Open-source News

System76 Refreshes the Serval WS Linux Laptop with Intel Core Ultra Series 2 CPUs  9to5Linux

Olimex LCD7-PANEL-LIME2 combines 7-inch touchscreen, A20 Linux SBC, and panel-mount frame  LinuxGizmos.com

Interesting feature work for VMware virtualization on Linux now being pursued by Broadcom is to support zero-copy buffer sharing between the VM(s) and host hypervisor, which would equate to an efficiency and performance win...

Broadcom Working On VMware Zero-Copy Buffer Sharing Between VMs And Hypervisor  Phoronix

Shelly 2.4 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Released with New Features  9to5Linux

After 8 distros in two years, the one that stopped my hopping is boring on purpose  MakeUseOf

Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.7 Released with Linux 7.1, KDE Plasma 6.7, and More  9to5Linux

Open-Source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan Driver Receives DLSS Support In Mesa 26.2  Wccftech

NVIDIA DLSS support lands in open-source NVK Vulkan driver for Linux  VideoCardz.com

Linux 7.2 has finally eliminated the strncpy API from the Linux kernel. The strncpy() function for copying up to a specified number of bytes has long been deprecated and after six years of work and hundreds of patches, no more users of the strncpy interface within the Linux kernel remained that it has now been eliminated...

Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches  Phoronix

Merged for Linux 7.1 was ARMM64 NEON-accelerated CRC64-NVMe support for around 6x the performance out of that checksumming algorithm. The generic code had been a bottleneck in NVMe and other storage subsystem code of the Linux kernel with CRC64-NVMe being used to help verify against data corruption. Now for Linux 7.2, the NEON-accelerated code will also work for those still relying on 32-bit ARM...

Linux's ARM64 NEON Intrinsics CRC64 Code Adapted To Work On 32-bit ARM  Phoronix

The open-source world waited long enough for the GIMP 3.0 release that finally came last year with its GTK3 port and more, but for those with time on their hands this weekend and want to relive GIMP's past from long ago, GIMP 0.54 has been adapted for Flatpak to work on modern Linux desktops. What makes this version of GIMP from 1996 notable is that it was the last to use the Motif toolkit...

GIMP v0.54 From 1996 With Motif Toolkit Now Flatpak'ed For Modern Linux Desktops  Phoronix

exFAT File-System Enjoys Better Performance On Linux 7.2 With IOmap Conversion  Phoronix

In addition to open-source developer Namjae Jeon serving as maintainer for the new NTFS Linux driver, he also continues serving as maintainer to the exFAT file-system for that other Microsoft file-system popular with removable storage media...

With KDE's Plasma 6.7 desktop having released this week, more development attention is turning to feature work toward Plasma 6.8 but there are also some fixes already accumulating for the Plasma 6.7.1 point release...

Proton Experimental gets fixes for The Division 2, METAL GEAR SOLID V, ARC Raiders and more  GamingOnLinux

Guncrypt is Halfbrick Studio's First PC Game, That Also Works on Linux  It's FOSS