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OpenBMC 2.14 Apparently Released

Wed, 05/17/2023 - 21:13
The OpenBMC Linux Foundation collaborative project providing an open-source operating system / firmware stack for server baseboard management controllers (BMCs) is out with version 2.14. The OpenBMC release management still seems to be in a bit of disarray with OpenBMC 2.13 also having been released yesterday, but at least the code continues moving along...

OnLogic Taps Intel Raptor Lake For 1U Axial AC101 Edge Server

Wed, 05/17/2023 - 20:40
The folks at OnLogic have released the Axial AC101 as a new edge server offering that is powered by Intel Core 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" processors and this BMC-enabled, shallow-depth server can accommodate up to 150 Watt PCI Express expansion cards in aiming to make this compact edge server ideal for machine learning, AI, and other IoT use-cases...

Ubuntu Knocks On Docker In Latest Snaps Promotion

Wed, 05/17/2023 - 20:19
While for an Ubuntu desktop user that is used to running Snap versions of Firefox and other desktop application sandboxing it may seem strange for Canonical to be comparing Snaps to Docker containers, the emphasis of their comparison is on the IoT/edge computing side where they are trying to better position Snaps as a superior alternative to using Docker containers...

PipeWire 0.3.71 Released With Performance Improvements, Zero Latency JACK D-Bus Bridge

Wed, 05/17/2023 - 18:48
PipeWire 0.3.71 is out today as the newest update to this now widely-used open-source solution for managing Linux audio and video streams and serving as a viable replacement to the likes of PulseAudio and JACK for audio needs on the Linux desktop...

Intel CR 23.13.26032.30 Further Improves Intel's Open-Source GPU Compute Stack

Wed, 05/17/2023 - 18:30
The Intel Compute-Runtime 23.13.26032.30 update was released today as the newest monthly feature update to this open-source GPU compute stack used on Windows and Linux for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support. With this release comes various improvements and new features like FP64 emulation for Arctic Sound M...

libei 1.0 Nears For Emulated Input On Wayland

Wed, 05/17/2023 - 18:06
Libei has been the multi-year effort by Red Hat's leading input expert Peter Hutterer on emulated input handling for Wayland. Libei consists of a client side library and EIS as the "Emulated Input Server" for this Wayland-focused emulated input device solution. Libei 1.0 is about to finally be released...

Debian Votes To Reinstate Merged-/usr File Movement Moratorium

Wed, 05/17/2023 - 17:39
The Debian Technical Committee has voted to reinstate the merged-/usr file movement moratorium...

Rocky Linux 9.2 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Support, AArch64 64kb Page Size Kernel

Wed, 05/17/2023 - 05:12
Following last week's release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 and AlmaLinux 9.2, Rocky Linux 9.2 is now also available as this alternative community-supported flavor of RHEL...

Lutris 0.5.13 Released - More Responsive & Restores Ability To Run Games Via Proton

Wed, 05/17/2023 - 05:02
Lutris 0.5.13 is now available as the newest feature release for this open-source game manager...

Intel Uncore Frequency Linux Driver Prepares For TPMI & Cluster Level Power Controls

Wed, 05/17/2023 - 01:07
A set of patches to the Intel Uncore Frequency (intel-uncore-freq) Linux driver are expected for the Linux 6.5 cycle that integrate support for the TPMI interface and prepare for upcoming processors with cluster-level power controls...

Loongson Begins Posting Linux Patches For 3A6000 Series CPUs

Wed, 05/17/2023 - 00:00
While the Loongson 3A6000 processors have yet to be officially launched, rumors since last year put it on target for launching in the first half of this year and some claims that there is such performance uplift that these Chinese CPUs could rival AMD Zen 3 or Intel Tiger Lake levels of performance. Ahead of the 3A6000 series launch, Linux patches have begun appearing for these next-gen LoongArch processors...

SQLite 3.42 Released With "Secure Delete" Command

Tue, 05/16/2023 - 23:30
SQLite 3.42 is now available as the newest update to this widely-used, embed-friendly SQL database option that is used by countless applications and other software for lightweight and speedy data storage purposes...

Parallel CPU Bring-Up Poised For Linux 6.5

Tue, 05/16/2023 - 21:09
Months in the making have been the patches for x86_64 parallel CPU boot support to allow secondary CPU cores to be booted in parallel for shortening Linux kernel boot times. Over time the Linux parallel CPU bring-up patches have gone through many revisions while it looks like this work is now positioned for introduction with the Linux 6.5 kernel later this summer...

Arch Linux Prepares For Repository Changes, Discontinuing SVN Access

Tue, 05/16/2023 - 20:25
This Friday is the planned Git packaging migration for the Arch Linux distribution that will see some repository splits as well as discontinuing SVN access...

PXP 0.0.1 Released For What Aims To Become A Superset Of PHP

Tue, 05/16/2023 - 18:32
The PXP project has been an interesting language effort in recent times that aims to become a superset of PHP with additional syntax options and greater run-time capabilities. PXP 0.0.1 was released yesterday as the first very early, pre-production release for this open-source project...

Libproxy 0.5 Released For Improving Proxy Management Thanks To Work By Volkswagen

Tue, 05/16/2023 - 18:12
Libproxy as the open-source library providing automatic proxy configuration management on Linux, Windows, and macOS systems has seen a big update thanks to an unlikely contributor...

Ubuntu 23.10 Improving PPA Management For Enhanced Security & Reliability

Tue, 05/16/2023 - 17:59
One of the great longtime features of Ubuntu Linux has been Launchpad's Personal Package Archives (PPAs) for easily augmenting the official Ubuntu repositories with additional packages either to supply updated versions of select software or for software not yet found in the official Ubuntu archives. With Ubuntu 23.10 a change is being made in how PPAs are managed to enhance the security and reliability...

Debian Installer Bookworm RC3 Released Ahead Of Next Month's Debian 12.0

Tue, 05/16/2023 - 17:43
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

Tue, 05/16/2023 - 04:41
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

Tue, 05/16/2023 - 04:25
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...

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