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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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SysVinit 3.14 Released: Overcomes Three Decade Limitation Of Inittab Line Length

For those continuing to make use of SysVinit as the aging init system that in the Linux world has been largely replaced by systemd, SysVinit 3.14 is out today and overcomes a long-standing limitation around the length of lines within the inittab files...

2025-02-08 12:33

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Clang Thread Safety Checks Begin Uncovering Bugs In The Linux Kernel

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week were two competing solutions for new LLVM Clang capability / thread safety analysis to the Linux kernel. Two developers had separately been working on implementations for the Linux kernel to make use of...

2025-02-08 11:02

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GNU G-Golf v0.8 Released For Writing GTK Apps In Guile/Scheme

Years in the making, GNU G-Golf 0.8 was released on Friday as a significant release for this GNU project. No, it's not a golfing simulator or anything like that, but rather a Guile Object Library for GNOME so that you can develop GTK applications from ...

2025-02-08 07:00

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FEX 2502 Delivers Fix For Steam, Multi-Block Improvements For Better Performance

FEX 2502 is out today as the newest monthly feature release to this user-space emulator for running x86/x86_64 Linux binaries on ARM64 Linux including the likes of Wine/Proton and Steam for being able to enjoy modern games on AArch64 Linux systems...

2025-02-08 06:40

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KDE Plasma 6.3 Receives Final Polishing Prior To Release Next Week

The KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop has received a lot of last minute polishing and fixes ahead of its planned release next week. Plasma 6.3 is scheduled for its stable debut next Tuesday on 11 February...

2025-02-08 06:16

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FreeBSD 13.5 Beta Begins Preparing For The Last Of The FreeBSD 13 Series

The FreeBSD 13.5 release dance has begun for closing out the FreeBSD 13 series...

2025-02-08 06:06

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Wine 10.1 Released With Many Changes: Fixes For Battle.net, Continued Bluetooth Driver

Following last month's release of Wine 10.0 as the newest annual stable release of Wine for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms, Wine 10.1 is out today. Wine 10.1 kicks off the bi-weekly development release cycle trek that w...

2025-02-07 18:57

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GNOME's LocalSearch Metadata Extractor Ditches GStreamer For FFmpeg

While the GNOME project has long been closely tied to the GStreamer multimedia framework, GNOME's LocalSearch has decided to abandon its GStreamer use in favor of using FFmpeg/libav directly...

2025-02-07 16:43

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IO_uring Zero-Copy Receive Support Ready For Linux 6.15 Networking

It's looking like IO_uring zero-copy receive support should be ready for the Linux 6.15 kernel cycle this spring...

2025-02-07 13:57

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Vulkan Cooperative Matrix Merged For RDNA4 GPUs With RADV, DCC Support Inches Closer

Last week when RADV lead developer Samuel Pitoiset with Valve was commenting on the AMD RDNA4 state with the Mesa RADV driver it was noted that Vulkan cooperative matrix support, Vulkan Video encode/decode, and DCC support were still missing. But in th...

2025-02-07 11:28

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GCC 15 Compiler Showing Off Nice Performance Improvements On AMD Zen 5

With the GCC 15 compiler having progressed to its final stage of development prior to the GCC 15.1 stable release in the likely March~April time frame, I've begun testing the updated GNU Compiler Collection on some test systems. Overall GCC 15 is looki...

2025-02-07 10:13

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Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer

Following arguments on the Linux kernel mailing list the past few days over some Linux kernel maintainers being against the notion of Rust code in the mainline Linux kernel and trying to avoid it and very passionate views over the Linux kernel developm...

2025-02-07 08:32

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