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SoundWire Multi-Lane Support Submitted For Linux 6.14
All of the MIPI SoundWire related updates have been submitted for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel. SoundWire as a reminder is the standard interface for modern, small audio peripherals...
2025-01-30 06:20
Linux 6.14 CXL Updates Make Preparations Around Type 2 Support & CXL 3.1
The Compute Express Link (CXL) updates have been sent out and merged for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel...
2025-01-30 04:00
Wine Merge Request Opened For NTSYNC In-Process Synchronization With Linux 6.14+
Now that the full-functioning NTSYNC driver is ready for Linux 6.14 for better emulating the Windows NT synchronization primitives on Linux, the merge request has been opened for upstream Wine to land the NTSYNC integration on its side for in-process s...
2025-01-29 20:32
AMD GPU Operator Announced For Automated Driver Installation & Kubernetes Support
AMD today announced two new software projects to better enhance their software support for Instinct accelerators / graphics deployments within the data center: AMD GPU Operator and AMD Metrics Exporter...
2025-01-29 20:21
Open-Source RADV Radeon Driver Support For RDNA4: "Should Be Good Enough"
Lead RADV developer Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has provided some insight into the support expectations for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver with the upcoming Radeon RX 9070 "RDNA4" graphics cards...
2025-01-29 15:29
X.Org / FreeDesktop.org Encounters New Cloud Crisis: Needs New Infrastructure Very Soon
About five years ago X.Org / FreeDesktop.org was experiencing a cloud hosting crisis with their cloud costs running out of control after losing free credits for Google Cloud and the continuous integration (CI) testing driving up expenses. They ended up...
2025-01-29 13:07
PyTorch 2.6 Delivers FP16 Support For x86 CPUs, Better Intel GPU Experience
PyTorch 2.6 is out today as the newest feature release to this widely-used machine learning library...
2025-01-29 12:49
Ubuntu Developers Moving From IRC To Matrix For Real-Time Communication
Following a discussion on the Ubuntu development mailing list, Ubuntu developers have decided to adopt Matrix for their official real-time communication channels while deprecating IRC chat...
2025-01-29 10:34
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Linux GPU Compute Performance
Last week was the review embargo lift on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card while today the review embargo lifts on the GeForce RTX 5080, both of which graphics cards are officially available in the retail channel tomorrow (30 January). Due to w...
2025-01-29 09:00
GNU C Library 2.41 Released With New C23 Features, Intel / AMD / Arm CPU Optimizations
As expected, GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 is now available as the newest half-year feature release to this important C library for Linux systems and other environments...
2025-01-29 08:43
Bytedance Praises eBPF - Notes 10% Improvement In Network Throughput
Bytedance is praising eBPF as the in-kernel virtual machine for dynamic programs to help speed-up network packet processing, greater tracing and profiling abilities, and a wide-range of other purposes for these dynamic in-kernel programs. By tapping eB...
2025-01-29 08:30
Mesa 25.0 Sees New Driver Code To Further Enhance RadeonSI + ACO
AMD Mesa driver guru Marek Olšák has landed a new set of 48 patches into Mesa 25.0-devel Git for refactoring various AMD-related driver code to work on improving the ACO compiler support within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...
2025-01-29 06:54
Ubuntu's Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptop Support Enables Experimental Hardware Video Decode
Canonical has been maintaining experimental/testing ISOs of Ubuntu Linux for Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops. New ISOs for testing were recently published and allow enabling more features/functionality for these ARM laptops under Ubuntu...
2025-01-29 06:28
Linux 6.14 NFS Adds Direct I/O With LOCALIO, Attribute Delegation Support
The Network File System (NFS) client and server changes have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window...
2025-01-29 06:12
LLVM 20 Feature Development Wraps Up With AMX-AVX512, AMX-FP8, AVX10.2 & AMD GFX950
The LLVM 20 compiler stack saw its code branched from the mainline Git codebase last night as release preparations begin for what will be LLVM 20.1 as the inaugural stable release...
2025-01-29 05:54
Linux 6.14 With Rust: "We Are Almost At The 'Write A Real Driver In Rust' Stage Now"
Greg Kroah-Hartman today sent out the pull request of all the driver core updates for Linux 6.14, which ends up being a big deal for those interested in the prospects of Rust drivers for the Linux kernel...
2025-01-28 19:26
AMD ROCm 6.3.2 Supports Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0, HIP Improvements & Better Docs
Following last month's release of ROCm 6.3.1, ROCm 6.3.2 was just tagged today from its various open-source repositories and binaries beginning to come down the pipeline. ROCm 6.3.2 is another point release but brings a decent set of refinements for th...
2025-01-28 16:05
Apple CPUs Affected By New SLAP & FLOP Side-Channel Attacks
Apple is the latest CPU vendor being affected by side-channel attacks. All Mac laptops since 2022, all Mac desktops since 2023, and all iPhones / iPad Pro / iPad Air / iPad Mini models since 2021 are affected by these new SLAP and FLOP attacks...
2025-01-28 14:00
System76's New Linux Mini PC Pairs Intel Meteor Lake + Dual 2.5G Ethernet + Coreboot
System76 this morning announced the 2025 version of their Meerkat mini Linux PC. This new mini PC designed for Linux pairs an Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" SoC with dual 2.5G Ethernet and booting using Coreboot for a intriguing combination whether it'...
2025-01-28 11:06
Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Running Well For Larger Workloads, More Multi-Tasking
Earlier this month the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB was announced for finally pushing the Raspberry Pi single board computers beyond an 8GB limit for RAM. This opens up the Raspberry Pi 5 to new use-cases, more multi-tasking, and other applications where 8GB of...
2025-01-28 10:46