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Serpent OS Development Slowing Down Amid Lack Of Funding

Serpent OS is the original Linux distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus Linux fame and has been pursuing its own package management system and new innovations in the Linux distribution landscape. While there has been recent success and new devel...

2025-02-03 20:40

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FreeBSD On Laptops Effort Gets Proof-Of-Concept Intel 802.11 a/b/g WiFi Working

In addition to the FreeBSD Foundation funding work on s0ix sleep state support as part of their initiative to improve FreeBSD's support for modern laptops, they have also been funding work on a number of other objectives, including better WiFi driver c...

2025-02-03 17:02

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GEICO Insurance Company Developing TuxTape - A New Linux Kernel Livepatching Solution

Red Hat's Kpatch, Oracle's Ksplice, and SUSE's kGraft are the most well known solutions currently for Linux kernel live-patching primarily for applying security patches to running Linux servers. It wasn't on my bingo card for insurance giant GEICO work...

2025-02-03 16:06

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Cloud Hypervisor 44 Released With New Performance Improvements

Cloud Hypervisor 44 is now available as the newest version of this security and cloud minded Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) that operates atop Linux's KVM and the Microsoft MSHV Hypervisor...

2025-02-03 14:43

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Three New Intel Battlemage Device IDs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver

Three more PCI device IDs were added today to the Intel open-source Mesa 3D graphics driver code for Battlemage that could be for future higher-end products or along the lines of Data Center GPU Flex Series or other products...

2025-02-03 13:20

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Alpine Linux In An Infrastructure Crisis With Equinix Metal Sunsetting

Last week I wrote about the crisis plaguing X.Org / FreeDesktop.org with losing out on their cloud/server infrastructure due to losing out on their free server resources provided by Equinix at the end of April. It's not only FreeDesktop.org and all tho...

2025-02-03 13:00

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Faux Bus Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Better Deal With Simple Devices

Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is proposing "Faux Bus" as a new "fake" bus solution for simple devices...

2025-02-03 11:20

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Firefox 135 Published With Safeguards To Prevent Overwhelming The Back History

Mozilla Firefox 135 release binaries are now available for those wanting to grab the latest browser release right away...

2025-02-03 10:32

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Red Hat Hiring To Continue Advancing The Linux Desktop In 2025

Christian Schaller as Red Hat's Director of Software Engineering outlined in a blog post today some of the areas they will be focusing on this year with Fedora Workstation development. Additionally, they will be hiring at least two more Linux desktop e...

2025-02-03 10:00

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FreeBSD Working On S0ix Sleep State Support For Newer Laptops

FreeBSD is working on S0ix standby power state support for better handling modern Intel and AMD laptops running this popular BSD operating system...

2025-02-03 08:45

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Fwupd 2.0.5 Brings Support For More ELAN Fingerprint Readers & Fixes

Fwupd 2.0.5 is out today as the newest update to this open-source solution for system and peripheral/device firmware updating under Linux...

2025-02-03 08:33

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Sound Open Firmware 2.12 Adds NXP iMX95 Support, Zephyr RTOS For AMD ACP 6.0

Sound Open Firmware 2.12 is now available to succeed the SOF 2.11 release from last September. Sound Open Firmware as a reminder is an open-source audio DSP firmware solution and related SDK/tooling. SOF started out as an open-source Intel project and ...

2025-02-03 06:50

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Intel NPU Driver 1.13 Released For Core Ultra Linux Systems

Intel on Friday released an updated user-space driver for their Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found with Core Ultra SoCs. This user-space driver code works with the IVPU accelerator kernel driver for opening up the Intel NPU for helping speed-up AI work...

2025-02-03 06:36

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Red Hat Releases Tuned 2.25 Daemon For Linux Adaptive Performance Tuning & Monitoring

Red Hat engineers have released Tuned 2.25 as the newest version of their alternative to power-profiles-daemon and similar for adaptive performance tuning and monitoring. Tuned ships with various profiles and different capabilities for tuning Linux sys...

2025-02-03 06:26

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Turbostat Preps For Intel Clearwater Forest & Panther Lake

Yesterday just prior to the Linux 6.14-rc1 release were some last minute changes to the Turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree...

2025-02-03 06:20

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Linux 6.14-rc1 Released With NTSYNC Completed, AMDXDNA Driver & Other Enhancements

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.14-rc1 to cap off the Linux 6.14 merge window...

2025-02-02 19:29

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Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Updated With Propeller-Optimized Kernel

The CachyOS Linux distribution that is built atop the rolling-release Arch Linux distribution and has developed a following with enthusiasts and gamers is out with its newest monthly update...

2025-02-02 12:12

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GNU Binutils 2.44 Released With Gas Support For AVX10.2, New Diamond Rapids Instructions

GNU Binutils 2.44 was released today as the newest version of this set of binary utilities that is important to the GNU toolchain...

2025-02-02 09:11

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Rust-CUDA Project Restarted For Enabling NVIDIA CUDA Kernels Within Rust Code

The open-source Rust CUDA project has been "rebooted" to get back onto the effort of allowing NVIDIA CUDA compute kernels to be coded within the Rust programming language...

2025-02-02 08:41

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GNOME 48 Lands HDR Support Bits At The Last Minute

On Saturday was the GNOME 48 feature freeze and landing during the final moments of this feature development period was new High Dynamic Range (HDR) code for Mutter and the toggling within the GNOME Control Center...

2025-02-02 06:55

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