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FreeBSD 15.0 Aims For Reproducible Builds / Zero-Trust Builds With Fresh Funding

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 09:36
The FreeBSD Foundation has begun receiving funding to work on zero-trust builds / reproducible builds. The work will hopefully be wrapped up in time for the major FreeBSD 15.0 release...

SDL 3 Officially Released With New APIs, Better HiDPI & Improved Audio Handling

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 06:05
In addition to the Wine 10.0 stable release today, making the day very exciting as well for Linux gamers is the first official SDL 3.0 release!..

Btrfs Changes Land In Linux 6.14 With New RAID1 Round-Robin Option

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 05:35
In addition to the Bcachefs changes for the Linux 6.14 kernel, the Btrfs file-system feature updates have also been submitted and merged for this next version of the Linux kernel...

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

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 03:10
On the first day of the Linux 6.14 merge window there were a number of new AMD CPU features submitted. That's continued today with so far having the new "amd_node" driver to talk about for splitting up the modern Zen-era code and more of the legacy AMD Northbridge code from the pre-Zen days...

Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 01:03
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...

Raspberry Pi Monitor Pairs Great With The Raspberry Pi 500 As A $100 Display

Phoronix - Wed, 01/22/2025 - 00:30
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 Developing disks-rs To Safely Deal With File-Systems & Block Devices In Rust

Phoronix - Tue, 01/21/2025 - 23:36
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...

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