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 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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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-s…
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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...
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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
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)
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
These interactive Linux-based games teach everything from basic commands to advanced shell skills, all while keeping you engaged.Haroon Javed (Make Tech Easier)
The Master will easily understand why Garrett has been attacking me since 2012Roy Schestowitz
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 Inte…lxer.com
: 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 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 Linux firewall distro is now available for download with improvements to WireGuard support and other changes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
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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: The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weaknessLiam Proven (The Register)
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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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 Inte…www.phoronix.com
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 wit…
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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 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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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
: You only live once, but regret is foreverThomas Claburn (The Register)
: Chipmaker halts updates and support, urges users to migrate immediatelyRichard Speed (The Register)
The Mozilla Firefox 141.0 release binaries are out today for this monthly update to this cross-platform, open-source web browser.lxer.com
Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan WSI Support For Using Atomic Mode-Setting
A nearly five year old merge request was merged today to Mesa Git for Q4's Mesa 25.3 release. This merge transitions the Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) from using the DRM "legacy" kernel mode-setting APIs over to the modern atomic mode-setting interfaces...
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While we await AMD to officially release ROCm 7.0 as the next major release of their open-source GPU compute stack, out this afternoon is ROCm 6.4.2 as the newest stable point releaselxer.com
The biggest question Fioretti has about Linux distros taking political stances is: do they do more harm than good?Marco Fioretti (FOSS Force)
Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.6, an easy-to-use SD card preparation tool by Raspberry Pi, updates multiple languages and refines SSH and WiFi.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Intel Wildcat Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Upstreamed In Mesa
Intel Linux software engineers have recently been busy working on Wildcat Lake support primarily for the kernel drivers while now that work has been extended to Mesa for the Intel Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV Vulkan drivers...
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Breaking on Friday afternoon was word that Intel is shutting down its Clear Linux project effective immediately after ten years of maintaining this high performance Linux distribution that relentlessly optimized for the best Linux x86_64 performance …lxer.com
AMD ROCm 6.4.2 Released With Official Support For The Radeon RX 7700 XT
While we await AMD to officially release ROCm 7.0 as the next major release of their open-source GPU compute stack, out this afternoon is ROCm 6.4.2 as the newest stable point release. ROCm 6.4.2 expands the officially supported Radeon consumer GPUs as well as bringing various fixes and enhancements to the various libraries and components making up this AMD GPU compute ecosystem…
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