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OBS Studio Raises Issues With Fedora's Flatpak Package
The OBS Studio open-source screencasting and streaming app has called out Fedora's poor Flatpak packaging of the application and is threatening as going as far as legal action if it isn't addressed...
2025-02-13 20:39
Zed Editor Introduces Open-Source "Zeta" Edit Prediction Model
The Zed code editor for macOS and Linux systems has proven to be quite popular for this Rust-based editor started by the creators of the Atom editor. Their latest feature being introduced is Zeta as an open-source edit prediction model to further enhan...
2025-02-13 15:58
Bcachefs Freezes Its On-Disk Format With Future Updates Optional
The latest round of Bcachefs file-system fixes have been submitted today for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel. Besides fixes for the current kernel, it was announced today that the on-disk format for the file-system is now considered frozen in its ...
2025-02-13 14:18
Hector Martin Resigns From The Asahi Linux Project
Last week Hector Martin resigned from upstream maintainership of the Apple Silicon code for the Linux kernel. At the time he was still going to contribute to the Asahi Linux project's downstream kernel but in a surprise move today, he has decided to re...
2025-02-13 10:56
Linux 6.14-rc3 To Fix Platform Profile Support For Newer AMD-Powered ThinkPads
Submitted today via the x86 platform driver updates ahead of Linux 6.14-rc3 on Sunday are some Lenovo ThinkPad patches that may interest some users...
2025-02-13 10:41
Google Releases AOM-AV1 3.12 With More Performance Optimizations
For those preferring the AOM-AV1 open-source AV1 video encoder over SVT-AV1, Rav1e, or other AV1 encoders, Google this week unveiled AOM-AV1 3.12...
2025-02-13 09:51
Wayland Color Management & HDR Protocol Support Merged
As a quick follow-up to the article earlier today... The Wayland Color Management and HDR protocol support is now merged to upstream Wayland Protocols!..
2025-02-13 08:25
Device Trees For Apple T2 SoCs Slated For Upstreaming In Linux 6.15
While there has been the recent drama over upstream maintainership over Apple Silicon / Asahi Linux code, Sven Peter is continuing to move things forward for the upstream kernel and this week sent out a set of Apple SoC DeviceTree updates intended for ...
2025-02-13 06:58
NVIDIA Wiring Up Autonomous Performance Level Selection To Linux CPPC CPUFreq Driver
Similar to the Autonomous Performance Level Selection and Energy Performance Preference (EPP) support already found within the Intel P-State and AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling drivers for their modern processors, NVIDIA engineers are working on simi...
2025-02-13 06:40
Wayland Color Management & HDR Protocols Expected To Be Merged Imminently
Today could finally be the day. In the works for 5+ years, the Wayland color management and HDR protocol additions look like they will finally be merged in the coming hours...
2025-02-13 06:30
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Switching From AppArmor To SELinux For New Installations
SUSE/openSUSE has a long history with the AppArmor Linux security module going back to the Novell days and when AppArmor was originally known as SubDomain. OpenSUSE/SUSE and Ubuntu Linux have been big proponents of AppArmor for Linux security but now m...
2025-02-12 20:47
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Delayed To Next Week
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS along with new point releases for its derivatives had been scheduled for release on Thursday. But a last minute issue has delayed this release...
2025-02-12 19:06
ARCTIC Freezer 4U-SP5 Provides Effective Cooling For AMD EPYC 9004/9005 CPUs
Along with the recently reviewed ARCTIC Freezer 4U-M for Ampere Altra, ARCTIC Cooling had also recently sent over their ARCTIC Freezer 4U-SP5 heatsink for cooling AMD EPYC 9004/9005 server processors within 4U rackmount height requirements. This cooler...
2025-02-12 14:00
Mesa 25.0-rc3 Released With Numerous RADV & RadeonSI Fixes
Mesa 25.0-rc3 is out today as a rather large weekly release candidate to Mesa 25.0 that will be debuting as stable later this month...
2025-02-12 12:51
Linux 6.13 Performance For 250Hz vs. 1000Hz Timer Frequency Comparison
Given the recent patch proposal to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz, I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at the 250Hz vs. 1000Hz comparison on some modern desktop hardware...
2025-02-12 10:05
GNU Shepherd 1.0.2 Service Manager Delivers Fixes
In addition to the recent release of SysVinit 3.14 and systemd continuing to tack on new features, the GNU Shepherd system/user service manager written in Guile Scheme is out today with a new release...
2025-02-12 10:00
Linux 6.15 To Bring More Improvements To DRM Panic "Screen of Death"
Now that the Linux 6.14 merge window has passed, new feature material aiming for the Linux 6.15 kernel is beginning to get ready for staging in DRM-Next ahead of that next merge window opening up around the end of March. Sent out today was the first ba...
2025-02-12 06:52
Intel C1 Demotion Knob Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Help Newer Xeon CPUs
A patch has been proposed for the Linux kernel to add a C1 demotion knob via /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/c1_demotion for more control over lower power state handling for recent Xeon Scalable processors. This C1 demotion knob can help with the perfo...
2025-02-12 06:35
Open-Source Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver Matures To Default AArch64 Mesa Driver List
The open-source Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan driver within Mesa known as "TURNIP" has now matured enough that it's going to be built by default when compiling Mesa for ARM64/AArch64 hardware...
2025-02-12 06:30
Intel Thermal Daemon 2.5.9 Prepares For Panther Lake
Intel on Tuesday released Thermal Daemon 2.5.9 as their newest feature release of this open-source daemon to help monitor and control the CPU/SoC temperature within laptops and other modern Intel hardware...
2025-02-12 06:21