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Assuming no objections from Linus Torvalds, the now open Linux 6.15 merge window could introduce a brand new subsystem: fwctl...

New FWCTL Subsystem Submitted For Linux 6.15  Phoronix

An AMD engineer has landed experimental support within the LLVM codebase for building Flang-RT on GPUs. Flang-RT being the run-time for LLVM's modern Fortran "Flang" compiler and in turn this effort working to allow more Fortran code to easily run on GPUs with capable LLVM back-ends...

Savoir-faire Linux Introduces VulnScout.io , Strengthening Open-Source Security  Embedded Computing Design

Managing and monitoring user accounts on Linux  Network World

Fedora 42 beta has so many spins, it'll make your head whirl  The Register

Raspberry Pi's rpi-image-gen Tool Makes it Easy to Roll Your Own Highly-Customized Linux OS Images  Hackster.io

New Linux Kernel Rust Module Unveiled to Detect Rootkits  CybersecurityNews

There was a hiccup yesterday with no Linux 6.14 release or 6.14-rc8 otherwise... Linus Torvalds has a very good track record of sticking to his Sunday release regiment. Yet yesterday was quiet. Today though Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.14 kernel as the newest stable version. Linux 6.14 is what's set to go on and power Ubuntu 25.04, Fedora 42, and other spring 2025 Linux distribution releases...

Linux 6.14 Released With Working NTSYNC Driver, AMD Ryzen AI Accelerator Support  Phoronix

Linux Kernel 6.14 Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

What a week. Last week Intel published a new AVX10 whitepaper where they dropped the optional 512-bit support of AVX10.2 and confirmed future P and E cores will have AVX10.2-512 support unconditionally. A very welcome change by Intel albeit late in rushing to get patches out to change that behavior ahead of the GCC 15 stable compiler release as well as working similar changes into the LLVM Clang compiler. As of today those GNU Compiler Collection patches have been merged to prepare for AVX10.2 always having 512-bit support available...

Among the early pull requests submitted in advance of the Linux 6.14 stable release and in turn the Linux 6.15 merge window opening were the x86 FPU updates. Notable this round are faster x86/x86_64 encryption/decryption performance for both Intel and AMD processors as well as beginning to land the kernel-side changes needed to support Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX)...

Faster Intel/AMD Crypto Performance & Initial Intel APX Enablement Slated For Linux 6.15  Phoronix

The European Union has its own Linux Distribution and it's Called EU OS  It's FOSS News

deepin 25 Alpha is a sleek Linux distro from China with Linyaps packaging — but can it be trusted?  BetaNews

VanHelsingRaaS Emerges, Targeting Linux, BSD, ARM, and ESXi Systems  GBHackers

VanHelsingRaaS Emerges, Targeting Linux, BSD, ARM, and ESXi Systems  GBHackers

With the FreeDesktop.org GitLab infrastructure getting back up, Wayland Protocols 1.42 was released today as the newest version of this official set of protocols for Wayland compositors...

Linux 6.15 CRC Code Should See Big Speed-Ups For Intel/AMD AVX-512 CPUs  Phoronix