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Fedora 41 Aims To Support Self-Encrypting Drives Within Its Installer
Coming in as a rather late change proposal for Fedora 41 is to support self-encrypting drives from within the OS installer...
Bcachefs For Linux 6.11 Landing Disk Accounting Rewrite & Self-Healing On Read I/O Error
Bcachefs maintainer Kent Overstreet has already sent out all of the exciting Linux 6.11 feature updates for this copy-on-write file-system. Bcachefs continues maturing nicely within the mainline Linux kernel while continuing to tack on new functionality...
Hardware Monitoring Improvements Submitted For Linux 6.11
Among the flurry of pull requests submitted now that the Linux 6.11 merge window is open are the hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem updates...
Wine 9.13 Released - Continues Rewriting The CMD.EXE Engine
Wine 9.13 was released on Sunday as off its usual bi-weekly Friday release regiment for this newest development build...
Linux 6.10 Released With New Panthor Graphics Driver, Radeon Display Support On RISC-V
As anticipated the Linux 6.10 kernel was released as stable a few minutes ago by Linus Torvalds...
Linux 6.11 Features To Include A Lot For Intel & AMD Systems, Extensible Scheduler
With Linux 6.10 expected to be released in the coming hours, in turn the Linux 6.11 merge window will open tomorrow unless there is any last-minute v6.10 release delay. With that said, here's a look at some of the features you can likely expect to see for this next kernel version...
CachyOS Rolls Out Zen 4 Optimized Repository For Maximizing Zen 4 & Zen 5 Performance
Arch Linux based CachyOS has released their "July 2024" release that also introduces an AMD Zen 4 optimized repository that caters to current Ryzen 7000/8000 and EPYC 4004/8004/9004 (Zen 4) procssors and upcoming Zen 5 processors...
Linux 6.11 To Allow Tightening Of /proc/[pid]/mem Access For Better Security
Linux engineer Christian Brauner at Microsoft sent out his various pull requests for areas of the kernel he oversees ahead of the Linux 6.11 merge window. One of the more interesting pull requests from Brauner this cycle are the "vfs procfs" updates that now allow restricting access to the /proc/[pid]/mem files of processes...
Fedora 42 Looks To Make Use Of The "Screen Of Death" DRM Panic Screen
While Fedora 41 isn't even out yet, early feature planning is already underway for Fedora 42 that will debut in the early months of 2025. One of the interesting proposals raised so far is for making use of the new DRM Panic screen functionality for a "Blue Screen of Death" of sorts for better presenting kernel error messages in case of kernel panics...
New Patches To Get More Qualcomm Lenovo Devices Supported By The Mainline Linux Kernel
Patches have been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list for getting various Lenovo devices supported by the mainline Linux kernel that rely on the Qualcomm MSM8916 and MSM8939 platforms...
The Most Interesting Linux 6.10 Features From MSEAL To Intel Xe2 Preparations
Linux 6.10 stable should be released later today. It's been a fairly calm week in the kernel world and thus Linus Torvalds will most likely opt for tagging v6.10 as opposed to doing a v6.10-rc8 extra release candidate. So with Linux 6.10 likely upon us, here's a reminder about some of the most interesting changes in this new kernel release...
GNOME 47 Alpha Released With Accent Color Support & Wayland-Only Build Option
The alpha release of GNOME 47 is now available for testing and comes with a number of shiny new features for this big open-source desktop update due out in September...
Patch Posted For Finally Reporting Intel Graphics Card Fan Speeds Under Linux
A patch posted for the Intel i915 kernel graphics driver finally allows for fan speed reporting with Arc Graphics and other Intel discrete graphics cards under Linux...
AMD Submits Final Set Of RDNA4 GPU Enablement Patches Aiming For Linux 6.11
Last week it was noted AMD would be squeezing in more patches for "new IPs" to "get them tied off" with the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle. This is principally about RDNA4 support and sure enough on Friday more patches were submitted to DRM-Next...
Linux 6.11 I2C Brings Arrow Lake H Support & Completes Slave/Master Transition
The I2C host changes are ready for the upcoming Linux 6.11 merge window...
Pingora 0.3 Released With Support For HTTP Modules
Pingora started out as an in-house replacement to Cloudflare's Nginx usage that was written in Rust and eventually open-sourced earlier this year. Pingora has evolved into a Rust framework for building fast and reliable networked systems. Ending out the week is the release of Pingora 0.3 as the latest step forward for this Rust code that is widely used within the confines of Cloudflare...
Git 2.46-rc0 Continues Preparations For Switching To SHA256 By Default WIth Git 3.0
Git 2.46-rc0 was published on Friday as the first tagged development release on the trek toward Git 2.46...
GNOME's Wild Week From Leadership Change To More STF-Driven Improvements
This Week in GNOME is out with their latest issue to highlight all of the interesting work that has taken place over the past seven days in the GNOME camp...
OBS Studio 30.2 Released With Native NVENC Encode On Linux, More Shared Texture Support
For fans of OBS Studio as a popular cross-platform solution for gaming live-streamers and used for other desktop screen-casting purposes, OBS Studio 30.2 is now available as stable...
COSMIC Desktop Very Close To Alpha Release, Adds Compositor Multi-Threading
System76 continues working vigorously on COSMIC, their Rust-written Linux desktop environment being written for Pop!_OS and to see availability on other Linux distributions as well. They are finishing up last minute changes before putting the flag on a COSMIC alpha release...