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Canonical Experimented With Rebuilding Its Ubuntu 25.04 Packages Under LLVM/Clang

This morning the first test rebuild results of the "Plucky Puffin" for Ubuntu 25.04 were shared on the mailing list... While typically not interesting to outsiders, one interesting bit is that as a "bonus" they rebuilt the main components of Ubuntu 25....

2025-01-03 07:09

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GNU C Library glibc 2.41 Release Coming Soon With Many New Features

The GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 release should be out around the very end of January or start of February. With glibc 2.41 there are many new features coming to this widely-used libc implementation by Linux systems and elsewhere...

2025-01-03 06:41

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Intel Battlemage, Raspberry Pi 500 & Linux 6.13 Excited Linux Users In December

While there was the year-end holidays, daily activity on Phoronix doesn't let up and over the course of December there were 256 original news articles around Linux/open-source on the site along with 24 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page bench...

2025-01-03 06:31

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KDE Internet of Things "Kiot" Started To Provide Nice Home Assistant Integration

Longtime KDE developer David Edmundson has recently been cleaning up some scripts he's been using personally for a few years to enhance the integration between the KDE desktop and Home Assistant for open-source home automation. This work has evolved in...

2025-01-03 06:16

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Patches Proposed To Begin Plumbing 32-bit LoongArch CPU Support For The Linux Kernel

Merged back in 2022 for the Linux 5.19 kernel was the LoongArch port for that Chinese processor architecture derived from MIPS and inspired in part by RISC-V. Over the past two and a half years the LoongArch Linux kernel port has continued to mature wh...

2025-01-02 15:32

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32 Patches Merged For More Unification Between RadeonSI OpenGL & RADV Vulkan Drivers

Well known AMD open-source Linux graphics developer Marek Olšák landed some nice Mesa 25.0 optimizations for Christmas and now in kicking off the new year he's managed another interesting set of patches for the AMD Radeon Linux graphics stack...

2025-01-02 15:14

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Linux Patches Updated For Experimental Arm Morello That Combines Arm + CHERIA ISA

Arm today sent out their third iteration of their Linux kernel patches for adding Arm Morello platform support to the kernel: an experimental extension of Armv8.2-A paired with the CHERI v7 ISA...

2025-01-02 11:19

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Linux Patches Updated For Experimental Arm Morello That Combines Arm + CHERI ISA

Arm today sent out their third iteration of their Linux kernel patches for adding Arm Morello platform support to the kernel: an experimental extension of Armv8.2-A paired with the CHERI v7 ISA...

2025-01-02 11:19

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Linux Prepares AMD "SRSO_USER_KERNEL_NO" Support For Zen 5 CPUs

Queued up this week via the tip/tip.git's "x86/bugs" Git branch for the Linux kernel is AMD "SRSO_USER_KERNEL_NO" support as a new SRSO/Inception mitigation handling seemingly for Zen 5 processors and beyond...

2025-01-02 10:38

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Fedora Stakeholders Talk Of Forking Intel's Compute Runtime To Maintain Older Hardware

With the Intel Graphics Compiler having dropped Ice Lake and older support and in turn the Intel Compute Runtime dropping Ice Lake and older to just focus on newer Intel graphics hardware support, Fedora packagers and other stakeholders have been grapp...

2025-01-02 08:45

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AMD Zen 5 Captivated Linux Reader Interest In 2024

With 2024 in the books, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and benchmark articles for 2024. In addition to the three thousand original Linux/open-source news articles last year, there was 191 Linux hardware reviews / multi-p...

2025-01-02 08:00

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Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers Updated For Enabling Extra Functionality Under Linux

Last month I wrote about a Lenovo Legion Linux driver being posted for enabling more power/performance settings under Linux. Following a significant rework, a second iteration of those patches have now been posted with just being referred to as the Len...

2025-01-02 06:48

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ACD Power/Performance Feature Being Worked On For The GPU Within The Snapdragon X1

For the Qualcomm Adreno X1-85 GPU found within the Snapdragon X1 series of laptop chips, an Adaptive Clock Distribution "ACD" feature is currently being wired up to the open-source MSM kernel driver to help with power and performance...

2025-01-02 06:38

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Linux "steelseries" Driver Being Extended For The SteelSeries Arctis 9 Wireless Headset

Within the mainline Linux kernel has been the open-source SteelSeries HID driver while newly posted patches are tacking on support for the SteelSeries Arctis 9 wireless gaming headset...

2025-01-02 06:27

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Steam On Linux Ends 2024 With A Nice Boost To Its Marketshare, AMD Linux CPU Use At 74%

Valve has just published the Steam Survey results for December 2024 and they reflect a nice upward trend for the Linux gaming statistics and a high point in recent times...

2025-01-01 20:41

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Serpent OS To Explore Offline Rollbacks & Tools As A Service

Following the recent Serpent OS alpha builds for this original Linux distribution led by well known developer Ikey Doherty, the project has now outlined both some of their short term and longer term plans for this from-scratch Linux platform...

2025-01-01 20:26

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X.Org Server Development Hit A Decade High For The Number Of Commits In 2024

To much surprise, the X.Org Server Git tree saw the most commits in 2024 going all the way back to 2014... While there were many more commits than in years prior, it's not a sign of resurgence for the X.Org Server with Wayland continuing to become the ...

2025-01-01 11:53

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GCC Patches Posted For Half-Century Old ALGOL 68 Programming Language

Mere hours into 2025 and some news I didn't expect to be writing about... An Oracle engineer has posted a set of patches implementing an ALGOL 68 programming language front-end for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). These are work-in-progress patches f...

2025-01-01 07:14

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The Most Popular Linux & Open-Source News Of 2024

During the course of 2024 there were 3,021 original news articles written on Phoronix around Linux and open-source topics... Fresh content each and every day, 99% of which was written by your's truly. It was quite an eventful year with a lot of excitem...

2025-01-01 06:56

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Linux "hid-universal-pidff" Driver Proposed For Fixing More Quirky Devices

The hid-pidff driver exists within the Linux kernel for enabling force feedback "FF" support on various USB HID PID (Physical Interface Device) compliant devices. With a new set of patches posted yesterday, that hid-pidff driver is extended to "hid-uni...

2025-01-01 06:45

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