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Redox OS Makes Progress On Emulator Support, Better Documentation & Hardware Fixes

The Rust-based Redox OS original open-source operating system project is out with a new status report to detail the enhancements they have made over the past several weeks...

2024-12-05 16:16

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COSMIC Alpha 4 Released For System76's Rust-Based Desktop

System76 today released the newest development/testing version of their Rust-based desktop environment designed for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...

2024-12-05 10:46

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NVIDIA 565.77 Linux Driver Released As First Stable R565 Build

For the past month and a half the NVIDIA R565 Linux driver series has been in public beta with a number of (X)Wayland improvements, DMA-BUF enhancements, VKD3D fixes, and a variety of other enhancements. Today the NVIDIA 565.77 Linux driver was release...

2024-12-05 10:13

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Alpine Linux 3.21 Released With Linux 6.12 & GCC 14, LoongArch CPU Support

Alpine Linux 3.21 is out today as the newest version of this simple, lightweight, and security-minded Linux distribution that is popular for use within containerized environments, embedded systems, and more...

2024-12-05 08:48

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Linus Torvalds Comes Out Against "Completely Broken" x86_64 Feature Levels

With the new Linux kernel patches posted yesterday for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernels on x86_64 CPUs as part of that patch series was introducing new Kconfig build options around the x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels. It turns out though that To...

2024-12-05 06:53

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Imagination PowerVR Driver Being Extended To Work On RISC-V

The Linux 6.8 kernel merged the Imagination PowerVR driver as a new open-source driver for supporting the PowerVR "Rogue" graphics architecture and being developed in tandem by Imagination Tech with their upstream Mesa Vulkan driver. Initially this Pow...

2024-12-05 06:34

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New AMD XDNA Linux Driver Patches Add Ryzen AI NPU6 IP, Other Improvements

The "AMDXDNA" accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPU is set to be introduced in the Linux 6.14 kernel next year. Ahead of that debut, a new set of patches from AMD surfaced on Wednesday to provide fixes and code improvements as well as intr...

2024-12-05 06:21

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Linux Patches Would Allow RISC-V To Use A 64K Page Size

Patches from a Bytedance engineer for the Linux kernel allow for overcoming the current 4K page size limitation of RISC-V and introduce a new 64K page size option...

2024-12-05 06:04

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Mesa 24.3.1 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes

Building off the Mesa 24.3 release from two weeks ago is now Mesa 24.3.1 as the first stable point release following their usual bi-weekly release regiment...

2024-12-04 20:41

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Intel Linux Display Driver Being Adapted For DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" Support

The DRM Panic infrastructure has been in the Linux kernel for several releases now and allows for a kernel-based experience similar to Windows' "Blue Screen of Death as well as more recently allowing QR code kernel error messages and other features. Th...

2024-12-04 16:55

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NVIDIA vs. AMD GPU Workstation Performance For Blender 4.3

With the recent release of Blender 4.3 for this leading open-source 3D modeling software, I've been carrying out some fresh NVIDIA vs. AMD GPU benchmarks for accelerated rendering across several different popular benchmark scenes.

2024-12-04 13:39

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Debian 13 Desktop Theme Finalized Ahead Of Next Year's Release

As a follow-up to last month's article around the Debian 13 release processes continuing and desktop artwork voting underway for Debian 13 "Trixie", the winning desktop theme/artwork was announced today...

2024-12-04 10:53

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OpenVPN DCO Looks Like It Might Be Ready For Linux 6.14 To Speed-Up VPN Performance

In development for several years has been the OpenVPN DCO Linux kernel module for data channel offload (DCO) capabilities to provide for much faster virtual private networking (VPN) performance. It's looking like the lengthy review process on OpenVPN D...

2024-12-04 10:35

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AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 Released With New Extensions, Other Changes

AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 is out today as the newest official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver release for Linux systems...

2024-12-04 10:27

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Fedora 42 Looking To Package Intel SGX Software Stack

Fedora stakeholders are evaluating supporting an Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) software stack with next year's Fedora 42 release...

2024-12-04 08:48

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New Linux Patches Cleanup Code For Running x86 32-bit Kernels On x86_64 CPUs

As we approach 2025, hopefully none of you are still running x86 32-bit kernels / 32-bit OS software on x86_64 processors, but should you still be into that, there are improvements on the way...

2024-12-04 06:37

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Intel Compute Runtime 24.45.31740.9 Released Ahead Of The Arc B580 "Battlemage" Launch

The Intel Compute Runtime 24.45.31740.9 is out as the newest monthly-ish update to this open-source GPU compute stack used on Linux and Windows for the OpenCL and Level Zero support. This Compute Runtime 24.45.31740.9 is also the last update ahead of n...

2024-12-04 06:24

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VTE-Based Linux Terminals Now Support A Nice Feature Led By Windows Terminal

VTE-based terminals on Linux like Ptyxis are now seeing support introduced to better display progress state for long-running processes with a more visually pleasing progress bar. Microsoft's Windows Terminal has already supported this feature while now...

2024-12-04 06:03

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SDL Introducing Async I/O APIs - Backed By IO_uring On Linux

Longtime Linux game porter Ryan Gordon has introduced initial asynchronous I/O APIs for the in-development SDL3 library. On Linux these async I/O APIs allow making use of the modern kernel IO_uring functionality...

2024-12-04 05:45

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Intel ANV Driver Improves Vulkan Image Compression Going Back To Tigerlake

Merged for Mesa 25.0 yesterday to the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan Linux driver is enabling more storage compression on Tigerlake graphics hardware and newer...

2024-12-04 05:37

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