Open-source News

GNOME 48 is officially out as the newest stable release for this open-source desktop that will be powering the likes of Fedora Workstation 42 and Ubuntu 25.04...

A few days ago there was a batch of 145 patches merged for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release to enhance the Rust "gccrs" front-end. That big set of patches merged the Polonius borrow checker and made other notable improvements. Today another 144 patches for enhancing gccrs were merged ahead of the GCC 15.1 stable release due out in the coming weeks...

Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware  The Register

Intel Wrapping Up Family 18 / Family 19 CPU Model Preparations Ahead Of Linux 6.15  Phoronix

Over the past year Intel has been working to prepare the Linux kernel for the end of the "Family 6" CPU era. There's been a big rework to the Intel CPU model handling within the Linux kernel given that "Family 6" has been in use since the 1990s and moving forward Intel CPUs will appear in Family 19 like Diamond Rapids along with Family 18 as part of the new CPU identification. Thus a lot of Linux kernel checks need to be reconfigured for the multi-family Intel handling. With Linux 6.15 it looks like most of that will be finally wrapped up...

Meta: FreeType flaw affecting multiple Linux distributions under active exploitation  SC Media

Must-have Native Linux games under £15 in the Steam Spring Sale 2025  GamingOnLinux

Fedora Linux 42 Beta and Fedora Asahi Remix 42 Beta released  GamingOnLinux

Linux Foundation's trust scorecards aim to battle rising open-source security threats  ZDNet

CIQ Previews a Security-Hardened Enterprise Linux  The New Stack

AMD recently allowed me some time with their AMD Accelerator Cloud (AAC) leveraging multiple Instinct MI300X accelerators. During this brief opportunity to try out their latest software advancements with the Instinct MI300X and the ROCm compute stack, one of the most striking takeaways was their documentation improvements compared to previous forays into ROCm+Instinct compute. In addition, AMD is now offering more robust container options for easier Instinct compute deployments with more software options available and being more regularly updated.

Fedora 42 Beta Is Now Available  WebProNews

Intel updated their AVX10 whitepaper and associated open-source compiler patches around this next Advanced Vector Extensions standard... While AVX10 had intended to allow either 256-bit or 512-bit modes depending upon processor capabilities, Intel has dropped the 256-bit-only approach and going for 512-bit everywhere. Thus it would seem to indicate that Intel E cores of the future will properly support AVX 512-bit operation!..

Linux 6.15 To Support The Airoha NPU - A RISC-V Network Processor Unit  Phoronix

Patches queued up this month into net-next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel merge window add support for the Airoha NPU... Not to be confused with the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that is all the rage these days for helping with AI, the Airoha NPU is a Network Processor Unit...

Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia has been working on some optimizations to the DRM synchronization object "drm_syncobj" code for slightly more efficient use on the CPU side...

Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust  The Register

DRM Sync Object Optimizations Show Minor Benefit On The Steam Deck  Phoronix

ckb-next adds support for two more Corsair devices on Linux and fixes a major bug for multiple others  GamingOnLinux

Steam Beta improves download speed of Steam Client updates on Linux / Steam Deck and other fixes  GamingOnLinux