Open-source News

For those running the popular, modular/upgradeable Framework Laptops, the Linux 6.11 kernel is bringing some nice driver additions for enhancing the support on the recent models...

Linux 6.11 Adds ChromeOS EC LED Driver For The Framework Laptops  Phoronix

The Linux Foundation and OpenSSF release report on the state of education in secure software development  SecurityInfoWatch

Intel engineers have been busy preparing their open-source Linux software stack for H.266/VVC video decoding that is expected with upcoming Xe2 graphics for Lunar Lake and Battlemage. FFmpeg 2024Q2 is out today with VVC decoding now working on Intel graphics for this widely-used multimedia library...

Intel FFmpeg 2024Q2 Update Enables GPU-Accelerated VVC Decoding  Phoronix

Jens Axboe has seen all of the block subsystem and IO_uring changes already mainlined for the in-development Linux 6.11 kernel...

Linux 6.11 Adds Support For Rust-Based Block Drivers & Atomic Writes  Phoronix

VirtualBox 7.0.20 Introduces Initial Support for openSUSE 15.6 and RHEL 9.5 Kernels  9to5Linux

KDE Plasma 6.1.3 Improves Flatpak Support in Discover, Fixes More Bugs  9to5Linux

KDE Plasma 6.1.3 Improves Flatpak Support in Discover, Fixes More Bugs  9to5Linux

The Linux Foundation and OpenSSF Release Report on the State of Education in Secure Software Development  GlobeNewswire

It's Blender 4.2 release day! Blender 4.2 marks the newest long-term support (LTS) release for this wonderful free software 3D modeling solution that has developed quite a following across the industry...

Linux Is Free, But I Pay for Linux PCs: Here's Why  How-To Geek

While many have been excited around the prospects of laptops powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC, the Linux support so far still leaves a lot to be desired... The initial Snapdragon X Elite laptops aren't utilizing ACPI standards and the bring-up under Linux has been slow, but patches have begun appearing for some models. But even with patches, the Adreno GPU remains a big obstacle still being tackled along with other features like web camera, USB4, Bluetooth, etc. With a new kernel patch, the GPU for the Snapdragon X Elite (X1E80100) is being disabled by default...

There's a new driver subsystem being introduced in the Linux 6.11 kernel for power sequencing...

New Power Sequencing Driver Subsystem Merged For Linux 6.11  Phoronix

For the past year and a half Intel engineers have been working on Linux kernel improvements for Sub-NUMA Clustering (SNC) in the presence of Resource Director Technology (RDT). Intel has been advising its customers not to use Sub-NUMA Clustering when making use of Resource Director Technology since these features would effectively fight eachother. Well, with the Linux 6.11 kernel that's finally being addressed...

Intel Sub-NUMA Clustering Will Stop Clashing With Resource Director On Linux 6.11+  Phoronix

Stemming from a recent investigation into a GCC compiler regression on Zen 4, it was discovered that the unaligned load/store costs for the Zen 4 and Zen 5 targets were inaccurate and have now been tweaked within GCC Git...

Linus Torvalds began the Linux 6.11 merge window yesterday by merging some of his own feature code for this next kernel version...