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Linux 6.13-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes
Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 6.13-rc2 with an initial serving of bug/regression fixes following last week's Linux 6.13-rc1 release that capped off the feature-packed Linux 6.13 merge window...
2024-12-08 17:16
Linux EFI Zboot Abandoning "Compression Library Museum", Focusing On Gzip & Zstd
The Linux kernel EFI Zboot code for carrying the Linux kernel image for EFI systems in compressed form is doing away with its "compression library museum" of offering Gzip, LZ4, LZMA, LZO, XZ, and Zstd compression options to instead just focus on Gzip ...
2024-12-08 09:50
Ubuntu flash-kernel Package Looks To Drop Support For Old ARM Hardware
The flash-kernel package is used for putting the Linux kernel image and initramfs in the boot location for embedded devices that aren't able to boot directly from /boot. The flash-kernel package is particularly important for older ARM hardware while no...
2024-12-08 06:51
Linux 6.13-rc2 To Workaround Buggy Intel Lunar Lake Leading To Responsiveness Issues
Sent out this morning were the "x86/urgent" updates ahead of Linux 6.13-rc2 due out later today. There are x86 fixes for both Intel and AMD processors this week. Most notable though is fixing some buggy Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" behavior that could...
2024-12-08 06:33
Manjaro 24.2 Released With GNOME 47 Updates, Powered By Linux 6.12 LTS
Manjaro 24.2 "Yonada" is out today as the newest version of this popular desktop focused Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux...
2024-12-08 06:05
Mold 2.35 Released With Big Endian ARM64 Support
Rui Ueyama announced the release today of Mold 2.35 as the latest iteration of this high speed linker alternative to the linkers available from the GCC and LLVM toolchain projects...
2024-12-08 05:41
GNOME 47.2 Officially Released with Various Bug Fixes and Improvements
GNOME 47.2 is now available as the second maintenance update to the latest GNOME 47 "Denver" desktop environment series with more bug fixes, updated translations, and other changes. The post GNOME 47.2 Officially Released with Various Bug Fixes and Imp...
2024-12-07 20:37
More Kernel Bitrot: Old & Busted UltraSPARC T2 "Niagara 2" SPU Driver Slated For Removal
Following 107k lines of old driver code within the staging area of the kernel removed for Linux 6.13, over in the crypto space they are looking at some cleaning as well with plans raised to remove the Stream Processing Unit (SPU) driver for the old Sun...
2024-12-07 16:09
OBS Studio 31.0 Released with NVIDIA Blur Filter and Background Blur
OBS Studio 31.0 open-source software for video recording and live streaming is now available for download with new features and improvements. Here's what's new! The post OBS Studio 31.0 Released with NVIDIA Blur Filter and Background Blur appeared firs...
2024-12-07 13:46
OpenWrt Affected By Security Issue That Could Have Led To Compromised Build Artifacts
A security issue was reported to the OpenWrt project this week around their Attendedsysupgrade Server (ASU) instances that could have led to compromised firmware images being served...
2024-12-07 09:00
UMD Direct Submission "Proof Of Concept" For The Intel Xe Linux Driver
One of the interesting Intel Xe Linux kernel graphics driver patches that was volleyed for discussion last month is working on user-mode driver (UMD) direct submission support for allowing work to be directly submitted from user-space to the GPU hardwa...
2024-12-07 06:58
AMD Hardware Feedback Interface "HFI" Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel
While there are many great new features in Linux 6.13 like the AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver, one of the features that wasn't buttoned up in time for this current kernel cycle were the patches implementing the AMD Hardware Feedback Interface (HFI). B...
2024-12-07 06:31
Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0 Adds 64K Kernel Option, NFTables & Intel E800 Networking
Microsoft engineers rounded out their work week by releasing Azure Linux 3.0.20241203 on Friday evening as the newest monthly installment for their in-house Linux distribution...
2024-12-07 06:18
KDE Starts December By Landing A Number Of New Features
While the winter holidays are quickly approach, KDE developers remain very busy working on new feature code for the Plasma 6.3 desktop. A number of new features were merged this week for the KDE desktop...
2024-12-07 05:47
OBS Studio 31.0 Released With New Features For Screen Recording & Screencasting
OBS Studio 31.0 was released this evening as the newest feature update to this open-source, cross-platform software for live streaming and desktop screen recording purposes. OBS Studio remains a leading choice across operating systems for screen record...
2024-12-06 20:32
Linux 6.12 Kernel Confirmed as Long-Term Support Version
Last month’s Linux 6.12 kernel was a big update filled with new features, hardware support, and performance tune-ups. Now, it’s just gotten even sweeter: it’s an LTS! Those au fait with kernel development won’t be surprised by this news since, ...
2024-12-06 16:40
Wine 10.0-rc1 Released With Updated VKD3D, Initial Bluetooth Driver
The first release candidate of Wine 10.0 is out today that also now marks the feature freeze ahead of this stable release expected to be out around mid-January...
2024-12-06 16:04
openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 Released with Simplified and Smoother Upgrades
openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 distribution for containerized and virtualized workloads is now available for download with new features and improvements. Here's what's new! The post openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 Released with Simplified and Smoother Upgrades appear...
2024-12-06 15:48
NVK Open-Source Driver for NVIDIA GPUs Reaches Vulkan 1.4 Conformance
Collabora announced this week that its open-source NVK Vulkan graphics driver in the Mesa open-source graphics stack for NVIDIA hardware is now officially conformant with … The post NVK Open-Source Driver for NVIDIA GPUs Reaches Vulkan 1.4 Conformanc...
2024-12-06 15:16
Leap Micro 6.1 fficially Released
The openSUSE community is excited to announce the official release of [Leap Micro 6.1]((https://get.opensuse.org/leapmicro/6.1/). Leap Micro continues its alignment with SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro, ensuring robust container and virtual machine hosting...
2024-12-06 13:00