. Now up to its third revision, the Linux CBD patches are calming down and the performance gains are looking quite nice.
January 7th, 2025 — Source

Device Memory "DMEM" Cgroup Support Ready For Linux 6.14 To Allow Limiting GPU vRAM
A pull request submitted this week to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle is introducing the notion of device memory "DMEM" to cgroup with the main intended use being to restrict device memory usage based on the cgroup hierarchy such as for graphics cards with their dedicated vRAM.
January 7th, 2025 — Source

Firefox 134 Offers Improvements for Linux Version
Fans of Linux and Firefox rejoice, as there's a new version available that includes some handy updates.
January 7th, 2025 — Source

GCC Goes For "libc Diversity" With Picolibc Support
Keith Packard is known for his X.Org/X11 work over the course of many years but alongside other software projects he also maintains Picolibc as a C library designed for embedded 32-bit and 64-bit systems. Recently he sent out a patch for adding Picolibc support to the GCC compiler.
January 7th, 2025 — Source

HipScript Allows NVIDIA CUDA & AMD HIP Code To Run Within Web Browsers
HipScript is a new open-source project that allows for compiling and running AMD HIP and NVIDIA CUDA code within web browsers by leveraging WebAssembly and WebGPU.
January 7th, 2025 — Source

How to set up a print server on your home network with Linux
If you have multiple computers that need to print to one printer on your home network, you can use Linux as a reliable print server.
January 7th, 2025 — Source

In time for the upcoming release of Mesa 25.0, Mesa's Lavapipe software Vulkan API implementation is now the latest driver exposing Vulkan 1.4 support.
OpenZFS 2.3 continues working its way toward release with Monday having brought the fifth and potentially final release candidate.
January 7th, 2025 — Source

Mesa's Lavapipe Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4
In time for the upcoming release of Mesa 25.0, Mesa's Lavapipe software Vulkan API implementation is now the latest driver exposing Vulkan 1.4 support.
January 7th, 2025 — Source

Salt, Ceph, Linux Kernel updates for Ubuntu
Ubuntu Linux has received updates addressing multiple security vulnerabilities, including those related to Salt, Ceph, and Linux Kernel:
January 7th, 2025 — Source

Serpent OS Arrives with a New Alpha Release
After months of silence, Ikey Doherty has released a new alpha for his Serpent OS.
January 7th, 2025 — Source

Sam Altman says OpenAI can confidently build AGI as the ChatGPT maker shifts focus to superintelligence: "I kinda miss doing AI research back when we didn't know how"
OpenAI CEO says the ChatGPT maker can build AGI and is shifting its focus to superintelligence "in the true sense of the word."
January 7th, 2025 — Source

Sam Altman takes a swipe at OpenAI board members who fired him
Recently, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, had an interview where he revealed some interesting details about the present and future of ChatGPT's parent company. During the interview, he confirmed that he is not very good at choosing prices for their AI-powered chatbot paid plans, which later led to a Pro tier that, even at $200, makes OpenAI lose money.
January 7th, 2025 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 6th, 2025

Alpine 3.18.10, 3.19.5 and 3.20.4 released
Alpine Linux 3.18.10, 3.19.5, and 3.20.4 have been released to address a variety of security vulnerabilities.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

Alpine 3.21.1 released
We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.21.1, a maintenance release of the 3.21 series. This release includes various bug fixes and security updates. It also introduces a U-Boot release tarball for riscv64 and StarFive VisionFive2 boards.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

AMD Announces Ryzen 9 9950X3D & Ryzen AI Max, Previews AMD RDNA 4 Graphics
AMD's CES 2025 keynote was used to announce a slew of new products. They are just announcements today without any immediate availability or any hardware reviews to publish, but a look ahead for what is on the horizon for AMD in the consumer space in 2025.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

An easier way to read Linux manual pages
Linux man pages are a great way to get help with commands. However, these pages can be intimidating for inexperienced users. Here's how to simplify them.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

Automating Kubernetes Workload Rightsizing With StormForge
StormForge automates Kubernetes workload rightsizing using machine learning to optimize resource utilization and performance.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

Device Mapper Atomic Write Support Patches Posted
Along with other recent Linux kernel patches around atomic write support, a set of Device Mapper (DM) patches were posted today for implementing said functionality.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

DisplayPort 2.1b Arriving This Spring With DP80LL Cables
In addition to the HDMI Forum announcing the HDMI 2.2 specification for release in the first half of this year, VESA also took to CES 2025 to announce their forthcoming DisplayPort 2.1b standard.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

Dpdk and Sysstat updates for SUSE
SUSE Linux has received two security updates: important for dpdk and moderate for sysstat
January 6th, 2025 — Source

Firefox 134 Available With Experimental HTML "autocorrect" Attribute
Mozilla has published the Firefox 134.0 release binaries today ahead of their official release tomorrow. This first Firefox update of 2025 brings a few new features to Linux users and those on other platforms.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

HDMI 2.2 Announced With 96 Gbps Bandwidth - Still With Restricted Licensing
The HDMI Forum used CES for today announcing the HDMI 2.2 specification that will be available to HDMI 2.x adopters in the first half of the calendar year.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

HiSilicon HIBMC DP Support For Linux 6.14, Additional AMDXDNA Fixes Queued
Maxime Ripard of Red Hat today sent out the first set of "drm-misc-next" patches of 2025 for queuing into DRM-Next until the Linux 6.14 merge window opens in the coming weeks.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

Intel Announces Core Ultra 200H / Core Ultra 200HX Series
Intel used the start of CES 2025 for announcing the newest Arrow Lake processors for the Core Ultra 200H and Core Utra 200HX mobile processors.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

Intel Touch Host Controller Drivers Nearing The Mainline Linux Kernel
For the past several months Intel Linux software engineers have been working on Intel Touch Host Controller drivers as an IP block on the PCH for handling touchscreen, touchpad, and related touch input devices. On Sunday the fourth iteration of these driver patches were sent out as these new Intel open-source drivers near the mainline Linux kernel.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

KDE Plasma 5.27.12 released
KDE Plasma 5.27.12, a bug fix release for the KDE Plasma 5 series, has been released. The update incorporates a resolution for the default theme set to Breeze, an enhancement for battery charge state monitoring, and addresses crashes related to weather and DWD functionalities.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

Linux-powered handheld computer connects to Raspberry Pi HATs, snap-on modules
The Mecha Comet is made for hackers and makers.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

NVIDIA Working On "-flto-partition=locality" GCC Option To Boost Performance For Some CPU Workloads
NVIDIA compiler engineers have spent the past several months working on a proposed GCC option -flto-partition=locality for having the compiler optimize the code layout for locality between callees and callers as part of the link-time optimization (LTO) process. For some workloads NVIDIA is finding this -flto-partition=locality compiler option being of significant help for bettering the CPU performance.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

Open source alternative to x86 and Arm could take off in 2025
The prolific x86 and Arm architectures might soon have another contender to deal with.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

Qualcomm Bringing Snapdragon X Series To Mini PCs For As Little As ~$600 USD
Following last year's launch of Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops, Qualcomm is using CES 2025 this week in Las Vegas for promoting the Snapdragon X Series for mini desktop form factor PCs. But the Linux support and performance out of these forthcoming Snapdragon X Platform mini PCs remain to be seen.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

Revolutionize Stream Processing With Data Fabric
An open-source distributed event-streaming platform like Apache Kafka supports data fabric by handling real-time data streaming across various systems.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

RHSA-2025:0039: Important: bind and bind-dyndb-ldap security update
An update for bind and bind-dyndb-ldap is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support - EXTENSION.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

Samba 4.21.3 released
Samba 4.21.3 has been released and is the most recent stable release that has been released in the Samba 4.21 release series. Additional replication loops against Azure Active Directory, compound rename from Mac clients failing with NT_STATUS_INTERNAL_ERROR, vfs crossrename issues, memory leaks, fixing heap-user-after-free with association groups, segment fault in vfs_btrfs, and event failure race avoidance are some of the changes that have been implemented since version 4.21.2.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

This Linux distro could let your old laptop 'shine on' after Windows 10's sunset
If you're facing the end of support for your operating system and don't want to have to shell out the money for a new one, there's yet another Linux distribution that I'd recommend you consider.
January 6th, 2025 — Source

Tinyproxy, HWE, Raspberry Pi updates for Ubuntu
Ubuntu Linux has received updates that address security vulnerabilities in Tinyproxy, HWE, and Raspberry Pi
January 6th, 2025 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 3rd, 2025

Canonical Experimented With Rebuilding Its Ubuntu 25.04 Packages Under LLVM/Clang
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January 3rd, 2025 — Source

GNU C Library glibc 2.41 Release Coming Soon With Many New Features
The GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 release should be out around the very end of January or start of February. With glibc 2.41 there are many new features coming to this widely-used libc implementation by Linux systems and elsewhere.
January 3rd, 2025 — Source

KDE Internet of Things "Kiot" Started To Provide Nice Home Assistant Integration
Longtime KDE developer David Edmundson has recently been cleaning up some scripts he's been using personally for a few years to enhance the integration between the KDE desktop and Home Assistant for open-source home automation. This work has evolved into the KDE Internet of Things "Kiot" and is currently in a pre-alpha state for enhancing the support between KDE and home automation controls.
January 3rd, 2025 — Source

KDE neon 20250102 released
KDE neon 20250102 has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
January 3rd, 2025 — Source

How to Disable IPv6 on Linux
If network troubleshooting leads you to believe there's an issue with IPv6, you may need to shut down that protocol on your Linux machines.
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How To Use SCP (Secure Copy) With SSH Key Authentication
Here's how to use the secure copy command, in conjunction with ssh key authentication, for an even more secure means of copying files to your remote Linux servers.
January 3rd, 2025 — Source

Intel Battlemage, Raspberry Pi 500 & Linux 6.13 Excited Linux Users In December
While there was the year-end holidays, daily activity on Phoronix doesn't let up and over the course of December there were 256 original news articles around Linux/open-source on the site along with 24 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Here's a look back at what excited Phoronix readers the most as we closed out 2024.
January 3rd, 2025 — Source

IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 191 is available for testing
IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 191 is now available for testing, featuring a range of package updates to ensure your firewall remains current and IPFire continues to represent a modern Linux operating system. The update encompasses minor bug fixes and foundational work for more significant changes. The IPFire development team values your feedback and input. Modifications encompass the removal of the Feodo Tracker Aggressive and Feodo IP lists, rectification of bug issues in open connection lists, enhancement of the French translation for firewall options, and resolution of a backup issue.
January 3rd, 2025 — Source

Kubernetes in the Cloud: A Guide to Observability
Kubernetes Observability: Use metrics, logs, and traces to understand your system, solve problems faster, and improve performance.
January 3rd, 2025 — Source

LibreOffice 25.2 RC1 Brings Many Open-Source Office Suite Improvements
LibreOffice 25.2 Release Candidate 1 is out for testing today ahead of the stable release of this free software office suite around the start of February.
January 3rd, 2025 — Source

New Linux Patches Enhance AMD Radeon Video Encode/Decode For Older GPUs
Since Raven/Picasso APUs and Navi GPUs there is Video Core Next (VCN) as the modern unified video encode/decode block for Radeon graphics. But for those with older Radeon GPUs where there are the Unified Video Decode (UVD) and Video Coding Engine (VCE) blocks, a set of Mesa patches is looking to enhance the video acceleration support on Linux systems.
January 3rd, 2025 — Source

systemd Saw A Record Number Of Commits In 2025
While systemd has been around for a decade and a half, it's showing no signs of slowing down for driving new innovations to Linux for this system and service manager.
January 3rd, 2025 — Source

This morning the first test rebuild results of the "Plucky Puffin" for Ubuntu 25.04 were shared on the mailing list... While typically not interesting to outsiders, one interesting bit is that as a "bonus" they rebuilt the main components of Ubuntu 25.04 packages with the LLVM Clang compiler compared to the usual GCC compiler.
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January 3rd, 2025 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 2nd, 2025

5 lightweight Linux distributions with very low system requirements
If you have an aging computer and want to give it new life, there are plenty of lightweight Linux distributions that will serve you for years to come.
January 2nd, 2025 — Source

ACD Power/Performance Feature Being Worked On For The GPU Within The Snapdragon X1
For the Qualcomm Adreno X1-85 GPU found within the Snapdragon X1 series of laptop chips, an Adaptive Clock Distribution "ACD" feature is currently being wired up to the open-source MSM kernel driver to help with power and performance.
January 2nd, 2025 — Source

AMD Zen 5 Captivated Linux Reader Interest In 2025
With 2024 in the books, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and benchmark articles for 2024. In addition to the three thousand original Linux/open-source news articles last year, there was 191 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles written by myself. AMD Zen 5 on Linux easily dominated the list of most popular articles for the year along with ZLUDA and several of the Intel Arrow Lake and Granite Rapids articles plus the Framework 16 laptop.
January 2nd, 2025 — Source

Fedora Stakeholders Talk Of Forking Intel's Compute Runtime To Maintain Older Hardware

With the Intel Graphics Compiler having dropped Ice Lake and older support and in turn the Intel Compute Runtime dropping Ice Lake and older to just focus on newer Intel graphics hardware support, Fedora packagers and other stakeholders have been grappling with how to handle the situation. For Fedora 42 there's been a proposal for updating to the newer Intel Compute Runtime code for benefiting the more recent Intel graphics hardware while in recent days there's been talk of forking the legacy code.
With the Intel Graphics Compiler having dropped Ice Lake and older support and in turn the Intel Compute Runtime dropping Ice Lake and older to just focus on newer Intel graphics hardware support, Fedora packagers and other stakeholders have been grappling with how to handle the situation. For Fedora 42 there's been a proposal for updating to the newer Intel Compute Runtime code for benefiting the more recent Intel graphics hardware while in recent days there's been talk of forking the legacy code.
January 2nd, 2025 — Source

Kubernetes Deployments With DMZ Clusters: An Essential Guide
A DMZ cluster in Kubernetes secures public services from internal workloads, enhancing scalability, reducing attack surface, and ensuring controlled access.
January 2nd, 2025 — Source

Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers Updated For Enabling Extra Functionality Under Linux
Last month I wrote about a Lenovo Legion Linux driver being posted for enabling more power/performance settings under Linux. Following a significant rework, a second iteration of those patches have now been posted with just being referred to as the Lenovo "Gaming Series" WMI drivers without the Legion reference.
January 2nd, 2025 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.123 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.123 is now available:
January 2nd, 2025 — Source

Linux kernel 6.12.8 released
Linux kernel version 6.12.8 is now available:
January 2nd, 2025 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.6.69 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.69 is now available:
January 2nd, 2025 — Source

Linux Patches Updated For Experimental Arm Morello That Combines Arm + CHERI ISA
Arm today sent out their third iteration of their Linux kernel patches for adding Arm Morello platform support to the kernel: an experimental extension of Armv8.2-A paired with the CHERI v7 ISA.
January 2nd, 2025 — Source

Linux Prepares AMD "SRSO_USER_KERNEL_NO" Support For Zen 5 CPUs
Queued up this week via the tip/tip.git's "x86/bugs" Git branch for the Linux kernel is AMD "SRSO_USER_KERNEL_NO" support as a new SRSO/Inception mitigation handling seemingly for Zen 5 processors and beyond.
January 2nd, 2025 — Source

Linux "steelseries" Driver Being Extended For The SteelSeries Arctis 9 Wireless Headset
Within the mainline Linux kernel has been the open-source SteelSeries HID driver while newly posted patches are tacking on support for the SteelSeries Arctis 9 wireless gaming headset.
January 2nd, 2025 — Source

Troubleshooting Kubernetes Pod Crashes: Common Causes and Effective Solutions
Let's face it: Kubernetes pod crashes can be confusing. This article explores the common causes and effective solutions to debug Kubernetes pod crashes.
January 2nd, 2025 — Source

Winetricks 20250102 released
Winetricks 20250102 has been released. Winetricks is a user-friendly tool that automatically solves Wine issues, installs missing DLLs, and adjusts Wine settings for supported games/apps.
January 2nd, 2025 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 1st, 2025

Arch Linux 2025.01.01 released
A new Arch Linux installation image based on Linux kernel 6.12.7 has been released. Arch Linux is a lightweight distribution designed for expert users who want the most up-to-date packages. The installation image, which includes the most important Linux tools, also serves as a recovery or emergency image. The installation image now includes a guided installer.
January 1st, 2025 — Source

CI/CD Pipelines for Kubernetes Using GitLab CI
Modern software development demands rapid deployment cycles, scalability, and resilience. Kubernetes has emerged as the go-to orchestration platform, enabling scalable containerized application management. When combined with GitLab CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployments become automated, repeatable, and reliable.
January 1st, 2025 — Source

GCC Patches Posted For Half-Century Old ALGOL 68 Programming Language
Mere hours into 2025 and some news I didn't expect to be writing about... An Oracle engineer has posted a set of patches implementing an ALGOL 68 programming language front-end for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). These are work-in-progress patches for the half century old niche programming language.
January 1st, 2025 — Source

LibXML2 Updates for Fedora 40
New libxml2 packages have been made available for Fedora Linux 40 to resolve a XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability:
January 1st, 2025 — Source

Linux "hid-universal-pidff" Driver Proposed For Fixing More Quirky Devices
The hid-pidff driver exists within the Linux kernel for enabling force feedback "FF" support on various USB HID PID (Physical Interface Device) compliant devices. With a new set of patches posted yesterday, that hid-pidff driver is extended to "hid-universal-pidff" for supporting more functionality on quirky devices.
January 1st, 2025 — Source

New year, new OS: Nobara 41 Linux is a powerful Windows 11 alternative
Starting a new year often comes with the urge to make a change, and if you're tired of the quirks and constraints of Windows 11, Nobara 41 Linux might be exactly what you need in 2025. It's a Linux distribution that builds on Fedora 41, tailored to provide a smoother, more accessible experience for everyday users, gamers, and even creative professionals. Unlike Microsoft's Windows 11, which forces users to meet strict hardware requirements, Nobara is refreshingly lightweight and adaptable.
January 1st, 2025 — Source

Nobara Linux 41 released
GloriousEggroll has announced the release of Nobara Linux 41 based on Fedora Linux 41.
January 1st, 2025 — Source

RISC-V Made Nice Software Progress In 2024 While Interesting Hardware Still Rare
RISC-V on the software front made very nice progress over the past year with a lot of Linux kernel and toolchain improvements, new targets being enabled, and new instructions being supported along with other additions for improving the overall RISC-V software ecosystem. When it comes to hardware though most of the readily available RISC-V systems are painstakingly slow and the more performant/featureful options are much harder to come by.
January 1st, 2025 — Source

The Most Popular Linux & Open-Source News Of 2025
During the course of 2024 there were 3,021 original news articles written on Phoronix around Linux and open-source topics... Fresh content each and every day, 99% of which was written by your's truly. It was quite an eventful year with a lot of excitement in kernel space, hardware vendors continuing to ramp up timely new hardware support, the never-ending drive for maximum performance optimizations, the continued Rust-ification of the open-source world, and much more. Here is a look back at the most popular news on Phoronix over the past year.
January 1st, 2025 — Source

X.Org Server Development Hit A Decade High For The Number Of Commits In 2025
To much surprise, the X.Org Server Git tree saw the most commits in 2024 going all the way back to 2014... While there were many more commits than in years prior, it's not a sign of resurgence for the X.Org Server with Wayland continuing to become the dominant force on the Linux desktop.
January 1st, 2025 — Source

Zlib-ng 2.2.3 Rings In The New Year With ~17.8% Faster Inflate For AVX2
Zlib-ng 2.2.3 is out as the "next gen" Zlib replacement led by Hans Kristian Rosbach that retains a Zlib-compatible API while also offering a modernized API, modern C11 syntax, support for more CPU intrinsics, and other leading-edge features compared to upstream Zlib.
January 1st, 2025 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 31st, 2024

AMD INVLPGB Linux Patches Updated For Broadcast TLB Invalidation
Right before Christmas Mesa engineer Rik van Riel posted Linux kernel patches to make use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction for broadcast TLB invalidation. INVLPGB is present in AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors since Zen 3 and early data showed by Rik indicated nice improvement. A third iteration of those patches have already been posted as this AMD INLVPGB usage works its way to the mainline kernel.
December 31st, 2024 — Source

KubeVirt Implementation: Who Needs It and Why?
KubeVirt lets Kubernetes manage VMs with containers, streamlining infrastructure. It supports legacy apps, cuts costs, enhances flexibility, and is easy to deploy.
December 31st, 2024 — Source

Debian 13 Trixie Installer Alpha 1 released
Cyril Brulebois has announced the release of the initial alpha version of the Debian 13 Trixie Installer. This version features significant updates for hardware support, introduces a new user-setup screen, and includes various bug fixes for partitioning components.
December 31st, 2024 — Source

Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 Brings RISC-V & Drops i386 Installer
In working toward the Debian 13 "Trixie" stable release in 2025, as a lovely New Year's Eve surprise today is the first alpha release of the Debian Installer for Trixie.
December 31st, 2024 — Source

Fastnetmon and Debootstrap updates for Debian
Debian GNU/Linux has received two updates: ELA-1284-1 fastnetmon security update for Debian 10 (Buster) ELTS and DLA 4005-1 debootstrap bugfix update for Debian 11 (Bullseye) LTS
December 31st, 2024 — Source

Govulncheck-VulnDB, Assimp-Devel, libQt6Pdf6, grpc, Poppler updates for SUSE
SUSE Linux has been updated with several security enhancements, featuring moderate fixes for govulncheck-vulndb, assimp-devel, libQt6Pdf6, grpc, and poppler:
December 31st, 2024 — Source

FreeBSD Collaborating With AMD, NetBSD 10.0 Release & Other BSD Highlights Of 2024
While predominantly covering Linux-related news and Linux benchmarking at Phoronix, the BSDs hold a special spot. Here's a look back at some of the most exciting BSD milestones and FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD / DragonFlyBSD project news of 2024.
December 31st, 2024 — Source

Mesa Saw Fewer Patches This Year But Valve's Contributions Took The Top Spot
While the Mesa 3D graphics drivers saw many new features and improvements land in 2024, on a Git commit basis it's actually at a several year low in terms of new commits. Here are the numbers as well as a look at the most active contributors to Mesa, including a Valve open-source graphics driver developer now taking the top spot.
December 31st, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Continued With Many Linux & Open-Source Announcements In 2024
This year was another interesting year for Microsoft with continuing to make more of their software projects open-source, adding more Unix/Linux-like features to Windows, continuing to advance Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), keeping up with maintenance on their Azure Linux distribution, and other unexpected open-source/Linux surprises.
December 31st, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.3.16 RC1 released
The release candidate for PHP 8.3.16 has been released, featuring a range of fixes and enhancements. This includes resolutions for fundamental issues, such as the misoptimization of ZEND_MATCH_ERROR, the handling of zend_array_try_init() with destructor, the incorrect reproduction of constructor property promotion in AST->string, observer segmentation fault when functions are loaded with dl(), and a trampoline crash occurring on error.
December 31st, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.4.3 RC1 released
The release candidate for PHP 8.4.3 has been released, featuring numerous fixes and enhancements. The updates encompass corrections for BcMath, Core, DOM, FFI, Fileinfo, FPM, GD, Gettext, Iconv, LDAP, LibXML, MBString, Opcache, PgSql, Phar, SimpleXML, Sockets, SPL, Streams, and XML.
December 31st, 2024 — Source

Samsung Galaxy S20 & S9 With Exynos 9810 Support Coming To Linux 6.14
The Samsung ARM device updates are in the process of being queued up to the SoC tree ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.14 merge window in January.
December 31st, 2024 — Source

Wayland's Wild 2024 With Better KDE Plasma Support, NVIDIA Maturity & More Desktops
It was a mighty fine year for the Wayland ecosystem on the Linux desktop with KDE Plasma 6 having brought much more polished Wayland support and now at parity to its X11 session, the NVIDIA driver stack seeing much better Wayland support with its latest drivers, LXQt and Xfce and others working more on Wayland support, and the continued climb of various innovative Wayland compositors.
December 31st, 2024 — Source

ZLUDA v4 Released For Initial CUDA Support On Non-NVIDIA GPUs
One of the unexpected twists this year was after several years of AMD quietly funding the ZLUDA developer for enabling unmodified CUDA applications to run on AMD GPUs at near-native performance, the ZLUDA atop AMD HIP code was made available and open-source following the end of the AMD contract.
December 31st, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 30th, 2024

AMD's GPUOpen Vulkan Memory Allocator Now Supports Vulkan 1.4
AMD's GPUOpen team managed to squeeze in a new Vulkan Memory Allocator release into 2024. As a reminder this is a easy to use/integrate Vulkan memory allocation library for both Windows and Linux systems with hopes of making memory allocation and resource creation more easier like with Direct3D 11 and OpenGL.
December 30th, 2024 — Source

Cloudflare Makes Open-Source h3i For HTTP/3 Testing & Debugging
Cloudflare is ending 2024 by announcing a new open-source project: h3i for low-level HTTP/3 testing and debugging.
December 30th, 2024 — Source

Deadline Scheduling Policy Being Experimented With For Linux Graphics Drivers
Tvrtko Ursulin with Igalia sent out a "request for comments" patch series today working on a deadline scheduling policy for the DRM scheduler that is used across different Direct Rendering Manager kernel graphics drivers.
December 30th, 2024 — Source

Kubernetes Ephemeral Containers: Enhancing Security and Streamlining Troubleshooting in Production Clusters
Ephemeral containers in Kubernetes offer secure, short-lived debugging without disturbing primary workloads, then vanish — reducing risk and overhead.
December 30th, 2024 — Source

If you're ready for something different, I recommend this Linux distro to newbies and experts alike
OpenMandriva is a sensible operating system that's not based on the top four most popular Linux distros, but just as easy to use.
December 30th, 2024 — Source

Intel's Linux Performance Optimizations Continue Paying Off For AMD EPYC
As part of my end-of-year benchmarking and various historical comparisons, over the holidays I was curious to take a look at how the mature AMD EPYC 9004 "Genoa" performance has evolved over the past two years under Linux. Going off benchmarks I ran back at the end of 2022 on the same AMD Titanite EPYC reference server platform for two EPYC 9654 Genoa processors, I repeated the same tests using the newest releases of Intel Clear Linux and Ubuntu Linux for seeing how the performance has evolved.
December 30th, 2024 — Source

Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4
The open-source Mesa 3D graphics driver had a rather great year with a number of performance optimizations landing, on-time support for Intel Lunar Lake and Battlemage Xe2 graphics, early AMD RDNA4 support, multiple drivers having same-day Vulkan 1.4 support, the continued progress of the open-source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan driver, and much more thanks to the contributions of Intel, AMD, Valve, and other organizations -- even Microsoft's continued merge requests!
December 30th, 2024 — Source

QuickEMU 4.9.7 released
QuickEMU 4.9.7 has been released, featuring multiple enhancements aimed at improving the system's functionality. The modifications encompass the elimination of unused dependencies, the updating of flake.lock, enhancements to quickget custom configurations, the upgrade of DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action, and the removal of redundant code.
December 30th, 2024 — Source

RadeonSI Driver Now Uses ACO By Default For Pre-RDNA GPUs
As a very interesting end-of-year change for Mesa 25.0, AMD is now using the ACO compiler by default for pre-GFX10 (before RDNA / Navi) GPUs with the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver.
December 30th, 2024 — Source

The 4 most Windows-like Linux distros to try because change is hard
If you're still using Windows 10, you know the end is nigh. If you want to keep your machine running smoothly and feeling familiar, check out these Linux distros.
December 30th, 2024 — Source

The latest MX Linux turns Xfce into a desktop anyone can use
If you're looking for a Linux distribution with a user-friendly desktop that's also very highly customizable, MX Linux presents the Xfce desktop in a way that anyone can use and grow with over time.
December 30th, 2024 — Source

There's a New Open Source Terminal App in Town
Ghostty is a new Linux terminal app that's fast, feature-rich, and offers a platform-native GUI while remaining cross-platform.
December 30th, 2024 — Source

Updated Serpent OS Alpha Brings Few Fixes To This Original Linux Distribution
Last week Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux distribution debuted in alpha form while kicking off the new week is updated install media to provide a few fixes for this original from-scratch Linux distribution.
December 30th, 2024 — Source

xxHash 0.8.3 Brings Runtime Vector Extension Handling For x86/x86_64
Meta's Yann Collet of Zstd fame is rounding out 2024 by releasing xxHash 0.8.3 as the newest update to this extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm. The xxHash fast hash algorithm pushes for RAM speed limits and with the v0.8.3 update brings more enhancements.
December 30th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 29th, 2024

Apple DWI Backlight Linux Driver Updated For Various iPhones, iPods & iPads
While Linux 6.13 is introducing basic support for various Apple iPads and iPhones using A-series SoCs, the support is just that: basic. Various feature limitations remain for those dreaming over the prospects of running Linux on older Apple mobile devices.
December 29th, 2024 — Source

Faster USB Performance For xHCI DbC Coming With Linux 6.14 Plus A 10 Year Old Bug Fixed
Thanks to work from Intel engineers, the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle will feature faster USB xHCI DbC performance for debug performance and a few other missing xHCI bits being addressed. Plus there is a fix for a rare 10 year old USB bug report.
December 29th, 2024 — Source

Fish Shell Outlines Their Successes & Challenges Going From C++ To Rust
Earlier this month the Fish Shell 4.0 went into beta with the C++ code ported to Rust. Now with most of the Fish Shell code transitioned to Rust, the project put out a blog post this weekend outlining the successes and challenges they have encountered in porting their large C++ codebase to Rust.
December 29th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20241229 released
KDE neon 20241229 has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop. KDE neon is our installable Linux with continuous integration and deployment.
December 29th, 2024 — Source

Kdenlive Preparing For An Exciting 2025 With Background Removal Tool & More
The KDE app Kdenlive that is a very popular and featureful open-source video editor is preparing for an exciting 2025.
December 29th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13-rc5 To See Fix For Intel TDX CoCo VMs Potentially Leaking Decrypted Memory
The x86 fixes pull request was sent out this morning ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc5 kernel being released later today. Both x86 fixes this week pertain to Intel bits: a self-test issue on upcoming Intel FRED (Flexible Return and Event Delivery) systems and also an issue of Intel TDX confidential computing VM guests potentially leaking decrypted memory within the unrecoverable error handling.
December 29th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu's Great Year From 24.04 LTS To Focusing More On Performance Optimizations
From my independent monitoring, Ubuntu Linux had a pretty great year. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS shipped and has been well received across enterprises, Canonical engineers have been focusing more on performance optimizations for Ubuntu, and there has been other interesting changes like their new commitment to always ship the latest upstream Linux kernel version as of Ubuntu release time. Plus they have continued with various GNOME desktop improvements, Ubuntu on servers continues with steady traction, and all-around was a pretty exciting year for the Ubuntu camp.
December 29th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 27th, 2024

AMD Continued Ramping Up Their Linux & Open-Source Investments In 2024
AMD's new products this year have not only been supported well on the server side with their new EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors but also on the consumer side with the Ryzen AI 300 series laptop and Ryzen 9000 series desktop Zen 5 processors. AMD provided timely Zen 5 support across the stack as well as pursuing new AMD P-State driver optimizations, getting out the AMDXDNA Ryzen AI accelerator driver, and a lot of other new open-source Linux code for new hardware features, prepping for upcoming hardware like RDNA4 graphics, and pursuing optimizations for existing hardware.
December 27th, 2024 — Source

Bottles Software For Easily Running Windows Games/Apps On Linux To Leverage Rust
Bottles as the open-source manager for Wine to more easily run Windows games and applications on Linux has been pursuing the "Bottles Next" initiative as a rewrite to this software. The Bottles developers have decided they will be leveraging the Rust programming language as well as the libcosmic UI toolkit as part of this rewrite.
December 27th, 2024 — Source

CentOS Stream 10 versus AlmaLinux 10 Beta versus RHEL 10 Beta Performance Benchmarks
CentOS Stream 10 as the upstream to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 is largely similar to what's found in the RHEL 10.0 beta but one of the key differences is being powered by Linux 6.12 LTS rather than Linux 6.11 as currently used by the AlmaLinux/RHEL 10 beta. Here is how the performance of CentOS Stream 10 is looking in comparison on the same hardware.
December 27th, 2024 — Source

GNOME Added Many New Features This Year Amid Foundation Woes
The GNOME desktop environment had a vibrant 2024 with landing many new features, continuing to refine its (X)Wayland integration, apps like Ptyxis as a modern terminal taking off, and more. From the software side 2024 was great for GNOME while over on the GNOME Foundation side they had to deal with coping from running a recent deficit and also their executive director departing after less than one year.
December 27th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20241226 released
KDE neon 20241226 has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
December 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.122 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.122 is now available:
December 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.68 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.68 is now available:
December 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.12.7 released
Linux kernel version 6.12.7 is now available:
December 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux's Preempt Lazy Support Coming To POWER CPUs
Linux 6.13 is introducing a new Lazy Preemption mode with the "PREEMPT_LAZY" option. The lazy preemption mode is similar to full preemption but is less eager to preempt normal (SCHED_NORMAL) tasks. The goal is on reducing lock holder preemption and obtaining some of the performance gains found under the voluntary preemption mode
December 27th, 2024 — Source

OneXPlayer Linux Driver Being Brought To Parity With Windows Driver For These Handhelds
OneXPlayer maintains a line of handheld gaming consoles following in the success of the likes of Valve's Steam Deck, Lenovo Legion Go, and ASUS ROG Ally. These OneXPlayer devices ship with Microsoft Windows by default but the Linux support has been improving.
December 27th, 2024 — Source

Performance Improvements To Google's Binder Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.14
A patch-set working on faster page installations for Google's Binder that is used by Android is on the way for Linux 6.14.
December 27th, 2024 — Source

The iPhone's Dynamic Island won't be going away anytime soon
When Apple launched the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max in 2022, it also introduced a new feature called the Dynamic Island. Some had expected Apple to go with the hole-punch camera design, but the company had other ideas. If you hoped Dynamic Island would disappear and be replaced with an under-display camera, think again.
December 27th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 28th, 2024

A "Safe C++" Being Explored Using The New ClangIR
An interesting "request for comments" proposal I have been meaning to write about since last month is in-development work developing "Safe C++" as an extension to the LLVM Clang compiler and making use of the new, in-development ClangIR.
December 28th, 2024 — Source

Amavisd-New and Gstreamer updates for Debian
Debian GNU/Linux Extended LTS has been updated with two security patches: ELA-1280-1 for amavisd-new and ELA-1281-1 for gstreamer1.0
December 28th, 2024 — Source

CloudNativePG 1.25.0 and 1.24.2 released
CloudNativePG has announced the release of versions 1.25.0 and 1.24.2, which bring new features aimed at streamlining PostgreSQL operations and enhancing data durability management. This encompasses declarative database management, logical replication management, and optimized data durability. The release introduces the CloudNativePG Interface (CNPG-I), enabling users to enhance CloudNativePG with external plugins for tailored customization. The Barman Cloud Plugin illustrates the capabilities of CNPG-I, highlighting the ability to develop backup and recovery plugins independently from the operator's source code.
December 28th, 2024 — Source

Fedora's Captivating 2024 With Many New Features & Leading Innovations
The Fedora Linux distribution had another great year with the successful releases of Fedora 40 and Fedora 41 that were both rather polished and largely on-time -- something that couldn't be said frequently of Fedora releases long ago. Fedora Linux has continued pushing leading edge innovations into their distribution thanks to the sponsorship and upstream contributions of Red Hat engineers. 2024 was a rather successful year for this high grade Linux distribution.
December 28th, 2024 — Source

FFmpeg Lands Improved Support For Flash Video "FLV" With Multi-Track Audio/Video
It wasn't on my bingo card for end of year 2024 but the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library has seen a new round of improvements to the Flash Video (FLV) support.
December 28th, 2024 — Source

FSF Encouraging Pressure Campaign On Microsoft For 2025
Now that the holidays are passing and you hopefully got your new 802.11n WiFi adapter or USB microphone or other free software endorsed gifts, on Friday the Free Software Foundation put out a new blog post entitled "Keep putting pressure on Microsoft." There they encourage free software patrons to keep up a pressure campaign against Microsoft:
December 28th, 2024 — Source

GE-Proton9-22 Released
GloriousEggroll has announced the release of GE-Proton9-22, featuring updates to several components. This version includes upstream updates, the disabling of nvapi for Assassin's Creed Syndicate, as well as updates for Simulakros, Simulakros Demo, and Xalia for games 0.4.5. The update encompasses improvements for Identity V, Ghostrunner 2, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Bus Simulator 21 Next Stop, Hell Yeah!, Crysis, Crysis (17300), Crysis (17300), and From Dust. The update encompasses improvements for Ghostrunner 2, Identity V, Ys I and II Chronicles+, Kao the Kangaroo, and Fallout New Vegas.
December 28th, 2024 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.12-8 released
Steven Barrett has released a new Liquorix kernel based on Linux kernel 6.12.7. The Liquorix Linux kernel is an enthusiast Linux kernel that is optimized for low latency computing in audiovisual production, reduced frame time variations in games, and unparalleled responsiveness in interactive systems. It is available for Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux.
December 28th, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA Made Great Strides With Their Open-Source Kernel Code & Wayland Support In 2024
NVIDIAThis year NVIDIA's official Linux graphics driver enjoyed much more robust Wayland support, their open-source kernel modules have matured greatly and are now being used by default, and their proprietary Vulkan and OpenGL drivers remain in good standing for performant Linux gaming and workstation graphics. NVIDIA's Linux driver stack had a rather great year.
December 28th, 2024 — Source

SemiKong is the world's first open-source semiconductor-focused LLM — it claims to bring new chips to market 30% faster
SemiKong, a new LLM trained by Aitomatic and its partners in the "AI Alliance", is the world's first large language model specifically crafted to serve the semiconductor industry's needs. SemiKong seeks to become part of the workflows of semiconductor design companies and act as a digital expert in the field, contributing to getting new chips out the door significantly faster.
December 28th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 26th, 2024

AMD Ryzen PCs May See More Power Savings Out-Of-The-Box With Linux 6.14
AMD Ryzen systems with the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel may see increased power savings out-of-the-box due to an AMD P-State driver change queued up as part of the new power management code for this next version of the Linux kernel.
December 26th, 2024 — Source

GCC ASCII Art Visualizations, Timely Znver5 & Other Compiler Highlights Of 2024
Both GCC and LLVM/Clang made great strides in 2024 in rounding up their latest C and C++ support, enabling new hardware targets, and a variety of other features. Plus other open-source compilers targeting different features / languages, device types, and more also advanced a lot this calendar year. For those excited about turning code into binaries, here's a look back at the most popular compiler articles on Phoronix.
December 26th, 2024 — Source

Hash-Based Integrity Checking Proposed For Linux To Help With Reproducible Builds
An interesting request for comments (RFC) patch series was posted on Christmas for introducing hash-based integrity checking to help with the reproducible builds initiative around the Linux kernel.
December 26th, 2024 — Source

Intel Linux Performance Optimizations & Intel's Other Open-Source Wins From 2024
In addition to the exciting hardware launches this year particularly around Xeon 6 Granite Rapids, Lunar Lake processors, and the new low-cost Battlemage graphics cards, what remains particularly exciting and consistent are all of Intel's great investments around open-source and Linux. Over 2024 there were many exciting performance optimizations, new Linux kernel features, GCC and LLVM/Clang compiler toolchain improvements, and countless other enhancements made throughout the open-source ecosystem by Intel engineers.
December 26th, 2024 — Source

KDE Enjoyed A Stellar 2024 With The Debut Of The Plasma 6 Desktop
The KDE desktop progress made over the course of 2024 was particularly stand-out thanks to the Plasma 6.0 debut near the beginning of the year and then Plasma 6.1 and 6.2 further stabilizing and polishing this open-source desktop. It was a very fine year for the KDE desktop.
December 26th, 2024 — Source

Pre-Content fanotify / fanotify Hierarchical Storage Management Expected For Linux 6.14
Queued up by way of linux-fs.git's "for_next" Git branch is the fanotify HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) implementation via the pre-content fanotify patch series.
December 26th, 2024 — Source

Reiser5 Would Be Turning Five Years Old But Remains Dead
It was on New Year's Eve 2019 that Edward Shishkin announced the Reiser5 file-system as an evolution of the out-of-tree Reiser4 file-system code. While next week would mark five years of Reiser5, the Reiser4/Reiser5 file-system still appears effectively dead and hasn't been touched in quite a while.
December 26th, 2024 — Source

The Performance Benefits Of Linux 6.12 LTS Over Linux 6.6 LTS
Linux 6.12 was recently promoted to being this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel with it being the last major kernel release of 2024. For those enterprise Linux users, hyperscalers, and others typically jumping from one annual LTS kernel to the next, in this holiday article are some benchmarks looking at the performance benefits of Linux 6.12 LTS compared to Linux 6.6 LTS while testing on an AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation.
December 26th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 25th, 2024

4MLinux 47.0 brings new features and updates for Christmas
It's Christmas Day, and for Linux enthusiasts, there's an extra gift under the tree. You see, the lightweight 4MLinux has officially hit its stable release with version 47.0 (download it here).
December 25th, 2024 — Source or Source

"AM" 9.4.1 released
"AM" application manager for AppImage 9.4.1 is now available, allowing users to customize and change the database by exporting variables. The variables include APPSDB, APPSDBLIST, APPIMAGES_LIST, AMCATALOGUEMARKDOWNS, AMCATALOGUEICONS, and AMSYNC.
December 25th, 2024 — Source

CachyOS Had A Really Great Year Advancing This Performance-Optimized Arch Linux Platform
The CachyOS Linux distribution has really been on fire this year delivering impressive new features and performance optimizations for this Arch Linux derived OS.
December 25th, 2024 — Source

How to install and use Microsoft's PowerShell on Linux (and why you should)
If you're a fan of Windows PowerShell and you're using Windows 10, you'll be glad to know you can install and use that powerful command line tool on Linux.
December 25th, 2024 — Source

Intel Mesa Code Lands Big Patch Series For Treating Convergent Values As SIMD8
A patch series six months in the making and consisting of 24 patches by longtime Intel Linux graphics engineer Ian Romanick was merged on Christmas Eve for Mesa 25.0.
December 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux RNDIS Removal Branch Updated For Disabling Microsoft RNDIS Protocol Drivers
There's activity again around potentially disabling and then ultimately removing the RNDIS Linux kernel code for those drivers complying with the Microsoft Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) protocol specification. RNDIS was used atop USB for virtual Ethernet but has proven insecure and problematic.
December 25th, 2024 — Source

New Intel Mesa Driver Patches Implement AV1 Decode For Vulkan Video
While there has been Vulkan Video support within Intel's open-source "ANV" driver since early 2023 and extended over time to handle H.265/HEVC decode, H.264 and H.265 encode, and more, the AV1 decode support has lagged behind until now.
December 25th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.4.2, 8.3.15, 8.2.27 for Debian 11 LTS and 12
Ondřej Surý has released PHP 8.4.2, 8.3.15, and 8.2.27 packages for both Debian GNU/Linux 11 (Bullseye) LTS and 12 (Bookworm).
December 25th, 2024 — Source

Popper and Vhostmd updates for SUSE
SUSE Linux has been updated with security updates for poppler and vhostmd:
December 25th, 2024 — Source

Ruby 3.4 Programming Language Brings "it", Better Performance For YJIT
Ruby 3.4 is out today as yet another annual major feature release for this programming language known for its major updates on Christmas Day.
December 25th, 2024 — Source

systemd Highlights For 2024 From Run0 To Varlink To Advancing systemd-homed
Systemd had another busy year working on many new features from run0 as a sudo alternative to making systemd-homed more robust, increasing Varlink use, systemd-boot continuing to gain more traction, and more.
December 25th, 2024 — Source

What will 2025 bring for Linux PCs?
What's next for Linux in all its facets in the coming year? We'll tell you!
December 25th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 20th, 2024

9to5Mac Daily: December 20, 2024 -- Apple Watch Ultra 3 rumors, more
Apple wants you to start 2025 off strong with new Apple Watch Activity Challenge. Here are all the airlines that support the new AirTags feature in iOS 18.2. Apple Watch Ultra 3: Three new features are coming next year.
December 20th, 2024 — Source

Arch Linux Based CachyOS Takes The Lead On Intel Arrow Lake
Following the recent Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Windows 11 versus Ubuntu Linux benchmarks I wanted to expand the testing to look at how well other Linux distributions as well were performing on this new 24-core Arrow Lake desktop processor. To much surprise Intel's own Clear Linux distribution didn't take the top spot this round but as a surprising upset the Arch Linux based CachyOS distribution outperformed Clear Linux, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, and Fedora Workstation on this flagship Arrow Lake processor.
December 20th, 2024 — Source

OpenMoonRay 1.7 Brings More NVIDIA GPU Acceleration, Additional Features
In early 2023 DreamWorks open-sourced their MoonRay renderer as OpenMoonRay. Since then they have continued advancing this award-winning production MCRT renderer. Before closing out 2024 they have now released OpenMoonRay 1.7.
December 20th, 2024 — Source

DPDK and Linux Kernel updates for Ubuntu
Ubuntu Linux has been updated with two security vulnerabilities: [USN-7178-1] DPDK vulnerability and [LSN-0108-1] Linux kernel vulnerability
December 20th, 2024 — Source

DXVK 2.5.2 Brings Fixes & Optimizations For Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 Atop Vulkan
DXVK 2.5.2 is out today as the newest point release to this open-source software implementing the Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 APIs atop Vulkan for powering Windows games on Valve's Steam Play (Proton) as well as being used by other software and some games directly.
December 20th, 2024 — Source

DXVK 2.5.2 released
DXVK 2.5.2 has been released and introduced bug fixes and improvements, including an implementation of D3D9 shader validation interfaces, fixed behavior when D3D9 applications use incorrect texture types, and optimized behavior of disabled clip planes for D3D9 games. Additionally, it resolved issues that were leading to Wine test failures for D3D8 and D3D9. Additional enhancements consist of rectifying the absence of lava in Borderlands 2, Codename Panzers Phase One/Two, and expanding application profiles for various mod tools.
December 20th, 2024 — Source

Godot 4.4 Dev 7 released
The seventh development snapshot of Godot 4.4 has been released for testing and represents the final development build of the year, incorporating critical bug fixes and introducing new features.
December 20th, 2024 — Source

How Cobra Kai Does (and Doesn't) Tie Into Karate Kid: Legends
Plus, it's good news for Dune: Prophecy's future.
December 20th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20241219 released
KDE neon 20241219 has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
December 20th, 2024 — Source

Liquorix versus Linux 6.12 Upstream Kernel Performance Across Many Workloads
A Phoronix Premium subscriber a while back requested some fresh benchmarks of how the Liquorix downstream of the Linux kernel is comparing against the latest upstream kernel... Here are some benchmarks looking at the Liquorix flavor of the Linux kernel compared to upstream Linux 6.12.
December 20th, 2024 — Source

Miniature sensor that detects toxic gas shows promising results in the lab
A team of scientists at UNSW Sydney have developed a highly sensitive miniature sensor that is able to detect low levels of the toxic gas nitrogen dioxide (NO2). The tiny, flexible sensor can detect the harmful gas in real-time without requiring an external energy source.
December 20th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI 2024 event: How to watch new ChatGPT product reveals and demos
OpenAI is in the holiday spirit, it seems. The ChatGPT series of reveals, called "12 Days of OpenAI," will be streamed live at 10 a.m. PT each weekday through December 20. So far, we've seen the launch of ChatGPT Pro, OpenAI's $200 per month subscription plan; the full version of its "reasoning" o1 model; the highly anticipated public releasee of its text-to-video generator Sora; the rollout of Canvas; ChatGPT in Apple Intelligence; ChatGPT's real-time video capabilities; and the ability to call ChatGPT via a 1-800 number.
December 20th, 2024 — Source or Watch Video

OpenSUSE Announces New "YQPkg" Package Management Tool
The openSUSE project announced today YQPkg as a new package management tool for openSUSE Linux distributions.
December 20th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.2.27, 8.3.15 and 8.4.2 packages for Fedora/RHEL released
Remi Collet has released PHP 8.2.27, 8.3.15 and 8.4.2 packages for Fedora and RHEL-based Linux distributions.
December 20th, 2024 — Source

Proxmox Datacenter Manager Alpha 1 released
Proxmox has released the first alpha release of their Datacenter Manager, intended to offer a centralized overview of individual nodes and clusters, facilitating fundamental management tasks such as the migration of virtual guests without the need for cluster network requirements. The project has been comprehensively developed using the Rust programming language, encompassing the backend API server, CLI tools, and a new frontend constructed with the latest widget toolkit. The alpha version is designed to collect feedback, evaluate core features, and engage with users and prospective developers.
December 20th, 2024 — Source

Ryzen AI NPU6 Support Added To AMDXDNA Driver For Linux 6.14 Debut
The latest round of drm-misc-next material was sent out yesterday to DRM-Next in advance of the upcoming Linux 6.14 merge window.
December 20th, 2024 — Source

Tailscale, Govulncheck-vulndb, Avahi, Docker, Python, LibMozJS updates for SUSE
SUSE Linux has been updated with several security enhancements, including tailscale-1.78.3-2.1, govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20241213T205935-1.1, avahi, docker-27.4.1_ce-12.1, python310-xhtml2pdf-0.2.16-2.1, and libmozjs-128-0-128.5.1-3.1:
December 20th, 2024 — Source

Want to save your old computer? Try these 6 Linux distros
Here's how to save money, reduce e-waste, and extend the life of your old hardware at the same time.
December 20th, 2024 — Source

Wayland Protocols 1.39 Released With Data Control & Workspace Additions
Jonas Ådahl of Red Hat just released Wayland Protocols 1.39 as the latest set of updates to this de facto repository for Wayland protocols.
December 20th, 2024 — Source

Weighted Interleave Auto-Tuning Being Worked On For Linux
Joshua Hahn has posted the latest "request for comments" draft working on weightedd interleave auto-tuning for the linux kernel in order to better enhance the performance characteristics of primarily Linux servers with multiple memory nodes.
December 20th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 16th, 2024

Better Linux Support For The Samsung Galaxy Book Laptops With New Driver Coming
For those interested in using Linux on the Samsung Galaxy Book line of laptops that ship with Microsoft Windows out-of-the-box, a new "samsung-galaxybook" driver is being worked on for supporting additional laptop functionality not currently found with these laptops under Linux.
December 16th, 2024 — Source

Blaize BLZP1600 SoC Support Coming To Linux 6.14 For AI Edge Processing
The upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is set to introduce support for the Blaize BLZP1600 SoC series that is powering various PCIe add-in-card and M.2 adapters for local AI edge processing.
December 16th, 2024 — Source

Enhancing Security in Kubernetes: A Comparative Analysis of Cosign and Connaisseur
Boost Kubernetes security with Cosign's image signing and Connaisseur's strict verification. Learn how these tools protect your containers from unauthorized access.
December 16th, 2024 — Source

Git 2.48-rc0 Released With git-fsck Warning Over "Curiously Formatted" Ref Contents
Git maintainer Junio Hamano today announced Git 2.48-rc0 as the first test release toward the Git 2.48 distributed version control system release.
December 16th, 2024 — Source

I converted this Windows 11 Mini PC into a Linux workstation - and didn't regret it
The Herk Orion is a capable Ryzen-powered Mini PC in its own right, but ditching Windows for a Linux OS has opened up a whole new level of performance.
December 16th, 2024 — Source

How to run a Windows app on Linux with Wine
With Windows 10 end of life looming, can you make Linux your go-to operating system and still run your favorite Windows apps? Wine has you covered.
December 16th, 2024 — Source

Jumbo Data Packet Transmission & RACK-TLP Coming To Linux 6.14 Network Stack
Queued up this past week within the Linux kernel's networking subsystem for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle is transmission handling for jumbo data packets as well as RACK-TLP support for managing packet loss and re-transmission. This is work toward supporting larger network transmission windows and higher data throughput.
December 16th, 2024 — Source

Last Minute AMD GFX12 Changes For RadeonSI Driver Enable ACO For RDNA4
Ahead of AMD's approaching RDNA4 next-generation graphics card launch, today a set of last minute improvements to the AMD GFX12 graphics IP were merged to Mesa 25.0 for the open-source Linux graphics driver support.
December 16th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13-rc3 fixes expensive CPUID handling on Sapphire Rapids CPUs — an issue resulting in Skylake CPUs being 4X faster for CPUID-related updates
This is arguably one of the most bizarre issues to crop up to date in the Linux kernel.
December 16th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.14 Looks To Support AMD's Zen 5 RMPREAD Instruction & Segmented RMP Mode
For further enhancing the AMD EPYC virtualization experience on Linux, the upcoming Linux 6.14 looks like it will support Zen 5's new RMPREAD instruction and segmented RMP mode as part of Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP).
December 16th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.14 To Introduce New DRM Boot Logger For Kernel Messages
Sent out today was the latest drm-misc-next pull request of various Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) changes queuing up ahead of the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle. Most exciting this week is the DRM boot logger being queued for landing to better present kernel messages.
December 16th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.13-rc3 released
Earlier this week it felt to me like things might have already started to quiet down in prep for the holidays, but doing the statistics on rc3 that doesn't actually seem to be the case - this looks very regular both in number of commits and in diff size. In fact, the diff is a bit on the larger side, but that is admittedly almost entirely due to the revert of a unicode change that then makes the diff large due to a generated data file.
December 16th, 2024 — Source

Manjaro 24.2.1 Yonada released
Since we released Xahea in October 2024 we worked hard to get the next release of Manjaro out there. We call it Yonada.
December 16th, 2024 — Source

Master OneNote Templates: The Secret to Effortless Organization
Have you ever found yourself staring at a blank page, unsure of how to organize your thoughts or where to even begin? Whether you're juggling work projects, managing school assignments, or simply trying to keep track of daily tasks, the struggle to stay organized can feel overwhelming. That's where OneNote templates come in. Think of them as your personal shortcut to structure and clarity—a way to save time, reduce stress, and focus on what really matters. If you've ever wished for a tool to make your note-taking more efficient and visually appealing, you're in the right place.
December 16th, 2024 — Source

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Beta Performance Looks Great - Initial RHEL 9 versus RHEL 10 Benchmarks On AMD EPYC Turin
With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 now in public beta this month, I have begun testing out the RHEL 10 beta on a few systems in the lab. In this first look at RHEL 10 performance is seeing how well the RHEL 10 beta is performing relative to RHEL 9.5 stable on an AMD EPYC server.
December 16th, 2024 — Source

Why PorteuX Linux 1.8 is a faster and lighter alternative to Microsoft's bloated Windows 11
The lightweight Linux distribution PorteuX has launched version 1.8, delivering huge updates across multiple desktop environments and a modern alternative to Windows 11. The release introduces the newly released Xfce 4.20, a sleek and efficient desktop environment, alongside updates to Cinnamon 6.4.2, GNOME 47.2, KDE 6.2.4, and LXQt 2.1.0, offering users a customizable and resource-friendly experience without the performance trade-offs often associated with Windows 11.
December 16th, 2024 — Source

Xfce 4.20 released
Xfce 4.20 represents the most recent release of the Xfce desktop environment, developed over a span of two years. The primary objective was to prepare the codebase for Wayland, enabling the majority of components to operate on Wayland windowing while maintaining support for X11 windowing. This was accomplished by abstracting any X11/Wayland windowing-specific calls and utilising Wayland/Wlroots protocols. A new library, "libxfce4windowing," was introduced during this process.
December 16th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 13th, 2024

4 top personal finance apps for Linux that run on MacOS and Windows, too
Looking for a money app to get your finances in order for 2025? Here's why I recommend these open-source options.
December 13th, 2024 — Source

Arduino Ditches MbedOS for ZephyrOS -- Here's What It Means for Developers
Arduino has announced the beta release of its cores integrated with ZephyrOS, signaling a significant evolution in its embedded development framework. This transition replaces the now-deprecated MbedOS with ZephyrOS, an open-source real-time operating system (RTOS) designed for low-power, resource-constrained devices. By adopting ZephyrOS, Arduino aims to enhance its platform with advanced features such as real-time scheduling and multitasking, while maintaining its hallmark simplicity and accessibility.
December 13th, 2024 — Source

Best Open Source CRM Software for 2025
Discover the best open-source CRM software options to enhance customer relationships for your business.
December 13th, 2024 — Source

CentOS Stream 10 released
CentOS Stream 10 has been released, featuring updates such as Linux kernel 6.12, Python 3.12, Go 1.23, Rust 1.82, Valkey 7.2, and GNOME 47.
December 13th, 2024 — Source

Master Remote Connections Like a Pro with xPipe : Open Source
Managing remote connections can often feel like juggling too many balls at once—servers, virtual machines, desktops, and countless protocols all demanding your attention. The struggle to keep everything organized and accessible is a challenge that IT professionals and home lab enthusiasts alike know all too well. But what if there was a way to simplify it all? A tool that could bring order to the chaos and give you back the time and energy you've been spending on tedious connection management?
December 13th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI Outage Disrupts Siri's New ChatGPT Integration on iOS 18.2
On Wednesday, December 11, OpenAI experienced a significant outage that temporarily brought all its services to a halt. The outage, which disrupted access to tools like ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI's API, coincided with the release of iOS 18.2, which introduced ChatGPT integration with Siri.
December 13th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI announces a ChatGPT organizing system called Projects
A mid-tier tool for the middle of "12 Days of OpenAI."
December 13th, 2024 — Source

OpenZFS 2.3-rc4 Released With Linux 6.12 LTS Support
Following the OpenZFS 2.2.7 stable point release earlier this week that brought Linux 6.12 LTS kernel compatibility along with various fixes, OpenZFS 2.3-rc4 is out today as the latest step toward the big OpenZFS 2.3 feature release.
December 13th, 2024 — Source

'Tis the season to test the RHEL and AlmaLinux 10 betas
And the kernel team's patience?
December 13th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 10th, 2024

Avahi and Jinja2 updates for Debian
Debian GNU/Linux has received updates such as the Avahi security update and the Jinja2 regression update:
December 10th, 2024 — Source

Demystifying Kubernetes in 5 Minutes
Take a few minutes to learn about Kubernetes: a powerful container orchestration platform that simplifies the management of applications.
December 10th, 2024 — Source

IBM Deprecating Linux Drivers For CXL Coherent Accelerators & CAPI Flash
IBM engineers announced they are deprecating the upstream CXL and CXLFLASH Linux kernel drivers with plans to then remove the drivers from the mainline kernel the following cycle. Before getting too worked up when seeing the "cxl: Deprecate driver" patch, this is about the Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) that predates the Compute Express Link.
December 10th, 2024 — Source

Kernel, Radare2, Nanopb, qt6-webengine, Pam updates for SUSE
SUSE Linux has been updated with several security enhancements, including significant updates for the Linux Kernel, radare2, nanopb, qt6-webengine, and pam:
December 10th, 2024 — Source

Linux Mint dethrones MX Linux as the most popular distro on DistroWatch
Linux Mint has reclaimed its position as the top-ranked Linux distribution on DistroWatch, dethroning MX Linux. The latest page hit rankings, which reflect the popularity of distributions among DistroWatch users, place Linux Mint in first place with 2,412 hits per day. MX Linux, previously the reigning champ, now sits in second with 2,280 hits.
December 10th, 2024 — Source

New Linux Patch Establishes "CONFIG_X86_64_NATIVE" For -march=native Kernel Builds
Last week I wrote about Linux patches cleaning up x86 32-bit kernel builds for x86_64 CPUs. The new iteration of those patches were sent out today, including the addition of a patch adding the CONFIG_X86_64_NATIVE Kconfig tunable for enabling "-march=native" kernel builds to cater your optimized kernel compilation for the CPU on which you are building the kernel.
December 10th, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA Releases EGL-Wayland 1.1.17
NVIDIA published EGL-Wayland 1.1.17 on Monday as the newest update to this Wayland EGL external platform library to provide client-side Wayland support to EGL atop the EGLDevice and EGLStream extensions.
December 10th, 2024 — Source

Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI
Python security developer-in-residence decries use of bots that 'cannot understand code'
December 10th, 2024 — Source

Optimizing Linux MD Bitmap Code Yields 89% Throughput Boost For Quad SSDs
A promising patch for the Linux kernel is optimizing the locking contention and scattered address space for the MD bitmap code to improve both the storage throughput and latency.
December 10th, 2024 — Source

Ruby, .NET, PostgreSQL, and more updates for Oracle Linux
Oracle Linux has been updated with multiple security enhancements, which include updates for ruby:3.1, redis:7, .NET 9.0 bugfixes, and security updates for postgresql:15, postgresql:16, and postgresql:13, along with a bugfix update for kexec-tools and osinfo-db:
December 10th, 2024 — Source

Perf Support For 2,048 CPU Cores Is Becoming Not Enough - Patches Bump Kernel Limit
LINUX KERNELCurrently the Linux kernel's "perf" performance monitoring subsystem has a limit on 2,048 CPU cores for its CPU map that is set by the MAX_NR_CPUS value. But that's becoming not enough in today's high core count era that patches are looking to raise it to a 4,096 CPU core limit by default.
December 10th, 2024 — Source

Ptyxis Becomes Ubuntu's Recommended Replacement To GNOME Terminal
While the Ubuntu desktop has been offered the newer GNOME Console as an alternative to GNOME Terminal, there's been a recent fondness around Ptyxis and apparently is becoming the recommended replacement to GNOME Terminal for the Ubuntu camp.
December 10th, 2024 — Source

Servo Browser Engine Landed More Performance Optimizations In November
The Servo browser engine project is out with their latest monthly status update to outline improvements made to this Rust-based open-source engine.
December 10th, 2024 — Source

System76 just took everything that was good in Pop!_OS and made it even better
Pop!_OS Alpha 4 has arrived and it's going to be a brilliant Linux desktop.
December 10th, 2024 — Source

systemd 257 Debuts With systemd-keyutil & systemd-sbsign Tools, Other Improvements
Coincidentally coming one day after the GNU Shepherd 1.0 service manager release, the systemd 257 release is now shipping as the newest feature release for this widely-used service manager / init system to Linux systems. Systemd 257 brings a number of new features and improvements for powering late 2024 and early 2025 Linux distributions.
December 10th, 2024 — Source

Tinyproxy, WebKitGTK, oFono, Linux kernel (Intel IoTG), RabbitMQ Server updates for Ubuntu
Ubuntu Linux has been updated with several vulnerabilities, including Tinyproxy, WebKitGTK, oFono, Linux kernel (Intel IoTG), and RabbitMQ Server:
December 10th, 2024 — Source

Updated Dasharo Firmware Pulls In Raptor Lake Instability Fix, Other Enhancements
For those wanting to run Coreboot or Coreboot-derived firmware on a modern desktop motherboard with good performance and features, the main contender currently is 3mdeb's Dasharo downstream that can be flashed on the MSI PRO Z790-P/Z790-P motherboards for using with Intel Core Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors. Firmware consulting firm 3mdeb today published a new Dasharo firmware update for the MSI PRO Z790-P WIFI motherboard.
December 10th, 2024 — Source

What will the year 2025 bring for Linux PCs?
What's next for Linux in all its facets in the coming year? We'll tell you!
December 10th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 6th, 2024

4 top personal finance apps for Linux that run on MacOS and Windows, too
Looking for a money app to get your finances in order for 2025? Here's why I recommend these open-source options.
December 6th, 2024 — Source

AMD P-State Driver Improvements Getting Ready For Linux 6.14
While Linux 6.13-rc1 was only released this past Sunday and there is around two months to go until the start of the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle, AMD P-State driver improvements are already beginning to collect for this next kernel cycle.
December 6th, 2024 — Source

Archcraft is a solid, super fast distro for anyone ready to move beyond beginner Linux
I spent a week with the distribution and found it to be a lot of fun to use. Here's what to know about it before you dive in.
December 6th, 2024 — Source

Box64 v0.3.2 Emulator Adds Box32 Option, Introduces Native Flags & More
Box64 v0.3.2 is out today as the newest feature release to this Linux user-space emulator for allowing x86_64 binaries to run on ARM64 (AArch64) Linux devices. Box64 is one of the leading ways for allowing x86_64 games and Steam to be able to run on ARM 64-bit Linux devices.
December 6th, 2024 — Source

Broadcom BCM2712 MOPLET Graphics For Linux 6.14, Other Early drm-misc-next Code
While the Linux v6.13 merge window has been over for less than one week, already the first pull requests of new feature code are being submitted to DRM-Next for queuing the display/graphics driver changes ahead of the Linux 6.14 merge window in two months.
December 6th, 2024 — Source

Fedora 42 Eyes Replacing SDL2 With sdl2-compat To Leverage SDL3
The SDL2 library is widely used by cross-platform games and other software. Fedora 42 is eyeing the possibility of replacing SDL2 with the sdl2-compat code so that by way of this compatibility layer the newer SDL3 version will ultimately be used instead.
December 6th, 2024 — Source

Fwupd 2.0.3 Delivers Latest Firmware Updating Capabilities For Linux Systems
Fwupd 2.0 debuted back in October while out today is Fwupd 2.0.3 as the newest incremental update to this open-source solution for updating system and device firmware under Linux.
December 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 Features: AutoFDO+Propeller Optimizations, Many AMD Additions & SDUC + NVMe 2.1 Support
With the Linux 6.13 merge window having ended this past weekend, here's the Phoronix overview of all the interesting feature additions, new hardware support, and other kernel changes coming for Linux 6.13.
December 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux Preps For Kunpeng ARM Server SoC With High Bandwidth Memory
New Linux patches from Huawei engineers are preparing new driver support for controlling High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) with the ARM-based Kunpeng high performance SoC.
December 6th, 2024 — Source

MGLRU Sees New Performance Optimizations For Linux
It's been a while since there have been any new advancements or performance optimizations to talk about for Multi-Gen LRU (MGLRU) that was upstreamed to the Linux kernel two years ago as a very exciting kernel innovation. But that's changing now with some fresh performance optimizations being worked on for the MGLRU code.
December 6th, 2024 — Source

openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 Brings Nice Improvements To This Lightweight Linux OS
openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 is now available as the newest version of this lightweight Linux operating system built for containerized environments and virtualized workloads.
December 6th, 2024 — Source

The next LTS Linux kernel is no surprise but it is packed with goodies
Linux 6.12 brings real-time support, a new extensible scheduler, and QR error codes.
December 6th, 2024 — Source

Wine 10.0-rc1 Released With Updated VKD3D, Initial Bluetooth Driver
The first release candidate of Wine 10.0 is out today that also now marks the feature freeze ahead of this stable release expected to be out around mid-January.
December 6th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 2nd, 2024

5 Linux commands for locating system slowdowns fast
If you've ever experienced a system slowdown on Linux, it could be hardware-related. Here are five commands to help you find the problem to get back up to speed fast.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Advance Discontinuation Notice of openSUSE Leap 15.5
Marcus Meissner has announced that openSUSE Leap 15.5 will reach its end of life on December 31st, 2024.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

AMD Per-Core Energy Counter Support Slated For Linux 6.14
While the Linux 6.13 merge window just closed yesterday in landing all of the new features and functionality for that first kernel version of 2025, already for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle to follow a feature was queued up early this morning in a TIP branch: AMD per-core energy counter support.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

BootKitty UEFI malware exploits LogoFAIL to infect Linux systems
The recently uncovered 'Bootkitty' Linux UEFI bootkit exploits the LogoFAIL flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-40238, to target computers running on vulnerable firmware.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Imagination Lands Big PowerVR Compiler Update In Mesa 25.0
Merged over the US holiday weekend was a big update to the Imagination PowerVR Vulkan driver code for Mesa 25.0... 71 patches in fact making up this merge request.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Retires
While Intel has been under much financial difficulties and as they pursue their build out of new fabs to better compete with TSMC, to much surprise Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired effective today.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.13-rc1 released
So two weeks have passed, the merge window is over, and -rc1 is pushed out.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Linux Kernel Patch Fixes Minutes-Long Boot Times on AMD "Zen 1" and "Zen 2" Processors
A significant fix has been submitted to the Linux kernel 6.13-rc1 that addresses prolonged boot times affecting older AMD processors, specifically targeting "Zen 1" and "Zen 2" architectures. The issue, which has been present for approximately 18 months, could cause boot delays ranging from several seconds to multiple minutes in extreme cases. The problem was discovered by a Nokia engineer who reported inconsistent boot delays across multiple AMD EPYC servers.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Linux Kernel updates for SUSE
SUSE Linux has released several Linux kernel security updates:
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Llamafile 0.8.17 Brings New Web UI For This Easy-To-Distribute AI LLM Framework
Llamafile 0.8.17 debuted this weekend as the newest version of this Mozilla research project for making it easy to distribute and run AI large language models (LLMs) within a single file. As implied by its name, Llamafile leverages Llama.cpp along with other open-source software into one consistent framework for helping to make single-file LLM executables a reality.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Mir 2.19 Released With Atomic KMS Platform Support, New Wayland Protocols
Mir 2.19 is out today as the newest version of this Ubuntu/Canonical project making it easier for other desktops/environments to embrace Wayland support. This set of libraries for building Wayland-based shells has added a few new features with today's update.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

NVK, RADV, & Other Mesa Drivers Ready With Launch Day Vulkan 1.4 Support
Years ago when new OpenGL spec releases would occur, it could take months or years for the open-source Mesa drivers to catch-up in supporting the latest versions... Thankfully in the Vulkan space it continues to prove to be a very different story. As we've seen with prior Vulkan specs, today's Vulkan 1.4 spec release is greeted by same-day Mesa patches.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Open source system detects new varieties of cyberattacks
Cyberattacks have become a major risk for companies and other organizations. To prevent data theft, sabotage and extortion, many companies and government agencies are turning in response to Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems, which use detection rules, also known as signatures, to identify cyberattacks.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

OpenAI denies it is building ad biz model into its platform
Chief financial officer admits 'we're open to exploring other revenue streams in the future'
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

PostgreSQL and Ansible updates for Ubuntu
Ubuntu Linux has received security updates for PostgreSQL vulnerabilities and Ansible regression:
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Python and SimpleSAMLphp updates for Debian
Debian GNU/Linux has received security updates for Python and SimpleSAMLphp:
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Qt 6.8.1 Toolkit Released With 550+ Bug Fixes
Building off the early October release of Qt 6.8 LTS, Qt 6.8.1 is out today with more than 550 fixes collected over the past two months.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Raspberry Pi Password Not Working? Here's What You Can Do
The Raspberry Pi is indeed versatile as it is powerful. And if you are a tech hobbyist, it would be a missed opportunity not to try out its many capabilities in different areas of your home. So to make the most out of your Pi while expanding your skills, you're probably working with more than one board at the same time.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Steam Survey Results For November 2024: Linux Gaming Marketshare Slightly Higher
During October the Steam Linux marketshare crawled back up to 2.0% while overnight Valve published the Steam Survey results for November 2024.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Thunderbird, Gimp, ACS, and more updates for RHEL
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has undergone multiple security updates, encompassing Thunderbird, gimp, ACS 4.4 enhancement, python-tornado, libreswan, Kube Descheduler Operator, and postgresql:
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Vulkan 1.4 Released With More Extensions Mandated, Better 8K Rendering
As a lovely early Christmas present, The Khronos Group used SIGGRAPH Asia today for announcing the Vulkan 1.4 specification release.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Vulkan Video Now Enabled By Default For Radeon VCN2/VCN3 Hardware On Linux
An exciting merge today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver with next quarter's Mesa 25.0 is enabling Vulkan Video API support by default for AMD graphics having VCN 2.x and VCN 3.x hardware.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Waiting for Microsoft Windows 12 is a mistake when you can upgrade to Linux today
The tech world is full of rumors about Windows 12, the supposed savior of Microsoft's operating system lineup. The company has been tight-lipped about details, but leaks suggest it's aiming to be a more cloud-focused, AI-driven operating system. That all sounds fancy, but here's the truth -- waiting for Windows 12 might not be the smart play. If you're tired of the bloat, the constant updates, and the never-ending resource demands, there's an alternative you can embrace today: Linux.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Xfce 4.20 Pre2 released
Xfce 4.20 pre2 has been released, encompassing all core components of Xfce. The pre-release has undergone refinement and enhancement, and early adopters are encouraged to participate in testing prior to the final release on December 15. The tarballs required for the build process are available for download.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

XWayland Lands Support For xdg-system-bell
Olivier Fourdan has merged support for using the xdg-system-bell protocol by XWayland for dealing with "system bell" functionality for Wayland compositors supporting this newer protocol for ringing the system bell or otherwise implementing a visual indicator that a system bell type event may have been triggered.
December 2nd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 1st, 2024

Apple M4, More AMD Zen 5 Benchmarks & Linux Kernel Drama From November
November was filled with interesting Linux benchmarks ranging from the Apple M4 testing kicking off to ongoing AMD Zen 5 benchmarks both for desktops and servers, a lot of exciting upstream kernel activity (and some drama...), and more. Even with the end of year holidays around, there remains new and original content on Phoronix each and every day. During November there were 250 original news articles on Phoronix along with another 14 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured-length benchmark articles.
December 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux AMD patch fixes glacial boot times for some Zen 1 and 2 computers — time saved ranges from seconds to multiple minutes
Fix arrives today, and gets backported to older releases.
December 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux Fixes Issue Where Applying AMD Zen1/Zen2 Microcode Updates Could Slow Boot Times
Submitted today for the Linux kernel ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc1 release as part of the "x86/urgent" material is a fix for aging Zen 1 and Zen 2 processors where for the past year and a half they could potentially find very slow boot times.
December 1st, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA's New Linux Patches For GPU Direct RDMA For Device-Private Pages
NVIDIA engineer Yonatan Maman posted a set of "request for comments" patches this Sunday to implement GPU Direct RDMA "P2P DMA" for device private pages. This is the latest in the effort by multiple vendors to allow more efficient data sharing between GPUs/accelerators and other devices like network adapters.
December 1st, 2024 — Source

Turbostat Utility Lands New Features With Linux 6.13
The turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree for reporting CPU frequency/idle statistics and other metrics is gaining some new capabilities as part of the Linux 6.13 cycle.
December 1st, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 30th, 2024

Distributed Tracing Tool Jaeger Releases Version 2 with OpenTelemetry at the Core
Version 2 of Jaeger, a leading open-source distributed tracing platform, has been released. This release contains a significant architectural transformation, as it brings Jaeger and its components into the OpenTelemetry framework.
November 30th, 2024 — Source

KDE Ends November With More KWin Fixes & Other Polishing Ahead Of Plasma 6.3
KDE developers have wrapped up a busy November with many fixes and other refinements landing this last week of the month.
November 30th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 Hits A "Tipping Point" With More Rust Drivers Expected Soon
In addition to the USB updates and big staging flush merged yesterday for the Linux 6.13 kernel merge window, the "char/misc" pull was also honored for that catch-all of various kernel changes. With the char/misc pull there are some notable additions for those wanting to write kernel drivers within the Rust programming language.
November 30th, 2024 — Source

Resources System Monitoring App For GNOME Now Displays NPU Usage
As an alternative to the GNOME System Monitor application for system monitoring, Resources has been in development as a currently unofficial, GNOME-aligned resource/hardware monitoring application written in the Rust programming language. Resources v1.7 was released on Friday and now has the ability to monitor NPU usage and other enhancements.
November 30th, 2024 — Source

Rust Hypervisor Firmware v0.5 Supports For More CPUs & Improves EFI Support
The Rust Hypervisor Firmware is a project out of the Cloud Hypervisor umbrella for developing open-source, Rust-based firmware that can be launched from any environment able to load ELF binaries and run them via the PVH booting standard. Rust Hypervisor Firmware v0.5 is out this weekend with the newest capabilities.
November 30th, 2024 — Source

Wayland Color Management Protocol Might Finally Be Close To Merging
In what could be a wonderful holiday for the Linux desktop, it looks like the Wayland color management protocol might finally be close to merging after four years in discussion.
November 30th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 29th, 2024

AMD BIOS Tuning Guide Impact For Boosting AI/ML Performance On EPYC 9005 Series
Following the release last month of the EPYC 9005 series processors, AMD published a BIOS and Workload Tuning Guide of straight-forward settings recommendations for those running new EPYC Turin servers to optimize the performance of different workloads like databases and Java to HPC and AI/ML software.
November 29th, 2024 — Source

Apache NetBeans 24-rc5 released
Apache NetBeans 24-rc5 has been released with enhancements to manage diagnostics with position -1 during the error/warning index process, as well as improvements to the speed of publishing diagnostics during project scans.
November 29th, 2024 — Source

Arch Linux installer now slightly less masochistic
'BTW I use Arch' runway greased, plus clarification around package licensing
November 29th, 2024 — Source

FFmpeg Git Continues Landing A Number Of Vulkan Video Enhancements
A number of Vulkan Video enhancements landed this week in FFmpeg Git thanks to open-source developer Lynne that has been advancing the Vulkan Video encode/decode capabilities in this widely-used multimedia library.
November 29th, 2024 — Source

Improved USB4 Debugging Support With Linux 6.13
Along with the staging changes, Greg Kroah-Hartman this morning also sent out the USB/Thunderbolt changes for the nearly-over Linux 6.13 merge window.
November 29th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 Staging Clears Out 107k Lines Of Code From Old & Unmaintained Drivers
Greg Kroah-Hartman is out today with all of the pull requests for Linux 6.13 of the areas of the kernel he oversees. Most notable with the updates on the staging side are clearing out several drivers seeing no real code activity and no apparent users of the mainline Linux kernel... As such the staging pull lightens the kernel by around 107k lines of code.
November 29th, 2024 — Source

Proving Linux is not a safe sanctuary, ESET finds first Linux-targeting UEFI bootkit malware
Linux-based operating systems have long been heralded as being inherently more secure than Windows. Whether or not this is true is open to debate, as is the impact of user numbers on making an OS a target for malware writers.
November 29th, 2024 — Source

Proxmox Backup Server 3.3 Launched
Proxmox has officially launched version 3.3 of its open-source Proxmox Backup Server, a software package designed for enterprise-level backup and restoration of VMs, containers, and physical servers. The latest release builds on its robust features, such as incremental backups, deduplication, Zstandard compression, and authenticated encryption, offering new tools and enhancements to improve usability and efficiency.
November 29th, 2024 — Source or Source

UBports' Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Atop Ubuntu 20.04 Released
The UBports community today released Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 as the latest version of the smartphone/tablet Linux platform currently running off an Ubuntu 20.04 base.
November 29th, 2024 — Source

Upcoming Fedora Linux Test Week for Kernel 6.12
The Fedora kernel team is in the process of finalizing Linux kernel 6.12, which will be made available in Fedora Linux shortly. A test week to test out the new kernel is scheduled from December 1st to 8th, 2024.
November 29th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 27th, 2024

AMD Begins Work Upstreaming More Versal 2 SoC Support For Linux
Back in April AMD announced the Versal Gen 2 Adaptive SoCs for AI-driven embedded systems. In preparing for Versal2 evaluation kits expected around the middle of the year and production silicon by the end of 2025, AMD software engineers have begun ramping up their open-source and upstream-focused Linux driver support.
November 27th, 2024 — Source

Corsair Vengeance Airflow Memory Cooling For DDR5 Server RAM
For those building your own server around the new Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" or AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" platforms and using DDR5-6000/DDR5-6400 memory (or the interesting MRDIMM-8000 memory with Xeon 6 P), one of the factors you need to be much more mindful about than in the past is that at least the initial generation of DDR5-6000+ memory is running much hotter than prior server memory.
November 27th, 2024 — Source

First-ever UEFI bootkit for Linux in the works, experts say
Bootkitty doesn't bite... yet
November 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 SoundWire Preps DisCo 2.0 Support
The SoundWire subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux 6.13 kernel. This cycle brings new AMD driver support as well as supporting the MIPI DisCo 2.0 specification.
November 27th, 2024 — Source

LoongArch Wires Up Real-Time Kernel Support & Lazy Preemption
Merged for the Linux 6.12 kernel was the long-awaited real-time "PREEMPT_RT" kernel support and allowing it to be enabled across x86/x86_64, ARM64, and RISC-V CPU architectures. With the Linux 6.13 kernel, LoongArch is joining the RT party.
November 27th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Makes An Interesting Improvement To Kernel Modules With Linux 6.13
Sent out on Tuesday was the modules pull request for Linux 6.13 that have some low-level improvements but it noted that the biggest kernel modules highlight wasn't in that pull request itself but had been added by way of the memory management pull. This was a change by a Microsoft engineer around caching of kernel modules into huge pages.
November 27th, 2024 — Source

MIPS P8700 RISC-V CPU Support Posted For LLVM Compiler
MIPS has begun working on the open-source compiler toolchain support for their P8700 RISC-V based processors. Initial patches posted today bring-up the MIPS P8700 RISC-V support for the LLVM compiler stack.
November 27th, 2024 — Source

Raspberry Pi Launches The Compute Module 5 For $45 USD
Days after announcing the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W for $7, Raspberry Pi today announced the Compute Module 5 at the $45 price point.
November 27th, 2024 — Source

RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.13 Deliver Pointer Masking In User-Space
Most notable for RISC-V this cycle is bringing user-space pointer masking support. RISC-V user-space pointer masking is for memory tagging like Arm's Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) and Intel Linear Address Masking (LAM). The pointer masking makes use of ignored bits of the effective address on RISC-V platforms and can help with memory safety for user-space applications.
November 27th, 2024 — Source

Phoronix Premium Cyber Week Sale To Better Enjoy Our Linux Hardware Reviews & News
While the end of year holidays are fast approaching, my commitment to Linux hardware and open-source software remains and there still is a lot of interesting content to come this year still -- each and every day, without change for roughly a decade. Unfortunately though due to the (sad) state of the ad industry, many major companies focusing on the likes of Facebook/Meta ads, and the frequent use of ad-blockers by Linux/FLOSS readers make ongoing operations increasingly difficult.
November 27th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 25th, 2024

5 ways to get the best Linux support, no matter your skill level
Where do you turn if you're new to Linux or looking for a solution to a problem? Here are your options.
November 25th, 2024 — Source

Deepseek-R1-Lite Open Source LLM Fully Tested
Have you ever found yourself wrestling with a coding problem that just wouldn't budge or staring at a complex equation, wishing for a bit of extra brainpower? If so, you're not alone. Whether you're a developer, researcher, or someone who simply loves solving intricate puzzles, the struggle to find tools that are both powerful and accessible is all too familiar.
November 25th, 2024 — Source

FUSE Enhancements Submitted For Linux 6.13
The FUSE feature enhancements were submitted today for the Linux 6.13 kernel as part of improving the file-system in user-space capabilities.
November 25th, 2024 — Source

Fwupd 2.0.2 Allows Updating Firmware On Many More Devices
Richard Hughes of Red Hat has released Fwupd 2.0.2 as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems.
November 25th, 2024 — Source

GCC 15 Ends Support For Altera Nios II Embedded Processors
The GCC 15 code compiler that is releasing as stable in the early months of 2025 has removed all support for the Altera Nios II CPU target.
November 25th, 2024 — Source

Large Folio Patches For EXT4 Show Some Nice Performance Gains
Huawei engineer Zhang Yi posted a set of nine patches today for enabling large folio support for regular files with the EXT4 file-system. These patches enable large folios for EXT4 on regular files except when using FSVERITY, FSCRYPT, or the journaled data mode. Long story short, these large folio patches can deliver some nice performance gains for both reads and writes.
November 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 KVM Eliminates An "Awful Idea", Many x86_64 Improvements
The KVM changes were merged yesterday for Linux 6.13 in further enhancing the open-source virtualization stack.
November 25th, 2024 — Source

New AMD Zen 5 Perf Events Going Into Linux 6.13
Sent out last night for the ongoing Linux 6.13 merge window were all of the perf tool changes for the wonderful "perf" subsystem for performance profiling and the like. In addition to adding the HWMON PMU to "perf stat", leader sampling for inherited task events, and various other tooling improvements, there are also vendor event updates. Most notable with the updated CPU vendor events are new AMD Zen 5 processor events.
November 25th, 2024 — Source

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W Launches For $7
Complementing the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 that launched this summer, the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W was announced today for $7 as the wireless-enabled variant of this small microcontroller board.
November 25th, 2024 — Source

RHEL 9.5 debuts alongside AlmaLinux, Rocky, and Oracle updates
Plus, soon you'll be able to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a supported option under WSL
November 25th, 2024 — Source

Samba 4.21.2 released
Samba 4.21.2 represents the most recent stable version within the Samba 4.21 release series. This update resolves issues including smbd not verifying sharemode with OVERWRITE dispositions, a panic occurring in close_directory, winexe compatibility with Samba 4.21, protocol errors, NetrGetLogonCapabilities QueryLevel 2, gss_accept_sec_context, winbindd invoking process_set_title, and enhancements to CTDB.
November 25th, 2024 — Source

SilverStone XE360-SP5 & XE04-SP5 For Cooling AMD EPYC 9004/9005 4U Servers
With my recent AMD EPYC 9005 1P 4U server build using a Supermicro H13SSL-N motherboard, SilverStone kindly sent over their two Socket SP5 cooling options for AMD EPYC processors: the XE04-SP5 4U-compatible heatsink fan and then the XE360-SP5 AIO liquid cooler with a triple 120mm fan radiator to allow effectively cooling up to the new 400~500 Watt EPYC Turin processors.
November 25th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 24th, 2024

AMDXDNA Driver For Ryzen AI Now Ready To Appear In The Linux Kernel
The AMDXDNA kernel driver for Linux systems that was made open-source in January for supporting the Ryzen AI NPU on laptop SoCs going back to the Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" series is now one step away from appearing in the mainline Linux kernel in the near future.
November 24th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 Will Report The Number Of Hung Tasks Since Boot
Following all of the MM patches earlier this week sent in by Andrew Morton, on Sunday morning he sent out all of the non-MM patches that he manages for the Linux kernel. Notable for Linux 6.13 with this pull request is presenting the hung task counter as well as finishing off the folio conversion in the NILFS2 code.
November 24th, 2024 — Source

Linux Security Roundup for Week 48, 2024Here is a roundup of last week's Linux security updates for AlmaLinux, Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora Linux, Gentoo Linux, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux, Slackware Linux, SUSE Linux, and Ubuntu Linux.
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November 24th, 2024 — Source

Linux update adds support for 128 terabyte SD cards— SDUC and UHS-II SD cards are now supported
High-capacity and high-speed SD and microSD cards will receive improved Linux support on the latest 6.11 kernel update.
November 24th, 2024 — Source

Virtual CPUFreq Driver Coming With Linux 6.13 For Better Power/Performance Within VMs
Earlier this week was the main power management updates for Linux 6.13 that included switching AMD EPYC Turin to using the amd_pstate driver on supported systems. Sent out this weekend was another set of power management updates that also includes a notable addition: the virtual CPUFreq driver.
November 24th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 23rd, 2024

9elements Takes Over Intel 1st Gen Xeon Scalable "Skylake" Support Within Coreboot
For those still running a 1st Generation Xeon Scalable "Skylake" era server, support for it within the open-source Coreboot firmware may continue to improve all these years later thanks to firmware consulting firm 9elements.
November 23rd, 2024 — Source

IBM Power11 CPUs Launching In 2025 - Linux 6.13 Preps KVM Nested Guests For Power11
IBM isn't formally releasing Power11 processors until next year, but their software engineers continue being quite busy preparing the Linux kernel and other open-source software for Power11. The newest on the kernel side is enabling support for KVM nested guests on IBM Power11 platforms.
November 23rd, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Continues "Demikernel" Development LibOS For Kernel-Bypass I/O
A Microsoft Research project that was quietly announced a few years ago to some fanfare but not hearing much about since has been Demikernel as their library OS architecture for kernel-bypass I/O. A Phoronix reader brought up Demikernel this week and while it hasn't been talked about much in recent years it does remain under active development with the most recent commits as of hours ago.
November 23rd, 2024 — Source or Watch Video

KDE Plasma 6.3 Sees More Feature Work, One More Crash Fix For KWin
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekly development recap that highlights all of the interesting work taking place within the KDE desktop space.
November 23rd, 2024 — Source

Wine 9.22 Enables Wayland Driver By Default
Notable with Wine 9.22 ahead of the all important Wine 10.0 milestone is the Wayland driver being enabled in the default configuration! Wine 9.22 and the upcoming Wine 10.0 stable will enable the native Wayland driver support out-of-the-box for default builds. This is great news and for allowing more Windows games/apps to integrate nicely with the modern Wayland-based Linux desktops rather than continuing to go through XWayland.
November 23rd, 2024 — Source

Wine Staging 9.22 released
Wine Staging 9.22 has been released, serving as a testing area for winehq.org, and includes bug fixes and features that have not yet been integrated into the development branch.
November 23rd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 21st, 2024

'Alarming' security bugs lay low in Linux's needrestart utility for 10 years
Update now: Qualys says flaws give root to local users, 'easily exploitable', default in Ubuntu Server
November 21st, 2024 — Source

Jim Zemlin, 'head janitor of open source,' marks 20 years at Linux Foundation
In a world where modest leadership is often an oxymoron, Jim Zemlin's two-decade tenure as executive director remains helpful, hopeful, and humble.
November 21st, 2024 — Source

Khronos Announces Slang Initiative From Open-Source NVIDIA Code
On top of an exciting Vulkan spec update out today, The Khronos Group has announced the Slang Initiative based on NVIDIA's open-source Slang compiler code.
November 21st, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 EDAC Preps For Panther Lake H & Missing Support For Old Kabylake S CPUs
The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates landed this week for the ongoing Linux 6.13 kernel merge window.
November 21st, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 SoC Updates Land With Initial Support For Many Older Apple Devices
The four pull requests adding various SoC and board/platform support have now been merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel. This includes support for many older Apple iPad/iPhones, supporting another SoC with a combination of RISC-V and ARM cores, and a wide variety of other mostly ARM hardware support.
November 21st, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements
Mesa 24.3 has managed to make it out today, one week ahead of the previous release plans due to the lack of any major blocker bugs appearing. Mesa 24.3 has a lot of new feature work on the contained open-source Vulkan drivers as well as evolutionary improvements to their OpenGL drivers and other user-space 3D driver code.
November 21st, 2024 — Source

OBS Studio 31.0.0 Release Candidate 1 released
OBS Studio 31.0.0 Release Candidate 1 has been launched, resolving multiple issues identified in Beta 1-3. The issues identified encompass the non-appearance of a YouTube dock when switching profiles, a deadlock occurring with configured NVIDIA Audio Filters, a crash resulting from multitrack output failures, macOS crashes linked to audio device disconnections, Windows crashes during D3D12 game captures, intermittent connection errors, Decklink Input/Output complications, modifications to the Auto Configuration Wizard, scripts for reloading, and the removal of legacy QSV code.
November 21st, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.1.31, 8.2.26 and 8.3.14 packages for Fedora/RHEL released
Remi Collet has released PHP version 8.1.31, 8.2.26 and 8.3.14 packages for Fedora and RHEL-based Linux distributions.
November 21st, 2024 — Source

ReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel
Linus Torvalds just merged the change to the Linux 6.13 kernel that goes ahead and deletes the ReiserFS file-system from the source tree. Removing ReiserFS from the Linux tree lightens the kernel by 32.8k lines of code.
November 21st, 2024 — Source

Researchers unearth two previously unknown Linux backdoors
ESET researchers have identified multiple samples of two previously unknown Linux backdoors: WolfsBane and FireWood.
November 21st, 2024 — Source

vkd3d 1.14 released
The vkd3d team has announced the release of version 1.14 of their Direct3D to Vulkan translation library, featuring enhancements including support for binary effects disassembler, Metal Shading Language output, and various bug fixes.
November 21st, 2024 — Source

VKD3D 1.14 Released With Initial Metal Shading Language Output
Ahead of the upcoming freeze for Wine 10.0, VKD3D 1.14 is now available for this prominent Wine component that allows Direct3D 12 to be implemented over the Vulkan API for enhancing Windows games/apps running on Linux and other platforms.
November 21st, 2024 — Source

Vulkan 1.3.302 Published With AV1 Encode & NVIDIA Display Stereo Extensions
Vulkan 1.3.302 was published this morning with a handful of new extensions, including AV1 encode support for Vulkan Video.
November 21st, 2024 — Source

Zrythm 1.0 Released For Powerful Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation
Zrythm 1.0 released today as a big milestone for this open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software that caters from professional users down to beginners.
November 21st, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 18th, 2024

10 lessons I've learned from the open-source community that aren't about tech
You might think the only lessons to learn from the open-source environment are technical, but you'd be mistaken.
November 18th, 2024 — Source

AlmaLinux 9.5 released
Benny Vasquez has announced the release of AlmaLinux 9.5, which enhances performance, development tools, and security through updated module streams, compilers, system performance monitoring, visualisation, and data collection, alongside security improvements centred on cryptography and SELinux policies.
November 18th, 2024 — Source

Btrfs With Linux 6.13 Delivers Performance Improvements & Other Features
Along with the early Bcachefs pull request for Linux 6.13, SUSE engineer David Sterba submitted all of the Btrfs file-system feature updates in an early pull request for this next kernel version. Btrfs is seeing new performance optimizations and other enhancements for Linux 6.13.
November 18th, 2024 — Source

Dell Unveils New AI-Powered Infrastructure at SC24 Conference
Dell unveils AI infrastructure, liquid-cooled servers, and services at SC24, driving enterprise AI acceleration and innovation.
November 18th, 2024 — Source

DXVK 2.5.1 released
Philip Rebohle has announced the release of version 2.5.1 of the DXVK DirectX to Vulkan translation layer. This update addresses significant regressions in anisotropic filtering, dxvk-native, and clang issues, as well as crashes in the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition when HDR is enabled, impacting Unreal Engine 4 games in D3D11 mode.
November 18th, 2024 — Source

DXVK 2.5.1 Released To Fix A Major Regression & Other Bugs
DXVK 2.5 released one week ago with better video memory management handling, various Direct3D additions, and more. DXVK 2.5.1 is out today to fix a "major regression" as well as a few other bugs.
November 18th, 2024 — Source

FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 3 Released - FreeBSD Now Publishing OCI Container Images
The third weekly beta release of FreeBSD 14.2 is now available for testing ahead of the planned stable release in early December. Besides a few fixes notable to FreeBSD 14.2-BETA3 is that they are now putting out OCI container images among their release media.
November 18th, 2024 — Source

GCC 15 Compiler Development Shifts From Features To Bug Fixing
GCC 15 feature development is now officially over with entering stage three development to focus on fixing compiler bugs.
November 18th, 2024 — Source

GCC 15 feature development is now officially over with entering stage three development to focus on fixing compiler bugs.
The ARM64 (AArch64) architecture changes have been submitted for the now-open Linux 6.13 merge window.
November 18th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 Rolling Out NVMe 2.1 Support & NVMe Rotational Media
All of the block subsystem changes were sent out today for the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel, including a prominent set of NVMe additions.
November 18th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.11.9 released
Linux kernel version 6.11.9 is now available:
November 18th, 2024 — Source

LLVM Clang 20 Merges Intel Diamond Rapids Support With "-march=diamondrapids"
Following AMX-FP8 support, AMX-AVX512, and other new Intel CPU ISA features being added to the LLVM Clang 20 compiler codebase, the Intel Diamond Rapids target is now upstreamed for allowing "-march=diamondrapids" targeting for these next-generation Xeon processors.
November 18th, 2024 — Source

My Linux predictions for 2025: It's going to be a good year
What's coming for the open-source operating system and why.
November 18th, 2024 — Source

New AMD ERAPS Feature Yields Additional Performance Gains On Zen 5
At the beginning of November I wrote about AMD Linux engineers posting Linux patches enabling a new "ERAPS" feature for Zen 5. ERAPS wasn't talked about by AMD at the Zen 5 launches of the Ryzen 9000 / Ryzen AI 300 series or with the more recent EPYC 9005 "Turin" launch but when enabled, the Enhanced Return Address Prediction Security feature can help deliver some additional gains on new AMD Zen 5 systems by allowing some existing software security mitigations to be avoided. Here are some preliminary comparison benchmarks showing the benefit in affected workloads for using ERAPS on Linux with AMD Zen 5.
November 18th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI execs mused over Cerebras acquisition in 2017 — to mitigate predicted Nvidia supply woes
But the deal was shelved.
November 18th, 2024 — Source

Raspberry Pi OS Now Defaults To 512MB Swap, Updates Labwc Compositor
With last month's Raspberry Pi OS update they now default to Wayland on all Raspberry Pi models alongside various other operating system improvements. Out today is the latest iteration of the Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS with software updates and other changes.
November 18th, 2024 — Source

Real-time Linux leads kernel v6.12's list of new features
This major kernel release adds enhanced support for various hardware platforms and new devices. Even Linus Torvalds contributed some code.
November 18th, 2024 — Source

Twenty is building an open source alternative to Salesforce
If a software product is successful enough, you'll probably be able to find a company building an open source alternative. And yet, nobody has created a modern open source CRM product that can be considered as a serious competitor to Salesforce.
November 18th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 17th, 2024

Archinstall 3.0 Overhauls The Text-Based Arch Linux Installer
Archinstall is the convenient text/CLI-based installer for Arch Linux that allows getting the Linux distribution easily installed in a matter of minutes. Released today is Archinstall 3.0 that overhauls the Arch Linux installer with now using the curses library for rendering of the text interface.
November 17th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20241117 released
KDE neon 20241117 has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
November 17th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 Adding "slab_strict_numa" SLAB Option For Helping ARM Performance
As part of the SLAB (SLUB) allocator updates pending for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle is a new "slab_strict_numa" option that is reported to further help ARM Linux performance such as for Ampere Computing servers.
November 17th, 2024 — Source

Linux Fixes Hosts Randomly Rebooting During Virtualization With Ryzen 7000/8000 CPUs
Ahead of the Linux 6.12 kernel release expected today there is a last minute "x86/urgent" pull request. Notable with this last minute x86 urgent fixes for Linux 6.12 -- and also to be back-ported to prior kernel versions -- is working around an issue with AMD Ryzen Zen 4 client processors such as the Ryzen 7000/8000 series processors when making use of virtualization that could lead to the host randomly being rebooted.
November 17th, 2024 — Source

Meta Releases NotebookLlama: Open-Source PDF to Podcast Toolkit
Meta has released NotebookLlama, an open-source toolkit designed to convert PDF documents into podcasts, providing developers with a structured, accessible PDF-to-audio workflow. As an open-source alternative to Google's NotebookLM, NotebookLlama guides users through a four-step process that converts PDF text into audio content, without needing prior experience with large language models (LLMs) or audio processing.
November 17th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI's Operator AI: The Future of Autonomous Assistance Deep Dive
In a bold move set to redefine the artificial intelligence landscape, OpenAI is gearing up to launch its new AI agent, "Operator," in 2025. This innovative agent is engineered to autonomously manage a diverse array of tasks, from intricate coding projects to comprehensive travel planning. The initial release, slated for January, will take the form of a research preview, providing API access to developers.
November 17th, 2024 — Source

Rust Coreutils 0.0.28 Delivers Better Performance & Increased Compatibility
Rust Coreutils 0.0.28 "uutils" has been released for this implementation of the GNU Coreutils utilities within the Rust programming language for better memory safety and greater robustness. With the Rust Coreutils 0.0.28 there is increased GNU compatibility as well as better performance.
November 17th, 2024 — Source

Ryzen 7000 / 8000 random reboot virtualization issues fixed in last-minute Linux 6.12 patch
Fix was pushed just in time.
November 17th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 16th, 2024

digiKam 8.5.0 released
DigiKam 8.5.0, a new version of the open-source digital photo manager, has been launched following five months of maintenance and bug fixes. More than 160 issues have been resolved, and the program's graphical interface now supports 61 distinct languages. Users can adjust localisations in the Settings/Configure Languages dialogue and contribute to translations by following the translation instructions.
November 16th, 2024 — Source

GCC 15 Moves C Default Language Version To C23
The GCC 15 compiler on Friday switched its default C language version from the GNU dialect of C17 to the current C23 standard.
November 16th, 2024 — Source

Google Engineer Proposes "Page Detective" As New Kernel Debugging Tool
Google software engineer Pasha Tatashin has proposed Page Detective as a new kernel debugging tool that is able to provide greater insight around the usage and mapping of physical memory pages.
November 16th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 Introducing New Rust File Abstractions
Alongside the VFS pull requests on Friday for case insensitive Tmpfs support and atomic writes for EXT4 and XFS, Christian Brauner also submitted a pull request for introducing some new file abstractions for the Rust programming language within the Linux kernel.
November 16th, 2024 — Source

KDE Developers Spent The Week Fixing Bugs & Polishing
While Plasma 6.3 feature development is continuing, KDE developers this week spent more time fixing bugs and polishing up existing code for ensuring a solid foundation to this open-source desktop.
November 16th, 2024 — Source

Rustls 0.23.17 Brings More Performance Improvements
Rustls 0.23.17 is out today as the newest version of this modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language and a great alternative to the likes of OpenSSL.
November 16th, 2024 — Source

TUXEDO Computers Relicenses Some Of Their Drivers To GPLv2
Following the proposed patches this week to adjust the Linux kernel's module loader to treat the TUXEDO Computers drivers as proprietary due to being GPLv3 licensed rather than GPLv2 to jive with the rest of the upstream kernel code, some of the TUXEDO drivers have now been re-licensed.
November 16th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 15th, 2024

AMD Releases ZenDNN 5.0 For Deep Neural Network Library Optimized For Zen 5 EPYC
AMD ZenDNN 5.0 was rolled out this morning as the newest version of this deep neural network library that is compatible with Intel's oneDNN APIs and infrastructure. ZenDNN 5.0 is now optimized for AMD Zen 5 processors such as the EPYC 9005 series. ZenDNN 5.0 also ships performance enhancements for generative large language models (LLMs) with its PyTorch plug-in.
November 15th, 2024 — Source

Elon Musk adds Microsoft as defendant in his lawsuit against OpenAI
The amended lawsuit claims that xAI has been harmed by OpenAI's deal with Microsoft.
November 15th, 2024 — Source

Elon Musk targets Microsoft in amended OpenAI lawsuit
The updated complaint accuses OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership of 'actively trying to eliminate competitors.'
November 15th, 2024 — Source

Fedora versus Ubuntu: Are You Considering a New Distro?
Fedora and Ubuntu are both outstanding Linux distributions, each taking a different path to the same goal. But what are their differences and similarities, and which is right for you?
November 15th, 2024 — Source

GCC 15 Adds Option For Arm Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Code Generation
GCC 15 feature development is soon wrapping up to focus on bug fixing before releasing GCC 15.1 as stable in the early months of 2025. One of the latest features to make it in the compiler codebase is code generation support around Arm Guarded Control Stack (GCS) functionality.
November 15th, 2024 — Source

GNOME Mutter Switches To High Priority KMS Thread To Avoid Crashes
The GNOME Mutter compositor has switched its KMS thread priority from a real-time value over to high priority to workaround a situation where the GNOME Shell / Mutter could crash or see its process killed.
November 15th, 2024 — Source

Google Posts Patches Further Speeding Up Linux Async Device Suspend & Resume
Google engineer Saravana Kannan has posted a set of patches to better optimize async device suspend and resume handling within the Linux kernel. With these patches there are "significant improvements" to async device suspend/resume with testing being done on a Google Pixel 6 smartphone but other devices stand to benefit too.
November 15th, 2024 — Source

How do you get an AI model to confess what's inside?
OpenAI has introduced a new method for AI image generation called Simplified Continuous Time Consistency Models (SCM), which significantly enhances the speed and efficiency of creating high-quality images. This innovative method significantly enhances the speed and efficiency of creating high-quality images, promising to reshape real-time applications across various industries. The potential impact spans multiple fields, particularly those that depend on instant image processing and dynamic visual content creation.
November 15th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.12 Preps For Release With Real-Time, Sched_Ext, Stable Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5
The Linux 6.12 kernel is expected to be released this coming Sunday, 17 November, barring any last minute issues that would force the stable kernel to be diverted to the following Sunday. Linux 6.12 is delivering many exciting new features and beyond that it's all the more exciting with it expected to be this year's Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel version.
November 15th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 To Expand Atomic Write Support To EXT4 & XFS
Prominent Linux developer Christian Brauner with Microsoft has begun sending out various pull requests of VFS feature changes for the imminent Linux 6.13 merge window. One of the interesting early pull requests is the VFS untorn writes series with getting atomic writes support enabled for the EXT4 and XFS file-system.
November 15th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 Very Exciting With New Feature Code For AMD EPYC Zen 5, Intel Panther Lake
While Linux 6.12 should be out this weekend with its many exciting features, following that will mark the start of the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle with what will be the first stable kernel release of 2025... Already there is a lot of exciting feature work expected to land during the Linux 6.13 merge window.
November 15th, 2024 — Source

Linux Patches Add Support For New "Phone Link" Hotkey On Latest ThinkPads
Patches posted on Thursday for the Linux kernel add support for the newest hotkey being found on Lenovo ThinkPad laptops... The "Phone Link" hotkey for launching the Microsoft Phone Link software for linking your Android/iOS smartphone to your laptop. This hotkey can be adapted for similar purposes on Linux.
November 15th, 2024 — Source

LXQt packs Wayland punch with 2.1 release
The lightest mainstream Linux desktop joins the tiny handful that support X.org replacement
November 15th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Added to Elon Musk's Amended Antitrust Case Against OpenAI
Elon Musk has amended his lawsuit against OpenAI to add Microsoft and others as defendants, alleging anti-competitive conduct.
November 15th, 2024 — Source

Musk also wants to fight Microsoft in legal grudge match with OpenAI
House of GPT says suit is 'baseless and overreaching'
November 15th, 2024 — Source

NetApp Expands Collaboration with Red Hat to Enhance Application Development and Management
NetApp has strengthened its collaboration with Red Hat to deliver new solutions that enhance enterprise application development and management within virtual environments. By integrating NetApp's intelligent data infrastructure with Red Hat OpenShift, customers gain greater flexibility to manage their virtualized environments seamlessly on-premises and across hybrid multicloud configurations.
November 15th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI accused of trying to profit off AI model inspection in court
How do you get an AI model to confess what's inside?
November 15th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI's undefined revenue streams fumbled a $30 billion investment but later saw a $500 billion kickback with "a clear focus of converting to a for-profit entity"
In 2023, SoftBank skipped a $30 billion investment in OpenAI because it lacked clear and well-established revenue streams.
November 15th, 2024 — Source

SDL3 Improves Steam Controller Support, Now Enabled By Default
A number of Steam Controller improvements have been merged for SDL, this widely-used hardware/software abstraction layer that is common to cross platform games. Among the latest Steam Controller improvements in SDL are enabling the support by default.
November 15th, 2024 — Source

Tmpfs Adding Case Insensitive Support For Wine / Steam Play & Flatpaks
In addition to the EXT4 and XFS atomic write support, another interesting pull request sent in today by Microsoft's Christian Brauner is adding case-insensitive file/folder support for the Tmpfs file-system to benefit use-cases like Wine / Steam Play compatibility layers and sandboxing/container facilities like Flatpak.
November 15th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 12th, 2024

Akamai App Platform reduces the complexity associated with managing Kubernetes clusters
Akamai announced the Akamai App Platform, a ready-to-run solution that makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale highly distributed applications.
November 12th, 2024 — Source

AMD's Ninth Iteration Of Their XDNA Linux Driver Posted For Ryzen AI
Yesterday brought the eighth and ninth iteration of the AMD XDNA Linux kernel driver posted for review for enabling the Ryzen AI branded NPUs found in their recent SoCs.
November 12th, 2024 — Source

Early Benchmarks: AMD EPYC 9005 Performance & Power Efficiency To Lead Further With Linux 6.13
One of the many changes to look forward to with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle is the AMD P-State driver to be used by default with the new EPYC 9005 series processors. While AMD Ryzen CPUs for a while now have been defaulting to the modern AMD P-State driver that makes use of ACPI CPPC platform support for allowing better power efficiency, AMD EPYC CPUs have kept to using the generic ACPI CPUFreq frequency scaling driver.
November 12th, 2024 — Source

GCC 15 Lands New Optimization For AMD Zen 4 & Zen 5 CPUs
Merged today for the upcoming GCC 15 stable release is a new "X86_TUNE_AVX512_TWO_EPILOGUES" tuning optimization that is enabled by default for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 processors.
November 12th, 2024 — Source

GNOME Mutter Lands Improved GPU Selection Logic For Laptops
Merged today to GNOME's Mutter compositor is improved logic for selecting the graphics processor to treat as the primary one within multi-GPU laptops.
November 12th, 2024 — Source

Intel Idle Support For Granite Rapids D Going Into Linux 6.13
The "intel_idle" driver provides CPU idle time management for Intel processors on Linux for helping to put the processor into low-power states in conjunction with the MWAIT instruction. With the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel, the Granite Rapids D support for the Intel Idle driver is set to be merged.
November 12th, 2024 — Source

Intel Releases New CPU Microcode For Two New Security Advisories
It's the second Tuesday of the month and this Patch Tuesday brings new CPU microcode for mitigating the latest Intel processor security vulnerabilities and updates to some previously disclosed issues.
November 12th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 25.0 Clover OpenCL Drops Support For NIR Drivers
As part of the transition to eventually drop the long dormant Clover OpenCL state tracker from Mesa's Gallium3D codebase in favor of the modern OpenCL Rusticl Rust-written driver, Mesa 25.0 has ended Clover support for NIR-based drivers.
November 12th, 2024 — Source

PeaZip 10.1.0 released
PeaZip 10.1.0 has been released, featuring enhancements including fixes, compression presets, improved navigation, and icons and themes with alpha transparency. It additionally supports scrypt KDF to enhance resistance against password guessing and raise memory cost.
November 12th, 2024 — Source

Red Hat & Intel Developing "Climatik" For Power Capping AI In The Data Center
Red Hat in cooperation with Intel, Bloomberg and IBM has been developing the Climatik open-source project as a means of power capping AI use within the data center for better energy efficiency and sustainability.
November 12th, 2024 — Source

Red Hat Acquiring Neural Magic To Bolster Open-Source AI Offerings
Red Hat announced today they have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Neural Magic, an AI software company behind the likes of DeepSparse and nm-vllm.
November 12th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 10th, 2024

"AM" 9.1 released
A new version of the AM application manager has been released, now featuring support for Toolpacks.
November 10th, 2024 — Source

Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Pulls In THP Shrinker & AMD Cache Optimizer
The Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution has issued its November 2024 media refresh. Notable this time are pulling a few performance-related patches into its kernel build.
November 10th, 2024 — Source

Debcow Optimizing Debian Packages For Copy-On-Write File-Systems
Debcow is an experimental implementation of deploying Debian packages on copy-on-write file-systems like Btrfs and Bcachefs. Debcow adapts DPKG to use reflinks for installing packages. With reflinking to the file contents from the Debian package archives rather than copying of files, it can lead to a dramatic speed-up of installing Debian packages: as much as 6x faster on CoW file-systems.
November 10th, 2024 — Source

How to run a local Linux web server running in a Windows 11 window
Windows Subsystem for Linux lets run an Apache web server on your Windows PC
November 10th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20241110 released
KDE neon 20241110 has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop. KDE neon is our installable Linux with continuous integration and deployment.
November 10th, 2024 — Source

Linux Optimization Patches Significantly Speed-Up Debuggers Using /proc/kcore
A set of Linux kernel patches posted on Friday by Meta/Facebook provide for sizable performance optimizations for applications leveraging /proc/kcore such as for debuggers.
November 10th, 2024 — Source

Linux Support For Apple's Latest Magic Trackpad USB-C Model
A patch is pending for enabling support for the USB-C model of Apple's latest Magic Trackpad input device under Linux.
November 10th, 2024 — Source

Niri 0.1.10 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings Many Improvements
If this weekend's release of Hyprland 0.45 doesn't suit your fancy, Niri is also out this weekend with a new feature release. Niri is the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor for an interesting Linux desktop experience.
November 10th, 2024 — Source

Open source projects draw equity-free funding from corporates, startups, and even VCs
A dearth of funding for vital open source technologies is leading to a swath of support from startups, unicorns, corporations, and even venture capital firms.
November 10th, 2024 — Source

Wine-Staging 9.21 Fixes Some Old Game Crashes & Hangs Due To DirectMusic
Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.21, Wine-Staging 9.21 is available as this experimental blend of Wine that carries extra patches for testing/evaluation to enhance the ability for Windows games and apps to run on Linux.
November 10th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 9th, 2024

ChatGPT blocked over 250,000 requests to generate fake images of presidential candidates
The US Presidential elections are finally over. After months of tug-of-war between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Trump emerged victorious and was elected as the 47th President of the United States of America. However, users did try to generate fake images of presidential candidates using ChatGPT, to which the AI platform replied strongly.
November 9th, 2024 — Source

ChatGPT rejected 250,000 election deepfake requests
OpenAI reveals the results of its strategy for 2024 US presidential elections.
November 9th, 2024 — Source

Debian GNU/Linux 12.8 released
Debian GNU/Linux 12.8 represents the eighth update to the stable distribution of Debian 12, focusing on resolving security vulnerabilities and significant issues. This point release does not represent a new version of Debian 12; rather, it updates certain packages, enabling users to upgrade to the latest versions through an updated Debian mirror.
November 9th, 2024 — Source

How To Use ChatGPT To Create A PowerPoint Presentation
Admit it — you're probably not a fan of making PowerPoint presentations. The process can be tedious and time-consuming, and putting together multiple slides can easily feel repetitive after some time. There's also not much difference between creating a deck using information you already have versus starting one from scratch. Even with existing information, you'll typically still need to trim it down to make it effective and easy to follow.
November 9th, 2024 — Source

Hyprland 0.45 Compositor Smooths Round Edges, Window Snapping For Floating Windows
Hyprland 0.45 released today as the newest version of this Wayland compositor focused on being an independent, very customizable, and dynamic tiling compositor.
November 9th, 2024 — Source

KDE's Info Center Now Shows Multi-GPU Information, Plasma 6.3 Bringing UI Refinements
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development recap of all the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have landed over the past week.
November 9th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 Bringing DRM Panic Support To NVIDIA GPUs
Friday saw a final round of "drm-misc-next" feature updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window. The DRM Panic code continues to be enhanced for improving this "Blue Screen of Death" like experience on the Linux desktop.
November 9th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0 Update Pushes Additions For Intel, AMD & Arm
Microsoft overnight released the newest version of their Azure Linux 3.0 in-house Linux distribution that is used by a variety of internal services at the company as well as external customers.
November 9th, 2024 — Source

New Patches Aim To Optimize Context Switching With Two Improvements
A set of Friday night patches provide for some exciting context switching optimizations to the Linux kernel.
November 9th, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Upcoming Driver Features
Longtime NVIDIA Linux engineer Aaron Plattner shared a status update on Friday around the current feature parity difference between the NVIDIA driver stack on X11 and under (X)Wayland.
November 9th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI Has, For Now, Escaped Copyright Lawsuit Filed Against It Regarding Its Use Of News Articles Without Consent To Train ChatGPT
OpenAI has been in the news since its inception of ChatGPT and has been actively evolving its technology, developing new models, and working aggressively to bring AGI forward. While the company's progression is widely praised, it had to face some legal pressure for misusing articles from news outlets to train its large language models. However, the artificial intelligence giant has been able to dodge the lawsuit for now as a federal judge in New York has dismissed the case.
November 9th, 2024 — Source

SparkyLinux 2024.11 released
Sparky Linux 2024.11 has been released, featuring package updates from both Debian and Sparky repositories. The package comprises Linux kernel 6.11.5, Midori web browser 11.4.2, Thunderbird 128.4.0esr, LibreOffice 24.8.2, VLC 3.0.21, and Exaile 4.1.3.
November 9th, 2024 — Source

TypeScript 5.7 RC released
TypeScript 5.7 is now available for download through npm. The release candidate includes several improvements, including checking for never-initialized variables, path rewriting for relative paths, and a new compiler option called --rewriteRelativeImportExtensions. TypeScript has been able to catch issues when a variable has not yet been initialized in all prior branches, but it now reports errors when variables have never been initialized at all.
November 9th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 8th, 2024

The latest release from Steam has some pretty cool tricks up its sleeve.
Valve has release a new version of the popular Steam gaming app for all supported platforms (including Linux) that not only fixes several bugs but also adds improvements for gaming natively on Linux.
November 8th, 2024 — Source

AMX-AVX512 Support Merged For LLVM Clang 20 Compiler
As the latest on the compiler enablement front for Intel's next-gen Xeon "Diamond Rapids" processors, LLVM Git has merged support for the AMX-AVX512 instructions for next spring's Clang 20 compiler release.
November 8th, 2024 — Source

Intel Spots A 3888.9% Performance Improvement In The Linux Kernel From One Line Of Code
Intel's Linux kernel test robot has reported a 3888.9% performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel as of this past week.
November 8th, 2024 — Source

Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation
Earlier this year was a Fedora change proposal seeking to make KDE Plasma the default over GNOME for Fedora 42. A compromise of sorts has now been settled on with the Fedora Desktop Spin being promoted to an "Edition" status that will put it on the same level as the GNOME-based Fedora Workstation Edition.
November 8th, 2024 — Source

Google Axion CPU With GCE C4A versus AWS Graviton4 Performance
I delivered launch-day benchmarks looking at the Google Axion CPU performance with the C4A instances compared to other Google Cloud instance types powered by Ampere Altra and Intel Xeon. In this article is a look at how the Google Axion processor performance compares to the competing Amazon/AWS Graviton4 processor.
November 8th, 2024 — Source

Govulncheck-vulndb, QEmu, Ruby3.3-Rubygem-Actionmailer, Chromedriver, Python, Libheif, Chromium updates for SUSE
SUSE Linux has been updated with several security enhancements, including moderate updates for govulncheck-vulndb, qemu, ruby3.3-rubygem-actionmailer, chromedriver, python312, libheif, python311, and chromium:
November 8th, 2024 — Source

Grafana, Thunderbird, mod_http2, and more updates for Rocky Linux
Rocky Linux has undergone multiple security updates, encompassing grafana, thunderbird, mod_http2, firefox, buildah, edk2, openexr, libtiff, microcode_ctl, kernel, kernel-rt, resource-agents, freerdp, bpftrace, ghostscript, bcc, llvm-toolset:rhel8, python3.11-urllib3, container-tools:rhel8, and thunderbird:
November 8th, 2024 — Source

KDE Frameworks 6.8 released
KDE has announced the release of Frameworks 6.8.0, which comprises 72 addon libraries for Qt. These libraries provide a diverse array of essential functionalities, characterized by their maturity, peer-reviewed quality, and thorough testing, all under favorable licensing conditions.
November 8th, 2024 — Source

Linux Fix Pending For Annoying Intel Lunar Lake Laptop Problems
A patch is working its way to the mainline Linux kernel for addressing an annoyance affecting new Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" laptops.
November 8th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 4.19.323 released
Linux kernel version 4.19.323 is now available:
November 8th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.4.285 released
Linux kernel version 5.4.285 is now available:
November 8th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.229 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.229 is now available:
November 8th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.15.171 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.171 is now available:
November 8th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.116 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.116 is now available:
November 8th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.60 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.60 is now available:
November 8th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.11.7 released
Linux kernel version 6.11.7 is now available:
November 8th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.3 Code Branched, Mesa 25.0 Enters Development
Mesa 24.3 is going to be a big quarterly feature release with many Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver improvements, better Apple Silicon OpenGL and Vulkan driver support, numerous performance optimizations, enhanced Rusticl OpenCL capabilities, Vulkan FIFO support on Wayland, initial Intel Xe3 enablement for Panther Lake, the NVIDIA NVK driver is increasingly more capable, removal of the OpenMAX API, Gfxstream was merged, robust Lunar Lake and Battlemage Xe2 support, refinements to the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver code, and many other improvements as detailed across dozens of articles on Phoronix.
November 8th, 2024 — Source

OpenZFS 2.3-rc3 Adds JSON Output For Commonly Used Commands
OpenZFS 2.3 continues working its way toward release as a big step forward for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems.
November 8th, 2024 — Source

oVirt 4.5, Libproxy, Spirv-Tools, and more updates for Oracle Linux
Oracle Linux has announced the release of multiple updates, which include bug fixes for oVirt 4.5, libproxy, spirv-tools, vulkan-headers, vulkan-loader, vulkan-tools, gvfs, iproute, python-idna, edk2, libtiff, bzip2, go-toolset:ol8, container-tools:ol8, python3.11, openldap, rhel-system-roles, gcc-toolset-13-annobin, glib2, grub2, virt:ol, chrony, gcc-toolset-13-gcc, cups, and squid:4:
November 8th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.2.26RC1 and 8.3.14RC1 for Fedora/RHEL released
Remi Collet has released PHP 8.2.26RC1 and 8.3.14RC1 packages for Fedora and RHEL-based Linux distributions.
November 8th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 7th, 2024

Advanced Video Data Extraction with Bumpups AI -- Quick Guide
Imagine trying to sift through hours of video footage, searching for that one crucial moment or piece of information. It's a daunting task, right? Many of us have been there, overwhelmed by the sheer volume of video content and the limitations of existing tools to efficiently analyze it.
November 7th, 2024 — Source

Agentic AI is the Next Big Deal -- Here's All You Need to Know
Just as business leaders accept that generative AI should be taken seriously, a new sheriff is taking the business world by storm. It is called Agentic AI.
November 7th, 2024 — Source

"AM" 9.0.2 released
The recent updates, versions 9.0.1 and 9.0.2 of "AM," have introduced new features that allow users to disable or enable notifications during app updates. The available options are --disable-notifications and --enable-notifications. The updated features provide users with the ability to enable or disable notifications during application updates. Furthermore, the new feature enables the application of an icon theme right after installation, eliminating the necessity for patching the .desktop file.
November 7th, 2024 — Source

Apple wants to build its own AI servers -- but will Foxconn help?
Apple is diving deeper into the world of artificial intelligence, and it has big plans. The tech giant wants to build its own powerful AI servers, and it's hoping to work with Foxconn, its long-time manufacturing partner. But there's a catch: Foxconn is already super busy.
November 7th, 2024 — Source

Apple's new AirPlay options for macOS add a little more privacy
The macOS Sequoia 15.2 Beta update changes AirPlay, so you don't have to share your entire screen with the TV.
November 7th, 2024 — Source

ChatGPT has a new domain, and it's even shorter!
Do you remember when Google bought the domain ai.com to lead to Gemini? Well, it seems that Google isn't the only company buying simple URLs for its AI chatbot. OpenAI just picked up a new domain for ChatGPT, and it's even shorter than chat.openai.com. You can now access ChatGPT by using chat.com.
November 7th, 2024 — Source

ChatGPT has officially replaced Google Search for me - here's why
If you want to get answers to questions easily and quickly, ChatGPT Search may be for you.
November 7th, 2024 — Source

Cybersecurity professionals pessimistic about AI
A new report reveals that 54 percent of cybersecurity professionals believe cybercriminals will benefit more from AI than the security industry.
November 7th, 2024 — Source

Ex OpenAI Employee Finally Tells Us Why He Left
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) represents a frontier in technological innovation, with the potential to transform industries and reshape societies. However, its development is fraught with significant challenges, particularly in the realms of safety and ethics. The recent departure of Miles Brundage, a prominent researcher formerly with OpenAI, has brought these concerns into sharp focus. His exit underscores a critical question facing the AI industry: Are we truly prepared to manage AGI safely and responsibly?
November 7th, 2024 — Source

Grab Employs LLMs for Conversational Data Discovery with GPT-4, Glean and Slack
Grab responded to the challenges of finding valuable datasets among 200k+ tables by enhancing Hubble, the data discovery tool, with new capabilities leveraging GenAI technologies. The company reduced the data discovery process by incorporating LLMs to generate dataset documentation and created a Slack bot to bring effective data discovery to data consumers.
November 7th, 2024 — Source

Haiku Enjoyed A Busy October Implementing More Features
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS has remained very active implementing more features and fixes as we approach the end of 2024.
November 7th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 To Allow Controlling Zero RPM Feature For Radeon RX 7000 Series GPUs
Sent out yesterday was an AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver pull request with the last few feature additions and patches slated for the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window. Alongside other AMD kernel graphics driver updates, the new driver code with Radeon RX 7000 series RDNA3 graphics cards will finally allow controlling the zero RPM fan feature under Linux.
November 7th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.3 Merges Vulkan FIFO Support On Wayland
Yet another feature merging into Mesa 24.3 with the code branching (feature freeze) yet to take place is Vulkan FIFO presentation mode support under Wayland.
November 7th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft announces Azure Linux 3.0 for AKS preview
Microsoft has just announced the availability of Azure Linux 3.0 for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), which is now available as a preview on AKS version 1.31. Azure Linux 3.0 was made generally available a few months ago on GitHub; you can see the full release notes here.
November 7th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Is Turbocharging Notepad And Paint With New Generative AI Tools
When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) tools, companies are leaving no stone unturned. Even Notepad, the humble little text editor in Windows, is getting a generative AI upgrade. Same goes for Paint, and if you're a Windows Insider in the Canary or Dev channel, you can begin testing the nifty new features right away in Windows 11 (with a caveat -- more on that in a moment).
November 7th, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA GH200 Grace CPU versus AMD EPYC 9005 Turin CPU Performance
With the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" testing over the past month since launch I have looked at how well the new EPYC Turin CPUs compete against Intel Xeon, how Turin Dense dominates in performance and power efficiency to AmpereOne at 192 cores, and the generational uplift from EPYC Genoa to Turin at the same core counts, among other Turin performance benchmark tests.
November 7th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI Acquires Chat.com Domain to Boost ChatGPT Accessibility
OpenAI has made headlines with its acquisition of the prominent domain Chat.com, now redirecting all traffic to its AI chatbot, ChatGPT.
November 7th, 2024 — Source

OpenCL Headers & SDK Updated For OpenCL 3.0.17
Near the end of October OpenCL 3.0.17 was released as the newest maintenance update to this low-level compute API for cross-vendor GPUs and other accelerators. The OpenCL Headers and SDK have now been updated for the new revision.
November 7th, 2024 — Source

The best AI search engines of 2024: Google, Perplexity, and more
Artificial intelligence can optimize your search experience, and getting started is both free and easy.
November 7th, 2024 — Source

This SAP industry center uses artificial intelligence to streamline manufacturing
When Hurricane Helene damaged western North Carolina in September, filling medical facilities with people who couldn't be cared for at home, Jim Polk, a tech executive at Exela Pharmaceutical Sciences in Lenoir, North Carolina, got a call from the Atrium Health hospital group in flooded Asheville. Could his company make intravenous saline bags for the expected crush of patients?
November 7th, 2024 — Source

Unique memristor design with analog switching shows promise for high-efficiency neuromorphic computing
The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI)-based models is placing greater demands on the electronics industry, as many of these models require significant storage space and computational power. Engineers worldwide have thus been trying to develop neuromorphic computing systems that could help meet these demands, many of which are based on memristors.
November 7th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 5th, 2024

Apache NetBeans IDE 24-rc2 released
The second release candidate for Apache NetBeans IDE 24 introduces several enhancements, including support for source archives containing multiple modules, improved robustness of the "Goto Type Dialog," the disabling of JDK 23 line-doc comments, the creation of a secret rotation CronJob, and an upgraded UI warning color for FlatLaf light.
November 5th, 2024 — Source

GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released For Testing
The long elusive GIMP 3.0 image editor that is a free software alternative to Adobe Photoshop has finally reached the release candidate phase of development.
November 5th, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.2.3 released
KDE Plasma 6.2.3 serves as a bugfix update for Plasma 6.2. The update encompasses two weeks of new translations and fixes contributed by KDE members, addressing issues such as PIN entry behavior, KWin settings, and bug #495242 in KDE GTK Config.
November 5th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 To Drop Fieldbus Just Five Years After Being Merged
Merged back in 2019 was the Fieldbus subsystem as a set of network protocols for real-time distributed control of automated industrial systems. But now five years later, Fieldbus is being removed from the mainline Linux kernel since the code hasn't been maintained.
November 5th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 To Enhance Logic For Trusting Built-In Thunderbolt Controllers
Due to the possibility of DMA attacks from connected Thunderbolt devices, Linux and other platforms have built up safeguards over the years and different security levels for Thunderbolt to better protect systems having this high speed interface exposing PCIe. With the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel, the logic of the kernel is being enhanced to better detect and trust built-in Thunderbolt controllers.
November 5th, 2024 — Source

LXQt 2.1 Released With New Wayland Session Component
LXQt 2.1 is now available as the latest feature release to this Qt-based lightweight desktop environment. Most significant with LXQt 2.1 is the introduction of the lxqt-wayland-session component.
November 5th, 2024 — Source

Open-Source PowerVR Driver Being Extended For The Imagination BXS-4-64 MC1 GPU
Upstreamed at the start of the year was the Imagination PowerVR open-source DRM kernel driver for newer Imagination Rogue GPUs. That upstream kernel driver is now being extended to cover the Imagination BXS-4-64 MC1 GPU.
November 5th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI Appoints Former Meta Hardware Chief to Lead Robotics Division
OpenAI has appointed Caitlin Kalinowski, Meta's former head of hardware for augmented reality (AR), to lead its robotics and consumer hardware initiatives.
November 5th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI Initiates Talks to Transform Non-Profit Structure Into For-Profit Entity
OpenAI is reportedly discussing potential changes to shift its $157 billion non-profit structure to a for-profit model with the California attorney general's office.
November 5th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI's Predicted Outputs feature can speed up GPT-4o model output by up to 5x
Latency is a significant issue for most LLM-related use cases. For scenarios like code suggestions and modifying long documents, latency can really affect the overall user experience. Imagine a user wanting to rewrite the last paragraph of a 2-page document. It would be better if the rewritten document appeared instantly since the change involves only a single paragraph. However, current LLM APIs require the entire document to be regenerated, causing significant latency for users.
November 5th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.3.14RC1 released
The release candidate for PHP 8.3.14 incorporates a range of bug fixes across multiple components, including CLI, COM, core, date, DBA, DOM, EXIF, FFI, Filter, FPM, GD, MBstring, Opcache, OpenSSL, PDO_ODBC, Phar, PHPDBG, Reflection, Session, SOAP, Sockets, SPL, and additional areas.
November 5th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.4.0RC4 released
The fourth release candidate of PHP 8.4 has addressed multiple bugs across various components, including BcMath, Core, Date, DOM, FPM, GD, GMP, Opcache, OpenSSL, PDO, PDO_ODBC, Reflection, Session, SPL, and SysVShm.
November 5th, 2024 — Source

Power Determinism Mode Still Proves Beneficial For AMD EPYC 9005 Performance
Typically in my launch-day Linux reviews of new AMD EPYC processors I try to include results both of the performance determinism (default) and power determinism modes available with these server processors since opting in to the power determinism mode can allow for additional performance uplift at the cost of slightly higher power costs.
November 5th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 3rd, 2024

AMD Heterogeneous CPU Design Topology Patches Coming For Linux 6.13The latest patches from AMD Linux engineers for working on x86 heterogeneous design identification were queued last week for introduction in the Linux 6.13 kernel.
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November 3rd, 2024 — Source

Apple Silicon OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Updated This Week For Mesa 24.3
Alyssa Rosenzweig has pushed the latest Apple Silicon OpenGL "AGX Gallium3D" and Vulkan "Honeykrisp" code from the Asahi Linux development repository into the Mesa Git codebase ahead of this quarter's Mesa 24.3 release.
November 3rd, 2024 — Source

Ibnss_slurm, Java-23-OpenJDK, Govulncheck-Vulndb, Docker-Stable, Java-17-OpenJDK updates for SUSE
SUSE Linux has received multiple security upgrades, including libnss_slurm, java-23-openjdk, govulncheck-vulndb, docker-stable, and java-17-openjdk.
November 3rd, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20241103 released
KDE neon 20241103 has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
November 3rd, 2024 — Source

Linux Mint Cinnamon desktop to integrate Night Light for improved eye comfort
The popular Cinnamon desktop environment is taking steps to integrate Night Light, a feature that has become essential for many computer users. Night Light reduces the amount of blue light emitted from your monitor, gradually warming up screen colors as evening approaches. The aim is to lessen eyestrain and encourage better sleep by signaling to your body that it's time to wind down.
November 3rd, 2024 — Source

Linux Mint Working On Night Light For Cinnamon, Collaborating With Framework Computer
The Linux Mint crew is out with their newest monthly status update that outlines the activities of this desktop Linux distribution over the course of October.
November 3rd, 2024 — Source

Linux Security Roundup for Week 45, 2024
Here is a roundup of last week's Linux security updates for AlmaLinux, Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora Linux, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Slackware Linux, SUSE Linux, and Ubuntu Linux.
November 3rd, 2024 — Source

Linus Torvalds kicked the Russians out of Linux, now they're creating a sovereign Linux community in Russia — Ministry of Digital Development steps in
Kneejerk announcement or a serious plan, time will tell.
November 3rd, 2024 — Source

Nice Performance Gains With SVT-AV1 2.3 Encoding On The System76 Thelio Astra
With this week's release of SVT-AV1 2.3 for open-source AV1 encoding citing significant performance improvements for running on ARM, I was eager to see how well this AV1 encoder would be performing on the new System76 Thelio Astra ARM developer desktop powered by Ampere Altra. Here are some benchmarks showing those big speed-ups for ARM-based AV1 encoding.
November 3rd, 2024 — Source

OpenSSL and Perl updates for Debian
Debian GNU/Linux has received security upgrades, including an OpenSSL regression fix and Perl security update:
November 3rd, 2024 — Source

Python-Single-Version update for Fedora 40
A security update for python-single-version has been released for Fedora 40:
November 3rd, 2024 — Source

Rust-Based Redox OS Gets RISC-V Working, Also Now Booting On The Raspberry Pi 4
The Redox OS open-source Rust-based operating system project is out with their newest monthly development update.
November 3rd, 2024 — Source

Snapdragon X1 Elite CPUFreq Support Revised In Latest Linux Patches
While the mainline Linux kernel has begun seeing initial support for various Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops, various feature limitations are outstanding before these Qualcomm-powered laptops really become usable for daily use. For instance, just a few days ago the audio firmware was finally upstreamed to make setting up X1 Elite laptops easier. Another important feature as an example is CPUFreq driver support for CPU frequency scaling to ensure optimal performance and power efficiency.
November 3rd, 2024 — Source

Valve Engineer's AMD Linux RADV Vulkan driver fix boosted an FSR2 demo sample app by 228% on RDNA 2 GPUs
Dev apparently reworked less than a dozen lines of code for this uplift.
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Software — Open Source — November 2nd, 2024

Cloudflare's Pingora 0.4 Rust Framework Released With Experimental Windows Support
Cloudflare's Pingora Rust framework that was written as a replacement to Nginx and made publicly open-source earlier this year with a focus on building fast and reliable networked systems is out with its newest feature release.
November 2nd, 2024 — Source

Fedora Linux 40-20241101 Updated ISOs released
The Fedora Respins SIG has just released new Fedora Linux 40 live ISO images, packed with all the newest updates.
November 2nd, 2024 — Source

Frustrated with Windows 11? The stunning Nitrux Linux 3.7.1 is the OS you deserve
If you're ready to break free from the familiar but uninspiring confines of Windows 11, it's time to consider a different approach. Many of us stick with Microsoft's OS because it's what we know, not because it's the best option out there, but imagine an operating system that prioritizes speed, simplicity, and style, all while keeping your workflow seamless and frustration-free.
November 2nd, 2024 — Source

Intel Lands VVC VA-API Hardware Decoding Into FFmpeg
Intel has integrated VVC VA-API hardware accelerated decoding support into the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library.
November 2nd, 2024 — Source

KDE Will Nicely Notify You When Apps Are Being Killed Due To Out-Of-Memory
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development summary of interesting KDE changes in closing out October.
November 2nd, 2024 — Source

OBS Studio 31.0.0 Beta 3 released
OBS Studio 31.0.0 Beta 3 has been released, which fixes a number of problems. These include a regression that stopped the AUTHORS file from loading on Linux, issues with encoders not loading properly, crashes during shutdown, Frontend API events failing to dispatch at application launch, changes to the behavior of menu items, memory leaks in the PipeWire plugin, crashes during scene collection imports, SSL certificate issues, missing icons in themes, and the removal of legacy YouTube chat.
November 2nd, 2024 — Source

Vulkan 1.3.301 Released With New Extension For HDR Vivid
Vulkan 1.3.301 was published on Friday with the lone new extension this release being a rare contribution from Huawei adding HDR Vivid support with VK_HUAWEI_hdr_vivid.
November 2nd, 2024 — Source

Xfce 4.20 Pre1 Pre-Release Published For Testing
Xfce 4.20 Pre1 is the first tagged milestone in working toward the big Xfce 4.20 desktop release. This also marks the feature freeze and string freeze for Xfce 4.20.
November 2nd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — November 1st, 2024

Academy Software Foundation Releases OpenVDB 12.0 Under New License
The Academy Software Foundation that is made up of many different vendors released OpenVDB 12.0 as the newest major release to this sparse volume data structure library and tooling that is an Academy Award winning library started by DreamWorks Animation.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy
ASWF is the open source foundation run by the folks who give out Oscars, and you've probably seen the results
November 1st, 2024 — Source

Anthropic's Claude makes it to PCs
Move over, ChatGPT, you're not the only chatbot to invade the PC space! Just a few months after OpenAI released its desktop application, another California-based AI company followed suit. Anthropic launched the official Claude desktop app. It's available for Windows and Mac.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

Arch Linux 2024.11.01 released
A new Arch Linux installation image based on Linux kernel 6.11.5 has been released. Arch Linux is a lightweight distribution designed for expert users who want the most up-to-date packages. The installation image, which includes the most important Linux tools, also serves as a recovery or emergency image. The installation image now includes a guided installer.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

Bcachefs Reining In Bugs: Test Dashboard Failures Drop By 40% Over Last Month
As part of the latest Bcachefs fixes pull request, lead developer Kent Overstreet has provided an update on the bug situation for this advanced copy-on-write open-source file-system.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

ChatGPT-5 won't be coming this year — OpenAI CEO reveals company is focusing on existing models
Outgoing iterations of ChatGPT are still getting full support, as OpenAI works on GPT-5 for next year.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

Chinese Researchers Adapt Meta's AI Model for Military Use
Researchers in China affiliated with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) have reportedly repurposed Meta's open-source Llama model to create an AI tool intended for military use.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

Chinese researchers build military AI using Meta's open-source Llama model — ChatBIT allegedly performs at around 90% of the performance of OpenAI GPT-4 LLM
The PLA militarizes Meta's open-source Llama AI model.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

Fedora 41 Released with New Features
If you're a Fedora fan or just looking for a Linux distribution to help you migrate from Windows, Fedora 41 might be just the ticket.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

GCC 15 to keep Itanium support for now, after all
Now, can someone come up with an emulator for the things, please?
November 1st, 2024 — Source

GE-Proton9-18 released
GE-Proton9-18 has been released with a hotfix addressing the missing proton script Python UUID import.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

Google Chrome/Chromium Lands linux_drm_syncobj_v1 For Wayland Explicit Sync
The Google Chrome/Chromium web browser code has merged support for linux_drm_syncobj_v1 as the modern Wayland protocol for explicit buffer synchronization.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

How to make open source software more secure
Earlier this year, a Microsoft developer realized that someone had inserted a backdoor into the code of open source utility XZ Utils, which is used in virtually all Linux operating systems.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

Intel Arrow Lake, AMD EPYC Turin & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Interesting October
October is now in the books after writing 247 original news articles and another 24 Linux hardware reviews / featured multi-page benchmark articles. From the launches of Intel Arrow Lake and AMD EPYC 9005 to other interesting new hardware, the Russian Linux kernel drama, Linux 6.12 developments and early Linux 6.13 patches queuing in "-next" branches, October was an interesting month both for hardware and open-source software.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

Miriway 24.10 Compositor Adds systemd Integration, DE-Specific Configurations
Miriway 24.10 was released on Halloween as the newest version of this Mir-based Wayland compositor. Miriway is developed by Canonical/Ubuntu developers as a compositor for other desktops like Xfce, MATE, LXQt and others as a way to ease their migration path to Wayland.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

Monitoring Kubernetes Service Topology Changes in Real Time
Stateful, distributed, containerized applications require real-time monitoring of cluster changes. Learn how EndpointSlices API provides a scalable solution.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

New Intel Diamond Rapids Patch For GCC Confirms AVX10.2-512, APX & Other ISA Features
Intel software engineers have been very busy recently with upstreaming various elements of support into the Linux kernel, open-source compilers and more for the next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

Open Source Bites Back as China's Military Makes Full Use of Meta's Llama 2 AI Model
China's People's Liberation Army is using Llama 13B for military applications. That's against the acceptable use policy, but there's no way to put the AI back in the bottle.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

OpenAI's new 'Google killer' feature is Sam Altman's favorite since ChatGPT shipped: "It has probably doubled my usage over the past few weeks"
OpenAI recently launched ChatGPT search to compete with Google by providing fast, clear, and direct answers to queries featuring relevant web sources.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.4.0RC3, 8.3.13, and 8.2.25 packages for Debian 11 LTS and 12
Ondřej Surý has released PHP 8.4.0RC3, 8.3.13, and 8.2.25 packages for both Debian GNU/Linux 11 (Bullseye) LTS and 12 (Bookworm).
November 1st, 2024 — Source

Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Alpha 3 released
The third alpha version of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS, which includes the new COSMIC desktop environment, has been released for testing.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin is open for development
Paride Legovini has announced that Ubuntu Linux 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) is now available for development. It includes updates to perl 5.40 and haskell/ghc 9.6.6, as well as a default value of -O3 for dpkg-buildflags. Auto-sync is enabled, although delays may occur owing to a high volume of builds and autopkgtests.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu Hoping To Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Ubuntu developer Simon Quigley laid out the plans for hoping Ubuntu packages will move from Qt 5 to Qt 6 so that by the time of the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cycle in early 2026 that the older version of this graphical toolkit can be removed.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu's Great Mainline Kernel PPA Hasn't Been Working Since Mid-September
One of the very convenient features for Ubuntu Linux users who want to run the very newest upstream kernel releases or simply test a new kernel build for verifying bug fixes or functionality has been the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

Valve Engineer Fixes Massive Performance Issue For RADV Driver With AMD FSR2 Sample
With the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release there is a huge improvement coming for those using the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver with the AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 sample app.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

Wine 10.0 Release Plans Aim For Mid-January Release
Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard has laid out plans for releasing Wine 10.0 around mid-January as the annual stable release for this open-source software to run Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms.
November 1st, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — October 30th, 2024

Benchmarks Of Google's Axion Arm-based CPU: Competitive Performance & Compelling Value
Earlier this year Google announced Axion as their first Arm-based CPU for the Google Cloud. Today already they are taking Axion to general availability with the new C4A instances. These new C4A instances are advertised as offering up to 50% better performance and up to 60% better energy efficiency than their current generation x86 instance types.
October 30th, 2024 — Source

DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Support Being Extended To All Recent AMD GPUs
DRM_Panic is the functionality first added in Linux 6.10 for "Blue Screen of Death" type functionality when a kernel panic occurs or similar for displaying a nice graphical error message. Since the initial introduction it's been extended to handle QR code error messages, monochrome logos, and other customization options.
October 30th, 2024 — Source

How to use a PPA in Linux to install applications safely
Linux has many ways to install applications, including Personal Package Archives in Debian and Ubuntu-based distributions. Here's how they work.
October 30th, 2024 — Source

Intel rolls out microcode fix for crashing 13th/14th Generation processors through the Linux Kernel
Users can update to the latest microcode through Linux's package management system without dabbling in the BIOS.
October 30th, 2024 — Source

Linux's true BSOD equivalent, DRM Panic, is now supported by the current AMD GPUs
This is not to be confused with systemd_bsod, which has a similar function but fails in scenarios that crash user space, unlike DRM_Panic.
October 30th, 2024 — Source

Navigating API Challenges in Kubernetes
Traditional API management solutions struggle to keep pace with the distributed nature of Kubernetes. Dive into some solutions for efficient Kubernetes-native API management.
October 30th, 2024 — Source

OpenPaX Announced As "Open-Source Alternative To GrSecurity" With Free Kernel Patch
Enterprise security firm Edera today is announcing OpenPaX that they promoted in their advance press notice as a "new open-source alternative to GrSecurity." GrSecurity being the firm focused on providing out-of-tree Linux kernel patches focused in the name of security enhancements. With OpenPaX they are open-source and publicly available kernel patch for mitigating common memory safety errors and other system hardening.
October 30th, 2024 — Source

RadeonSI Lands Async Video Operations For Improving FFmpeg Performance
The RadeonSI Gallium3D driver used by all modern AMD Radeon graphics hardware has landed support in Mesa 24.3 for async VCE/UVD video operations to enhance the performance with the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library.
October 30th, 2024 — Source

Shotcut 24.10 Open-Source Video Editor Adds Initial AI Feature
Shotcut 24.10 is now available as the latest feature release to this open-source, cross-platform video editor built atop the MLT framework, Qt6, FFmpeg, SDL, and other software components.
October 30th, 2024 — Source

VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Support Approaching Upstream QEMU
Linaro developer Alex Bennee posted the patches on Tuesday for pulling into upstream QEMU for handling VirtIO-GPU Vulkan support. This follows Mesa's Venus Vulkan driver being updated to allow QEMU support. Separately, last month saw Gfxstream merged into Mesa for Vulkan virtualization as another effort.
October 30th, 2024 — Source

Wasmer 5.0 WebAssembly Runtime Released With V8, WAMR & WASMI Backends
Wasmer 5.0 is now available as the latest major update to this WebAssembly (WASM) runtime focused on being able to allow developers to write "universal apps" that will run anywhere thanks to the power and versatility of WebAssembly.
October 30th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — October 28th, 2024

AMD STB Support Extended To Latest Ryzen 9000 Series Desktop CPUs

It turns out the latest AMD Ryzen desktop processors offer support for AMD Smart Trace Buffer (STB) that previously was only limited to mobile platforms.
October 28th, 2024 — Source

Intel Preps Linux Driver For Upgraded Display Capabilities With New Hardware

While the Linux 6.12 kernel enables Intel Xe2 Battlemage discrete GPU support out-of-the-box as a sign of its maturing state, there are a number of patches for the open-source Battlemage driver support that are ongoing. One of the areas seeing some patches recently are around enhancing the display features with Battlemage's upgraded capabilities.
October 28th, 2024 — Source

Firefox 132 Ready With Certificate Compression, Accelerated SVG Filter Primitives

Mozilla Firefox 132.0 release builds are now available for Linux, macOS, and Windows for this newest monthly feature release to this open-source web browser.
October 28th, 2024 — Source

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux Memory DDR5 Performance Testing

Following last week's launch testing of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and Core Ultra 5 245K Arrow Lake desktop processors, the next area I've been exploring deeper has been the DDR5 memory performance including with CUDIMMs. Here's a closer look at the Core Ultra 9 285K performance under Linux while testing several different sets of memory and running Ubuntu 24.10.
October 28th, 2024 — Source

Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q3 Brings Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake Support

Intel has issued their newest quarterly feature release of their FFmpeg Cartwheel, which is their developer staging area of new video acceleration related patches for Intel graphics hardware that they are working to upstream within the widely-used, open-source FFmpeg library.
October 28th, 2024 — Source

PCIe TPH Coming With Linux 6.13 To Further Enhance 5th Gen AMD EPYC Performance

Going back to earlier in the year AMD Linux engineers have been prepping the kernel for PCI Express TLP Processing Hints (TPH) support that allows for hints that can be injected to improve latency and lowering traffic congestion when there are several possible cache locations on the server with the TPH noting the optimal location of a Transaction Layer Packet (TLP). This PCIe TPH support is set to be merged upstream with the forthcoming Linux 6.13 cycle.
October 28th, 2024 — Source

Qualcomm Adreno Rusticl-Based OpenCL Merged For Mesa 24.3

Another feature to look forward to with this quarter's Mesa 24.3 release is the open-source Freedreno Gallium3D driver for Qualcomm Adreno hardware now supporting Rusticl-based OpenCL compute.
October 28th, 2024 — Source

Raspberry Pi OS Now Using Wayland By Default On All Models

Over the past year we have seen Raspberry Pi working a lot on Wayland support for the Raspberry Pi OS desktop and using it on their latest Raspberry Pi models. With today's new Raspberry Pi OS update, Wayland is being used by default across all Raspberry Pi devices.
October 28th, 2024 — Source

Sched_ext Scheduler Idle Selection Being Extended For LLC & NUMA Awareness

While the sched_ext extensible scheduler code was merged for Linux 6.12, work on sched_ext itself it is not over. New patches this weekend continue working on NUMA awareness for it with its default idle selection policy while similar work on CPU last level cache (LLC) awareness are slated for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle.
October 28th, 2024 — Source

Stacklok donates its Minder supply chain security project to the OpenSSF

Stacklok, the open source software supply chain company founded by Kubernetes co-creator Craig McLuckie and Sigstore creator Luke Hinds, is donating Minder, one of its key projects, to the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). Minder helps development teams set up a system of proactive checks and policies to minimize supply chain risks by enforcing best practices and, using Sigstore, ensures that all packages built by developers that use the project are cryptographically signed.
October 28th, 2024 — Source

Trinity TDE R14.1.3 Lets Linux Users Still Enjoy The KDE 3.5 Desktop Experience

The Trinity Desktop Environment as a still-maintained fork of the KDE 3.5 desktop software is out with a new point release.
October 28th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — October 25th, 2024

AMDGPU Changes Readied For Linux 6.13: Runtime Repartitioning, Many Fixes

A big batch of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel graphics and compute driver updates were mailed in for DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle.
October 25th, 2024 — Source

Cloud Hypervisor 42 Released With SVE/SVE2 Support For AArch64 Guests

Cloud Hypervisor 42.0 is out as the newest update of this open-source, Rust-based hypervisor that began as an Intel software project but is now developed by a number of different organizations from Arm to Microsoft.
October 25th, 2024 — Source

DRM Client Library Code Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.13

The newest drm-misc-next pull request was submitted today ahead of the Linux 6.13 merge window opening up in about one month's time.
October 25th, 2024 — Source

FUTEX2 NUMA & Small Futexes Revived For Linux

Back in 2020~2021 there was lots of talk and work around FUTEX2 for improving the Linux kernel's Futex implementation for fast user mutex. The FUTEX2 work was driven in large part for helping Steam Play / Wine gaming by better matching the behavior of Microsoft Windows with its WaitForMultipleObjects handling.
October 25th, 2024 — Source

Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Linux Performance

Yesterday for the Intel Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake launch date was my extensive look at the Core Ultra 9 285K under Ubuntu Linux for that 24-core desktop processor. Under focus today is the lower-tier Intel Core Ultra 5 245K with a large variety of Linux performance benchmarks for showing how this 14-core processor compares to prior Intel Core CPUs as well as the AMD Ryzen competition atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
October 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux Support Continues For The Now-Canceled Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit For Windows

While last week Qualcomm canceled their Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit as a $899 USD mini PC built for Windows 11 on ARM and powered by the X1 Elite SoC, the upstreaming Linux support for it is continuing.
October 25th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI loses yet another leader!

Uhh, OpenAI? Are you okay? It seems like the AI juggernaut OpenAI just can't hold onto its top minds. The increasing number of departing executives seems to be the latest story arc in an ongoing saga of OpenAI drama. Miles Brundage, OpenAI's senior adviser for the readiness of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), just announced that he'll be leaving the company.
October 25th, 2024 — Source

Right-Sizing GPU and CPU Resources for Training and Inferencing Using Kubernetes

Learn how to harness advances in Kubernetes to optimize resource allocation by prioritizing workloads dynamically and efficiently based on need.
October 25th, 2024 — Source

San Francisco billboards call out tech firms for not paying for open source

Puts Chief Tightwad Officers on notice
October 25th, 2024 — Source

The open secret of open washing -- why companies pretend to be open source

Allowing pretenders to co-opt the term is bad for everyone
October 25th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — October 22nd, 2024

A blueprint for mapping melting ice sheets: Open-source tool can help make radar systems at a fraction of the cost

Researchers in the Stanford Radio Glaciology lab use radio waves to understand rapidly changing ice sheets and their contributions to global sea-level rise. This technique has revealed groundwater beneath Greenland, the long-term impacts of extreme melt, a process that could accelerate ice sheet mass loss in Antarctica, the potential instability of an ice sheet that could raise sea levels by 10 feet, and more.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

AI/ML Innovation in the Kubernetes Ecosystem

Recent innovations like the Model Registry, ModelCars feature, and TrustyAI are delivering manageability, speed, and accountability for AI/ML workloads
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Now Available For Testing, Derived From CentOS Stream 10

AlmaLinux Kitten 10 has been introduced today as what will be the next iteration of this community-based, RHEL/CentOS-derived enterprise-grade Linux distribution. AlmaLinux Kitten 10 is tracking the CentOS Stream 10 sources for what will eventually become the base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 released

AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 serves as a preview for AlmaLinux OS 10, developed from CentOS Stream 10, which will ultimately be the foundation for RHEL10. This version enables individuals involved in building or extending AlmaLinux to participate in the release process at an earlier stage and offers enhanced visibility into the build process. The team is dedicated to ensuring compatibility with RHEL, meticulously documenting every deviation in their release notes.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

Apache NetBeans 24-rc1 released

Apache NetBeans IDE 24-rc1 is now available for testing, featuring a number of updates. Improvements have been made in Gradle, Maven, Java, LSP, PHP, and C/C++.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

Best Antivirus Software for 2024

Protect your devices with these CNET-approved antivirus programs.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

Intel Compute Runtime 24.39.31294.12 Fixes Lunar Lake OpenCL, Disables Ice Lake & Older

Intel Compute Runtime 24.39.31294.12 was released on Monday as the newest update to this open-source Intel integrated/discrete graphics compute stack for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support for their hardware on Windows and Linux.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

Intel Preps GCC Compiler For New AMX & ISA Features Ahead Of Diamond Rapids

Intel's compiler engineers today posted a number of feature patches for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for enabling new ISA features to be found with next-generation Xeon "Diamond Rapids" processors. Excitingly a number of new Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) features are coming with next-gen Intel Xeon.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.2.2 released

KDE has released a new bugfix update for KDE Plasma 6.2. The update encompasses several enhancements, including the default disabling of outputs for VR headsets, the configuration of WAYLAND_DISPLAY prior to initiating the Wayland server, and the resolution of text display issues for auto_null devices.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.228 released

Linux kernel version 5.10.228 is now available:
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux Kernel 5.15.169 released

Linux kernel 5.15.169 has been released.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.114 released

Linux kernel version 6.1.114 is now available:
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.11.5 released

Linux kernel version 6.11.5 is now available:
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.58 released

Linux kernel version 6.6.58 is now available:
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.11-9 released

Steven Barrett has released a new Liquorix kernel based on Linux kernel 6.11.5. The Liquorix Linux kernel is an enthusiast Linux kernel that is optimized for low latency computing in audiovisual production, reduced frame time variations in games, and unparalleled responsiveness in interactive systems. It is available for Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA R565 Linux Driver Beta Brings Improvements For Wayland, DMA-BUF & VKD3D

The first NVIDIA R565 series Linux driver beta was released this morning in the form of the NVIDIA 565.57.01 driver release.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

Open-source innovation: A cybersecurity playbook management tool

As cyberattacks evolve and become more complex, defenders require advanced tools for effective incident response. In the H2020 project CyberSEAS, the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT developed a prototype for a cybersecurity playbook management system, called SASP in short, that provides a robust framework for creating, maintaining, and sharing standardized incident response procedures.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.2.25 released

PHP 8.2.25 has been released, featuring various fixes and enhancements. These encompass resolutions for calendar, jdtounix overflow, easter_days/easter_date overflow, jddayofweek overflow, jewishtojd overflow, CLI, core, date, DOM, GD, LDAP, MBString, OpenSSL, PCRE, PHPDBG, Reflection, SAPI, SimpleXML, sockets, SOAP, streams, TSRM, and XML.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

Suggestion Raised For Using PGO + LLVM BOLT To Optimize More Fedora Packages

Outside of the likes of the Arch Linux based CachyOS and Intel's Clear Linux there aren't too many distributions that widely rely on aggressive compiler optimizations in the name of bettering the system performance. A suggestion was raised recently though for Fedora to use profile-guided optimizations (PGO) and post-link optimizations with the likes of LLVM BOLT for more packages, but at this stage it's not clear if such a shift in Fedora package optimizations will actually materialize.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

System76 Thelio Astra Reviewed: High-End ARM64 Developer Desktop

System76 is announcing one of their most innovative and interesting products going back to their Launch Configurable Keyboard and HP Dev One collaboration: the System76 Thelio Astra. The Thelio Astra is a high-end ARM64 desktop system geared for developers with a focus on AI / STEM / self-driving technologies and powered by Ampere Computing and NVIDIA.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

Wasmer 5.0-rc1 Adds Experimental Support For WASMI, Interpreter Mode Support

For those interested in the prospects of WebAssembly for being able to write "universal apps" that can run anywhere, Wasmer as one of the leading WASM runtimes is closing in on its v5.0 feature release.
October 23rd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — October 20th, 2024

Audio Firmware Upstreamed For Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 On Linux

Qualcomm has upstreamed the audio firmware for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 "X1E80100" series laptop SoCs to linux-firmware.git.
October 20th, 2024 — Source

Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source

Several Phoronix readers have written in this Sunday over concerns of Bitwarden further moving away from open-source. Bitwarden is a password management service that leverages an encrypted vault and supports multiple clients/platforms. Bitwarden operates on a freemium model and has provided some code as open-source while there are new concerns over Bitwarden further pivoting away from open-source.
October 20th, 2024 — Source

Intel Posts Patch For Fixing/Boosting Lunar Lake Linux Performance On ASUS Laptops

Since purchasing an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" laptop for Linux testing last month, the performance has been coming in below expectations. Among the tests were finding Xe2 graphics on Lunar Lake performing slower that under Windows 11 and in comparison slower than Meteor Lake graphics on Linux. Intel engineers have been able to reproduce my original findings and they uncovered the culprit is a new ASUS laptop feature called AIPT.
October 20th, 2024 — Source

Joseph Jacks bets on open source startups, a 'paradox of philanthropy and capitalism'

Open source might be many things, but one thing it's not is a business model — by most estimations, at least. However, that hasn't stopped Joseph Jacks and OSS Capital from seeking some of the earliest-stage, open source startups and funding them through their formative years.
October 20th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20241020 released

KDE neon 20241020 has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
October 20th, 2024 — Source

Lightweight Guard Pages For Linux Showing 5x Speed-Up For Memory Mapping Invocations

Patches posted this week by Oracle's Lorenzo Stoakes are the latest attempt at lightweight guard pages for the Linux kernel.
October 20th, 2024 — Source

Linux Security Roundup for Week 43, 2024

Here is a roundup of last week's Linux security updates for AlmaLinux, Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora Linux, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Slackware Linux, SUSE Linux, and Ubuntu Linux.
October 20th, 2024 — Source

ReiserFS File-System Expected To Be Removed With Linux 6.13

With ReiserFS having been deprecated for two years with plans to remove it in 2025, the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle for what will be the first major kernel release of the new year and past the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel is expected to do just that... ReiserFS is set to be stripped from the mainline kernel codebase.
October 20th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — October 18th, 2024

AMD ROCm Looks Like It Will Finally Be Supporting OpenCL 3.0 Soon

The OpenCL 3.0 compute specification has been out in finalized form since September 2020. Since then NVIDIA's official Windows/Linux drivers have been exposing OpenCL 3.0 going back to 2021, the Intel Compute Runtime stack has also been exposing OpenCL 3.0 support for years, and even with Mesa's Rusticl open-source OpenCL implementation it's beginning to see Gallium3D drivers with conformant OpenCL 3.0. Yet if installing the AMD ROCm compute stack right now, you'll see OpenCL 2.1. But it looks like OpenCL 3.0 will soon be here for ROCm.
October 18th, 2024 — Source

Fedora Linux 40-20241016 Updated ISOs released

The Fedora Respins SIG has just released new Fedora Linux 40 live ISO images, packed with all the newest updates.
October 18th, 2024 — Source

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Has Invested Over $24.9M In Open-Source In Two Years

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) is today celebrating its second anniversary for "empowering public digital infrastructure." In the past two years it has invested more than €23 million (about $24.94M USD) into sixty open technologies.
October 18th, 2024 — Source

Intel Working On Coreboot Support For Xeon 6 Platforms

Intel announced earlier this week ahead of the OCP Global Summit that they have partnered with the 9elements consulting firm for getting Coreboot up and running on Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" platforms.
October 18th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20241017

KDE neon is our installable Linux with continuous integration and deployment. It's based on Ubuntu who had a new Long Term Support Release recently so we've rebased it on Ubuntu 20.04 now.
October 18th, 2024 — Source

Laptop Vendor MALIBAL Suggests Not Supporting Coreboot

In a rather surprising post this morning, laptop vendor MALIBAL that offers both Linux and Windows systems is suggesting to not support the Coreboot project for open-source system firmware.
October 18th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 Poised To Land Prep Patches Working Toward Proxy Execution

Years in the making has been the idea of Proxy Execution for the Linux kernel as a means of implementing priority inheritance by leveraging information from a task's scheduler context and its execution context. While the Proxy Execution patches themselves aren't yet queued for merging upstream, some prep patches look like they'll make it for the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window.
October 18th, 2024 — Source

Linux Fixes Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier "IBPB" Handling For Older AMD CPUs

Merged today to Linux 6.12 Git were bug fixes to AMD's Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier (IBPB) handling that can be optionally used as part of the Retbleed and Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO) mitigations on older AMD processors.
October 18th, 2024 — Source

OpenJDK and Webkit2GTK3 updates for AlmaLinux

AlmaLinux has been updated with multiple security enhancements, encompassing java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, webkit2gtk3, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, and java-21-openjdk:
October 18th, 2024 — Source

Python Starlette and Jetty Minimal updates for SUSE Linux

SUSE Linux has been updated with two security patches: one classified as important for Python Starlette and another as moderate for Jetty Minimal.
October 18th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu Considers Replacing initramfs-tools With Dracut

As a possible change for Ubuntu 25.04, Canonical is evaluating the use of Dracut to replace initramfs-tools for initrd generation on Ubuntu Linux.
October 18th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu Snaps Up Intel's NPU User-Space Software So It's Easier To Accelerate AI

Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical has announced the availability of an Intel NPU driver Snap package within their Snap Store to make it easier to leverage the Intel neural processing unit (NPU) on Core Ultra processors within Ubuntu Linux.
October 18th, 2024 — Source

Valve Contributes OpenVR Video Driver To SDL

Merged to upstream SDL today is an OpenVR video driver that was developed at Valve Software.
October 18th, 2024 — Source

Wine 9.20 Released With WineDbg Now Using Capstone Disassembler

Wine 9.20 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development version of this open-source software to enable running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms.
October 18th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — October 16th, 2024

AMD Linux Graphics Driver To Switch To More Aggressive Power Heuristics By Default

It looks like for the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle there could be a nice performance boost for AMD Radeon discrete graphics cards with the AMDGPU kernel driver poised to set more aggressive power heuristics by default.
October 16th, 2024 — Source

AMD Releases AOMP 20.0-0 For Radeon/Instinct Compiler Offloading

Following last week's release of the LLVM/Clang-downstream AOCC 5.0 for optimized compiler support extended to Zen 5 CPUs, the GPU side of the house at AMD this week released AOMP 20.0-0 as their LLVM/Clang downstream focused on GPU device offloading.
October 16th, 2024 — Source

Critical default credential in Kubernetes Image Builder allows SSH root access

It's called leaving the door wide open -- especially in Proxmox
October 16th, 2024 — Source

Critical Kubernetes Image Builder flaw gives SSH root access to VMs

A critical vulnerability in Kubernetes could allow unauthorized SSH access to a virtual machine running an image created with the Kubernetes Image Builder project.
October 16th, 2024 — Source

GCC Preparing To Set C23 "GNU23" As Default C Language Version

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) support for the C23 programming language standard is now considered "essentially feature-complete" with GCC 15. As such they are preparing to enable the C23 language version (using the GNU23 dialect) by default for the C language version of GCC when not otherwise specified
October 16th, 2024 — Source

Intel ISPC 1.25 Released With New Targets For Xe2 Lunar Lake & Battlemage

ISPC 1.25 has been released as the newest feature update to the Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as the C language variant for "single program, multiple data" programming to target both Intel's CPUs and GPUs.
October 16th, 2024 — Source

Intel Low Power Mode Daemon v0.0.8 Brings New Features

The open-source Intel Low Power Mode Daemon (LPMD) software is out with a new release for optimizing active idle power on modern Intel Core systems under Linux. The Intel LPMD daemon is able to configure the system depending upon workload, utilization, and other hints for delivering the most power efficient cores and behavior of the processor.
October 16th, 2024 — Source

Intel Lunar Lake versus AMD Strix Point Platform Profile Performance Comparison

For those that have been eager to see more Intel Core Ultra Series 200V Lunar Lake Linux testing, here is the latest installment of testing as well as an update from Intel following my Lunar Lake Linux testing recent reports. Today's article is looking at Intel Lunar Lake versus AMD Strix Point across different ACPI Platform Profile configurations for whether you are after peak performance or the most power savings.
October 16th, 2024 — Source

IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 189 released

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 189 represents a notable enhancement, featuring a security fix, an updated graph for the IPS, and various package updates. This update represents one of the most significant releases to date, delivering a multitude of new firmware files for a range of hardware.
October 16th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0 Adds Valkey, Enables Other New Features

Microsoft has released Azure Linux 3.0.20241005 as the "October 2024" update to the company's in-house Linux distribution.
October 16th, 2024 — Source

New Patches Allow For Deleting Files ~54% Faster On F2FS

A set of patches sent out today for testing allow for faster truncating on the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) that can yield around a 54% speed-up for deleting files.
October 16th, 2024 — Source

Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Demonstrated On Windows

Last week at the X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC2024) in Montreal there was a talk showcasing Mesa's open-source Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver running atop Windows 11.
October 16th, 2024 — Source

Opening up the WinAmp source to all goes badly as owners delete entire repo

As badly as the later development of the player itself, really
October 16th, 2024 — Source

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI 1.2 Brings AMD ROCm + Instinct Tech Preview

Red Hat has announced the GA release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI 1.2. RHEL AI was announced earlier this year as Red Hat's AI solution for a foundation model platform to develop / test / run Granite GenAI models. Not to be confused with the RHEL operating system itself, RHEL AI is all about building large language models for enterprise software with Granite LLMs and InstructLab tooling.
October 16th, 2024 — Source

Qualcomm Announces Mesa VCL Driver For OpenCL Acceleration Within VMs

Qualcomm engineers have developed VCL as a new open-source OpenCL driver for use with VirtIO-GPU for providing OpenCL hardware acceleration within virtual machines.
October 16th, 2024 — Source

The 4 best Linux desktops based on GNOME - and what I most like about each one

GNOME has inspired some great desktop environments. These are the best.
October 16th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — October 13th, 2024

Improvements To The Ad Experience
As a result of user feedback and being able to reproduce some annoying ad experiences, particularly on mobile devices, I've been able to make some enhancements to hopefully improve the user ad experience when browsing Phoronix.
October 13th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.13 To Drop Some Old & No Longer Maintained Staging Drivers
With a number of patches queued this week into the staging tree ahead of the Linux 6.13 kernel, a number of old and no longer maintained hardware drivers are set to be removed in the next kernel cycle.
October 13th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.3 Allows Rusticl On Asahi Gallium3D By Default
Building off the recent infrastructure merged for Mesa 24.3 as a build option to allow Rusticl driver support to be enabled by default, Red Hat's Karol Herbst has added the Asahi Gallium3D driver to the default list.
October 13th, 2024 — Source

Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Adds VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate Support
Adding to the growing set of features for NVK as this open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa, the VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate fragment shading rate extension is now supported.
October 13th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft's Azure Linux 2.0 Updated With Dozens Of Security Fixes
While Azure Linux 3.0 has been available since the late summer, for those continuing to rely on Azure Linux 2.0 in production there is a big update out this weekend. Azure Linux 2.0.20241006 brings dozens of security fixes to this Microsoft Linux distribution.
October 13th, 2024 — Source

Switching from Microsoft Windows 11 to Linux is like Columbus discovering America
Switching to Linux is like Christopher Columbus discovering America -- but in ways both good and bad. Just as Columbus set sail for uncharted waters in search of something new, users moving from Windows or macOS to Linux are venturing into unfamiliar territory, leaving behind a world they've known for something potentially better. However, much like the story of Columbus, this transition can come with its complexities -- and some parallels are worth exploring, including the relationship between Columbus and the Native Americans.
October 13th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — October 12th, 2024

AAA gaming comes to Apple M1 thanks to the latest Asahi Linux build — Control, Cyberpunk 2077, and The Witcher 3 are playable with respectable frame rates
Asahi requires four translation layers to get x86 Windows games to work on Apple Silicon.
October 12th, 2024 — Source

AMD Job Posting Confirms More Details Around Their AI GPU Compute Stack Plans
A Friday evening job posting has confirmed and reinforced details around their future AI GPU compute stack, presumably what's been referred to as the Unified AI Software Stack.
October 12th, 2024 — Source

AMD XDNA Linux Driver Updated As It Nears The Upstream Kernel
Back in January AMD published an open-source XDNA Linux kernel driver for supporting their Ryzen AI NPUs. But it wasn't until July that the formal review process for the AMD XDNA driver began as the necessary prerequisite for getting picked up into the mainline Linux kernel.
October 12th, 2024 — Source

BeOS-Inspired Haiku Enabling More Intel Hardware & Driving Kernel Optimizations
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS is out with their newest monthly development summary to highlight advancements made to this unique OS.
October 12th, 2024 — Source

Documents show OpenAI's long journey from nonprofit to $157B valued company
Back in 2016, a scientific research organization incorporated in Delaware and based in Mountain View, California, applied to be recognized as a tax-exempt charitable organization by the Internal Revenue Service.
October 12th, 2024 — Source

Intel Panther Lake H EDAC Support Posted For Linux
With Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake systems now shipping and the Linux support largely settled, Intel open-source software engineers have begun ramping up their support for Panther Lake due out in a year.
October 12th, 2024 — Source

KDE Developers Fixing Initial Bugs From Plasma 6.2
Following this week's release of KDE Plasma 6.2, the KDE developers are busy addressing some of the initial fallout from this desktop update as well as more feature work aimed at Plasma 6.3.
October 12th, 2024 — Source

Wayland Protocols 1.38 Brings System Bell, FIFO & Commit Timing Protocols
Wayland Protocols 1.38 is out with three new staging protocols.
October 12th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — October 11th, 2024

AMD Announces Commitment To "Open Security Technologies"
After the AMD Advancing AI Event yesterday where they launched AMD 5th Gen EPYC processors, Instinct product updates, and new high-end networking gear, they also put out a blog post to affirm their "commitment to open security technologies in the data center."
October 11th, 2024 — Source

AMD AOCC 5.0 Compiler Released With Zen 5 Support, New Optimizations
With 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" processors now launched, AMD provided a same-day release of their updated AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler "AOCC". This is AMD's downstream version of LLVM/Clang/Flang where they provide optimized AMD processor support with code that hasn't yet worked its way up into LLVM proper.
October 11th, 2024 — Source

AMD Hardware Feedback Interface "HFI" Driver Updated For Heterogeneous CPUs
Back in August I wrote about AMD beginning work on a new Linux driver to help with heterogeneous core CPUs. On Thursday a second iteration of the AMD HFI Linux driver patches were posted with this driver continuing to work its way toward the mainline kernel.
October 11th, 2024 — Source

Arm Exploring IO_uring For Graphics Drivers For Better Performance & Synchronization
The IO_uring asynchronous I/O API for Linux is quite novel and has proven performance benefits. With time IO_uring has been adapted to other areas of the kernel like networking and now with a proposal raised by an Arm graphics driver engineer, it could potentially be adapted for use by Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics drivers.
October 11th, 2024 — Source

AVX-512 Performance With 256-bit versus 512-bit Data Path For AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs
Now past the launch day for the AMD EPYC 9005 series server processors and having delivered initial AMD EPYC Zen 5 benchmarks for the EPYC 9575F / EPYC 9755 / EPYC 9965 SKUs, it's onto one of my favorite areas of testing and that is the more focused benchmarks looking at different specific changes/features of new processors.
October 11th, 2024 — Source

DRM_Log Continues To Be Worked On As New Boot Logger For Kernel Messages
DRM_Log is an effort that continues to be worked on by Jocelyn Falempe at Red Hat as a new boot logger for printing the kernel messages on the screen.
October 11th, 2024 — Source

Intel Xe2 Ultra Joiner, GPU Temperature Reporting & Another Arrow Lake ID For Linux 6.13
The drm-xe-next pull request earlier this week began preparing open-source driver support for Intel Xe3 graphics to premiere with Panther Lake processors. That code is beginning to queue for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle. Today a drm-intel-next pull request was sent out to prepare for more Intel Linux kernel graphics driver changes for Linux 6.13.
October 11th, 2024 — Source

KDE Frameworks 6.7 released
KDE has released Frameworks 6.7.0, a monthly release series that includes a wide range of regularly used functionality in mature, peer-reviewed, and well-tested libraries with user-friendly licensing terms. The update includes bug changes, such as removing 32px colorful folder action icons, redesigning system-suspend-inhibited and system-suspend-uninhibited, and adding a show-background icon.
October 11th, 2024 — Source

KDE Gear 24.08.2 released
KDE Gear 24.08.2 includes over 180 apps, dozens of libraries, and feature plugins with bugfix source releases and updated translations. These updates include disregarding trailing slashes, correcting tab/view restoration difficulties, and fixing crashes.
October 11th, 2024 — Source

Nouveau With NVK Vulkan Driver Running More Games, Increasing Feature Set
Collabora's Faith Ekstrand provided a status update yesterday at XDC 2024 Montreal around the state of the Nouveau kernel driver with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver as a means of open-source Vulkan API support on NVIDIA GPUs.
October 11th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.2.25RC1 and 8.3.13RC1 for Fedora/RHEL released
Remi Collet has released PHP 8.2.25RC1 and 8.3.13RC1 packages for Fedora and RHEL-based Linux distributions.
October 11th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole brings tighter security controls
Canonical released Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole, which brings notable advancements, including an updated kernel, new toolchains, and the GNOME 47 desktop environment, along with significant enhancements in software security.
October 11th, 2024 — Source

The Gnome Foundation Struggling to Stay Afloat
The foundation behind the Gnome desktop environment is having to go through some serious belt-tightening due to continued financial problems.
October 11th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — October 10th, 2024

AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver Posted For Linux
AMD today quietly posted a new open-source Linux kernel driver for review... the AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver. This AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver for Linux is intended to help optimize performance on systems sporting 3D V-Cache such as the AMD Ryzen "X3D" parts and the EPYC "X" processors.
October 10th, 2024 — Source

AMD Announces Pensando Salina 400 DPU & Pollara 400 Ultra Ethernet NIC
In addition to announcing the EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors and the latest on the AMD Instinct front, Lisa Su at the AMD Advancing AI event in San Francisco also announced the AMD Pensando Salina 400 DPU and AMD Pensando Pollara 400 Ultra Ethernet AI NIC.
October 10th, 2024 — Source

AMD EPYC 9755 / 9575F / 9965 Benchmarks Show Dominating Performance
Last month Intel introduced their Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" processors with up to 128 P cores, MRDIMM support, and other improvements as a big step-up in performance and power efficiency for their server processors. The Xeon 6900P series showed they could tango with the AMD EPYC 9004 Genoa/Bergamo processors in a number of areas, but Genoa has been around since November 2022...
October 10th, 2024 — Source

AMD EPYC 9965 "Turin Dense" Delivers Better Performance/Power Efficiency versus AmpereOne 192-Core ARM CPU
Complementing the AMD EPYC 9575F / 9755 / 9965 performance benchmarks article looking at those Turin processors up against prior AMD EPYC CPUs and the Intel Xeon competition, this article is looking squarely at the 192-core EPYC 9965 "Turin Dense" processor compared to Ampere Computing's AmpereOne A192-32X flagship processor. It's an x86_64 versus AArch64 battle at the leading 192 core count for performance and CPU power efficiency.
October 10th, 2024 — Source

AMD Launches EPYC 9005 "Turin" Server Processors
AMD is using their Advancing AI event today to announce 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" processors. With up to 192 cores / 384 threads per socket, 17% IPC uplift, AVX-512 with a full 512-bit data path, and the Zen 5 architectural improvements, these new EPYC 9005 processors deliver a significant generational improvement over the EPYC 9004 Genoa and Bergamo processors.
October 10th, 2024 — Source

Apple Silicon On Linux Now More Capable For Gaming With Latest Mesa + Steam On FEX
Alyssa Rosenzweig provided an update today at the XDC 2024 conference in Montreal on the open-source "Honeykrisp" Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon M1/M2 SoCs within Mesa and related work as part of the Asahi Linux project to provide for a nice Linux gaming experience atop the ARM-based Apple devices.
October 10th, 2024 — Source

Asahi Linux brings support for AAA gaming to Apple Silicon Macs running Linux
When Apple's laptop and desktop computers were shipping with Intel processors, it was relatively easy to port GNU/Linux distributions to run on Apple hardware. Things got trickier when the company switched to designing its own chips in-house. But the folks behind the Asahi Linux team have been busy reverse engineering Apple's M series processors for almost as long as they've been available.
October 10th, 2024 — Source

Intel Announces Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake CPUs
As part of a busy day in the CPU world, Intel has lifted the embargo on the Core Ultra 200S "Arrow Lake" desktop processors. This isn't the review embargo but just an overview on this new generation succeeding 14th Gen "Raptor Lake Refresh" on the desktop.
October 10th, 2024 — Source

Intel Begins Working On Next-Gen Xe3 Graphics With Linux 6.13
While Intel Xe2 graphics have just debuted with Lunar Lake and we are awaiting Battlemage discrete GPUs with Xe2, Intel's open-source Linux driver engineers have begun work enabling Xe3 graphics! Xe3 driver work is now underway for next-generation Intel graphics.
October 10th, 2024 — Source

JFrog Integrates Runtime Security for Enhanced DevSecOps Platform
JFrog has introduced JFrog Runtime to its suite of security capabilities, adding real-time vulnerability detection to its software supply chain platform. This update is aimed at developers and DevSecOps teams working with Kubernetes clusters and cloud-native applications.
October 10th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon transitions to Ubuntu 24.04 for newer software
KDE neon, an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution spun by the KDE project to include the latest KDE software has been rebased on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. While Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will be supported until 2027 by Canonical, it has older software and KDE thinks it's time to rebase KDE neon.
October 10th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.55 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.55 is now available:
October 10th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.56 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.56 is now available:
October 10th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.10.14 released
Linux kernel version 6.10.14 is now available:
October 10th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.11.3 released
Linux kernel version 6.11.3 is now available:
October 10th, 2024 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.11-3 released
Steven Barrett has released a new Liquorix kernel based on Linux kernel 6.11.3. The Liquorix Linux kernel is an enthusiast Linux kernel that is optimized for low latency computing in audiovisual production, reduced frame time variations in games, and unparalleled responsiveness in interactive systems. It is available for Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux.
October 10th, 2024 — Source

Manjaro 24.1.1 Xahea released
Since we released Wynsdey in May 2024 we worked hard to get the next release of Manjaro out there. We call it Xahea.
October 10th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI Chairman's Startup Aims to Raise Funds at $4B Valuation
Bret Taylor, the Chairman of OpenAI, is reportedly in discussions to obtain new funding for his company, Sierra, valued at over $4 billion.
October 10th, 2024 — Source

openSUSE Leap 16.0 pre-Alpha released
openSUSE Leap 16.0 pre-Alpha is now available for testing, with Base, GNOME, and KDE installations. The product is a traditional distribution and the successor to Leap 15.6, with general availability scheduled in Fall 2025. Users can acquire Agama installation images at get.opensuse.org/leap/16.0. Pre-Alpha targets early adopters and contributors who want to actively engage in the development process.
October 10th, 2024 — Source

Restartable Sequences "RSEQ" Seeing Up To 16.7x Speedup With Newest Linux Patch
For those making use of Restartable Sequences (RSEQ) on Linux systems, there is an enticing performance optimization on the way.
October 10th, 2024 — Source

The Linux Kernel to Support Real-Time Scheduling out-of-the-Box
Linux 6.12 will officially include support for real-time processing in its mainline thanks to a PR that enables PREEMPT_RT on all supported architectures. While aimed at applications requiring deterministic time guarantees, like avionics, robotics, automotive, and communications, it could bring improvements to user experience on the desktop, too.
October 10th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.10 Now Available With Linux 6.11, GCC 14 & Other Upgrades
The Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" ISOs are now officially available as the newest six-month update to Ubuntu Linux.
October 10th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.10 'Oracular Oriole' arrives with latest kernel and GNOME 47
Canonical has announced the release of Ubuntu 24.10 'Oracular Oriole.' It is now available to download from the Ubuntu website. This version comes with the latest Linux kernel, toolchains, and the new GNOME 47 desktop environment. There have also been "significant improvements to software security."
October 10th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu Linux 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) released
Ubuntu Linux 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" has been released. The version includes the latest Linux 6.11 kernel for enhanced speed and device support, as well as kdump-tools for automatic kernel crash dumps. Ubuntu Desktop includes GNOME 47 with improved performance, user experience, and touchscreen compatibility.
October 10th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — October 8th, 2024

Arm's Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Support Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 6.13
For more than one year Arm engineers have been working on Guarded Control Stack "GCS" support for the Linux kernel as a means of protecting against return-oriented programming (ROP) sttacks with modern AArch64 processors. It looks like for Linux 6.13 this Arm GCS support will be ready for upstreaming.
October 8th, 2024 — Source

Jenkins in the Age of Kubernetes: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Its Future in CI/CD
Learn why despite the rise of modern, cloud-native CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions and CircleCI, Jenkins remains a heavyweight in the CI and delivery space.
October 8th, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.2 released
The final version of KDE Plasma 6.2 has been released to make Plasma a more artist-friendly environment. It provides additional capabilities for digital artists, such as a tablet calibration wizard and test mode, screen area definition, and the ability to rebind pen keys to other mouse actions. Plasma also supports the Wayland color management protocol by default, which improves brightness handling for HDR and ICC profiles, as well as HDR performance.
October 8th, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.2 Released, Offering a More User-Friendly and Intelligent Experience
Plasma 6 has come into its own over the last two releases. The wrinkles that always come with a major migration have been ironed out, and it's time to start delivering on the promises of the new Qt 6 and Wayland technology platforms that Plasma is built on top of. One of the outstanding issues has been to make Plasma a more artist-friendly environment by providing full support for the hardware that creative people need to get their work done.
October 8th, 2024 — Source

Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice
Linux contributors told to sort out their grammar lest they be actively corrected
October 8th, 2024 — Source

New features in the open-source toolkit for earthquake forecast development and evaluation
An international team of 12 researchers across six institutions have recently made valuable enhancements to pyCSEP; a quintessential open-source software package used to develop and evaluate earthquake forecasting experiments.
October 8th, 2024 — Source

NTFS Driver Lands Some Late Feature Enhancements For Linux 6.12
While the Linux 6.12 merge window has been closed for more than one week, the modern NTFS "NTFS3" driver has seen some late feature enhancements as well as some fixes merged today for this new kernel version.
October 8th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.2.25 RC1 released
PHP-8.2.25RC1 has been released with several fixes and improvements. These include fixes for calendar, jdtounix overflow, easter_days/easter_date overflow, jddayofweek overflow, jewishtojd overflow, CLI, core, date, DOM, GD, LDAP, MBString, OpenSSL, PCRE, PHPDBG, Reflection, SAPI, SimpleXML, sockets, SOAP, streams, TSRM, and XML.
October 8th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.4.0 RC2 released
PHP-8.4.0RC2 has several bug fixes and improvements. BcMath has seen performance improvements, including bcpow() and ext/bcmath. XML serializer errors have been fixed, and MBString has been updated to Unicode 16.0. Opcache has fixed issues with dasm_x86.h and opcache_jit_blacklist().
October 8th, 2024 — Source

Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good
Stability? Predictability? Reliability? Where's the fun in that?
October 8th, 2024 — Source

Tails 6.8 released
Tails, a portable operating system that protects against snooping and censorship, has released a new version that includes capabilities like file system repair after unlocking persistent storage. Tor Browser has also been updated to version 13.5.6, with enhanced notifications for network interfaces that have been blocked owing to MAC address anonymization failure, an increased waiting period of 8 minutes, hidden password concealment, and improved handling of WhisperBack error messages.
October 8th, 2024 — Source

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Open-Sources Multimodal LLM LLaMA-Omni
Researchers at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) recently open-sourced LLaMA-Omni, an LLM that can operate on both speech and text data. LLaMA-Omni is based on Meta's Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct LLM and outperforms similar baseline models while requiring less training data and compute.
October 8th, 2024 — Source

VSCodium 1.94.0.24282 released
VSCodium 1.94.0.24282 has been released, which brings VScode to 1.94.0. Changes include the proper build of PR to produce assets and the removal of an extraneous hook for reh.
October 8th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — October 7th, 2024

antiX 23.2 launches with Debian 12 base and no systemd for lightweight Linux experience
Linux distribution antiX-23.2, dubbed "Arditi del Popolo," has been released. If you're already on antiX-23 or antiX-23.1 there is no need to reinstall. This update is all about cleaning things up and keeping things running smoothly, staying true to the antiX tradition of avoiding systemd and elogind altogether. It's perfect for folks who like to keep their systems lightweight and free from those dependencies.
October 7th, 2024 — Source

Deezer Optimizes Kubernetes Autoscaling with Custom Metrics
Popular music streaming service Deezer has written about how it uses custom metrics to enable auto-scaling in its Kubernetes infrastructure.
October 7th, 2024 — Source

Gentoo Linux To See Improved ARM64 Support Thanks To An Ampere Altra Max Server
Gentoo Linux will be working on better support for ARM64/AArch64 and 32-bit ARM now that they have received an Ampere Altra Max server to help expedite their ARM build times for binary packages and installation stage builds.
October 7th, 2024 — Source

Git 2.47 Released With Improvements & Encouraging More Positive Code Reviews
Git 2.47 is out today as the newest feature release to this immensely popular distributed revision control system.
October 7th, 2024 — Source

Git grumpy: Torvalds complains of passive voice in merge commit messages
Over the weekend, the second release candidate of Linux 6.12 was released with all the latest features and fixes added since the first release candidate a week prior. Accompanying the release of the software was the usual commentary on the Linux kernel mailing list by Linux founder Linus Torvalds.
October 7th, 2024 — Source

GTK and Libgsf updates for Debian ELTS
Several security upgrades have been rolled out to Debian GNU/Linux Extended LTS, including ELA-1200-1 libgsf, ELA-1201-1 gtk+3.0, and ELA-1202-1 gtk+2.0:
October 7th, 2024 — Source

Linux systems targeted with stealthy "Perfctl" cryptomining malware
Thousands of Linux systems are likely infected with the highly elusive and persistent "perfctl" (or "perfcc") cryptomining malware and many others still could be at risk of getting compromised, Aqua Security researchers revealed last week.
October 7th, 2024 — Source

Linus Torvalds Asks Kernel Developers To Write Better Git Merge Commit Messages
Linus Torvalds Asks Kernel Developers To Write Better Git Merge Commit Messages.
October 7th, 2024 — Source

Linux Thermal/Power Platform Profile Support Coming For Alienware Systems
Following work last month for extending the Dell WMI sysman Linux driver to handle Alienware systems for managing the system BIOS within the confines of Linux, another separate improvement is on the way for enhancing Alienware hardware support under Linux.
October 7th, 2024 — Source

Manjaro 24.1 makes for a beautiful, highly-functional, and easy-to-use Linux desktop
With the help of Plasma Desktop 6, the latest release of the Arch-based Manjaro Linux has come a long way to making it a desktop for everyone.
October 7th, 2024 — Source

Need to manage Linux passwords on the command line? No GUI, no problem!
If you ever had to change or manage a user password on Linux, I've got two essential commands you need to know - and how to use them.
October 7th, 2024 — Source

NVGRACE-GPU VFIO Driver Preparing For NVIDIA Grace Blackwell
The NVGRACE-GPU VFIO driver was introduced for handling Virtual Function I/O support with the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip so that the GPU device could be assigned to guests using KVM/QEMU and similar for virtualization. The NVGRACE-GPU driver is now being extended for supporting the forthcoming NVIDIA Grace Blackwell "GB" designs.
October 7th, 2024 — Source

OpenShift, Systemd, Firefox, and more updates for RHEL
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has received numerous security updates, such as the Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh Containers, systemd, Firefox, Thunderbird, Git, and the Red Hat build of Cryostat:
October 7th, 2024 — Source

openSUSE Leap 16.0 Pre-Alpha Available, GA Next October
While not expected to reach general availability (GA) state until October of 2025, available today in pre-alpha form is the openSUSE Leap 16.0 distribution.
October 7th, 2024 — Source

Proactive Approaches to Securing Linux Systems and Engineering Applications
In today's digital landscape, the security and stability of Linux systems and engineering applications are more critical than ever. As an Engineering Tools Manager, I frequently encounter application and system-related vulnerabilities that pose significant risks to our infrastructure. Protecting these systems from common attacks requires a comprehensive approach, encompassing best practices that address various aspects of system security.
October 7th, 2024 — Source

Python 3.13 Debuts With New Interactive Interpreter & Experimental JIT
Following a last minute delay due to a performance regression, Python 3.13 stable is out today as the annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language implementation.
October 7th, 2024 — Source

RPM 4.20 Released With Declarative Build System Support, Public Plugin API
RPM 4.20 is out today as the newest feature release to this package manager system that's been in development the past year and featuring a variety of improvements for the likes of RHEL and Fedora based distributions.
October 7th, 2024 — Source

Valkey 8.0 Now Generally Available with Improved Memory Efficiency
The Linux Foundation has announced the general availability of Valkey 8.0, the open source in-memory storage solution developed as a successor to Redis. By introducing a dictionary per slot and embedding keys directly into dictionary entries, developers can achieve up to 20% more capacity, allowing for the storage of additional keys per node.
October 7th, 2024 — Source

VSCodium 1.94.0.24281 released
VSCodium 1.94.0.24281 updates VScode to 1.94.0, fixes arm64 and aarch64 bugs, and updates patches and the build process.
October 7th, 2024 — Source

Xfce 4.20 creeps toward Wayland support while Mint 22.1 polishes desktop routine
A couple of FOSS goodies that should be ready for the festive season
October 7th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — October 6th, 2024

Apple Vulkan Driver "HoneyKrisp" Lands Many Fixes & Features
HoneyKrisp as the open-source Mesa Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon graphics and developed as part of the Asahi Linux project has landed a number of enhancements into the mainline Mesa code.
October 6th, 2024 — Source

Cage 0.2 Released For Wayland-Powered Kiosks With Single, Maximized Apps
Prominent Wayland developer Simon Ser has released Cage v0.2, a Wayland kiosk compositor that runs single, maximized applications.
October 6th, 2024 — Source

OpenRazer 3.9 Adds Support For Many Newer Razer Devices On Linux
OpenRazer 3.9 is out today as the newest version of this community project providing open-source driver support for Razer peripherals on Linux. This out-of-tree set of Linux kernel drivers allows for various Razer devices to be configured and fully leveraged under Linux.
October 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux Security Roundup for Week 41, 2024
Here is a roundup of last week's Linux security updates for AlmaLinux, Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora Linux, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux, Slackware Linux, SUSE Linux, and Ubuntu Linux.
October 6th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.3 Adds New Build Option To Allow Rusticl Driver Support To Be Enabled By Default
Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst continues enhancing Mesa's Rusticl driver that allows for a Rust-based OpenCL driver implementation for use by Gallium3D drivers. The newest addition is a build-time option for controlling devices to be enabled by default.
October 6th, 2024 — Source

More Intel Diamond Rapids Enablement Landing For Linux 6.12
In addition to Intel's Linux engineers being busy preparing hardware enablement support for next-gen Panther Lake client processors, they are also busy beginning to plumb Linux driver support for next-generation Xeon "Diamond Rapids" support as the successor to Xeon 6 Granite Rapids. With Linux 6.12 some new bits are now set to land for Diamond Rapids.
October 6th, 2024 — Source

Wasmer 4.4 Released To Continue Pushing Universal Apps With WebAssembly
Wasmer 4.4 is out as the newest version to this prominent WebAssembly (WASM) runtime that supports WASIX / WASI / EmScripten to "run software anywhere" by effectively serving as lightweight containers and being able to scale from the edge to the cloud.
October 6th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — October 5th, 2024

5 best Linux distros to replace Windows 11 and take control of your PC
If you're anything like me, dear BetaNews readers, you are tired of Windows 11's constant updates and telemetry concerns. If you have the urge to escape the grasp of Microsoft, switching to Linux might be exactly what you need. Linux has matured over the years into a versatile and user-friendly alternative to Windows.
October 5th, 2024 — Source

Fedora 41 Has Working Intel IPU6 Web Camera Support With Modern Laptops
It's been a long journey to see good web camera support for Intel Alder Lake and newer designs making use of the IPU6 imaging IP. But with Fedora 41 due for release in the coming weeks, there will finally be good out-of-the-box, open-source support for the IPU6-based web cameras in modern Intel Core laptops across Tigerlake / Alder Lake / Raptor Lake laptops.
October 5th, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.2 Preparing For Release Next Week
KDE developers have been putting the finishing touches on the Plasma 6.2 desktop as it prepares to release next week. Plasma 6.2 will be out on Tuesday barring any last minute issues.
October 5th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.12 Patches Neoverse-N3 & Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 For Speculative SSBS
We are not done yet seeing new Arm cores still impacted by the Speculative Store Bypass handling errata. Merged to Linux 6.12 on Friday was adding the speculative SSBS workaround for the Cortex-A715, Neoverse-N3, and Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 cores.
October 5th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI closes the largest VC round of all timeWelcome back to Week in Review. This week, we're diving into OpenAI's $6.6 billion fundraising round, the fifth Cybertruck recall in less than a year, and a neat project that's Shazam-ing songs heard on a San Francisco street.

October 5th, 2024 — Source

OpenZFS 2.3-rc1 Delivers RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup & Direct IO
OpenZFS 2.3-rc1 is now available for testing as the next major feature release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems.
October 5th, 2024 — Source

SDL 3.1.3 Stable ABI Preview Release
Sam Lantinga released SDL 3.1.3 on Friday as their "stable ABI preview" version ahead of the SDL 3.2.0 stable release. The developer at Valve notes that SDL3 has already been "battle tested by millions of people in DOTA, CS2 and Steam" and they are now gearing up for the SDL 3.2 stable release to get SDL3 out to the masses.
October 5th, 2024 — Source

The Long-Awaited GIMP 3.0 Closing In On Its First Release CandidateThe long-in-development GIMP 3.0 open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop hopes to ship its release candidate in the near future.

October 5th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 29th, 2024

CachyOS Optimizing More Packages With PGO For Up To ~10% Better Performance
The Arch Linux based CachyOS operating system that is known for pursuing aggressive performance while still delivering a nice Linux desktop experience is out with its September 2024 release.
September 29th, 2024 — Source

Elastic founder on returning to open source four years after going proprietary
"It's still magical to say 'open source' — it encapsulates a lot in two words"
September 29th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240929 released
KDE neon 20240929 has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
September 29th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.12 Features Are Super Exciting With Real-Time, Sched_ext, Intel Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5
The Linux 6.12 merge window is wrapping up today with the release of Linux 6.12-rc1 in the coming hours. This is going to be a heck of an exciting kernel. There's real-time PREEMPT_RT finally in mainline, the much anticipated sched_ext code also was merged, QR codes for DRM panic messages, initial out-of-the-box support for Intel Xe2 graphics with Lunar Lake and Battlemage, initial Raspberry Pi 5 support, and a ton of other hardware support additions and new innovative kernel software features.
September 29th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.12 Hardware Monitoring Supports More OneXPlayer Gaming Handhelds
The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates for Linux 6.12 added some new drivers as well as adding new device support to some of the existing drivers.
September 29th, 2024 — Source

The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve — SteamOS and Arch should both benefit greatly
SteamOS is built on top of Arch, and Valve is now providing a build service infrastructure and secure signing enclave for Arch.
September 29th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 28th, 2024

Apple Exits Talks to Participate in OpenAI's $6.5 Billion Funding Round
Apple has reportedly withdrawn from discussions to join OpenAI's upcoming funding round, which aims to raise $6.5 billion.
September 28th, 2024 — Source

Blumenkrantz Proposes Workflow Improvements For Wayland Protocols
It's been a busy week for Valve Linux graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz. Besides hacking on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation, this week his latest target was working to help accelerate the pace of Wayland protocol development.
September 28th, 2024 — Source

FreeBSD To See Better Laptop Support With Investment Backed By AMD, Dell & Framework
While FreeBSD is popular on servers, the hope moving forward is seeing better FreeBSD support on laptops to help with corporate adoption and the like. Besides Quantum Leap Research and the FreeBSD Foundation, Dell, AMD, and Framework Computer are other stakeholders. The total project investment may hit $1 million USD.
September 28th, 2024 — Source

FUSE In Linux 6.12 Adds Idmapped Mounts & Writeback Optimization
File-systems in user-space continue to become more robust with the latest FUSE updates merged for Linux 6.12.
September 28th, 2024 — Source

KDE Sees Many Crash Fixes & Other Improvements Ahead Of Plasma 6.2
KDE developers remain very busy landing bug and crash fixes ahead of the upcoming Plasma 6.2 desktop release.
September 28th, 2024 — Source

More CXL Additions Arrive For Linux 6.12
Ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window wrapping up this weekend with the Linux 6.12-rc1 release, merged on Friday were all of the Compute Express Link (CXL) updates for the new kernel.
September 28th, 2024 — Source

Nginx, Apache, Yt-Dlp, and more updates for Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Linux has received a number of security updates, including nginx, Apache HTTPD, yt-dlp, Docker, HashiCorp Consul, tmux, and Iced Tea:
September 28th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI's Sam Altman dismissed as "podcasting bro" by TSMC over $7 trillion proposal
Altman has been on an AI world tour over the past year
September 28th, 2024 — Source

Valve Helping Arch Linux With Build Service Infrastructure & Secure Signing Enclave
Valve's SteamOS is built atop Arch Linux and now the company is further helping the upstream Linux distribution by collaborating with resources to help with build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave.
September 28th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 25th, 2024

Cloudflare Goes With AMD EPYC Genoa-X For Their Next-Gen Servers
Cloudflare's always-interesting technical blog laid out their details today concerning their next-gen "12th Generation" in-house servers that will be powering their vast web infrastructure. With these next-gen Cloudflare servers they are going with AMD EPYC 9684X Genoa-X processors.
September 25th, 2024 — Source

ChipStar 1.2 Released For Compiling & Running HIP/CUDA On SPIR-V/OpenCL Hardware
ChipStar 1.2 has been released as the open-source software enabling HIP/CUDA programs to be compiled and run atop SPIR-V whether it be OpenCL or Vulkan drivers.
September 25th, 2024 — Source

Fwupd 1.9.25 Supports Firmware Updates For A Few More Devices Under Linux
Red Hat engineer Richard Hughes this morning released Fwupd 1.9.25 as the newest feature release to this open-source solution paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for making firmware updates on Linux a breeze for an increasing number of systems and peripherals. With Fwupd 1.9.25, the supported device list has grown a little bit longer.
September 25th, 2024 — Source

Hacker Successfully Runs Linux on a CPU from the Early '70s
From the office of "Look what I can do," Dmitry Grinberg was able to get Linux running on a processor that was created in 1971.
September 25th, 2024 — Source

IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 189 is available for testing
IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 189 is now available for testing. It includes a security fix, a new graph for the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), and numerous package changes.
September 25th, 2024 — Source

Krita 5.2.5 released
Krita 5.2.5 has been released, with over 50 bug fixes since 5.2.3, including significant enhancements to audio playback, transform mask computation, and other features. The updates include properly adjusting audio playback when the animation framerate changes, resolving conflicts between mouse and touch operations, and ensuring file layers are updated when image size or resolution changes.
September 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.12 NFS Adds LOCALIO Protocol For "Extreme" Performance Boost
The Network File System (NFS) changes have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.12 development cycle. Notable this time with NFS is adding LOCALIO protocol extension support that can lead to fairly "extreme" performance improvements in scenarios where the NFS client and server are on the same host.
September 25th, 2024 — Source

Mold Linker Decides To Drop DEC Alpha Support: Likely Broken & No Actual Users
The high performance open-source Mold linker has released version 2.34 with various improvements while also deciding to throw in the towel on DEC Alpha processor support.
September 25th, 2024 — Source

Rust In Linux 6.12 Prepares For Rust Binder, Supports Sanitizers & CPU Mitigations
Miguel Ojeda has submitted all of the Rust toolchain and infrastructure changes for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel.
September 25th, 2024 — Source

Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development
Valve open-source graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz is well known in the Linux community for his work on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver code, various Mesa driver optimizations, and creative writing on his blog. He's also taken up a new task: further accelerating Wayland protocol development.
September 25th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 23rd, 2024

AMD HIP RT 2.4 Brings H-PLOC & New Graphics Architecture Support
AMD's GPUOpen team has released HIP RT 2.4 as the newest version of this open-source ray-tracing library built atop their HIP interface.
September 23rd, 2024 — Source

Fedora 41 beta is blazing fast and a great reason to try a new Linux distro
Fast, stable, secure, and easy enough for anyone to use, the latest Fedora iteration adds Gimp 3.0 and a host of crowd-pleasing enhancements.
September 23rd, 2024 — Source

FFmpeg Merges Implicit DRM Synchronization For Vulkan
Following Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 video encoder support being merged into the FFmpeg library, the latest improvement for this open-source multimedia API when leveraging Vulkan is implicit DRM synchronization.
September 23rd, 2024 — Source

Intel Diamond Rapids Switches To "Family 19" In Ending Intel Family 6 CPU Era
Months ago Intel Linux engineers began adapting the Linux kernel to end the assumptions made around "Family 6" for Intel CPUs that had been used since the 90's with the Pentium Pro as the CPU family ID. With Linux 6.12 they finished the Intel CPU family/model ID restructuring and now we have the first patch confirming a post-Family 6 Intel CPU: Diamond Rapids is Family 19.
September 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.12 Adding HDMI CEC Driver For A 4K HDMI Splitter/Amplifier
The media subsystem updates were submitted today for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window. Notable this cycle is a new HDMI CEC driver for a 4K HDMI splitter/amplifier for those looking for a device that can be controlled from within Linux using the HDMI Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) specification.
September 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004
Historic 4-bit microprocessor from 1971 can execute Linux commands over days or weeks.
September 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux Preparing Support For The RISC-V Framework Laptop 13
Back in June it was teased that Framework Computer in collaboration with DeepComputing would be releasing a RISC-V motherboard for the Framework Laptop 13. That RISC-V laptop motherboard has yet to be officially released but Linux kernel patches were posted today for enabling the DeviceTree support so Linux can boot on this upcoming board.
September 23rd, 2024 — Source

Servo Browser Engine Restores Firefox Devtools Support
The Servo open-source browser layout engine has supported making use of the Firefox Devtools code for the provided web developer tools such as the HTML web page inspector and browser console. But that support had fallen into disrepair. Fortunately, thanks to a useful Outreachy project, the code has been updated and now working nicely with the newer Devtools code.
September 23rd, 2024 — Source

Open Source: A Pathway To Personal and Professional Growth
Learn more about how open source boosts your career by enhancing skills, expanding networks, and offering unique opportunities.
September 23rd, 2024 — Source

OSI and LPI Form Strategic Alliance
With a goal of strengthening Linux and open source communities, this new alliance aims to nurture the growth of more highly skilled professionals.
September 23rd, 2024 — Source

pgAdmin 4 8.12 released
The pgAdmin Development Team has released pgAdmin 4, version 8.12, which includes 13 bug fixes and new features. Notable improvements include restoring preferences to their default values, creating a new configuration variable for special email domains, and allowing non-continuous selected SQL code chunks in the query tool.
September 23rd, 2024 — Source

Python, Go-Toolset, GoLang, Edk2 updates for RHEL
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has received numerous security updates, including python3.9, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, python-setuptools, and edk2, which improve security and stability:
September 23rd, 2024 — Source

Red Hat Enterprise Linux has received numerous security updates, including python3.9, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, python-setuptools, and edk2, which improve security and stability:
Running Linux on a Windows system opens up a world of possibilities for users who want to explore the power and flexibility of the Linux operating system. Whether you're a developer, a system administrator, or simply curious about Linux, there are several methods to run Linux on your Windows machine.
September 23rd, 2024 — Source

SK hynix Applies CXL Optimization Solution to Linux
SK hynix Inc. announced today that the key features of its Heterogeneous Memory Software Development Kit (HMSDK) are now available on Linux, the world's largest open source operating system. HMSDK is SK hynix's proprietary software for optimizing the operation of Compute Express Link (CXL), which is gaining attention as a next-generation AI memory technology along with High Bandwidth Memory (HBM).
September 23rd, 2024 — Source

Valve could be planning to bring Windows gaming to Linux systems with ARM chips
Valve's Proton software makes it possible to play many Windows PC games on computers running Linux-based operating system, including Valve's own Steam Deck handheld gaming PC.
September 23rd, 2024 — Source

vDSO getrandom() Ported To Five More CPU Architectures With Linux 6.12
Linux 6.11 introduced the getrandom() in the vDSO support for faster yet secure user-space random number generation needs. Initially that was focused on Linux x86_64 while for Linux 6.12 is ported to five more architectures.
September 23rd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 22nd, 2024

Bcachefs Hopes To Remove "EXPERIMENTAL" Flag In The Next Year
Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted all of the Bcachefs file-system feature patches for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window. In his pull request he also lays out his ambitions to remove the "EXPERIMENTAL" flag from Bcachefs within the next year.
September 22nd, 2024 — Source

Native PCIe Enclosure Management Submitted For Linux 6.12
The PCI changes for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel add support for Native PCIe Enclosure Management "NPEM" as a code contribution by Intel for implementing the PCIe spec to standardize storage LEDs.
September 22nd, 2024 — Source

Linus Torvalds accepts Microsoft's Hyper-V upgrade so next gen Linux boots faster
While Windows fans and Linux fans love to engage in some fiery keyboard wars often, the makers of the OS themselves understand the strengths and weaknesses of each other. There is no doubt that Microsoft too gets it and in fact, it even encourages users to try Linux, albeit using its Windows Subsystem of Linux (WSL).
September 22nd, 2024 — Source

Linus Torvalds explains why aging Linux developers are a good thing
Linux maintainers might be getting grayer, but that's not necessarily bad
September 22nd, 2024 — Source

Updated DeviceTree Gets Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023 Booting Linux
Microsoft's Windows Dev Kit 2023 also known as "Project Volterra" was an early effor to improve the Windows on ARM support by developers via having a nice small form factor ARM PC to run Windows 11. With pending DeviceTree patches there would be mainline support for the Windows Dev Kit 2023 under Linux.
September 22nd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 21st, 2024

Firewire Maintainer Is Looking For Help Testing IEEE-1394 Devices On Linux 6.12
While not as exciting as some of the shiny new features for Linux 6.12 like real-time going mainline and Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics by default, the Firewire (IEEE-1394) subsystem has seen some significant alterations this cycle. With Firewire hardware increasingly rare, the maintainer is hoping to get this Linux 6.12 code better tested by the community.
September 21st, 2024 — Source

KDE Optimizes How It Finds Mount Points - Up To 80% Speed-Up
KDE developers have been busy preparing for Plasma 6.2 with lots of bug fixing and polishing while also beginning to land some features for Plasma 6.3.
September 21st, 2024 — Source

Oracle's UEK-Next Moves To Linux 6.10, Patches In sched_ext
Oracle has shifted their Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel to a Linux 6.10 base with UEK-next.
September 21st, 2024 — Source

SDL Now Prefers Vulkan Over Direct3D 12 On Windows
The SDL abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games now prefers using Vulkan on Windows as its ideal graphics API. Direct3D 12 has been demoted lower in priority compared to Vulkan for this Simple DirectMedia Layer.
September 21st, 2024 — Source

Updated XZ Code Lands In Linux 6.12
The kernel patches collected by Andrew Morton were upstreamed today for the Linux 6.12 kernel. Among those changes are pulling in the updated XZ Embedded code.
September 21st, 2024 — Source

VFS+XFS Changes Land In Linux 6.12 To Support Block Sizes Larger Than Page Size
Linux 6.12 yesterday merged the real-time "PREEMPT_RT" patches that had been in development for two decades. Today another big hitting feature was merged for Linux 6.12 that's been in development nearly as long.
September 21st, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 19th, 2024

AMD AGESA PI 1.2.0.2 Performance With The Ryzen 9 9950X On Linux
There has been a lot of talk the past few days over the AMD AGESA PI 1.2.0.2 update that has begun rolling out to AMD AM5 motherboards with BIOS updates. The AGESA 1.2.0.2 is said to improve inter-core latency for Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" processors when cores from different CCDs are cross-communicating.
September 19th, 2024 — Source

Apache NetBeans 23 released
Apache NetBeans IDE 23 has been launched, with various enhancements to enhance the user experience. These include updates to Gradle, Maven, the stack trace parser, Maven version settings, and other features.
September 19th, 2024 — Source

Audacity 3.6.4 released
Audacity 3.6.4 is a patch version that fixes two issues: a crash while closing Audacity and projects not being compact when closed.
September 19th, 2024 — Source

Expat, Kernel, Thunderbird, Firefox updates for Oracle Linux
Oracle Linux has received a number of security upgrades, including the mild expat security update, kernel security update, Thunderbird security update, Firefox security update, and Thunderbird security update:
September 19th, 2024 — Source

FFMPEG, Python, ClamAV, Ucode-Intel, Wireshark updates for SUSE
OpenSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise have received security updates for ffmpeg-4, python312, clamav, clamav, ucode-intel, and wireshark:
September 19th, 2024 — Source

GNOME 47 "Denver" arrives with customizable accent colors and enhanced UI
The GNOME project has just released the latest version of its GNOME desktop, GNOME 47 "Denver". This is a pretty big update with the introduction of accent colors, various system enhancements, new open and save file dialogs, and improved Files, Settings, Web, and Calendar apps.
September 19th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240919 released
KDE neon 20240919 has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
September 19th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.12 Lands QR Code For DRM Panic Messages, Intel LNL & BMG Graphics Enabled
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver updates have been submitted and already merged for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel.
September 19th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.12 Perf Updates Bring Intel Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake Additions
The core perf subsystem updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel.
September 19th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.12 Scheduler Code Adds SCHED_DEADLINE Servers & Complete EEVDF
The scheduler updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.12 kernel and come with several notable enhancements.
September 19th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Optimizes Hyper-V Code To Boot Linux Faster When Having Many CPUsThe Microsoft Hyper-V updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.12 kernel. They are mostly small changes but does bring work to optimize the boot time for large Hyper-V VMs.

September 19th, 2024 — Source

OpenVINO 2024.4 Prepares For Core Ultra Series 2, New Gen AI ModelsIntel engineers today released OpenVINO 2024.4 as the newest version of their open-source AI toolkit. OpenVINO 2024.4 prepares for upcoming Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" processors, supports newer Gen AI models, now supports Python 3.12, and finally adds official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

September 19th, 2024 — Source

Ruqola 2.3.0 released
Ruqola 2.3.0 is a feature and bug fix update for the Rocket.chat app, including new features such as Rocket.Chat Marketplace, room history cleaning, new version checking, moderation, welcome page, pending user information, and markdown support via cmark-rc.
September 19th, 2024 — Source

Thunderbird, OpenShift, Pcp, Firefox, Edk2 updates for RHEL
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has received a number of updates, including a Thunderbird security update, bug fixes, and security improvements for OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.13 and 4.14.37, as well as a PCP security update:
September 19th, 2024 — Source

Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust versus C for Linux debate
This is like vi vs Emacs with 'religious overtones,' project chief laughs
September 19th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu Core Desktop Seeing KDE Plasma Snap'ed Up, Other Ubuntu 24.10 Progress
Oliver Smith as the Interim Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical is out with a new status update on Ubuntu 24.10 development and related ambitions. This also includes more details about bringing the KDE Plasma desktop to Ubuntu Core Desktop in Snap form.
September 19th, 2024 — Source

Upgrade your system to Fedora Silverblue 41 Beta using these simple commands
Earlier this year, I wrote an editorial recommending that people try out Fedora Silverblue 40 instead of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS due to the paradigm shift in operating system architecture in Silverblue. One of the big benefits of atomic updates, which Silverblue uses, is the ease of upgrading the system.
September 19th, 2024 — Source

XFS With Linux 6.12 Adds New Ioctls To Exchange Contents Of Two Files
The XFS file-system changes have been merged for the Linux 6.12 kernel and introduce new ioctls for being able to exchange the contents of two files.
September 19th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 16th, 2024

A Re-Implementation Of The EROFS File-System In Rust Has Started
The EROFS read-only open-source file-system has seen initial patches posted today for beginning to re-implement the C code within the Rust programming language for better safety guarantees and the possibility of more performance optimizations.
September 16th, 2024 — Source

AMD's Linux graphics driver is getting too big for older machines
Graphical boot menus are timing out before AMDGPU can load.
September 16th, 2024 — Source

AmpereOne Performance With GCC versus LLVM Clang Compilers
While having the Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD server in the lab for AmpereOne benchmarking with the flagship AmpereOne A192-32X processor, I took the opportunity to run some fresh GCC versus LLVM Clang compiler performance benchmarks on AArch64. Here are those results for that healthy competition between these open-source C/C++ compilers on AmpereOne cores.
September 16th, 2024 — Source

AWS brings OpenSearch under the Linux Foundation umbrella
AWS today announced that it is transitioning OpenSearch, its open source fork of the popular Elasticsearch search and analytics engine, to the Linux Foundation with the launch of the very aptly named OpenSearch Foundation.
September 16th, 2024 — Source

GNU Linux-libre 6.11 Makes Adaptations For Rust, Warns Of Hidden Binary Bits In v6.11
Building off yesterday's Linux 6.11 release, the GNU Linux-libre 6.11-gnu kernel is now available that is the downstream stripping out driver support/features depending upon closed-source microcode/firmware and other modifications in the name of software freedom and ensuring no closed-source bits are used on Linux-libre-enabled systems.
September 16th, 2024 — Source

Initial Raspberry Pi 5 Support & More Snapdragon X1 Laptops Submitted For Linux 6.12
All of the ARM SoC and platform updates have been sent out for the Linux 6.12 merge window. Exciting this cycle is finally having initial support for the Raspberry Pi 5 plus supporting several more Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops.
September 16th, 2024 — Source

Idea Raised For Reducing The Size Of The AMDGPU Driver With Its Massive Header Files
Following the weekend news of the AMDGPU kernel driver becoming too large that it's causing the Plymouth boot splash screen on slower Linux systems to time-out, longtime AMD Linux graphics driver engineer Marek Olšák expressed a new idea for helping to reduce some bloat from this AMD kernel graphics driver.
September 16th, 2024 — Source

Kubernetes Autoscaler Karpenter Reaches 1.0 Milestone
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released version 1.0 of Karpenter, an open-source Kubernetes cluster auto-scaling tool. This release marks Karpenter's graduation from beta status and introduces stable APIs and several new features.
September 16th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.12 EDAC Prepares For Address Translation On Future AMD Platforms
The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) driver updates were among the early pull requests submitted for the Linux 6.12 kernel cycle in advance of this week's Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit in Austria. Among the EDAC work this cycle is preparing memory address translation support for future AMD platforms.
September 16th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.11 is out - with its own BSOD
The latest Linux kernel release spotlights many improvements for Arch Linux users and AMD hardware. Here's what you can expect.
September 16th, 2024 — Source

MX Linux 23.4 is the ultimate Microsoft Windows 11 replacement you need right now
MX Linux, one of the most popular Linux distributions, has released MX-23.4, marking the fourth refresh of its MX-23 release. This update brings various bug fixes, kernel updates, and application enhancements. As an ideal Linux distribution for users seeking an alternative to Windows 11, MX-23.4 continues to refine its performance while remaining user-friendly.
September 16th, 2024 — Source

PowerToys may soon let you change Windows settings on schedule
PowerToys might soon get a new powerful utility for automating Windows settings. Since the project is open-source, every developer is welcome to suggest new modules and improvements, and Joseph Finney (@thejoefin) has one.
September 16th, 2024 — Source

Replay Protected Memory Block "RPMB" Subsystem Submitted For Linux 6.12
The MMC updates for the Linux 6.12 kernel include the introduction of a new kernel subsystem for Replay Protected Memory Block (RPMB) drivers.
September 16th, 2024 — Source

TamaGo Allows Executing Go Language Code Bare Metal On ARM/RISC-V SoCs
Presented earlier this month at the Open-Source Firmware Conference was TamaGo as a means of running Go programming language code bare metal on Arm SoCs as well as eyeing RISC-V too. TamaGo can allow for "0% C and 100% Go code" for ARM/RISC-V device firmware to enhance security.
September 16th, 2024 — Source

The File Struct Is Smaller In Linux 6.12 - May Help File Heavy Workloads
The file structure is one of the most widely-used data structures by Linux kernel drivers. The file struct represents an open file and thus obviously very important and ubiquitous throughout the kernel. With the Linux 6.12 kernel the file struct has been adjusted so it's smaller than before and in turn could help with performance for file-heavy workloads.
September 16th, 2024 — Source

The Linux file system structure explained
If you're new to Linux, knowing how the file system is laid out will alleviate some confusion.
September 16th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 15th, 2024

AMD GPU Linux Driver Becoming "Really Really Big" That It's Starting To Cause Problems
The modern AMD kernel graphics driver "AMDGPU" is the biggest driver within the mainline Linux kernel and is approaching six million lines of code albeit a large chunk of that is made up of auto-generated header files for each supported GPU.
September 15th, 2024 — Source

Legacy Intel Sound Driver Support Being Removed In Linux 6.12, Other Big Changes
Yet another early pull request for the imminent Linux 6.12 merge window is the sound (audio) driver updates for this next kernel cycle. There is a lot of sound driver work this cycle from new audio bits to removing legacy Intel driver support.
September 15th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11 Features Many Exciting Updates For AMD Hardware & More
It's expected to be the Linux 6.11 release day! We are just hours away from hopefully seeing Linux 6.11 stable christened as the kernel set to power the likes of Ubuntu 24.10 and Fedora 41. Here's a reminder of some of the most interesting new features and changes to look forward to with Linux 6.11.
September 15th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11 Kernel Released With Some Snapdragon X1 Laptop Support & Other New Hardware
As expected the Linux 6.11 kernel has been promoted to stable and in time for appearing in the likes of Ubuntu 24.10, Fedora 41, and other autumn Linux distribution releases.
September 15th, 2024 — Source

Many ACPI Updates Head To The Linux 6.12 Kernel
Ahead of the expected Linux 6.11 stable release today and the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit happening this coming week in Vienna, Intel engineer Rafael Wysocki submitted early the ACPI updates among the other areas of the kernel he oversees as part of the imminent Linux 6.12 merge window.
September 15th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 14th, 2024

Casilda Is A New Project As A GTK4 Wayland Compositor Widget
Casilda is a new open-source project by GNOME developer Juan Pablo Ugarte to serve as a Wayland compositor widget. Casilda allows for embedding other processes windows within a GTK4 application.
September 14th, 2024 — Source

EROFS Adding Support For File-Backed Mounts To Benefit Containers & Sandboxes
The EROFS read-only file-system changes have been submitted now for ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.12 merge window. Notable this cycle is EROFS adding support for file-backed mounts.
September 14th, 2024 — Source

GNOME Mutter Merges XDG Session Management Wayland Protocol
As a very last minute change ahead of tagging GNOME Mutter 47, merged this morning to Mutter is support for the XDG session management Wayland protocol. This protocol is useful for letting clients request support from the compositor for saving the window state for use on future executions. However, it's currently disabled by default and won't be entirely baked until GNOME 48.
September 14th, 2024 — Source

KDE Releases Plasma 6.2 Beta, Early Feature Work Begins For Plasma 6.3
KDE developers were busy this week in Germany for their annual Akademy developer conference but they still managed to release a Plasma 6.2 Beta as well as some early feature work toward Plasma 6.3.
September 14th, 2024 — Source

Niri 0.1.9 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings New IPC Functionality
Niri 0.1.9 is out today as the latest update to this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that is written in Rust.
September 14th, 2024 — Source

Printk Changes Submitted For Linux 6.12 Finish NBCON Console Preparations
Ahead of the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window opening on Monday, the printk updates were submitted in advance given the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit also taking place next week in Vienna. Notable with the printk updates is finishing up the NBCON console work that is notable as the last major blocker before real-time (PREEMPT_RT) support can be finally mainlined.
September 14th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 13th, 2024

6 KDE widgets to level up your Plasma desktop - and how to add them
If you're looking for a user-friendly desktop environment, the Plasma desktop is hard to beat. With the help of a few widgets, you can make the desktop even more efficient and effective.
September 13th, 2024 — Source

AMD Engineer Proposes "Attack Vector Controls" To Rethink CPU Security Mitigation Handling
David Kaplan who is a Senior Fellow at AMD focused on security technologies has published an initial set of Linux kernel patches for "Attack Vector Controls" in rethinking the CPU security mitigation handling. The proposed Attack Vector Controls makes it easier to manage desired security mitigations to have enabled/disabled based upon intent of the system rather than having to be knowledgeable about individual CPU security vulnerabilities and the various tuning knobs.
September 13th, 2024 — Source

AMD Posts Linux Patches For New Secure AVIC Guest Feature
AMD engineers today posted the first "request for comments" patches in enabling support for Secure AVIC guest handling as a new hardware feature with upcoming processors.
September 13th, 2024 — Source

Chrome Adds Support For FreeDesktop Secret Service & Better Wayland Window Dragging
The Google Chrome/Chromium web browser merged two notable features yesterday for Linux users.
September 13th, 2024 — Source

GNOME Foundation Accepting Applications For New Executive Director
Following the GNOME Foundation Executive Director leaving after less than one year, the GNOME Foundation has formally begun their search for a new executive director.
September 13th, 2024 — Source

Haiku R1 Beta 5 Released With Dark Mode Theme & Support For USB Audio
he BeOS-inspired Haiku OS is out today with its fifth beta release as it works toward the long-awaited Haiku R1 stable release.
September 13th, 2024 — Source

Intel Graphics Compiler Can Now Be Built For RISC-V
The Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used on Windows as a shader compiler back-end and both for Windows/Linux as part of their OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero compute stack can now be compiled for RISC-V 64-bit.
September 13th, 2024 — Source

LoongArch KVM To Speed-Up ARM/x86 Binary Translation
The LoongArch changes for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) have been submitted ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window opening. For enhancing KVM virtualization on these Chinese CPUs is enabling Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) for accelerating ARM/x86 binary translation.
September 13th, 2024 — Source

Meta hides warning labels for AI-edited images
You'll have to go deep into a post's information menu to see if it has been edited using AI tools.
September 13th, 2024 — Source

PHP version 8.2.24RC1 and 8.3.12RC1
RPMs of PHP version 8.3.12RC1 are available
September 13th, 2024 — Source

Ruffle Continues Letting Adobe Flash Player Support Live On In Open-Source
Most of you have fortunately not had to think about Adobe Flash support in years, but for those still having some old assets in Adobe Flash/SWF format or wanting to relive some old games/entertainment based in Flash, the open-source Ruffle project remains one of the leading contenders for dealing with Flash in 2024 and beyond.
September 13th, 2024 — Source

Samba Secures A Big Investment From Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund is set to make a €688,800 investment into the Samba open-source project that re-implements the SMB networking protocol and focused on better file and print service interoperability with Microsoft Windows systems.
September 13th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.10 ARM64 Installer Supports The Snapdragon-Powered Lenovo ThinkPad X13s
While not quite as exciting as the latest ARM64 laptops sporting the new Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 series SoCs, the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s laptop using the older Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 is now available to boot and install using the generic ARM64 images of the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10.
September 13th, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.6.51 released
A new XanMod Linux kernel based on Linux kernel 6.6.51 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions, and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
September 13th, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.10.10 released
A new XanMod Linux kernel based on Linux kernel 6.10.10 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions, and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
September 13th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 10th, 2024

AlmaLinux Announces Certification SIG, Hardware Certification Program
AlmaLinux to further distinguish itself from other RHEL-based Linux distributions has announced a Certification Special Interest Group (SIG) and out of that is coming a AlmaLinux Hardware Certification Program.
September 10th, 2024 — Source

Another Arrow Lake Graphics Device ID Being Added To Intel's Linux Driver
The Intel Arrow Lake Linux graphics driver support appears largely wrapped up following a patch for properly handling the necessary GSC firmware requirements and building off all the existing Meteor Lake Arc Graphics driver code paths. There are a number of Arrow Lake PCI device IDs already present for the graphics while a new one is being added now to the kernel drivers.
September 10th, 2024 — Source

Canonical Shipping Updated Intel TDX Software For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Last year Canonical delivered an Intel TDX "tech preview" for Ubuntu 23.10 to experiment with using Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) found on the latest Xeon server processors. With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS they began shipping a formal TDX software stack and now have rolled out an update to that software stack as a stable release update.
September 10th, 2024 — Source

Canonical Working To Package GraalVM For Ubuntu Linux
While OpenJDK Java is available via the Ubuntu package archive and the go-to JVM on Ubuntu Linux, Canonical is working to package up Oracle's GraalVM as another option for enhancing the Java stack on Ubuntu.
September 10th, 2024 — Source

GNU C Library Tuning For AArch64 Helps Memset Performance By ~24%
A patch merged yesterday to the GNU C Library (glibc) codebase can help the memset() function's performance by 24% as measured on an Arm Neoverse-N1 core.
September 10th, 2024 — Source

Intel Preps Native PCIe Enclosure Management "NPEM" For Standardized Storage LEDs
Intel engineers have been working on enabling NPEM for Linux: Native PCIe Enclosure Management as a means of standardized storage LED indicators.
September 10th, 2024 — Source

Intel QATlib 24.09 Improves Performance For Multi-Threaded Apps & Multi-Socket Servers
Intel today released a new version of QATlib, the QuickAssist Technology library for enjoying hardware-accelerated offloading of security, authentication, and compression needs. Recent Intel Xeon CPUs with built-in QAT accelerators stand to benefit a lot from the new QATlib 24.09 release.
September 10th, 2024 — Source

Java, Qt5-Base, Emacs, Net-SNMP, Nginx updates for Oracle Linux
Oracle Linux has received some new updates, including qt5-qtbase, java-11-openjdk, emacs, net-snmp, and nginx bug fixes and enhancements:
September 10th, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.1.5 released
KDE Plasma 6.1.5 has been released with a bugfix update for September, addressing several minor issues. The update brings some much-needed bug fixes for Screenedge, apps/kickoff, and Clipper. Now, you can enjoy smoother navigation and an overall improved desktop experience.
September 10th, 2024 — Source

Kernel, Wireshark, PostgreSQL, and more updates for SUSE
There are some new security updates for openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise, including Linux Kernel, buildah, wireshark, postgresql16, apache2, bubblewrap, and flatpak:
September 10th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.4.0 Beta 5 released
PHP 8.4.0 beta 5 has been released with a bunch of changes. It includes fixes for BCMath, core, DOM, GD, hash, OpenSSL, PDO, PDO_Firebird, Reflection, SOAP, Standard, and Streams.
September 10th, 2024 — Source

Qubes OS 4.2.3-rc1 released
Qubes OS 4.2.3-rc1 is here and ready for some serious testing. This update brings together all the security patches, bug fixes, and other updates that have been made since the last stable release.
September 10th, 2024 — Source

RADV Merges Vulkan Pipeline Binary Support
Thanks to the work of Valve Linux graphics driver developer Samuel Pitoiset, the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver is now the first within Mesa supporting the new Vulkan pipeline binary extension.
September 10th, 2024 — Source

Tails 6.7 released
Tails 6.7 has just been released, bringing with it updates to Tor Browser, Thunderbird, OnionShare, and a few bug fixes. Now, you can keep the firewall on even during shutdown and say goodbye to those pesky error reports when using an old USB stick with a system partition of 2.5 GB.
September 10th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 9th, 2024

5 best Linux distributions for gamers in 2024
The idea that Linux isn't a practical choice for gamers is slowly becoming outdated. Here are the best Linux distros every gamer should consider using.
September 9th, 2024 — Source

AWS Graviton4 versus AmpereOne 192-Core Benchmarks For Leading AArch64 Server Performance
With the Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD server that's in the lab for a few weeks for reviewing the AmpereOne A192-32X and delivering the first independent benchmarks of the AmpereOne 192-core AArch64 server processor, the AmpereOne benchmarks to date have been comparing to other Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC server platforms.
September 9th, 2024 — Source

Hyprland 0.43 Wayland Compositor Releases, Raises Build Requirements To C++26
Hyprland 0.43 is out as the newest version of this independent, very customizable Wayland compositor focused on providing a dynamic tiling experience.
September 9th, 2024 — Source

Intel Panther Lake HDMI Audio Support Coming With Linux 6.12
While Intel Lunar Lake is only beginning to ship later this month, Intel Linux engineers have already begun work on enabling its successor: Panther Lake. With the upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel cycle will be more early enablement work on Intel Panther Lake, presumably what will be the Core Ultra 300 series.
September 9th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.11-rc7 released
So I'm back in my regular timezone, and rc7 is done the usual Sunday afternoon time.
September 9th, 2024 — Source

Mir-based Miracle-WM Adds Optional Systemd Integration
Miracle-WM 0.3.5 was released this weekend as the newest step forward for this Mir-based window manager / Wayland compositor developed by a Canonical engineer. Miracle-WM continues being polished ahead of the upcoming Fedora Miracle Spin debuting as part of Fedora 41.
September 9th, 2024 — Source

OpenJPH v0.16 Now Using AVX2 For Faster HTJ2K/JPEG2000
OpenJPH v0.16 has been released as the newest version of this open-source implementation of High-Throughput JPEG2000 (HTJK), also known as JPH / JPEG2000 Part 15. With this new release comes faster performance thanks to making use of Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2) to complement its existing AVX-512 code.
September 9th, 2024 — Source

Pgpool-II 4.5.4, 4.4.9, 4.3.12, 4.2.19 and 4.1.22 released.
Pgpool-II is a tool to add useful features to PostgreSQL, including:
September 9th, 2024 — Source

Redox OS 0.9 Brings COSMIC Apps, Better Performance & Improved Linux App Compatibility
Redox OS 0.9 has been released today as a big update to this from-scratch Rust-written open-source operating system.
September 9th, 2024 — Source

Rhino Linux's latest release makes it the Swiss Army knife of Linux distributions
Rhino Linux is a distribution for all - from those new to Linux to container developers. Here's why.
September 9th, 2024 — Source

Test Days for Tuned Power Daemon in Fedora 41
Fedora QE is calling all Fedora testers to try out the new Tuned Power Daemon in Fedora 41. This daemon is set to become the default power profile daemon. So, get ready to put it through its paces. Feedback is crucial in identifying any pesky bugs and fine-tuning the feature, guaranteeing a seamless transition for all Fedora users.
September 9th, 2024 — Source

Upgrading Linux with Rust looks like a new challenge. It's one of our oldest
From the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever built. Not even a kernel
September 9th, 2024 — Source

VSCodium 1.93.0.24253 released
A new version of VSCodium has been released. VSCodium is VS Code without MS branding and telemetry. The new version is based on the most recent version of VSCode, which is 1.93.0.
September 9th, 2024 — Source

Zed AI open source AI code editor built for developers
Ever found yourself wishing your code editor could do more than just highlight syntax errors? What if it could actually help you write, refactor, and analyze your code in real-time?
September 9th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 7th, 2024

AMD Anti-Lag 2 SDK Now Available at GPUOpen For Direct Game Integration
AMD promises improved latency reduction with the Anti-Lag 2 SDK, which is now available to game developers through GPUOpen.
September 7th, 2024 — Source

Cairo 1.18.2 Collects A Year's Worth Of Fixes
Cairo 1.18.2 released this week nearly one year after Cairo 1.18's debut for this cross-platform 2D vector graphics library -- in turn that was the project's first stable release in five years. Cairo is important for the GTK toolkit, Mozilla's Gecko engine, and dozens of other software projects. With Cairo 1.18.2 there are many fixes that have accumulated over the past year for bettering this graphics library.
September 7th, 2024 — Source

Celebrate 20 years of Ubuntu with new, nostalgic wallpapers in 24.10
Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu distribution of Linux, has unveiled the final wallpapers that will be included in the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" release in October. As a non-LTS version, not as many people will use Ubuntu 24.10, but if you want the wallpapers, they can be downloaded.
September 7th, 2024 — Source

GTK 4.16 Released With Vulkan GSK Renderer By Default On Wayland
Ahead of GNOME 47's imminent release, Matthias Clasen has released GTK 4.16 as the newest exciting update to this toolkit powering GNOME software. Notable with GTK 4.16 is the GSK renderer defaulting to its Vulkan back-end when running on Wayland.
September 7th, 2024 — Source

Raspberry Pi Showcases Rust On The RP2350 Microcontroller
While C tends to be the go-to launguage for microcontrollers, Raspberry Pi is promoting the prospects of using Rust on their RP2350 microcontroller.
September 7th, 2024 — Source

Slimbook KDE Plasma VI Laptop Announced - Powered By AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
The Slimbook crew shared on Twitter/X that they are showing off the new Slimbook 6 (Slimbook VI) laptop this weekend during the KDE Akademy conference taking place in the wonderful Würzburg, Germany. This new Slimbook laptop features an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS SoC and of course uses the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment out-of-the-box.
September 7th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 6th, 2024

Alpine 3.17.10, 3.18.9, 3.19.4, 3.20.3 released
The Alpine Linux project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of new stable releases:
September 6th, 2024 — Source

AMD Zen 5 Not Affected By Inception/SRSO, mitigations=off Yields No Benefit On Ryzen 9000 Series
One of the security changes with AMD Zen 5 processors that I haven't seen AMD publicly mention at least not prominently is that the new cores are not vulnerable to Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO).
September 6th, 2024 — Source

Augeas, Systemd, Bubblewrap, and more updates for Oracle Linux
The following updates have been released for Oracle Linux:
September 6th, 2024 — Source

FEX 2409 Highlights Some Of The Challenges Of Emulating x86 On RISC-V
FEX 2409 has been released for this open-source project that's known for allowing x86_64 Linux binaries -- including both games and applications -- to run rather well on AArch64. It's also been working on enabling x86_64 programs on RISC-V but there due to architectural differences it's more of a challenge than with ARM.
September 6th, 2024 — Source

How to use Excel Variance Charts to monitor progress and track performance
If you are struggling to keep track of performance metrics and identify areas needing improvement? You will be pleased to know that you are not alone. Many people find it challenging to sift through raw data and make sense of it.
September 6th, 2024 — Source

It's Taken Until 2024 To Add FreeBSD To X.Org Continuous Integration Testing
It's taken until now to add FreeBSD to the X.Org Continuous Integration (CI) automated testing so that all proposed changes to the X.Org Server can now be build-tested on FreeBSD rather than just Linux.
September 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11-rc7 To Fix A "Massive Performance Regression" For AMD Graphics
Sent out today were the DRM fixes for 6.11-rc7 ahead of the Linux 6.11-rc7 kernel being released on Sunday. As usual most of the changes revolve around the AMDGPU and Intel i915/Xe drivers plus random fixes to the smaller drivers. There is one change though with the AMD Radeon graphics driver side worth highlighting to address a performance regression affecting recent kernels.
September 6th, 2024 — Source

Oracle Rewrites Libresource For Standardized API Of Linux System Resource Information
Back in 2018 Oracle introduced Libresource as a standardized API for accessing system resource information around memory / network / device statistics and other metrics. Libresource v2 was announced this week as largely a rewrite of the project.
September 6th, 2024 — Source

PostgreSQL, Python, Firefox, and more updates for SUSE
The following security updates have been released for openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise:
September 6th, 2024 — Source

Pre-Ordered The ASUS Zenbook S 14 For Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" Linux Testing
With this week's announcement of the Intel Core Ultra 200V Series "Lunar Lake" processors, I've been very eager to try out the Meteor Lake successor for Linux testing. As sadly is usually the case, for delivering Linux support details and performance benchmarks around launch-time I'm typically left buying a laptop retail for Linux testing.
September 6th, 2024 — Source

Updated Patches Allow Compiling The Linux Kernel From Within macOS
Back in 2022 were a set of patches that allowed compiling the ARM64 Linux kernel from Apple macOS hosts. The intent was for developers just wanting to do some build/smoke testing from under an Apple Silicon device running macOS to see at least any kernel changes are successfully compiling on macOS with its LLVM/Clang-based toolchain.
September 6th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 3rd, 2024

7 things I never do after I install Linux (and why you shouldn't either)
Linux is a powerful and user-friendly operating system that allows you to do far more than you can with Windows. There are, however, some things you should never do.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

AMD Zen 5 Tuning "Part Two" Merged For GCC Compiler
Merged today for the GCC 15 compiler in development and potentially for back-porting to the next GCC 14 point release is a second round of AMD Zen 5 "znver5" tuning.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

ChatGPT 5: Expected Release Date, Features & Prices
Cryptic teasers for OpenAI's upcoming model continue to fuel anticipation on the digital grapevine, with speculation about the features, advancements, and release of GPT-5 going into overdrive. Consider the stage officially set for a massive AI upgrade in late 2024.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

Coreboot 24.08 Released With 31 New Motherboards, Initial Intel Panther Lake Support
Coreboot 24.08 debuted on Monday night as the newest feature release for this open-source system firmware project that allows replacing the proprietary BIOS/firmware on many different platforms. With Coreboot 24.08 comes more than 900 patches from 130+ developers in continuing to support new motherboards and making other improvements.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

Debian Developers Figuring Out Plan For Removing More Unmaintained Packages
While there are more than 74k packages available within Debian's package management system for x86_64 systems, not all of the packages are well maintained and a portion of them haven't seen any maintenance/updates in ages. Debian developers have recently begun discussing how to begin removing more of those long unmaintained packages from the archive.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

F2FS Inline Tail Allows For Saving Space On Small Files & Reducing I/O
Patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list today allow for inline tail support within the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS). This inline tail support allows for saving space when storing many small files and with reduced I/O can lead to faster data copy times.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

GNU screen 5 proves it's still got game even after 37 years
First major version in two decades is worth getting to know
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

Google Increases AVIF Image Format Support With Google Search Support
While two years ago Google notably axed support for JPEG-XL within the Chrome web browser, they remain bullish on WebP and AVIF for imaging needs. This past week they finally announced Google Search is now supporting AVIF images.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

How to run a Windows app on Linux with Wine
Wine has you covered if you want to make Linux your go-to operating system and still need to run Windows apps.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

How to use ChatGPT Structured Output
OpenAI's structured output feature is transforming the way AI applications are developed and deployed. By ensuring precise and consistent data structures, this advancement is particularly beneficial for complex tasks such as data extraction, reasoning, and agent workflows.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

How to use ChatGPT to create Excel practice datasets
Generating practice datasets for Excel can be a time-consuming task, often requiring manual data entry or scouring the internet for suitable public domain datasets. However, with the advent of powerful AI tools like ChatGPT, this process can be significantly streamlined, allowing you to focus on honing your Excel skills rather than data preparation.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

How to Write a Cover Letter Using ChatGPT
You could apply for more jobs, more thoughtfully thanks to artificial intelligence.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

Intel Battlemage OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Support Enabled By Default For Linux
Now that Linux 6.12 will enable Intel Battlemage and Lunar Lake graphics by default for the out-of-the-box kernel graphics driver support, the user-space Intel Mesa drivers with Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV Vulkan are moving ahead to enable their support out-of-the-box too.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

Intel Launches Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" While Linux Support Settling
Intel formally announced their Core Ultra 200V series "Lunar Lake" laptop processors today in Berlin.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

Klp-build Proposed As A New Means Of Generating Linux Kernel Livepatch Modules
Posted today as a "request for comments" by longtime Linux developer Josh Poimboeuf of Red Hat is klp-build. The klp-build proposal is a new means of building livepatch modules for live-patching the Linux kernel to address bugs and security issues with the running kernel image.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

OpenAI Is Reportedly Working On Bringing 8 New Voices For ChatGPT, Aiming To Minimize The Gap Between A Human And A Chatbot
OpenAI seems to be aggressively evolving its AI technology by constantly enhancing ChatGPT with new features and capabilities. It has not been long since the company announced Advanced Voice Mode, which comes with four preset voices: Juniper, Ember, Cove, and Breeze. It is aimed at providing users with a more human-like experience with the tool better equipped to interpret emotions and varied situations.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

OpenShift, Skopeo, Kernel, and more updates for RHEL
The following security updates have been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

Power Profiles Daemon 0.22 Released With Several AMD Improvements
Power Profiles Daemon as the UPower project to make Linux laptop/system power profile handling via D-Bus is out with a new release. This is the Linux/open-source solution for exposing of power profiles to the Linux desktop and better managing the system state between power-saver / balanced / performance modes and other options.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

Python, Skopeo, NodeJS, and more updates for AlmaLinux
The following security updates have been released for AlmaLinux:
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

Rust for Linux team suffers blow as its leader steps down over "nontechnical nonsense"
Wedson Almeida Filho, a Microsoft employee, last week, announced his resignation as maintainer of the Rust for Linux project following disagreements with some in the Linux kernel developer community, including Ted Ts'o, maintainer of the widely used ext4 filesystem.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

Samba 4.21 Released With LDAP TLS/SASL Channel Binding, Other Improvements
Samba 4.21 is out as the newest version of this SMB networking protocol implementation commonly used on Linux systems for file and print services interaction with Windows systems.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

Unbound, Xen, Curl, and more updates for SUSE
The following security updates have been released for SUSE Linux:
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

Vision-based ChatGPT shows deficits interpreting radiologic images
Researchers evaluating the performance of ChatGPT-4 Vision found that the model performed well on text-based radiology exam questions but struggled to answer image-related questions accurately. The study's results were published in Radiology.
September 3rd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 2nd, 2024

AMD GCN3 / Fiji Support Being Retired From The GCC Compiler
The AMD GCN3 (GFX8) support and in particular the Fiji GPU support is being retired from the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). The Fiji GPU support in the GCC compiler was already deprecated in part due to the LLVM compiler having already removed Fiji support months ago and the AMD ROCm compute driver having broken GCN3 / Fiji support for years.
September 2nd, 2024 — Source

Armbian 24.8 Moves To Linux 6.10, Supports Newer ARM & RISC-V Boards
Armbian 24.8 has been released as the newest version of this Debian-based Linux distribution that began with a focus on ARM boards but has also expanded to include RISC-V as well as traditional x86_64 Intel/AMD systems too.
September 2nd, 2024 — Source

Figma Moves from ECS to Kubernetes to Benefit from the CNCF Ecosystem and Reduce Costs
Figma migrated its compute platform from AWS ECS to Kubernetes (EKS) in less than 12 months with minimal customer impact. The company decided to adopt Kubernetes to run its containerized workloads primarily to take advantage of the large ecosystem supported by the CNCF.
September 2nd, 2024 — Source

GNOME Mutter 47.rc Ships Experimental Color Management Protocol
Ahead of this week's GNOME 47 release candidate announcement the "47.rc" versions of the GNOME Shell and Mutter were tagged on Sunday.
September 2nd, 2024 — Source

How to switch to Linux OS -- Beginner's Guide
Ever felt like your computer is holding you back or your privacy is being abused? Have you ever wondered if there's an alternative to the constant updates and sluggish performance of Microsoft Windows? Many Windows users are now turning to Linux for its flexibility, control, and ability to breathe new life into old hardware.
September 2nd, 2024 — Source

Intel Compute Runtime 24.31.30508.7 Brings Initial Xe2 Platform Support
Intel Compute Runtime 24.31.30508.7 was released this morning as the newest version of this OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero compute stack used on both Windows and Linux platforms. Notable with the Intel Compute Runtime 24.31.30508.7 is having initial Xe2 support.
September 2nd, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240902 released
KDE neon 20240902 has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
September 2nd, 2024 — Source

Kdenlive 24.08 Video Editor Offers UI Improvements, Better Performance
Kdenlive 24.08 Video Editor Offers UI Improvements, Better Performance
September 2nd, 2024 — Source

Kernel, Python39, PostgreSQL, GuestFS-Tools, Sos updates for Oracle Linux
The following security updates have been released for Oracle Linux:
September 2nd, 2024 — Source

New Rust PHY Network Driver To Be Merged In Linux 6.12
One year ago the first Rust-written network PHY driver was merged for the Linux 6.8 kernel. Since then we've continued seeing steady progress on more Rust-written Linux network code. With the upcoming Linux 6.12 merge window another Rust PHY driver is set to be introduced.
September 2nd, 2024 — Source

Samba 4.21.0 released
Samba 4.21.0 marks the debut of the stable release for the Samba 4.21 release series. It introduces new features like the mandatory handling of "valid users", "invalid users", "read list", and "write list". This change ensures that users or groups cannot be skipped without notification, which helps to maintain secure communication with domain controllers.
September 2nd, 2024 — Source

Say goodbye to Microsoft Windows 11 and hello to Nitrux Linux 3.6.1
Nitrux, the Debian-based distribution known for its focus on simplicity and performance, has just released version 3.6.1, codenamed "lp." This release packs a series of updates and fixes that are aimed at improving the overall experience for both new and existing users.
September 2nd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 1st, 2024

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Exciting August
August was a very busy month with the first AMD Ryzen 9000 series "Zen 5" desktop processors going on sale, finally having AmpereOne 192-core Arm processors in the lab, Linux kernel development continuing to advance at a brisk pace, and a variety of other interesting software and hardware milestones. On Phoronix for the month were 213 original news articles authored by me as well as another 20 Linux hardware reviews / featured-length articles.
September 1st, 2024 — Source

Arch Linux 2024.09.01 released
A new Arch Linux installation image based on Linux Kernel 6.10.7 has been released. Arch Linux is a lightweight distribution designed for expert users who want the most up-to-date packages. The installation image, which includes the most important Linux tools, also serves as a recovery or emergency image.
September 1st, 2024 — Source

FreeBSD 13.4-RC2 Brings Improvements For AMD Phoenix SoCs
FreeBSD 13.4 is due out in just over one week's time while this weekend brought FreeBSD 13.4-RC2 as the last planned test candidate.
September 1st, 2024 — Source

Intel oneVPL Preps For Battlemage, Adds AI-Based Super Resolution
Intel has released a new version of their open-source Video Processing Library (VPL) for hardware-accelerated video encode / decode / processing across Intel graphics hardware.
September 1st, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240831 released
KDE neon 20240831 has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
September 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11-rc6 Released With More Bcachefs Fixes & Other Kernel Fixes
Like with last week's Linux 6.11-rc5 release, Linux 6.11-rc6 is out a half-day early due to Linus Torvalds' ongoing foreign travels. Linux 6.11-rc6 brings many more fixes to this kernel that will debut as stable in mid-September,
September 1st, 2024 — Source or Source

Panthor DRM Driver For Arm Mali Graphics Working On User Submission Handling
Arm engineer Mihail Atanassov proposed a set of "request for comments" patches this week for adding user submission support to the Panthor DRM driver that is used for handling newer Arm Mali graphics under Linux. This would allow user-space more easily to submit work directly to the GPU hardware without kernel intervention for better performance and management capabilities.
September 1st, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 31st, 2024

AMD Preferred Core Fix Lands Ahead Of Linux 6.11-rc6
This week's batch of power management fixes for the Linux 6.11 kernel are just a set of three patches for AMD processors.
August 31st, 2024 — Source

Debian GNU/Linux 11.11 released
The Debian project has released the eleventh and final update of their oldstable distribution, Debian 11, which includes security fixes and changes to major issues.
August 31st, 2024 — Source

IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 188 is available for testing
We have another HUGE IPFire release available for you. It comes with a large number of important changes for every user out there: a record number of package updates, a refreshed kernel, performance improvements for the Quality of Service, better handling for DHCP leases, an improved build system as well as a new version of OpenSSL and fixes for Intel's latest CPU vulnerabilities.
August 31st, 2024 — Source

KDE Desktop Will Remind You Yearly For Donations, Other Changes For Plasma 6.2
Plasma 6.2 this week entered its soft feature freeze ahead of the Plasma 6.2 stable release in October. The focus now is on bug-fixing for Plasma 6.2 and at the moment they are at 301 bug reports, which is their lowest amount going back to 2015. The KDE developers hope over the next month to drop that to less than 200 bug reports.
August 31st, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Launches Open-Source Phi-3.5 Models for Advanced AI Development
Microsoft launched three new open-source AI models in its Phi-3.5 series: Phi-3.5-mini-instruct, Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct, and Phi-3.5-vision-instruct. Available under a permissive MIT license, these models offer developers tools for various tasks, including reasoning, multilingual processing, and image and video analysis.
August 31st, 2024 — Source

New AVX2 Code Helps FFmpeg With VVC Decoding Performance
A new AVX2 code path for FFmpeg's VVC decoding "vvcdec" is helping provide significant speed-ups for CPU-based H.266 decoding.
August 31st, 2024 — Source

Servo Browser Now Supports Tabbed Browsing, WAV Audio Files
The Rust-based, open-source Servo web engine had a very eventful month as the developers involved continue advancing this browser engine as well as their example/reference web browser.
August 31st, 2024 — Source

Updated Debian 12: 12.7 released
The Debian project is pleased to announce the seventh update of its stable distribution Debian 12 (codename bookworm). This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories have already been published separately and are referenced where available.
August 31st, 2024 — Source

Wayland Protocols 1.37 Introduces Three New Protocols
Jonas Ådahl released Wayland-Protocols 1.37 as the newest update to this defined set of Wayland protocols. With the new release there are three new protocols added plus various other maintenance items addressed within the Wayland-Protocols repository.
August 31st, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 27th, 2024

15 open-source apps that make any Windows PC better — for free
From keeping your calendar, to managing your files, to editing your HDR images, monitoring your PC hardware, and more -- these free open-source tools for PC are truly useful!
August 27th, 2024 — Source

AMD Developing New Heterogeneous CPU Core Driver For Linux Systems
AMD for months has already been working on heterogeneous core topology optimizations for Linux within the AMD P-State CPUFreq driver and other heterogeneous CPU topology improvements for dealing with Ryzen systems sporting a mix of "classic" (full) cores with the denser "C" cores.
August 27th, 2024 — Source

AMD Graphics Driver Prepares For Per-Queue Resets & Process Isolation In Linux 6.12
A big set of patches have been submitted for DRM-Next of "new stuff" to the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and the AMDKFD compute driver with the upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel cycle.
August 27th, 2024 — Source

Bind, LibreOffice, KRB5, Linux-Firmware, ORC updates for RHEL
The following updates have been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
August 27th, 2024 — Source

ELSA-2024-5814 Moderate: Oracle Linux 8 nodejs:20 security update
Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2024-5814
August 27th, 2024 — Source

KDE's Calligra 4.0 Office/Graphics Suite Released With Improved UI & Qt6 Port
As the successor to KOffice, Calligra is KDE's office and graphics suite. Today marks the release of Calligra Office 4.0 with updates to the Words word processor, Sheets spreadsheet, Stage presentation, and Karbon vector graphics programs.
August 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux OS Now Has A Market Share of 4.44%, Highest Ever In Years
The worldwide market share of the Linux operating system has reached nearly 4.5%, suggesting an increase in user interest over other OS.
August 27th, 2024 — Source

MariaDB, Xen, Firefox, and more updates for SUSE
The following updates have been released for openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise:
August 27th, 2024 — Source

Meta Open-Sources DCPerf, a Benchmark Suite for Hyperscale Cloud Workloads
Meta has recently released DCPerf, aiming to provide a representation of the diverse workloads found in data center cloud deployments. This collection of benchmarks is expected to be a useful resource for researchers, hardware developers, and internet companies, helping the design and evaluation of future products.
August 27th, 2024 — Source

Mir-Powered Miracle-WM Continues Tacking On New Features Ahead Of Fedora Miracle
Miracle-WM as the Mir-powered Wayland compositor inspired by i3 and Sway is out with another new release. It's rather ironic that while Miracle-WM is principally developed by a Canonical engineer associated with Ubuntu Linux, these recent Miracle-WM releases are being driven in part by preparing for a Fedora Miracle spin due out as part of the Fedora Linux 41 release in October.
August 27th, 2024 — Source

Oracle Updates TrenchBoot For The Linux Kernel To Advance Boot Security & Integrity
Oracle engineers continue working on the TrenchBoot initiative to advance boot security and integrity for Linux. The tenth iteration of the TrenchBoot patches were posted this week as it works its way toward the mainline kernel.
August 27th, 2024 — Source

RADV Enables Vulkan Video By Default For RDNA3 / VCN4 GPUs
With Mesa's RADV driver supporting Vulkan Video for accelerated video encode/decode using this cross-platform, industry standard API it hasn't been exposed by default for RDNA3 graphics processors bearing VCN4 IP. That has now changed for Mesa 24.3 when using the latest VCN4 firmware.
August 27th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.2.23 released
Sergey Panteleev has announced the release of PHP 8.2.23.
August 27th, 2024 — Source

Python3.11 security update for Debian 12
A Python security update has been released for Debian GNU/Linux 12 (Bookworm):
August 27th, 2024 — Source

Samba 4.21.0rc4 released
The fourth release candidate for Samba 4.21.0 has been released for testing. Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix.
August 27th, 2024 — Source

Top 9 Programming Tools for Kids
The Raspberry Pi created a lot of interest in the press for its low cost and credit-card size. The main reason for the creation of the Raspberry Pi was to see it used by kids all across the globe to learn programming.
August 27th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 26th, 2024

3 Linux commands I use for downloading files and how they're different
Need help accessing your files without a web browser? Linux has a few solutions you can access right from the command line.
August 26th, 2024 — Source

6 Linux security commands every new user should know
Linux is the most secure OS on the market for a reason. These are the security-centric commands you should have in your back pocket.
August 26th, 2024 — Source

AMD Kria Development Boards To Enjoy Wayland Support With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Ubuntu maker Canonical partnered with AMD for supporting Ubuntu Linux on the AMD-Xilinx Kria development boards for their UltraScale+ / Versal Adaptive SoC evaluation kit. Currently the official builds are based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS but it appears an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS build is being worked on and will come complete with Wayland support.
August 26th, 2024 — Source

AmpereOne A192-32X Benchmarks: 192 Core ARM Server Performance & Power Efficiency
Last week an AmpereOne server finally arrived at Phoronix! Ampere Computing sent over a reviewer server of the AmpereOne A192-32X flagship AArch64 server processor with 192 custom cores and using a Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD platform. I have been carrying out a number of benchmarks for this much-anticipated AArch64 cloud native processor and have initial performance and power efficiency metrics to share today to see how it compares to prior Ampere Altra Max as well as the Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC server competition.
August 26th, 2024 — Source

Deepin 23 brings AI to the Linux desktop - and it's complicated
The latest release of Deepin Linux retains its usual beauty and adds a layer of AI to the desktop. Unfortunately, it's not exactly a cakewalk.
August 26th, 2024 — Source

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 dev 1
This is the first dev snapshot for 4.4! During the beta and release candidate stages of 4.3, we accumulated a lot of PRs that were of great quality, but deemed too risky to include in 4.3. We have begun merging those PRs now and have quickly gathered a lot of changes that warrant a dev release!
August 26th, 2024 — Source

ELBA-2024-12594 Oracle Linux 9 selinux-policy bug fix update
Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2024-12594
August 26th, 2024 — Source

Gannett is shuttering site accused of publishing AI product reviews
Staff at the consumer product reviews site Reviewed previously accused Gannett of publishing articles written using AI tools.
August 26th, 2024 — Source

Intel Updates QAT Zstd Plugin For Accelerating Zstandard Compression
Released on Sunday night was a new version of the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) Zstd plug-in for accelerating Zstandard compression with QAT-enabled adapters and modern Xeon Scalable processors sporting QAT accelerators.
August 26th, 2024 — Source

Linux market share approaching 4.5% for first time, could hit 5% by 1Q25
Linux is an increasingly popular alternative to Windows and macOS.
August 26th, 2024 — Source

Linux OS market share climbs towards 5% — thanks, Steam Deck!
It's still no "Year of the Linux Desktop," but the open-source OS keeps climbing as it's boosted by the Steam Deck's popularity.
August 26th, 2024 — Source

Meta and Spotify CEOs want the EU to embrace open-source AI
It doesn't matter the technology or industry, there's always going to be a battle between open-source and closed-source technology. This remains true for the AI industry, Right now, there are open-source AI models and there are closed-source models.
August 26th, 2024 — Source

More Intel AVX10.2 Enablement Lands In The GCC 15 Compiler
Earlier this month Intel compiler engineers began adding AVX10.2 support into the GCC 15 open-source compiler. Now as we approach the end of August, another big batch of AVX10.2 enablement has landed for this next GNU Compiler Collection release.
August 26th, 2024 — Source

RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver Adds GL_KHR_shader_subgroup Support
It's not too often these days seeing new OpenGL extensions come to Mesa drivers given their already robust coverage and not many new OpenGL extensions being introduced compared to the still-expanding Vulkan APIs. Overnight though RadeonSI Gallium3D saw GL_KHR_shader_subgroup support land.
August 26th, 2024 — Source

RHSA-2024:5858: Important: kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_85_1 security update
An update for kpatch-patch-5_14_0-70_85_1 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
August 26th, 2024 — Source

Sovereign Tech Fund Announces Significant Investment Into FreeBSD
In addition to the recent news of AMD and FreeBSD Foundation collaborating over improvements, some more good news for this leading BSD open-source project is the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) now beginning to invest in FreeBSD.
August 26th, 2024 — Source

Trafficserver, Python-HTML-Sanitize, Libvirt updates for Debian
The following security updates have been released for Debian GNU/Linux:
August 26th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 25th, 2024

"AM" 8 Alpha 2 released
The second alpha version of "AM" 8 has been released.
August 25th, 2024 — Source

Archinstall 2.8.3 Arch Linux Installer Adds COSMIC Desktop Option
Just one week after the Archinstall 2.8.2 update, another release of this command-line driven Arch Linux installer is now available for quick and easy Arch deployments.
August 25th, 2024 — Source

ASRock PG27QFT2A Review (1440p/180Hz IPS) and more
Here is a roundup of today's reviews and articles:
August 25th, 2024 — Source

Codon 0.17 Released For LLVM-Based Python Implementation For 10~100x Speedups
Codon is an open-source project that leverages the LLVM compiler infrastructure and aims for super fast Python code with as much as 10~100x speedups. Released this week was Codon 0.17 as the newest step forward for this alternative Python implementation.
August 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11 Kernel Features Deliver A Lot For New/Upcoming Intel & AMD Hardware
With all of the exciting hardware launches this summer, I'm a bit behind on writing my summary of the Linux 6.11 kernel features for that next kernel version due out in mid-September. But here it is with a concise look at all of the great Linux 6.11 features.
August 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11-rc5 Released With Slimmed Down Set Of Bcachefs Fixes
The Linux 6.11-rc5 kernel is already out as stable today, roughly a half-day ahead of time due to travels by Linus Torvalds.
August 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.11-rc5 released
So I normally do the releases on a Sunday early afternoon, but I'm in an unusual timezone, and that would have been almost a full day earlier than usual. So I delayed things to the point where it was at least Sunday back home, even if not even remotely afternoon.
August 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux Security Roundup for Week 35, 2024
Here is a roundup of last week's Linux security updates for AlmaLinux, Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora Linux, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux, Slackware Linux, SUSE Linux, and Ubuntu Linux.
August 25th, 2024 — Source

Python security updates for Fedora 39 and 40
The following security updates have been released for Fedora Linux:
August 25th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 22nd, 2024

Advancing System Reliability: Meta's AI-Driven Approach to Root Cause Analysis
Meta recently shared how they are enhancing their system reliability through advanced investigation tools, including the AI-assisted Hawkeye, which aids in debugging machine learning workflows. By integrating Artificial Intelligence, Meta has developed a new investigation system that combines heuristic-based retrieval with large language model (LLM) ranking to assist in root cause analysis.
August 22nd, 2024 — Source

Dual-Boot Linux Users Need to Update Systems Due to GRUB/SBAT Policy Changes in Windows
Multiple users have recently reported that the August 13 Windows 11 update causes issues with dual-boot Linux/Windows configurations. However, the issues are actually related to changes in UEFI Secure Boot Advanced Targeting (SBAT) policies. The issue stems from Microsoft enforcing SBAT and revoking old, exploitable certificates. Many Linux distributions use self-signed UEFI shims, which are no longer allowed due to known exploits.
August 22nd, 2024 — Source

Fwupd 1.9.24 Adds Support For More Mediatek & Parade Tech Devices
While celebrating the 9th birthday of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service, LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes has released a new version of the Fwupd firmware updating utility.
August 22nd, 2024 — Source

Intel Further Speeds Up strnlen() In The GNU C Library For Recent Intel/AMD CPUs
Intel software engineers are responsible for many of the great x86_64-related optimizations to the GNU C Library "glibc" over the years. While they've extensively tuned many Glibc functions for achieving peak performance on their modern CPUs, it's a never-ending quest. Merged this week was another optimization to strnlen(), the function for determining the number of bytes in a fixed-size string.
August 22nd, 2024 — Source

KDE Gear 24.08 Brings Many App Enhancements & New Features
KDE Gear 24.08 has been released for this collection of KDE applications that pair with the Plasma desktop.
August 22nd, 2024 — Source

Kernel, CA-Certificates, Tomcat updates for Oracle Linux
The following updates have been released for Oracle Linux:
August 22nd, 2024 — Source

Machine learning explains material's unexpected thermal conductivity
Using a combination of machine learning and powerful X-rays, Cornell researchers have solved a mystery behind the unusual behavior seen in a class of materials with potential for thermoelectric energy conversion and other applications.
August 22nd, 2024 — Source

Multicluster Gateways With Kubernetes Gateway API
In this article, discover how to use the Gateway API spec to configure gateways for multicluster setup.
August 22nd, 2024 — Source

Mozilla Developing Whisperfile For Local Audio-To-Text Translation
The Mozilla Ocho group leads "innovation and experiments" at Mozilla. Following all of their work on Llamafile for easily distributing large language models as a single file that can be easily executed across different hardware/software, their newest effort is Whisperfile for easy audio-to-text translations.
August 22nd, 2024 — Source

OpenShift updates for RHEL
The following OpenShift updates are available from Red Hat:
August 22nd, 2024 — Source

Several Newer Gaming Handheld Devices To See Linux Sensor Monitoring Support
The upstream Linux "oxp-sensors" driver began as a driver for supporting the sensors on the OneXPlayer handheld. With time this driver has been extended to support more handheld gaming consoles and a new patch enables support for several more devices.
August 22nd, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu Will Be Skipping Non-Critical Linux Kernel Updates For September
With the exception of critical security issues/bugs, Canonical will be skipping over shipping stable release updates for the Linux kernel in Ubuntu until early October.
August 22nd, 2024 — Source

XStream, Linux Kernel, QEMU updates for Ubuntu
The following security updates have been released for Ubuntu Linux:
August 22nd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 21st, 2024

Aom, Dovecot, Nova, Glance, Cinder updates for Debian 12
The following security updates have been released for Debian GNU/Linux 12 (Bookworm):
August 21st, 2024 — Source

Curl and LibreOffice updates for Oracle Linux
The following security updates are available for Oracle Linux:
August 21st, 2024 — Source

Experimental Schedutil Patches Yield 30% Boost To Web Browser Benchmark On Linux
Google engineer Qais Yousef has posted a set of 16 patches for the "Schedutil" scheduler utilization code within the Linux kernel to better manage system response time. Schedutil is often used by default on many Linux distributions and with these patches a popular web browser benchmark can be as much as 30% faster with these kernel patches.
August 21st, 2024 — Source

Intel Uncore Linux Driver Prepares ELC "Efficiency Latency Control" Feature
Intel's uncore Linux platform driver is preparing for a new feature found on newer SoCs: ELC, or Efficiency Latency Control. This ELC feature for the Intel uncore handling allows fine tuning efficiency versus latency characteristics.
August 21st, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240821 released
KDE neon 20240821 has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
August 21st, 2024 — Source

Linux Support Emerging For The Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge X1 Elite Laptop
Following all of the Snapdragon X1 upstream enablement work over the past number of months by Qualcomm and then DeviceTree additions emerging for enabling the likes of the ASUS Vivobook S 15, Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x, Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6, and Microsoft Surface 7, the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge is the newest Snapdragon X1 Elite laptop seeing Linux DT support.
August 21st, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA 560.35.03 Linux Driver Released With More Wayland Fixes
Building off the prior NVIDIA 560 beta driver releases, the NVIDIA 560.35.03 stable Linux driver was released today for providing the latest official NVIDIA graphics/compute support for Linux systems.
August 21st, 2024 — Source

OpenShift, 389-ds, Kernel, Tomcat, Python3.9, LibreOffice updates for RHEL
The following security updates have been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
August 21st, 2024 — Source

Over 9 Years LVFS Has Served Over 110 Million Firmware Files To Linux Systems
This week marks nine years since the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) was started by Richard Hughes of Red Hat to ease the firmware updating/distribution process with the open-source Fwupd firmware updating utility.
August 21st, 2024 — Source

Ryzen 9 9950X runs 16% faster on an Intel-optimized Linux distro
Intel helps AMD's Zen 5 flagship run extra fast.
August 21st, 2024 — Source

SVT-AV1 2.2 Delivers More Performance Improvements
SVT-AV1 2.2 is now available for this leading open-source AV1 video encoder. With this new version comes yet more performance optimizations.
August 21st, 2024 — Source

The best SSH clients for Linux (and why you need them)
If you're looking for a better way to interact with SSH remote connections, you should try one of these clients.
August 21st, 2024 — Source

The Linux security team issues 60 CVEs a week, but don't stress. Do this instead
In security circles, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures security bulletins can be downright scary. In Linux, however, it's just business as usual.
August 21st, 2024 — Source

Tomcat, LibreOffice, Python, and more updates for AlmaLinux
The following security updates are available for AlmaLinux:
August 21st, 2024 — Source

Vim updates for Ubuntu
A vim security update is available for Ubuntu Linux:
August 21st, 2024 — Source

VirtualBox 7.1 Beta 2 Released For This Big Oracle Virtualization Update
Released last month was the VirtualBox 7.1 Beta 1 virtualization software release from Oracle. This new version is bringing a modernized GUI, Wayland clipboard sharing, and other improvements. Released yesterday was the second beta of this big VirtualBox update.
August 21st, 2024 — Source

Zed Code Editor Begins Adding AI Features Powered By Anthropic's Claude
Zed, the code/text editor being developed by former Atom editor developers, has continued to gain interest among developers since going open-source, being written in the Rust programming language, and native Linux builds taking shape. The latest feature work on Zed is beginning to integrate AI-powered functionality by leveraging Anthropic's Claude LLM.
August 21st, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 16th, 2024

Canonical Makes More Snap Improvements Ahead Of Ubuntu 24.10
Oliver Smith as the Interim Engineering Director for the Ubuntu desktop provided an update around recent efforts on Ubuntu 24.10.
August 16th, 2024 — Source

Cloud Hypervisor 41 Brings Performance Improvements & Landlock Sandboxing
The Cloud Hypervisor open-source project that serves as a Rust-written VMM focused on security and started by Intel but now backed by a multitude of vendors is out with its newest feature release. Cloud Hypervisor 41 is the new feature release worked on by engineers at Intel, Google, Microsoft, Rivos, Tencent, Ant Group, and others for this cloud and security minded virtual machine monitor.
August 16th, 2024 — Source

Deepin 23 released
The final version of Deepin Linux 23 is now available. The update includes 23 new features, including enhanced tray management, improved desktop interaction window animation effects, a "Move to Top" function, a redesign of the taskbar tray with QML, wireless screen casting, eye protection mode, flight mode, screenshot and screen recording quick plugins, optimized network plugins, a calendar plugin, guidance prompts during terminal command line upgrades, and a restored desktop organization function.
August 16th, 2024 — Source

Nobara 40 2024-08-15 released
GloriousEggroll has updated the Nobara Linux 40 images. The Nobara project is a modified version of Fedora Linux with tweaks for gaming like WINE dependencies, obs-studio, 3rd party codec packages such as those for gstreamer, 3rd party drivers such as NVIDIA drivers, etc.
August 16th, 2024 — Source

Preemption Support Being Tackled For Adreno 700 Series With Linux MSM DRM Driver
For improving the open-source graphics driver support for Qualcomm Adreno 700 series hardware such as what's found in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and other SoCs, preemption support is finally being tackled.
August 16th, 2024 — Source

Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Now Handles 12-bit AV1 Video Decoding
The Vulkan Video support within Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver continues to be improved upon. The newest addition now found in the code for Mesa 24.3 is enabling 12-bit AV1 content accelerated decoding.
August 16th, 2024 — Source

Rockchip Driver Will Be Able To Drive 4K @ 60Hz HDMI Displays With Linux 6.12
Sent out today was the latest round of DRM-Misc-Next patches to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window opening up in mid-September. For those using ARM single board computers with a Rockchip SoC and have been struggling for 4K support over HDMI, the Rockchip updates in Linux 6.12 should excite you.
August 16th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu's X.Org Session Support Now Split Into Separate Package
Ahead of the now in-place Ubuntu 24.10 feature freeze, the Ubuntu GNOME X.Org session support was split off into its own separate binary Debian package from the main (default) Wayland session handling.
August 16th, 2024 — Source

Windows 11 versus Ubuntu 24.04 Linux Performance For The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
With all of my AMD Ryzen 9900X and 9950X Linux benchmarking and Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X reviews as well, many have wondered if AMD Zen 5 is just really great on Linux, if Windows 11 is in particularly poor shape for these new AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors, if it's just the different/diverse benchmarks being run, or simply why are these new desktop CPUs running so well on Linux but less so with Windows?
August 16th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 14th, 2024

10 Linux keyboard shortcuts I depend on for maximum efficiency
Though not every keyboard shortcut is universal in Linux, several work across desktop environments. Here are the ones I use every day.
August 14th, 2024 — Source

ALSA-2024:5258: container-tools:rhel8 security update (Important)
You are receiving an AlmaLinux Security update email because you subscribed to receive errata notifications from AlmaLinux.
August 14th, 2024 — Source

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X & Ryzen 9 9900X Deliver Excellent Linux Performance
Last Wednesday was the review embargo for the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Zen 5 desktop processors that proved to be very exciting for Linux workloads from developers to creators to AVX-512 embracing AI and HPC workloads.
August 14th, 2024 — Source

AMD To Provide Update On Long-Term Strategy For Open-Source Firmware
Next month AMD will be providing an update on their long-term strategy for open-source firmware. Central to their open-source firmware plans is their OpenSIL effort that remains in development for eventually replacing AGESA on future generations of Ryzen and EPYC platforms.
August 14th, 2024 — Source

Gentoo Linux Ending Itanium IA-64 Support
Gentoo Linux was one of the last few Linux distributions continuing to maintain Itanium (IA-64) architecture builds but that is now being phased out for those discontinued Intel processors.
August 14th, 2024 — Source

Haiku OS R1 Beta 5 Approaching Soon, New Performance Improvements
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system is out with their latest status update that highlights various improvements made in recent weeks.
August 14th, 2024 — Source

Kernel, .NET, Firefox, and more updates for RHEL
The following updates have been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
August 14th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.105 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.105 is now available:
August 14th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.46 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.46 is now available:
August 14th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.10.5 released
Linux kernel version 6.10.5 is now available:
August 14th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.2 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, New Shader Cache
Mesa 24.2 is out today as stable for this quarterly feature release to these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers used commonly on Linux systems and other platforms.
August 14th, 2024 — Source

New Linux Driver Supports Corsair VOID Gaming Headsets
A new driver has been posted for better supporting the Corsair VOID gaming headsets under Linux.
August 14th, 2024 — Source

New Linux Kernel Patches Better Prepare For sched_ext
While Linus Torvalds called for including the "sched_ext" extensible scheduler in Linux 6.11, he ultimately decided not to merge it for Linux 6.11 after some technical issues were raised on the Linux kernel mailing list.
August 14th, 2024 — Source

[SECURITY] Fedora 40 Update: chromium-127.0.6533.99-1.fc40
Updated chromium packages are available for Fedora Linux 40:
August 14th, 2024 — Source

SiFive Announces P870-D For Up To 256 RISC-V Cores
SiFive today lifted the lid on the P870-D, its new RISC-V processor dor data center and AI workloads. The P870-D is designed to scale up to 256 cores while supporting modern features like CXL and other AI/HPC minded features.
August 14th, 2024 — Source

SparkyLinux 2024.08 electrifies the Linux scene as a charged alternative to Microsoft Windows 11
As more users look for alternatives to Microsoft Windows 11, SparkyLinux's latest update, Sparky 2024.08 is thankfully released. This Linux-based operating system has proven to be a compelling choice for those looking to ditch Windows.
August 14th, 2024 — Source

The 4 best closed-source email clients for Linux
If Linux is your OS, these closed-source email apps offer great features and user-friendly interfaces.
August 14th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.10 to Include the Latest Linux Kernel
Ubuntu users have grown accustomed to their favorite distribution shipping with a kernel that's not quite as up-to-date as other distros but that changes with 24.10.
August 14th, 2024 — Source

Weston 14.0 Alpha Brings New Wayland Compositor Features
The first alpha release of the Weston 14.0 reference Wayland compositor is now available with a handful of new features.
August 14th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 8th, 2024

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Performance With DDR5-8000 Using Corsair Vengeance 2x16GB DDR5-8000 DIMMs
With the new AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors the AGESA supports up to DDR5-8000 memory. With yesterday's testing of the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X review all of the tests were done at DDR5-6000 in matching with the Ryzen 7000 series and Intel Core 13th/14th Gen configurations.
August 8th, 2024 — Source

China's preferred desktop Linux, openKylin, chases the AI PC in version 2.0
Middle Kingdom netizens can look forward to the same kind of letdown Windows users get with Copilot
August 8th, 2024 — Source

fsck.exfat Can Now Check & Repair Filenames With Invalid Characters
For those making use of Microsoft's exFAT file-system on Linux systems, the user-space programs within exfatprogs have been updated that also include more robust "fsck.exfat" capabilities for checking and repairing exFAT file-systems.
August 8th, 2024 — Source

GNOME's libspelling Turns To Threads For Much Faster Spell Checking
GNOME's libspelling library is seeing up to eight times faster spell checking performance thanks to threading and other optimizations.
August 8th, 2024 — Source

How To Scale RAG and Build More Accurate LLMs
Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) needs the right data architecture to scale efficiently. Learn how data streaming helps data and application teams innovate.
August 8th, 2024 — Source

Hyprland 0.42 Wayland Compositor Ditches Wlroots, Adds Explicit Sync Support
Hyprland 0.42 has been released as the newest feature release to this dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that remains "100% independent" and "doesn't sacrifice on its looks." Hyprland had been doing some heavy lifting via the Wlroots library but now in version 0.42 that dependency is eliminated.
August 8th, 2024 — Source

I'm a pro Linux user, and this distribution is one of the most unique I've tried
If you're looking to try something new with Linux that is not only cool-looking but also has a lot to offer users of every type, Rhino Linux is sure to impress.
August 8th, 2024 — Source

Linux Prepares For Intel Arrow Lake H With Mix Of Lion Cove, Skymont & Crestmont Cores
With upcoming Intel Arrow Lake H processors it's just not P cores and E cores but for the E cores will be a mix of both Skymont and Crestmont core types.
August 8th, 2024 — Source

Red Hat's Tuned 2.24 Can Now Control AMD Core Performance Boost
Red Hat's performance team has been working on the Tuned profile delivery software as an alternative to power-profiles-daemon on Linux systems. Fedora will be switching over to Tuned to replace power-profiles-daemon and the newest Tuned 2.24 release is now available.
August 8th, 2024 — Source

System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha Desktop - It's Looking Quite Interesting
System76 today is releasing an alpha build of Pop!_OS 24.04 that is built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and making it very interesting is that it includes the alpha version of their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment. I've been playing around with this Pop!_OS 24.04 alpha in advance of today's embargo lift and it's been working out quite well.
August 8th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 6th, 2024

AMD Posts Patches For VCN IP DUMP With Open-Source Linux Driver
AMD engineers posted a set of patches today for enabling VCN IP DUMP support with their open-source AMDGPU kernel driver. This allows for dumping the IP state of all Video Core Next (VCN) hardware from VCN 1.0 through VCN 5.0.
August 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11 x86 Platform Driver Fixes Add More Zen 5 CPU IDs, ASUS ROG Ally X Quirk
Ilpo Järvinen of Intel sent in a new round of x86 platform driver fixes today for the ongoing Linux 6.11 kernel cycle. This pull request has a few items worth mentioning as part of this fixes queue.
August 6th, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA 560.31.02 Linux Driver Delivers Various Fixes
Following last month's NVIDIA 560 Linux driver beta release where the open GPU kernel modules are used by default with Turing GPUs and newer, the NVIDIA 560.31.02 Linux driver has debuted today in stable form for the R560 series.
August 6th, 2024 — Source

NVMe 2.1 Specifications Published With New Capabilities
As part of the Flash Memory Summit this week, the NVMe 2.1 specifications were published today including the NVMe 2.1 Base specification, Command Set specifications (NVM Command Set, ZNS Command Set, Key Value Command Set), Transport specifications (PCIe Transport, Fibre Channel Transport, RDMA Transport and TCP Transport) and the NVMe Management Interface specification.
August 6th, 2024 — Source

Open-Source AMD GPU Implementation Of CUDA "ZLUDA" Has Been Taken Down
Back in February of this year you may recall the interesting news that was announced on Phoronix that AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source.
August 6th, 2024 — Source

PostgreSQL Sees Up To 4x Query Performance With SIMD-Optimized JSON Escaping
For those making use of JSON data with the PostgreSQL database server, now merged code to make use of SIMD for JSON escaping has shown up to a 4x improvement for query performance when dealing with lots of JavaScript Object Notation data.
August 6th, 2024 — Source

QNAP TS-433 Making For A Nice Open-Source & Mainline Linux NAS Experience
While there is no shortage of consumer network attached storage (NAS) devices these days, those able to run a mainline Linux kernel, open bootloader, and other open/mainline software components is a bit more challenging.
August 6th, 2024 — Source

RadeonSI Driver Sees GPU Hang Fixes - RDNA4 Fixes, Optimally Programming "OREO MODE"
A number of GPU hang fixes have been merged for AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D driver within Mesa. These fixes should help further enhance the current RDNA3 GPU driver support and also has fixes for stabilizing the upcoming RDNA4 GPU support.
August 6th, 2024 — Source

Solidigm D7-PS1010 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs Offer Great Performance For Servers
Solidigm today is formally announcing the D7-PS1010 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs for the data center. The new D7-PS1010 solid-state drives offer phenomenal performance for PCIe Gen 5 servers as I've enjoyed in testing out a few of these D7-PS1010 SSDs the past several weeks and their leading performance that should be especially appealing for modern AI and HPC servers.
August 6th, 2024 — Source

Sway Compositor Lands Wayland Explicit Sync Support
Yesterday the Sway i3-inspired Wayland compositor saw tearing control support merged while today another prominent Wayland protocol has been merged: linux-drm-syncobj-v1 for explicit sync support.
August 6th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 3rd, 2024

GNOME Disks Adds New Standalone UI For Managing/Mounting Disk Images
In addition to the KDE development activity this week, GNOME developers have also been busy polishing their desktop ahead of their next GNOME release in September.
August 3rd, 2024 — Source

Immutable Version Of Arch-Based Manjaro Linux Available For Testing
For those intrigued by the likes of Fedora Silverblue, Vanilla OS, and NixOS for an immutable Linux distribution but desiring something based on Arch Linux, Manjaro Linux has an immutable variant now available for testing.
August 3rd, 2024 — Source

Limine 8.0 Bootloader Released With LoongArch Support
While not as common as GRUB or systemd-boot, a new version of Limine is now available for this open-source, modern-focused and portable multi-protocol bootloader.
August 3rd, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.12 To Drop Old Code That Slows Down CPU Frequency Polling
The Linux 6.12 kernel cycle later this year has a change coming that will impact users of the "Schedutil" CPU frequency scaling governor. This change is dropping the "LATENCY_MULTIPLIER" that has been within the kernel code the past two decades to slowdown how frequent the CPU frequency evaluation occurs.
August 3rd, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.103 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.103 is now available:
August 3rd, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.44 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.44 is now available:
August 3rd, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.10.3 released
Linux kernel version 6.10.3 is now available:
August 3rd, 2024 — Source

OpenSearch GPT open source AI search engine
If you are searching for an open source alternative to the powerful Perplexity AI service you might be interested in OpenSearch GPT. An open-source, AI-powered search engine designed to provide personalized search results by learning from user interactions.
August 3rd, 2024 — Source

This Week In KDE: "Plasma Is Feeling Really Solid These Days!"
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekend update that recaps all of the interesting KDE development activities for the past week.
August 3rd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 2nd, 2024

5 Linux commands to use for quickly viewing the content of files
From code and notes to configuration files (and everything in between), I have to view the content files regularly. Here are five ways to do it.
August 2nd, 2024 — Source

5 Linux terminal apps that are better than your default
The Linux terminal isn't something every user has to deal with. But when you do, you'll want a terminal that either makes the job a bit easier or is awesome enough to make you not mind using it
August 2nd, 2024 — Source

AMD Releases ROCm 6.2 With New Components, Improves PyTorch & TensorFlow
ROCm 6.2 is a big update with several new software components, improving the existing PyTorch and TensorFlow support, and a variety of other enhancements as AMD works to better compete with NVIDIA's CUDA.
August 2nd, 2024 — Source

Azure Linux 3 hits general availability -- but don't expect any frills
Microsoft's distribution gets a new LTS kernel
August 2nd, 2024 — Source

Etnaviv NPU Driver Support Working Well For The NXP i.MX 8M Plus SoC
Open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso who has been working on supporting Vivante NPU IP within the reverse-engineered Etnaviv driver has been much time recently focused on enabling the Vivante NPU found within the NXP i.MX 8M Plus SoC.
August 2nd, 2024 — Source

F40-20240801 updated lives isos released
The Fedora Respins SIG is pleased to announce the latest release of Updated F40-20240801-Live ISOs, carrying the 6.9.12-200 kernel.
August 2nd, 2024 — Source

GCC-Toolset, Kexec, Scap, Xfsprogs, Leapp-Recovery updates for Oracle Linux
The following updates have been released for Oracle Linux:
August 2nd, 2024 — Source

Intel Vulkan Driver Merges H.264/H.265 Video Encode Support
The open-source Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver within Mesa is now more capable for its Vulkan Video support with the H.264 and H.265 encode support now wired up for Mesa 24.3.
August 2nd, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240801 released
KDE neon 20240801 has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
August 2nd, 2024 — Source

Leveraging Open-Source Contributions To Boost Your Freelancing Profile
Discover how contributing to open-source projects can enhance your freelancing profile, showcasing your skills and expertise to potential clients and employers.
August 2nd, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11 Addressing "Long-Time Regression" Of Buggy AMD HDMI Audio
For those that have experienced a buggy AMD HDMI audio experience when using recent versions of the Linux kernel, a fix has been submitted today for Linux 6.11 and in turn for back-porting to stable series in addressing "another long-time regression fix for AMD HDMI."
August 2nd, 2024 — Source

Samba 4.20.3 released
Samba 4.20.3 has been released. Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix.
August 2nd, 2024 — Source

SMT Performance Benchmarks Continue To Show Benefit With AMD Zen 5/5C
While Intel's upcoming Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" laptop processors are doing away with Hyper Threading (HT) and instead focusing more on additional E cores. AMD has asserted Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) is still beneficial and supported across both their Zen 5 and Zen 5C cores.
August 2nd, 2024 — Source

Tiny Linux Patch Up To 32% Faster, Up To 18% Less Energy For Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids
A one line patch to the Linux kernel is yielding significant performance and power efficiency gains for existing Intel Xeon "Emerald Rapids" server processors on the likes of Ubuntu Linux.
August 2nd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 31st, 2024

AmpereOne Aurora In Development With Up To 512 Cores, AmpereOne Prices Published
Ampere Computing hosted an AmpereOne architecture briefing this week where more details were shared on their long talked about AArch64 server processors. This announcement finally included a SKU table with suggested pricing as well as talking up a next-gen "AmpereOne Aurora" offering for a processor with up to 512 cores and some newly-disclosed Ampere AI acceleration IP.
July 31st, 2024 — Source

Compared to other distros, Vanilla OS 2 'Orchid' is rewriting how Linux works
In front, unmodified GNOME; underneath, it's all a bit strange, but purposefully so
July 31st, 2024 — Source

Glibc Patch Being Reviewed For getrandom vDSO Support
One of the many exciting features merged for Linux 6.11 is getrandom() in the vDSO for very fast yet secure random number generation. Now that the kernel bits have landed, it's on to making use of it in the GNU C Library and other libc implementations.
July 31st, 2024 — Source

How the Adidas Platform Team Reduced the Cost of Running Kubernetes Clusters
In a recent Medium post, platform engineer Iya Lang, disclosed how adidas reduced the costs of running Kubernetes clusters in AWS by up to 50%.
July 31st, 2024 — Source

Linux Seeing Support For Another ~$230 ARM Handheld Game Console
There's been no shortage of cheap, ARM-based handheld game consoles coming to market. Given Linux on Arm tending to work better than Windows and in keeping vendor costs to a minimum, they've tended to be running Linux or Android with various open-source games/emulators.
July 31st, 2024 — Source

Linux's Turbostat Utility Can Now Be Used For Reading Intel PMT Counters
Merged on Sunday prior to tagging the first release candidate of Linux 6.11 were some last minute updates to Turbostat, the tool that lives within the kernel source tree and used for reporting CPU frequency and idle statistics along with other useful metrics.
July 31st, 2024 — Source

OpenTofu hits version 1.8 with more crowd-pleasing features
Open source TerraForm rival introduces a new file extension so users can 'keep older code around for compatibility'
July 31st, 2024 — Source

SDL3 Library Adds A Built-In Snake Game
For those enjoying the classic game Snake (Blockade) or rather wanting to learn about the SDL3 API to develop your own software using this cross-platform software/hardware abstraction library, a game of Snake has been added to the SDL3 repository to serve as a more full-featured example.
July 31st, 2024 — Source

Servo Web Engine Now Leverages Multiple CPU Cores For Rendering HTML Tables
The Servo project is out with their latest monthly status report to highlight advancements made on this open-source, Rust-written web layout engine.
July 31st, 2024 — Source

Xen 4.19 Released With New 9pfs Backend, Scales Up To 16,383 CPUs
The Xen Project has announced version Xen 4.19 of this open-source hypervisor that is rolling out security improvements, performance and scalability enhancements, and other refinements to this cross-architecture option for open-source virtualization.
July 31st, 2024 — Source

Why Snap and Flatpak make Linux a better OS and how they're different
These package managers make it easy to turn Linux into a productivity powerhouse.
July 31st, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 29th, 2024

AMD Updates DMCUB Firmware For RDNA3.5 Graphics With Strix Point
As I noted in yesterday's AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 review and in particular the new RDNA3.5-based Radeon 890M graphics, I used updated DMCUB firmware with the open-source Linux graphics driver stack to workaround some screen freezes and kernel errors initially experience while using the Linux 6.10 kernel.
July 29th, 2024 — Source

Another Habana Labs Driver Maintainer Is Leaving Intel
It was just two months ago that Oded Gabbay, the longtime maintainer of the Habana Labs kernel accelerator driver for Linux, announced he was stepping down from his software role and leaving Intel. Oded Gabbay was also a maintainer of the new Intel Xe kernel graphics driver.
July 29th, 2024 — Source

Enhancing Query Performance With AI and Vector Search in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Learn to enhance query performance using AI and vector search in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, boosting data retrieval efficiency and accuracy.
July 29th, 2024 — Source

How to use the Linux history command - and what it can do for you
If you use the Linux command line often, you might forget which commands you've used recently. The history command is there to give your mind a jog.
July 29th, 2024 — Source

Implementing and Deploying a Real-Time AI-Powered Chatbot With Serverless Architecture
Build a real-time AI chatbot using AWS Lambda for the backend and a simple HTML/JavaScript frontend.
July 29th, 2024 — Source

Intel Compute Runtime 24.26.30049.6 Provides New APIs & Extensions
Intel is kicking off the new week with a new release to their open-source Compute Runtime stack that provides OpenCL and Level Zero support across Windows and Linux systems with Intel integrated/discrete graphics.
July 29th, 2024 — Source

K3s versus Talos Linux
In this blog post, we compare the two lightweight Kubernetes distributions and help you decide which one is right for you.
July 29th, 2024 — Source

libX11 1.8.10 Brings Memory Safety Fixes
Alan Coopersmith of Oracle -- thanks to his work on Solaris and maintaining the X11 support -- continues to be one of the few developers left managing new X.Org software component releases. This weekend Coopersmith released libX11 1.8.10 as the newest version of this client-side library for the core X11 protocol.
July 29th, 2024 — Source

Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' still the Bedrock choice for moving off Windows
Outsmarting Ubuntu's midlife crisis and dodging Flintstone-sized bugs
July 29th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.3 Lands "The Juiciest Refactor Ever"
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve landed another interesting patch series in Mesa Git for next quarter's Mesa 24.3... This is what he proclaims to be "THE JUICIEST REFACTOR EVER" for the Mesa GLX code.
July 29th, 2024 — Source

Move from Windows to Linux with Mint 22
Linux Mint 22, codenamed Wilmer, is a newly released long-term support (LTS) distribution with security updates until 2029. It is particularly recommended for Windows users transitioning to Linux due to its user-friendly interface and compatibility with a wide range of hardware. The distribution comes in three editions: Cinnamon, XFCE, and MATE, each offering different desktop environments.
July 29th, 2024 — Source

Samba 4.21.0rc1 released
The first release candidate for Samba 4.21.0 has been released for testing. Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix.
July 29th, 2024 — Source

SysVinit 3.10 Released With Better Interoperability For systemd's "machinectl stop"
While most Linux distributions are running on systemd as the init/service manager, SysVinit is continuing to be maintained. SysVinit 3.10 was released today with one new feature and some fixes. Coincidentally the new feature of SysVinit 3.10 is improving compatibility with systemd's machinectl command.
July 29th, 2024 — Source

The Current State Of CXL Support On Linux
Immediately prior to the Linux 6.11-rc1 kernel being released yesterday, a set of Compute Express Link (CXL) patches were merged for the Linux kernel. There is some more CXL feature work this cycle but also notable is a documentation update as it now provides a concise look at the current state of CXL support on Linux.
July 29th, 2024 — Source

TigerVNC 1.14 Allows OpenGL & Vulkan Hardware Acceleration
TigerVNC 1.14 released last week as the newest version of this high performance, cross-platform VNC client and server solution. Exciting with TigerVNC 1.14 is adding hardware acceleration support.
July 29th, 2024 — Source

Vanilla OS 2 Released With Hybrid Debian Base, Improved Multi-GPU Support
Vanilla OS 2 debuted on Sunday as a major release to this Linux distribution now built atop a Debian base for this distro that started out being an immutable and atomic version of Ubuntu. Vanilla OS 2 besides switching its packaging base has pulled in the GNOME 46 desktop, the Linux 6.9 kernel, and made a slew of other enhancements to polish its desktop experience while offering a great and secure platform.
July 29th, 2024 — Source

Wine 9.14 Continues Working On ODBC Windows Driver Support, Fixes For AOL
Wine 9.14 is another release off its usual Friday bi-weekly release regiment and instead debuted on Sunday evening. With this Wine 9.14 release there are yet more fixes and improvements while Wine-Staging 9.14 was also released near concurrently.
July 29th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 28th, 2024

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: watch
This article spotlights alternative tools to watch.
July 28th, 2024 — Source

AMD Radeon 890M "RDNA3.5" Graphics Run Well With Latest Open-Source Linux Driver
While the upcoming AMD Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors continue to make use of RDNA2 graphics, with the Ryzen AI 300 series shipping today in notebooks there are RDNA3.5 graphics being introduced alongside the Zen 5 CPU cores and upgraded Ryzen AI XDNA2 NPU. While just an evolution of RDNA3, the initial benchmarks of RDNA3.5 graphics with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 are looking rather promising for both the raw graphics performance as well as the power efficiency.
July 28th, 2024 — Source

GE-Proton9-11 released
GE-Proton9-11 has been released, requiring updates to wine, dxvk, and vkd3d-proton. Upstream proton changes were incorporated, staging was rebased, and input patches for Dragon Age: Inquisition added. Protonfixes were also made for various games.
July 28th, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA's Open-Source Linux Drivers Have Performance Parity With Proprietary Drivers, Great GPU Optimizations Across The Board
NVIDIA's open-source Linux kernel drivers have matured to the point that they offer performance equivalent to their own proprietary GPU drivers.
July 28th, 2024 — Source

Thanks Intel: RISC-V Sees NUMA Support For ACPI-Based Systems In Linux 6.11
The mainline RISC-V Linux kernel port continues to become more featureful each kernel cycle... Last week for the start of the Linux 6.11 merge window there were new RISC-V ISA extensions wired up while in ending out the v6.11 merge window this weekend there is yet more enablement activity.
July 28th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 27th, 2024

5 Linux commands for better group management (and how to use them)
Linux groups allow better control access to files and folders. Here are the five commands you'll want to keep in your back pocket.
July 27th, 2024 — Source

Darkhttpd, Python-Scrapy, mod_http2 updates for Fedora 39
The following updates have been released for Fedora Linux 39:
July 27th, 2024 — Source

EEVDF Scheduler On The Verge Of Being "Complete"
Merged one year ago for Linux 6.6 was the EEVDF scheduler as a replacement to the CFS code and designed to provide a better scheduling policy for the kernel and being more robust. With a new set of patches for this "Earliest Eligible Virtual Deadline First" scheduling code, it's nearing the point of officially being completed.
July 27th, 2024 — Source

KDE Drives Fixes Into Its Triple Buffering, Adds Konsole Feature To Save Terminal Output
In addition to refining the KDE Human Interface Guidelines, KDE developers have been busy with a variety of other tasks this week in polishing their open-source desktop stack.
July 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 4.19.319 released
Linux kernel version 4.19.319 is now available:
July 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.4.281 released
Linux kernel version 5.4.281 is now available:
July 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.223 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.223 is now available:
July 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.15.164 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.164 is now available:
July 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.102 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.102 is now available:
July 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.43 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.43 is now available:
July 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.9.12 released
Linux kernel version 6.9.12 is now available:
July 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.10.2 released
Linux kernel version 6.10.2 is now available:
July 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux VFS Fix For 5 Year Old Bug That Could Cause Corruption, Security Issues Or Crash
Ahead of the Linux 6.11 merge window set to close tomorrow, Linux engineer Christian Brauner at Microsoft sent in a set of two VFS fixes. One of the fixes is more noteworthy that is for a five year old bug that could cause on-disk corruption, security issues, or a kernel crash.
July 27th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI comes for Google with SearchGPT
OpenAI is testing SearchGPT, a new AI search experience to compete directly with Google. The feature aims to elevate search queries with "timely answers" from across the internet and allows the user to ask follow-up questions.
July 27th, 2024 — Source

openSUSE's Aeon RC3 Released With Full Disk Encryption By Default
OpenSUSE's Aeon is up to its third release candidate as what was formerly known as MicroOS Desktop GNOME for a container-based, immutable desktop operating system. With the Aeon RC3 release, full disk encryption is enabled by default as an exciting development.
July 27th, 2024 — Source

openSUSE-SU-2024:0227-1: moderate: Security update for gh
Ahead of the Linux 6.11 merge window set to close tomorrow, Linux engineer Christian Brauner at Microsoft sent in a set of two VFS fixes. One of the fixes is more noteworthy that is for a five year old bug that could cause on-disk corruption, security issues, or a kernel crash.
July 27th, 2024 — Source

UBIFS File-System Being Hardened Against Power Loss Scenarios
While most Linux file-systems are rather robust in recovering when the system experiences a power loss, the UBIFS file-system is more prone to problems when a power-cut happens. With patches submitted for the Linux 6.11 merge window, UBIFS is seeing some hardening so it can better cope with the loss of power.
July 27th, 2024 — Source

Websites accuse AI startup Anthropic of bypassing their anti-scraping rules and protocol
iFixit and Freelancer said Anthropic's bot aggressively crawled their websites.
July 27th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 26th, 2024

AlmaLinux Picking Up glibc Patch Ahead Of RHEL To Rescue VFX Houdini Users
While Red Hat Enterprise Linux is very popular with the VFX crowd, those relying on the SideFX Houdini 3D animation software are running into a bit of a pickle if trying to use RHEL 9.4. There's a glibc bug causing random crashes for Houdini that Red Hat has been slow to pickup but is now going to be shipped by AlmaLinux early to satisfy VFX users.
July 26th, 2024 — Source

Fwupd 1.9.22 Released With Framework SD Expansion Card & Raspberry Pi 5 Support
Richard Hughes of Red Hat just released Fwupd 1.9.22 as the newest version of this open-source solution for allowing system and peripheral firmware updates to be carried out quickly and easily from Linux systems.
July 26th, 2024 — Source

I've tried a zillion desktop distros - it doesn't get any better than Linux Mint 22
Linux Mint's latest release continues its tradition of excellence. It's easy to learn and use, faster than Windows, and runs on a thrift-store PC. What more can you ask for?
July 26th, 2024 — Source

KDE Human Interface Guidelines Being Further Refined & Polished
Back in early June the KDE Human Interface Guidelines "HIG" were updated. These design principles for KDE software were updated to modern standards, adapt to the latest Qt toolkit behavior, and also making it more inviting to new contributors. Since then the KDE HIG has continued to see more refinements.
July 26th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11 Is Looking Good In Early Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen Threadripper
With the Linux 6.11 kernel merge window wrapping up this weekend, I've begun "kicking the tires" on the new kernel that will then see the weekly release candidates over the next two months. For some initial Linux 6.10 versus 6.11 Git benchmarking on an AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation, the new kernel is appearing fit and offering some nice performance gains in a few areas.
July 26th, 2024 — Source

Linus Torvalds Addresses His Latest ARM64 Annoyance: Installing Compressed Kernel Images
Following Linus Torvalds receiving an Ampere Altra Max workstation from Ampere Computing, he's been dabbling more with ARM64 now that it affords him more AArch64 compute power than his Apple Silicon powered MacBook. Torvalds kicked off the Linux 6.11 merge window by landing some of his own code to further enhance the ARM64 kernel and as we approach the end of the v6.11 merge window this weekend, he's merged some more ARM64 code.
July 26th, 2024 — Source

LLVM 19.1-rc1 Compiler Released With More C23 / C++23 & New Intel Extensions
LLVM 19.1-rc1 was released today as the first tagged development snapshot of LLVM 19 that is working its way toward the stable LLVM 19.1 version expected in September.
July 26th, 2024 — Source

New Dell PC Driver & Intel Performance Limit Reasons Help Laptops On Linux 6.11
The x86 platform driver updates were merged last week for the Linux 6.11 merge window. The x86 platform drivers predominantly benefit Intel/AMD laptops on Linux but also some other x86 non-laptop hardware and then more recently also some ARM64 laptop drivers appearing in this area of the kernel.
July 26th, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA's Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver
With the recently introduced NVIDIA 555 Linux driver stable series their open-source GPU kernel driver modules are in great shape across consumer and professional graphics products.
July 26th, 2024 — Source

Oracle releases VirtualBox 7.1 Beta with a refreshed UI, ARM virtualization for Linux, more
Oracle is working on a big update for VirtualBox, a popular virtualization software that is available on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Version 7.1 is currently in beta, and the first release is now available for everyone to try.
July 26th, 2024 — Source

Switzerland's open-source rules and Google's privacy plans lead the Index
Transparency and privacy are top of mind with this week's innovations. Meanwhile, Apple and Meta raise the bar for LLMs.
July 26th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 24th, 2024

AMD Reveals More Zen 5 CPU Core Details
As a follow-up to last week's AMD Zen 5 overview with the Ryzen 9000 series and Ryzen AI 300 series, today the embargo has lifted on some additional Zen 5 CPU core details.
July 24th, 2024 — Source

ChaosMeta for AI: Taking AI Stability to the Next Level With Chaos Engineering
Chaos engineering is about proactively exposing and addressing system vulnerabilities, greatly enhancing system resilience.
July 24th, 2024 — Source

F2FS, exFAT & Btrfs File-System Changes In Linux 6.11
While not as notable as the nice EXT4 performance optimization making it into Linux 6.11 or features like XFS real-time FITRIM and self-healing Bcachefs on read I/O errors, the Bcachefs, F2FS, and Btrfs file-systems saw smaller updates for the Linux 6.11 kernel cycle.
July 24th, 2024 — Source

Intel Graphics Compiler 1.0.17193.4 Released With Initial Battlemage Support
Intel today released IGC 1.0.17193.4 as the newest version of the Intel Graphics Compiler that is used for their compute stack on Windows/Linux as well as by their Windows graphics driver for shader compilation.
July 24th, 2024 — Source

Intel OSPRay 3.2 Further Advances This Open-Source Ray-Tracing Engine
Intel's OSPRay ray-tracing engine as part of their oneAPI rendering toolkit continues to serve as a great, scalable and portable RT engine for high fidelity visualizations. With OSPRay 3.2 released today, they continue advancing this open-source engine further.
July 24th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11 Lands Support For getrandom() In The vDSO
The getrandom() in the vDSO effort was led by Jason Donenfeld who is known for his work on WireGuard. Last week he sent in the code as part of the RNG updates pull request and today it was honored by Linus Torvalds.
July 24th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11 Upstream Now Defaults To A Better SATA Link Power Management Policy
It's not too often that the ATA pull request for a new Linux kernel merge window has much worth mentioning. With Linux 6.11 there is a change to the kernel defaults worth noting over the default SATA link power management policy. In this case most Linux distributions have been setting a better default themselves and is now a case of the upstream kernel defaults catching up.
July 24th, 2024 — Source

Llama 3 Cheat Sheet: A Complete Guide for 2024
Meta doubles down on its commitment to open source generative AI with Llama 3.1, a new "frontier-level" model.
July 24th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.3 Radeon VCN Adds HDR Metadata Support For AV1 Encoder
The latest video acceleration improvements to report on with the open-source AMD Radeon driver front is support in Mesa 24.3-devel for passing HDR metadata in the AV1 encoder.
July 24th, 2024 — Source

New AMD Linux Driver Patches Enable I3C HCI Support
One of the newest patch series out from AMD this week is on providing I3C HCI driver support for their MIPI I3C IP block found within their latest processors.
July 24th, 2024 — Source

New Llama 3.1 405B open source AI model released by Meta
Meta and Mark Zuckerberg's team of artificial intelligent (AI) developers have this week announced the launch of a new open source AI model in the form of Llama 3.1 405B. Bringing with it a wealth of new features in a 405 billion parameter large language model (LLM).
July 24th, 2024 — Source

Rust Linux Kernel Code Prepares For CPU Mitigations Handling
The latest Rust for the Linux kernel work led by Miguel Ojeda is on preparing the Rust kernel code for various CPU security mitigations.
July 24th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 22nd, 2024

Ansible and the Pre-Container Arts
Discover how Ansible can be used to prepare Linux boot images in order to install Windows virtual machines without human interaction.
July 22nd, 2024 — Source

Audacity 3.6.1 released
The Audacity 3.6.1 hotfix release fixes bugs with exporting multichannel audio, inserting mono clips into stereo tracks, accessibility, preventing incompatible versions, and resolving issues with dark theme white buttons.
July 22nd, 2024 — Source

Forget Windows 11: Nobara Linux is the OS for everyone
If you've soured on Windows 11 and are looking for something that's more secure, reliable, customizable, and can serve as your gaming console, Nobara Linux might be it.
July 22nd, 2024 — Source

GNU C Library 2.40 Released With New C23 Features & New Performance Tunables
GNU C Library "glibc" 2.40 is now available with more C23 features being enabled as well as some new performance tunables on x86_64 and AArch64 along with other improvements to this widely used libc implementation.
July 22nd, 2024 — Source

Kalray Updates Patches For Their Linux Kernel Port To The KV3-1 "Coolidge" SoC
Way back at the start of 2023, French fabless semiconductor company Kalray posted Linux kernel patches for a "KVX" Linux kernel port to get Linux up and running on their MPPA3-80 "Coolidge" DPU SoC with the KV3-1 CPU architecture. A year and a half later this work still is outside the Linux kernel but finally a third iteration of the KVX Linux kernel port has been posted for review.
July 22nd, 2024 — Source

Intel oneAPI VPL 2024Q2 GPU Runtime Prepares For VVC Decode
Intel's oneAPI Video Processing Library (VPL) GPU Runtime 2024Q2 release is now available along with an updated quarterly release of the Intel Media Driver.
July 22nd, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11 "MM" Patches Include Many Improvements, A 10x Speedup For One Optimization
Andrew Morton on Sunday sent in his "MM" pull requests for Linux 6.11 of the areas of the kernel he manages.
July 22nd, 2024 — Source

LZ4 v1.10 Introduces Multi-Threading Support For Major Compression Speedups
Yann Collet released LZ4 v1.10 today as a major update to this extremely fast compression algorithm. Most significant with LZ4 1.10 is adding multi-threaded compression support for much faster performance with today's modern multi-core processors.
July 22nd, 2024 — Source

mesa 24.2.0-rc1
I'm happy to announce the start of a new release cycle with the first release candidate, 24.2.0-rc1.
July 22nd, 2024 — Source

MidnightBSD 3.2 Released With Ravenports On x86_64, New AMD Features
MidnightBSD 3.2 is out as the newest feature update to one of the few desktop-focused BSD operating systems still being maintained. MidnightBSD 3.2 continues to be derived from FreeBSD sources while shipping with a nice Xfce-based desktop experience.
July 22nd, 2024 — Source

NTFS Driver For Linux 6.11 Prepares FileAttr Support, Bug Fixes
Konstantin Komarov with Paragon Software has prepared the latest patches for the NTFS3 kernel driver that is providing the modern NTFS read/write file-system support on Linux systems.
July 22nd, 2024 — Source

Performance Event Changes For Linux 6.11 Bring Several Additions For Intel Hardware
All of the "perf" performance events feature updates were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 6.11 merge window.
July 22nd, 2024 — Source

systemd Talks Up Automatic Boot Assessment In Light Of The Crowdstrike-Microsoft Outage
In light of the CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage/disaster that has been wreaking havoc on corporate Windows systems around the world since Friday, systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering pointed out how such a situation on Linux systems could be averted by leveraging systemd's Automatic Boot Assessment functionality.
July 22nd, 2024 — Source

The stable Linux Mint 22 ISOs have passed final checks and are ready to download
The Linux Mint 22 Stable ISOs have passed the verification checks. We should get an official release announcement soon. If you would like to download the final release before the release announcement, you can get the Cinnamon, Mate, and Xfce versions from this official mirror.
July 22nd, 2024 — Source

X.Org Server Patches Look To Cleanup VRR Handling, Make It Xinerama-Aware
Open-source developer Enrico Weigelt has in recent months taken to near single-handedly maintain and further enhance the aging X.Org Server codebase. The latest area that Weigelt has been working to improve is around the X.Org Server's Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support.
July 22nd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 20th, 2024

AVX-512/AVX10 & VAES Optimized AES-GCM Implementation Lands In Linux 6.11
The crypto subsystem updates have landed for the Linux 6.11 kernel.
July 20th, 2024 — Source

KDE Developers Tackle The Five Most Common Plasma Crashes
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with a summer time update that highlights the interesting improvements made to the KDE desktop and related apps over the past two weeks.
July 20th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11 MIPS Upstreams Realtek RTL9302C & Mobileye EyeQ6H Chips
With Linux 6.11 over on the Arm-focused SoC side there were three new SoCs and 59 new machines/boards added for Arm and RISC-V. The MIPS pull request was submitted overnight for this next kernel version and there is just two new SoCs being introduced.
July 20th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.2.0-rc1 released
Eric Engestrom has announced that the first release candidate for Mesa 24.2.0 is now available for testing.
July 20th, 2024 — Source

New Linux Patches Enable The Snapdragon X1 Elite Powered Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6
With Linux 6.11 support for the Lenovo Yoga Slim7x and ASUS Vivobook S15 are upstreamed for some of the first Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite powered laptops. But for follow-on kernel cycles you can expect yet more Snapdragon X1 Elite/Plus powered laptop support to appear with new DeviceTree additions.
July 20th, 2024 — Source

USB & Thunderbolt Improvements Land In Linux 6.11
Greg Kroah-Hartman on Friday sent out all of the USB/Thunderbolt subsystem feature updates destined for the Linux 6.11 kernel of which there are many different patches across the board.
July 20th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 19th, 2024

AMD XDNA Ryzen AI Linux Kernel Driver Posted For Review
Back in January AMD quietly posted an XDNA Linux kernel driver for enabling the Ryzen AI NPUs. The driver has been maintained within that GitHub repository since but without any clear effort for getting this accelerator driver reviewed and merged into the upstream Linux kernel.
July 19th, 2024 — Source

Intel Panther Lake, Realtek RT1318 & Other Sound Hardware Supported By Linux 6.11
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai has sent out all of the sound driver patches for the in-development Linux 6.11 kernel.
July 19th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.2-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements
Eric Engestrom is once again serving as the Mesa release manager and today took to forking the Mesa 24.2 codebase followed by issuing the first release candidate.
July 19th, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA's EGL-Wayland Library v1.1.14 Adds Explicit Sync
NVIDIA's EGL-Wayland library continues to be maintained as an EGLStream-based Wayland external platform library for client-side Wayland support to EGL atop EGLDevice/EGLStream.
July 19th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11 Brings A Dedicated Bucket Allocator For Better Security
The SLAB pull request landed in Linux 6.11 Git on Thursday with kmem_buckets-based hardening of kernel memory allocations.
July 19th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11 Lands Support For Snapdragon X1 Elite ASUS Vivobook S15 & Lenovo Yoga Slim7x
All of the SoC and platform updates slated for the Linux 6.11 kernel have been merged including new SoCs and adding DeviceTree files for a number of new systems, including some of the first Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops.
July 19th, 2024 — Source

PHP version 8.2.22RC1 and 8.3.10RC1
Release Candidate versions are available in the testing repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL / CentOS / Alma / Rocky and other clones) to allow more people to test them. They are available as Software Collections, for a parallel installation, the perfect solution for such tests, and also as base packages.
July 19th, 2024 — Source

Red Hat developer Karol Herbst continues improving the support for Rusticl, the Rust-based modern OpenCL implementation for Mesa's Gallium3D drivers.
Vulkan 1.3.291 was published this morning and with this specification update comes one prominent new extension: VK_AMD_anti_lag.
July 19th, 2024 — Source

Rusticl In Mesa 24.2 Now Supports OpenCL Read-Write Images
Red Hat developer Karol Herbst continues improving the support for Rusticl, the Rust-based modern OpenCL implementation for Mesa's Gallium3D drivers.
July 19th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 18th, 2024

389-ds-base, Thunderbird, Libndp, and more updates for RHEL
The following security updates have been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
July 18th, 2024 — Source

AMD RDNA4 "GFX12" Linux Driver Support Matures To Being Enabled By Default
It looks like the AMD RDNA4 "GFX12" graphics driver support is in good shape: AMD is now enabling the driver support for the next-generation graphics "out of the box" with the latest pending patches.
July 18th, 2024 — Source

AWS Graviton4 96-Core Performance versus AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon CPU Benchmarks
Last week I published some initial benchmarks of the Amazon/AWS Graviton4 processors now available within the EC2 cloud using the new "R8g" instances. That initial comparison was a 64 vCPU comparison of Graviton4 against AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon 64 vCPU AWS instances.
July 18th, 2024 — Source

Chromium Security Update for Debian 12
Updated Chromium packages have been released for Debian GNU/Linux 12 (Bookworm):
July 18th, 2024 — Source

EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11
With the maturity of the EXT4 file-system it's not too often seeing any huge feature additions for this commonly used Linux file-system but there's still the occasional wild performance optimization to uncover... With Linux 6.11 the EXT4 file-system can see upwards of a 20% performance boost in some scenarios.
July 18th, 2024 — Source

Fedora 41 Proceeds With AMD SEV-SNP Virtualization Host Support For Confidential VMs
The Fedora change proposal was approved this week by their engineering and steering committee to support AMD SEV-SNP virtualization host support to allow easily launching confidential computing virtual machines (VMs) with Fedora 41.
July 18th, 2024 — Source

GCC On AArch64 Handles Rewriting "-march=native" To "-mcpu=native"
Toward the end of 2022 a GCC AArch64 compiler change was quietly made by Arm that allows "-march=native" to be handled on 64-bit ARM by treating it as the equivalent "-mcpu=native" option. The change happened to fly under my radar at that time and didn't draw much attention at large while now it's finally being officially documented in hopes of similar behavior being adopted by other compilers for AArch64.
July 18th, 2024 — Source

Java, Ruby, Firefox Updates for AlmaLinux
The following security updates have been released for AlmaLinux:
July 18th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240718 released
KDE neon 20240718 has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
July 18th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 4.19.318 released
Linux kernel version 4.19.318 is now available:
July 18th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.222 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.222 is now available:
July 18th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.4.280 released
Linux kernel version 5.4.280 is now available:
July 18th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.100 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.100 is now available:
July 18th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.41 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.41 is now available:
July 18th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.9.10 released
Linux kernel version 6.9.10 is now available:
July 18th, 2024 — Source

Nvidia will fully transition to open-source GPU kernel modules with R560 drivers
Open-source kernels are only available for newer platforms, including Ada, Grace Hopper and Blackwell
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Stunnel, Apache HTTP Server Update for Ubuntu
The following two security updates are available for Ubuntu Linux:
July 18th, 2024 — Source

XFS Real-Time Enables FITRIM Support With Linux 6.11
The XFS file-system updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.11 kernel.
July 18th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 9th, 2024

4 ways to add more eye candy to the GNOME desktop
If you'd like to spice up your desktop with special effects, the GNOME desktop environment has plenty to offer.
July 9th, 2024 — Source

AMD FidelityFX SDK 1.1 Released With FSR 3.1 + Breadcrumbs & Brixelizer
AMD's GPUOpen group this morning released the FidelityFX SDK 1.1 version that incorporates FidelityFX Super Resolution 3.1 (FSR 3.1) as the newest version of their game upscaling tech. Plus it introduces new components in the form of the Breadcrumbs Library and Brixelizer.
July 9th, 2024 — Source

AMD versus NVIDIA Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance On Linux With Breaking Limit
Basemark last week released GPUScore: Breaking Limit as a "groundbreaking cross-platform ray-tracing benchmark" that is scalable from mobile to desktops. They self-describe Breaking Limit as "the world's first true cross-platform benchmark for ray tracing." Given that and the benchmark meeting my benchmarking criteria, I've been trying it out on various AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards under Linux.
July 9th, 2024 — Source

Bottles 51.12 released
Bottles 51.12 have been released. Bottles is a program that lets you configure Wine environments to execute Windows applications.
July 9th, 2024 — Source

Box64 v0.3 Brings Support For Emulating x86_64 Binaries With AVX/AVX2 On ARM
Box64 v0.3 is now available as the newest feature release to this user-space x86_64 emulator for Linux binaries on AArch64 (ARM64) hosts. Box64 is one of several promising projects in this area for being able to run x86_64 games and applications under ARM64 with great speed.
July 9th, 2024 — Source

Buildah, Podman, Gvisor-Tap-Vsock, Libreswan, PKI-Core, Kernel updates for AlmaLinux
The following security updates are available for AlmaLinux:
July 9th, 2024 — Source

Experimental Code Gets Open-Source Mesa RADV Vulkan Driver Running On Windows
Over the years there have been various attempts at getting the open-source RADV Vulkan driver on Windows, Faith Ekstrand of Collabora has been recently hacking on it and achieving success for having this popular Radeon Vulkan API driver for Linux working under Windows.
July 9th, 2024 — Source

Go Update for Ubuntu
Updated Go packages are available for Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, and 24.04 LTS:
July 9th, 2024 — Source

Godot 3.6 RC 1 released
The first release candidate for Godot 3.6 is now ready for testing. Godot 3.6 is currently deemed feature complete, with various bug fixes and enhancements.
July 9th, 2024 — Source

Hyperscalers Begin Working On CentOS Stream Hyperscale 10
With CentOS Stream 10 beginning to take shape as the basis for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, the Hyperscale Special Interest Group (SIG) has begun crafting CentOS Stream Hyperscale 10.
July 9th, 2024 — Source

Kernel, Libreswan, Buildah, Poman, Gvisor-Top-Vsock for Oracle Linux
The following updates have been released for Oracle Linux:
July 9th, 2024 — Source

Less, Libreswan, EDK2, and more updates for RHEL
The following security updates have been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
July 9th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11 Will Make The Keyboard Backlight Work On More Macs
For those using an Apple Magic Keyboard with a T2-secured Mac, the upcoming Linux 6.11 kernel will enable working keyboard backlight support.
July 9th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.38 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.38 is now available:
July 9th, 2024 — Source

LIVE555 Media Server Update for Gentoo
A LIVE555 Media Server security update is available for Gentoo Linux:
July 9th, 2024 — Source

No, Linux isn't always best for IoT
Ask a connected device developer which operating system they prefer and most -- about three-quarters to be exact -- will reply with Linux. The open-source system is far and away the king of the Internet of Things (IoT) thanks to its flexibility and support for various architectures.
July 9th, 2024 — Source

NVK Driver Lands New Platform Abstraction - Working Toward Allowing Other Kernel Drivers
Merged for Mesa 24.2 is a massive set of patches providing a new platform abstraction for NVK, the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver. With this new platform abstraction it begins to open the door toward running the NVK driver on alternative kernel (DRM) drivers.
July 9th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.2.21 and 8.3.9 for Debian 11 and 12
Ondřej Surý has released PHP 8.2.21 and 8.3.9 packages for both Debian GNU/Linux 11 and 12.
July 9th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 6th, 2024

GNOME's Key Rack & Phosh Mobile Wayland Shell See New Releases
This Week in GNOME is out with their newest issue to detail changes made by various GNOME components over the first few days of July.
July 6th, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.2 To Support libinput's Auto-Scrolling Feature
It's been a busy start to July with KDE developers tackling more features for Plasma 6.2 while continuing to deliver fixes to the modern KDE Plasma desktop stack.
July 6th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.4 as Software Collection
Version 8.4.0alpha1 has been released. It's still in development and will enter soon in the stabilization phase for the developers, and the test phase for the users (see the schedule).
July 6th, 2024 — Source

X.Org X11 library, KDE Plasma Workspaces, Thunderbird, Firefox Updates for Gentoo
The following four new security updates are now available for Gentoo Linux, addressing denial of service, privilege escalation, remote code execution, and arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities:
July 6th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 5th, 2024

Cups, Python-Idna, OpenLDAP, and more updates for Oracle Linux
The following updates are available for Oracle Linux:
July 5th, 2024 — Source

Linus Torvalds Unconvinced By getrandom() In The vDSO
While there were plans of adding getrandom() in the vDSO with the upcoming Linux 6.11 merge window to speed up user-space random number generation access, Linus Torvalds is unconvinced by the work and intends to reject any pull request with it for Linux 6.11.
July 5th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11 Likely To Land DM-Verity Multi-Buffer Hashing For Big Speed Boost
One of several nice Linux performance optimizations recently by Eric Biggers of Google has been speeding up DM-Verity via multi-buffer hashing. DM-Verity is used for transparent integrity checking of block devices and this multi-buffer hashing code looks like it will land with the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle.
July 5th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11 To Offer More Fine-Tuned Control Over Swappiness
As part of the memory management changes expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle is allowing more fine-tuned control over the swappiness setting used to determine how aggressively pages are swapped out of physical system memory and into the on-disk swap space.
July 5th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11 To Upstream Support For Mobileye EyeQ 6H SoC
Back in Linux 6.9 the Mobileye EyeQ5 SoC support was upstreamed for that MIPS-based platform powering Mobileye's level-5 autonomous driving system. With the upcoming Linux 6.11 kernel, support for the newer Mobileye EyeQ6 is being upstreamed.
July 5th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 4.19.317 released
Linux kernel version 4.19.317 is now available:
July 5th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.4.279 released
Linux kernel version 5.4.279 is now available:
July 5th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.221 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.221 is now available:
July 5th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.15.162 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.162 is now available:
July 5th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.97 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.97 is now available:
July 5th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.9.8 released
Linux kernel version 6.9.8 is now available:
July 5th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.9.8 released
Linux kernel version 6.9.8 is now available:
July 5th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.4 Alpha 1 for Fedora/RHEL released
Remi Collet has released PHP 84 Alpha 1 packages for Linux distributions based on Fedora and RHEL.
July 5th, 2024 — Source

TigerVNC, WebKitGTK+, BusyBox, and more updates for Gentoo
The following security updates have been released for Gentoo Linux:
July 5th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 2nd, 2024

Arm Expands Speculative SSBS Workaround With More CPU Cores Being Affected
Arm Expands Speculative SSBS Workaround With More CPU Cores Being Affected
July 2nd, 2024 — Source

Canonical Firefighting Support offers expert troubleshooting for Ubuntu Linux systems
Canonical has introduced Firefighting Support, a service specifically designed for organizations that manage their own infrastructure but require expert assistance for troubleshooting Ubuntu systems. This service, billed annually per node, provides rapid response times and comprehensive support, including Ubuntu Pro.
July 2nd, 2024 — Source

Fedora 41 Looks To Finally Say Goodbye To Python 2.7
A change proposal has been filed by Red Hat engineer Miro Hrončok for retiring Python 2.7 within Fedora 41 and to drop packages still depending upon Python 2.
July 2nd, 2024 — Source

GraphRAG: New tool for complex data discovery now on GitHub
Earlier this year, we introduced GraphRAG, a graph-based approach to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that enables question-answering over private or previously unseen datasets. Today, we're pleased to announce that GraphRAG is now available on GitHub(opens in new tab), offering more structured information retrieval and comprehensive response generation than naive RAG approaches.
July 2nd, 2024 — Source

Intel's VA-API 2.22 Library Adds VVC/H.266 Video Decode Interface
Intel engineers today released version 2.22 of libva, the driver-agnostic library for the Video Acceleration API (VA-API). Most notable with libva 2.22 is adding a new interface for Versatile Video Coding (VVC / H.266).
July 2nd, 2024 — Source

LLVM Clang 19 Adds Initial "-std=c2y" Support For The Next C Standard
LLVM Clang 19 this morning landed initial support for the -std=c2y and -std=gnu2y options for targeting the next C programming language standard.
July 2nd, 2024 — Source

Microsoft's WSL2 Transitions To Linux 6.6 LTS Kernel
The kernel powering Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) has long been using the Linux 5.15 LTS kernel while finally it's now upgraded past that aging long-term support kernel and onto the current Linux 6.6 LTS series.
July 2nd, 2024 — Source

Miracle-WM v0.3 Released - Working Out To Daily-Drive This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor
Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek has released Miracle-WM v0.3 as the newest version of this Wayland tiling compositor built atop Mir. Miracle-WM is beginning to be useful and practical enough for daily driving by its lead developer.
July 2nd, 2024 — Source

Over 14M servers may be vulnerable to OpenSSH's regreSSHion RCE flaw. Here's what you need to do
OpenSSH, the bedrock of secure Linux network access, has a nasty security flaw.
July 2nd, 2024 — Source

Redox OS Doubles The Performance Of Its File-System & I/O Drivers
The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system is out with its monthly development summary that notes some interesting work taking place.
July 2nd, 2024 — Source

The Linux Kernel Matures To Having A Minimum Rust Toolchain Version
Nearly every Linux kernel cycle has bought patches to bump the version of the Rust language targeted by the kernel as it worked toward having a suitable minimum version. With the latest Linux kernel patches, it looks like we may be finally approaching the point where a safe minimum version can be specified and for the Linux kernel to in turn allow supporting multiple different versions of the Rust compiler.
July 2nd, 2024 — Source

Vulkan 1.3.289 Further Helps Out With Layered Driver Implementations
Vulkan 1.3.289 was released at the end of last week with a handful of clarifications/corrections to the Vulkan API specification plus one new maintenance extension.
July 2nd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 29th, 2024

Chrome's Coreboot Firmware Adapting For 64-bit Boot, Prepping For Intel Panther Lake
The Open-Source Firmware Foundation is out with an interesting blog post by Google firmware engineer Subrata Banik around adapting the Coreboot-based Chrome AP Firmware for 64-bit booting. The transition to 64-bit booting is happening for the system firmware powering Chromebooks and other Chrome devices and is driven in part for Intel Panther Lake generation hardware.
June 29th, 2024 — Source

GNOME Ends Out June With New Libadwaita Addition, Optional Building Without X11
This Week in GNOME is out with the latest summary to highlight all of the interesting changes this week.
June 29th, 2024 — Source

GStreamer, GStreamer Plugins for Gentoo
Updates for GStreamer and GStreamer Plugins are available for Gentoo Linux to address multiple vulnerabilities:
June 29th, 2024 — Source

KDE Developers Fix More Bugs For Plasma 6.1, Begin More Feature Work On Plasma 6.2
KDE developers have still been busy addressing early fallout from the Plasma 6.1 desktop that released earlier this month while also beginning more feature activity for Plasma 6.2.
June 29th, 2024 — Source

Linux Prepares New Spectre BHI Mitigation Option For Cloud Environments
For the Branch History Injection variant of Spectre (Spectre BHI) there is a patch pending to add a new mitigation option for that two year old CPU security vulnerability.
June 29th, 2024 — Source

Niri 0.1.7 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds Fractional Scaling
Niri 0.1.7 is out today as the latest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. While the version number may not signify it, Niri 0.1.7 is quite a notable feature update.
June 29th, 2024 — Source

Org-Mode and Gunicorn security updates for Debian
Updated Org-Mode and Gunicorn packages have been released for Debian GNU/Linux:
June 29th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 28th, 2024

Battlemage getting ready for Battle: Intel adds 5 new Device IDs to Linux Xe kernel
Intel submits Battlemage Device IDs to Linux driver Intel is preparing for the next generation of its Battlemage GPU series, but there was no direct update from Intel on discrete GPUs at Computex. Instead, an update was provided for the Xe2-based Lunar Lake CPU series, which will also utilize this architecture in a smaller form.
June 28th, 2024 — Source

Canonical's 'distroless' Linux images are a game-changer for enterprises
Canonical plans to offer customized Docker Linux container images with a dozen years of long-term support.
June 28th, 2024 — Source

Intel Preps More eDP Panel Replay Driver Code For Linux 6.11
On top of already having queued Intel Battlemage display support and the Battlemage device PCI IDs and other Intel kernel graphics driver features like hardware hang replays, Intel engineers today sent out another batch of "drm-intel-next" material slated for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle.
June 28th, 2024 — Source

Frr, Avahi, Hdf5, and more updates for SUSE
The following security updates have been released for openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise:
June 28th, 2024 — Source

Krita 5.2.3 released
Krita 5.2.3, a bugfix release for the popular open source painting program, has been released. It overhauls the build mechanism and allows the Continuous Integration system to build across all four platforms. Numerous updates are included in this release, including animated transform masks, jpeg-xl compatibility, Windows shortcut handling, and painting assistance.
June 28th, 2024 — Source

Open-Source Vivante NPU Driver Being Extended For The NXP i.MX 8M Plus SoC
Open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso had been doing a lot of work on the Etnaviv driver stack for open-source, reverse-engineered Vivante driver support that began with the 3D graphics support but Vizoso tackled enabling the Vivante NPU IP as well.
June 28th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI, Google ink deals to augment AI efforts with news -- it was Time for better sources
Tech giants can't play the RAG-time blues until they pay their dues -- in this case to quality publishers
June 28th, 2024 — Source

Servo Web Engine Gets WebGPU Running On OpenGL ES & Other New Features
The Rust-written Servo web layout engine continues progressing for this open-source project now stewarded by the Linux Foundation Europe and seeing code contribution from a range of developers. They have published their June 2024 status update to outline the latest accomplishments for this alternative web engine.
June 28th, 2024 — Source

Shotcut 24.06 Supports SVT-AV1 Encode & AVIF Images, Many Fixes
A few days ago was the release of the OpenShot 3.2 open-source video editor while Shotcut 24.06 also released this week as another great cross-platform, free software video editing solution.
June 28th, 2024 — Source

SUSE's "Agama" OS Installer Rolls Out New Web UI, Better Auto Installations
Agama 9 is now available and rolls out a revised web user interface. The Agama 9's new web interface is after the developers realized the web interface they had been developing would not scale well.
June 28th, 2024 — Source

The benefits of using Apache Hadoop for data processing
Did you know that 90% of the world's data has been created in the last two years alone? With such an overwhelming influx of information, businesses are constantly seeking efficient ways to manage and process their data. Enter Apache Hadoop, an open-source framework designed to handle massive datasets with ease.
June 28th, 2024 — Source

Vulkan Sparse Binding Support Comes To Lavapipe Software Driver
Merged into Mesa 24.2 on Thursday is Vulkan sparse binding support for the CPU-based Lavapipe driver.
June 28th, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.6.36 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.6.36 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
June 28th, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.9.7 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.9.7 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
June 28th, 2024 — Source

YouTube reportedly offering "lumps of cash" to major recording labels to train its AI models with huge libraries of music
AI models may soon gain access to a vast library of songs.
June 28th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 26th, 2024

Amazon cloud giant AWS wants public sector to embrace AI
Amazon's AWS, the world's biggest cloud computing outfit, is making a major push to entice the public sector to join the artificial intelligence revolution, as the generative AI race with Microsoft and Google heats up.
June 26th, 2024 — Source

AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan 2024.Q2.3 released
AMD has released an update to its AMDVLK Linux Open Source Driver for Vulkan. The Khronos Vulkan Headers have been upgraded to version 1.3.287, cooperative matrix support on gfx10 has been enabled, and a TeamFortress 2 crash, CTS failure, and incorrect vkCmdBindVertexBuffers2 handling have been fixed.
June 26th, 2024 — Source

AMDVLK 2024.Q2.3 Release Brings Few Changes
AMD has published AMDVLK 2024.Q2.3 as the newest version of their open-source Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems.
June 26th, 2024 — Source

Arch Linux Installer "Archinstall" 2.8.1 Adds Experimental LVM Support
Archinstall 2.8.1 is now available for the newest version of this easy-to-use, command-line driven installer for the Arch Linux operating system.
June 26th, 2024 — Source

CHAI releases responsible AI framework for public comment
The documents are meant to help healthcare organizations evaluate standards across the product life cycle while enabling artificial intelligence innovation, according to the Coalition for Health AI.
June 26th, 2024 — Source

ChatGPT Cheat Sheet: A Complete Guide for 2024
Get up and running with ChatGPT with this comprehensive cheat sheet. Learn everything from how to sign up for free to enterprise use cases, and start using ChatGPT quickly and effectively.
June 26th, 2024 — Source

ChatGPT's Voice Mode won't launch on time — no word from Scarlett Johansson yet
OpenAI says it needs another month to refine the Voice Mode experience for ChatGPT.
June 26th, 2024 — Source

Canonical Offers Up 12 Year "Everything LTS" For Docker Images
Ubuntu maker Canonical announced "Everything LTS" as a new initiative where for Ubuntu Pro customers they will offer up a twelve year LTS period for any open-source Docker image.
June 26th, 2024 — Source

GCC 15 Adds NVIDIA Grace CPU Support With "-mcpu=grace" Option
NVIDIA has upstreamed a patch to the GCC 15 compiler for adding the "-mcpu=grace" option to make it easier to target NVIDIA Grace AArch64 CPU cores from this open-source compiler.
June 26th, 2024 — Source

How eBPF is shaping the future of Linux and platform engineering
eBPF allows users to load and safely run custom programs within the Linux kernel, without requiring direct changes to the kernel itself. The possibilities are endless.
June 26th, 2024 — Source

How should AI depict marginalized communities? Technologists look to a more inclusive future
As artificial intelligence becomes more sophisticated and more capable of closely depicting reality, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) are working to ensure that the outputs of large language models are representative of the communities they reference.
June 26th, 2024 — Source

Intel Vulkan Driver Enables Cooperative Matrix Support For Xe2 GPUs
Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver developers continue to be quite busy in preparing for the Xe2 next-generation graphics to be found with forthcoming Lunar Lake processors and the Battlemage discrete graphics cards.
June 26th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240626 released
A new version of KDE neon has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
June 26th, 2024 — Source

openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 Now Available For Container & VM Needs
OpenSUSE has released Leap Micro 6.0 as stable for this community rebranded build of SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.0. Leap Micro continues to be focused on delivering a very reliable and robust experience for containers and virtual machines.
June 26th, 2024 — Source

Rust-Written OpenCL Driver Now Works On Raspberry Pi GPUs
Mesa's Rusticl driver as a Rust-based OpenCL driver for GPUs backed by Gallium3D support now works with the Broadcom V3D driver. This V3D support is notable as it's most commonly associated with the Raspberry Pi single board computers.
June 26th, 2024 — Source

SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 to receive support right up to end of Unix epoch
And there's a special offer on the CentOS-compatible Liberty Linux
June 26th, 2024 — Source

The XZ Utils Backdoor in Linux: A Symptom of Ailing Security in the Software Supply Chain
The reliance on community volunteers to maintain critical systems is widely documented, yet it leaves potential for extreme risk in the software supply chain.
June 26th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 24th, 2024

10 Ubuntu 24.04 amazing official distros
The Explaining Computers YouTube channel provides more information on 10 amazing Ubuntu 24.04 official distro's or flavors, each offering unique desktop environments and pre-installed applications tailored to different user needs. These flavors are developed by the wider Ubuntu community and maintain compatibility with the Ubuntu package archive for updates and software.
June 24th, 2024 — Source

ASUS ROG Raikiri Pro Controller Support Being Added To Linux 6.10
Back during the Linux 6.9 kernel cycle support was added for the ASUS ROG Raikiri as a newer gaming controller. Now on its way for landing in Linux 6.10 is support for the ASUS ROG Raikiri Pro.
June 24th, 2024 — Source

CentOS Linux 7 Is End-Of-Life Next Week
Just a friendly reminder that if you've been procrastinating in migrating past the once-great CentOS Linux 7, there is less than one week to go now until it's officially end-of-life.
June 24th, 2024 — Source

Deepin 23 is going all in on a Windows 11 look and feel - and it succeeds
Windows 11 has been a rather divisive operating system but many still enjoy it. For those who prefer to avoid ads and data mining, there's always Deepin.
June 24th, 2024 — Source

Intel P-State Patches Further Tune Linux For Better Scheduling On Hybrid CPUs
A new set of patches are currently being tested for improving task scheduling and in turn performance for modern Intel Core hybrid processors. With the patch also mentioning systems that are hybrid but without SMT, this looks like it may be some early tuning as well for upcoming Intel Lunar Lake processors that lack Hyper Threading.
June 24th, 2024 — Source

It's desktop refresh season in the land of the Windowsalikes
Those with curious disposition spoilt for choice as KDE 6.1, Cinnamon 6.2, and IceWM 3.5 all arrive
June 24th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240624 released
A new version of KDE neon has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
June 24th, 2024 — Source

Larry Finger made Linux wireless work and brought others along to learn
Remembering Finger, 84, who learned as he went and left his mark on many.
June 24th, 2024 — Source

Linux geeks cheer as Arm wrestles x86
AlmaLinux and upstream kernel support for Raspberry Pi 5, plus a forthcoming high-performance Arm64 Tuxedo laptop
June 24th, 2024 — Source

Llamafile 0.8.7 Brings Fixes, Better ARM Performance & Preps For New Server
Llamafile has been one of the better new initiatives out of Mozilla in recent years. Llamafile makes it easy to conveniently distribute and run large language models as a single file while supporting both CPU and GPU execution and all-around making AI LLMs much more approachable for end-users. Out today is Llamafile 0.8.7 with more performance optimizations and new features.
June 24th, 2024 — Source

Qualcomm Aiming For Snapdragon X Elite GPU Support In Linux 6.11
Qualcomm engineers on Sunday posted patches for enabling the Adreno X1-85 GPU within the MSM DRM driver. The Adreno X1-85 GPU is what's found within the Snapdragon X Elite SoC powering various new Windows ARM laptops although the Linux support continues maturing too for these platforms.
June 24th, 2024 — Source

RadeonSI Enables Compute PBO Blits: "Massively Improves Perf In A Number Of Cases"
Related to the work by Mike Blumenkrantz for significantly improving the Mesa glReadPixels performance by more than 100%, the open-source driver developer at Valve has now enabled compute PBO blits within mainline Mesa for the AMD Radeon "RadeonSI" Gallium3D driver.
June 24th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.10 Now Defaults To Wayland On NVIDIA
With Ubuntu 24.10 due for release in October one of the expressed planned changes has been NVIDIA defaulting to using Wayland rather than X11 for the default desktop session. As of this past week the change is now in place for Ubuntu 24.10 daily users that will find Wayland-by-default when using the official NVIDIA Linux graphics driver.
June 24th, 2024 — Source

What is Kubernetes, and why is it so important?
Kubernetes is cloud-native computing's backbone, which makes it, in turn, critical for modern computing.
June 24th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 22nd, 2024

AMD AI Compiler Engineer Lands A Generic MLIR To SPIR-V Pass In LLVM 19
Merged on Friday to LLVM 19 Git is a generic MLIR to SPIR-V pass for lowering the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation down into SPIR-V as the intermediate representation consumed by OpenGL / OpenCL / Vulkan drivers.
June 22nd, 2024 — Source

GNOME Seeing Much Work On Their "Setup" OEM Style Installer, Key Rack & oo7
GNOME developers continue to be very busy with a variety of initiatives thanks to the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) financing as well as other general development efforts as they work their way toward GNOME 47 in September.
June 22nd, 2024 — Source

JHead, LZ4, RDoc, Flatpak, GLib updates for Gentoo
The following security updates for Gentoo Linux address issues in JHead, LZ4, RDoc, Flatpak, and GLib:
June 22nd, 2024 — Source

KDE's Cube Effect Now Launches More Reliably & Other Post-6.1 Plasma Fixes
Following this week's great KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop release, developers have been fixing some minor bugs and other issues that were raised by early users of this updated open-source Qt6-powered desktop.
June 22nd, 2024 — Source

What does 'open source AI' mean, anyway?
Meet the guy working to find "the definition"
June 22nd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 21st, 2024

Blumenkrantz "Massively Improves" Mesa's glReadPixels Performance With 7 Lines Of Code
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's open-source/Linux graphics driver team has submitted a merge request to "massively" improve the OpenGL glReadPixels performance within the common Mesa state tracker.
June 21st, 2024 — Source

Building Mesa On POWER Now Presents A Default Set Of OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers
Newly merged patches for Mesa 24.2 slightly enhance the default out-of-the-box build experience for the open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers on POWER/PowerPC platforms.
June 21st, 2024 — Source

Cloud Hypervisor 40 Released With Better Boot Time Performance
Cloud Hypervisor 40.0 is out today for this open-source Rust-written VMM that started off as an Intel software project and evolved into a multi-vendor initiative with backing from the likes of Microsoft, Arm, AMD, and others for a cloud-focused, security-critical virtualization hypervisor.
June 21st, 2024 — Source

Intel Lunar Lake Workload Hints & Power Floor Patches Posted For Linux
Intel software engineers have been upstreaming the Lunar Lake support for Linux a number of months already and the basics appear in good shape, aside from the Xe2 graphics enablement being an ongoing matter. Much of the rest of the core functionality has appeared to be in good shape ahead of Lunar Lake laptops launching in Q3, but it seems there have been a few missing power management related bits.
June 21st, 2024 — Source

Intel Xe Driver Seeing PMT Support For Alchemist & Battlemage
INTELThe Intel Xe driver is working on supporting PMT functionality with a new set of patches that may be mainlined for Linux v6.11~6.12.
June 21st, 2024 — Source

Linux Can Have A "Black Screen Of Death" For Kernel Panics
With some Linux users not liking the recently showcased new Linux "Blue Screen of Death" for kernel panicsSource, Red Hat engineer Javier Martinez Canillas who has been one of those involved in the new DRM Panic infrastructure showed that it can also be a "black screen of death" if so desired.
June 21st, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.220 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.220 is now available:
June 21st, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.95 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.95 is now available:
June 21st, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.35 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.35 is now available:
June 21st, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.9.6 released
Linux kernel version 6.9.6 is now available:
June 21st, 2024 — Source

Mesa Developers Aren't Convinced Over Dropping Old OpenGL Drivers Right Now
Earlier this week was a proposal for creating a new Mesa legacy driver branch for clearing out older OpenGL drivers like the ATI R300, AMD R600, Lima, Nouveau NV30, and other older GPU drivers. However, other upstream Mesa developers aren't convinced by the proposal.
June 21st, 2024 — Source

VKD3D-Proton 2.13 Brings OpenVR/OpenXR Interop & Performance Improvements
VKD3D-Proton 2.13 is now available as the newest version of this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API translation later that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for accelerating D3D12 Windows games on Linux.
June 21st, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 20th, 2024

AMD ROCm 6.1.3 update enables multi-GPU support, beta-level support for Windows Subsystem for Linux
ROCm 6.1.3 released AMD is officially launching its latest ROCm (Radeon Open Compute) platform, now featuring support for multiple graphics cards in clusters. Earlier this month, AMD announced that the upcoming 6.1.3 update for ROCm will introduce several features requested by the community and developers.
June 20th, 2024 — Source

GCC 12.4 Compiler Released With 84+ Bugs Fixed
For those continuing to rely on the GCC 12 series open-source compiler that was introduced as stable in 2022, GCC 12.4 is out today as the newest bug fix release.
June 20th, 2024 — Source

GNOME Merges Wayland DRM Lease Protocol For Better VR Handling
Merged today into GNOME's Mutter compositor is support for the Wayland DRM lease protocol to allow for nice virtual reality (VR) headset support for GNOME on Wayland.
June 20th, 2024 — Source

GNOME Shell Accent Color Support Merged For GNOME 47
In addition to Mutter seeing Wayland DRM lease protocol support merged, another long-in-development patch series hit GNOME Shell this morning: accent color support!
June 20th, 2024 — Source

Godot 4.3 Beta 2 released
Godot 4.3 beta 2 has been released. Godot 4.3 has introduced several new features, including audio playback support for Web exports, Android splash screen logic updates, Wayland implementation of IME support, and rendering support for enhanced barriers in D3D12.
June 20th, 2024 — Source

Intel Linux NPU Driver v1.5 Released - Now Validated On Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake
Intel on Wednesday released version 1.5 of their Linux NPU driver, their user-space driver component for Linux systems in enabling the neural processing unit found with Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors and newer. This goes along with their upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for allowing a full open-source solution for AI workloads with the likes of OpenVINO.
June 20th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240620 released
A new version of KDE neon has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
June 20th, 2024 — Source

Kdenlive 24.05.1 released
The Kdenlive 24.05.1 maintenance version fixes difficulties with the spacer tool, effects and compositions, subtitle management, project settings, undo/redo track insertion, and multiple track insertion. It also enhances AppImage packaging and adds notarization support for macOS.
June 20th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.1.2 released
The second bugfix release for Mesa 24.1 is now available. The change log includes several updates and bug fixes for various components of the project.
June 20th, 2024 — Source

Monochrome TV Mode Coming To Linux 6.11, Added By Raspberry Pi Developers
Another weeks worth of random DRM-Misc-Next changes have been queued ahead of next month's Linux 6.11 merge window.
June 20th, 2024 — Source

Theseus Ship 6.1 Released For This KWinFT Evolution Now Based On KDE Plasma 6.1
Theseus Ship is the X11/Wayland compositor previously known as KWinFT developed by Roman Gilg as a fork of KDE Plasma's KWin. Pulling in patches from KWin in this week's KDE Plasma 6.1 release, Theseus Ship 6.1 is now available.
June 20th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 17th, 2024

5 Linux commands you need to gather your system's most important information
Linux never suffers from having too little information. With just a few commands, you can gather all the details you need to understand what's under the hood of your computer.
June 17th, 2024 — Source

Fedora 41 Looks To Offer A KDE Plasma Mobile Spin
Two new change proposals have been filed for enhancing the KDE offerings with this autumn's Fedora 41 release.
June 17th, 2024 — Source

FreeBSD 14.1 versus DragonFlyBSD 6.4 versus NetBSD 10 versus Linux Benchmarks
After last week looking at how FreeBSD 14.1 has improved performance over FreeBSD 14.0, here is an expanded cross-OS comparison now looking at how the new FreeBSD 14.1 stable release compares to the recently released NetBSD 10.0, the current DragonFlyBSD 6.4 release, and then CentOS Stream 9 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for some Linux comparison data points.
June 17th, 2024 — Source

GNOME Software To Better Support NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver
As a planned change for Fedora 41, Red Hat engineers are working on upstream GNOME Software better supporting the NVIDIA proprietary driver installation by allowing the installation to work gracefully with UEFI Secure Boot enabled systems.
June 17th, 2024 — Source

Linux To Incorporate Intel CPU Hybrid Topology For Determining Vulnerabilities/Mitigations
Within the every increasingly complex world of CPU security mitigations, Intel engineers have submitted Linux kernel patches to begin taking into account the CPU core "hybrid" topology when determining relevant CPU security vulnerabilities and in turn the mitigations to apply.
June 17th, 2024 — Source

NumPy 2.0 Brings Faster Performance Thanks To Intel's x86-simd-sort & Google's Highway
NumPy 2.0 was released on Sunday that's been in the making for the past year and their first major release since 2006. While it comes with API/ABI breakage, NumPy 2.0 delivers new features and performance improvements.
June 17th, 2024 — Source

Open Image Denoise 2.3 Prepares For Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake & Battlemage
Intel's Open Image Denoise open-source software that is a denoising library used by Blender and other applications is out with a new feature release as it prepares for the integrated graphics of upcoming Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors as well as nearing the launch of Xe2 / Battlemage discrete graphics.
June 17th, 2024 — Source

Sam Altman might reportedly turn OpenAI into a regular for-profit company
OpenAI might turn into a 'regular' company.
June 17th, 2024 — Source

Sovereign Tech Fund Opens Up To Smaller Investments & Updated Criteria
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has been making sizable investments into various Linux desktop projects, the Rust-based Coreutils implementation, libmicrohttpd, PHP, a systemd bug bounty, and other prominent open-source software that could benefit from greater financial resources.
June 17th, 2024 — Source

The JFS File-System Remains In Sad Shape With The Upstream Linux Kernel
While at the start of 2023 was talk among kernel developers for orphaning the JFS file-system at a time that developers began the processes toward removing the ReiserFS file-system driver, the Journaled File-System so far remains within the mainline kernel and not yet officially orphaned.
June 17th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 16th, 2024

Fedora Making Strides On Enabling Greater AI Use, Easier AMD ROCm PyTorch Acceleration
Christian Schaller of Red Hat shared an update on Friday around the ongoing enhancements to Fedora Workstation. Given the current industry trends, ongoing Fedora Workstation development is seeing a lot of attention around... AI, AI, AI.
June 16th, 2024 — Source

IceWM 3.6 Released With A Few New Features & Fixes
IceWM 3.6 is out today as the newest version of this lightweight X11 window manager.
June 16th, 2024 — Source

IceWM 3.6.0 released
A new version of the IceWM window manager has been released. The change log includes features like composing characters in the address bar, double-clicking for window maximizing, and restoring resized windows. It also addresses duplicate requests from GNOME, avoids invalid work areas, dispatches events to destroyed windows, and updates translations to Kazakh and Georgian.
June 16th, 2024 — Source

Linux Kernel 4.19.316 released
Linux kernel 4.19.316 has been released.
June 16th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.219 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.219 is now available:
June 16th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.15.161 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.161 is now available:
June 16th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.4.278 released
Linux kernel version 5.4.278 is now available:
June 16th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.94 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.94 is now available:
June 16th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.34 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.34 is now available:
June 16th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.9.5 released
Linux kernel version 6.9.5 is now available:
June 16th, 2024 — Source

Linux's New DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" In Action
After being talked about for years of DRM panic handling and coming with a "Blue Screen of Death" solution for DRM/KMS drivers, Linux 6.10 is introducing a new DRM panic handler infrastructure for being able to display a message when a panic occurs.
June 16th, 2024 — Source

reminder: CentOS Linux 7 EOL / infra services disappearing in two weeks
As discussed multiple times on various lists, CentOS Linux 7 will go EOL in two weeks (end of June) and so that means that various services running on CentOS 7 will disappear too.
June 16th, 2024 — Source

RKVDEC2 Driver Posted For Accelerated Video Decoding On Newer Rockchip SoCs
For years there has been the RKVDEC Linux media driver to provide accelerated video decoding on Rockchip SoCs. Being worked on now is RKVDEC2 for providing video decoding on the newer Rockchip SoCs.
June 16th, 2024 — Source

VMware Hypercall API To Likely Land In Linux 6.11
For months Broadcom has been working on the VMware Hypercall API for the Linux kernel. This "vmware_hyperscall" is a new family of functions for use by the VMware guest code and virtual device drivers in an architecture-independent manner.
June 16th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 15th, 2024

Apple M4 Support Added To The LLVM Compiler, Confirming Its ISA Capabilities
Apple compiler engineers have contributed Apple M4 CPU support to the upstream LLVM/Clang compiler via the new -mcpu=apple-m4 target. Interestingly the Apple M4 is exposed as an ARMv8.7 derived design.
June 15th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 14th, 2024

AlmaLinux Now Supports Raspberry Pi 5
If you're looking to create with the Raspberry Pi 5 and want to use AlmaLinux as your OS, you're in luck because it's now possible.
June 14th, 2024 — Source

Best antivirus software 2024: Keep your PC safe from malware, spyware, and more
You need more than just prayer and luck—choose from our top antivirus software picks to stay safe.
June 14th, 2024 — Source

Intel To Upstream Habana Labs Network Drivers Into The Linux Kernel
While for years there has been the Habana Labs AI accelerator driver within the mainline Linux kernel, this "accel" driver has been focused on just supporting training/inference across their products. Now being worked on for the mainline Linux kernel are upstreaming the Habana Labs network drivers that can be used for scaling out the AI workloads across multiple systems.
June 14th, 2024 — Source

Intel Vulkan Driver Halves The Time Required For Startup
Intel's open-source Vulkan Linux driver "ANV" has reduced the driver start-up time by about half.
June 14th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10-rc4 To Fix Display For The Ayaneo Kun Gaming Handheld
For those interested in running Linux on the Ayaneo Kun handheld gaming console alternative to Valve's Steam Deck and the ASUS ROG Ally, among others, a display quirk has been submitted ahead of the Linux 6.10-rc4 release this weekend to fix the display handling.
June 14th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.11 Bringing "Hardware Replay" Feature For Intel Graphics Debugging
The main set of drm-intel-gt-next patches aiming for the inux 6.11 kernel were submitted this week to DRM-Next. Most notable with this feature update for the next kernel version is enabling a new hardware replay feature for better reproducing GPU hangs.
June 14th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.2 Adds Support For Fixed-Rate Compression Extensions For OpenGL & EGL
Being merged to Mesa 24.2 this week is a set of 12 patches that have been four months in the making for supporting the OpenGL/EGL fixed-rate compression extensions.
June 14th, 2024 — Source

Qt 6.8 Beta Released With Multi-View Rendering, Better GNOME Wayland Experience
The first beta release of the Qt 6.8 toolkit is now available for testing with many new features.
June 14th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.10 Seeing More Desktop Installer Improvements, Improving The Steam Snap

Software — Utilities — June 14th, 2024

June 14th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 12th, 2024

AMD Fast CPPC To Be Merged For Linux 6.11
The AMD Fast CPPC feature enablement for the "amd_pstate" driver has been submitted to the power management subsystem ahead of next month's Linux 6.11 merge window.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

Databricks races with Snowflake to open up data catalog source code
Databricks' Unity Catalog, now open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license, competes with Snowflake's Polaris Catalog, which will soon be open source.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

Intel's oneDNN 3.5 Begins Optimizing For Xe2, More Xeon 6 Tuning
Intel's oneDNN 3.5 has been released as this Deep Neural Network Library for the oneAPI specification and now part of the UXL Foundation. With oneDNN 3.5 comes more performance optimizations for existing and upcoming Intel hardware.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

FreeBSD 14.1 versus FreeBSD 14.0 Benchmarks On AMD Ryzen Threadripper
Debuting last week was FreeBSD 14.1 with performance improvements and more. Given there being some performance optimizations and other upgrades like a more recent LLVM Clang compiler by default, I've begun running some benchmarks of this newest FreeBSD stable release.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

FreeBSD Community Survey Confirms ZFS Is Their Most Valued Server Feature
BSDThe FreeBSD Foundation has published the results of the FreeBSD Community Survey that reveal interesting insights about FreeBSD usage and its users.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

Intel Low Power Mode Daemon v0.0.4 Released To Optimize Hybrid CPUs On Linux
Intel Low Power Mode Daemon v0.0.4 has been released with "LPMD" being the open-source daemon for optimize active idle power for modern Core hybrid CPUs under Linux that sport a combination of the E and P cores.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

K8s celebrates KuberTENes: A decade of working together
Give yourselves a pat on the back - all 88,000 of you
June 12th, 2024 — Source

Libxml2 2.12.8 released
Nick Wellnhofer has announced the release of Libxml2 2.12.8 to address a performance regression when parsing namespaces.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

Libxml2 2.13.0 released
including the ability to reliably report malloc failures, the addition of additional API functions for error handling, improved error messages, and the removal of HTTP POST functionality. Additionally, in order to enable support for zlib, liblzma, and HTTP, you must specify "-with-zlib," "-with-lzma," or "-with-html" when configuring.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

Libxslt 1.1.40 released
Libxslt version 1.1.40 has been released. The change log includes the removal of the maxparserdepth option, enhancements, the deprecation of xmlXPtrNewContext, the discontinuation of xmlMemoryDump, a preference for XML_PARSE_NONET over xmlNoNetEntityLoader, and corrections for EXSLT methods without parameters.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.93 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.93 is now available:
June 12th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.33 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.33 is now available:
June 12th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.9.4 released
Linux kernel version 6.9.4 is now available:
June 12th, 2024 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.9-3 released
Steven Barrett has announced the release of a new Liquorix kernel based on Linux kernel 6.9.4. The Liquorix Linux kernel is an enthusiast Linux kernel that is optimized for low latency computing in audiovisual production, reduced frame time variations in games, and unparalleled responsiveness in interactive systems.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

LLVM Clang 19 Lands Support For C23's #embed
Merged today to LLVM Clang 19 Git is support for the #embed resource inclusion mechanism that is an approved C23 feature. This also makes Clang the first for supporting this pre-processor embed feature.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

Marek Lands 40 Patch Series To Further Enhance The Open-Source AMD Graphics Driver
Well known open-source AMD OpenGL/Gallium3D driver developer Marek Olšák has landed a big patch series into Mesa 24.2 for a universal optimized compute image clear/blit shader and MSAA-resolving pixel shader.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

NixOS 24.05 Is Ready for Prime Time
The latest release of NixOS (Uakari) has arrived and offers its usual reproducible, declarative, and reliable goodness.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

OBS Studio 30.2.0 Beta 2 released
The second beta version of OBS Studio 30.2.0 is now ready for testing. The change log fixes several bugs in Beta 1, including a crash when canceling a stream attempt with incompatible settings, a WebSocket settings migration issue, a theme loading issue, Lua scripts not working on Linux, a chapter marker hotkey setting not showing up, incorrect Replay Buffer button text, theme overriding another theme with the same ID, a warning dialog box for Multitrack Video errors with untranslated buttons, clarification of warning messages.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

openSUSE Leap 15.6 Release - Adds Cockpit, Linux 6.4 & Other Updates
OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 is now officially available for this community Linux distribution release aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 6. With Leap 15.6 comes the inclusion of the Cockpit web administration software and many software updates.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

Proton 9.0-2 released
Proton 9.0-2 fixes multiple issues in a variety of titles, including Alpha League, Battlezone Gold Edition in VR mode, Black Desert Online, Freestyle Football R, Helldivers 2, Hero's Land, Iragon, SimCity 3000 Unlimited, and Warlords Battlecry III. It also added support for controllers via Xalia to the Clustertruck, Fallout 3, and Mutster launchers.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

Safety-Critical Rust Consortium Announced
In aiming to make the Rust programming language more suitable for safety-critical software like within automobiles, aviation, and other industries, the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium was announced today.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

Say goodbye to Microsoft Windows 11: openSUSE Leap 15.6 is the Linux-based operating system you need!
If you're considering a shift from Windows 11, openSUSE Leap 15.6, which is released today, presents itself as a viable alternative with several enhancements that cater to a wide range of users, from tech professionals to enthusiasts.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

Valve Rolls Out Proton 9.0-2 With Many Fixes For Running More Games On Steam Play
Proton 9.0-2 is out this afternoon as the Valve/CodeWeavers downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games under Linux within the Steam client.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.6.33 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.6.33 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
June 12th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 10th, 2024

5 Linux commands you need to know to troubleshoot problems
Having issues in Linux? These commands can help you get to the bottom of them.
June 10th, 2024 — Source

A Lot More AMD RDNA4/GFX12 Graphics Driver Code Has Landed In Mesa 24.2
A lot of AMD GFX12 IP enablement landed in Mesa 24.2-devel over the past week for bringing up the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver and RADV Vulkan driver for the upcoming RDNA4 graphics.
June 10th, 2024 — Source

AMD Posts New Linux Patches For Per-Core CPU Energy Counters
After an attempt in early 2023 didn't pan out, today an AMD Linux engineer posted a new kernel patch series for enabling per-core RAPL energy counter support for AMD processors. With this patch series when using Linux's venerable perf utility it's now possible for reading the power use on a per CPU core basis using a new "power_per_core" PMU.
June 10th, 2024 — Source

Disenchanted Windows user? Pop open a fresh can of Linux Lite
Version 7.0 has landed -- the Ubuntu Noble based one
June 10th, 2024 — Source

Firefox 127 With 32-bit x86 Linux Pretending To Be "x86_64" To Reduce Fingerprinting
Mozilla Firefox 127.0 binaries are available for download today ahead of tomorrow's official announcement. Firefox 127 brings a few nice changes for this month's feature update.
June 10th, 2024 — Source

Flowblade 2.16.3
Flowblade is a multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux released under GPL 3 license.
June 10th, 2024 — Source

Linux to compete with Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs as TUXEDO unveils Snapdragon X Elite ARM notebook
While Source are set to feature this advanced processor, Linux enthusiasts have reasons to celebrate as well. You see, TUXEDO Computers is bringing this cutting-edge technology to the Linux world with its upcoming ARM notebook, positioning it as a strong competitor to Windows 11 Copilot+ devices.
June 10th, 2024 — Source

One-Line Patch For Intel Meteor Lake Yields Up To 72% Better Performance, +7% Geo Mean
I was curious with the Intel claims posted for a couple benchmarks and thus over the weekend set out to run many Intel Meteor Lake benchmarks on this one-line kernel patch... The results are great for boosting the Linux performance of Intel Core ultra laptops with as much as 72% better performance.
June 10th, 2024 — Source

Ruby, Grub2, Systemd Updates for Oracle Linux
The following security updates have been released for Oracle Linux:
June 10th, 2024 — Source

The Quest For Faster getrandom() Performance Continues Two Years Later
Going back just under two years was the propsal for adding getrandom() to the vDSO in the quest to achieve faster performance for obtaining random numbers in user-space. That effort while seemingly simple remains an ongoing and contentious matter.
June 10th, 2024 — Source

TUXEDO Developing A Snapdragon X Elite Linux Laptop
Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers is working on bringing a Snapdragon X Elite powered laptop to market.
June 10th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 9th, 2024

AMD's Linux Kernel Compute Driver For ROCm Begins Preparing For RDNA4 GPUs
In addition to debuting their "Peano" LLVM compiler back-end for Ryzen AI NPUs on Friday, AMD also submitted a new batch of feature code for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver of new feature code aiming for the upcoming Linux 6.11 merge window.
June 9th, 2024 — Source

Intel In-Tree Linux Network Drivers Being Adapted To Support Firmware Updates
Intel's IGB and IXGBE network drivers within the mainline Linux kernel are being adapted to support firmware updates for the underlying driver. To date such functionality was limited to Intel's out-of-tree versions of these drivers for their higher-end network hardware.
June 9th, 2024 — Source

Mold 2.32 Released With Increased LLVM LLD Compatibility, Faster Identical Code Folding
Mold 2.32 is out as the newest feature release for this high speed code linker that rivals LLVM LLD and GNU Gold.
June 9th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 8th, 2024

18 Best Free and Open Source Build Systems
Build automation is the process of automating the creation of a software build and the associated processes including: compiling computer source code into binary code, packaging binary code, and running automated tests.
June 8th, 2024 — Source

GNOME OS Continues Seeing New Features, New GNOME App for Viewing 3D Models
GNOME developers continue to be quite busy this summer from enhancing their desktop with more security and accessibility features to further crafting GNOME OS.
June 8th, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.1 Is Looking To Be A "Good One"
The KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop is due for release in a little more than one week. Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham thinks this is going to be a "good one" with a lot of new features, better performance, and more.
June 8th, 2024 — Source

OBS Studio 30.2 Beta Brings Native NVENC Encoder Support On Linux
Out for testing this weekend is the OBS Studio 30.2 beta software for those into live-streaming their desktop and other screen recording purposes. With the OBS Studio 30.2 release there are video encode improvements for Linux, support for multi-track video streaming, hybrid MP4 output, and other new features.
June 8th, 2024 — Source

Redox OS With COSMIC Apps Is Looking Quite Nice
Jeremy Soller who is an engineer at System76 and manages a side hustle of leading development on the open-source, Rust-written Redox OS has shared the latest look at this open-source operating system with the System76 COSMIC desktop applications.
June 8th, 2024 — Source

Ventoy 1.0.99 released
Ventoy version 1.0.99 has been released. Ventoy is an open-source utility for creating bootable USB drives from ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
June 8th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 7th, 2024

AMD Lands Support For Vendor Flavored SPIR-V Within LLVM
SPIR-V used by the likes of OpenGL, OpenCL, and Vulkan is a common intermediate representation (IR) / intermediate language for consumption by device drivers. With code now merged into LLVM, AMD has introduced the notion of vendor "flavored" SPIR-V for containing extra information pertinent to the GPU device/driver being targeted.
June 7th, 2024 — Source

Big Speed Boost For AES-GCM Performance On Intel & AMD CPUs Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.11
The patches recently covered on Phoronix for up to 162% faster AES-GCM encryption/decryption with modern Intel and AMD processors is now queued for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle!
June 7th, 2024 — Source

Improved Linux Driver Support Coming For LG Gram 2024 Laptop Models
Merged to the Linux kernel back in 2018 was an LG Gram laptop driver for supporting various hotkeys and extra functionality of these LG laptops. That driver is now being extended to support the latest LG Gram laptop models.
June 7th, 2024 — Source

Intel's Xe Driver Preps For SR-IOV Support & More Lunar Lake With Linux 6.11
On Thursday the first set of Intel Xe driver feature updates were submitted to DRM-Next of material intended for merging with the Linux 6.11 kernel in July.
June 7th, 2024 — Source

KDE Frameworks 6.3 released
KDE has announced the release of KDE Frameworks 6.3.0, a set of 72 mature, peer-reviewed, and well-tested Qt addon libraries that provide a wide range of regularly used functionality under favorable licensing terms.
June 7th, 2024 — Source

Security Onion -- platform built by defenders for defenders
Security Onion is a platform built by defenders for defenders. It includes network visibility, host visibility, intrusion detection honeypots, log management, and case management.
June 7th, 2024 — Source

The Most Popular Linux Hardware Reviews & Featured Articles Over 20 Years
With this week marking the 20th birthday of Phoronix, as part of the commemorative articles this week has been looking at the most popular Linux/open-source news over 20 years. In the piece today is looking back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and other featured articles on Phoronix since 2004.
June 7th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu Linux Core 24 is a leap forward for IoT and edge computing
Canonical's latest Linux for the Internet of Things and Edge computing is a winner.
June 7th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 6th, 2024

9 Best Free and Open Source Host-Based Intrusion Detection Systems
An intrusion detection system is a device or software application that monitors a network or systems for malicious activity or policy violations.
June 6th, 2024 — Source

abcde -- CD ripping software for the command line
CD audio grabbers are designed to extract ("rip") the raw digital audio (in a format commonly called CDDA) from a compact disc to a file or other output. This type of software enables a user to encode the digital audio into a variety of formats, and download and upload disc info from freedb, an internet compact disc database.
June 6th, 2024 — Source

AMD EPYC 4364P & 4564P @ DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5200 versus Intel Xeon E-2488
With the AMD EPYC 4004 series that was announced in May and we have delivered benchmarks of the entire EPYC 4004 stack from the 4-core SKU up through the 16-core model with 3D V-Cache, there are many advantages over Intel's Xeon E-2400 series competition.
June 6th, 2024 — Source

Camtasia 2024 embraces AI to improve workflow and simplify video creation
Michigan-based TechSmith has launched Camtasia 2024, a major new release of its professional screen recording and video editing tool for Mac and Windows.
June 6th, 2024 — Source

Libinput 1.26 Rolls Out New Features, gsetwacom Introduced To Replace xsetwacom
Red Hat's Peter Hutterer is out with two important updates to the Linux input stack: libinput 1.26 has released for this input handling library used both by X.Org and Wayland systems and then secondly he has announced the "gsetwacom" CLI program as a replacement to the "xsetwacom" program.
June 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 Fixes AMD Zen 5 CPU Frequency Reporting With cpupower
This week's pull request of power management fixes for the Linux 6.10 kernel has an important change for the in-tree cpupower utility to fix P-State frequency reporting on upcoming Zen 5 (Family 1Ah) processors.
June 6th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0 Preview
Microsoft has published its first tagged preview of the upcoming Azure Linux 3.0 operating system.
June 6th, 2024 — Source

New AMD RDNA 3.5 GPU Target "GFX1152" Appears In Open-Source Linux Driver
When it comes to the RDNA 3.5 / RDNA 3+ integrated graphics found with upcoming AMD products, the graphics driver IP has been referred to as "GFX1150" and "GFX1151" of the AMD GFX 11.5 graphics IP. But now appearing today within the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler is a new GFX1152 variant.
June 6th, 2024 — Source

NixOS 24.05 Is Ready for Prime Time
The latest release of NixOS (Uakari) has arrived and offers its usual reproducible, declarative, and reliable goodness.
June 6th, 2024 — Source

Samhain -- host-based intrusion detection system
The Samhain host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) provides file integrity checking and log file monitoring/analysis, as well as rootkit detection, port monitoring, detection of rogue SUID executables, and hidden processes.
June 6th, 2024 — Source

Shopping For A Launch-Day AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Laptop For Linux Testing
With this week's Computex announcement by AMD of the Ryzen AI 300 series laptop processors built atop Zen 5, one of the pleasant aspects has been several laptop models being announced already to be powered by either the Ryzen AI 9 365 or Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 flagship models.
June 6th, 2024 — Source

Sovereign Tech Fund Providing €300k For GNU libmicrohttpd
The latest funding for open-source from Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund is providing €300,000 over the course of the next year for improving GNU libmicrohttpd for building high performance HTTP web servers.
June 6th, 2024 — Source

The Most Popular Linux News Over The Past 20 Years
With yesterday marking the 20th birthday of Phoronix, I was curious what the most popular news articles were over these past two decades. There's a lot of compiler fodder, news from the early days of AMD Ryzen, Linus Torvalds commentary, and more.
June 6th, 2024 — Source

Updated AMD GPU Firmware Makes Valve's Steam Deck More Robust Against Buggy Apps
AMD has published a new set of AMDGPU firmware binaries for Linux users. In particular, this should benefit AMD APUs the most and these firmware improvements were focused on Valve's Steam Deck to make the device more robust against buggy applications.
June 6th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 23.10 users need to start upgrading systems to avoid exposure to malware next month
If you are running Ubuntu 23.10, you need to upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS by July 11, 2024, if you want to continue receiving security updates. While Linux is a pretty secure operating system, it's still not a good idea to use an OS that is no longer receiving security patches.
June 6th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 31st, 2024

A great journey towards Fedora CoreOS and bootc
Some time ago I wrote an article about Fedora Server. At the time, I didn't know Fedora CoreOS, and my use case lead me to Fedora Server as a good alternative to run my workload which is mainly based on containers. Thanks to comments from the community, I learned about Fedora CoreOS as the natural next step, and they were not wrong.
May 31st, 2024 — Source

Bcachefs Preparing For New Features In Linux 6.11
Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet sent in a batch of file-system fixes on Thursday for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel. In that pull request he teased features that are set to arrive with the Linux 6.11 kernel later in the summer.
May 31st, 2024 — Source

Dav1d 1.4.2 Provides More AVX2 & AVX-512 Performance Optimizations
Jean-Baptiste Kempf released Dav1d 1.4.2 as the newest version of this speedy CPU-based AV1 video decoder. With this new dav1d 1.4.2 update are yet more performance optimizations for modern systems.
May 31st, 2024 — Source

Endless OS 6: How desktop Linux may look, one day
An extra-robust, novice-friendly distro, with local apps, that's not ChromeOS
May 31st, 2024 — Source

Godot 4.3 Beta 1 Released With Native Wayland Support
The open-source Godot game engine has worked its way up to the Godot 4.3 Beta 1 milestone with some exciting achievements.
May 31st, 2024 — Source or Source

Intel Lands A Nice Memset Performance Optimization In Glibc
Intel engineer Noah Goldstein has landed another nice performance optimization in the GNU C Library "glibc" for benefiting newer Intel processors.
May 31st, 2024 — Source

Kdenlive 24.05 Brings Multi-Format Rendering, Automatic Subtitle Translations
If the recent release of Flowblade 2.16 video editor wasn't of interest to you due to being GTK-based software, the Qt/KDE-aligned Kdenlive video editor is out this week with its Kdenlive 24.05 feature release.
May 31st, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 Is Making It Much Easier To Deal With Quirky Touchscreens
Right now when dealing with quirky/buggy touchscreens a C file needs to be manually manipulated and the Linux kernel recompiled. With a new "i2c_touchscreen_props" kernel command line option on its way to the mainline kernel, the process of overriding touchscreen properties is dramatically easier for those dealing with Linux on touchscreen-enabled devices.
May 31st, 2024 — Source

More AMDGPU Linux Firmware Published For RDNA 3+
Last month we began seeing AMDGPU driver firmware files published for the rumored "RDNA3+" hardware as an RDNA3 refresh (also as "RDNA 3.5") for upcoming APUs. More firmware files have now landed public in linux-firmware.git for these forthcoming RDNA3 refresh products.
May 31st, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.9.3 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.9.3 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
May 31st, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 30th, 2024

AMD & Intel Team Up For UALink As Open Alternative To NVIDIA's NVLink
It's rare for an advanced media briefing to involve representatives from both AMD and Intel, but that happened yesterday. AMD and Intel along with Broadcom have formed the Ultra Accelerator Link "UALink" as a new open standard they are hoping to use to take on NVIDIA's proprietary NVLink interface.
May 30th, 2024 — Source

Fedora's New Web-Based Installer UI Delayed Yet Again... Now In 2025 With Fedora 42
It's been more than two years now talking about the Anaconda installer for Fedora/RHEL shifting to a web-based UI. Going back to Fedora 37 have been previews and plans for getting this modern user interface up to parity but it's been a long road.
May 30th, 2024 — Source

GNOME 46.2 released
GNOME 46.2 is now available. This is the first stable bugfix release for GNOME 46. All operating systems shipping GNOME 46 are encouraged to upgrade.
May 30th, 2024 — Source

Google Enabling PowerVR Rogue GX6250 Open-Source Support With The MediaTek MT8173
Building off the PowerVR kernel driver merged in Linux 6.8 and PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa 24.0 that are both focused on Imagination's newer PowerVR Rogue architecture, Google engineers are working on enabling open-source driver support for the PowerVR Rogue GX6250 as found within the MediaTek MT8173 SoC.
May 30th, 2024 — Source

Intel Battlemage Platform Support Begins Landing In Mesa 24.2
The Intel Battlemage discrete graphics support is beginning to come together for the open-source Linux graphics driver stack as the successor to DG2/Alchemist.
May 30th, 2024 — Source

Intel Improving NMI Source Reporting On Linux With FRED
As part of Intel's Flexible Return Event Delivery (FRED), Intel open-source software engineers are now working on improving Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) source reporting for the Linux kernel.
May 30th, 2024 — Source

KaOS Linux 2024.05 Adds Bcachfs Support and More
With updates all around, KaOS Linux now includes support for the bcachefs file system.
May 30th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240530 released
A new version of KDE neon has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
May 30th, 2024 — Source

KDGpu v0.5 Vulkan Wrapper Released, KDXr Begins Wrapping OpenXR
Last year the KDAB consulting firm typically associated with Qt work published KDGpu as a thin Vulkan wrapper to make it easier leveraging this graphics API. Out today is KDGpu v0.5 with many improvements to this Vulkan wrapper.
May 30th, 2024 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.8.12 released
Linux kernel version 6.8.12 (EOL) is now available:
May 30th, 2024 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.9.3 released
Linux kernel version 6.9.3 is now available:
May 30th, 2024 — Source

Nobara 40 is coming soon
GloriousEggroll is preparing a new Nobara Linux release based on Fedora Linux 40. Users who are currently running Nobara Linux 39 can already upgrade to the new version.
May 30th, 2024 — Source

PrimTux -- educational distribution
PrimTux is a Linux-based operating system. This is a French and educational distribution created for primary school education.
May 30th, 2024 — Source

Real-Time Kernel Now Available On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Similar to the real-time kernel for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Canonical announced today the availability of their new real-time "RT" kernel for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. But like with the existing Ubuntu RT kernels, this real-time support is limited to Ubuntu Pro subscriptions.
May 30th, 2024 — Source

Servo Web Engine Continues Advancing But Seeing Just $1.6k In Monthly Donations
The Rust-written Servo web engine as a reminder was started as a Mozilla project but then abandoned and now developed by multiple organizations as part of Linux Foundation Europe. The Servo project has put out a new status update that highlights the work accomplished in recent weeks.
May 30th, 2024 — Source

Yocto 5.0 LTS Released - Now Powered By Linux 6.6 LTS, Boeing Joins The Project
Yocto 5.0 LTS has been released as the newest version from the Yocto Project that is popular for organizations assembling their own embedded/IoT-minded custom Linux distributions. The Linux Foundation also announced today that Boeing has become a Platinum Member with Yocto.
May 30th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 29th, 2024

Apache NetBeans 22 released
Apache NetBeans IDE 22 has been released. NetBeans has been updated with various modifications, including the ability to import Payara Server configurations, fix DB selection in JPA entity generation, ensure that only current schemas are resolved, and add support for GlassFish 7.0.14 and GlassFish 8.0.0-M4. The JSF Facelets template wizard now supports the JSF 4+ namespace.
May 29th, 2024 — Source

Arm Announces The Cortex-X925 & Cortex-A725
Arm today announced the latest products in the Armv9 CPU portfolio: the Cortex-X925 as their "ultimate performance" processor and the Cortex-A725 as their processor option for sustained performance.
May 29th, 2024 — Source

Canonical Developing "Flamenco" For Enhancing .NET Developer Experience On Ubuntu
UBUNTUOne of the newest open-source projects in-development by Ubuntu maker Canonical is a new C# written program called Flamenco.
May 29th, 2024 — Source

Fancy climbing the peaks of Alpine Linux? 3.20 is out
Tiny, powerful, uncluttered: not easy, but a lot to like
May 29th, 2024 — Source

Flowblade 2.16 Open-Source Video Editor Released
Flowblade 2.16 is out today as the newest version of this open-source non-linear video editor.
May 29th, 2024 — Source

Flowblade 2.16 released
A new version of the multitrack non-linear open source video editor Flowblade has been released. The software has a variety of editing capabilities, such as clip parenting and audio synchronization, as well as a limit of 21 combined video and audio tracks. It also provides picture compositing techniques, including 19 blend options and 40+ pattern wipes.
May 29th, 2024 — Source

Framework Announces Intel Core Ultra Powered Laptop With 2.8k Display
Framework is out today with some exciting announcements from lowering the price of the existing Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 series SoC to announcing a new Framework Laptop 13 powered by Intel Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) and having a new 2.8K display option for this modular/upgradeable laptop shipping this summer.
May 29th, 2024 — Source

Intel Makes One Line Tweak To GCC To Fix A "Random Performance Penalty"
Coming up on my radar today is a commit made to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for adjusting the loop alignment with Intel's generic tuning path. In turn this should address "some random performance penalty in benchmarks" with coping better around cache lines.
May 29th, 2024 — Source

Intel's Sub-NUMA Clustering Support Linux Patches Spun A 19th Time
The past year there's been a big Linux kernel patch series in the work by Intel to improve Sub-NUMA Clustering "SNC" support so it behaves well with Intel Resource Director Technology (RDT) on modern Intel hardware. Hopefully that work will soon be ready for mainlining in the Linux kernel while this week brought the 19th revision to those patches.
May 29th, 2024 — Source

JFrog and GitHub team up to closely integrate their source code and binary platforms
GitHub and JFrog announced a partnership on Wednesday that will see a deeper integration between the two companies' platforms, giving developers and their support teams an easier way to manage both their source code and the resulting binaries across both services.
May 29th, 2024 — Source

KDE Launches "Opt Green" Initiative For Sustainable Software & Hardware
KDE today announced "Opt Green: Sustainable Software For Sustainable Hardware" with funding from the German government. The focus on this KDE Opt Green initiative is:
May 29th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 Features Include TPM Bus Encryption, More AMD Zen 5 & A Prison Letter Merge Request
Now that the Linux 6.10 merge window has wrapped up, here's a look at all of the exciting features/changes coming to this summer 2024 kernel. Linux 6.10 brings a lot as usual for the latest/upcoming Intel and AMD platforms, never-ending work on file-systems, a new memory sealing "mseal" system call, TPM bus encryption, and dozens of other exciting changes and new hardware support.
May 29th, 2024 — Source

QuestDB 8.0 Brings Up To 50% Performance Improvement, ZFS Data Compression
QuestDB 8.0 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source time-series database. QuestDB continues to cater to high throughput ingestion and fast SQL queries so it can handle use-cases from financial data to IoT sensors. With today's QuestDB 8.0 release, it's even faster.
May 29th, 2024 — Source

Valve's AMD Shader Compiler "ACO" Makes More Preparations For Radeon RDNA4
The AMD shader compiler "ACO" alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM back-end has seen another batch of changes merged in preparations for next-generation Radeon RDNA4 GPUs.
May 29th, 2024 — Source

Why RISC-V must get its messaging right on open standard versus open source
It's the difference between export limits on specific chips -- and a problematic blanket ban
May 29th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 28th, 2024

AlmaLinux 8.10 Released With Support Re-Enabled For Some Older Hardware
For those continuing to rely on the Enterprise Linux 8 series, AlmaLinux 8.10 has made its stable debut this morning as the newest version of this community-oriented operating system derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10.
May 28th, 2024 — Source

ASUS Linux Driver Adding Ability To Toggle CPU Cores, APU Memory Settings & dGPU TGP
The ASUS WMI platform driver for Linux that is predominantly used by ASUS laptops for enabling more functionality under Linux has a new patch series available that is enabling yet more features for the latest ASUS hardware on Linux.
May 28th, 2024 — Source

Kubernetes Gateway API v1.1 Released: New Standard Features and Experimental Enhancements
The Kubernetes SIG Network announced version 1.1 of Gateway API. This update sees several key features moving to the Standard Channel (GA), including support for service mesh and GRPCRoute. Additionally, new experimental features such as session persistence and client certificate verification have been introduced.
May 28th, 2024 — Source

openSUSE Aeon RC2 Released With Btrfs Compression Default, ZRAM & Tik
Nearly one year ago to the day the openSUSE project anounced MicroOS Desktop GNOME being renamed to openSUSE Aeon while openSUSE Desktop Plasma was taking the name openSUSE Kalpa.
May 28th, 2024 — Source

TPM HMAC Encryption Being Pulled Back To x86_64 By Default For Linux 6.10
LINUX SECURITYOne of the new security features coming with Linux 6.10 is TPM bus encryption and integrity protection to fend off a wave of possible attacks against Trusted Platform Module recovery keys, TPM sniffing, etc. This functionality was merged for the Linux 6.10 merge window but is now being pulled back to x86_64-only by default where it's been sufficiently tested.
May 28th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.04 Now Available For The Milk-V Mars RISC-V Single Board Computer
Canonical announced this morning an optimized Ubuntu 24.04 image for the Milk-V Mars, a "credit card sized" RISC-V single board computer.
May 28th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 27th, 2024

AMD's GPUOpen Vulkan Memory Allocator 3.1 Improves Raspberry Pi Support
AMD by way of their GPUOpen group have released version 3.1 of the open-source Vulkan Memory Allocator.
May 27th, 2024 — Source

An End-User Has Made It Easier To Build ROCm & AMD GPU Machine Learning Software
An end-user and Phoronix reader has taken up creating his own AMD ROCm SDK build system to make it easier to setup a machine learning software stack from scratch on AMD Radeon GPUs under Linux. This open-source build system pulls in the AMD ROCm source code as well as AMD GPU-accelerated tools like PyTorch and ONNX and makes it easier to deploy and without having to rely on Docker or other solutions.
May 27th, 2024 — Source

Intel Releases ISPC 1.24 With New AVX-VNNI & AVX512-VNNI Targets
The Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC) is out with a new version today for this C programming language variant that features SPMD programming extensions. Intel ISPC aims to make it easy to take advantage of SIMD capabilities on their modern processors as well as GPUs.
May 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux Patches Posted For Enabling A 22 x 35 mm RISC-V / ARM Board
Linux kernel patches were posted today for enabling Linux to boot on the LicheeRV Nano, a mini single board computer that comes in at a mere 22.86 x 35.56 mm. As interesting as the size with this SBC is the Sophgo SG2002 SoC that features a mix of RISC-V and ARM cores.
May 27th, 2024 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.8-17 released
A new Liquorix Linux kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.8.11 for Debian and Ubuntu has been released.
May 27th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 25th, 2024

GNOME Continues Working On New Installer, "Major Issue" With STF
GNOMEThis Week In GNOME is out with their newest edition to outline all of the interesting developments as we approach the end of May.
May 25th, 2024 — Source

Intel NPU Acceleration Library 1.1 Adds New Model Support & Optimizations
Intel software engineers did a late Friday night release of the Intel NPU Acceleration Library v1.1, their Python library for tapping into the Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found on the new Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) processors. This Python library makes it easier to interface with the Intel VPU/NPU kernel driver and in turn enjoying accelerated operations for AI.
May 25th, 2024 — Source

KDE Landed Many Last Minute Features Ahead Of The Plasma 6.1 Beta
It was a busy week for KDE developers ahead of yesterday's Plasma 6.1 Beta release. KDE developer Nate Graham in his weekly development summary outlined all of the interesting changes to make it into the Plasma 6.1 desktop ahead of the feature freeze that went into effect with the beta release.
May 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 Improves AMD ROCm Compute Support For "Small" Ryzen APUs
Sneaking in as a "fix" for the Linux 6.10 kernel is an enhancement to the AMDKFD kernel compute driver used by the ROCm compute stack for better supporting small Ryzen APUs like client and embedded SoCs.
May 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 On RISC-V Allows Configurable Boot Image Compression
A few days ago with the main RISC-V architecture pull for Linux 6.10 was enabling Rust support within the kernel for this ISA as well as other additions. A secondary set of RISC-V changes have been merged as well ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window closing this weekend.
May 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux Kernel 4.19.315 released
Linux kernel version 4.19.315 is now available:
May 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.218 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.218 is now available:
May 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.15.160 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.160 is now available:
May 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.4.277 released
Linux kernel version 5.4.277 is now available:
May 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.92 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.92 is now available:
May 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.32 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.32 is now available:
May 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.8.11 released
Linux kernel version 6.8.11 is now available:
May 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.9.2 released
Linux kernel version 6.9.2 is now available:
May 25th, 2024 — Source

Llamafile 0.8.5 Delivers Greater Performance: Tiny Models 2x Faster On Threadripper
The Mozilla Ocho group has published their newest version of Llamafile, the open-source project that makes it very easy to distribute and run large language models (LLMs) as a single file. Llamafile is an excellent solution for easily sharing and running LLMs and supporting both speedy CPU-based execution as well as GPU acceleration where available.
May 25th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 24th, 2024

3 Best Free and Open Source Linux ERP Software
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) manages the information and functions of a business. It provides an integrated system by which the entire business can be managed. Not only does ERP improve the efficiency of an organisation it also serves to help the firm's management make more informed decisions.
May 24th, 2024 — Source

Btrfs Sends In Fixes For Linux 6.10 & Restores "norecovery" Mount Option
Last week saw the main Btrfs pull request for Linux 6.10 that delivered on some performance optimizations while today saw a secondary set of merge window changes for this CoW file-system that is now adding back the "norecovery" mount option.
May 24th, 2024 — Source

DM-Crypt "High Priority" In Linux 6.10 Makes For Better Throughput & Latency
The Device Mapper changes were merged last week into the Linux 6.10 kernel, including a new "high priority" option for DM-Crypt.
May 24th, 2024 — Source

Framework 13 & 16 Added To ChromeOS Platform Driver In Linux 6.10
The Framework 13 and Framework 16 AMD Ryzen powered laptops make use of an NPCX embedded controller that rely on the ChromeOS open-source embedded controller (EC) firmware. With the Linux 6.10 kernel the Chrome OS "cros_ec_lpc" driver is being extended to support these latest Framework upgradeable laptops.
May 24th, 2024 — Source

Intel Core Ultra 7 165U "Meteor Lake" Linux Performance
For those considering an Intel Core Ultra 7 165U "Meteor Lake" powered laptop, here are some benchmarks of the 165U using a Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 compared against the Acer Swift 14 with the Core Ultra 7 155H (Meteor Lake), the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U (Zen 4) within the Framework 13, and the AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS (Zen 4) within the Framework 16 under Linux.
May 24th, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta released
Jonathan Riddell has announced the Plasma 6.1 beta. This release features triple buffering in KWin for smoother rendering and animations, support for the Wayland Explicit Sync protocol, Input Capture portal, remote desktop system integration, new UX for Plasma's edit mode, configurable edge barrier between screens, fake session restore on Wayland, RGB backlight syncing with Plasma's accent color, color profile embedding in displays Discover support for upgrading out-of-date Flatpak apps, power conservation mode features for Lenovo IdeaPad and Legion laptops, passwordless screen locking, smoother corners, an improved window layout algorithm for Overview, and a rebuilt QML keyboard page.
May 24th, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Released With Wayland Explicit Sync, Input Capture Portal & More
KDEThe beta release of Plasma 6.1 is now available for testing over the US holiday weekend.
May 24th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 Hardware Monitoring Includes New Lenovo ThinkStation Driver
The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem changes for the Linux 6.10 kernel include enabling monitoring of more all-in-one liquid coolers for CPUs, a new driver for exposing monitoring on Lenovo ThinkStation workstations, and other new monitoring capabilities.
May 24th, 2024 — Source

Manjaro 24 is Arch Linux for the rest of us
Because not everyone has time to be a tech guru
May 24th, 2024 — Source

New AMD RDNA3 APUs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver Along With RDNA4 fixes
Famed open-source AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olšák has landed 13 more patches in Mesa 24.2-devel to provide fixes for GFX12 (RDNA4) graphics IP while also adding more GFX11 (RDNA3) APUs.
May 24th, 2024 — Source

Not just another coding bot: Pioneer Square Labs releases JACoB AI agent as open-source project
Would it be possible to build an AI summer intern?
May 24th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.2.20 RC1 and 8.3.8 RC1 for Fedora/RHEL released
Remi Collet has released PHP 8.2.20 RC1 and 8.3.8 RC1 packages for Linux distributions based on Fedora and RHEL.
May 24th, 2024 — Source

PipeWire 1.2 Can Stream To Snapcast Servers For Multi-Room Audio
Following the recent PipeWire 1.2 release candidate, a second release candidate is out today that also includes the ability to stream to Snapcast servers.
May 24th, 2024 — Source

PoCL 6.0-RC1 OpenCL Bringing OpenMP, Intel oneTBB Driver & Better Level Zero
POCL as the "Portable Computing Language" OpenCL implementation that originally began as a CPU-based run-time and has expanded to support a variety of GPU and accelerator targets is out with its first release candidate of the upcoming PoCL 6.0.
May 24th, 2024 — Source

The cloud repatriation tempest in a teacup
Leaving the cloud is not a matter of choosing between two clear-cut options. Few enterprises go completely data center or completely cloud.
May 24th, 2024 — Source

Where do Terraform and OpenTofu go from here?
Here's the tea, for all open sourcers inclined to drink it
May 24th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 23rd, 2024

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Family History Software
Family history (or genealogy) software is computer software used to record, organise and publish genealogical data. With this software, you can help unlock the past, discover secrets and surprises from your past. Genealogy, the study of one's ancestry, allows people to personalise the past.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

64-bit ARM With Linux 6.10: Building FIT Images & Optional Disabling 32-bit User-Space
ARMMerged last week for the Linux 6.10 kernel were all of the 64-bit ARM (ARM64 / AArch64) architecture changes. There is ACPI FACS support, the ability to easily construct FIT images, and a new command-line option for disabling 32-bit application support.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

Chromium, LibXML2, Python-Libgravator, PgAdmin updates for Fedora 40
The following security updates have been released for Fedora Linux 40:
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

Coreboot 24.05 Released With 25 More Platforms - Including The Framework 13 AMD
Coreboot 24.05 is available today as the newest stable release of this open-source system firmware solution. With Coreboot 24.05 there is support for 25 more motherboards/platforms and an assortment of other improvements.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

GNOME Publishes Draft Of Five-Year Strategic Plan
The GNOME Foundation has published a draft copy of their five-year strategic plan that calls for more around the community, DEI, services, a more streamlined and inclusive annual event, and strengthening the foundation.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

GNOME Shell & Mutter Broke Their Good Faith With Ubuntu
GNOME Shell and Mutter had been covered by Ubuntu's GNOME MicroReleaseException "MRE" policy that allows for new point releases to ship rather easily as stable updates to existing Ubuntu Linux releases. But breaking the camel's back is GNOME 46.1 shipping explicit sync support. Due to landing a "significant new feature" into a point release, the GNOME Shell and Mutter are no longer covered by this exception.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

GNU Compiler Collection 15 ushers Xeon Phi and Solaris 11.3 to silicon heaven
Remember Intel's 'Larrabee' many-core Pentium-based GPU? GCC doesn't
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

Gitui update for SLE 15
Updated gitui packages are available for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5:
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

Intel Removes Knights Mill & Knights Landing Xeon Phi Support In LLVM 19
LLVMSimilar to the GCC compiler dropping support for the Xeon Phi Knights Mill and Knights Landing accelerators a few days ago, Intel has also gone ahead and seen to the removal of Xeon Phi support for the LLVM/Clang 19 compiler.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240523 released
A new version of KDE neon has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 Delivers AMD & Intel P-State Driver Updates To Refine Power Management
HARDWAREThe ACPI and power management / thermal subsystem changes were merged last week for the Linux 6.10 kernel. This cycle there are updates to both the Intel and AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling drivers.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 Staging Drops Broken & Unused Drivers To Remove 19k L.O.C.
In addition to the Linux 6.10 USB changes and char/misc with the new NTSYNC driver, Greg Kroah-Hartman on Wednesday also sent out the staging updates for Linux 6.10. There isn't much in the way of new code but some 19k lines of code removed thanks to removing an unused driver as well as a broken driver.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.8-16 released
Another Liquorix Linux kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.8.10 for Debian and Ubuntu is now available.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.0.8 released
Eric Engestrom has announced the availability of the eighth bugfix release for Mesa 24.0.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.1.0 released
Mesa 24.1.0 has been released. The NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK is ready for prime time, and Distro packagers are recommended to include `nouveau` in the `vulkan-drivers` list. Intel Vulkan driver Anv has switched to asynchronous VM bind, and Apple OpenGL driver Asahi has reached OpenGL 4.6 and ES 3.2 support.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

Newer AMD Radeon Graphics Cards Now Work On RISC-V With Linux 6.10
Andrew Morton sent out more patches on Wednesday that have been pulled into the Linux 6.10 kernel. Notable from this latest round of "non-MM" updates is enabling more compiler warnings by default and getting newer AMD GPUs working on the RISC-V architecture.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

PostgreSQL 17 Beta 1 released
PostgreSQL 17 Beta 1 has been released. The update offers enhancements to query and operational performance, such as a 20x memory reduction in vacuum, a stream I/O interface, and configurable parameters for transaction, subtransaction, and multixact buffer scalability. It also optimizes queries utilizing planner statistics and the sort order of frequent table expressions (WITH queries), speeds up query execution with the IN clause and a B-tree index, eliminates superfluous IS NOT NULL statements, and supports concurrent index construction for BRIN indexes.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

Thunderbird update for Ubuntu
Updated Thunderbird packages are available for Ubuntu Linux 20,.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, and 23.10:
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.04 + Linux 6.9 Intel & AMD Server Performance
While earlier this week was looking at the AMD EPYC 4004 versus Intel Xeon E-2488 performance for entry-level server performance, in today's benchmarking showdown is a fresh look higher up the stack at the current generation server performance out of Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids / Emerald Rapids and AMD EPYC Genoa(X) / Bergamo / Siena with a leading-edge open-source software stack of using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS while also jumping from Linux 6.8 to Linux 6.9 for the very latest x86_64 Linux server performance.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

Virt:RHEL, SSSD, PCP, TigerVNC, and more updates for RHEL
The following security updates are available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

VirtIO Improvements Ready For Linux 6.10
All of the VirtIO updates are now ready for the Linux 6.10 merge window that is closing this weekend.
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

Webkit2GTK, Chromium, Less updates for Debian
The following updates are available for Debian GNU/Linux:
May 23rd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 21st, 2024

ASRock Rack Releases BIOS Update For EPYC 4004 Support With AM5 Ryzen Boards
AMDAs a follow-up to this morning's AMD EPYC 4004 review and benchmarks, Supermicro, ASRock Rack, Giga Computing, Tyan, and others have announced new motherboards/servers for these entry-level EPYC servers. In addition with the likes of ASRock Rack they have already published BIOS updates enabling existing AM5 Ryzen server boards to officially support the EPYC 4004 series processors.
May 21st, 2024 — Source

AMD EPYC 4004 Benchmarks: Outperforming Intel Xeon E-2400 With Performance, Efficiency & Value
Over the past several years we have seen AMD Ryzen processors being used for low-cost servers, budget web hosting platforms, game servers, and more. Since the Ryzen 5000 series we have seen the likes of ASRock Rack and Supermicro putting out interesting budget-friendly Ryzen servers and that has ramped up even more with AMD Ryzen 7000 series server performance being stellar thanks to AVX-512 and other improvements making it more practical for such workloads.
May 21st, 2024 — Source

F2FS With Linux 6.10 Delivers Better Performance On Zoned Storage
There's a lot of file-system activity going on for the Linux 6.10 merge window: Bcachefs safety improvements, better OCFS2 write performance, continued XFS online repair, and even a "mail-in merge request" from prison for ReiserFS. The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) has also seen some new feature work this cycle and has now been merged.
May 21st, 2024 — Source

CentOS Stream 8 ending in less than two weeks (May 31, 2024)
CentOS Stream 8 was the first of the CentOS Stream releases. As such, it is the first to end.
May 21st, 2024 — Source

GCC 13.3 Compiler Released With Tons Of Bug Fixes
While GCC 14 recently debuted as stable in the form of GCC 14.1, for those relying on the GCC 13 compiler that debuted last year there is now a new point release available with many bug fixes.
May 21st, 2024 — Source

Hangover 9.9 Adds Support For Using The NTSYNC Driver
WINEAndre Zwing continues hacking on the Hangover project as a means of running Windows applications on AArch64 Linux by leveraging Wine and pairing it with emulators like QEMU, FEX, or Box64. Besides the initial AArch64/ARM64 focus, Hangover can be important for bring Windows game/application on Linux support eventually to other architectures like POWER and RISC-V.
May 21st, 2024 — Source

How to use symbolic links in Linux (and why you should)
Symbolic links help to make the Linux filesystem more flexible and your user experience even simpler.
May 21st, 2024 — Source

LibreOffice 24.8 Alpha 1 Open-Source Office Suite Released
Ahead of the planned release in August, the first alpha release of the LibreOffice 24.8 open-source office suite is now available for testing.
May 21st, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 Adds eDP/DisplayPort Support For The Snapdragon X Elite
Qualcomm and their partners at Linaro have been busy working on the Linux support for the Snapdragon X Elite as the high-end Arm SoC beginning to roll-out for laptops. The latest Snapdragon X Elite upstreaming is Embedded DisplayPort and DisplayPort support for the Snapdragon X Elite.
May 21st, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 Adds Support To Reset CXL Devices
In addition to the CXL updates for Linux 6.10 that were sent in last week, the PCI subsystem updates this week bring a notable addition for Compute Express Link (CXL) devices.
May 21st, 2024 — Source

Long-term supported distros' kernel policies are all wrong
Or so says CIQ, which coincidentally has issues obtaining RHEL's kernel sources
May 21st, 2024 — Source

Match Group, Meta, Coinbase and more form anti-scam coalition
Tech Against Scams members will collaborate on identifying and preventing online fraud.
May 21st, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA 555.42.02 Linux Beta Brings Wayland Explicit Sync, GSP Firmware Used By Default
It's coming a week later than anticipated but the NVIDIA R555 Linux driver beta has been released! This is the NVIDIA proprietary Linux driver update that brings Wayland explicit sync support along with a host of other important improvements.
May 21st, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.3.8 RC1 released
Eric Mann has announced a release candidate for PHP 8.3.8. The change log contains corrections for problems in the CGI, CLI, Core, DOM, FPM, Hash, Intl, MySQLnd, Opcache, XML, and XMLReader. These fixes address issues such as the buffer limit on Windows, incorrect handling of heredoc literals, references not being handled correctly in C14N, crashes when entity declarations are removed, FPM displaying decimal numbers instead of scientific notation, and switching the checking order of '__has_builtin' and '__GNUC__'.
May 21st, 2024 — Source

Qt 6.7.1 Released With 400+ Fixes - Including Several Wayland Fixes
The Qt Company today released Qt 6.7.1 as the first point release for the cross-platform Qt 6.7.1 toolkit. Since releasing Qt 6.7 just under two months ago, they have fixed more than 400 bugs.
May 21st, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 17th, 2024

Devon open-source AI pair programmer assistant
Devon is an open-source AI pair programmer and AI coding assistant designed to enhance your coding experience and take your productivity to new heights. With a comprehensive suite of advanced features, Devon aims to streamline your workflow and make coding tasks more efficient than ever before.
May 17th, 2024 — Source

EROFS Adds Zstd & Btrfs Gets Minor Performance Work In Linux 6.10
The EROFS and Btrfs file-systems saw their feature patches merged as part of the ongoing Linux 6.10 merge window.
May 17th, 2024 — Source

GNOME 47 gets an official launch date on the release schedule
GNOME 47, the next major version of the popular Linux desktop environment, will land on September 18, according to the recently updated release schedule. According to Phoronix, one minor change in that cycle will be that the first point release will come four weeks later instead of the conventional five weeks so that early fixes can be shipped sooner.
May 17th, 2024 — Source

Intel Readies Xeon Phi Removal For GCC 15
For the GCC 14 compiler release is the deprecation of the Xeon Phi targets. With Intel Knights Landing and Knights Mill being end-of-life at Intel, they are working to do away with the GNU Compiler Collection support. A patch has been posted to drop the Xeon Phi ISAs with GCC 15.
May 17th, 2024 — Source

Intel's OpenVINO Now Available In openSUSE
OpenSUSE is the first major Linux distribution to package up and offer Intel's OpenVINO open-source AI toolkit within its package repository.
May 17th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 Adds Support For Posted Interrupts On Bare Metal Hardware
Merged as part of the IRQ changes for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel is support for posted interrupts on bare metal hardware.
May 17th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 Improves Performance For Opening Unencrypted Files
FSCRYPT is the file-system encryption framework within the Linux kernel for supporting optional encryption on file-systems like EXT4, F2FS, and others. With Linux 6.10 an optimization is coming for enhancing the performance of opening files on file-systems supporting FSCRYPT-based encryption but when the files are unencrypted.
May 17th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 Wires Up More Compute Express Link "CXL" Functionality
The Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem development continues to be led by Intel engineers and with the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel there are yet more features in tow.
May 17th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 4.19.314 released
Linux kernel version 4.19.314 is now available:
May 17th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.217 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.217 is now available:
May 17th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.4.276 released
Linux kernel version 5.4.276 is now available:
May 17th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.91 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.91 is now available:
May 17th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.31 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.31 is now available:
May 17th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.8.10 released
Linux kernel version 6.8.10 is now available:
May 17th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.9.1 released
Linux kernel version 6.9.1 is now available:
May 17th, 2024 — Source

LXLE -- Ubuntu-based Linux distribution with the LXDE desktop environment
LXLE is based on Lubuntu which is an Ubuntu operating system using the LXDE desktop environment. It is designed to be a drop-in and go system, primarily for aging computers. Its intention is to be able to install it on any computer and be relatively done after install.
May 17th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI created a team to control 'superintelligent' AI — then let it wither, source says
OpenAI's Superalignment team, responsible for developing ways to govern and steer "superintelligent" AI systems, was promised 20% of the company's compute resources, according to a person from that team. But requests for a fraction of that compute were often denied, blocking the team from doing their work.
May 17th, 2024 — Source

Slack Optimizes Internal Development and Cost Efficiency with EKS and Karpenter
Slack recently disclosed the architecture of its internal compute orchestration platform, epitomized by "Bedrock", based on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Karpenter.
May 17th, 2024 — Source

Sysctl Sentinel Bloat Removal Wrapping Up In Linux 6.10
The year-long effort to removal the sysctl sentinel for clearing bloat from the kernel and allowing faster build times should be crossing the finish line in Linux 6.10.
May 17th, 2024 — Source

Try these Linux bash aliases for more efficient use of the command line
A bash alias is a shortcut to a complicated command. Here are 10 aliases I've used to make using the command line a bit easier.
May 17th, 2024 — Source

The OpenAI team tasked with protecting humanity is no more
Its former head quit, claiming safety concerns had taken "a backseat to shiny products."
May 17th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.10 To See More Polishing, NVIDIA Wayland By Default & New Welcome Wizard
Oliver Smith who is serving as the Interim Engineering Director for the Ubuntu Desktop team at Canonical has shared some roadmap plans around Ubuntu 24.10. With this being the first post-LTS release following last month's Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support, they are more free to innovate this cycle and they have a lot of great plans for enhancing the Linux desktop experience.
May 17th, 2024 — Source

Winamp goes open source
Winamp, the iconic music player that defined a generation, is opening its source code, inviting developers worldwide to contribute to its evolution. This could mean a new era for the beloved software, fostering global collaboration to enhance and innovate its features.
May 17th, 2024 — Source or Source

Software — Open Source — May 14th, 2024

All audio products by Nothing will get ChatGPT integration soon (but there's a catch)
Nothing is the first company that brings earbuds with ChatGPT integration, and the functionality came with the newest Nothing Ear and Ear (a). Now, the company's got a pleasant surprise for all Nothing fans and will bring ChatGPT to all of its audio products.
May 14th, 2024 — Source

Anthropic AI assistant 'Claude' arrives in Europe
Anthropic on Monday announced that its artificial intelligence assistant "Claude" is available in Europe after launching in the United States earlier this year.
May 14th, 2024 — Source

Apple realized Siri's failings after execs tested ChatGPT for themselves before refocusing the company on significant iOS 18 upgrades
Siri's getting a glow-up.
May 14th, 2024 — Source

Benchmarking The First RISC-V Cloud Server: Scaleway EM-RV1 Performance
Scaleway by way of their Scaleway Labs group recently launched the Elastic Metal RV1 (EM-RV1) as the world's first RISC-V servers available in the cloud. These RISC-V cloud servers are built around the T-Head 1520 SoC and are an interesting way to explore the RISC-V architecture and/or otherwise make use of RISC-V for CI/CD deployments or other testing purposes. In this article are some benchmarks showing the RISC-V EM-RV1 performance against Intel and AMD x86_64 Linux.
May 14th, 2024 — Source

Debian Releases APT 2.9.3 With New Package Solver
Debian's APT packaging tool is working its way toward the big APT 3.0 release. The APT 2.9 development series is underway and debuting last month was APT's new (CLI) user interface with a columnar display, colored text, and other improvements for this widely-used tool on Debian-based environments. APT 2.9.3 is out today as the newest development release and new to this version is a new package solver.
May 14th, 2024 — Source

Framework 13 AMD Laptop Seeing Experimental Coreboot Port
The Framework Laptops are some great systems with their upgradeable/modular design, friendly Linux support, both Intel and AMD options, the latest models making use of an open-source embedded controller, and nice build quality. The Framework Laptops have proven very popular with Linux/open-source enthusiasts but one of the recurring critiques has been the lack of Coreboot firmware support for these laptops as an alternative (or outright replacement) to the proprietary BIOS/firmware
May 14th, 2024 — Source

Qualcomm Talks Up Their Linux Support For The Snapdragon X Elite
While much of the emphasis for Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite laptop SoC has been around Windows on Arm PCs, Qualcomm has also been working to have upstream Linux support for this high-end SoC and everything is coming together for said support.
May 14th, 2024 — Source

Intel Releases Updated CPU Microcode For Fixing Three New Security Issues
Intel just published a new set of CPU microcode files for updating Alder lake and newer as well as Xeon Scalable 4th Gen and 5th Gen in order to address three security issues plus take care of various functional issues.
May 14th, 2024 — Source

Manjaro 24.0 Released: Powered By Linux 6.9 & The Latest Desktops
Manjaro 24.0 has been released today as the newest version of this Arch Linux derived desktop OS. Manjaro 24.0 ships with the latest the newly-released Linux 6.9 kernel and a slew of other updated packages.
May 14th, 2024 — Source

Manjaro 24.0 Wynsdey released
Manjaro Linux 24.0 Wynsdey was released with Kernel 6.9. The GNOME Edition includes GNOME 46, which adds a new global search feature to its filemanager, allowing users to search many locations at once. The Plasma edition includes the latest Plasma 6.0 series and KDE Gear 24.02, which bring exciting new features to the desktop.
May 14th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Engineer Ports EXT2 File-System Driver To Rust
Back in late 2023 were Rust abstractions for the Linux kernel's Virtual File-System (VFS) code. Those patches by Microsoft engineer Wedson Almeida Filho have now seen a second iteration posted... In addition to various improvements to the Rust VFS bindings, the new patches bring a work-in-progress EXT2 Rust file-system driver.
May 14th, 2024 — Source

NVK Vulkan Driver Lands DRM Format Modifiers Support
After the 22 patches were under review for the past eight months, merged today is the NVK Vulkan driver support for the VK_EXT_image_drm_format_modifier extension for handling DRM format modifiers.
May 14th, 2024 — Source

Steam Deck IMU Support Submitted For Linux 6.10 Plus ASUS ROG Ally HID
The Human Interface Devices (HID) subsystem updates have been submitted for the newly-opened Linux 6.10 kernel merge window. Among the HID driver updates coming with Linux 6.10 are supporting the Steam Deck IMU motion sensors as well as HID coverage for the ASUS ROG Ally and ASUS ROG Z13 devices.
May 14th, 2024 — Source

Zone Write Plugging Comes To Linux 6.10 For Better Performance
Along with the IO_uring improvements for Linux 6.10, the block subsystem changes have also been merged for this new kernel version.
May 14th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 13th, 2024

EndeavorOS Gemini is as user-friendly as it is beautiful
This Linux desktop has all the security, stability, and reliability of a rocket ship ready to take you to the moon and back.
May 13th, 2024 — Source

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.6 beta 5
It has been a while since our last beta, and admittedly 3.6 seems to have been in development for ever (beta 1 was over a year ago!).
May 13th, 2024 — Source

Firefox 126 Available - Adds "Linux" To The Android User Agent String
Mozilla has pushed out its release images of the Firefox 126 web browser ahead of its official debut on Tuesday.
May 13th, 2024 — Source

GNU Linux-libre 6.9 Released: More Deblobbing, Fixes Intel Graphics On GuC-Less Systems
Building off last night's release of Linux 6.9 stable, GNU Linux-libre 6.9-gnu has debuted as this kernel downstream that works on stripping out support for any drivers/hardware depending upon closed-source firmware/microcode and other alterations in the name of software freedom.
May 13th, 2024 — Source

Grafana: Shining a light into Kubernetes clusters
Grafana creator Torkel Ödegaard traces the open-source project's journey to help developers visualize what's going on inside distributed cloud-native infrastructure.
May 13th, 2024 — Source

Intel-Powered Aurora Supercomputer Breaks The Exascale Barrier
Intel, HPE, and Argonne National Laboratory have announced at ISC High Performance 2024 that the Aurora Supercomputer has broken the Excascale barrier and is now the fastest AI supercomputer currently in existence.
May 13th, 2024 — Source

Libxml2 2.11.8 released
Nick Wellnhofer has announced the release of Libxml2 2.11.8.
May 13th, 2024 — Source

Libxml2 2.12.7 released
Nick Wellnhofer has announced the release of Libxml2 2.12.7.
May 13th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 Makes AES-XTS Disk/File Encryption Much Faster For Modern Intel/AMD CPUs
The work written about one month ago on Phoronix for much faster AES-XTS on modern Intel/AMD CPUs for speeding up disk and file encryption by as much as 155% with AMD Zen 4 CPUs has been submitted for Linux 6.10! As expected, this work providing new AES-XTS implementations for modern x86_64 processors is going into Linux 6.10 as part of the crypto subsystem updates.
May 13th, 2024 — Source

Linux Foundation Launches The High Performance Software Foundation
Back at Supercomputing 23, the Linux Foundation announced their intent on forming the High Performance Software Foundation for helping to advance open-source software for high performance computing (HPC). The Linux Foundation is now using ISC 24 this week in Hamburg, Germany for announcing that the High Performance Software Foundation has launched.
May 13th, 2024 — Source

More ARM-Based Handheld Game Consoles Supported By Linux 6.10
ARMThe various ARM SoC/platform pull requests were already merged today by Linus Torvalds for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel.
May 13th, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA To Utilize Open-Source Kernel Drivers In Linux For GeForce RTX 20 Series & Beyond
After AMD, it seems like NVIDIA plans to go the open-source route as well, as the GPU maker plans to use its open-source GPU kernel driver by default on Linux.
May 13th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.2.19 and 8.3.7 for Fedora/RHEL released
Remi Collet has released PHP 8.2.19 and 8.3.7 packages for Linux distributions based on Fedora and RHEL.
May 13th, 2024 — Source

Sparky 2024.05 Special Editions released
New SparkyLinux GameOver, Multimedia, and Rescue ISO images based on Debian GNU/Linux 13 Trixie with Kernel 6.7.12 are now available.
May 13th, 2024 — Source

SUSE Working On Upstream Linux Kernel Support For Booting The Raspberry Pi 5
While the Raspberry Pi 5 debuted last September already, sadly the mainline Linux kernel still lacks support for booting this popular single board computer... The support on Raspberry Pi OS and other downstream distributions/kernels is good, but the mainline kernel support for the Raspberry Pi SBCs remains a sore spot for this popular ARM single board computer.
May 13th, 2024 — Source

x32 Shadow Stacks, Locking Optimizations, Intel VFM & Other x86 Changes For Linux 6.10
Today marks the first official day of the Linux 6.10 merge window. Among the horde of pull requests sent out today were the numerous x86 pull requests of material that's been queuing up in TIP.git of which there are many changes benefiting both Intel and AMD.
May 13th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 12th, 2024

Another AMD Zen 5 PCI ID Squeezing Into Linux 6.9
The Linux 6.9 kernel should debut as stable later today unless Linus Torvalds has second thoughts and decides to delay it by issuing a v6.9-rc8 kernel instead that would then push out the official release by an extra week. In any event, as a last-minute "x86/urgent" pull request is another Zen 5 PCI ID being added.
May 12th, 2024 — Source

How to Use Prompt Engineering with Google Gemini
Prompt engineering is a sophisticated discipline that involves creating meticulously tailored instructions—known as prompts—to direct the behavior and output of large language models (LLMs) like Google Gemini. The skillful construction of these prompts is crucial as it can dramatically enhance the quality, creativity, and relevance of the responses generated by these models
May 12th, 2024 — Source

IO_uring Bringing Better Send Zero-Copy Performance With Linux 6.10
Linux I/O expert and subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe has submitted all of the IO_uring feature updates ahead of the imminent Linux 6.10 merge window.
May 12th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 AMD P-State To Deliver Fixes, Better Support On Older Zen CPUs
The recent AMD P-State Linux driver patches for heterogeneous core CPU topology, Fast CPPC, and Core Performance Boost haven't made it to the Linux power management's "-next" branch ahead of the imminent Linux 6.10 cycle.
May 12th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 Features Expected From The NTSYNC Driver To Performance Optimizations
Barring any last minute reservations by Linus Torvalds, Linux 6.9 stable should release later today. In turn the Linux 6.10 merge window will then open for the next two weeks and already some early pull requests have been submitted for this next kernel version. Here is a look at some of what to expect with the Linux 6.10 kernel.
May 12th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 11th, 2024

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google's Products and Services
Google has a firm grip on the desktop. Their products and services are ubiquitous. Don't get us wrong, we're long-standing admirers of many of Google's products and services. They are often high quality, easy to use, and 'free', but there can be downsides of over-reliance on a specific company. For example, there are concerns about their privacy policies, business practices, and an almost insatiable desire to control all of our data, all of the time.
May 11th, 2024 — Source

Cloudflare Releases Pingora 0.2 For Building Fast & Reliable Networked Systems
Two years ago Cloudflare outlined how they began replacing Nginx with their own in-house creation, Pingora. Back in February of this year Cloudflare open-sourced Pingora and in April issued the maiden release of Pingora. Out today is Pingora 0.2 as the second release of this Rust framework that is already used in production by Cloudflare.
May 11th, 2024 — Source

KDE Making Good Progress On HDR, Better Gamescope Integration
KDE developer Xaver Hugl has written a third blog post outlining some of the latest HDR and color management improvements that have been readied for KDE's KWin compositor as well as ongoing improvements to Valve's Gamescope compositor.
May 11th, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6 Sees More Features Merged Ahead Of Plasma 6.1
KDE developers had another busy week as more features were merged ahead of next month's Plasma 6.1 release.
May 11th, 2024 — Source

Rustls Can Now Work With Nginx Via New OpenSSL Compatibility Layer
Rustls is the modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language with a large emphasis on memory safety and security. Rustls is backed by Google, AWS, and others as well as being a recipient of Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund. The latest exciting milestone for the open-source project is that Rustls can now work with Nginx.
May 11th, 2024 — Source

Torvalds Voices Thoughts On Linux Mitigating Unexpected Arithmetic Overflows/Underflows
For those interested in some insightful Linux kernel mailing list reading this weekend, there's been a vibrant discussion on the ability for the Linux kernel to mitigate unexpected arithmetic overflows/underflows/wraparounds.
May 11th, 2024 — Source

Wasmer 4.3 Released: WebAssembly Runtime 25% Faster On Cold Startups
Wasmer 4.3 is out as the newest version of this WebAssembly (WASM) runtime that supports WASIX, WASI, and EmScript execution. This cross-platform WASM runtime continues to be focused on driving lightweight containers that can run anywhere in a very secure manner.
May 11th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 10th, 2024

AMD Aims For AMF Decode In FFmpeg, Questioned Over Vulkan Video Commitment
AMD last week sent out a set of patches to enhance the open-source FFmpeg multimedia library with integration around the AMD Advanced Media Framework (AMF). The AMF SDK allows for "optimal" access to AMD GPUs for multimedia processing but this patch series questioned the need in an era of Vulkan Video APIs beginning to see adoption.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Anthropic's Claude sees tepid reception on iOS compared with ChatGPT's debut
Consumer demand for mobile AI chatbot apps outside of ChatGPT may be waning. Earlier this month, Anthropic launched its first mobile app on iOS, providing access to its Claude 3 model for both free and paid users. Though the app offers the same functionality as its web version, as well as history sync and photo upload capabilities, it only pulled in 157,000 total global downloads in its first week on the market.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Apple using AI to make Siri more useful
Apple reportedly intends to fulfill the hopes of so many iPhone users by giving the Siri voice assistant an upgrade with artificial intelligence. A broad outline of the plan leaked out Friday.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Developer Experience Influenced by Open Source Culture
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Kyle Carberry about the importance of developer experience and how it is changing with the rise of tools like Copilot.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Intel Takes Open-Source Hyperscan Development To Proprietary Licensed Software
While Intel can be praised for their dozens (or likely by now, hundreds) of open-source projects they maintain and countless other existing open-source software projects they actively contribute to and are covered by Phoronix on a near-daily basis, not everything there is open-source.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Intel Updates Its PyTorch Build With More Large Language Model Optimizations
Intel has released their Intel Extension for PyTorch v2.3 to succeed their earlier v2.1 derived extension. With this updated extension targeting PyTorch 2.3, Intel is rolling out more optimizations around Large Language Models (LLMs).
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Features Many Great Improvements For Both Intel & AMD
Barring any last minute reservations by Linus Torvalds, the Linux 6.9 kernel should be released as stable on Sunday. It's been a fairly quiet week so Linux 6.9 stable will likely happen as opposed to going through an extra week with a 6.9-rc8 candidate. With this spring 2024 kernel there are many great features and improvements, especially for modern Intel and AMD platforms.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 Adding TPM Bus Encryption & Integrity Protection
Linux 6.10 is introducing support for Trusted Platform Module (TPM2) encryption and integrity protections to prevent active/passive interposers from compromising them. This follows a recent security demonstration of TPM key recovery from Microsoft Windows BitLocker being demonstrated. TPM sniffing attacks have also been demonstrated against Linux systems too, thus the additional protections be made with Linux 6.10 to better secure TPM2 modules.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI confirms 'Spring Updates' event for some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates
OpenAI announced via its official account on X that it will host a live streaming event on Monday to talk about some new updates related to ChatGPT and GPT-4. The upcoming event, scheduled for May 13, is also teased on its official website.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI is unveiling new ChatGPT features today - search engine not included
The chatbot's free version is due for a refresh, and OpenAI's CEO promises new stuff that 'feels like magic.'
May 8th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI revs up plans for web search, but denies report of an imminent launch
The search.chatgpt.com URL is being set up, and Google employees are being poached.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI will reveal a mysterious AI product on Monday. What we know, how to watch.
And it's not what you think it is.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Rocky Linux 9.4 Released For RHEL 9.4 Derived Distribution
Building off last week's release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 (RHEL 9.4) has been AlmaLinux 9.4 and now the other notable community-focused downstream: Rocky Linux 9.4.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

SDL3 Adds PipeWire Camera Support
Adding to the growing list of features coming with the SDL3 release for this hardware/software abstraction layer commonly used by cross-platform games and other software is PipeWire camera capturing support.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

The critical intersection between AI and identity management
Today, almost every organization and most individuals are using or experimenting with Artificial Intelligence (AI). There are plenty of examples of how it is changing businesses for the better, from marketing and HR to IT teams. What was once computationally impossible, or prohibitively expensive to do, is now within reach with the use of AI.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Vulkan 1.3.285 Released With New Extension From Valve VKD3D-Proton Developer
The Vulkan API 1.3.285 spec revision is out today with a handful of fixes/clarifications and another new extension developed by Valve engineering.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 8th, 2024

AMD Linux Engineers Introduce New "schedstat" Tool
AMD Linux engineers have introduced a new perf tool called "schedstat" that aims to be less resource intensive and convenient than the existing "perf sched" tool for profiling kernel scheduler behavior.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Fedora Asahi Remix 40 Now Available For Apple Silicon Devices, KDE Plasma 6 By Default
Building off the recent release of Fedora 40, Fedora Asahi Remix 40 is now available for this downstream of Fedora Linux that's optimized to run on Apple Silicon ARM systems.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

GCC 15 Bids Farewell To Solaris 11.3 Support
With GCC 14 stable releasedGCC 14 stable released and GCC 15 now in development on trunk, new feature code is landing for the GNU Compiler Collection. Among the early features is Microsoft contributing the "Windows on ARM64" target with aarch64-w64-mingw32.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

How to create stunning Excel dashboards
Excel dashboards are powerful tools for presenting complex data in a visually appealing and easily digestible format. By following this five-step guide, you can quickly build professional-looking dashboards that effectively communicate key insights, even if you have only basic Excel skills.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Intel Revises PCIe Cooling Driver To Reduce Link Speed When Running Too Hot
Since last year Intel's open-source software engineers have been working on a PCIe bandwidth controller driver for the Linux kernel to avoid thermal issues by being able to automatically reduce the PCIe link speed when needed. This driver still isn't over the finish line but today brought the fifth iteration of these patches.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

LLM profiling guides KV cache optimization
Large language models (LLMs) rely on complex internal mechanisms that require more memory than what is typically available to operate on standard devices. One such mechanism is the key-value (KV) cache, which stores and retrieves previously computed data, helping the model generate responses quickly without needing to recalculate information it has already processed.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Merged For Mesa 24.2: Faster Startups For Zink, Rusticl Now Handles Bigger Workloads
Two different merges today for Mesa 24.2 are worth calling out for the open-source Linux graphics stack.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.0.7 & Mesa 24.1-rc3 Provide Latest Open-Source OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers
Ongoing Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom continues carrying out a splendid job with the on-time releases of new bi-weekly Mesa point releases and the weekly release candidates heading toward the next feature release of these open-source predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan drivers.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI's Deepfake Detector Can Spot Images Generated by DALL-E
OpenAI has launched a deepfake detector which it says can identify AI images from its DALL-E model 98.8 percent of the time but only flags five to 10 percent of AI images from DALL-E competitors, for now.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

RISC-V Performance On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS With Scaleway's EM-RV1
Recently I've been testing out the Scaleway's Elastic Metal RV1 (EM-RV1) RISC-V cloud servers. Initially they were using Ubuntu 23.10 for providing an up-to-date Ubuntu Linux RISC-V experience while quickly upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. For those curious how Ubuntu 24.04 is performing on RISC-V hardware, here are some comparison benchmarks.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

SHIFTphone 8 Preparing Mainline Linux Support Ahead Of Launch
SHIFTphone 8 is the upcoming modular and easy-to-repair smartphone from Germany's SHIFT GmbH. This is the first major SHIFTphone update in four years and there are pending patches providing mainline Linux kernel support for this forthcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon powered modular/upgradeable smartphone.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole is now open for development
Utkarsh Gupta has announced that Ubuntu Linux 24.10 Oracular Oriole is now ready for development.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

What is Istio? The Kubernetes service mesh explained
Here's what you need to know about Istio, Google's open source service mesh platform for managing data sharing between microservices in a network.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Zed Code Editor Making Progress On Linux Support
Back in January the Zed editor was open-sourced for this new code editor from the creators of the Atom editor and Tree-sitter syntax parsing framework. This high performance code editor has been initially focused on macOS support while the Linux support has begun coming together.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Zstd Compression For EROFS Published: Better Than LZ4 But Higher CPU Costs
As noted recently, EROFS has been exploring Zstd compression support for this open-source read-only Linux file-system. Today the patch was posted for enabling Zstandard use.
May 8th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 7th, 2024

A Photo Tool (Libre) -- photo editing software
A Photo Tool (Libre) is image editing app with lots of tools. You have options to adjust the photos just the way you want them to look.
May 7th, 2024 — Source

AMD Core Performance Boost For Linux Getting Per-CPU Core Controls
For the past several months AMD Linux engineers have been working on AMD Core Performance Boost support for their P-State CPU frequency scaling driver. The ninth iteration of these patches were posted on Monday and besides the global enabling/disabling support for Core Performance Boost, it's now possible to selectively toggle the feature on a per-CPU core basis.
May 7th, 2024 — Source

AMD Posts Patches For Improving Heterogeneous Core Type CPUs On Linux
AMD engineers posted a new set of Linux driver patches on Tuesday that "addresses critical issues and enhances performance settings for CPUs with heterogeneous core types" while using the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver.
May 7th, 2024 — Source

Fedora 41 Approved To Make Package Builds More Reproducible
In addition to approving -O3 optimized Python builds, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESC)) this week unanimously approved a Fedora 41 change proposal for making RPM package builds more reproducible.
May 7th, 2024 — Source

GCC 14.1 Compiler Released - Intel APX & AVX10.1 Support, AMD Zen 5 Target & -fhardened
GCC 14.1 has been released today as the first stable compiler release in the GCC 14 series. GCC 14.1 brings one year worth of improvements to this open-source compiler from new CPU support and new ISA extensions to new C/C++ language features, static analyzer improvements, new AMD GPU support, and many other additions.
May 7th, 2024 — Source

IBM Makes Granite AI Models Open-Source Under New InstructLab Platform
IBM hopes the platform will lower the barrier to entry for developers using LLMs without spending significant time, energy, and other resources to 'fork' popular models.
May 7th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 Goes Ahead In Removing Sysctl Sentinel Bloat
Over the past year there's been much work happening within the Linux kernel's sysctl code for clearing up ~64 bytes of bloat per array throughout the kernel by dropping the last sysctl "sentinel" entry at the end of each array.
May 7th, 2024 — Source

Lubuntu -- lightweight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu
Lubuntu is a complete Operating System that ships the essential apps and services for daily use: office applications, PDF reader, image editor, music and video players, and mich more. The distro is built with a rock-solid Ubuntu base.
May 7th, 2024 — Source

Meta Releases Llama 3 Open-Source LLM
Meta AI released Llama 3, the latest generation of their open-source large language model (LLM) family. The model is available in 8B and 70B parameter sizes, each with a base and instruction-tuned variant. Llama3 outperforms other LLMs of the same parameter size on standard LLM benchmarks.
May 7th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft working on an LLM to take on Gemini, GPT-4
Codenamed MAI-1, the new LLM reportedly has 500 billion parameters.
May 7th, 2024 — Source

OSJH and LPI Release 2024 Open Source Pros Job Survey Results
See what open source professionals look for in a new role.
May 7th, 2024 — Source

Raspberry Pi Connect Reaches Beta For Remote Raspberry Pi Access
The Raspberry Pi Foundation today announced the beta availability of Raspberry Pi Connect as a means of securely having remote GUI access to your Remote Pi from a web browser.
May 7th, 2024 — Source

Raspberry Pi Connect launches, remote controls your Pi via web browser
No need for third-party software on your client computer.
May 7th, 2024 — Source

Raspberry Pi releases 'Connect' Linux tool for remote desktop access
Today, Raspberry Pi announced the beta release of Raspberry Pi Connect, a new service designed to facilitate remote access to Raspberry Pi devices through a web browser. This service is intended to provide a simpler alternative to traditional methods such as VNC or the X protocol, especially following the transition to Wayland in the latest Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm, which does not support the classic X remote desktop.
May 7th, 2024 — Source

Red Hat Announces RHEL AI
Red Hat Summit 2024 is underway in Denver, Colorado... Given the times, artificial intelligence (AI) is taking a heavy presence at the event with Red Hat announcing today RHEL AI.
May 7th, 2024 — Source

Sparky 2024.05 released
New ISO images (LXQt, MATE, Xfce, KDE, MinimalGUI, and MinimalCLI) of SparkyLinux rolling edition based on Debian GNU/Linux 13 Trixie (testing) are now available. The new version includes updates to Debian and Sparky testing repos, new versions of Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, and the removal of nala and the replacement of mate-calc.
May 7th, 2024 — Source

Switch to Linux Lite 7.0 from Windows 11
After over a decade of evolution and adaptation, Linux Lite 7.0 RC1 arrives with the promise of a mature, secure, and highly customizable operating system, poised as an ideal alternative for those considering a switch from Microsoft Windows 11.
May 7th, 2024 — Source

Vulkan 1.3.284 Released With Another Extension To Help Zink
Vulkan 1.3.284 was published on Monday with only a few changes but bearing one notable new extension.
May 7th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 3rd, 2024

AM 6.7 released
A new version of the AM application manager for AppImage is available. AM is an application manager that is inspired by AUR and serves as an AppImage manager, installer, and updater. It currently contains over 1800 AppImage packages and official standalone applications for GNU/Linux, which are derived from tar and zip archives.
May 3rd, 2024 — Source

Apple CFO: 'We are making significant investments' in AI and 'believe we are well-positioned'
Apple is planning a long-awaited push into generative artificial intelligence (GenIA), the fruits of which are expected to be revealed at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in June.
May 3rd, 2024 — Source

F40-20240501 updated lives isos released
The Fedora Respins SIG is pleased to announce the latest release of Updated F40-20240501-Live ISOs, carrying the 6.8.7-300 kernel.
May 3rd, 2024 — Source

FEX 2405 Gets Close To Running Far Cry On ARM Linux Systems
FEX as the open-source project to run x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 Linux systems is out with its newest monthly release. With FEX 2405, they are close to having the game Far Cry (2004) running on ARM Linux devices.
May 3rd, 2024 — Source

FreeBSD Working On Improving Its Audio Stack & Creating Graphical OS Installer
BSDThe FreeBSD project has published its Q1'2024 status report to outline various advancements over the past few months.
May 3rd, 2024 — Source

Fwupd 1.9.19 Supports New Docks, Incorporates More Fixes
LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes has released Fwupd 1.9.19 as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems.
May 3rd, 2024 — Source

GCC's Rust Compiler To See Improvements With GSoC 2024
Google Summer of Code 2024 (GSoC '24) accepted projects have been announced with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) seeing seven student developers engaging this summer with several of them focused on enhancing GCC's Rust front-end.
May 3rd, 2024 — Source

Google I/O 2024: 5 Gemini features that would pull me away from Copilot
These potential improvements could finally put Gemini in line with ChatGPT and Copilot for me.
May 3rd, 2024 — Source

Intel Talks Up Their Latest Compiler Toolchain Enhancements For AVX10.1, AMX & More
Intel software engineer Victor Rodriguez presented at the Open-Source Summit North America last month on their open-source compiler toolchain work for enabling ISA capabilities of upcoming Intel CPUs as well as using simulation tools for helping to test compiler enhancements/optimizations moving forward.
May 3rd, 2024 — Source or Watch Video

KDE neon 20240502 released
A new version of KDE neon has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
May 3rd, 2024 — Source

Mold 2.31 Now ~10% Faster When Linking Very Large, Debug Info Enabled Binaries
Rui Ueyama announced the release of Mold 2.31 today as the newest version of this high speed linker alternative to LLVM LLD and GNU Gold.
May 3rd, 2024 — Source

OpenAI could announce a search engine soon
When Open AI officially launched ChatGPT, it also began a heated war between it and Google. Well, the war continues to this day, and it appears that OpenAI wants to step on even more of Google's toes. According to a report, OpenAI could be working on a search engine, and the company may announce it just days before Google I/O.
May 3rd, 2024 — Source

The Value of DevRel and Contributing to Open Source Initiatives
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Craig Box about the role of developer relations and contributing to the open-source community.
May 3rd, 2024 — Source

VirtualBox 7.0.18
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
May 3rd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 1st, 2024

Canonical Releases Landscape 24.04 LTS With New Snap Management, New Web Portal
Following last week's release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Canonical has now rolled out Landscape 24.04 LTS as the first long-term support version of this commercial software for managing a fleet of Ubuntu systems from a web-based portal. Landscape is part of the Ubuntu Pro subscription package and from the web-based environment makes it easier to manage Ubuntu systems in the enterprise.
May 1st, 2024 — Source

DM-Crypt Adding "High Priority" Option In Linux 6.10
Queued up as part of the DeviceMapper dm-crypt changes for Linux 6.10 is adding a new "high priority" option.
May 1st, 2024 — Source

DRM Buddy & AMDGPU Wired Up For Clear Page Tracking In Linux 6.10
Sent in to DRM-Next as part of last week's drm-misc-next changes is implementing support for tracking cleared free memory and is initially wired up for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver.
May 1st, 2024 — Source

How to create a bootable Linux USB drive
If you want to install Linux on a desktop, you'll first have to create a bootable USB drive with your distribution of choice.
May 1st, 2024 — Source

Intel Baseline Profile Yields Odd Power/Performance On Linux
Intel motherboard manufacturers have begun rolling out BIOS updates containing an "Intel Baseline Profile" option to apply stock power limits to modern Intel processors. This is being driven by instability claims for 13th Gen and 14th Gen Intel Core processors having stability issues for some Windows gamers that is being attributed to multi-core enhancement (MCE) and other power options commonly set on enthusiast desktop motherboards
May 1st, 2024 — Source

Nano 8.0 Text Editor Released With Modern Bindings Option
Kicking off a new month of open-source releases is the release of the GNU Nano 8.0 text editor.
May 1st, 2024 — Source

PCI-SIG Provides CopprLink Cable Specs For PCIe 5.0 & PCIe 6.0
Last November the PCI-SIG announced CopprLink as the PCI Express cable name for both internal and external cabling. Today the embargo has lifted on the CopprLink cable specifications for both PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 6.0.
May 1st, 2024 — Source

Punting GPU Drivers From The Initramfs Due To Ever Increasing Firmware Bloat
For now Fedora / Red Hat is not making any immediate changes, but the ever increasing sizes of required GPU firmware files is causing Linux distribution vendors to re-think including GPU kernel graphics drivers as part of the initramfs.
May 1st, 2024 — Source

Rhino Linux -- rolling release Ubuntu-based distribution
Rhino Linux is a rolling release Ubuntu-based distribution with Pacstall and the XFCE desktop environment at its core.
May 1st, 2024 — Source

Serpent OS Close To Having A System Installer & Being Able To Test On Real Hardware
Serpent OS lead developer Ikey Doherty published a monthly status update for this original Linux distribution, which points to having a working OS installer soon so users can begin trying out this creation on real hardware.
May 1st, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 30th, 2024

Fedora Evaluates Replacing Redis With Valkey
Given the upstream Redis software licensing changes, Fedora is evaluating replacing Redis with the new Valkey project.
April 30th, 2024 — Source

GCC 14.1 RC Compiler Available For Testing With AMD Znver5 Target & New C/C++ Features
The release candidate of the GCC 14 compiler is available for testing as the annual feature update to the GNU Compiler Collection.
April 30th, 2024 — Source

Linux Mint Looks To Fork More GNOME Software, Make XApp More Independent
Linux Mint published their monthly status update for April 2024 where they talk about ongoing testing for faster and more reliable repository access via the Fastly CDN to other more interesting software happenings like the likelihood that they will fork more GNOME applications as well as looking to make their XApp applications more distribution agnostic.
April 30th, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.5 Released For Remastering Old Games
NVIDIA today released RTX Remix v0.5 as the newest version of this software for remastering old/classic games with path tracing. RTX Remix builds off DXVK and leverages NVIDIA Omniverse and other tech from the green giant like DLSS to enhance older games.
April 30th, 2024 — Source

openSUSE Leap 15.6 RC released
The release candidate for openSUSE Leap 15.6 has been released for testing.
April 30th, 2024 — Source

Radeon OpenGL Linux Driver Massively Improves 3D Texturing Performance For Older GPUs
A set of ten patches were merged today by Marek for next quarter's Mesa 24.2 release. These patches help improve the performance from aging GFX6 "Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti, Oland, Hainan" through GFX9 "Vega" as well as GFX10 "RDNA1" GPUs. Marek's merge request simply states:
April 30th, 2024 — Source

systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative
Overnight systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering wrote on Mastodon around systemd's newest effort: run0 as a sudo-like command.
April 30th, 2024 — Source

Teradata adds support for Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake tables
The analytics platform provider joins a long list of vendors who already support the open table formats.
April 30th, 2024 — Source

TUXEDO Launches Another Linux Laptop Powered By The AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
TUXEDO Computers a few weeks ago announced the first Linux laptop shipping with an AMD Ryzen 7 8840 series SoC and now they've announced another one powered by the latest Ryzen 7 8845HS.
April 30th, 2024 — Source

TornadoVM 1.0.4 Brings OpenJDK 22 Support, New Features For Java Heterogeneous Hardware
TornadoVM 1.0.4 is out today as the newest version of this solution for Java offloading to GPUs, FPGAs, and other accelerators. TornadoVM allows for nice Java heterogeneous hardware support and with the TornadoVM 1.0.4 brings yet more features.
April 30th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu Support Ongoing For The Arm-Based Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Laptop
Plans to have official support for the Arm-based Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Gen1 laptop in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS sadly didn't pan out. But there is semi-working support available for running Ubuntu 24.04 on this Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen3 powered laptop.
April 30th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 29th, 2024

AMD Prepares Linux For "Bus Lock Trap" Feature On Upcoming CPUs
An upcoming AMD micro-architecture (presumably Zen 5 given the timing and history around AMD's Linux hardware enablement...) is introducing Bus Lock Trap as a feature matching Intel's existing split/bus lock detection functionality.
April 29th, 2024 — Source

Garuda Linux "Bird of Prey" (240428) released
The first 2024 version of Garuda Linux, "Bird of Prey," has been released. With this update, we provide you the Dr460nized edition's Plasma 6 upgrade, as well as significant enhancements to Sway and Hyprland. FireDragon now offers a more customisable feature set after being rebased to Floorp. Along with the change to the garuda repository's build system, the pilot phase for Chaotic-AUR infra 4.0 is about to start.
April 29th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.89 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.89 is now available:
April 29th, 2024 — Source

Linux Support On The Way For The ASUS ROG Raikiri Controller
Linux driver support is forthcoming for the ASUS ROG Raikiri gaming controller.
April 29th, 2024 — Source

Raspberry Pi V3DV Vulkan Driver Implements Extended Dynamic State - Important For DXVK
Merged last week to Mesa 24.2-devel was an important merge request for the Broadcom V3DV Vulkan driver that is most notably used by the modern Raspberry Pi single board computers.
April 29th, 2024 — Source

The end of vendor-backed open source?
The license changes of Redis and Elasticsearch may harken the end of open-source projects backed by solo vendors. Let's work through what that means.
April 29th, 2024 — Source

Turing Pi 2 board SBC Linux cluster computer
After a successful Kickstarter campaign that raised over $2 million back in November 2023. The Turing Pi 2 cluster computer has emerged as a fantastic addition to the growing range of mini ITX cluster boards, redefining modular computing with its innovative design and impressive capabilities.
April 29th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 40, EndeavourOS, and TrueNAS 24.04 all arrive at once
Sometimes Linux releases are like buses... frequently clustered together, and rarely as reliable as you might ideally want
April 29th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.10 Is The "Oracular Oriole"
For those keeping track of Ubuntu's animal-themed codenames, Ubuntu 24.10 is now confirmed to be the Oracular Oriole.
April 29th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu Isn't Yet Recommending GNOME's VRR Option
While GNOME landed experimental Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support in GNOME 46 that is used by the new Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release, Canonical isn't yet encouraging users to test out this option.
April 29th, 2024 — Source

xconsole 1.1 Released - Preparing For Post-Y2038 Support, 18 Years After v1.0
Longtime X.Org maintainer Alan Coopersmith with Oracle released a new version of xconsole, the program that displays an X11 window containing the messages sent to /dev/console. This xconsole 1.1 release comes 18 years after the xconsole 1.0 release.
April 29th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 28th, 2024

AMD Enabling "Fast CPPC" For Even Greater Linux Performance & Power Efficiency On Some CPUs
While AMD Zen 4 processors whether it be the Ryzen 7000/8000 desktop/mobile series or EPYC 8004/9004 series server processors are already performing very well on Linux and with great power efficiency against the competition as shown in dozens of Phoronix articles at this point, it turns out there's been a minor power/performance optimization left untapped yet under Linux for select Zen 4 processors. A new patch series posted this Sunday allows for this "fast CPPC" feature to be utilized on supported processors.
April 28th, 2024 — Source

Cloud Hypervisor 39 Adds NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P Support
Cloud Hypervisor 39 was released on Saturday for this cloud-focused, Rust-based VMM started by Intel and now a multi-vendor Linux Foundation project.
April 28th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9-rc6 To Fix Accidentally Disabling Mitigations By Default For Non-x86 CPUs
A commit made to the Linux kernel three weeks ago accidentally broke the default CPU security mitigations for non-x86 CPUs. With code sent in today via x86/urgent ahead of tonight's Linux 6.9-rc6 release, that accidental default breakage is being addressed.
April 28th, 2024 — Source

LLVM Clang 19 Adds Arm Neoverse-N3 / Neoverse-V3 / Neoverse-V3AE Support
Merged on Friday to the development codebase for the LLVM/Clang 19 compiler is support for the Arm Neoverse N3, V3, and V3AE SoCs.
April 28th, 2024 — Source

More AMDGPU Driver Code For Linux 6.10 Brings MES Updates, FreeSync Fixes
On top of prior DRM-Next pull requests for the AMD kernel graphics driver working on next-gen GPU support along with fixes and other low-level improvements, on Friday another batch of new feature code was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window opening up in mid-May.
April 28th, 2024 — Source

Zrythm 1.0 RC1 Available For Testing As Great Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation
Since going beta in 2020, the Zrythm open-source digital audio workstation software has been inching its way toward a v1.0 release. On Saturday marked the release of v1.0.0-rc.1 as a release candidate for the upcoming v1.0 release of this GTK-based digital audio workstation (DAW) software.
April 28th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 27th, 2024

GTK 4.15 Released With Vulkan Renderer By Default
GTK 4.15.0 is now available as part of the new unstable series for this widely used open-source toolkit. Most notable with GTK 4.15.0 is the Vulkan renderer being used by default on supported systems.
April 27th, 2024 — Source

KDE Fixes Adaptive-Sync Issues & Less Glitches During GPU Resets
KDE developer Nate Graham is back from the latest KDE sprint in Germany and out with his new weekly status report to highlight all of the interesting KDE changes that landed this week.
April 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.15.157 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.157 is now available:
April 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.88 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.88 is now available:
April 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.29 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.29 is now available:
April 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.8.8 released
Linux kernel version 6.8.8 is now available:
April 27th, 2024 — Source

Rust-Based Coreutils 0.0.26 Increases Compatibility With GNU Coreutils
The uutils' Rust-based Coreutils implementation is out with another update that further increases the drop-in replacement compatibility with GNU Coreutils.
April 27th, 2024 — Source

What's New in Red Hat OpenShift Q1 2024 Enhancements
RedHat has announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift 4.15, based on Kubernetes 1.28 and CRI-O 1.28. Red Hat OpenShift is an application platform that allows developers and DevOps to build and deploy applications.
April 27th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 26th, 2024

45 Drives adds Linux-powered mini PCs, workstations to growing compute lineup
Plus the system builder says an Arm-based system is already in the works
April 26th, 2024 — Source

AMDGPU Linux Driver Patches Enable SOC24 & MMHUB 4.1.x IP
AMD's Linux graphics driver engineers continue being quite busy preparing for multiple new hardware IP.
April 26th, 2024 — Source

CloudNativePG 1.23.0, 1.22.3 and 1.21.5 released
Versions 1.23.1, 1.22.3, and 1.21.5 of CloudNativePG are now available. To make database fleet management easier, CloudNativePG 1.23 adds image catalogs based on major versions. The new stanza (spec.imageCatalogRef) and resources (ClusterImageCatalog and ImageCatalog) are introduced. You can find catalogs provided by the Community, and there are also third-party and build-your-own choices.
April 26th, 2024 — Source

GCC 14 Adds "GFX90C" For OpenMP Offloading To APUs With GFX9/Vega Graphics
As the last feature patch prior to the GCC 14 compiler code being branched today and GCC 15 opening up on the mainline codebase, AMD GFX90C support was merged for enabling GPU OpenMP device offloading to the numerous AMD SoCs/APUs with the GFX9/Vega graphics.
April 26th, 2024 — Source

GCC 14.1 Compiler Aiming For Release Around 7 May
As mentioned following the AMD GFX90C target being added, the GCC 14 compiler code was branched from the main Git branch with release preparations for GCC 14 underway. A status report was just published outlining release plans for getting GCC 14.1 stable out around 7 May.
April 26th, 2024 — Source

GNOME Foundation To Focus On Fundraising After Years Running A Deficit
After several years of the GNOME Foundation running at a deficit (loss), the GNOME Foundation is going to be driving a push for greater fundraising.
April 26th, 2024 — Source

It's baaack! Microsoft and IBM open source MS-DOS 4.0
How did the operating system so bad it likely steered users to Linux 35 years ago come to be open-sourced now?
April 26th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Open-Sources MS-DOS 4.0 Under MIT License
After publishing open-source versions of MS-DOS years ago for versions 1.25 and 2.0, Microsoft and IBM have now announced that MS-DOS 4.0 has been open-sourced under an MIT license.
April 26th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 Adding Intel Low-Latency Hint To Aggressively Boost GT Frequency For GPU Compute
Following the big set of Xe DRM driver updates for Linux 6.10 and earlier Adaptive Snyc SDP, Lunar Lake display support, and more DG2 PCI IDs for i915 pulls sent in over weeks prior for this next kernel version, the drm-intel-gt-next pull request was submitted today for last minute Intel graphics driver feature changes aiming for Linux 6.10.
April 26th, 2024 — Source

Linux Lite -- free operating system based on Ubuntu LTS
Linux Lite is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It bills itself as a gateway operating system.
April 26th, 2024 — Source

New Patches Significantly Reduce Zink Driver Startup Time
Given a two year old bug against Mesa around slow initialization/start-up time for GTK4 on Intel graphics, prolific Zink developer Mike Blumenkrantz recently took to optimizing Zink's start-up time for this generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation.
April 26th, 2024 — Source

Proton 9.0 RC2 Makes More Windows Games Playable On Linux, Other Fixes
Valve and CodeWeavers today released the Proton 9.0 Release Candidate 2 build based off Wine 9.0 for powering Steam Play to enjoy an excellent assortment of modern (and legacy) Windows games on Linux.
April 26th, 2024 — Source

Remi Collet has released PHP 8.2.19 RC1 and 8.3.7 RC1 packages for Linux distributions based on Fedora and RHEL.
Release Candidate versions are available in the testing repository for Fedora and Enterprise Linux (RHEL / CentOS / Alma / Rocky and other clones) to allow more people to test them. They are available as Software Collections, for a parallel installation, the perfect solution for such tests, and also as base packages.
April 26th, 2024 — Source

Servo Web Engine Now Passing Acid2 Layout Engine Test
The Servo web engine developers have enjoyed a busy April with a number of new features added to this Rust creation.
April 26th, 2024 — Source

The temptation of AI as a service
Enterprises may find it faster and easier to deploy their AI models in a public cloud that runs them as a service. AWS is jumping on this trend.
April 26th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.04: This great new Linux distro isn't just fast - it's a fortress
I'm running Canonical's latest release - aka 'Noble Numbat' - and find this distro's performance and security improvements make it an outstanding OS for everyone and every job.
April 26th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 24th, 2024

GCC 14 versus LLVM Clang 18 Compiler Performance On Fedora 40
One of the leading-edge benefits of Fedora Linux is that it always ships with the most up-to-date open-source compiler toolchains at release. For their spring releases each year, it typically means shipping with a GCC compiler that isn't even officially released as stable yet.
April 24th, 2024 — Source

New AMD Linux Patch Acknowledges More Zen 5 CPU Models
A new AMD Linux kernel patch queued today via "x86/urgent" for routing into the Linux 6.9 development kernel expands the range of recognized CPU model IDs for upcoming Zen 5 processors.
April 24th, 2024 — Source

Nginx 1.26 Released With Experimental HTTP/3 Support
Nginx 1.26 stable is out as the newest version of this popular alternative to the Apache web server while also able to work as a load balancer, reverse proxy, and HTTP cache. Nginx 1.26 incorporates the great work from the Nginx 1.25 mainline branch such as experimental HTTP/3 support.
April 24th, 2024 — Source

Polychromatic 0.9 OpenRazer GUI Frontend Released With Port To PyQt6
Polychromatic is the open-source software package that serves as a GUI front-end to the OpenRazer drivers for allowing Razer devices to be configured under Linux for managing keyboard/mice RGB lighting and other options. With today's Polychromatic 0.9 release there is a port for the Qt6 toolkit.
April 24th, 2024 — Source

Proxmox VE 8.2 Introduces VMware Import Wizard, Enhanced Backup Options, and Advanced GUI Features
Proxmox Server Solutions has released the latest update to their server virtualization management platform, Proxmox VE 8.2. The new version is based on Debian 12.5 (Bookworm) and upgrades to Linux kernel 6.8, including updates to major components like QEMU 8.1, LXC 6.0, Ceph 18.2, and ZFS 2.2.
April 24th, 2024 — Source

Radeon GPU Profiler 2.1 Adds Radeon GPU Analyzer Interoperability
AMD's GPUOpen team today released the Radeon GPU Profiler 2.1 software that now sports interoperability with the Radeon GPU Analyzer.
April 24th, 2024 — Source

Red Hat Releases DNF 4.20 In Preparation For DNF5
DNF 4.20 was released this morning by Red Hat as a stepping stone toward the upcoming DNF5 package manager.
April 24th, 2024 — Source

Snowflake's open-source Arctic LLM to take on Llama 3, Grok, Mistral, and DBRX
Arctic will be available under the Apache 2.0 license and can be accessed via Snowflake Cortex for serverless inference or across providers such as AWS, Azure, Nvidia, Perplexity, and Together AI.
April 24th, 2024 — Source

TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 Released For A Wonderful NAS Platform
The folks at iXsystems have released TrueNAS SCALEE 24.04 as the newest iteration of their Linux-based platform for network attached storage (NAS) devices. TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 brings better performance, new features, and additional hardware support.
April 24th, 2024 — Source

Wine's Wayland Driver Will Finally Set The Window Title
A small but notable patch was merged to upstream Wine overnight: the window title for application windows is now actually set under Wayland.
April 24th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 22nd, 2024

AM 6.6.2 has been released.
Improved the installation process (option -i or install) by showing the progress bar (shown in dots) in real time!
April 22th, 2024 — Source

AlmaLinux 9.4 beta is out: 4 reasons to consider it for your desktop
The server-centric, open-source Linux distribution's latest beta is available with plenty of updates, and it could be your new favorite desktop operating system.
April 22th, 2024 — Source

AMD SEV-SNP Hypervisor Support Nears The Mainline Linux Kernel
AMD's upstreaming effort around Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) to the mainline Linux kernel appears to be nearly wrapped up with the latest hypervisor patches now at their fourteenth revision.
April 22th, 2024 — Source

AMD: "Additional Parts Of The Radeon Stack To Be Open Sourced Throughout The Year"
After recently announcing they'd be working to get out Micro-Engine Scheduler (MES) firmware documentation and open-source code, AMD said they would be working to open-source more of their software stack and hardware documentation. AMD repeated those calls over the weekend.
April 22th, 2024 — Source

Audacity 3.5 Brings Cloud Project Saving, Improved BSD Support
The Audacity open-source digital audio editor is out today with a big feature update in the form of Audacity 3.5.
April 22th, 2024 — Source

Focusing on the wrong open source issues
Yes, a tiny number of companies have relicensed their open source code. Let's worry about actual problems, like security and megacompanies that contribute almost nothing.
April 22th, 2024 — Source

Fedora 40 is just around the corner with more spins and flavors than ever
KDE edition has the most conspicuous changes, and could become future flagship
April 22th, 2024 — Source

Fwupd 1.9.17 Adds Firmware Updating For ASUS DC201 & Realtek RTS541x
Richard Hughes of Red Hat has announced the released of Fwupd 1.9.17, the newest update to this open-source solution for system and device firmware updating under Linux that is paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for a streamlined user experience.
April 22th, 2024 — Source

Intel Enabling Linux Driver Display Support For Upcoming "Battlemage" GPUs
Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers have been busy working to enable the display support for the upcoming Battlemage graphics cards as the successor to DG2/Alchemist.
April 22th, 2024 — Source

Intel Media Driver 2024Q1 Brings Arrow Lake H Support
The Intel Media Driver 2024Q1 release is now available that serves as the company's modern Video Acceleration API (VA-API) driver for Linux systems. The Intel media driver allows for iGPU/dGPU-based video encode/decode for HEVC, VP9, AV1, and other formats supported by the respective graphics hardware.
April 22th, 2024 — Source

Kioxia KCD8XPUG1T92 CD8P-R & KCMYXVUG3T20 CM7-V PCIe 5.0 SSDs
While there is a growing number of PCIe 5.0 consumer NVMe SSDs available through Internet retailers, when it comes to PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD data center / enterprise grade solid-state drives there aren't as many yet and even for announced ones they have been relatively in short supply. In preparing for some upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS tests and ahead of next-gen servers arriving, I was recently searching for some new PCIe 5.0 data center solid state drives.
April 22th, 2024 — Source

Linux Servers Targeted by Akira Ransomware
A group of bad actors who have already extorted $42 million have their sights set on the Linux platform.
April 22th, 2024 — Source

Reverse Engineered MSI WMI Platform Driver Being Worked On For Linux
Submitted for code review this weekend was a new MSI WMI Platform driver that was developed via reverse engineering MSI laptops. Initially this MSI WMI Platform driver is just exposing fan speed sensors but ultimately can be more useful for other Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) features.
April 22th, 2024 — Source

SparkyLinux -- Linux distribution based on Debian
The distro is available in several versions for different use cases. It supports approximately 20 desktop environments and window managers giving you freedom of choice.
April 22th, 2024 — Source

Steam Deck Motion Sensors Being Worked On For Linux's HID-Steam Driver
A patch is undergoing work to add Steam Deck IMU support to the HID-Steam kernel driver for supporting the accelerometer and gyroscope sensors of the Steam Deck controller.
April 22th, 2024 — Source

udev-hid-bpf To Help Enable HID-BPF Use Rather Than Kernel Drivers To Fix HID Hardware
Right now for buggy HID hardware or other input devices not exactly aligning to specs or having known hardware workarounds required, a new Linux kernel driver tends to be needed or at least quirks to be added to existing kernel driver code. There's no shortage of wonky HID hardware/drivers out there to deal with such odd cases.
April 22th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 19th, 2024

8 Best Open Source Project Management Software for 2024
Find the best open-source project management software for 2024. Compare features, pricing, pros and cons to choose the right software for your organization.
April 19th, 2024 — Source

20 Delightful Free and Open Source ASCII Art Tools
ASCII art is a graphic design technique that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures put together from characters defined by the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) standard. These characters are letters, numbers and special characters such as # / and \. ASCII art is as much a constituent element of the internet as emoticons, cats, or acronyms such as ROTFL and LOL.
April 19th, 2024 — Source

AM 6.6.1 released
Now when updating apps, you can keep track of new versions of the installed apps (option -u or update)
April 19th, 2024 — Source

Depositphotos Launches 'Commercially Safe' AI Image Generator
Stock photo website Depositphotos has launched an AI image generator which it says is commercially safe to use.
April 19th, 2024 — Source

Git 2.45 Begins Landing Code For SHA1 & SHA256 Interoperability For Repositories
Junio Hamano announced the release today of Git 2.45-rc0 as the first test release toward the next version of this distributed version control system. Notable with Git 2.45 is beginning to land SHA1 and SHA256 interoperability work for repositories.
April 19th, 2024 — Source

Godot's Vulkan Backend Seeing Better Performance, 10~20% Reduction In Frame Times
The Godot game engine has spent the past number of months collaborating with Google and The Forge to bring performance optimizations to their Vulkan back-end. While the immediate focus was on bettering Godot's Vulkan performance for Android mobile devices, this work will ultimately benefit all Vulkan platforms/users.
April 19th, 2024 — Source

Intel Compute Runtime 24.13.29138.7 Brings Improved OpenCL/OpenGL Sharing
As the first new release to Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack in about one month for this OpenCL and Level Zero compute support, Intel Compute Runtime 24.13.29138.7 was released this morning with much improved OpenCL/OpenGL sharing and interoperability on Linux, out-of-the-box support for the Xe kernel graphics driver, new optimizations, and many other changes.
April 19th, 2024 — Source

Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime 2024Q1 Brings VP9 Fix & AV1 Refinements
Overnight Intel released their oneVPL GPU Runtime 2024Q1 release for this media stack component to their oneAPI software collection.
April 19th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 Preps A Kernel Panic Screen - Sort Of A "Blue Screen of Death"
While systemd 255 last year introduced a "blue screen of death" inspired solution with systemd-bsod for presenting logged error messages full-screen, it's not appropriate for all errors. Systemd-bsod can work out for presenting full-screen messages in case of boot failures and other problems where user-space is alive.
April 19th, 2024 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.8-8 released
Steven Barrett has released another Liquorix Linux kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.8.7 for Debian and Ubuntu.
April 19th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft's VASA-1 AI Can Make Any Person's Image Move and Speak
Microsoft unveiled a new lip-syncing AI tool that transforms a still image of a person's face into an animated clip of them talking or singing.
April 19th, 2024 — Source

Miracle-WM 0.2 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Compositor
Announced back in February was Miracle-WM as a Wayland compositor built atop Mir and developed by Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek. Today he announced version 0.2 as the latest feature upd
April 19th, 2024 — Source

Mozilla Finally Begins Offering Firefox ARM64 Linux Binaries
While the Firefox web browser has long worked on AArch64 Linux and Mozilla even offers Windows ARM64/AArch64 binaries, to date Mozilla hasn't released official ARM64/AArch64 binaries for Linux. That is finally beginning to change.
April 19th, 2024 — Source

Newly-Unearthed Photo May Reveal Iceberg That Sunk The Titanic
Another view of what appears to be the same iceberg that may have sunk the Titanic that is seen in a photograph up for auction this month. This image (above) was owned by Captain De Carteret, the Captain of the CS Minia which was sent to recover bodies from the wreckage site in April 1912.
April 19th, 2024 — Source

OpenMetadata Vulnerabilities Exploited to Abuse Kubernetes Clusters for Cryptomining
Microsoft warns that several OpenMetadata vulnerabilities are being exploited to deploy cryptomining malware to Kubernetes environments.
April 19th, 2024 — Source

People Caught Yanking Bear Cubs Out of Tree to Take Selfies With Them
A group of people were filmed tearing three bear cubs out of a tree so that they could pose for selfies with them.
April 19th, 2024 — Source or Watch Video

Real Photos From the Excope DT1 Kickstarter Reveal Its Limitations
Beaverlab Technology, the maker of the Excope DT1 camera currently on Kickstarter, has a response to PetaPixel's expose, and it is mainly one of contrition.
April 19th, 2024 — Source

Rockchip NPU Open-Source Driver Taking Shape, Will Aim For Upstream Accel Driver
It was just one month ago that open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso was beginning work on reverse-engineering and writing a Rockchip NPU driver following his work on the Vivante NPU IP open-source driver support.
April 19th, 2024 — Source

Winpilot 3.6.0 released
Winpilot 3.6.0 has been released. The old WinModder extension from Bloatynosy has been brought back with a more robust version that is called PimpApp. PimpApp used to tweak and slim down systems with pre-made community templates.
April 19th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 17th, 2024

AlmaLinux 8.10 Beta released
The AlmaLinux OS Foundation has released AlmaLinux 8.10 Beta "Cerulean Leopard" for all supported architectures, including Intel/AMD, ARM64, IBM PowerPC, and IBM Z. Updates to the system's security and data protection, enhancements to the web-console and system roles, updates to the system's availability, reliability, and recovery procedures, and new system roles for improved data backup and recovery are all included in the beta release. Additionally, it places an emphasis on the performance, scalability, and dependability of the software for developers.
April 17th, 2024 — Source

AlmaLinux 9.4 beta prepares to tread where RHEL dares not
CIQ also has an alternative approach to compatible kernels with RockyLinux
April 17th, 2024 — Source

Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver
Following last year Nouveau receiving support for running with the NVIDIA GSP firmware and initial GeForce RTX 40 series accelerated support, Ben Skeggs of Red Hat unexpectedly resigned as the Nouveau kernel driver maintainer.
April 17th, 2024 — Source

GNOME Mutter Lands NVIDIA Hybrid GPU Copy Acceleration
Merged on Tuesday into GNOME Mutter is NVIDIA secondary GPU copy acceleration support that allows for much better performance of hybrid laptops featuring integrated graphics paired with a discrete NVIDIA GPU.
April 17th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 To Add Script For Building ARM64 Flat Image Trees
Queued as part of the ARM64 patches in the various "-next" branches ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window is a script for being able to build Flat Image Trees (FITs). A Flat Image Tree is the compiled Linux kernel paired with the associated DeviceTree content that is compressed and easily then distributed and executed by capable bootloaders.
April 17th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.15.156 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.156 is now available:
April 17th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.87 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.87 is now available:
April 17th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.28 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.28 is now available:
April 17th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.8.7 released
Linux kernel version 6.8.7 is now available:
April 17th, 2024 — Source

LXQt 2.0 Released For Qt6 Desktop Port, Greater Wayland Support
LXQt 2.0 is now available for this lightweight desktop environment that has now been ported to the Qt 6.6+ toolkit. Additionally, much of the LXQt components are ready to be used under Wayland compositors.
April 17th, 2024 — Source

NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades later
Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types
April 17th, 2024 — Source

RPM 4.20 Approved For Fedora 41 To Advance Hands-Free Packaging
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved RPM 4.20 to land for the Fedora 41 cycle that will debut in H2'2024. RPM 4.20 is a significant update for this widely-used packaging format.
April 17th, 2024 — Source

The Linux Foundation and tech giants partner on open-source generative AI enterprise tools
Intel, Red Hat, VMware, and several other companies are participating in the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA).
April 17th, 2024 — Source

TUXEDO Computers Unveils Linux Laptop Featuring AMD Ryzen CPU
This latest release is the first laptop to include the new CPU from Ryzen and Linux preinstalled.
April 17th, 2024 — Source

Wayland Protocols 1.35 Introduces Alpha Modifier Protocol, Tablet-V2 As Stable
Wayland Protocols 1.35 is out today as the newest update to this collection of Wayland protocol specifications.
April 17th, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.6.28 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.6.28 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
April 17th, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.8.7 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.8.7 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
April 17th, 2024 — Source

XWayland 24.1 RC Released With Explicit Sync, Improved Rootful & GLAMOR Optimizations
As expected, the first release candidate of the forthcoming XWayland 24.1 is now available ahead of its planned stable debut in May.
April 17th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 15th, 2024

4 Slack alternatives you need to try: Say hello to open source collaboration
Slack is reliable and configurable, but it's also pricey and proprietary. Whether you're about enterprise-level collaboration or family communication, there's an option here for every team.
April 15th, 2024 — Source

AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta released
AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta is available for testing. The new 9.4 Beta release brings enhancements to the capabilities of virtual machine snapshots, as well as improvements to machine security, data protection, web-console and system roles, system availability, reliability, and recovery. Furthermore, it enhances the performance, scalability, and reliability of the software development process.
April 15th, 2024 — Source or Source

AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta 'Seafoam Ocelot' now available
The AlmaLinux OS Foundation has officially released the beta version of AlmaLinux 9.4, codenamed "Seafoam Ocelot," available for various hardware architectures including Intel/AMD (x86_64), ARM64 (aarch64), IBM PowerPC (ppc64le), and IBM Z (s390x). Enthusiasts and developers can access the beta ISOs here.
April 15th, 2024 — Source

Archinstall 2.8 Further Refines The Easy Arch Linux Installation Experience
Archinstall 2.8 is out today as the latest update to this easy-to-use, text-based Arch Linux installer that makes it much faster deploying this popular Linux distribution.
April 15th, 2024 — Source

Data pipelines for the rest of us
Apache Airflow is a great data pipeline as code, but having most of its contributors work for Astronomer is another example of a problem with open source.
April 15th, 2024 — Source

Fedora 41 Aims For More Reproducible Package Builds Thanks To A Rust Program
Continuing a trend worked on in recent Fedora Linux releases and more broadly in the open-source ecosystem at large for securing the software supply chain and ensuring unaltered binaries, Fedora 41 is aiming to ensure more reproducible package builds.
April 15th, 2024 — Source

FEX-Emu 2404 Optimization Can Take Memcpy From 2-3 GB/s To 88 GB/s
FEX 2404 is now available for this open-source emulator project to allow running x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 (ARM 64-bit) LInux systems. FEX has been one of the leading avenues for opening up gaming on AArch64 Linux hardware, even making use of Wine / Proton (Steam Play) for enjoying Windows x86 games within AArch64 Linux confines.
April 15th, 2024 — Source

Firefox 125 Adds AV1 Support In Encrypted Media Extensions, Other New Features
Ahead of tomorrow's official release announcement, the Firefox 125.0 release binaries have been uploaded to the Mozilla mirror this morning. Firefox 125.0 brings a number of new features and developer additions -- more so than we've seen recently from the monthly Firefox releases.
April 15th, 2024 — Source

Kdenlive 24.02.2 released
Kdenlive 24.02.2 has been released. Fixes for copy-and-paste of effects, rotoscoping, and Nvidia encoding are included in the 24.02 maintenance release. Additionally, performance optimizations have been implemented for moving clips in the timeline and across multiple project bins. Further improvements have been made to the packaging for both macOS and Windows versions.
April 15th, 2024 — Source

More Bcachefs Fixes & Recovery Improvements Land In Linux 6.9
LINUX STORAGEThe Bcachefs fixes continue to come in on the heavier side for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel.
April 15th, 2024 — Source

Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins
Neither side can afford to lose, but one surely must
April 15th, 2024 — Source

RebornOS is a beautiful, user-friendly take on Arch Linux with desktop options galore
Looking for a Linux distro that's easy to use and highly customizable? RebornOS is both.
April 15th, 2024 — Source

RNNoise 0.2 Released With AVX2 Optimizations For Neural Network Noise Suppression
Xiph.Org has released RNNoise 0.2 as the recurrent neural network for audio noise reduction. This library leverages a neural network model for enhancing real-time noise suppression.
April 15th, 2024 — Source

Vim Lands XDG Base Directory Specification Support
For fans of the Vim text editor, the latest development code has landed support for the XDG Base Directory "XDG_BASE_DIR" specification.
April 15th, 2024 — Source

XZ Gets the All-Clear
The back door xz vulnerability has been officially reverted for Fedora 40 and versions 38 and 39 were never affected.
April 15th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 12th, 2024

A popular open-source content delivery network went down for hours
An Unpkg CDN outage briefly broke thousands of websites.
April 12th, 2024 — Source

GCC 15 dropping IA64 support is final nail in the coffin for Itanium architecture
Linux kernel cut it loose, now leading FOSS compiler lands depth-charge on Itanic
April 12th, 2024 — Source

Dbus-Broker 36 Released For This Fastest D-Bus Implementation
David Rheinsberg has released Dbus-Broker 36 as the newest version of this speedy, drop-in DBus implementation for Linux systems.
April 12th, 2024 — Source

KDE Frameworks 6.1 Released With Many Improvements & Fixes
KDE Frameworks 6.1 is out today as the first monthly update since the release of KDE Frameworks 6.0 alongside KDE Plasma 6.0.
April 12th, 2024 — Source

KDE Gear 24.02.2 released
Thursday, 11 April 2024. Over 180 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
April 12th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240411
KDE neon is our installable Linux with continuous integration and deployment. It's based on Ubuntu who had a new Long Term Support Release recently so we've rebased it on Ubuntu 20.04 now.
April 12th, 2024 — Source

KDE Ships Frameworks 6.1.0
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.1.0.
April 12th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.10 SLUB Optimization To Reduce Memory Consumption In Extreme Scenarios
A patch to the Linux kernel's SLUB allocator has been queued ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.10 merge window to help reduce memory consumption in extreme scenarios.
April 12th, 2024 — Source

Linux Foundation is leading fight against fauxpen source
Shifts its transmission from vendor neutral into open source gear
April 12th, 2024 — Source

LPython 0.21 Released For Alpha-Stage Python AOT Compiler
As the first new release since last September, LPython 0.21 has been released for this alpha-stage Python ahead-of-time compiler written in C++. LPython remains focused on providing "the best possible performance" especially for numerical use-cases, cross-platform compatibility, and hopes to be able to eventually transform Python code over to C++ and Fortran or other languages.
April 12th, 2024 — Source

Release candidates: Godot 4.1.4 RC 2 & 4.2.2 RC 3
Here's the final round of release candidates for Godot 4.1.4 and 4.2.2, which I aim to release as stable in a few days.
April 12th, 2024 — Source

SDL 3.0 Will Now Prefer PipeWire Over PulseAudio
LINUX GAMINGFor the widely-used SDL hardware/software abstraction layer that is commonly used by cross-platform games, the upcoming SDL 3.0 release now has the logic to be able to prefer using PipeWire directly rather than PulseAudio when successfully detecting the presence of PipeWire.
April 12th, 2024 — Source

TUXEDO Computers Launches First Linux Laptop With AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
While TUXEDO Computers has already been offering powerful AMD Zen 4 laptops such as the Pulse 14 Gen 3 with Ryzen 7 7840HS SoC, today the Bavarian company announced their first Ryzen 8000 series mobile laptop.
April 12th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS Beta released
Ubuntu enthusiasts and the Linux community at large have a reason to be excited, as Canonical announces the Beta release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Codenamed "Noble Numbat," this release continues Ubuntu's legacy of blending cutting-edge open source technologies into a user-friendly, high-quality distribution.
April 12th, 2024 — Source

XWayland 24.1 Planned For Release Next Month With Explicit Sync & Other Features
The XWayland 23.2 series was introduced last August while now release preparations have begun for releasing XWayland 24.1 as the next feature release for this X.Org Server derived code for allowing X11 clients (apps / games) to work within the confines of Wayland environments.
April 12th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 11th, 2024

4 Best Open Source Password Managers for Teams in 2024
Find the best open-source password managers to keep your sensitive information secure and easily accessible. Explore top options for protecting your passwords.
April 11th, 2024 — Source

Bcachefs Sees More Fixes For Linux 6.9-rc4, Reiterates Its Experimental Nature
Last week Bcachefs' repair code was largely completed and in good shape for merging with the Linux 6.9-rc3 kernel. Bcachefs patches last week amounted to about one third of the kernel changes for the week. This week is a new round of fixes to further stabilize the experimental file-system.
April 11th, 2024 — Source

GCC 14 Compiler Adds AArch64 GNU/Hurd Support
While GNU Hurd continues having a tough time on x86 support and GNU Hurd x86_64 is being worked toward, the GCC 14 compiler has been working on compiler toolchain support for GNU Hurd AArch64.
April 11th, 2024 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.8-3 released
Steven Barrett has released another Liquorix Linux kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.8.5 for Debian and Ubuntu.
April 11th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.0.5 released
Eric Engestrom has announced the availability of the fifth bugfix release for Mesa 24.0.
April 11th, 2024 — Source

Native Spectre v2 exploit puts Intel systems running Linux at risk
It's been some time since we discussed the initial Spectre security flaw that impacted numerous CPUs, and which was subsequently followed by the Spectre v2 vulnerability. Now there are new concerns following the discovery of the first native Spectre v2 exploit against the Linux kernel.
April 11th, 2024 — Source

New open-source generative machine learning model simulates future energy-climate impacts
As countries worldwide transition to more wind and solar generation and electrify energy end uses, societies are becoming more intertwined with weather conditions. Meanwhile, the climate is rapidly changing and making extreme weather events the "new normal."
April 11th, 2024 — Source

Open-Source Radeon Driver Enables Support For Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 Encode
The open-source Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa, RADV, has merged its support for handling Vulkan Video accelerated encoding for H.264 and H.265.
April 11th, 2024 — Source

The state of open source in Europe
Inside the key themes from this year's main open-source developers' event
April 11th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Now Available For Testing
The Ubuntu 24.04 beta release is now available for testing ahead of the official release later this month for this new Long Term Support release of Ubuntu Linux.
April 11th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.04 Brings Some Performance Gains For AMD Threadripper 7980X / System76 Thelio Major
With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS due out later this month and the beta now available, I've been spending more time recently testing out the latest development state for this next Long Term Support installment of Ubuntu Linux.
April 11th, 2024 — Source

Wayland 1.23 Planned For Release Around The End Of May
Wayland 1.22 released at the start of April 2023 while now Wayland 1.23 is taking shape as the next version of this core Wayland code.
April 11th, 2024 — Source

X.Org Server Change Allows GLAMOR To Fallback To Software Rendering For Obsolete GPUs
For those trying to use the X.Org Server's GLAMOR accelerated 2D rendering on legacy/obsolete GPUs, there's now a fallback in place to allow software rendering to work when encountering crippled hardware.
April 11th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 10th, 2024

Fedora 40 Candidate RC-1.12 Available Now!
According to [the schedule][1], Fedora 40 Candidate RC-1.12 is now available for testing. Please help us complete all the validation testing!
April 10th, 2024 — Source

Canonical Collaborates with Qualcomm on New Venture
This new joint effort is geared toward bringing Ubuntu and Ubuntu Core to Qualcomm-powered devices.
April 10th, 2024 — Source

Gentoo Linux Now An SPI Project
While the Gentoo Foundation has long existed, to reduce the organizational complexity and overhead as well as becoming effectively a tax deductible non-profit at the US federal level, Gentoo Linux has become an associated project with Software in the Public Interest (SPI).
April 10th, 2024 — Source

Gentoo Linux partners with Software in the Public Interest (SPI)
Gentoo Linux has become an Associated Project of Software in the Public Interest (SPI), following a formal invitation by SPI's Board of Directors. SPI is a non-profit corporation dedicated to supporting open source software and hardware projects by providing fiscal sponsorship services such as accepting donations, holding funds and assets, and more.
April 10th, 2024 — Source

Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q1 Brings New Filter To Transform Old Content
Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel is where they maintain their various yet-to-be-upstreamed patches for the FFmpeg multimedia library either to enhance/enable new Intel graphics hardware support or improve/add extra functionality to this widely-used open-source library. With the Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q1 release they are shipping a new filter for dealing with older content as well as several other new features.
April 10th, 2024 — Source

Intel HID Driver Ready For Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake Laptops With Linux 6.9
Sent out this morning were a batch of x86 platform driver fixes by Intel engineer and platform-drivers-x86 co-maintainer Ilpo Järvinen. Besides a couple of fixes, worth mentioning is the Intel HID driver seeing support added for upcoming Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake platforms.
April 10th, 2024 — Source

Intel Updates OpenCL Intercept Layer With New Abilities
For several years Intel has been developing the OpenCL Intercept Layer to assist in debugging OpenCL software. It's been nearly two years since the last release of this open-source OpenCL interception layer while today brings v3.0.4 with a number of optimizations and new features.
April 10th, 2024 — Source

Lavapipe CPU-Based Vulkan Driver Implements Ray-Tracing Pipelines
Mesa's Lavapipe driver as a software (CPU-based) implementation of the Vulkan API has now implemented support for ray-tracing pipelines.
April 10th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8.5 & Other Stable Kernel Updates Due To Native BHI Vulnerability
Due to yesterday's Native BHI vulnerability disclosure affecting all Intel processors with this variant of Branch History Injection (BHI) not requiring BPF to exploit, a slew of new Linux kernel stable releases are out today to back-port this security mitigation.
April 10th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.15.154 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.154 is now available:
April 10th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.85 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.85 is now available:
April 10th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.26 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.26 is now available:
April 10th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.8.5 released
Linux kernel version 6.8.5 is now available:
April 10th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Rolls Out Azure Linux 2.0.20240403 With Security Fixes & Other Patches
Microsoft's Azure Linux formerly known as CBL-Mariner for their in-house Linux distribution is out with a new version. Azure Linux 2.0.20240403 was released overnight and comes with a number of security updates and other fixes.
April 10th, 2024 — Source

Turbostat Becomes Semi-Useful To Non-Root Users
INTELThe turbostat utility is useful on Linux systems for reporting idle/power-state statistics, temperatures, and other useful metrics for modern CPUs. It's also able to dive deeper and provide various MSR values and counters and other intriguing CPU bits.
April 10th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Announces New Collaboration With Qualcomm
Following yesterday's news of Canonical launching Ubuntu Pro For Devices, the latest mobile/embedded news in the Ubuntu space this week is Canonical partnering with Qualcomm.
April 10th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 6th, 2024

Furmark 2.2 has been released: adds hotspot temperature monitoring for NVIDIA GPUs
Furmark 2.2: Moore Threads S80 support, hotspot temperature for NVIDIA GPUs and OpenGL updates Geeks3D, the developers of Furmark, have announced that a new version of the software is now ready to "terrorize" your graphics card.
April 6th, 2024 — Source

GNOME Improving Integration With systemd-homed, Mockups For An OS Installer
In addition to KDE's busy week of development work, GNOME developers have also been busy working on features like improving the systemd-homed integration and beginning to work on mock-ups for an OS installer.
April 6th, 2024 — Source

Heroic Games Launcher 2.14.1 Hotfix #1 released
Heroic Games Launcher 2.14.1 has been released. Heroic Games Launcher is an open-source game launcher that uses the Legendary CLI tool to support games from the Epic Games Store, GOG, and Amazon Games.
April 6th, 2024 — Source

KDE On The Importance Of Wayland Explicit Sync
With the recent Mesa 24.1 support for Wayland explicit sync with Vulkan drivers, GNOME merging explicit sync support, Wayland-Protocols 1.34 introducing linux-drm-syncobj, and XWayland explicit sync also nearing the state of being merged, there's been much talk recently about Wayland explicit sync.
April 6th, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6 Can Now Sync Your RGB-Backlit Keyboard With Your Desktop's Accent Color
KDE developers have had another busy week working on fixes for Plasma 6.0 while simultaneously preparing new features for Plasma 6.1.
April 6th, 2024 — Source

Raspberry Pi V3D Kernel Graphics Driver Prepares For Big & Super Pages To Boost Speed
Last month I wrote about Source" target="new" class="RM1">the V3D kernel graphics driver preparing for 1MB "super pages" support to help boost the performance for this open-source Broadcom DRM driver most notably used by the latest Raspberry Pi single board computers. The latest iteration of these patches have now been posted for supporting both super pages and big pages.
April 6th, 2024 — Source

Understanding the Linux Backdoor and its implications for Open Source development
The Linux operating system, renowned for its robust security as a pillar of open-source software, has recently faced scrutiny due to a backdoor discovered in its Secure Shell (SSH) service. This revelation has raised concerns about the inherent safety of open-source systems and has sparked a debate on the implications for future security measures. As a user of Linux, you should be aware of the potential risks and the steps the community is taking to address them.
April 6th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 5th, 2024

FFmpeg 7.0 Released With Native VVC Decoding & Multi-Threaded CLI
The very exciting FFmpeg 7.0 multimedia library has been released! FFmpeg 7.0 rolls out most notably the new native VVC decoder that is currently experimental for supporting Versatile Video Coding as well as introducing the multi-threaded FFmpeg CLI tool.
April 5th, 2024 — Source

Fwupd 1.9.16 Adds Support For More USB Docks & Qualcomm Devices
Richard Hughes of Red Hat has published Fwupd 1.9.16 as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for easy firmware redistribution.
April 5th, 2024 — Source

German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating
Schleswig-Holstein looks to succeed where Munich failed.
April 5th, 2024 — Source

Mesa Adds PCI IDs For Intel Arc Graphics A580E & A750E
Following the Intel Linux kernel graphics driver patches last month Source" target="new" class="RM1">adding two new DG2/Alchemist PCI IDs that when digging through the Intel Compute Runtime sources were confirmed as the Arc Graphics A580E and A750E, the Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan drivers have now added support for these new graphics processors.
April 5th, 2024 — Source

New EEVDF Linux Scheduler Patches Make It Functionally "Complete"
Veteran Linux kernel developer Peter Zijlstra is working to wrap-up feature work around the EEVDF kernel scheduler code.
April 5th, 2024 — Source

OpenBLAS 0.3.27 Adds C-SKY Arch, Improved GEMM For AMD Zen & Sapphire Rapids Fixes
OpenBLAS 0.3.27 is out as the newest version of this prominent open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) library.
April 5th, 2024 — Source

OpenBSD 7.5 Released - Faster Performance For Many-Core ARM Servers
Theo de Raadt has released OpenBSD 7.5 as the newest version of this security-focused BSD operating system. With OpenBSD 7.5 there is a number of improvements for ARM (AArch64) hardware, never-ending kernel optimizations and other tuning work, countless package updates, and other adjustments to this popular BSD platform.
April 5th, 2024 — Source

OpenCL 3.0.16 Released With One New Extension, Semaphores & External Memory Finalized
OpenCL 3.0 debuted back in 2020 and while we haven't heard talks of any major revision on the horizon, it does continue to see new point releases. Released on Thursday was OpenCL 3.0.16 that adds one new extension while finalizing eight formerly provisional extensions.
April 5th, 2024 — Source

OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance
The OpenZFS file-system has merged support for using multiple task queues (TaskQs) to enhance performance for multi-core systems.
April 5th, 2024 — Source

pgAdmin 4 v8.5 Released
The graphical PostgreSQL management tool pgAdmin 4 has been updated. The updated version includes 24 bug fixes and new features.
April 5th, 2024 — Source

Pingora 0.1 Released As Cloudflare's Rust Code For Reliable & Fast Networked Systems
Back in 2022 Cloudflare began talking about replacing Nginx with their own in-house, Rust-written code called Pingora, talked about Pingora more in 2023, and then this past February made this Pingora framework open-source for creating reliable and fast networked systems. Today marks the first official release of Pingora with the v0.1 tag.
April 5th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS Beta delayed
As a result of the CVE-2024-3094 (xz/liblzma security issue), Canonical has removed and rebuilt all binary packages that were built for Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat. This ensures that none of the binary packages that came with their builds were compromised.
April 5th, 2024 — Source

VSCodium 1.88.0.24096 released
A new version of VSCodium, which is a version of Visual Studio Code that was built without any Microsoft branding or telemetry, has been released.
April 5th, 2024 — Source

Wine 9.6 Adds Support For Advanced AVX Features In Register Contexts
Wine 9.6 has just been issued as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and applications under Linux.
April 5th, 2024 — Source

Wine 9.6 released
Alexandre Julliard has announced the release of Wine 9.6. This version addresses 18 bugs, some of which include Mozart 10/11, buttons for the TI-83 Plus Flash Debugger, and "Text Service and Input Languages" that require unimplemented functions.
April 5th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 4th, 2024

A new version of the AM application manager for AppImage is available.
AM is an application manager that is inspired by AUR and serves as an AppImage manager, installer, and updater. It currently contains over 1800 AppImage packages and official standalone applications for GNU/Linux, which are derived from tar and zip archives.eleased/
April 4th, 2024 — Source

Apache HTTP Server 2.4.59 released
The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project have released version 2.4.59 of the Apache HTTP Server. This version includes bug fixes, enhancements to features, and security enhancements. Users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the most recent version.
April 4th, 2024 — Source

Bcachefs Repair Code Reaching Complete & Robust Recovery
Just two days after a Linux 6.9 pull request was submitted for Bcachefs to better cope with "extreme file-system damage", another pull request for this current cycle was submitted that aims to improve the recovery capabilities of this newer copy-on-write open-source file-system.
April 4th, 2024 — Source

How HashiCorp's license shakeup seeded a new open source rebel
We're really just getting started, says OpenTofu community member
April 4th, 2024 — Source

Intel QAT Driver Preps Live Migration Support For Linux 6.10
Queued up recently into the crypto subsystem's development branch ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window is support for VFIO live migration with Intel's QuickAssist Technology (QAT) driver.
April 4th, 2024 — Source

Intel Xeon Max Sees Some Performance Gains For OpenVINO & ONNX With Linux 6.9
Last week being surprised to see a number of AMD EPYC performance gains with Linux 6.9 using that in-development kernel, I was curious about what other platforms may be benefiting from better performance on this kernel that will debut as stable in May.
April 4th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240404 released
A new version of KDE neon has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
April 4th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.8.4 released
Linux kernel version 6.8.4 is now available:
April 4th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.25 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.25 is now available:
April 4th, 2024 — Source

LLVM's BOLT Being Adapted To Analyze Security Hardening Of Binaries
LLVM's BOLT is an amazing tool for optimizing the layout of binaries and in turn can lead to some mighty useful performance improvements. But now an Arm compiler engineer has taken to leveraging BOLT for creating a binary analysis tool to vet the correctness of security hardening options.
April 4th, 2024 — Source

Netplan 1.0 Is Ready To Go For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
After years being used by Ubuntu Server/Cloud, Ubuntu 23.10 began making use of Canonical's Netplan declarative network configuration software and now Netplan is fully ready to take on all duties with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. After seven years of development, Netplan 1.0 is ready for primetime use from servers to desktops.
April 4th, 2024 — Source

OpenStack improves support for AI workloads
OpenStack allows enterprises to manage their own AWS-like private clouds on-premises. Even after 29 releases, it's still among the most active open source projects in the world and this week, the OpenInfra Foundation that shepherds the project announced the launch of version 29 of OpenStack.
April 4th, 2024 — Source

PostgreSQL Merges JSON_TABLE(), Incremental JSON Parser
For years the PostgreSQL database server has been adding various JSON features while now the latest addition for dealing with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) structured data is the JSON_TABLE() SQL function.
April 4th, 2024 — Source

Qt Creator 13 Released For Enhancing Qt/C++ Development
QTFollowing the release of the Qt 6.7 toolkit earlier this week, released today is the Qt Creator 13 integrated development environment. Qt Creator is the Qt/C++ tailored IDE aimed to help accelerate developer productivity with tight Qt integration and supporting a variety of features.
April 4th, 2024 — Source

Statcounter: Linux increases desktop market share to 4.05%
Last month, Neowin reported that Linux surpassed 4% market share for the first time according to Statcounter. Now, Linux has managed to further increase its market share from 4.03% to 4.05% to further secure its position.
April 4th, 2024 — Source

UPower Power Profiles Daemon v0.21 Automatically Adapts For Linux Laptop Battery Use
The Power Profiles Daemon software under the UPower project has released version 0.21 which now is automatically battery-state aware for adjusting the CPU power/performance behavior depending upon whether your Linux laptop is connected to AC or battery power.
April 4th, 2024 — Source

Wine Project's April Fools' Gag With Merit: Leveraging AI For Faster Code Review
Earlier this week Wine developer Gabriel Ivăncescu with CodeWeavers laid out a great proposal: leveraging AI for assisting with the code review process for more punctual review and upstreaming of patches into the Wine codebase for this software that allows Windows games and apps to run on Linux and other platforms. While great in theory, at this stage just amounted to an April Fools' gag for Wine.
April 4th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 2nd, 2024

5 Linux network-related commands every new user should know
If you're just starting on your Linux journey, these command lines will help you immensely for network-related purposes.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

AMD Announces Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series With Focus On Industrial AI
AMD today announced the Ryzen Embedded 8000 series processors -- their first AMD embedded chips to offer Ryzen AI with the onboard Neural Processing Unit (NPU). This AMD XDNA NPU support is similar to the existing Ryzen AI on the Ryzen 8000 series.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

AMD Says They'll Be Open-Sourcing More Of Their GPU Software Stack & Hardware Docs
AMD Radeon posted to Twitter/X that "coming soon" they will be open-sourcing additional portions of their software stack as well as putting out more hardware documentation.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

AMD's Longtime Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Advocate Retires
After working at ATI/AMD for more than a quarter century and being the open-source graphics driver manager during the early days, John Bridgman has retired.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

ASUS WMI Driver For Linux Preps New Features For Recent ASUS Laptops
Open-source developer Luke Junes continues doing a great job near single-handedly improving ASUS laptop support for Linux users. His many improvements over time to the ASUS-WMI kernel driver has enabled new features and functionality for ASUS laptops on Linux. Sent out on Monday was the newest patch series with additional feature work to this driver.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME
A change proposal filed for fedora 42 seeks to make KDE Plasma the default desktop of Fedora Workstation while GNOME would move to its own separate spin/edition. The proposal has yet to be voted on by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) but given Red Hat's deep roots with GNOME, I have a hard time seeing this pass at least in the near-term.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

Fedora Linux 40 Final Freeze Today
It is expected that the final release freeze for Fedora Linux 40 will begin later today. There will be a stable status assigned to packages that resolve blocker or freeze exception bugs, while other builds will continue to be in the updates-testing phase until they are ultimately approved.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

From Russia with love: ROSA Fresh 12.5 delivers an improved Linux experience
From the land of matryoshkas and balalaikas, ROSA, a developer of system and infrastructure software, has released ROSA Fresh 12.5. This new version of the Russian-developed operating system is a blend of significant improvements and fresh features, aimed at improving both convenience and security.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.1 Merges Vulkan Support For Wayland Explicit Sync
Mesa 24.1's Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code now has support for the Wayland linux-drm-syncobj-v1 protocol for explicit synchronization support.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

New XZ backdoor scanner detects implant in any Linux binary
Firmware security firm Binarly has released a free online scanner to detect Linux executables impacted by the XZ Utils supply chain attack, tracked as CVE-2024-3094.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

Open source foundations unite on common standards for EU's Cyber Resilience Act
Adopted last month, the new legislation will come into force starting 2027
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

PCIe 7.0 Specification v0.5 Published - Full Spec Next Year
The PCI-SIG announced today that they have published their newest revision "version 0.5" of the forthcoming PCI Express 7.0 specification.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

Qt 6.7 Released With Many Improvements For This Cross-Platform Toolkit
Qt 6.7 is out as the newest feature update to this cross-platform, commercial-focused toolkit.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

SDL 2.30.2 Released Along WIth New SDL3 Preview
The Simple DirectMedia Layer software/hardware abstraction layer commonly used by games and other cross-platform software is out with a new SDL 2.30.2 stable release as well as a new SDL3 preview release.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

Some Relief For Linux Admins living in terror of the XZ backdoor
Thanks to a curious and technically skilled engineer by the name of Andres Freud, Linux admins are living in a bit of a nightmare world. He discovered a backdoor in the XZ Utils package which contains a number of tools and libraries at the heart of many Linux distros.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

The Linux Kernel Begins Preparing For Rust 1.78 Upgrade
Following the recent upgrade to Rust 1.77, the Linux kernel Rust code is preparing to move to Rust 1.78 that will be released as stable in about one month.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 Continues Running Well As A Powerful AMD Ryzen 7 Linux Laptop
The past two months I've been testing out the TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 laptop as a new AMD Ryzen laptop from this Bavarian Linux PC retailer. It's been working out very well under Linux (as would be expected of TUXEDO Computers) and quite adaptable for power and performance. For those needing a capable Linux laptop the TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 has proven quite stable and reliable under both their in-house TUXEDO OS distribution as well as Ubuntu Linux.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 29th, 2024

AMD Releases Orochi 2.0 With More CUDA/HIP Functions Implemented For Better Portability
AMD GPUOpen's Orochi project as a reminder is the effort for allowing dynamic runtime switching between the Radeon HIP and NVIDIA CUDA APIs to allow better cross-GPU portability. Today marks the availability of Orochi 2.0 for enhancing this API to target NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HIP hardware.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

Apple Researchers Detail Method to Combine Different LLMs to Achieve State-of-the-Art Performance
Many large language models (LLMs) have become available recently, both closed and open source, further leading to the creation of combined models known as Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs). Yet, few or none of them unveil what design choices were made to create them, say Apple researchers who distilled principles and lessons to design state-of-the-art (SOTA) Multimodal LLMs (PDF).
March 29th, 2024 — Source

Beware! Backdoor found in XZ utilities used by many Linux distros (CVE-2024-3094)
A vulnerability (CVE-2024-3094) in XZ Utils, the XZ format compression utilities included in most Linux distributions, may "enable a malicious actor to break sshd authentication and gain unauthorized access to the entire system remotely," Red Hat warns.
March 29th, 2024 — Source or Source

Easy-to-use make-me-root exploit lands for recent Linux kernels. Get patching
CVE-2024-1086 turns the page tables on system admins
March 29th, 2024 — Source

Fedora 41 Will Try Again To Switch To DNF5 Package Manager
Fedora 39 had hoped to use the DNF5 package manager by default as the next iteration of this package management solution for RPM-based distributions. But DNF5 wasn't ready and then delayed to Fedora 41 -- skipping over the Fedora 40 series due to the RHEL 10 branching from it and not wanting the very new DNF5 to be part of that merge.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

GNOME's Mutter Lands DRM Sync Obj v1 Support For Explicit Sync On Wayland
Merged on Thursday to GNOME's Mutter compositor is support for the linux-drm-syncobj-v1 Wayland protocol that is used to handle the global migration to explicit synchronization.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

HashiCorp Released Version 2.3 of Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes
HashiCorp recently released version 2.3 of Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes with a new feature: the ability to initiate workspace runs declaratively. The Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes was introduced in November 2023 to provide a Kubernetes-native experience while leveraging Terraform workflows.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

Intel Releases Its March 2024 Open-Source Linux GPU Compute Stack Update
Intel is ending out the month and quarter with the latest update to its open-source Compute Runtime and Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) code that enables OpenCL and Level Zero support on Linux systems and is also used by their Windows driver too.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

Malicious SSH backdoor sneaks into xz, Linux world's data compression library
STOP USAGE OF FEDORA RAWHIDE, says Red Hat while Debian Unstable and others also affected
March 29th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Drives AMD 4th Gen EPYC Performance Even Higher For Some Workloads
Now that the Linux 6.9 merge window is past I've begun testing out this in-development kernel on more hardware platforms in the lab. While some performance boosts like Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" running faster on Linux 6.9 was to be expected given EPP tuning in the new kernel specific to those SoCs, one of the unexpected delights has been seeing AMD 4th Gen EPYC performance with some nice performance gains over Linux 6.8 stable.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.2.18RC1 and 8.3.5RC1 for Fedora/RHEL released
Remi Collet has released Release Candidate versions of PHP versions 8.3.5 and 8.2.18 in his testing repository for deployment on Fedora and Enterprise Linux. These versions are available as software collections for parallel installation and as base packages.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

Red Hat issues urgent alert for Fedora Linux users due to malicious code
In a recent security announcement, Red Hat's Information Risk and Security and Product Security teams have identified a critical vulnerability in the latest versions of the "xz" compression tools and libraries.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

Updated Windows NT Sync Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel
CodeWeavers' Elizabeth Figura has been working on the NTSYNC driver to implement Windows NT synchronization primitives for the Linux kernel in order to help the performance of various Windows games running on Linux by the likes of Wine / Valve's Proton (Steam Play). The third iteration of that driver was posted overnight as it seeks to go into the mainline Linux kernel.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

XZ Struck By Malicious Code That Could Allow Unauthorized Remote System Access
Red Hat today issued an "urgent security alert" for Fedora 41 and Fedora Rawhide users over XZ. Yes, the XZ tools and libraries for this compression format. Some malicious code was added to XZ 5.6.0/5.6.1 that could allow unauthorized remote system access.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 28th, 2024

Arm China Looking At Upstreaming Their "Zhouyi" NPU Driver Into The Linux Kernel
Arm China is looking at upstreaming their "Zhouyi" NPU driver into the Linux kernel via the recently-created accelerator "accel" subsystem. The Arm China Neural Processing Unit (NPU) driver in its current form has both an open-source kernel and user-space stack.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Canonical Bumps LTS Support to 12 years
If you're worried that your Ubuntu LTS release won't be supported long enough to last, Canonical has a surprise for you in the form of 12 years of security coverage.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

EROFS Drops "Experimental" Warning For FSDAX With Linux 6.9
Adding to the Linux 6.9 features is a minor post merge window change: the read-only ROFS file-system is no longer treading its FSDAX support as experimental.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Flatpak 1.15.7 Will Now Automatically Remove Obsolete Driver Versions
Simon McVittie issued the Flatpak 1.15.7 pre-release on Wednesday with a few notable changes for this widely-used open-source app sandboxing and distribution framework.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

GNU Coreutils 9.5 Can Yield 10~20% Throughput Boost For cp, mv & cat Commands
While the uutils Rust-written Coreutils effort has been chugging along, the upstream GNU Coreutils effort is showing no signs of slowing down. Out today is GNU Coreutils 9.5 with yet more feature work and bug fixes including a security fix for a chmod issue that's been around since the beginning.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Google Cloud's C3D Instances Provide Strong Performance Value For PingCAP's TiDB
Some time ago I ran through a number of
March 28th, 2024 — Sourcebenchmarks of Google Cloud's C3D VMs powered by AMD EPYC Genoa processors. The AMD EPYC 9004 series showed terrific performance with strong generational improvements over the Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

KDE neon 20240328 released
A new version of KDE neon has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Intel "Family 6" CPU Era Coming To An End Soon: Code Suggests Cooper Forest & Adams Lake
Since the mid-90's with the P6 micro-architecture for the Pentium Pro as the sixth-generation x86 microarchitecture, Intel has relied on the "Family 6" CPU ID. From there Intel has just revved the Model number within Family 6 for each new microarchitecture/core.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Linux Foundation Launches Valkey As A Redis Fork
Given the recent change by Redis to adopt dual source-available licensing for all their releases moving forward (Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1), the Linux Foundation announced today their fork of Redis.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

More Efficient VirtIO DRM Driver To Import Scanout Buffers From Other Devices
Patches posted today by an Intel engineer allow for importing scanout buffers from other devices with the VirtIO DRM driver that is used in the virtualization space. The importing of scanout buffers from other devices/drivers can allow for more efficient use by avoiding excess copies.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Proxmox gives VMware ESXi users a place to go after Broadcom kills free version
New import wizard makes the switch from ESXi to Proxmox a bit more graceful.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Redis Switches to SSPLv1: Restrictive License Sparks Fork by Former Maintainers
Redis has recently announced a change in their license by transitioning from the open-source BSD to the more restrictive Server Side Public License (SSPLv1). The move has promptly led to a fork initiated by former maintainers and reignited discussions surrounding the sustainability of open-source initiatives.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Reverse-Engineered Rockchip NPU Driver Hitting Same Performance As Proprietary Driver
Open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso recently began the effort of creating an open-source, reverse-engineered driver for the Rockchip NPU found in some of the latest Rockchip SoCs. After succeeding at open-source NPU driver support for the VeriSilicon NPU IP, Vizoso took up the challenge of working on Rockchip NPU support. With his open-source user-space driver he's already got his first model running.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Software vendors dump open source, go for the cash grab
First, they build programs with open source. Then they build their business with open source. Then they abandon it and cash out.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

The 'pure' version of Kodi for Ubuntu Linux is dead
Team Kodi, which has long provided Personal Package Archives (PPA) for Ubuntu users seeking up-to-date and undiluted versions of the hugely popular Kodi media player, has announced the retirement of the service. This decision was apparently made due to the high maintenance overhead associated with its upkeep.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Using Microsoft's Retina to monitor Kubernetes networks
The open-source Retina brings observability to container networks in Kubernetes using eBPF.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 27th, 2024

Blender 4.1 Benchmarks Confirm Even Faster CPU Render Times Under Linux
Blender has long enjoyed faster CPU rendering under Linux compared to using Microsoft Windows. Across many different processors over the years consistently we see faster Linux CPU render performance than under Windows, though that's typically the case for most renderers. With yesterday's release of Blender 4.1, there is even faster Linux CPU render speeds. Here are some initial Blender 4.0 versus 4.1 benchmarks.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Canonical Continues Exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Images - Now In Microsoft's Cloud
Ubuntu maker Canonical has spent the past several months exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 based images for leveraging the x86_64 micro-architecture feature level capabilities to target the level embracing AVX/AVX2, FMA, BMI2, and other instructions supported largely since Intel Haswell and AMD Excavator era processors.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Fedora 40 Beta Released Soon
With the official release of Fedora 40 coming in April, it's almost time to download the beta and see what's new.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Intel Xe Developers Begin Looking At Cross-Device & Cross-Driver HMM
The Intel open-source engineers working on the modern Xe DRM kernel graphics driver have begun looking at Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM) support for cross-device and cross-driver scenarios as the latest exciting feature work for this still-experimental driver.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 4.19.311 released
Linux kernel version 4.19.311 is now available:
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.214 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.214 is now available:
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.15.153 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.153 is now available:
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.4.273 released
Linux kernel version 5.4.273 is now available:
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.23 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.23 is now available:
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.7.11 released
Linux kernel version 6.7.11 is now available:
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.8.2 released
Linux kernel version 6.8.2 is now available:
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.7-17 released
Steven Barrett has released a new Liquorix Linux kernel update based on Linux Kernel 6.7.11 for Debian and Ubuntu.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Engineer Sends Rust Linux Kernel Patches For In-Place Module Initialization
What a time we live in where Microsoft not only continues contributing significantly to the Linux kernel but doing so to further flesh out the design of the Linux kernel's Rust programming language support. A previously unimaginable combination of Microsoft, the Rust programming language, and the Linux kernel.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Pop!_OS Upgrades To The Linux 6.8 Kernel
Besides its desktop-level customizations, further differentiating System76's Pop!_OS Linux distribution from its Ubuntu LTS package base is the tendency to roll down newer versions of the upstream Linux kernel once validated across System76's portfolio of laptops and desktops.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Qubes OS 4.2.1 released
The stable release of Qubes OS 4.2.1, which includes a consolidation of security patches, bug fixes, and other updates following the release of Qubes 4.2.0, has been made available. In addition to the numerous updates, it comes with the Fedora 39 template, all of the 4.2 dom0 updates, and Linux 6.6.x as the default kernel.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

RHEL 9.4 Beta Brings Full Support For Intel SGX & DSA Accelerator Drivers
Red Hat has made the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Beta available to their customers this week for those wanting to test the next iteration of RHEL9.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Samba 4.20.0 released
Samba 4.20.0 has been released. In order to address the CVE-2022-37967 (KrbtgtFullPacSignature) vulnerabilities, Samba now requires MIT 1.21 when it is built against a system named MIT Krb5 that is functioning as an Active Directory controller. The JSON package for Perl is no longer necessary for Samba builds that make use of the imported Heimdal. Samba 4.20.0 has been released. In order to address the CVE-2022-37967 (KrbtgtFullPacSignature) vulnerabilities, Samba now requires MIT 1.21 when it is built against a system named MIT Krb5 that is functioning as an Active Directory controller. The JSON package for Perl is no longer necessary for Samba builds that make use of the imported Heimdal.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

SDL3 Will Keep Wayland Default At Least For The Time Being
Following several days of discussions from both sides of the table over whether SDL 3.0 should revert its Wayland over X11 preference in light of some aspects of the Wayland ecosystem support not being in good shape, for now at least SDL 3.0 is sticking to the Wayland support by default.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Tails 6.1 released
Tails version 6.1 is now available for download. In this version, the Tor Browser is updated to version 13.0.13, and Thunderbird is updated to version 115.9.0. Onion circuits, welcome screen errors, videos, passphrase issues, tailscloner installation and upgrade to multiple partitioned devices, display custom persistent storage features, and mitigate Intel CPU vulnerabilities are some of the issues that have been fixed.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

TornadoVM v1.0.3 OpenJDK/GraalVM Plug-In For Java Heterogeneous Hardware Support
TornadoVM is the OpenJDK and GraalVM plug-in that opens up the Java programming language to heterogeneous hardware support by allowing the easy targeting of Java code to TornadoVM targets including OpenCL, NVIDIA PTX, and SPIR-V -- in addition to CPUs. With the SPIR-V and OpenCL support in turn this means Java can run not only on GPUs but also some FPGAs and other devices.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu Legacy Support expands Ubuntu LTS lifespan to 12 years
Canonical has made the announcement that Legacy Support, an add-on for Ubuntu Pro, is now available. This add-on extends the security and support coverage for Ubuntu LTS releases to a period of twelve years.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.6.23 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.6.23 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.7.11 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.7.11 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.8.2 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.8.2 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 25th, 2024

5 Linux file and folder management commands you need to know
Already know the 5 most essential Linux commands? Great! But for maximum productivity, you should learn these 5 too. (You'll thank me later.)
March 25th, 2024 — Source

AI bubble or not, Nvidia is betting everything on a GPU-accelerated future
LLMs powering generative AI may be moving GPUs, but Huang and co already looking at next big opportunity
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Apple AI: Everything you need to know about artificial intelligence changes coming to iPhone, iOS 18 and beyond
Smarter Siri, Mac, and iPhone?
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Apple buying AI services from Chinese tech giant Baidu, say reports
Chinese media is reporting that Apple is buying AI services from local tech giant Baidu. The WSJ had earlier reported that the iPhone maker had been in discussions with the company, to use its AI smarts in iOS 18.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Apple might finally let you freely customize Home Screen icons on iPhone
A change is coming with iOS 18.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Broadcom showcases huge XPU AI accelerator for mystery client
A network-centric platform designed to scale at the lowest power
March 25th, 2024 — Source

China's A.I. Powered Robot Nearly Fights Back After Being Hit, Pulled By Trainer
Chinese robotics technology firm LimX Dynamics' Biped Robot P1's latest demonstration test shows the machine's ability to respond remarkably well when threatened by a human and traverse complex terrain. The robot uses reinforcement learning to respond to outside stimuli such as moving objects or bumps on a path, according to the firm.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Canonical Extends Ubuntu LTS Support To 12 Years For Ubuntu Pro Customers
Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS) releases have been support for 10 years of updates by Canonical while now that has been extended to 12 years but only for Ubuntu Pro customers going for their legacy support add-on. This 12 year support is extended retroactively going back to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Copilot Pro GPTs versus ChatGPT Plus GPTs in-depth comparison guide
If you're interested in learning more about the differences offered by two of the main AI models available Microsoft Copilot Pro and OpenAI's ChatGPT. You might be interested in learning more about the differences between the custom GPTs you can create with both.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Ensuring the open source moment continues
When the Open Source Definition isn't applied to cloud-distributed software, and the General Public License allows cloud companies to grow rich without contributing much, everyone loses.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

First release candidate of Linux kernel 6.9 looks 'fairly normal,' says Torvalds
Improved workqueues mean the end of tasklets is looming at long last
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Fedora 40 Beta Released Soon
With the official release of Fedora 40 coming in April, it's almost time to download the beta and see what's new.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Introduction
This is a multi-part blog looking at a FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC running Linux. This machine has an Intel N100 processor, 16GB of RAM, 512GB M.2 SSD and is available for under £100. It sounds like an ideal low cost machine to run Linux. This series will examine every aspect of this Mini PC in detail from a Linux perspective. We'll compare the machine with other ultra small form factor PCs along the way.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Hackers poison source code from largest Discord bot platform
The Top.gg Discord bot community with over 170,000 members has been impacted by a supply-chain attack aiming to infect developers with malware that steals sensitive information.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

How would you sum up a decade of Kubernetes?
The CNCF is looking for a tenth anniversary logo
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Inkscape Development Version Switches To Using GTK4
The latest upstream development code for the Inkscape vector graphics program has transitioned to using the GTK4 toolkit.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Intel NPU Linux Driver 1.2 Released
Intel today published a new version of its NPU Linux driver user-space components that goes along with their iVPU accelerator kernel driver for enabling the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found within their latest Meteor Lake systems.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 185 is available for testing
Core Update 185 of IPFire 2.29 has been made available for testing. Bug fixes and package updates have been implemented in the most recent version of the IPFire intrusion prevention system (IPS). The Intrusion Prevention System, Suricata 7, now supports HTTP/2, deflate compression, byte-ranges, TLS client certificates, IKEv1, PostgreSQL protocol, BitTorrent parser, QUICv1, and GQUIC.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Large language models use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge
Large language models, such as those that power popular artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT, are incredibly complex. Even though these models are being used as tools in many areas, such as customer support, code generation, and language translation, scientists still don't fully grasp how they work.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Features: DM VDO, AMD Preferred Core, Intel FRED & Larger Console Fonts
Now that Linux 6.9-rc1 was released on Sunday to mark the end of the merge window, here is a look at all of the new features that have been merged for the Linux 6.9 kernel cycle.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Will Boot Much Faster For Systems With Large Amounts Of RAM
The Linux 6.9 kernel will be able to boot systems with large amounts of memory -- and in particular making use of HugeTLB pages -- much faster than with previous kernels, netting a noticeable reduction in boot times.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Machine learning model demonstrates effect of public breeding on rice yields in climate change
Climate change, extreme weather events, unprecedented records in temperatures, and higher, acidic oceans make it difficult to predict the long-term fate of modern crop varieties.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.1 Merges AMD Radeon VPE 1.1 Engine Support
AMD open-source Linux driver patches posted last summer enabled the new "VPE" IP block as a general purpose copy engine for future AMD GPUs. This VPE block might premiere in the upcoming AMD RDNA3.5 refresh (RDNA3+) integrated graphics but in any event AMD is already working on the incrementally improved VPE 1.1 IP with that now being supported by the Mesa 24.1 RadeonSI driver code.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Most in-demand skills for 2024 — hint, genAI is at the top
Generative artificial intelligence is transforming the ways people work and what they'll need to get a job in today's skills-based hiring environment.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Novel quantum algorithm proposed for high-quality solutions to combinatorial optimization problems
Combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) have applications in many different fields such as logistics, supply chain management, machine learning, material design and drug discovery, among others, for finding the optimal solution to complex problems. These problems are usually very computationally intensive using classical computers and thus solving COPs using quantum computers has attracted significant attention from both academia and industry.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Mozilla Calls on Regulators to Support Open Source AI Models
Mozilla has joined with dozens of companies and organizations to make its case in a letter to the Department of Commerce.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Nvidia's AI chip dominance is being targeted by Google, Intel, and Arm
The UXL Foundation project wants to eliminate the proprietary software barriers keeping developers locked into using Nvidia's AI tech.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Open-Sora open source alternative to OpenAI's Sora text-to-video AI
Following on from the unveiling of Sora, OpenAI's powerful text-to-video AI model earlier this year a new alternative to Sora has emerged in the form of Open-Sora. Which stands out as a community-driven platform, offering an alternative to proprietary models like OpenAI's Sora. Its goal is to make video production accessible to everyone.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI Q Star theoretical AI model explained
If you are interested in learning more about the OpenAI Q* Star AI model which is apparently under development. This quick guide provides an overview of what we know so far and what you can expect from this AI model that could be taking us even closer to artificial general intelligence (AGI). But what is Q* and how does it work?
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A More Reliable Approach
With generative AI models such as ChatGPT in place, chatbots are presenting improvements in language recognition abilities.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Saving hours of work with AI: How ChatGPT became my virtual assistant for a data project
Ever wondered how to leverage AI for mundane tasks? I'll demonstrate how ChatGPT turned hours of grunt work into minutes, using a shopping challenge on Temu.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Study tests if AI can help fight cybercrime
Artificial Intelligence (AI) could become a crucial asset to fight the growing global risk of cybercrime, a new study with Charles Darwin University (CDU) has found.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

SUSE Announces Upgrades to Kubernetes and Edge Management Products
SUSE, a provider of open source software solutions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise, Rancher Prime (a Kubernetes management platform), and NeuVector Prime (a Kubernetes container security platform), has unveiled significant upgrades to its cloud-native and Edge portfolio. These enhancements aim to help customers securely deploy and manage business-critical workloads across diverse environments.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

SysVinit 3.09 Now Allows Building With musl C Library, Passing Boot Messages To Firmware
While most Linux distributions have long since moved on from SysVinit in favor of systemd for init duties, this weekend SysVinit 3.09 was released for any legacy users and holdouts still enjoying the System V-init style experience.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

The Future of Kubernetes: Potential Improvements Through Generative AI
Generative AI, a technology that generates new data similar to the original ones, could enhance Kubernetes' efficiency, usability, and functionality.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Tiny Corp Changes Course Yet Again With Plans To Offer AMD Radeon GPUs
It was just last week that Tiny Corp put their AMD Radeon graphics powered compute boxes "on hold" after being frustrated with the lack of select firmware source code and ultimately hitting various bugs. This wasn't the first time they had put their AMD Radeon graphics plans on-hold or dismissed it outright.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

What is AI? Everything to know about artificial intelligence
If you want to know about the fascinating and fast-developing technologies of artificial intelligence, we cover everything from machine learning and general AI to neural networks.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

XWayland-Run 0.0.3 Adds Support For KDE's KWin
Since last year Red Hat engineers have been developing xwayland-run and wlheadless-run for spawning X11 clients within its own dedicated XWayland rootful instance and for running a Wayland client on a set of supported Wayland headless compositors, respectively.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 22nd, 2024

AM 6.1 released
A new version of the AM application manager for AppImage is available. AM is an application manager that is inspired by AUR and serves as an AppImage manager, installer, and updater. It currently contains over 1800 AppImage packages and official standalone applications for GNU/Linux, which are derived from tar and zip archives.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source

AOMP 19.0-0 Released For AMD's OpenMP Offloading Compiler
RADEONAMD on Thursday published AOMP 19.0-0 as the newest version of their LLVM/Clang downstream compiler focused on delivering the latest OpenMP device offloading support for their Radeon GPUs and Instinct accelerators.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source

GCC Compiler Adds Support For Device Offloading With AMD RDNA3 APUs (GFX1103)
While there is AOMP for OpenMP device offloading based on the LLVM/Clang compiler, less talked about and not as feature-rich is the AMDGCN back-end within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) that is also worked on for OpenMP device offloading capabilities to Radeon GPUs.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source

Is Kubernetes worth it?
A dirty little secret in the cloud world is that container workloads have a higher total cost of ownership than they should.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Adds New RISC-V Vector-Accelerated Crypto Routines
The RISC-V architecture updates were sent out today for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel ahead of the v6.9-rc1 release this Sunday.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source

LLVM BOLT Optimizations Net ~6% Improvement For GNOME's Pango
BOLT that was upstreamed into LLVM in 2022 by Facebook/Meta allows for optimizing the layout of binaries as a post-linking step to yield increased performance. BOLT like Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) first requires the profiling step to generate perf recordings to feedback in for the optimization process, but the gains can be significant.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source

LoongArch Enables More Kernel Functionality With Linux 6.9
Loongson continues enabling more kernel functionality for their LoongArch processor port for the upstream Linux kernel. With Linux 6.9 they sent out today a set of patches enabling more features for this Chinese CPU architecture.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Enables DNS Tunneling By Default For WSL - More Reliable Networking
Microsoft is rolling out WSL 2.2.1 to WIndows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) users with more reliable networking support, hang fixes, and other improvements.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source

NVK Driver Adds Vendor ID Workaround For Games Expecting NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver
Due to some games checking the graphics card's vendor ID and matching to NVIDIA then just assuming it's NVIDIA's official (proprietary) driver in use, the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver has added a workaround to allow concealing the vendor ID in order to bypass NVIDIA-specific checks such as for the driver version in use.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 20th, 2024

A Game Is Finally Announced For The Open 3D Engine
Announced back in 2021 by the Linux Foundation was Amazon Lumberyard becoming the Open 3D Engine and the Linux Foundation fostering the Open 3D Foundation for evolving this new open-source game engine. Three years later there is now a commercial game announced for the Open 3D Engine (O3DE).
March 20th, 2024 — Source

AMD FSR 3.1 Announced With Vulkan Support
RADEONAMD used the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2024) this week to announce FSR 3.1, the latest iteration of their FidelityFX Super Resolution tech for game upscaling.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

Bcachefs Fixes Deadlock In Recovery, More Fixes Coming
Following the revised Bcachefs code making it into Linux 6.9 and a warning for Bcachefs multi-device users to move past Linux 6.7, a batch of fixes was merged overnight for Linux 6.9 while further fixes to this file-system are expected soon.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

DXVK 2.3.1 Allows For More Efficient Shader Code Generation On NVIDIA GPUs
DXVK 2.3.1 has been released for this Steam Play component that implements the Direct3D 9/10/11 APIs atop Vulkan. Notable with DXVK 2.3.1 is VK_NV_raw_access_chains support for more efficient shader code generation on NVIDIA GPUs.
March 20th, 2024 — Source or Source

GNOME 46 released
The release of GNOME 46, also known as "Kathmandu," has been announced by Matthias Clasen. This version of GNOME includes remote login, variable refresh rates, accessibility improvements, enhanced notifications, and improved settings.
March 20th, 2024 — Source or Source

GNOME 46 Kathmandu: Elevating the Linux desktop environment with new features and enhancements
The GNOME project has announced the release of GNOME 46, codenamed "Kathmandu." This latest version of the Linux desktop environment brings a host of enhancements and new features. There are even five new apps: Letterpress, Switcheroo, Decibels, Fretboard, and Railway.
March 20th, 2024 — Source or Watch Video

GNOME 46 Released With Improved Search, Experimental VRR & More Polish
The GNOME project has announced the much anticipated release of the GNOME 46 desktop.
March 20th, 2024 — Source or Watch Video

How to deploy software to Linux-based IoT devices at scale
Deploying software to large fleets of Linux-based devices is a complex and critical process that requires careful planning and automated execution. Start with these best practices.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

IBM Posts GCC Patches For -mcpu=power11 Support
In-step with early Power11 patches in Linux 6.9, IBM engineers have posted the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patches for enabling -mcpu=power11 targeting within this open-source compiler.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Lowering The Overhead Of CR3 Writes
The x86/entry pull request last week for the Linux 6.9 kernel contained just a single patch but it was a significant one at that in that it helps lower the overhead for CR3 writes and the benefits can be visible for workloads like Linux's perf functionality.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

My 5 favorite multimedia player apps for Linux and what they can do for you
Three of my top five Linux music and video players are also available on MacOS and Windows. But which one should you choose?
March 20th, 2024 — Source

New Pentesting Distribution to Compete with Kali Linux
SnoopGod is now available for your testing needs
March 20th, 2024 — Source

Red Hat's Long, Rust'ed Road Ahead For Nova As Nouveau Driver Successor
Red Hat's display driver team has recently been devising plans for Nova, a new to-be-developed Linux DRM kernel driver written in Rust for open-source NVIDIA graphics support as the successor/replacement to Nouveau for newer NVIDIA GPU generations supporting the GPU System Processor (GSP). Making this effort all the more involved is being written in Rust at a time when various kernel abstractions are still being devised and not yet upstreamed.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

The top 5 GNOME extensions I install first (and what they can do for you)
If GNOME is your desktop environment of choice, then you owe it to yourself to experience the customizations that come with extensions. Here are my top 5 favorites that help make GNOME more useful.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

Tiny Corp Puts Their AMD-Powered Compute Boxes "On Hold"
Tiny Corp has been frustrated before with AMD / ROCm and planned to drop AMD graphics cards in their planned compute boxes over it only to go back to AMD GPUs with their open-source driver stack later. It's now happened again following frustrations over firmware binaries.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

XWayland Rootful Lands HiDPI / Fractional Scaling Support
Running XWayland in rootful mode now allows for working HiDPI and fractional scaling support.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 18th, 2024

4MLinux 45.0 now available for download
The 4MLinux project has announced the stable release of its 45.0 series, delivering a ton of updates and new features. This lightweight Linux distribution continues to offer a quality experience for both desktop and server environments.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

AMD Posts Updated Linux Patches For P-State Core Performance Boost
While AMD P-State driver's Preferred Core support was merged for Linux 6.9, another notable addition to this driver is still undergoing the patch review process: Core Performance Boost.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" CPU Enablement Merged For GCC 14
Back in February AMD posted GCC compiler enablement support for Zen 5 with the new "znver5" target ahead of launch. Since then it's been rather quiet and nervous not seeing this support merged ahead of the upcoming GCC 14 stable release, but this morning it's finally happened: the AMD Zen 5 processor enablement has been merged to GCC Git in time for the GCC 14.1 stable release that will be out in the coming weeks.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

CoreCtrl 1.4 Brings Radeon RX 7000 Series Fan Curve Controls, Intel CPU Temperatures
CoreCtrl 1.4 was released this weekend as the newest version of this open-source, independently-developed GUI utility for managing CPU and GPU performance characteristics and power/thermal monitoring under Linux, among other capabilities. CoreCtrl does a good job at offering basic GUI-driven controls and monitoring for CPUs and GPUs in the absence of any official GUI solutions by the likes of AMD and Intel.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

F39-20240315 updated Live isos released
The Fedora Respins SIG is pleased to announce the latest release of Updated F39-20240215-Live ISOs, carrying the 6.7.9-200 kernel.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Juno Computers Launches Another Linux Laptop
If you're looking for a powerhouse laptop that runs Ubuntu, the Juno Computers Neptune 17 v6 should be on your radar.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Adds Support For Several Samsung Bluetooth HID Devices
Along with the input subsystem updates for the Linux 6.9 kernel, the HID subsystem updates were also merged in recent days for this next Linux kernel release. Notable of this pull is enabling support for some newer Samsung Wireless input devices.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Continues Clearing Out Code For Intel's Defunct "Carillo Ranch" Platform
Last year Linux kernel developers began clearing out code for Intel's nearly two decade old "Carillo Ranch" platform that was a 90nm 32-bit single core processor for embedded devices in the sub 20 Watt space. It was a ~2007 product that never shipped but the Linux kernel code was left in the upstream tree until beginning to see it removed last year.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

LLVM Clang Shows Off Great Performance Advantage On NVIDIA GH200's Neoverse-V2 Cores
With my recent NVIDIA GH200 Grace CPU benchmarks carried out remotely via GPTshop.ai, besides looking at areas like the 64K kernel page size performance benefits I also ran some fresh benchmarks looking at the performance difference when the binaries were generated by LLVM Clang rather than the default GCC compiler on Ubuntu Linux.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Loft Labs simplifies multi-cluster Kubernetes management for Rancher users
Loft Labs announced vCluster for Rancher, enabling self-service virtual Kubernetes cluster creation and management for teams already using Rancher for Kubernetes management.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

MAINGEAR and Phison unveil PRO AI Shodan Ubuntu Linux Workstations
MAINGEAR and Phison have announced the launch of the new MAINGEAR PRO AI workstations. These workstations are equipped with Phison's aiDAPTIV+ technology, specifically designed to make Large Language Model (LLM) development and training more accessible and affordable for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Open source comes to real-time metering
Is the complexity of billing better handled by buying software or building it? Lago offers developers a chance to get back to solving core business problems.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Raspberry PI OS 5.2 is served
The new version of Raspberry Pi comes with updated software and some new features. Raspberry Pi 5.2 will ship with new firmware, Linux kernel 6.6.20, and will be updated to Chromium 122 and Firefox 123 if you like to use that browser. A new feature is the ability of the raspi-config program can to update the Pi 4 and later model's onboard EEPROM.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Rust Coreutils & Reproducible Builds Receives Funding From The Sovereign Tech Fund
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund continues investing significant sums of money for important open-source projects. Among the latest projects receiving funding from the STF are the Rust-written Coreutils implementation and Reproducible Builds.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Simplify, Process, and Analyze: The DevOps Guide To Using jq With Kubernetes
Master `jq` for efficient Kubernetes JSON data handling with our expert guide. Gain insights and streamline your DevOps workflow with practical examples.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

The 6 Linux commands you need to know for user management
If you're just now starting your journey with Linux, these are the commands you need to know to manage users.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version
Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus
March 18th, 2024 — Source

XWayland Nukes The NVIDIA EGLStream Backend
XWayland had targeted both the Generic Buffer Management (GBM) and EGLStream APIs due to NVIDIA not supporting GBM like all of the other Linux drivers. But now that the NVIDIA proprietary Linux graphics driver has been boasting GBM support and advancing with their Wayland platform support in general, XWayland is letting go of the EGLStream mess.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Zorin OS 17.1 makes it even easier to run your must-have Windows apps on Linux
If you want the security and reliability of Linux, but still have Windows apps you need to use, Zorin OS 17.1 is the OS for you.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 15th, 2024

AI might be influencing your vote this election. How to spot and respond to it.
AI versus social media companies, government leaders, and the rest of us.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

ARM64 Rust Support & dpISA 2023 Extensions Merged For Linux 6.9
All of the ARM64 (AArch64) feature updates have been merged for the Linux 6.9 kernel. Besides the new SoC and platform hardware support, there are a few ARM64 architecture updates worth pointing out.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

Fresh version of Windows user-friendly Zorin OS arrives to tempt the Linux-wary
Adding extra shine to Ubuntu Jammy... with the lightweight edition to follow
March 15th, 2024 — Source

FUSE Passthrough Mode Merged For Linux 6.9
The FUSE passthrough mode that's been years in the making for better performance was merged upstream today for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel!
March 15th, 2024 — Source

Intel Releases SVT-AV1 2.0 For Even Faster AV1 Encoding
Intel has published SVT-AV1 2.0 as the newest major feature release to this leading open-source CPU-based AV1 video encoder. Along with various API changes, SVT-AV1 2.0 has yet more encode performance optimizations.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 184 released
We are celebrating the next release of IPFire: Version 2.29 - Core Update 184. This release comes with a number of improvements around the entire operating system and a large number of packages updates. Although this change log isn't the longest, this update packs a lot of important changes and we recommend to install while it is still hot!
March 15th, 2024 — Source

Libxml2 2.12.6 released
Regressions: parser: Fix detection of duplicate attributes in XML namespace. xmlreader: Fix xmlTextReaderConstEncoding. html: Fix htmlCreatePushParserCtxt with encoding. xmllint: Return error code if XPath returns empty nodeset.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

LXD 5.21 LTS Released With UI By Default, AMD SEV Memory Encryption For VMs
Ahead of next month's Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release, Canonical has released LXD 5.21 as the newest feature update to this container and VM manager. LXD 5.21 now ships with a production-grade graphical user interface by default, brings AMD SEV support for memory encryption of VMs on EPYC CPUs, object storage support, and other features.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

Mechanoid brings Wasm to embedded systems and IoT
Open source framework allows developers to build and run WebAssembly applications on microcontrollers and other small devices.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

mesa 24.0.3
Hello everyone, The bugfix release 24.0.3 is now available.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

Mobileye EyeQ5 SoC Support Upstreamed In Linux 6.9
While Mobileye has already announced EyeQ6 and EyeQ7, being upstreamed in the Linux 6.9 kernel is finally support for the EyeQ5 SoC used for advanced driver-assistance systems in various automobiles. The EyeQ5 is a MIPS-based platform now capable of running an upstream kernel.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

PHP version 8.2.17 and 8.3.4
RPMs of PHP version 8.3.4 are available in the remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 37 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...) and in the remi-php83 repository for EL 7.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

Release candidates: Godot 4.1.4 RC 2 & 4.2.2 RC 2
Many core team members are heading to the Game Developers Conference next week, and preparing for this event in parallel to working on the upcoming Godot 4.3 release has kept us really busy!
March 15th, 2024 — Source

SparkyLinux 7.3 released
SparkyLinux 7 has now reached its third point release. A complete set of packages from the stable repositories of Debian and Sparky, as well as LibreOffice 7.4.7, KDE Plasma 5.27.5, LXQt 1.2.0, MATE 1.26, Xfce 4.18, Openbox 3.6.1, Firefox 115.8.0esr, Thunderbird 115.8.0, VLC 3.0.20, and Exaile 4.1.3, are included in the package update.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

Securing Azure Kubernetes with Falco
The open-source cloud-native runtime security tool is now a graduated CNCF project. Is it time to use it in your Kubernetes applications?
March 15th, 2024 — Source

The Performance Impact Of Intel's Register File Data Sampling "RFDS" Mitigation
Earlier this week on Patch Tuesday was the disclosure by Intel of the Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability and mitigation via updated CPU microcode and a kernel patch. RFDS is around malicious user-space software potentially being able to infer stale register values from kernel space.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

The Ultimate Guide to Kubernetes: Maximizing Benefits, Exploring Use Cases, and Adopting Best Practices
Explore this guide to Kubernetes. Learn about maximizing its benefits, explore use cases, and learn how to adopt best practices.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

VKD3D-Proton 2.12 Released With Initial Support For NVIDIA Reflex
VKD3D-Proton 2.12 is out today as the newest version of this software used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for implementing Direct3D 12 over the Vulkan API. With VKD3D-proton 2.12 is initial support for NVIDIA Reflex technology along with various other features.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 14th, 2024

AMD Makes HIP Ray-Tracing Open-Source
AMD's HIP Ray-Tracing library "HIP RT" has been one of the few projects under the GPUOpen umbrella that starts off as closed-source software but then is eventually open-sourced... That happened now with the HIP ray-tracing code becoming publicly available.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Fedora Linux 40 Beta RC 1.5 released
A new release candidate for the upcoming Fedora Linux 40 beta release is available for testing to address Bug 2269385 - rhgb breaks custom/minimal install on most filesystem layouts
March 14th, 2024 — Source

How to share files across your network from these popular Linux GUIs
Want to create network shares on your Linux machine but avoid the command line? It's easy, and I'll show you exactly how to do it.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Intel & AMD Enjoy SoundWire Updates With Linux 6.9
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai with SUSE has submitted all of the core sound updates and driver changes for the ongoing Linux 6.9 kernel merge window.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Intel Launches Core i9 14900KS, Clocking Up To 6.2GHz
Intel today is introducing the Core i9 14900KS as their newest "world's fastest desktop processor" with up to 6.2GHz clock frequencies.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240314 released
A new version of KDE neon has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Krita Looking More At GPU Acceleration & AI In 2024
The Krita open-source graphics editor and digital art program is looking at possibly adding some AI features to its arsenal as well as possible GPU acceleration and other new features in 2024.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Kubernetes Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution on Windows Endpoints
A high-severity Kubernetes vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-5528 can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on Windows endpoints.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.0.3 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes
Eric Engestrom has released Mesa 24.0.3 as the newest bi-weekly bug-fix release to the current Mesa 24.0 stable series graphics drivers.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.1 Adds Support For The Intel Data Center GPU Flex 170G
The current Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series products that were announced in 2022 built off Arctic Sound M are the Data Center GPU Flex 140 and Data Center GPU Flex 170 while now a new "170G" variant was added for Intel's open-source Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan drivers.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Open source is not insecure
Open source doesn't have a security problem. It has a distribution problem.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

openSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Rolling Out KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, But No Wayland Default Yet
The openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling release Linux distribution has begun rolling out the KDE Plasma 6.0.1, Gear 24.02 apps, and Frameworks 6.0 packages. Plasma 5 is being replaced within the Tumbleweed repository but openSUSE Tumbleweed isn't yet transitioning to the Wayland session by default.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 11th, 2024

AMD P-State Preferred Core Submitted For Linux 6.9 While Intel Meteor Lake Gets Tuned
The in-development Linux 6.9 kernel is finally landing support for AMD Preferred Core as part of the power management updates for this mid-2024 kernel release.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

AMD Posts Performance Monitoring Patches For Zen 5 CPUs
While Linux 6.8 carries some elements of Zen 5 CPU support, more upstream Linux enablement for the next-generation AMD processors remains ongoing. Sent out this morning were the initial patches around AMD Zen 5 performance monitoring and events for the perf subsystem.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

Btrfs Enjoys Performance Optimizations With Linux 6.9
SUSE's David Sterba sent out the Btrfs updates today for the Linux 6.9 merge window. Besides stabilization and bug fixes there are also some minor performance optimizations to see with this next kernel.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

Intel Makes Continuous Profiler Open-Source To Help Improve CPU Performance
Intel this morning released Continuous Profiler as open-source, a software solution developed by Intel Granulate for aiming to help boost CPU performance.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

GNU Linux-libre 6.8-gnu Dealing With Blobs From New Intel Drivers
GNU Linux-libre 6.8-gnu is out as the newest downstream kernel variety endorsed by the Free Software Foundation that takes the upstream Linux kernel but does away with proprietary module support and stripping out drivers/functionality contingent upon binary-only microcode/firmware and other elements not deemed up to their free software standards.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Making It Easier Managing Security Mitigation Options
The x86/core changes were submitted today for the now-open Linux 6.9 merge window. Among other changes, the x86 CPU security mitigation options within the Linux kernel Kconfig have been adjusted where appropriate to make more clear the options/features are for security mitigations.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.8 offers some exciting new features and 'fixes all over'
Although it's not a historically big kernel, Linux 6.8 still has plenty to offer and will ship with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Here's what else to know.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

Magnet Goblin Delivers Linux Malware Using One-Day Vulnerabilities
The financially motivated threat actor Magnet Goblin is targeting one-day vulnerabilities to deploy Nerbian malware on Linux systems.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

New Open Source Tool Hunts for APT Activity in the Cloud
The CloudGrappler open source tool can detect the presence of known threat actors in cloud environments.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

Raspberry Pi V3D Graphics Driver Preps For Super Pages To Boost Performance
Igalia continues maintaining the Broadcom V3D open-source graphics driver code that is used by the Raspberry Pi single board computers. With a new patch series posted today for the V3D DRM driver, support for Super Pages is enabled to help with enhancing the graphics performance. In many benchmarks having Super Pages can enhance the performance by a few percent but in some extreme cases can be 19~42% faster.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Support Installs With NVMe-Over-TCP Drives
The Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release next month will roll out initial support in its server installer for being able to handle root file-system setups on NVMe-over-TCP scenarios for remote drives.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

x86/cpu Change For Linux 6.9 Slightly Eases Future AMD Zen CPU Enablement
A number of x86-related pull requests were already submitted today for kicking off the new Linux 6.9 merge window. With the x86/cpu pull for this new kernel cycle there is just one patch and it's for slightly easing future AMD Zen processor enablement under Linux.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.8.0 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.8.0 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

ZorinOS 17.1 Released, Includes Improved Windows App Support
If you need or desire to run Windows applications on Linux, there's one distribution intent on making that easier for you and its new release further improves that feature.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 8th, 2024

AMD Squeezes In Additional GPU Enablement Code For Linux 6.9
While the Linux v6.8 kernel may debut as stable as soon as this weekend, a last-minute pull request of some new AMD graphics IP was submitted today to DRM-Next in aiming to make it for the imminent Linux 6.9 merge window.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

How To Engage More Developers With Open Source Projects
"Developer Chasm" is a stage where open-source project growth is stuck after initial engagement. To fix this, simplify communication using the QUAKE method.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Improved Case-Insensitive File Handling Coming To Linux 6.9
The optional case-insensitive file/folder handling under Linux that's hooked up for various file-systems like EXT4 and F2FS will benefit from improved performance on the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Improved Debugging Of Suspend/Resume For AMD Ryzen Laptops On Linux Coming With MP2 STB
AMD engineers and those debugging s2idle suspend/resume issues for Ryzen laptops under Linux will soon have more information at disposal for newer SoCs supporting MP2 STB functionality.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 Squeezing In Support For A Few Newer HP HyperX Controllers
Sent in today as part of the input subsystem fixes for the current Linux 6.8 kernel cycle are adding support for several more HP HyperX gaming controllers.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Set To Drop The Old NTFS File-System Driver
Merged two years ago with Linux 5.15 with the "NTFS3" driver developed by Paragon Software with working read-write support and other improvements for supporting Microsoft's NTFS file-system driver. This driver was a big improvement over the original NTFS read-only driver found in the mainline kernel and faster than using the NTFS-3G FUSE file-system driver.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.7-13 released
Steven Barrett has released a new Liquorix Linux kernel update based on the Linux Kernel 6.7.9 for Debian and Ubuntu.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Wine 9.4 Released With VKD3D 1.11 Bundled, OpenGL Support For Wayland Driver
Wine 9.4 is out today as a rather notable bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

VirtualBox KVM Backend Adds Support For SR-IOV Graphics
Announced one month ago by Cyberus Technology was an open-source KVM back-end for VirtualBox. This work by Cyberus allows for using the KVM hypervisor with VirtualBox as opposed to its custom kernel module maintained by Oracle. That KVM back-end has now been extended to support SR-IOV graphics virtualization.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

VSCodium 1.87.1.24068 released
A new version of VSCodium, which is a version of Visual Studio Code that was built without any Microsoft branding or telemetry, has been released.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.04 Helping Achieve Greater Performance On Intel Xeon Scalable Emerald Rapids
While Ubuntu 24.04 LTS won't be officially out until the back-half of April, here is an early look at how the Intel Xeon Scable "Emerald Rapids" performance is looking right now compared to Ubuntu 23.10 and the current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS series in a variety of benchmarks. As largely expected with the software updates, the new Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will help achieve greater server/HPC performance on recent Intel processors.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Vulkan 1.3.280 Released With NVIDIA Ray-Tracing Validation Extension
Vulkan 1.3.280 is out today as the newest spec update for this high performance graphics, compute, and video API.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 6th, 2024

AMD Introducing FRU Memory Poison Manager In Linux 6.9
Queued for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle is an FRU Memory Poison Manager "FMPM" developed by AMD that may later be adapted for other non-AMD platforms. The FRU Memory Poison Manager is working to persist information around known bad/faulty memory across reboots.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Glasskube an Emerging Kubernetes Package Management System
The cloud-native landscape is thriving, but a crucial aspect remains missing: a robust package management system. Glasskube, an open-source emerging project in this domain, with its first release (v0.0.1), wants to close this gap. While ecosystems like Android and iOS enjoy the ease and security of app stores, managing software deployments in Kubernetes has often been a complex and manual process.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

OpenVINO 2024.0 Brings More GenAI Features, New JavaScript API
Intel today released their open-source OpenVINO 2024.0 toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference across a range of hardware.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI goes public with Musk emails, claiming he backed for-profit plans
Be careful what you write in that message
March 6th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI responds to Musk lawsuit by publishing his emails: Urged it to raise $1 billion, called Tesla a "cash cow"
The feud gets messier
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Optimizing Kubernetes Clusters for Better Efficiency and Cost Savings
At the core of constructing a high-performing and cost-effective Kubernetes cluster is the art of efficiently managing resources by tailoring your Kubernetes workloads.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 5.27.11 released
A new update that addresses a number of bugs has been made available for Plasma 5.27.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux Malware Campaign Targets Misconfigured Cloud Servers
A new malware campaign has been observed targeting misconfigured Apache Hadoop, Confluence, Docker, and Redis instances.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux Market Share Surpasses 4% for the First Time
Look out Windows and macOS, Linux is on the rise and has even topped ChromeOS to become the fourth most widely used OS around the globe.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 4.19.309 released
Linux kernel version 4.19.309 is now available:
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.212 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.212 is now available:
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.15.151 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.151 is now available:
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.4.271 released
Linux kernel version 5.4.271 is now available:
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.81 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.81 is now available:
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.21 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.21 is now available:
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.7.9 released
Linux kernel version 6.7.9 is now available:
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft has started referring to its CBL-Mariner distro as Azure Linux
While it came as a bit of a surprise when it first became public, it has been known for some time that Microsoft has its own Linux distro called CBL-Mariner. The name has been questioned by many, and it is in the process of changing.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Proton 9.0 Beta 14 released
A new beta version of Proton 9.0 has been released for testing.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux at Home: Plan your Ideal Garden with Linux
We are told by our governments that in the current crisis the single most important action we can take is to stay at home. The repeated message is that everyone should minimise time spent outside the home. By following this directive, this will flatten the spread of the coronavirus, thereby protecting our health service, and saving lives.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Lisa Su Says The "Team Is On It" After Tweet About Open-Source AMD GPU Firmware
George Hotz with Tiny Corp that is working on Tinygrad and TinyBox for interesting developments in the open-source AI space has previously called out AMD over ROCm issues. Yesterday yielded new tweets by "the tiny corp" over AI training runs crashing with MES errors and then called for AMD open-sourcing the firmware to which AMD CEO Lisa Su has responded.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

LLVM/Clang 18.1 Released With Intel AVX10.1 Work, Adds Clearwater Forest & Panther Lake
Out today is the big LLVM/Clang 18.1 release. Due to shifting to a new versioning scheme like GCC, today's LLVM 18.1 release is the first major stable release in the new series for what previously would have been called LLVM 18.0.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA R550 Linux Driver's Open Kernel Modules Performing Well On GeForce GPUs
With the recent NVIDIA 550.54.14 Linux driver release the R550 series is now out as stable. One of the prominent changes with the NVIDIA R550 Linux driver is bringing the GeForce and workstation GPU support up to "CERTIFIED" quality when using NVIDIA's open kernel modules that are distributed as part of their driver package.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

RADV Now Supports Experimental VK_EXT_shader_object For RDNA3 GPUs Using NGG
Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics team recently wrapped up experimental support for the RADV Vulkan driver for EXT_shader_object support using Next-Gen Geometry (NGG) on RDNA3/GFX11 graphics processors.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Tiny Corp At "70%" Confidence For AMD To Open-Source Some Relevant GPU Firmware
Following the news from earlier around George Hotz' Tiny Corp raising new AMD GPU issues and calling for the MES firmware to be open-sourced followed by a positive message from AMD CEO Lisa Su, there's a new update on the matter following a meeting today between Tiny Corp and AMD.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

UWSM Aims To Be A Universal Wayland Session Manager
UWSM is short for the Universal Wayland Session Manager and it incorporates systemd's help in managing the Wayland compositors.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Year of Linux on the desktop creeps closer as market share rises a little
25% increase in seven months... But it depends how you count it
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 4th, 2024

AMDGPU Linux Driver No Longer Lets You Have Unlimited Control To Lower Your Power Limit
The AMDGPU Linux driver up until the recent Linux 6.7 kernel release has let you lower the power limit of your graphics card with, well, no limits... This has allowed AMD Radeon Linux users to limit their GPU power draw when desiring for power/efficiency reasons. But since Linux 6.7 they've begun enforcing a lower-power limit set by the respective graphics card BIOS. Users petitioned to have this change reverted but in the name of safety this lower-limit enforcement will stand.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Arch Linux 2024.03.01 released
A new Arch Linux installation image based on Linux Kernel 6.7.6 has been released. Arch Linux is a lightweight distribution for advanced users who always want the latest packages.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Arch Linux's Pacman 6.1 Released With Cache Server Support
It was two years since the release of Pacman 6.0 as Arch Linux's package manager software while overnight Pacman 6.1 was released with a tag line "it's been a while..." With Pacman 6.1 comes a few new features.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Canon's updated SDK extends Linux compatibility
Canon Europe announces the latest evolution in its EOS Digital Software Development Kit (EDSDK) -- free of charge software now fortified with Linux compatibility. EDSDK has long been pivotal in allowing software developers and computer programmers to design tailored digital solutions for controlling Canon cameras, making it an indispensable tool for professionals in the field. Core features include remote shooting, image transfer, camera setting and live view monitor.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

HDMI Forum Kills AMD's Open Source Linux Driver
Linux power users will just have to move to DisplayPort.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Descriptor Buffer Support To Reduce Linux Gaming CPU Overhead
The VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer extension was made public in November 2022 with Vulkan 1.3.235 while finally this past week Intel's open-source Mesa "ANV" driver has merged support for this extension. This Vulkan extension is important for Linux gaming and other scenarios to lower CPU overhead.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

KDE Neon shows that the Plasma 6 Linux distro is something truly special
If you've been anxiously awaiting KDE Plasma 6, the wait is over and it was well worth it.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

KDE's Plasma 6 Officially Available
KDE's Plasma 6.0 "Megarelease" has happened, and it's brimming with new features, polish, and performance.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

LACT 0.5.3 Released For Managing AMD Graphics Cards Under Linux
With the absence of any official AMD Radeon graphics control panel / settings GUI for Linux enthusiasts/gamers, there are several open-source projects striving to be a viable Radeon GUI control area for Linux gamers/enthusiasts.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Linux for desktop market share surpasses 4% for the first time, says Statcounter
Statcounter, a website that tracks the market share of web browsers, operating systems, and search engines, is reporting that Linux on the desktop has over 4% market share for the very first time (Statcounter records ChromeOS as a separate operating system despite being based on Linux).
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Linux Foundation Tackles Financial Fraud With Open Source Platform
The open source platform Tazama provides cost-effective monitoring of digital financial transactions to prevent fraud in real time.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.8-rc7 released
So we finally have a week where things have calmed down, and in fact 6.8-rc7 is smaller than usual at this point in time. So if that keeps up (but that's a fairly notable "if") I won't feel like I need to do an rc8 this release after all.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.7-12 released
Steven Barrett has released a new Liquorix Linux kernel update based on the Linux Kernel 6.7.8 for Debian and Ubuntu.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.1 Lands Support For GFX11.5.1 "RDNA3 Refresh" Variant
When it comes to the AMD "RDNA3 Refresh" GFX11.5 open-source driver support, to date it's mostly been focused on the GFX 11.5.0 (GFX1150) IP while now being enabled within Mesa 24.1 for the open-source RadeonSI/RADV drivers is support for a GFX 11.5.1 (GFX1151) variant.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Nouveau Supporting HDMI 2.1 Won't Hopefully Be Too Challenging Thanks To NVIDIA Firmware
While there is a lot of frustration from the news last week of the HDMI Forum rejecting AMD's open-source HDMI 2.1 driver support plans, the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver won't hopefully have too challenging of an experience in enabling HDMI 2.1 functionality since much of the display handling there is left up to NVIDIA's (closed-source) firmware binaries.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Opus 1.5 Audio Codec Able To Make Extensive Use Of Machine Learning
Xiph.Org's Opus open-source audio format for lossy audio coding has rolled out Opus 1.5 as a big update that is now making greater use of machine learning.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

pg_ivm 1.8 released
IVM Development Group is pleased to announce the release of pg_ivm 1.8. Changes since the v1.7 release include: Bug fixes
March 4th, 2024 — Source

PgBouncer 1.22.1 released
PgBouncer 1.22.1 has been released. This release fixes issues caused by some clients using COPY FROM STDIN queries. Such queries could introduce memory leaks, performance regressions and prepared statement misbehavior.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

RHSA-2024:1063: Important: edk2 security update
An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

The Compositor Modules "COMO" To Build Wayland Compositors Have Arrived
Open-source developer Roman Gilg who is known for his work on KWinFT prior to its rebranding as Theseus' Ship has some more important news to share today by way of Phoronix. Here's his guest post announcing The Compositor Modules.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

The following .NET 6.0 updates have been released for Fedora Linux:
.NET is a fast, lightweight and modular platform for creating cross platform applications that work on Linux, macOS and Windows.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

The open source problem
Software freedom. User freedom. Why do we have to choose? Licensing hasn't kept pace with the reality of software in the cloud and AI.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Thunderbird Update for Ubuntu
Updated Thunderbird packages are available for Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, and 23.10:
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Thunderbird, Firefox-ESR updates for Debian 10
The following two Mozilla updates are available for Debian GNU/Linux 10:
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Tiny Core Linux 15 stuffs modern computing in a nutshell
Updated with kernel 6.6, latest GCC and glibc, still under 25 MB
March 4th, 2024 — Source

UltraJSON, Blender, Tox updates for Gentoo
The following updates have been released for Gentoo Linux:
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Updated AMDGPU VCN Firmware Fixes VP9 Decoding Issues
For those that have experienced glitches while playing back VP9 video content using AMD's Video Core Next (VCN) for GPU acceleration, updated firmware should fix those VP9 decode problems.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 3rd, 2024

FFmpeg Merges DVD-Video Demuxer
Better late than never, merged yesterday into the FFmpeg Git codebase is a DVD-Video demuxer.
March 3rd, 2024 — Source

GDB 14.2 Brings A Few Fixes For The GNU Debugger
GDB 14.2 has been released to provide a few fixes for the GNU Debugger over its state found in last year's GDB 14.1.
March 3rd, 2024 — Source

GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 RC Brings Modifier-Aware Screencasting, VRR & X.Org Sync Fix
In preparation for the GNOME 46 release candidate, the "46.rc" versions of GNOME Shell and Mutter were published this morning. The release candidate work is mostly about fixing outstanding issues but there are also some lingering fixes that made it into these releases.
March 3rd, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240303
KDE neon is our installable Linux with continuous integration and deployment. It's based on Ubuntu who had a new Long Term Support Release recently so we've rebased it on Ubuntu 20.04 now.
March 3rd, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Proving To Be Unlike The Rocky KDE 4 Launch
Nate Graham is out with his belated weekend update to highlight all of the interesting KDE development activity for the week. This week, of course, saw the release of KDE MegaRelease 6 with Plasma 6.0, KDE Gear 24.02, and KDE Frameworks 6.0 in tow. Post-launch Graham characterizes Plasma 6.0 as being in good shape and the extra QA paying off
March 3rd, 2024 — Source

OpenMediaVault 7.0 Released For Debian 12 Powered NAS Platform
OpenMediaVault 7.0 was released today as a major update to this open-source Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution built around Debian Linux. This plug-based NAS platform with web UI allows supporting a variety of services/protocols is now even more capable with the OpenMediaVault 7.0 availability.
March 3rd, 2024 — Source

Redox OS Scores A Massive Performance Boost For I/O
The Rust-written Redox OS is out with a new monthly status report to outline the enhancements made to this open-source operating system during the month of February.
March 3rd, 2024 — Source

Wine Code Merged To Overcome A Vulkan Performance Penalty
Merged this week ahead of the Wine 9.4 development release due out next Friday is support for using the new Vulkan VK_EXT_map_memory_placed extension to overcome a performance penalty with Windows on Windows 64-bit (WOW64) for games/apps.
March 3rd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 2nd, 2024

AMD FreeSync Video Facing Retirement In Linux 6.9
Back in 2020 AMD rolled out a video mode optimization for FreeSync on Linux, continued being revised in 2021, FreeSync Video mode then attempted by default in 2022 but then was reverted and then only last year FreeSync Video enabled by default. But now come Linux 6.9, the feature appears to be effectively retired.
March 2nd, 2024 — Source

HDMI Forum 'blocks AMD open sourcing its 2.1 drivers'
Want all-FOSS 120Hz 4K video on Linux, or 5K at 240Hz? Bad news...
March 2nd, 2024 — Source

Intel open sources its NPU Acceleration library enabling compact AI models to run on Meteor Lake NPU
Intel open sources NPU Acceleration software for developers Developers seeking to improve their software for next-gen Intel processors should consider looking into a new library released by the company. The software called NPU Acceleration Library is open source, and it is now available for download.
March 2nd, 2024 — Source

Mutter Merges Experimental Variable Refresh Rate For GNOME 46
It's happened! After three years in the making, the GNOME desktop Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" support has been merged after obtaining a feature freeze exception for GNOME 46 due out later in March.
March 2nd, 2024 — Source

Proxmox Mail Gateway 8.1 available
Proxmox Mail Gateway 8.1 is available! The new version of our email security solution is based on Debian 12.5, uses the newer Linux kernel 6.5, as well as ZFS 2.2.2. The latest major version of Apache SpamAssassin 4.0.0 and PostgreSQL 15.6 are included.
March 2nd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 1st, 2024

Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters
Just 13% of provisioned CPUs, 20% of memory utilized, study finds
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Coreboot 24.02 Released - Supporting Three New Motherboards
Succeeding last year's Coreboot 4.22 release is now a new release... Coreboot 24.02. This open-source system firmware project is now the latest to shift to a year-month versioning system. The newly-christened Coreboot 24.02 brings support for three new motherboards, a number of ACPI updates, and also pulls in the new GRUB 2.12 and other changes.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February
February was an exciting month in the hardware and Linux/open-source space with 224 original news articles written by your's truly over the past month along with 15 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark featured articles.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Experimental VRR Support Might Still Land For GNOME 46
The long in-development work for Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support plumbed into GNOME's Mutter compositor might still make it for the GNOME 46 desktop release due out this month. It's still being treated as an experimental feature at this point but a feature freeze exception is being sought to allow its inclusion this release rather than waiting for GNOME 47 in the autumn.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Intel Enables Fastboot Across The Board With Their Graphics Driver In Linux 6.9
A last set of drm-intel-next feature patches were submitted this week for DRM-Next to stage ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel merge window.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Intel Makes Open-Source Its Python NPU Acceleration Library
Intel has made open-source its NPU Acceleration Library (intel-npu-acceleration-library) as a user-space library for Windows and Linux systems for interfacing with the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found initially on their new Meteor Lake laptops.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Intel's oneDNN Neural Network Library Prepares For Lunar Lake Xe2, Sierra Forest & GNR
Intel has published oneDNN 3.4 as the newest version of this Deep Neural Network Library that is part of their oneAPI software collection. The oneDNN library provides deep learning primitives for software like PyTorch, MXNet, ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, MATLAB Deep Learning Toolbox, and other sotware.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 4.19.308 released
Linux kernel version 4.19.308 is now available:
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.211 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.211 is now available:
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.15.150 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.150 is now available:
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux Kernel 5.4.270 released
Linux kernel version 5.4.270 is now available:
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.1.80 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.80 is now available:
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.6.19 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.19 is now available:
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.7.7 released
Linux kernel version 6.7.7 is now available:
March 1st, 2024 — Source

MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firefox, and more updates for AlmaLinux
The following security updates have been released for AlmaLinux:
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Musl libc 1.2.5 Released With RISC-V 32-bit & LoongArch 64-bit Ports
Musl libc 1.2.5 released on Thursday as the newest version of this lightweight, speedy, and free software C library implementation that is popular for embedded use, containers, and elsewhere.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Panthor DRM Driver Set For Linux 6.9, Arm Mali Gen10 Merged To Panfrost Gallium3D
It looks like the new Panthor DRM driver will be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel now that it made it into drm-misc-next today. In turn the Mesa 24.1-devel code has landed support for this newer Arm Mali graphics into the Panfrost Gallium3D driver.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

The X.Org Foundation Needs More Candidates To Hold An Election
The X.Org Foundation's elections for the Board of Directors have been delayed as there weren't enough participants nominated for the available seats to hold an election.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Enters Its Feature Freeze
Now rolling into March, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" has entered its feature freeze period ahead of its official release in April.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Won't Support JPEG-XL Out-Of-The-Box
There had been some hope that the Ubuntu 24.04 desktop would support the JPEG-XL image format out-of-the-box, but that isn't going to happen as a default change.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Unbound, PostgreSQL, Systemd, and more updates for Oracle Linux
The following updates have been released for Oracle Linux:
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Open Source Software — Resources

Swift is now open source!
Swift is a general-purpose programming language that's approachable for newcomers and powerful for experts.
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