Btrfs Preps Performance Improvements & Experimental Large Folios For Linux 6.17
With the Linux 6.16 stable kernel potentially being released this coming Sunday, the Linux 6.17 merge window is quickly approaching. Btrfs maintainer and SUSE engineer David Sterba sent out the Btrfs pull request already of new feature code for this copy-on-write file-system in Linux 6.17...
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OVMF Debug Log Driver Slated For Linux 6.17 To Help Analyze UEFI VM Boot Issues
For those making use of Open Virtual Machine Firmware (OVMF) such as for UEFI booting of VMs with KVM+QEMU, the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is set to offer a convenient new driver to help in debugging the system boot when needed...
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Firefox 142 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here's What to Expect - 9to5Linux
Firefox 142 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with various new features and improvements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Pogocache 1.0 Released: Claims Better Performance Than Memcache, Valkey & Redis
Pogocache 1.0 was released today as a fast open-source caching software that aims for low latency and great CPU efficiency. Pogocache supports Memcache / Valkey / Redis / HTTP / Postgres wire protocols while claiming to offer much better throughput and lower latency than these caching alternatives...
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Python 3.14 RC1 Released With Free-Threaded Python Officially Supported
The first release candidate of Python 3.14 is now available for testing as what will be this year's big feature update to this popular scripting language.lxer.com
Cloud Hypervisor 47 Provides Nicer Error Messages
Cloud Hypervisor is the open-source, Rust-based VMM started originally by Intel engineers but under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation has evolved into a nice multi-vendor initiative with the likes of Microsoft, Cyberus, Arm, and others all contributing. Even with Intel's cutbacks due to their ongoing corporate restructuring, the Cloud Hypervisor project is thriving as a multi-vendor open-sβ¦
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Cloud Hypervisor 47 Provides Nicer Error Messages
Cloud Hypervisor is the open-source, Rust-based VMM started originally by Intel engineers but under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation has evolved into a nice multi-vendor initiative with the likes of Microsoft, Cyberus, Arm, and others all contβ¦www.phoronix.com
Arm Publishes Open-Source Accelerator Driver For Ethos-U65/85 NPUs
The newest open-source Linux kernel driver being worked on for the growing accelerator "accel" subsystem is a new hardware driver courtesy of Arm for enabling their Ethos U65 and U85 NPUs...
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Arm Publishes Open-Source Accelerator Driver For Ethos-U65/85 NPUs
The newest open-source Linux kernel driver being worked on for the growing accelerator 'accel' subsystem is a new hardware driver courtesy of Arm for enabling their Ethos U65 and U85 NPUs.www.phoronix.com
Thunderbird 141 Arrives with Archive Button, OpenPGP Expiry Warnings
Mozilla Thunderbird 141 open-source email client is out now with a new Archive button, better OpenPGP key handling, and a wide range of bug fixes.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
FreeBSD 15.0 Aims To Have A KDE Desktop Install Option
The crew working on enhancing the FreeBSD laptop support is hoping to have an install option within the installer of FreeBSD 15 that will easily provide a KDE Plasma based desktop environment.lxer.com
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Learn Linux Fast by Playing These Fun and Interactive Games - Make Tech Easier
These interactive Linux-based games teach everything from basic commands to advanced shell skills, all while keeping you engaged.Haroon Javed (Make Tech Easier)
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Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media
The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optical media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Inteβ¦lxer.com
GitHub command palette wins stay of execution after dev pushback
: Fans say low usage no surprise when obscure but beloved feature disabled by defaultTim Anderson (The Register)
FreeBSD 15.0 Aims To Have A KDE Desktop Install Option
The crew working on enhancing the FreeBSD laptop support is hoping to have an install option within the installer of FreeBSD 15 that will easily provide a KDE Plasma based desktop environment...
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Google Debuts OSS Rebuild Project
Google launches the OSS Rebuild project to verify open source packages and combat supply chain attacks through reproducible builds.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 196 Improves WireGuard Support, Console Graphics Stack - 9to5Linux
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 196 Linux firewall distro is now available for download with improvements to WireGuard support and other changes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit to Launch in Mid-August with 2070 TFLOPS AI Performance, Priced at $3499
The Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit is an upcoming high-performance platform built for next-generation humanoid robotics, real-time sensor fusion, and generative AI at the edge.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Python 3.14 RC1 Released With Free-Threaded Python Officially Supported
The first release candidate of Python 3.14 is now available for testing as what will be this year's big feature update to this popular scripting language...
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Arch Linux users told to purge Firefox forks after AUR malware scare
: The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weaknessLiam Proven (The Register)
Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Zstd Initrd, Updated Compiler Toolchains & More
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week voted to approve a number of new features/changes for the upcoming Fedora 43 release.lxer.com
Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media
The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optimal media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Intel-based Macs as release-blocking...
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Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media
The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optimal media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Inteβ¦www.phoronix.com
Fwupd 2.0.13 Released with Faster Startup and Lower Memory Use
Fwupd 2.0.13 Linux firmware update tool speeds up startup by 60%, lowers memory use, and adds support for new MediaTek, HP, and Logitech devices.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Apple Silicon SoC/DT Changes Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.17
Sven Peter today sent out all of the Apple SoC driver and DeviceTree (DT) updates aiming for the soon-to-happen Linux 6.17 merge window...
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A Number Of Problems Make Debian & Other Linux Distros A Pain On Snapdragon X Laptops
While downstream Ubuntu is the most popular Linux option for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered "Windows on Arm" laptops, that's because of their concept images containing a number of "hacked packages" to lead to a decent user experience. But for upstream Debian Linux the prospects of running it on Snapdragon X Elite/Plus laptops is less than ideal witβ¦
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A Number Of Problems Make Debian & Other Linux Distros A Pain On Snapdragon X Laptops
While downstream Ubuntu is the most popular Linux option for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered 'Windows on Arm' laptops, that's because of their concept images containing a number of 'hacked packages' to lead to a decent user experiencewww.phoronix.com
Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Zstd Initrd, Updated Compiler Toolchains & More
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week voted to approve a number of new features/changes for the upcoming Fedora 43 release...
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AMDGPU LLVM Backend Flips On "True16" Mode For All RDNA3 GPUs
A late change to the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end that may help efforts particularly for the ROCm compute support on RDNA3 hardware is finally merging support for using true 16-bit instructions and registers on all RDNA3 GPUs...
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Arm Preparing Support For Latest Mali GPUs With Panthor Open-Source Driver
Arm engineer Karunika Choo has been leading the effort to enable support for the latest Mali GPUs within the open-source and upstream "Panthor" DRM kernel graphics driver for Linux. This work includes being able to enable the latest Mali 5th Gen GPUs on this open-source graphics driver...
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Arm Preparing Support For Latest Mali GPUs With Panthor Open-Source Driver
Arm engineer Karunika Choo has been leading the effort to enable support for the latest Mali GPUs within the open-source and upstream 'Panthor' DRM kernel graphics driver for Linuxwww.phoronix.com
Fwupd 2.0.13 Released With New Hardware Support, Numerous Fixes
LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today announced the availability of Fwupd 2.0.13 for handling firmware updates on modern Linux systems...
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NVIDIA Makes More Hopper & Blackwell Header Files Open-Source
Last week NVIDIA open-sourced 12k lines of C header files for Blackwell GPUs to help in the open-source driver efforts, namely for Nouveau / NVK and the in-development NOVA Rust driverlxer.com
Cursor AI YOLO mode lets coding assistant run wild, security firm warns
: You only live once, but regret is foreverThomas Claburn (The Register)
Clear Linux OS terminated as Intel trims the fat
: Chipmaker halts updates and support, urges users to migrate immediatelyRichard Speed (The Register)
Firefox 141 Release Brings Lower RAM Usage On Linux
The Mozilla Firefox 141.0 release binaries are out today for this monthly update to this cross-platform, open-source web browser.lxer.com
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