Open-source News

XFS Begins Landing Online Repair, New Release Manager Takes Over

Phoronix - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 07:42
There are some notable changes around the XFS file-system for the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel, including a new release manager taking over duties...

Google Preparing To Rollout Stable Chrome Releases Even Faster

Phoronix - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 05:15
Moving forward Google engineers are working to roll-out new Chrome stable releases even faster...

JetBrains Enabling Wayland Support For IntelliJ-Based IDEs

Phoronix - Thu, 08/31/2023 - 03:34
For those making use of the IntelliJ integrated development environment (IDE), JetBrains has been working to enable native Wayland support...

Linux 6.6 Adds Support For Intel Agilex 5 FPGAs, Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2

Phoronix - Wed, 08/30/2023 - 22:20
The various Arm platform and SoC changes have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window...

AMD Publishes SEV Firmware As Open-Source

Phoronix - Wed, 08/30/2023 - 22:00
While I have been eagerly following the AMD openSIL project for open-source CPU initialization that will eventually replace AGESA, today AMD announced a new open-source firmware drop: the SEV firmware has been made open-source...

AMD Working On New OverDrive GPU Overclocking Controls For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 08/30/2023 - 19:30
AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers are working on a new set of interfaces for user-space to support OverDrive overclocking. While AMD GPU OverDrive overclocking has been supported on Linux for years, the current interface isn't sufficient for all the power/overclocking controls moving forward...

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