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The Linux Kernel Seeing Rare Code Activity Around SPARC64

One of the CPU architectures continuing to be supported by the mainline Linux kernel but rarely ever seeing any code activity is the SPARC64 architecture port for the once-interesting processors from Sun Microsystems...

2025-07-24 06:25

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Valve Linux Engineer Working On A Big Improvement For Old AMD Radeon GPUs

Timur Kristóf as a contractor on Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team is known for his work on the RADV Vulkan driver and ACO shader compiler but recently he's been working on some improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver. A big feat he's be...

2025-07-23 20:32

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GNOME Foundry Taking Shape As "An IDE In A Box" With CLI Tooling

Born out of his work on developing the GNOME Builder integrated development environment (IDE) over the past decade, one of the recent initiatives by GNOME developer Christian Hergert has been on Foundry, a new "IDE in a box" of sorts and with CLI tooli...

2025-07-23 16:38

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AMD Strix Point Linux Performance Comparison One Year After Launch

How time flies... This week already marks one year since the debut of AMD's Zen 5 Strix Point laptop processors with the likes of the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365 that also rolled out the RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics. In marking one year that S...

2025-07-23 14:50

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Wayback 0.1 Released As First Preview Release For X11 Compatibility Layer

Announced just once month ago was Wayback as an X11 compatibility layer build atop Wayland components. In the past month Wayback has been off to a quick start with a goal of being production-ready next year and has also already became a project under t...

2025-07-23 14:46

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systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 Changes

Systemd 257 debuted last December and now finally systemd 258 is preparing to roll out... Systemd 258-rc1 was issued today as the first test release toward this next major release. It's a big one with more than 260 changes noted in the announcement, in...

2025-07-23 14:00

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Zed Editor's Newest Feature: Being Able To Disable All AI Features

The Zed open-source code editor that is written in Rust, has begun supporting Linux rather well, and has continued tacking on new features to assist developer workflows has introduced another new feature: the ability to easily disable all AI features...

2025-07-23 12:00

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Blender Now Supports Properly Importing & Exporting HDR Videos

In addition to Blender 5.0 supporting HDR on Linux when using the Vulkan API and with Wayland, another important high dynamic range (HDR) milestone landed this week into Blender: the ability to both import and export HDR videos...

2025-07-23 11:47

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Mesa 25.2-rc2 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake Enablement, Legacy-X11 Option Deprecated

Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.2-rc2 as the newest, on-time weekly release candidate for this quarter's Mesa 25.2 feature series...

2025-07-23 10:41

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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 co...

2025-07-23 08:55

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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...

2025-07-23 08:40

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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...

2025-07-23 08:11

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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 contri...

2025-07-23 06:26

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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...

2025-07-23 06:06

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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...

2025-07-22 20:24

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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...

2025-07-22 18:00

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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 Intel-...

2025-07-22 13:18

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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...

2025-07-22 13:03

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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 upstre...

2025-07-22 10:08

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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...

2025-07-22 08:47

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