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Prominent Arch Linux Developer Resigns After 10 Year Run

Phoronix - 1 hour 14 min ago
Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud "Foxboron" announced today he is resigning from the project...

Linux 7.2-rc6 Working Around Several Buggy Western Digital SATA Drives

Phoronix - 2 hours 12 min ago
Merged ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel test release are several ATA fixes that include a number of device-specific workarounds for some Western Digital SATA drives that have been failing to work on recent versions of the Linux kernel...

GNOME Working To Establish An RFC Process, Battling Sloppy AI-Generated Extensions

Phoronix - 2 hours 27 min ago
GNOME developers were quite busy in closing out the month of July from continued work on establishing a formal Request For Comments (RFC) process for the project to battling the continued flood of AI-generated GNOME Shell extensions...

KDE Plasma 6.8 To Enjoy Huge Performance Gains For Multi-GPU/eGPU Performance

Phoronix - 2 hours 42 min ago
It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma 6.8 development space particularly thanks to performance work on bettering KWin's multi-GPU / external GPU handling...

Picolibc 1.8.12 Brings Latest Improvements To This Embedded-Focused C Library

Phoronix - 3 hours 34 sec ago
If the recent release of the GNU C Library glibc 2.44 is too big for your embedded use-cases, Keith Packard continues hacking on Picolibc as his embedded-focused C library. Released overnight was Picolibc 1.8.12 with a variety of improvements for this embedded libc...

AMD Begins Posting Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" Linux Patches For RDNA5 GPUs

Phoronix - 12 hours 32 min ago
AMD closed out the month of July by posting some new AMDGPU Display Core "DC" patches. Most notable with this weekly patch ritual is several patches beginning to establish the foundation for Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" as their next-generation display IP. The patches tie DCN6 to the AMD GFX13 graphics engine, which is anticipated to be for the next-generation RDNA5 graphics processors...

AMD Publishes CDNA5 ISA Documentation For Instinct MI455X

Phoronix - 16 hours 32 min ago
Following last week's launch of the AMD Instinct MI455X, AMD has now kept with tradition and provided ISA documentation concerning this latest CDNA5 architecture...

The First Open-Source Firmware Released For Modern AMD Ryzen AM5 Platform

Phoronix - 18 hours 57 min ago
Last month 3mdeb released their open-source firmware for a modern AMD EPYC motherboard from Gigabyte that was built off the new AMD openSIL project and Coreboot. Today 3mdeb has delivered the first open-source firmware release for a modern AMD Ryzen desktop motherboard with having independently brought their openSIL+Coreboot powered Dasharo stack to the readily available MSI PRO B850-P WIFI...

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