Linux

Unlocking Developer Potential: Exploring the Resources That Drive Career Growth
In early 2024, Intel sponsored a study with Linux Foundation Research to better understand what open source software developers need most to grow their careers and stay ahead in a rapidly evolving technology landscape. The study was rooted in a hypoth...
2024-11-22 15:19
AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver Headlines The x86 Platform Enhancements In Linux 6.13
The x86 platform driver updates were merged this week for the in-development Linux 6.13 and include some nice refinements, especially for those using AMD Ryzen on Linux...
2024-11-22 14:35
Linux 6.13 Enhances Interactions Between Intel TDX Guests & VMMs
There are some new improvements in Linux 6.13 for the Intel TDX code for Trust Domain Extensions in providing hardware-based security protections for virtual machines on recent Xeon processors...
2024-11-22 12:47
AMD Linux Graphics Driver Now Allows Display Support With Modern GPUs On LoongArch
Following the Linux 6.13 DRM feature pull this week that brought many new open-source kernel graphics driver features, it's now time to further stabilize that new feature code with fixes. Sent out today were a batch of fixes for the AMDGPU/AMDKFD kerne...
2024-11-22 12:11
AMD Bus Lock Trap Support Merged For Linux 6.13
Going back to early in the year AMD Linux engineers began preparing support for a new Bus Lock Trap feature with Zen 5 CPUs. With the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel that support is being merged...
2024-11-22 09:00
Sched_Ext Changes Merged For Linux 6.13 With LLC & NUMA Awareness
One of the most prominent new features in Linux 6.12 was the merging of sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler innovations by altering the scheduling behavior through (e)BPF programs. With the Linux 6.13 kernel there are some nice refinements to t...
2024-11-22 06:47
XFS With Linux 6.13 Sees Major Rework To Real-Time Volumes
The XFS file-system updates were merged yesterday for the ongoing Linux 6.13 merge window...
2024-11-22 06:25
Intel NPU Library v1.4 Adds Turbo Mode & Tensor Operations
Version 1.4 of the Intel NPU Acceleration Library was released today as the Python library for use on Windows and Linux for interacting with the Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for AI offloading on recent Intel Core Ultra processors...
2024-11-22 06:16
New Sound Hardware Support In Linux 6.13
SUSE engineer and sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai has submitted all of the sound driver updates for the Linux 6.13 kernel...
2024-11-22 06:05
Warehouse Makes Managing Flatpak Apps on Ubuntu Easy
Flatpak is no longer just a promising format whose potential lay in the far future – it’s already the go-to way for developers to package and distribute their software on Linux, including to those of us using Ubuntu. While Ubuntu has no plans to su...
2024-11-21 23:50
Nice File Performance Optimizations Coming With Linux 6.13
In addition to the pull requests managed by Microsoft engineer Christian Brauner for VFS untorn writes for atomic writes with XFS and EXT4, Tmpfs case insensitive file/folder support, new Rust file abstractions, and the renewed multi-grain timestamps w...
2024-11-21 21:02
Mesa 24.3 Open-Source Graphics Stack Adds Vulkan 1.3 Conformance for V3DV
Mesa 24.3 open-source graphics stack is now available with Vulkan 1.3 conformance for V3DV, updates for ANV, RADV, and NVK drivers, and improvements for several video games. Here’s what’s new! The post Mesa 24.3 Open-Source Graphics Stack Adds Vulk...
2024-11-21 18:06
Faster Raspberry Pi Graphics & Intel Xe3 Enablement Starts With Linux 6.13 DRM Changes
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.13 merge window in bringing many updates to the open-source kernel graphics/display drivers as well as the accelerator subsystem...
2024-11-21 16:27
ReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel
Linus Torvalds just merged the change to the Linux 6.13 kernel that goes ahead and deletes the ReiserFS file-system from the source tree. Removing ReiserFS from the Linux tree lightens the kernel by 32.8k lines of code...
2024-11-21 13:15
EdgeIQ and Ubuntu Core; bringing security and scalability to device management 
Today, EdgeIQ and Canonical announced the release of the EdgeIQ Coda snap and official support of Ubuntu Core on the EdgeIQ Symphony platform. EdgeIQ Symphony helps you simplify and scale workflows for device fleet operations, data consumption and deli...
2024-11-21 12:46
Mesa 24.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements
Mesa 24.3 has managed to make it out today, one week ahead of the previous release plans due to the lack of any major blocker bugs appearing. Mesa 24.3 has a lot of new feature work on the contained open-source Vulkan drivers as well as evolutionary im...
2024-11-21 12:20
Linux 6.13 SoC Updates Land With Initial Support For Many Older Apple Devices
The four pull requests adding various SoC and board/platform support have now been merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel. This includes support for many older Apple iPad/iPhones, supporting another SoC with a combination of RISC-V and ARM cores, and a wide ...
2024-11-21 10:17
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS end of life: standard support is coming to an end. Here’s how to prepare. 
In 2025, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) will reach the end of its standard five-year support window. It’s time to start thinking about your options for upgrading. What is an Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) release?  Ubuntu long-term support releases ...
2024-11-21 10:08
Zrythm 1.0 Released For Powerful Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation
Zrythm 1.0 released today as a big milestone for this open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software that caters from professional users down to beginners...
2024-11-21 10:00
Khronos Announces Slang Initiative From Open-Source NVIDIA Code
On top of an exciting Vulkan spec update out today, The Khronos Group has announced the Slang Initiative based on NVIDIA's open-source Slang compiler code...
2024-11-21 09:42