Open-source News

SUSE upgrades its distros with 19 years of support - no other Linux comes close  ZDNet

5 reasons why MacOS and Linux go together like a knife and fork  ZDNet

I've used Linux for 30 years. 5 reasons why I'll never switch to Windows or MacOS  ZDNet

Building off the Xe2 foundation in place for the Lunar Lake integrated graphics, more recently Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers have begun pushing out code focused on enabling the Xe2-based Battlemage discrete GPUs as the successor to the DG2/Alchemist hardware. That enablement work remains ongoing and with the upcoming Linux 6.11 kernel cycle the important fundamental milestone is being crossed of actually being able to drive a connected display/monitor by a Battlemage GPU...

Linux 6.11 To Enable Intel Battlemage GPU Display Support  Phoronix

I Am Not a Programmer, but Here's Why Linux Is My Daily Driver  How-To Geek

Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's open-source Linux GPU driver team and known for his work on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has issued a proposal for creating a new legacy branch for older/less-maintained Gallium3D drivers...

Proposal For Creating A New Mesa Legacy Driver Branch: R300, R600, Lima, NV30 & More  Phoronix

CTO interview: SUSE expands Linux Enterprise support to 2037, unveils product updates  SDxCentral

While it looked like all of the Intel Lunar Lake support was wrapped up with the first of these next-gen Core Ultra laptops set to debut next quarter and the Panther Lake bring-up for Linux has begun, it looks like there may be some stragglers still around Lunar Lake. Sent out today was the patch series enabling DLVR (Digital Linear Voltage Regulator) support for these upcoming mobile SoCs...

Linux Patches Posted For Intel Lunar Lake DLVR Support  Phoronix

SUSE Wants to Democratize Generative AI With SUSE AI  WebProNews

The first release candidate of Zlib-ng 2.2 for this drop-in replacement to the Zlib data compression library is now available for testing. Zlib-ng continues to ship new performance optimizations and other tuning for providing faster Zlib performance on modern processors...

We deb it  TradingView

AMD today announced the ROCm 6.1.3 open-source GPU compute stack. While a point release, this new ROCm revision comes with several notable refinements...

AMD Announces ROCm 6.1.3 With Better Multi-GPU Support, Beta-Level WSL2  Phoronix

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora now on Steam, broken for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux  GamingOnLinux

Sent out last month were the very preliminary Rust-written Nova GPU kernel driver patches for this in-development Direct Rendering Manager driver for open-source NVIDIA GPU support for RTX 20 / Turing GPUs and newer by leveraging the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP). Sent out this week is the second iteration of the stubbed Nova kernel driver and the associated Rust language DRM subsystem abstractions...

Updated DRM Rust Abstractions For Linux As Part Of Bringing Up The Nova Driver  Phoronix

For those running the command "systemd-tmpfiles --purge" and think that this command just deletes your temporary files, think again and watch out. In reality it will delete all files and directories created by a tmpfiles.d entry... Including the /home that is created by systemd-tmpfiles' home.conf. With users being bitten in recent days by this behavior when they were just expecting tmp files to be removed, systemd 256.1 is now available and does have a change to avoid inadvertently deleting your all-important home directory...