Open-source News

As expected, AMD today published the Micro Engine Scheduler "MES" firmware documentation for RDNA3 graphics processors as part of better engaging with the open-source community and aiming to address some gaps in their open-source GPU compute stack...

AMD Publishes Micro Engine Scheduler "MES" Firmware Documentation  Phoronix

Red Hat unveils image mode for its Linux distro  Network World

Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) Daily Build ISOs Are Now Available for Download  9to5Linux

In addition to a Framework Laptop EC driver being prepared for Linux that extends the Chrome OS embedded controller (EC) used by recent Framework Laptops, a ChromeOS EC hardware monitoring (HWMON subsystem) driver has also been revived as a further support extension for Framework laptops on Linux...

ChromeOS EC Hardware Monitoring Driver Being Revived For Framework Laptops  Phoronix

“Ban on AI-Generated Code” — Linux Community Takes Action  Medium

Intel NPU Driver Preparing Hardware Scheduler & Profiling Support  Phoronix

The Intel iVPU accelerator driver changes for the upcoming Linux 6.10 merge window have been submitted for advancing the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) support found since the launch of Meteor Lake with Intel Core Ultra notebook CPUs. For this iVPU/NPU driver in Linux 6.10 are a few notable new features...

The AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver has seen a new patch series preparing enablement of a new hardware intellectual property (IP) block for the first time: the ISP...

For fans of SQLite and/or new database solutions, Limbo is an in-development, open-source OLTP database management system that is compatible with SQLite while written in the Rust programming language and leveraging Linux's IO_uring for async I/O...

Red Hat's Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI offers open-source generative AI innovation  TimesTech

Red Hat Delivers Accessible, Open Source Generative AI Innovation with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI - CRN  CRN.in

Fedora Asahi Remix 40 is another big step forward for Linux on Apple Silicon Macs  Ars Technica

Embracing the Future: The Transition from SysVinit to Systemd in Linux  Linux Journal

FOSS Weekly #24.19: Local AI on Linux, systemd's sudo Replacement  It's FOSS

Things I Recommend Doing After Installing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 'Noble Numbat'  It's FOSS

The first beta of Python 3.13 is now available for testing ahead of its official release later this year...

Pop!_OS' COSMIC Desktop Finishing Up Work On App Store  Phoronix

The developers at System76 working on their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment catering to their in-house, Ubuntu-derived Pop!_OS Linux distribution have provided their latest monthly status update on the desktop effort...