Open-source News

Coming out this week was an updated AVX10 whitepaper from Intel with the surprising decision that 512-bit floating point and integer support is no longer considered optional for AVX10.2. AVX10.2 now mandates 128 / 256 / 512-bit support and in turn also dropped the 256-bit embedded rounding support with the focus on 512-bit. The LLVM/Clang compiler had seen its AVX10 support designed around Intel's original AVX10 design assumptions and thus now is being modified to address these changes...

EndeavourOS Mercury Neo Launches with KDE Plasma 6.3, NVIDIA 570, and Mesa 25  9to5Linux

Finally, a Linux laptop with a brilliant display and performance that rivals my MacBook  ZDNet

The best-looking Linux desktop I've seen so far in 2025 - and it's not even close  ZDNet

New to Linux? Here are 7 of the best beginner-friendly distros for you to try  XDA Developers

Among the earliest of pull requests this week ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window expected to begin tomorrow were the media subsystem updates. In addition to continuing to improve the common "uvcvideo" web camera driver and other routine refinements, there is also some new media hardware support slated to be included as part of the Linux 6.15 kernel...

Qualcomm Iris Video Decode Driver & DesignWare HDMI Input Support Ready For Linux 6.15  Phoronix

This past week a lot of new code for the Rust "gccrs" front-end began being merged for the upcoming GCC 15.1 stable release... The Polonius borrow checker landed along with other big improvements to the Rust code ahead of this annual GNU Compiler Collection release. A third round was merged on Friday adding yet more gccrs features...

The sched_ext code for extensible scheduler support and being able to quickly prototype new Linux kernel scheduling improvements continues evolving nicely since its much anticipated merging to the mainline kernel in 2024. Ahead of the imminent Linux 6.15 merge window, the sched_ext feature updates were sent out today for this next kernel cycle...

Last weekend FreeDesktop.org began transitioning to their new server/cloud infrastructure after recently finding out their sponsored Equinix Metal services were shutting down. Following the complex migration process this past week, FreeDesktop.org GitLab is up and running on the Hetzner server infrastructure in Germany...

Finnix Linux Distro for Sysadmins Celebrates 25th Anniversary with New Release  9to5Linux

GPU Acceleration in Linux Terminals: What It Is and Why It's Useful  How-To Geek

Ingo Molnar began sending out the pull requests today for the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window of code areas he oversees for the Linux kernel. Among those early pulls are of the x86/build updates, which includes removing some seemingly useless CRC-32 checksum code from the kernel...

Ahead of the imminent Linux 6.15 merge window expected to begin next week, a batch of AMDGPU/AMDKFD Radeon kernel driver updates were sent out on Friday for this next kernel cycle. It's mostly about bug fixes but does container cleaner shader support for AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics...

AMD RDNA 3.5 Cleaner Shader Support Prepped For Linux 6.15  Phoronix

There is some new Wayland protocol support activity this week worth mentioning for both the KDE Plasma and GNOME desktops...

Here's how to access your Android phone's files from the new Linux Terminal  Android Authority

How Linux Took Over the World (Without Anyone Noticing)  How-To Geek

How Linux Took Over the World (Without Anyone Noticing)  Review Geek

11 Ways to Do Math on the Linux Terminal  How-To Geek