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GCC 15 Compiler Enters Its Final Stage Of Development

Mon, 01/13/2025 - 18:51
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...

Linux 6.13-rc7 Released: Linux 6.13 Stable Likely Next Week

Mon, 01/13/2025 - 07:24
Linux 6.13-rc7 is out as the newest weekly release candidate for Linux 6.13 is a more exciting one than weeks prior with many of the developers and kernel testers returning from the end-of-year holiday break. Linux 6.13 remains on track for releasing as stable during the back half of January...

OpenBLAS 0.3.29 Brings Auto-Detection For Intel Granite Rapids, Apple M4 & AMD Zen 5

Sun, 01/12/2025 - 23:58
OpenBLAS 0.3.29 is out today as a big update for this widely-used, open-source implementation for Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms and LAPACK APIs...

NTSYNC Driver Ready For Enhancing Windows Gaming With Linux 6.14

Sun, 01/12/2025 - 21:00
Set to make the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle even more exciting is that it looks like the completed NTSYNC driver will be ready for merging. The NTSYNC driver enhances Wine / Proton (Steam Play) gaming by better matching the Windows NT synchronization primitives to allow for better gaming performance. The NTSYNC code has long been a work-in-progress but this week the revised code made it into the relevant "-next" branch ahead of Linux 6.14...

Enlightenment 0.27 Released For This 28 Year Old Window Manager / Compositor

Sun, 01/12/2025 - 19:39
Just over one year since the release of the Enlightenment 0.26 window manager, this weekend Carsten Haitzler released the Enlightenment 0.27 window manager and Wayland compositor. Enlightenment continues going now 28 years in development by Rasterman!..

Linux cpupower Utility To See Improved AMD Support With Linux 6.14 Kernel

Sun, 01/12/2025 - 19:31
The cpupower utility lives within the Linux kernel source tree and for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel will see better reporting capabilities on modern AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors...

Niri 25.01 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings More Features

Sun, 01/12/2025 - 19:14
Niri 25.01 was released on Saturday as the newest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that has developed a nice following among enthusiasts...

Fedora 42 Looks To Ship Optimized Executables For Different x86_64 Capabilities

Sun, 01/12/2025 - 02:00
Fedora Linux has already supported making use of glibc HWCAPs for allowing libraries to be built for different x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels for performance-sensitive code where it can pay off when leveraging AVX/AVX2 or other newer Intel/AMD CPU instruction set extensions. For Fedora 42 is now a proposal to extend that further to allow binary executables to also leverage glibc HWCAPs for better performance...

Debian 12.9 Released With Various Security & Bug Fixes

Sat, 01/11/2025 - 23:32
Debian 12.9 was just released as the latest install media refresh for those wishing to run the latest Debian 12 packages...

AMD Preps More GPU Driver Fixes For Linux 6.14, Cleaner Shader For RDNA2 dGPUs

Sat, 01/11/2025 - 21:54
On Friday AMD sent out another round of patches that are destined for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...

Intel Xe Driver Adding "RPa" Frequency Reporting With Linux 6.14

Sat, 01/11/2025 - 20:07
This week Intel engineers sent out a number of kernel graphics driver pull requests of new code for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle. In addition to the UHBR for Panther Lake and lower Alchemist GPU power use with whitelisted GPUs and fixing old Intel Haswell era graphics platforms, on Friday another (smaller) pull request was sent in for the modern Xe kernel driver...

GNOME Image Viewer Now Editing JPEGs, Other GNOME 48 Progress

Sat, 01/11/2025 - 19:45
GNOME 48 is moving along with the GNOME 48 Alpha packages due this weekend followed by the beta in early February. GNOME 48 is still making good progress in its goal to release on 19 March...

Sony Proposes Changing LLVM Clang Default To C++20 Mode

Sat, 01/11/2025 - 19:33
Sony engineers are proposing that the LLVM Clang compiler changes its default C++ mode from C++17 to C++20. This coincides with Sony planning to soon upgrade their PlayStation 5 compiler downstream to C++20 by default...

KDE Plasma 6.3 Bringing A More Consistent Close Button, Other Last Minute Changes

Sat, 01/11/2025 - 19:13
This week brought the KDE Plasma 6.3 beta as well as a number of last minute feature changes for this desktop update due for release in February...

Intel Open-Source Vulkan Driver Merges Initial AV1 Decode Support

Sat, 01/11/2025 - 09:37
Merged this Friday night for Mesa 25.0 is initial Vulkan Video AV1 decode support for Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver...

Wine 10.0-rc5 Brings Another 31 Bug Fixes

Sat, 01/11/2025 - 05:53
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...

Experimental Linux Address Space Isolation "ASI" v2 Patches: I/O Throughput Lower By 70%

Sat, 01/11/2025 - 03:17
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. They are now out for review but they are unlikely to see much use: the I/O throughput as measured by FIO takes a 70% hit...

Git 2.48 Released With Initial Support For The Meson Build System

Sat, 01/11/2025 - 02:40
Git 2.48 is out today as the newest feature update to this leading distributed version control system...

More Intel Xeon Clearwater Forest Enablement Merged For Linux 6.13

Sat, 01/11/2025 - 01:02
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...

Lenovo Discovers Situation Of Linux Dropping PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSDs To Gen 1 Speeds

Fri, 01/10/2025 - 23:33
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...

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