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Rust Kernel Support On AArch64 Ready To Go For Linux 6.9

Mon, 02/12/2024 - 19:19
The 64-bit Arm (AArch64) little-endian kernel will be ready to support the Rust kernel code with the upcoming Linux 6.9 cycle...

GNOME Mutter 46 Beta A Win For Gamers & VM Users, Other Last Minute Changes Too

Mon, 02/12/2024 - 09:35
GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor today issued their GNOME 46 Beta releases with some notable changes ahead of the API/ABI and feature freezes for the GNOME 46 desktop due for release in March...

Linux 6.8-rc4 Released With Bcachefs & NTFS3 File-System Fixes, Transmeta Crusoe Fix

Mon, 02/12/2024 - 04:48
As more exciting than the Super Bowl (at least for some of us) is the new Linux 6.8-rc4 kernel available for testing...

AMDGPU Driver Changes Begin For Linux 6.9: RAS ACA Framework, SEQ64 Infrastructure & Fixes

Sun, 02/11/2024 - 22:06
AMD has begun queuing AMDGPU Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver updates in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.9 merge window kicking off next month...

TrenchBoot Progress For Adding More Security & Integrity To The Boot Process

Sun, 02/11/2024 - 19:49
TrenchBoot has been in development for several years now by Oracle, 3mdeb, and other stakeholders for providing greater security and integrity to the Linux boot process via measured launch of the OS using a Dynamic Root of Trust Measurement (DRTM) backed by Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) and AMD Secure Startup. Much progress was made over 2023 while more work is ahead in 2024 for furthering the TrenchBoot efforts...

Debian 12.5 Released To Provide The Latest Security & Bug Fixes

Sun, 02/11/2024 - 13:00
Debian 12.5 is out this weekend as the newest stable point release for this widely-used Linux distribution in order to ship the latest security fixes and various bug fixes...

AMD Zen 5 Compiler Support Posted For GCC - Confirms New AVX Features & More

Sat, 02/10/2024 - 22:41
Making for a very exciting Saturday morning, AMD just posted their initial enablement patch for plumbing Zen 5 processor support "znver5" into the GNU Compiler Collection! With GCC 14 due to be released as stable in March~April as usual for the annual compiler release, it's been frustrating to see no Zen 5 support even while Intel has already been working on Clear Water Forest and Panther Lake support with already having upstreamed Sierra Forest, Granite Rapids, and other new CPU targets months ago... Well, Granite Rapids was added to GCC in late 2022. But squeezing in as what should now be merged in time is the initial AMD Zen 5 support!..

Qualcomm Hardware Support Increasingly In Good Shape On The Mainline Linux Kernel

Sat, 02/10/2024 - 20:00
After years of work by Qualcomm and Linaro engineers, the Qualcomm SoC support on the mainline Linux kernel has finally matured enough that new hardware support tends to come rather quickly and be well supported. With the forthcoming Linux 6.8 kernel the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 can boot on the mainline kernel, the Snapdragon-powered ThinkPad X13s has been popular with Linux developers thanks to the upstream support, and other Qualcomm-powered devices tending to play more nicely with upstream Linux these days rather than having to resort to vendor kernel builds...

Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility

Sat, 02/10/2024 - 19:36
Xfce developers have updated their Wayland roadmap this week to reflect their latest plans around the Xfce 4.20 release...

Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Support Comes Down To The Wire For GNOME 46

Sat, 02/10/2024 - 19:07
Today marks the UI, feature, and API/ABI freezes for the GNOME 46 desktop ahead of its stable release on 16 March. One feature coming down to the wire that looks like it may not make it -- unfortunately -- is the Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) integration...

Three Weeks To Go Until The KDE Plasma 6.0 Release

Sat, 02/10/2024 - 18:36
There is just under three weeks to go until the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6 debut...

LLVM Adds Support For New "Ampere1B" Third-Gen Cores From Ampere Computing

Sat, 02/10/2024 - 09:11
While we are still waiting to get our hands on AmpereOne hardware for Ampere Computing's in-house design Arm cores with up to 192 cores, Friday night Git activity to LLVM has revealed an "Ampere1B" core...

helloSystem Publishes New Experimental Build Based On FreeBSD 14.0

Sat, 02/10/2024 - 08:10
The macOS-inspired, FreeBSD-based helloSystem open-source operating system has published a new experimental build based on the fresh FreeBSD 14.0...

Wine 9.2 Released With System Tray Fixes, Better ARM Exception Handling

Sat, 02/10/2024 - 06:53
Wine 9.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of this software for enjoying Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms...

Targeted Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler Optimization Rules Out 2k+ SPEC CPU Submissions

Sat, 02/10/2024 - 06:45
SPEC has effectively invalidated more than two thousand SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark submissions after it was discovered the Intel oneAPI DPC++ compiler was effectively "cheating" per their standards with a targeted optimization...

MythTV 34 Released For Open-Source DVR/PVR

Sat, 02/10/2024 - 05:19
In an era of Internet streaming digital video recorders (DVR) / personal video recorder (PVR) software isn't nearly as popular as it was in the past, but the long-used open-source MythTV software is out with its first major update in one year...

Linux Patch Pending To Fix Support For The Transmeta Crusoe CPU

Sat, 02/10/2024 - 01:21
While the Linux kernel has seen increased activity around dropping old/unused hardware drivers and other support, for old hardware that is still proven to be used on upstream Linux kernel releases does stick around and even will see the occasional fix... The latest example of that is a fix on the way for restoring Linux kernel support for the Transmeta Crusoe, the x86-compatible processor released back in 2000...

The Ongoing Open-Source Work To Enable Webcam Support On Recent Intel Laptops

Sat, 02/10/2024 - 00:17
Webcamera support on recent generations of Intel laptops have tended to be a mess due to the Intel IPU6 requiring an out-of-tree kernel driver and a proprietary user-space component. But fortunately thanks to the work of Linar and Red Hat on a "SoftISP" implementation within libcamera, it's becoming possible to leverage these recent MIPI-based webcameras on an open-source software stack...

Intel Arrow Lake Graphics Support Ready For Linux 6.9

Fri, 02/09/2024 - 23:34
Along with the recently merged Intel OpenGL and Vulkan driver support for Arrow Lake next-generation Core processors with Mesa 24.1, it looks like the i915 kernel graphics driver support for Arrow Lake will be all-set with the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle...

Fedora Atomic Desktops Born Out Of Fedora Silverblue Success

Fri, 02/09/2024 - 22:57
Born out of the success of Fedora Silverblue and the other Fedora immutable variants relying on RPM-OSTree, Fedora has announced Fedora Atomic Desktops as the new branding for these spins...

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