DAMON Self-Tuned Memory Tiering Shows Nice Improvement For Linux Servers
Linux developer SeongJae Park has posted a set of patches for the Linux kernel’s wonderful DAMON code to provide for self-tuned memory tiering that “just works” and is racking up some nice performance wins… ⌘ Read more

Google Chrome Replacing FreeType With Rust-Written Skrifa For Font Handling
The Google Chrome web browser is moving away from the FreeType font rendering library and instead pursuing their Skrifa project that is written in Rust for better memory safety around handling fonts on the web… ⌘ Read more

Miracle-WM 0.5 Released For Mir-Based Wayland Tiling Window Manager
Miracle-WM 0.5 released on Wednesday as their first update of 2025 for this Mir-based Wayland tiling window manager. With this release comes a number of new features and other enhancements… ⌘ Read more

SoftBank Acquiring ARM Server CPU Vendor Ampere Computing
SoftBank Group just announced they will be acquiring Ampere Computing, the leader in ARM64 server processors that has come under increasing pressure with more of the public cloud service providers like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon/AWS turning to their own in-house ARM64 server processor designs… ⌘ Read more

Fedora 43 Hopes To Set An Expectation That Package Builds Are Reproducible
A change proposal filed for the upcoming Fedora Linux 43 development cycles hopes to establish an expectation that RPM package builds for the distribution are reproducible… ⌘ Read more

Fedora 43 Hopes To Set An Expectation That Package Builds Are Reproducible
A change proposal filed for the upcoming Fedora Linux 43 development cycles hopes to establish an expectation that RPM package builds for the distribution are reproducible… ⌘ Read more

GNOME 48 Released With New Default Font, HDR Support, New Audio Player & More
GNOME 48 is officially out as the newest stable release for this open-source desktop that will be powering the likes of Fedora Workstation 42 and Ubuntu 25.04… ⌘ Read more

Another Round Of Rust Compiler Improvements Merged For GCC 15.1
A few days ago there was a batch of 145 patches merged for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release to enhance the Rust “gccrs” front-end. That big set of patches merged the Polonius borrow checker and made other notable improvements. Today another 144 patches for enhancing gccrs were merged ahead of the GCC 15.1 stable release due out in the coming weeks… ⌘ Read more

Intel Wrapping Up Family 18 / Family 19 CPU Model Preparations Ahead Of Linux 6.15
Over the past year Intel has been working to prepare the Linux kernel for the end of the “Family 6” CPU era. There’s been a big rework to the Intel CPU model handling within the Linux kernel given that “Family 6” has been in use since the 1990s and moving forward Intel CPUs will appear in Family 19 like Diamond Rapids along with Family 18 as part of the new CPU identification. Thus a lot of Linux kernel checks need to be reco … ⌘ Read more

Beyond The ROCm Software, AMD Has Been Making Great Strides In Documentation & Robust Containers
AMD recently allowed me some time with their AMD Accelerator Cloud (AAC) leveraging multiple Instinct MI300X accelerators. During this brief opportunity to try out their latest software advancements with the Instinct MI300X and the ROCm compute stack, one of the most striking takeaways was their documentation improvements compared to previous forays into ROCm+Instinct compute. In addition, AMD is now offering m … ⌘ Read more

Intel AVX10 Drops Optional 512-bit: No AVX10 256-bit Only E-Cores In The Future
Intel updated their AVX10 whitepaper and associated open-source compiler patches around this next Advanced Vector Extensions standard… While AVX10 had intended to allow either 256-bit or 612-bit modes depending upon processor capabilities, Intel has dropped the 256-bit-only approach and going for 512-bit everywhere. Thus it would seem to indicate that Intel E cores of the future will properly support AVX 512-bit operation!.. ⌘ Read more

DRM Sync Object Optimizations Show Minor Benefit On The Steam Deck
Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia has been working on some optimizations to the DRM synchronization object “drm_syncobj” code for slightly more efficient use on the CPU side… ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA 570.133.07 Linux Driver Released With A Few Fixes
In addition to NVIDIA’s GTC conference going on right now, they also released today an updated R570 Linux driver build… ⌘ Read more

Asahi Lina Pausing Work On Apple GPU Linux Driver Development
Following Hector Martin stepping down from the Asahi Linux project that he founded for bringing Linux to Apple Silicon hardware, Asahi Lina announced today that she is pausing work on all of the Apple GPU driver development she had been pursuing for Asahi Linux with the open-source DRM kernel driver as well as Mesa contributions… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu Developers Discuss Abandoning Mailing Lists For Discourse
Ubuntu developers decided a few months back to switch from IRC to Matrix for real-time communication needs. The newest fundamental shift being discussed by Ubuntu developers is shifting from mailing list discussions to Ubuntu Discourse for mailing list like written communications… ⌘ Read more

BLAKE3 1.7 Turns To Intel’s oneTBB For Parallelizing C Code - Similar Perf To Rust+Rayon
BLAKE3 as the cryptographic hashing function that is much faster than the likes of SHA-1/SHA-1 while being more secure than SHA-1 and MD5 is out with a new feature update. BLAKE3 v1.7 is now available for the official C and Rust code as the reference implementations to this cryptographic hash function… ⌘ Read more

Final Draft Of PCI Express 7.0 Specification Published
The full PCI Express 7.0 specification remains on track for publishing later this year while out today is version 0.9 of the specification as the planned final draft… ⌘ Read more

Blender 4.4 Released With Vulkan Improvements & AMD HIP RT No Longer Experimental
Blender 4.4 is out today as the newest version of this incredible, open-source 3D modeling software… ⌘ Read more

OpenJDK Java 24 Released With Garbage Collector Improvements, Deprecating x86 32-bit
Along with the GraalVM 24 update today, Oracle has formally released OpenJDK Java 24. JDK 24 is now out under general availability status with many new features and changes… ⌘ Read more

Fedora 42 Beta Released With Countless Improvements
The beta of Fedora Linux 42 is out this morning with countless improvements over the prior release. There is the near-final GNOME 48 desktop packages and a whole host of other software updates for living on the leading-edge of open-source software as well as boasting a number of new innovations that were made by Red Hat engineers… ⌘ Read more

Linux Kernel’s Zstd Code Gets A Co-Maintainer
Hopefully leading to more timely updates to the Zstd compression code within the Linux kernel is a decision to add on a co-maintainer of the in-kernel Zstandard code… ⌘ Read more

ARM64 SMT Run-Time Controls Staged Ahead Of Linux 6.15
If you happen to have a rare ARM64 platform with Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) support, with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel there is set to finally be run-time SMT controls similar to the functionality long available on x86/x86_64 processors… ⌘ Read more

Theora 1.2 Beta Released After 16 Years
Theora is Xiph.Org’s first released video codec designed for use with Ogg. Theora started out based on the VP3 codec. It’s been over 16 years since the release of the libtheora 1.0 reference software implementation and tagged this week was libtheora 1.2 beta… ⌘ Read more

ollama 0.6.2 Released WIth Support For AMD Strix Halo
The ollama open-source software that makes it easy to run Llama 3, DeepSeek-R1, Gemma 3, and other large language models is out with its newest release. The ollama software makes it easy to leverage the llama.cpp back-end for running a variety of LLMs and enjoying convenient integration with other desktop software… ⌘ Read more

Nginx Rejects Dark Mode Support For Error Pages
A pull request was opened last week for adding web browser dark mode support for Nginx error pages. Unfortunate for those who prefer browsing in dark mode and then shocked when hitting Nginx-served 404 error pages or similar, the change has been rejected… ⌘ Read more

Big Rust Update Merged For GCC 15 - Lands The Polonius Borrow Checker
Some 145 patches for the Rust “gccrs” front-end were posted today and subsequently merged to GCC Git ahead of the upcoming GCC 15.1 stable release… ⌘ Read more

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D Linux Performance
Last week AMD began shipping the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D Zen 5 3D V-Cache desktop processors. We delivered Ryzen 9 9950X3D benchmarks and review for launch day but AMD sadly didn’t seed any review samples of the 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X3D processor. Being curious about its performance for Linux developers, enthusiasts, and technical computing workloads, I bought the $600 USD processor on launch day for delivering some Linux benchmarks. Here is a look at the Ryzen 9 9900 … ⌘ Read more

Intel XeSS SDK 2.0.1 Published With New XeSS 2 Features, Still Closed-Source
The Intel XeSS SDK 2.0.1 was published today to GitHub as their first XeSS 2.0 release being available there and their first released version since the XeSS SDK 1.3.1 update from last July. While on GitHub, the XeSS SDK remains closed-source and Windows-focused… ⌘ Read more

Raspberry Pi RP2350 Now Available For Purchase, Stacked Memory Variant Coming Soon
Raspberry Pi last year announced the RP2350 second-generation micro-controller that debuted within their $5 Raspberry Pi Pico 2 single board computer. Today they announced the RP2350 micro-controller is now available to purchase for your own micro-controller needs… ⌘ Read more

FFmpeg Lands Vulkan Improvements With Initial FFV1 Vulkan Decoder
FFmpeg developer Lynne has landed a number of Vulkan Video improvements today into FFmpeg Git. In addition, there is now an FFV1 Vulkan-based decoder… ⌘ Read more

FreeDesktop.org GitLab Begins Its Week Long Cloud/Server Migration
It’s going to be a light week for development of the Mesa graphics drivers, Wayland, various other X.Org related components, and the dozens of other open-source projects that rely on the FreeDesktop.org GitLab for facilitating merge requests, CI testing, and related infrastructure. The FreeDesktop.org server/cloud migration has begun and may last until next weekend… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 25.04 To Enable NVIDIA Dynamic Boost By Default
The upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 Linux OS release will be enabling NVIDIA Dynamic Boost support by default when using their packaged driver support on capable laptops… ⌘ Read more

GIMP 3.0 Stable Being Released As Long-Awaited Update To Adobe Photoshop Alternative
After some 13 years of writing about GIMP 3.0 development, today is finally the day: GIMP 3.0 has been tagged and is in the process of being released… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.14-rc7 Released With v6.14 Final Expected Next Weekend
Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.14-rc7 kernel with expectations of releasing Linux 6.14 stable next weekend… ⌘ Read more

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9 Brings New Features For NVIDIA GPUs With Valve’s Steam Play
Following the DXVK 2.6 release from a few days ago for Direct3D 8/9/10/11 atop Vulkan and ahead of the upcoming Proton 10.0 release for further enhancing Valve’s Steam Play, out today is DXVK-NVAPI 0.9 as the NVIDIA NVAPI integration for use with DXVK… ⌘ Read more

Arm Changing Linux Default To Costly “KPTI” Mitigation For Some Newer CPUs
For some newer Arm core designs, Arm is changing the Linux kernel to defaulting to enabling Kernel Page Table Isolation “KPTI” if not running on a new firmware version in order to properly mitigate a recently disclosed CPU security issue. This change has been queued up and is expected to change the default with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel… ⌘ Read more

Huawei Matebook E Go Laptops To Be Better Supported With Linux 6.15
For those that happen to have a Huawei Matebook E Go 2-in-1 laptop or have been considering these ARM laptops, the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel will be better supporting these devices thanks to a new driver set to be merged… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.14-rc7 To Support A Few More Gaming Controllers
Ahead of the Linux 6.14-rc7 kernel release later today, a set of input subsystem updates were merged overnight that add in support for a few more gaming controllers… ⌘ Read more

One Line Of Code Optimizes F2FS Performance For Small Multi-Threaded Writes
An SK engineer has posted a Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) driver optimization for Linux that one line of code changed is helping with performance especially for multi-threaded workloads involving small writes to SSD storage… ⌘ Read more

Linux Kernel’s Rust Support Being Expanded To HID Drivers
A set of patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week that are working on initial Rust programming language abstractions for enabling HID device driver development… ⌘ Read more

Debian 12.10 Released With More Bugs Fixed & Security Updates
Debian 12.10 is out today as the newest routine media refresh for the Debian 12 “Bookworm” Linux distribution release… ⌘ Read more

Paid XR Desktop For GNOME “Breezy Desktop” In Open Beta With Multi-Display Support
The much anticipated GNOME 48 is releasing this coming week as a big step forward for this popular Linux desktop environment. In addition there are a lot of other interesting projects continuing in tandem around GNOME. This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue to highlight some of these most recent GNOME-related changes… ⌘ Read more

ReactOS Can Now Boot With The Windows Audio Stack… But No Sound Due To Bugs
It’s been a while since having any news to share on ReactOS as the open-source operating system working to re-implement the Microsoft Windows APIs/ABIs for enjoying Windows apps/games and drivers on this platform. Today though they are celebrating a new milestone of being able to boot with the Windows audio stack… ⌘ Read more

Bcachefs Racing To Track Down New Upgrade Bug In Linux 6.14
The Linux 6.14 stable kernel is likely to be released in just over one week and thus leading to Bcachefs file-system developers racing to track down a new bug that’s been reported by a user on upgrading to the new kernel… ⌘ Read more

OpenRazer 3.10.1 Adds Support For A Few More Razer Devices On Linux
OpenRazer 3.10 released last month with support for new Razer devices and a wealth of other enhancements for these open-source, community-developed Razer kernel drivers for Linux. Out today is OpenRazer 3.10.1 with some fixes as well as supporting a few more Razer products… ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.4 Adding Support For P010 Formatted Videos, KWin Improving Pixel Perfection
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekend update to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have been merged over the past week… ⌘ Read more

Intel Compute Runtime Publishes Initial Panther Lake Xe3 GPU OpenCL/L0 Support
Intel engineers today released Compute Runtime 25.09.32961.5 as their newest update to this open-source compute stack for Windows and Linux systems providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero GPU compute support. Most notable in this release is rolling out initial “pre-release” support for next-gen Core Ultra “Panther Lake” SoCs with integrated Xe3 graphics… ⌘ Read more

Radeon RX 9070 Fan Speed Reporting & Other Last Minute AMD Changes For Linux 6.15
Additional AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver updates were sent out today for collecting ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window. As we are late in the cycle, most of the new AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver changes are fixes, but there are some minor feature changes particularly for the new RDNA4 GPUs… ⌘ Read more

Git 2.49 Released With Faster Packing, Rust Foreign Language Interface
Git 2.49 is out today as the latest feature update for this widely-used distributed version control system… ⌘ Read more

Mediatek DRM Driver Adding MT8365 “Genio 350” Support In Linux 6.15
On top of the big features for the Intel graphics driver code and new AMD hardware support coming for Linux 6.15 along with the initial NOVA driver stub, the smaller Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers have also been lining up their changes for this next kernel version. With the Mediatek DRM driver for Linux 6.15 it’s set to add MT8365 SoC support, perhaps better known as the Genio 350… ⌘ Read more

Arm Shows Off Great Performance Results For PGO & BOLT With LLVM/Clang
Arm software engineer Peter Waller has shared some insightful benchmarks of the impact of PGO, Context Sensitive PGO (CSPGO), and BOLT optimizations across various classes of Neoverse processor designs… ⌘ Read more

Glibc’s Hyperbolic Functions Score Nice Speed-Ups With FMA Optimizations
The GNU C Library’s tanh and other hyperbolic functions are now as much as 14~17% faster on modern Intel and AMD CPUs with the FMA instruction support for fused multiply-add operations… ⌘ Read more

Mesa RADV/RadeonSI Now Support RDNA4 GPUs With Radeon GPU Profiler
Landing in Mesa 25.1 today for the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI OpenGL drivers is Radeon GPU Profiler “RGP” integration for RDNA4/GFX12 GPUs with the newly-launched Radeon RX 9070 series… ⌘ Read more

Free95 0.2 Alpha Released As Open-Source Windows Compatible OS
While ReactOS is widely known as the open-source operating system working on maintaining software and driver compatibility with Microsoft Windows, there’s another new one in the field and it’s Free95. The Free95 project is working to become an open-source, Windows-compatible operating system. Version 0.2 Alpha of Free95 was released today for testing… ⌘ Read more

Linux Patch Posted For Syncing The Kernel Code With Zstd 1.5.7
The Zstandard (Zstd) compression code sadly hasn’t been regularly synced with the latest upstream Linux kernel sources but a patch posted this evening goes ahead and syncs the in-kernel Zstd code against the Zstd 1.5.7 state… ⌘ Read more

Shotcut 25.03 Beta Released For Advancing This Free Software Video Editor
Shotcut 25.03 Beta is out today as the newest test release for this open-source video editing solution… ⌘ Read more

DXVK 2.6 Released With NVIDIA Reflex Support, Numerous Improvements
Released today ahead of a potential Proton 10.0 release for re-basing Valve’s Steam Play tech atop the recent Wine 10.0 release, DXVK 2.6 is out today as the newest iteration of this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for enhancing the Linux gaming experience… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Releases March 2025 Update To Azure Linux 3.0
Microsoft is out today with their newest monthly update to their in-house Linux distribution, Azure Linux, with all available package and security updates through this month’s Patch Tuesday… ⌘ Read more

Rusticl Wins: Mesa Officially Deprecates Clover OpenCL
With today’s Mesa 25.1-devel Git code, the “Clover” OpenCL Gallium3D state tracker is officially deprecated. Clover will be eventually removed with the Rust-written Rusticl OpenCL driver being modern. much more actively maintained, and all-around a better option than the aging Clover code… ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA RTX Remix 1.0 Released With DXVK DLSS4 & Neural Radiance Cache
NVIDIA’s RTX Remix software for remastering classic games with a variety of visual enhancements reached version 1.0 today with some additional big improvements… ⌘ Read more

AMDVLK 2025.Q1.3 Brings Radeon RX 9070 Series Support
AMD today released AMDVLK 2025.Q1.3 as their official open-source Vulkan API driver for Linux systems. With this update is support for the Navi48 GPU with the recently-launched Radeon RX 9070 RDNA4 graphics cards… ⌘ Read more

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Gets Patch To Help With Pixelflut Competition
A lot of Linux 6.15 intended patches by Intel for their kernel graphics driver have accumulated like enabling Xe3 “dirty rect” mode, SVM for the Xe driver, EU stall sampling, GuC power profile tuning, and more. Yesterday another drm-intel-gt-next pull request was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window… ⌘ Read more

Zed Editor Rolls Out Native Git Integration
The Zed Editor as a modern IDE-focused text editor for programmers and developed by some of the Atom editor creators continues on quite a roll. Over the past year Zed has rolled out native Linux builds, added various AI features and also began open-sourcing its own edit prediction model. For enhancing the developer experience in more basic form, Zed has now added native Git integration… ⌘ Read more

Proposed Linux Patches Would Allow Using Linux Kernel’s libperf From Python
A set of patches from IBM would introduce a C extension module for the Linux kernel’s libperf code to allow usage from the Python programming language… ⌘ Read more

Red Hat’s Stratis 3.8 Delivers New Features
It’s been a while since a new Stratis feature release for this Red Hat led effort to enhance local storage management on Linux systems. Stratis was born out of a desire to provide Btrfs/ZFS-style features atop the mature XFS file-system and the Device Mapper (DM) subsystem and they have continued pushing that goal for RHEL and other Linux environments… ⌘ Read more

Lip-Bu Tan Named As Next Intel CEO
Intel announced a short time ago that Lip-Bu Tan has been named as the company’s next CEO… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 25.10 Looks To Make Use Of Rust Coreutils & Other Rust System Components
Plans have been drafted to begin using more Rust-rewritten Linux system components within the Ubuntu 25.10 release due out later this year and ahead of next year’s all important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. Among the Rust components being planned for use in Ubuntu 25.10 is the Rust Coreutils “uutils” software… ⌘ Read more

AMD’s 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver For Squeezing More Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance
Merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel was the AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for being able to influence the kernel’s scheduling decisions on AMD processors where only a subset of CCDs have the larger 3D V-Cache. With this new driver users can communicate their cache vs. frequency preference for influencing where new tasks are first placed if on the CCD with the larger L3 cache or with the higher frequency potential. Here is a l … ⌘ Read more

OpenSSL 3.5 Alpha 1 Released With Server-Side QUIC
OpenSSL 3.5 Alpha 1 is out today as the first development milestone on the path to releasing OpenSSL 3.5.0 in April… ⌘ Read more

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D Linux Benchmarks Forthcoming
Today marks the retail availability of the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D processors. At the top of the hour when the new AMD Zen 5 3D V-Cache processors went on sale, I found both the 9900X3D and 9950X3D in-stock and at MSRP pricing… Less than a half hour later, the 9950X3D is now out of stock while as of writing the 9900X3D remains in-stock at major Internet retailers at its $599 price point… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 Set To Include Better Handling For Intel P Or E Core Only Mitigations
A set of patches from Intel for utilizing the CPU type for CPU matching as part of the x86 mitigation handling is likely to be part of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel. These patches are intended for helping with CPU security mitigations on Intel Core hybrid processors where there are security vulnerabilities affecting only P cores or only E cores but not both sets of CPU cores present in the system… ⌘ Read more

KDE’s KWin Wayland & X11 Code Are Now Split, KWin_X11 To Be Maintained Until Plasma 7
Yesterday marked the milestone of KWin’s kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland code being split up. The Wayland and X11 code for the KWin compositor is now separate from each other but can be co-installable for systems wanting to support both X11 and Wayland environments… ⌘ Read more

Haiku OS Wrapping Up Its New malloc & Various Performance Optimizations
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project is out with a new monthly progress report to highlight its latest development accomplishments… ⌘ Read more

Jonathan Riddell Stepping Down From KDE Plasma Release Management
Longtime KDE developer who has served with Plasma release management duties, KDE Neon operating system development, and former Kubuntu release manager, among other roles, announced he will be stepping down from his Plasma release management duties… ⌘ Read more

GStreamer 1.26 Released With Vulkan Improvements, H.266/VVC + LCEVC + JPEG-XS Support
GStreamer 1.26 is out today as the newest major feature release for this widely-used open-source multimedia framework… ⌘ Read more

Intel Overclocking Watchdog Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel
An unexpected patch on the Linux kernel mailing list today by a Siemens engineer is implementing a driver for the Intel Over-Clocking Watchdog… ⌘ Read more

Nouveau On NVIDIA Turing GPUs & Newer Will Now Prefer NVK+Zink For OpenGL
As a sign of the times for both the NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa and the generic Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan code, with next quarter’s Mesa 25.1 release when using a NVIDIA Turing GPU or newer with the Nouveau driver stack it will now default to using Zink atop NVK for OpenGL rather than the existing NVC0 Gallium3D driver… ⌘ Read more

CrossOver 25.0 Announced - Built Atop Wine 10.0 For Linux & macOS
CodeWeavers that continues to be the largest patron to the development of the open-source Wine software announced today CrossOver 25.0 as the newest version of their commercial downstream… ⌘ Read more

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Delivers Excellent Performance For Linux Developers, Creators & Technical Computing
Ahead of tomorrow’s availability of the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPUs in retail channels, today the embargo lifts on being able to deliver Ryzen 9 9950X3D reviews and performance benchmarks. Simply put, for Linux creators, developers, enthusiasts, and others running technical computing workloads and other similar tasks on their desktop, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D with its 16 cores / 32 threads and 144MB … ⌘ Read more

GNOME Dash To Panel Extension Development Being “Passed On”
The GNOME Dash To Panel extension that allows moving the dash into the GNOME main panel has proven popular with GNOME desktop users for an integrated icon taskbar and status panel on GNOME Shell. Unfortunately though one of the main developers to Charles Gagnon is “passing on” development of the extension moving forward… ⌘ Read more

COBOL Language Frontend Merged For GCC 15 Compiler
A big albeit late feature landed today for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler… The COBOL programming language front-end has been merged!.. ⌘ Read more

Servo Makes Improvements To Its Demo Browser & Embedding API
The Servo open-source web engine is out with its February 2025 status update to highlight work on the engine itself as well as its demo browser and embed API capabilities for using Servo by other applications… ⌘ Read more

AMD Announces The EPYC Embedded 9005 Series
Since last year we have continued to be impressed by the AMD EPYC 9005 “Turin” server processors while today they are announcing the EPYC Embedded 9005 line-up. The AMD EPYC Embedded 9005 Series processors are much like the EPYC 9005 series processors but with a few differences… ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD 13.5 Released With Device Driver Updates & Fixes
FreeBSD 13.5 is out today as the final update to the FreeBSD 13 series. Users should begin making plans for upgrading to the current FreeBSD 14 stable series or eyeing the future FreeBSD 15.0 release… ⌘ Read more

OpenZFS 2.3.1 Released With Linux 6.13 Compatibility, Many Fixes
Building off the big OpenZFS 2.3 feature release from January, OpenZFS 2.3.1 is out today with Linux 6.13 kernel compatibility as well as various bug fixes… ⌘ Read more

Mir 2.20 Brings Focus Stealing Prevention, Workaround/Quirk Fixes
Mir 2.20 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical-developed Wayland compositor and set of libraries for developing Wayland-based shells… ⌘ Read more

Box64 0.3.4 Released: Faster & Steam Now Runs With Box32 On ARM64
Box64 0.3.4 is out today as the newest version of this open-source Linux x86_64 user-space emulator that runs on ARM64 as well as RISC-V 64-bit and LoongArch 64-bit systems… ⌘ Read more

DRM User-Space API For Apple Silicon Graphics Posted For Review
While the Asahi AGX Gallium3D and Honeykrisp Vulkan drivers continue to be developed within mainline Mesa for supporting OpenGL and Vulkan with Apple Silicon M1/M2 SoCs, the necessary Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver has yet to be upstreamed. But hitting the mailing list today is a patch getting the user-space API (UAPI) with more eyes on as the precursor to the actual kernel driver that is currently held up by waiting on Rust kernel abst … ⌘ Read more

AMD EPYC 9845 Makes For A Persuasive Upgrade With Performance & Energy Efficiency
With the new AMD EPYC 9005 processors there are SKUs up to 500 Watt with the likes of the EPYC 9965 flagship at 192 cores for Turin Dense cores or 128 Turin classic cores with the EPYC 9755. But for those looking at upgrading from an existing EPYC 9004 series server and bound by the motherboard BIOS support and/or cooling/power capacity, 400 Watts is a sweet spot. Many of the existing platforms designed for EPYC 9004 Bergamo/Genoa(X) and now … ⌘ Read more

AMD EPYC 9845 Makes For A Persuasive Upgrade With Performance & Energy Efficiency
With the new AMD EPYC 9005 processors there are SKUs up to 500 Watt with the likes of the EPYC 9965 flagship at 192 cores for Turin Dense cores or 128 Turin classic cores with the EPYC 9755. But for those looking at upgrading from an existing EPYC 9004 series server and bound by the motherboard BIOS support and/or cooling/power capacity, 400 Watts is a sweet spot. Many of the existing platforms designed for EPYC 9004 Bergamo/Genoa(X) and now … ⌘ Read more

Fedora 43 Looking At RPM 6.0, JPEG-XL Wallpapers & Other Early Change Proposals
Fedora 42 isn’t even releasing until next month but a number of early change proposals have been filed for the upcoming Fedora 43 development cycle that will be released this autumn… ⌘ Read more

ASUS PRIME X670E-PRO WIFI & AMD BC-250 Sensor Monitoring With Linux 6.15
The hardware monitoring “HWMON” subsystem updates are building up ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window opening up later this month. Here is a look at a few of the HWMON changes worth mentioning to be found in this next version of the Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more

Intel Preps Xe3’s “Dirty Rect” Feature For Linux 6.15
Along with other exciting Intel kernel graphics driver updates submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window, another batch of drm-intel-next code was sent out today to DRM-Next. This pull request is mostly around bug fixing and other low-level work but it does provide a new “dirty rect” feature being introduced with next-gen Intel Xe3 graphics… ⌘ Read more

Linux’s ARM Apple Support Now Has Another Code Reviewer
In hopefully helping Asahi Linux reduce their downstream patch burden and helping to enhance the overall flow of new Apple Silicon related code into the mainline Linux kernel, another developer has agreed to serve as an official code reviewer over the ARM Apple bits within the Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more

The New Rust-Written NVIDIA “NOVA” Driver Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15
For quite a while Red Hat engineers have been developing the open-source, Rust-written NOVA driver to in effect serve as the successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau driver that isn’t too actively developed in more recent times. But unlike Nouveau’s extensive range of NVIDIA GPU support, the NOVA driver is intentionally limited to the RTX 20 “Turing” GPUs and newer where there is the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) with the firmware su … ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.14-rc6 Released With More Panther Lake Additions, AMD Microcode Signing Fix
Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.14-rc6 a few minutes ago as we work toward the stable Linux 6.14 kernel release later in March… ⌘ Read more

AMD Preparing “High Precision” Mode For Upcoming Instinct MI350X (GFX950)
On Friday AMD sent out another batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver feature patches destined for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle. One notable feature in this late pull request is introducing a new “high precision” mode to be found with the GFX950 target, which is believed to be the upcoming Instinct MI350X series… ⌘ Read more

Intel Preps Linux For “Platform Temperature Control” With Lunar Lake & Panther Lake SoCs
Intel’s new Platform Temperature Control (PTC) feature is a hardware-based solution to manage skin and/or board temperatures of a device. Platform Temperature Control will adjust the SoC power/performance if the temperature thresholds are exceeded, which are programmed by the device manufacturer. But new Linux patches posted allow controlling the Intel Platform Temperature Control feature found with new Core Ultra Lunar … ⌘ Read more

ALGOL 68 Compiler Front-End Not Being Merged Into GCC At This Point
ALGOL 68 is an imperative programming language that’s more than a half-century old and went on to inspire and influence other programming languages. It has its place in programming language history but a recently published compiler front-end for ALGOL 68 has been decided for now at least not to be upstreamed into the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)… ⌘ Read more

Intel NPU Firmware Files Upstreamed To linux-firmware.git
For two years now the Intel IVPU accelerator driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that’s part of the Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” CPUs and newer. Only this week though was the firmware for the Intel NPUs now upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository… ⌘ Read more