Open-source News

Making for a very exciting Saturday morning, AMD just posted their initial enablement patch for plumbing Zen 5 processor support "znver5" into the GNU Compiler Collection! With GCC 14 due to be released as stable in March~April as usual for the annual compiler release, it's been frustrating to see no Zen 5 support even while Intel has already been working on Clear Water Forest and Panther Lake support with already having upstreamed Sierra Forest, Granite Rapids, and other new CPU targets months ago... Well, Granite Rapids was added to GCC in late 2022. But squeezing in as what should now be merged in time is the initial AMD Zen 5 support!..

Proton Hotfix updated to support HELLDIVERS 2 on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Linux: Manage chroot Environments with Atoms  The New Stack

Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro Review (2024): A Top Linux Laptop  WIRED

Qualcomm Hardware Support Increasingly In Good Shape On The Mainline Linux Kernel  Phoronix

New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn't Your Only Option  How-To Geek

After years of work by Qualcomm and Linaro engineers, the Qualcomm SoC support on the mainline Linux kernel has finally matured enough that new hardware support tends to come rather quickly and be well supported. With the forthcoming Linux 6.8 kernel the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 can boot on the mainline kernel, the Snapdragon-powered ThinkPad X13s has been popular with Linux developers thanks to the upstream support, and other Qualcomm-powered devices tending to play more nicely with upstream Linux these days rather than having to resort to vendor kernel builds...

Xfce developers have updated their Wayland roadmap this week to reflect their latest plans around the Xfce 4.20 release...

Today marks the UI, feature, and API/ABI freezes for the GNOME 46 desktop ahead of its stable release on 16 March. One feature coming down to the wire that looks like it may not make it -- unfortunately -- is the Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) integration...

There is just under three weeks to go until the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6 debut...

How to download and play Minecraft on a Chromebook  Android Authority

Weekly Blog Wrap-Up (February 5 th- February 8th, 2023)  Security Boulevard

High-Performance Handheld Gamer Consoles  Trend Hunter

I Switched to Fedora From Ubuntu: Going Back Again!  It's FOSS News

Best Linux Distributions for ARM Architecture: A Comprehensive Guide  Medium

While we are still waiting to get our hands on AmpereOne hardware for Ampere Computing's in-house design Arm cores with up to 192 cores, Friday night Git activity to LLVM has revealed an "Ampere1B" core...

LLVM Adds Support For New "Ampere1B" Third-Gen Cores From Ampere Computing  Phoronix

The Hacker News: Critical Boot Loader Vulnerability in Shim Impacts Nearly All Linux DistrosThe Hacker News:  Security Boulevard

The macOS-inspired, FreeBSD-based helloSystem open-source operating system has published a new experimental build based on the fresh FreeBSD 14.0...

Wine 9.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of this software for enjoying Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms...