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AMD AOMP 20.0-2 Compiler Adds The "flang-new" Fortran Compiler Option

AOMP 20.0-2 was released on Monday as the newest update to this AMD downstream of the LLVM/Clang/Flang code that is focused on delivering the latest staging/testing patches around OpenMP offloading to AMD GPUs using ROCm. Many of AMD's AMDGPU/OpenMP pa...

2025-02-11 06:24

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BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Starts 2025 Off Introducing An AMD CPU Temperature Driver

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their January 2025 status report that outlines all of the interesting work over the past month...

2025-02-11 06:13

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Systemd Adding The Ability to Boot Directly Into A Disk Image Downloaded Via HTTP

Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has been working on adding the ability to let systemd boot directly into a disk image downloaded via HTTP within the initial RAM disk (initrd) during the Linux boot process...

2025-02-10 20:43

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Firefox ForkServer Getting Ready To Enhance Linux Browser Performance

Firefox has been shipping their nightly Linux builds the past three months with ForkServer enabled to improve the multi-process browser experience. The results are looking good and Firefox official releases for Linux should soon begin shipping with For...

2025-02-10 15:11

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Intel's Newest Open-Source Project Is "Polite Guard"

Intel's newest open-source project and addition to their AI offerings is... Polite Guard...

2025-02-10 12:40

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Apple Touch Bar Backlight & Keyboard Mode Drivers Slated For Linux 6.15

For those making use of the Intel-powered Apple MacBook Pro laptops featuring the Touch Bar, better support for that interface is slated to land with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle...

2025-02-10 12:18

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GIMP 3.0 RC3 Released For A Final Round Of Testing

GIMP 3.0 RC3 is out today as what is hopefully the last release candidate before the long-awaited stable release of GIMP 3.0 as this long in development free software alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop...

2025-02-10 10:51

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Python 3.14 Lands A New Interpreter With 3~30% Faster Python Code

Merged last week for Python 3.14 is a new tail-call intepreter that aims to offer significantly better performance with around 10% faster performance in PyPerformance or around a 40% speed-up in Python-heavy benchmarks. This tail-call interpeter can ev...

2025-02-10 09:02

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Union Hopes To Address KDE's Fragmented Ways Of Styling Apps

KDE/Qt apps can be styled many different ways with Qt widgets, SVG-based styling, Qt Quick, and other routes for styling of applications. That fragmentation of different ways to styling KDE apps can probe problematic for UI designs and lead to a less c...

2025-02-10 08:51

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Formerly Known As YQPkg, Myrlyn Package Manager GUI Adds Repository Configuration

You may recall the YQPkg package management tool announced last year that's been talked up by openSUSE developers as a Qt-based package manager GUI and alternative to YaST. It's now known as Myrlyn and has added repository configuration as its newest f...

2025-02-10 08:28

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New Proposal To Raise The Linux Kernel's Default Timer Frequency To 1000Hz

A patch sent out on Sunday by Google engineer Qais Yousef is proposing to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz...

2025-02-10 06:43

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RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low Latency Encoding Support

Adding to the Vulkan Video support for Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver is honoring of the low latency encoding options...

2025-02-10 06:31

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Microsoft Continues Enhancing Its Azure Linux 3.0 Distribution With February Update

Microsoft engineers released Azure Linux 3.0.20250206 overnight as the newest monthly update to this in-house Microsoft Linux distribution that is used within their Azure cloud infrastructure and a variety of other purposes at the Redmond company...

2025-02-10 06:07

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Linux 6.14-rc2 Released With Apple Silicon Maintainer Change, Bcachefs Fixes

The second weekly release candidate of Linux 6.14 is now available for testing as a rather light update for the week...

2025-02-09 16:12

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Linux Patches Adjust AC Plug/Unplug Behavior During s2idle To Match Windows

A set of patches sent out on Saturday by AMD Linux engineer Mario Limonciello seek to adjust the Linux behavior for laptops/handhelds during AC plug/unplug events during s2idle to better match that of Microsoft Windows 11...

2025-02-09 13:10

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Curious Intel Linux Driver Maintainer Changes In Recent Days

This week besides the drama over Apple Silicon maintainership for the upstream Linux kernel, in recent days there has also been a number of rather subtle changes to the maintainership of several Intel Linux kernel drivers...

2025-02-09 10:33

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Intel ISPC 1.26 Compiler Delivers Improved ARM Support

Intel's ISPC project as the Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as this C language variant for Single Program, Multiple Data programming on CPUs and GPUs is out with a new release...

2025-02-09 08:00

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New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel

This week was the dramatic decision by Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin to step down as upstream kernel maintainer for the Apple Silicon (ARM) code following friction with other kernel developers over Rust affairs within the kernel. He still in...

2025-02-09 06:39

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Linux FineIBT-BHI Updated For Toughening Up FineIBT Kernel Defenses

Intel Linux engineer Peter Zijlstra has updated his set of patches implementing FineIBT-BHI mitigations for toughening up the FineIBT kernel protections previously introduced. This FineIBT-BHI code depends upon newly-merged code for the LLVM Clang comp...

2025-02-09 06:29

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Wine-Staging 10.1 Delivers 361 Patches Atop Upstream Wine

Following the release of Wine 10.1 on Friday for kicking off the new bi-weekly development releases after last month's Wine 10.0 stable release, Wine-Staging 10.1 is out today to get things moving once again for this experimental flavor of Wine...

2025-02-09 06:17

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