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The Qt Company announced they will be maintaining the Qt 5.15 long-term support (LTS) code-base by an additional two years...

There still is a few days left to the Linux 5.18 merge window but already I've started firing up benchmarks of this new kernel on a handful of desktops and servers so far. One benchmark though in particular has been showing a staggering performance drop on Linux 5.18 on multiple systems but overall Linux 5.18 in my testing thus far has been working out well...

Earlier this year was news of (open)SUSE developing "D-Installer" as a new web-based distro installer. D-Installer is to complement YaST's existing Qt/CLI installer front-ends and would open up Web UI support, a better UI, and enhanced integration via the D-Bus installer service. The first public release of openSUSE with this new installer is now available for testing...

Building off the Radeon ROCm 5.0 series introduced in February, AMD is ending out Q1 by launching the Radeon Open eCosystem 5.1 series...

It's been over one month already since the release of XWayland 22.1 while this morning v22.1.1 was issued with a handful of bug fixes...

At the moment the Radeon Software for Linux 21.50.2 is AMD's latest packaged graphics driver intended for enterprise Linux distributions. But Radeon Software for Linux 22.10 should soon be announced and can already be fetched from their package archive...

Sent out last week amid the busy Linux 5.18 merge window days were the patch series wiring up an Apple NVMe driver for use with the M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max SoCs...

For Fedora 37 later this year the Linux distribution is looking at providing support for zero touch onboarding for IoT / edge devices...

The GNU C Library (glibc) has landed a set of 23 patches providing optimized AVX2 and EVEX versions of strcasecmp/strncasecmp functions while dropping support for the original AVX implementation...

Last week the EXT4 file-system feature updates were submitted and merged for the ongoing Linux 5.18 merge window...

Intel today is formally introducing their Arc 3 series mobile graphics that will begin appearing in laptops beginning in April while Arc 5 and Arc 7 graphics are coming out in the "early summer" for the much anticipated Intel discrete graphics offerings.

Right now under Linux it isn't quick and easy to figure out if the likes of (Transparent) Secure Memory Encryption are enabled and working but a new patch series will more easily expose the security attributes of the AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP) to users on Linux. Among the information to be exposed will also include whether the CPU is fused in the name of tampering prevention...

Back in January Intel engineers released SVT-AV1 0.9 with significant speed-ups to this open-source AV1 encoder while now as we roll into Q2, SVT-AV1 v1.0 is being readied for launch...

Part of the mainline kernel has been Tegra-VDE as an originally reverse-engineered NVIDIA Tegra video decode driver. After much work on that driver by developer Dmitry Osipenko, it's been promoted out of "staging" with Linux 5.18 among other media subsystem changes...

The first release candidate of systemd 251 is now available for testing as a rather large update to this Linux init system and service manager...

In continuation of last week's article that the GCC steering committee approved landing of LoongArch as a new port to this MIPS-derived Chinese CPU architecture, the code was merged on Tuesday...

It's coming a week late due to a scheduling mishap but in any event today marks the first stable point release to the Mesa 22.0 series for open-source OpenGL/Vulkan drivers...

Chrome 100 is out today with Google's multi-platform web browser now up to a three digit version...

For those still intrigued by Finnish outfit Jolla and their work on the Linux-based smartphone OS Jailfish, their v4.4 "Vanha Rauma" update is out today...

After a slight delay the Fedora 36 beta images are officially available today...