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New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel

Sun, 02/09/2025 - 19:39
This week was the dramatic decision by Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin to step down as upstream kernel maintainer for the Apple Silicon (ARM) code following friction with other kernel developers over Rust affairs within the kernel. He still intends to contribute code to Asahi Linux's downstream kernel and Linus Torvalds has already merged the patch dropping him as an upstream maintainer. Now a new co-maintainer has volunteered to help oversee the Apple Silicon code for the mainline kernel...

Linux FineIBT-BHI Updated For Toughening Up FineIBT Kernel Defenses

Sun, 02/09/2025 - 19:29
Intel Linux engineer Peter Zijlstra has updated his set of patches implementing FineIBT-BHI mitigations for toughening up the FineIBT kernel protections previously introduced. This FineIBT-BHI code depends upon newly-merged code for the LLVM Clang compiler as part of the compiler defenses...

Wine-Staging 10.1 Delivers 361 Patches Atop Upstream Wine

Sun, 02/09/2025 - 19:17
Following the release of Wine 10.1 on Friday for kicking off the new bi-weekly development releases after last month's Wine 10.0 stable release, Wine-Staging 10.1 is out today to get things moving once again for this experimental flavor of Wine...

SysVinit 3.14 Released: Overcomes Three Decade Limitation Of Inittab Line Length

Sun, 02/09/2025 - 01:33
For those continuing to make use of SysVinit as the aging init system that in the Linux world has been largely replaced by systemd, SysVinit 3.14 is out today and overcomes a long-standing limitation around the length of lines within the inittab files...

Clang Thread Safety Checks Begin Uncovering Bugs In The Linux Kernel

Sun, 02/09/2025 - 00:02
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week were two competing solutions for new LLVM Clang capability / thread safety analysis to the Linux kernel. Two developers had separately been working on implementations for the Linux kernel to make use of Clang's "-Wthread-safety" functionality. Ultimately the upstream kernel will likely settle upon the superior or unified solution while already making use of these new checks is uncovering Linux kernel bugs...

GNU G-Golf v0.8 Released For Writing GTK Apps In Guile/Scheme

Sat, 02/08/2025 - 20:00
Years in the making, GNU G-Golf 0.8 was released on Friday as a significant release for this GNU project. No, it's not a golfing simulator or anything like that, but rather a Guile Object Library for GNOME so that you can develop GTK applications from the Guile/Scheme programming language...

FEX 2502 Delivers Fix For Steam, Multi-Block Improvements For Better Performance

Sat, 02/08/2025 - 19:40
FEX 2502 is out today as the newest monthly feature release to this user-space emulator for running x86/x86_64 Linux binaries on ARM64 Linux including the likes of Wine/Proton and Steam for being able to enjoy modern games on AArch64 Linux systems...

KDE Plasma 6.3 Receives Final Polishing Prior To Release Next Week

Sat, 02/08/2025 - 19:16
The KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop has received a lot of last minute polishing and fixes ahead of its planned release next week. Plasma 6.3 is scheduled for its stable debut next Tuesday on 11 February...

FreeBSD 13.5 Beta Begins Preparing For The Last Of The FreeBSD 13 Series

Sat, 02/08/2025 - 19:06
The FreeBSD 13.5 release dance has begun for closing out the FreeBSD 13 series...

Wine 10.1 Released With Many Changes: Fixes For Battle.net, Continued Bluetooth Driver

Sat, 02/08/2025 - 07:57
Following last month's release of Wine 10.0 as the newest annual stable release of Wine for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms, Wine 10.1 is out today. Wine 10.1 kicks off the bi-weekly development release cycle trek that will culminate with the release of Wine 11.0 next year...

GNOME's LocalSearch Metadata Extractor Ditches GStreamer For FFmpeg

Sat, 02/08/2025 - 05:43
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...

IO_uring Zero-Copy Receive Support Ready For Linux 6.15 Networking

Sat, 02/08/2025 - 02:57
It's looking like IO_uring zero-copy receive support should be ready for the Linux 6.15 kernel cycle this spring...

Vulkan Cooperative Matrix Merged For RDNA4 GPUs With RADV, DCC Support Inches Closer

Sat, 02/08/2025 - 00:28
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...

GCC 15 Compiler Showing Off Nice Performance Improvements On AMD Zen 5

Fri, 02/07/2025 - 23:13
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.

Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer

Fri, 02/07/2025 - 21:32
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...

Serpent OS Working Toward Second Alpha, More Immutable OS Features

Fri, 02/07/2025 - 19:42
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...

Bcachefs Preps More Fixes For Linux 6.14, Continues Tracking Down Other Bugs

Fri, 02/07/2025 - 19:33
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...

NVIDIA Publishes RTX Neural Texture Compression "RTXNTC" Beta

Fri, 02/07/2025 - 19:22
NVIDIA on Thursday published their first public beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression "RTX NTC" software development kit...

AMDVLK 2025.Q1.1 Brings New Performance Tuning & Fixes

Fri, 02/07/2025 - 18:54
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...

Ubuntu's crypto-config Continues Being Developed For Gradual Roll-Out

Fri, 02/07/2025 - 09:47
A year ago I raised attention about crypto-config as a new Ubuntu project for system-wide cryptography configuration. That crypto config tool continues being developed by Canonical engineers for a gradual roll-out into the Ubuntu Linux landscape...

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