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Initial Freeze Dates Announced For Debian 13.0 "Trixie"
With Debian 13 due out in the coming months, the Debian 13 artwork/theme was recently announced as well as the Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 release. The latest is the freeze dates for Debian 13.0 being announced today...
2025-01-22 19:14
Intel Calls For More Modular PC Designs, Easier Component Replacement/Upgrades
In an Intel blog post today they outlined their desire for a more modular PC design to enhance repairability and reduce e-waste. It's very much along similar lines of the Framework Computer upgradeable and easily serviceable laptops. With some luck hop...
2025-01-22 15:42
Arch Linux Installer Adds Wayfire As A Desktop Option, Btrfs Improvements
Archinstall 3.0.2 was just tagged as the newest version of this quick and easy, text-based installer for the Arch Linux operating system...
2025-01-22 14:10
Free Software Foundation Marking 40 Years Old With A New Logo
In October it will mark 40 years since the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded by Richard Stallman. In marking forty years of supporting the free software movement, they have been running a logo contest to memorialize the milestone. Today that n...
2025-01-22 13:12
AMD Radeon On Linux 6.13 + Mesa 25.0-devel vs. NVIDIA R565 Linux Graphics/Gaming Performance
Ahead of the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series graphics "Blackwell" and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 series "RDNA4" later in the quarter, I figured it would be worthwhile having a dedicated article looking at the latest upstream Linux graphics/gaming per...
2025-01-22 12:00
AMD Announces The AMDGPU Composition Stack "ACS" For Advanced Linux Desktop Features
An unexpected surprise today are AMD Linux software engineers announcing a new project a bit further outside the scope of their open-source graphics drivers... The AMDGPU Composition Stack "ACS" is for delivering new advanced features atop Wayland for ...
2025-01-22 10:12
Very Promising Linux Patch Optimizes TLB Flushes During Page Reclamation
Google engineer Vinay Banakar sent out a patch this week for the Linux kernel's memory management code to optimize TLB flushes during page reclaim and are showing very promising results...
2025-01-22 10:01
Linux's KUnit Will Now Default To Using Hardware Acceleration For Faster Testing
Surprisingly a change not made years ago, the Linux Kernel Unit Testing "KUnit" framework with the Linux 6.14 kernel is set to use hardware acceleration by default for faster testing where available...
2025-01-22 08:51
Linux 6.14 Working To Make It Less Painful Debugging Early Boot Issues
Linux kernel developers are working to make it easier to debug early boot issues such as Kexec failures as currently dealing with such situations can be a frustrating and time consuming headache for figuring out the problems prior to the kernel being f...
2025-01-22 06:55
AMD Releases Orochi 3.0 For HIP & CUDA API Switching At Run-Time
Back in April 2022 was the announcement by AMD's GPUOpen team of Orochi as a library for HIP/CUDA API run-time switching. Making use of Orochi allows for dynamically targeting either AMD HIP or NVIDIA CUDA at run-time to ease the distribution/usage of ...
2025-01-22 06:35
LLVM Lands Initial Support For IBM SystemZ "arch15" Target: IBM z17 / Telum II
Merged this week into the LLVM compiler codebase is initial support for "arch15" within the SystemZ back-end. Arch15 likely correlates to the IBM z17 mainframes with Telum II processors...
2025-01-22 06:22
Important Changes To Intel TDX Coming With Linux 6.14
Important code restructuring to the Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) code is landing for the Linux 6.14 kernel to make it more robust moving forward and preparing for future features around this confidential computing / trusted execution environment...
2025-01-22 06:14
Qt 6.9 Toolkit Beta 2 Now Available For Testing
The second of three planned betas for the Qt 6.9 cross-platform UI toolkit is now available for testing ahead of the planned stable release in March...
2025-01-22 05:57
FreeBSD 15.0 Aims For Reproducible Builds / Zero-Trust Builds With Fresh Funding
The FreeBSD Foundation has begun receiving funding to work on zero-trust builds / reproducible builds. The work will hopefully be wrapped up in time for the major FreeBSD 15.0 release...
2025-01-21 20:36
SDL 3 Officially Released With New APIs, Better HiDPI & Improved Audio Handling
In addition to the Wine 10.0 stable release today, making the day very exciting as well for Linux gamers is the first official SDL 3.0 release!..
2025-01-21 17:05
Btrfs Changes Land In Linux 6.14 With New RAID1 Round-Robin Option
In addition to the Bcachefs changes for the Linux 6.14 kernel, the Btrfs file-system feature updates have also been submitted and merged for this next version of the Linux kernel...
2025-01-21 16:35
New "AMD Node" Driver Introduced In Linux 6.14 For Splitting Up Legacy Northbridge Code
On the first day of the Linux 6.14 merge window there were a number of new AMD CPU features submitted. That's continued today with so far having the new "amd_node" driver to talk about for splitting up the modern Zen-era code and more of the legacy AMD...
2025-01-21 14:10
Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI
As was expected this week, Wine 10.0 stable is now available as the newest annual feature release to this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Wine also serves as the basis for Valve's St...
2025-01-21 12:03
Raspberry Pi Monitor Pairs Great With The Raspberry Pi 500 As A $100 Display
Along with recently announcing the Raspberry Pi 500 keyboard computer and the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB (review still forthcoming; the 16GB model only arrived last week), the Raspberry Pi Monitor debuted last month as their first foray into displays. For $10...
2025-01-21 11:30
Serpent OS Developing disks-rs To Safely Deal With File-Systems & Block Devices In Rust
Serpent OS as the modern, from-scratch Linux distribution being led by well known open-source developer Ikey Doherty has started on a new project: disks-rs. The disks-rs project is intended to deal with file-systems, installation / partitioning, and bl...
2025-01-21 10:36