Open-source News

The scheduler updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.12 kernel and come with several notable enhancements...

Linux 6.12 Scheduler Code Adds SCHED_DEADLINE Servers & Complete EEVDF  Phoronix

The Microsoft Hyper-V updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.12 kernel. They are mostly small changes but does bring work to optimize the boot time for large Hyper-V VMs...

Microsoft Optimizes Hyper-V Code To Boot Linux Faster When Having Many CPUs  Phoronix

Linux is becoming a Real-Time Operating System: what does it mean?  Techzine Europe

The XFS file-system changes have been merged for the Linux 6.12 kernel and introduce new ioctls for being able to exchange the contents of two files...

XFS With Linux 6.12 Adds New Ioctls To Exchange Contents Of Two Files  Phoronix

FOSS Weekly #24.38: Arch Experience, Kernel 6.11, Mint vs Ubuntu and More Linux Stuff  It's FOSS

Apple releases Swift 6 with improved concurrency, testing, cross-platform support – enough to lift it out of its niche?  DevClass

For anyone still relying upon virtual reality (VR) applications written for the OpenGL API rather than the Vulkan API that has been dominant among VR apps (and other modern games / software) for years, the Mesa code and in particular the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver now supports the OpenGL VR (OVR) extensions...

An interesting merge request opened this week and already merged for Mesa 24.3 comes from an Autodesk engineer adding Vulkan Windowing System Integration (WSI) around Apple's Metal API for use on macOS...

Wind River Unveils Linux Distro for AI and Critical Workloads  The New Stack

What is open-source and how does it benefit you?  ZDNet

GNOME 47 Is Coming to a Linux Desktop Near You  How-To Geek

GTA V Online's new kernel anti-cheat rug-pull unnecessarily breaks Steam Deck and Linux compatibility  Notebookcheck.net

20 years later, real-time Linux makes it to the kernel - really  ZDNet

20 Years in the making: Real-Time Linux finally makes it to the kernel  ZDNet

The FFmpeg multimedia library continues to enhance its support around the Vulkan Video APIs with the latest commits seeing H.264 and H.265/HEVC Vulkan encode support merged...

Fedora Linux 41 beta drops Python 2 and upgrades the DNF package manager  Notebookcheck.net

GNOME 47 Denver transforms the Linux desktop with new features and improved performance  BetaNews