Open-source News

New "AMD Node" Driver Introduced In Linux 6.14 For Splitting Up Legacy Northbridge Code  Phoronix

Wine 10.0 uncorks smoother support for running Windows apps on Linux  BetaNews

As was expected this week, Wine 10.0 stable is now available as the newest annual feature release to this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Wine also serves as the basis for Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and CodeWeavers' CrossOver software...

Along with recently announcing the Raspberry Pi 500 keyboard computer and the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB (review still forthcoming; the 16GB model only arrived last week), the Raspberry Pi Monitor debuted last month as their first foray into displays. For $100 USD you get a 15.6-inch 1080p display that is simple but pairs well with the Raspberry Pi 400/500 or just the single board computer or any other HDMI-connected device for that matter.

Serpent OS as the modern, from-scratch Linux distribution being led by well known open-source developer Ikey Doherty has started on a new project: disks-rs. The disks-rs project is intended to deal with file-systems, installation / partitioning, and block device management in a safe and effective manner from the Rust programming language...

Adding to the plethora of new hardware support coming with the Linux 6.14 kernel is enabling upstream support for the FPGAs found on the Intel-powered AAEON UP single board computers that are targeted for makers, hobbyists, and various industrial uses...

Linux 6.14 Landing Support For FPGA Support On AAEON UP Maker Boards  Phoronix

The big networking subsystem feature pull was sent out this morning for the Linux 6.14 merge window...

Linux 6.14 Networking Brings Many Wired & Wireless Driver Improvements  Phoronix

Over the past week there has been an uptick in patches pertaining to RDNA4's GFX12 graphics engine within the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" for Mesa 25.0 to benefit Linux systems...

Linux Kernel 6.13 isn't a major release but's it still important - here's why  ZDNet

Liberux NEXX is a Linux smartphone with a RK3588S chip, 32GB RAM, and a 5G modem (crowdfunding)  Liliputing

7 Problems You'll Likely Run Into Gaming on Linux  How-To Geek

Switching From Windows Command Prompt to Linux Terminal: 7 Things to Know  How-To Geek

Intel's upstreaming work around the next-gen Core Ultra "Panther Lake" processors continues for the Linux kernel. Among other code being prepped for submitting during the Linux 6.14 merge window, on Monday the thermal driver updates were focused on enabling support for Intel Panther Lake processors...

Linux 6.14 Thermal Drivers Get Ready For Intel Panther Lake  Phoronix

In addition to merging a number of the pull requests yesterday for the start of the Linux 6.14 cycle, Linux creator Linus Torvalds did merge some of his own new code as well. While his time these days working on new kernel code itself is more limited with managing the ever-growing upstream kernel community, he has managed some notable items in recent times like addressing ARM64 kernel annoyances and some performance optimizations...

The x86/cache updates for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel are extending the Resource Control "resctrl" code for Intel Resource Director Technology / AMD Platform Quality of Service to have the capability of total memory bandwidth monitoring...

Linux 6.14 Resource Control To Allow Total Memory Bandwidth Monitoring  Phoronix

How to troubleshoot Linux app startup issues with the journalctl command  ZDNet