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LLVM Lands Initial Support For IBM SystemZ "arch15" Target: IBM z17 / Telum II
Merged this week into the LLVM compiler codebase is initial support for "arch15" within the SystemZ back-end. Arch15 likely correlates to the IBM z17 mainframes with Telum II processors...
2025-01-22 06:22
Important Changes To Intel TDX Coming With Linux 6.14
Important code restructuring to the Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) code is landing for the Linux 6.14 kernel to make it more robust moving forward and preparing for future features around this confidential computing / trusted execution environment...
2025-01-22 06:14
Qt 6.9 Toolkit Beta 2 Now Available For Testing
The second of three planned betas for the Qt 6.9 cross-platform UI toolkit is now available for testing ahead of the planned stable release in March...
2025-01-22 05:57
FreeBSD 15.0 Aims For Reproducible Builds / Zero-Trust Builds With Fresh Funding
The FreeBSD Foundation has begun receiving funding to work on zero-trust builds / reproducible builds. The work will hopefully be wrapped up in time for the major FreeBSD 15.0 release...
2025-01-21 20:36
SDL 3 Officially Released With New APIs, Better HiDPI & Improved Audio Handling
In addition to the Wine 10.0 stable release today, making the day very exciting as well for Linux gamers is the first official SDL 3.0 release!..
2025-01-21 17:05
Btrfs Changes Land In Linux 6.14 With New RAID1 Round-Robin Option
In addition to the Bcachefs changes for the Linux 6.14 kernel, the Btrfs file-system feature updates have also been submitted and merged for this next version of the Linux kernel...
2025-01-21 16:35
New "AMD Node" Driver Introduced In Linux 6.14 For Splitting Up Legacy Northbridge Code
On the first day of the Linux 6.14 merge window there were a number of new AMD CPU features submitted. That's continued today with so far having the new "amd_node" driver to talk about for splitting up the modern Zen-era code and more of the legacy AMD...
2025-01-21 14:10
Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI
As was expected this week, Wine 10.0 stable is now available as the newest annual feature release to this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Wine also serves as the basis for Valve's St...
2025-01-21 12:03
Raspberry Pi Monitor Pairs Great With The Raspberry Pi 500 As A $100 Display
Along with recently announcing the Raspberry Pi 500 keyboard computer and the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB (review still forthcoming; the 16GB model only arrived last week), the Raspberry Pi Monitor debuted last month as their first foray into displays. For $10...
2025-01-21 11:30
Serpent OS Developing disks-rs To Safely Deal With File-Systems & Block Devices In Rust
Serpent OS as the modern, from-scratch Linux distribution being led by well known open-source developer Ikey Doherty has started on a new project: disks-rs. The disks-rs project is intended to deal with file-systems, installation / partitioning, and bl...
2025-01-21 10:36
Linux 6.14 Landing Support For FPGA Support On AAEON UP Maker Boards
Adding to the plethora of new hardware support coming with the Linux 6.14 kernel is enabling upstream support for the FPGAs found on the Intel-powered AAEON UP single board computers that are targeted for makers, hobbyists, and various industrial uses...
2025-01-21 10:15
Linux 6.14 Networking Brings Many Wired & Wireless Driver Improvements
The big networking subsystem feature pull was sent out this morning for the Linux 6.14 merge window...
2025-01-21 08:54
Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Seeing More RDNA4 Work In Recent Days
Over the past week there has been an uptick in patches pertaining to RDNA4's GFX12 graphics engine within the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" for Mesa 25.0 to benefit Linux systems...
2025-01-21 08:24
Linux 6.14 Thermal Drivers Get Ready For Intel Panther Lake
Intel's upstreaming work around the next-gen Core Ultra "Panther Lake" processors continues for the Linux kernel. Among other code being prepped for submitting during the Linux 6.14 merge window, on Monday the thermal driver updates were focused on ena...
2025-01-21 06:45
Linus Torvalds Adapts Linux User Address Masking To Use CMOV
In addition to merging a number of the pull requests yesterday for the start of the Linux 6.14 cycle, Linux creator Linus Torvalds did merge some of his own new code as well. While his time these days working on new kernel code itself is more limited w...
2025-01-21 06:34
Linux 6.14 Resource Control To Allow Total Memory Bandwidth Monitoring
The x86/cache updates for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel are extending the Resource Control "resctrl" code for Intel Resource Director Technology / AMD Platform Quality of Service to have the capability of total memory bandwidth monitoring...
2025-01-21 06:24
Bcachefs Changes Merged Without Issue For The Linux 6.14 Kernel
As a follow-up to yesterday's article around the on-disk format changes and other feature work on Bcachefs for Linux 6.14, the changes ended up being merged without issue for this next kernel version. That came after the Bcachefs changes were rejected ...
2025-01-21 03:00
New AMD CPU Features Enabled For The Start Of The Linux 6.14 Kernel Cycle
On this first day of the Linux 6.14 merge window to kick off the new kernel development cycle there are a few pull requests around new AMD CPU features worth noting...
2025-01-20 20:44
GNU Linux-libre 6.13-gnu Deals With More Questionable Code In The Kernel
Building off yesterday's release of the Linux 6.13 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 6.13 is out today as this downstream kernel from FSF LA that strips out code pertaining to the ability to load non-free drivers/microcode and other elements not deemed within th...
2025-01-20 19:29
AMD Seeking Feedback Around What Radeon GPUs You Would Like Supported By ROCm
An engineer from AMD by way of their Nod.ai acquisition is seeking feedback from the community around what other Radeon graphics cards you would like to see supported by the ROCm support on Linux. This community wishlist extends to ROCm Windows support...
2025-01-20 15:42