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Debian Installer Bookworm RC3 Released Ahead Of Next Month's Debian 12.0
Ahead of Debian 12.0 releasing in June, a third release candidate of the Debian 12 "Bookworm" installer has been released...
LLVM Clang 17 Adds Initial C++26 Compile Flags With -std=c++26
With LLVM Clang's C++23 support coming together and the -std=c++23 option now exposed, LLVM Clang 17 Git has already added its initial options for specifying what will be C++26 / C++2C support...
Sourceware Now Part Of The Software Freedom Conservancy
Following the SFC vote last year for accepting Sourceware.org into the conservancy, everything is all set now and Sourceware.org is now officially part of the Software Freedom Conservancy. Red Hat was traditionally the long-time sponsor of Sourceware.org that hosts many open-source projects like GCC and Cygwin...
TornadoVM Continues Adapting Java OpenJDK/GraalVM For Heterogeneous Hardware
A new release of TornadoVM is now available, the open-source plug-in to OpenJDK and GraalVM to allow for Java code to run on heterogeneous hardware with ease -- including various GPU models as well as FPGAs...
New Patches Extend AMD EDAC Linux Driver For Data Center GPUs
The AMD EDAC Linux driver for Error Detection And Correction of AMD x86_64 CPU/memory errors is now being extended for handling AMD data center GPUs like the Instinct MI200 series and newer where any error reporting/correction information can now be propagated to this existing driver...
Coreboot 4.20 Released With Two More Dozen Motherboards Supported
Coreboot 4.20 has been released as the newest feature release for this project continuing to provide open-source system firmware/BIOS for Chromebooks, servers, and a range of laptops and desktops...
RadeonSI Can Begin Using Valve's ACO Compiler For Certain Shaders
Beginning today with the newest Mesa 23.2-devel code, the environment variable option AMD_DEBUG=useaco is now available for telling the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver to use Valve's ACO shader compiler back-end rather than the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end for supported shader types...
RADV Adds Support For VK_EXT_tooling_info
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has added support for the small but useful VK_EXT_tooling_info extension...
Wine-Staging 8.8 Down To Less Than 500 Patches Atop Wine
Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.8 is the Wine-Staging experimental/testing blend that carries hundreds of extra patches atop this open-source software for leveraging Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems...
Linux 6.4-rc2 Released As A Fairly Calm Mother's Day Kernel
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.4-rc2 as the second weekly release candidate of the in-development Linux 6.4 cycle...
Linux Features Loved By Microsoft Engineers Working On WSL2
In addition to Microsoft having a significant present at last week's Linux Security Summit, there were also multiple Microsoft engineers at the Linux Foundation's Open-Source Summit that was also taking place in Vancouver. Among the Microsoft Linux talks this week was a presentation on the Linux kernel usage by WSL2 -- including how it's moving closer to a mainline/upstream status and also mentions of Linux kernel features loved by Microsoft's engineering team...
Linux 6.4-rc2 Preps For AMD Zen 4 Model 78h
Sent out this morning were the x86/urgent patches for the Linux 6.4-rc2 kernel due for release later today. With the x86/urgent changes this week are just two AMD patches in preparing the kernel for Family 19h Model 78h processors...
Fedora Program Manager Laid Off As Part Of Red Hat Cuts
As part of the Red Hat layoffs announced in April with around a 4% reduction in headcount for the IBM-owneed company, one of the surprising casualties from that round of cost-cutting is the Fedora Program Manager...
Tellusim Core SDK Published With Linux & Vulkan Support Included
Tellusim as the company known so far for its GravityMark benchmark and being started by Alexander Zapryagaev who was a Unigine Corp co-founder has now launched the Tellusim Core SDK as a new cross-platform, commercial engine...
Xfce's Wayland Compositor Code Continues Improving
A status update was posted this week around xfwm4-wayland with the Xfce Wayland compositor code...
GNU Shepherd 0.10 Released For Guile-Written Init/Service Manager
GNU Shepherd 0.10 is out today as the latest release for this GNU-backed service manager and init system that is written in Guile...
Microsoft Aims For Greater Script Execution Control On Linux
This week alongside several other Linux Foundation events in Vancouver was the Linux Security Summit. Commanding a significant presence at the Linux Security Summit was Microsoft...
Fwupd 1.9.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes, New Capabilities
Following yesterday's release of Fwupd 1.8.15, Fwupd 1.9.1 is now available as the latest release of this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems...
Asahi Linux To Users: Please Stop Using X.Org
Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin issued a lengthy post encouraging users of this Apple Silicon focused Linux distribution to stop using X.Org as Wayland is the future...
Intel Issues New CPU Microcode Going Back To Gen8 For New, Undisclosed Security Updates
Well, this is a bit strange... Intel just published Friday afternoon CPU microcode updates for all supported processor families back to Coffee Lake "Gen 8" for undisclosed security updates...