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Worked on back in 2024 for the Linux kernel was a built-in counter to keep track of the number of hung tasks since boot. That feature for keeping track of the number of hung tasks since boot was merged in Linux 6.13 and exposed via /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_detect_count. For helping ease use around it, new code working its way to the kernel will allow resetting that "hung_task_detect_count" counter...

Following Linux 6.19 adding support for CRKD guitar controllers, new patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are bringing some additional guitar controllers to Linux. This latest work is around enabling the Rock Band 4 guitars for the PlayStation 4 and PS5 consoles to work under Linux...

Patch Posted For Bringing Rock Band 4 PS4 / PS5 Guitar Support To Linux  Phoronix

A new feature being worked on recently for the AMDKFD kernel compute driver is batch user pointer "userptr" allocation support. With this new user-space API it will become possible to support allocating multiple non-contiguous CPU virtual address ranges that map to a single contiguous GPU virtual address...

New AMD Linux Driver Patches Posted For Batch Userptr Allocation Support  Phoronix

This gorgeous terminal UI changed how I use Docker on Linux  MakeUseOf

NVIDIA GeForce NOW to gain native Linux support  VideoCardz.com

Fjall 3.0: Rust Storage Engine for Embedded Linux  Elektor Magazine

In addition to the release of Stoolap 0.2 as a modern embedded SQL database written in Rust, Fjall 3.0 is available as another Rust-written database solution. Fjall is a log-structured, embedable key-value storage engine akin to RocksDB but with the benefit of being written in Rust. With Fjall 3.0 its performance is now very competitive...

Box64 v0.4 Improves Support For DRM Protected Games, Steam Is Now More Stable  Phoronix

While Fex-Emu has been getting a lot of attention lately for being Valve-sponsored and powering the upcoming Steam Frame, Box64 continues making progress as another great open-source project for running x86_64 Linux binaries on AArch64 Linux as well as an eye on other architectures like RISC-V...

Switched to Arch Hyprland: I Built HyprLTM-Net, a Rofi-Based Network Management GUI  LXer: Linux News

Ahead of the initial batch of Intel Panther Lake laptops expected to be showcased at CES next week in Las Vegas, we're seeing last minute quirk updates for these products expected to soon come to market...

Linux Audio Quirk Handling On The Way For Dell Panther Lake Laptops  Phoronix

Stooplap v0.2 released today as this SQLite alternative for providing embedded SQL database needs while written in the Rust programming language. Stoolap supports both in-memory and persistent storage models...

Plex's new media manager, Pebble Round 2, another Linux X11 revival, and more: News roundup  How-To Geek

GNOME's Glycin project as the Rust-based sandboxed and extendable image loading library now supports XPM and XBM images. This is notable since those formats were the last unsandboxed image loading formats used on Fedora Linux...

I used Xfce for weeks, but it made me realize how much I need KDE  How-To Geek

Beyond Linux 6.19 switching old AMD GCN 1.0 and 1.1 GPUs to the AMDGPU kernel driver by default for better performance, RADV out-of-the-box, and more, there are still more improvements planned for these aging AMD graphics cards. Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team has been leading the effort to enhance the old graphics card support and on Friday night merged a big improvement for the RADV Vulkan driver in Mesa 26.0...

RADV Driver Lands Another Big Improvement For Early AMD GCN Graphics Cards  Phoronix