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Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce Driver Merged For Linux 6.8
Merged last week to the mainline kernel were all of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem driver updates for the Linux 6.8 cycle, which includes introducing the Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO driver...
LLVM 18 Planned For Release In Early March
Tom Stellard announced plans this past week for releasing the LLVM 18 compiler stack in early March...
KDE Hiring For New Project To Promote Environmentally-Sustainable Software
KDE e.V. as the German legal organization behind the KDE project is hiring an employee for a new project to promote environmentally-sustainable software and long-term hardware use...
A Fix For The Severe Linux Performance Regression Spotted By Torvalds
Prior to Linus Torvalds' Internet and electricity being knocked out by a snow storm and thus impacting the Linux 6.8 merge window, his weekend was already in rough shape due to encountering a performance regression with new Linux 6.8 code that was causing his Linux kernel builds to be as twice as long as with previous kernels. An AMD Linux engineer was able to reproduce the regression and with upstream developers there is now a believed fix for this issue in the latest scheduler code...
AMD IOMMU Improvements & Apple M1 USB4/Thunderbolt DART Submitted For Linux 6.8
All of the Input-Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU) subsystem updates were sent out this week for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel...
Limine 7.0 Bootloader Released
Following the recent release of GRUB 2.12, another prominent open-source bootloader project is also out with a new release: Limine 7.0...
Asahi Linux Has Been Making Progress On Apple HDMI, EAS & GPU Features
Following last month's release of Fedora Asahi Remix 39 for the Asahi Linux project's new flagship distribution for running on Apple Silicon hardware, a lengthy blog post was posted this weekend outlining some of the ongoing development efforts for Apple Silicon on Linux and newly-enabled Fedora Asahi capabilities...
The Open-Source Community Is Still Maintaining Flash Player Support In 2024
There seems to be two classes of people when reminiscing over Adobe Flash: those that were fond of Flash-games of the time from many years ago and those that cringe over recalling Flash ads and other content requiring that prior proprietary Macromedia/Adobe tech. For those that have good memories from Adobe Flash, the Ruffle open-source project continues working to this day on an Adobe Flash Player emulator...
Linux 6.8 Merge Window On Hiatus Due To Winter Storm
Linus Torvalds just announced he's had to put the Linux 6.8 merge window on hold due to a brutal winter storm knocking the Pacific Northwest...
Lutris 0.5.15 Fixes Crashes When Using Wayland With High DPI Gaming Mice
Lutris 0.5.15 has been released as the newest version of this open-source game manager that allows managing games from within Steam, GOG, various retro game console / emulator solutions, and other sources...
Git Developers Discuss The Possibility Of Beginning To Use Rust Code
The latest open-source project eyeing the possibility of beginning to allow the Rust programming language to be used within its codebase is the Git project...
KVM With Linux 6.8 Adds Intel LAM For Guests, More Confidential VMs Work
The KVM virtualization changes for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel is quite heavy on the feature side...
Fedora 40 Looks To Ship AMD ROCm 6 For End-To-End Open-Source GPU Acceleration
Fedora 40 is looking at shipping the AMD ROCm 6.x GPU compute stack to offer "end-to-end open-source GPU acceleration" with ease for this Red Hat funded Linux distribution...
Intel Submits Latest CXL Feature Code For Linux 6.8
Intel engineer Dan Williams continues leading the charge around Compute Express Link (CXL) enablement for the Linux kernel...
KDE Reduces CPU Usage On Wayland When Moving The Pointer & Other Fixes
After a few weeks hiatus due to the holidays, KDE developer Nate Graham is back in the saddle with his weekly development reports around KDE...
Wine 9.0-rc5 Released With 22 Fixes From Game Crashes To Performance Issues
The fifth release candidate of Wine 9.0 is now available for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux, Chrome OS, and other platforms...
PulseAudio 17.0 Released With A Few New Features
While most modern desktop Linux distributions have migrated over to PipeWire for the roles once handled by PulseAudio (and JACK, among others), for those still relying on the PulseAudio sound server the PulseAudio 17.0 release was made available today...
Linus Torvalds On Linux 6.8 DRM: "Testing Is Seriously Lacking"
While the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver updates for Linux 6.8 excitingly include the new Intel "Xe" DRM and PowerVR Imagination drivers, AMD color management properties in experimental form, Raspberry Pi 5 graphics support, and more, Linus Torvalds isn't happy with some of the new Intel Xe driver code...
Linux Gains An Open File Server Implementation For Tractors & Agriculture Machinery
Pengutronix a short time ago on the Linux kernel mailing list announced the Open ISOBUS FileServer (FS) and Client Implementation... Piquing my interest, I looked up this ISO 11783-13 standard that this file server aims to implement, but it wasn't quite what I was expecting...
GNOME 46 Alpha Released With Many Improvements
If you happen to be impacted by snow storms today or otherwise have extra time on your hands this weekend, GNOME 46 Alpha is now available for testing this latest desktop environment that will be going head-to-head with KDE Plasma 6.0 later this quarter...