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Linux Patches Adjust AC Plug/Unplug Behavior During s2idle To Match Windows
A set of patches sent out on Saturday by AMD Linux engineer Mario Limonciello seek to adjust the Linux behavior for laptops/handhelds during AC plug/unplug events during s2idle to better match that of Microsoft Windows 11...
2025-02-09 13:10
Curious Intel Linux Driver Maintainer Changes In Recent Days
This week besides the drama over Apple Silicon maintainership for the upstream Linux kernel, in recent days there has also been a number of rather subtle changes to the maintainership of several Intel Linux kernel drivers...
2025-02-09 10:33
Intel ISPC 1.26 Compiler Delivers Improved ARM Support
Intel's ISPC project as the Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as this C language variant for Single Program, Multiple Data programming on CPUs and GPUs is out with a new release...
2025-02-09 08:00
New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel
This week was the dramatic decision by Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin to step down as upstream kernel maintainer for the Apple Silicon (ARM) code following friction with other kernel developers over Rust affairs within the kernel. He still in...
2025-02-09 06:39
Linux FineIBT-BHI Updated For Toughening Up FineIBT Kernel Defenses
Intel Linux engineer Peter Zijlstra has updated his set of patches implementing FineIBT-BHI mitigations for toughening up the FineIBT kernel protections previously introduced. This FineIBT-BHI code depends upon newly-merged code for the LLVM Clang comp...
2025-02-09 06:29
Wine-Staging 10.1 Delivers 361 Patches Atop Upstream Wine
Following the release of Wine 10.1 on Friday for kicking off the new bi-weekly development releases after last month's Wine 10.0 stable release, Wine-Staging 10.1 is out today to get things moving once again for this experimental flavor of Wine...
2025-02-09 06:17
Contribute to GNOME Software with DNF5 Test Day
The DNF5 team is working on ironing out bugs around matching the existing functionality of GNOME Software with PackageKit. The DNF and QA teams have organized a test week from Monday,February 10, 2025 to Monday, February 17, 2025. The wiki page in this...
2025-02-08 18:36
How to Disable ‘App is Ready’ Notifications in Ubuntu
Finding yourself annoyed at those ‘window is ready’ notifications which pop-up when you open some apps in GNOME Shell on Ubuntu? If so, you can disable them by installing a GNOME Shell extension. Now, notifications are helpful—heck, vital when th...
2025-02-08 12:43
SysVinit 3.14 Released: Overcomes Three Decade Limitation Of Inittab Line Length
For those continuing to make use of SysVinit as the aging init system that in the Linux world has been largely replaced by systemd, SysVinit 3.14 is out today and overcomes a long-standing limitation around the length of lines within the inittab files...
2025-02-08 12:33
Clang Thread Safety Checks Begin Uncovering Bugs In The Linux Kernel
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week were two competing solutions for new LLVM Clang capability / thread safety analysis to the Linux kernel. Two developers had separately been working on implementations for the Linux kernel to make use of...
2025-02-08 11:02
Monthly News – January 2025
Hi everyone, We received donations from 852 people in December, for an all-time monthly record of $31,720! Every time this number goes up I think of it the same way. I imagine that many people in one big room, all there just for us. Imagine it for a mo...
2025-02-08 10:29
GNU G-Golf v0.8 Released For Writing GTK Apps In Guile/Scheme
Years in the making, GNU G-Golf 0.8 was released on Friday as a significant release for this GNU project. No, it's not a golfing simulator or anything like that, but rather a Guile Object Library for GNOME so that you can develop GTK applications from ...
2025-02-08 07:00
FEX 2502 Delivers Fix For Steam, Multi-Block Improvements For Better Performance
FEX 2502 is out today as the newest monthly feature release to this user-space emulator for running x86/x86_64 Linux binaries on ARM64 Linux including the likes of Wine/Proton and Steam for being able to enjoy modern games on AArch64 Linux systems...
2025-02-08 06:40
KDE Plasma 6.3 Receives Final Polishing Prior To Release Next Week
The KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop has received a lot of last minute polishing and fixes ahead of its planned release next week. Plasma 6.3 is scheduled for its stable debut next Tuesday on 11 February...
2025-02-08 06:16
FreeBSD 13.5 Beta Begins Preparing For The Last Of The FreeBSD 13 Series
The FreeBSD 13.5 release dance has begun for closing out the FreeBSD 13 series...
2025-02-08 06:06
Wine 10.1 Released With Many Changes: Fixes For Battle.net, Continued Bluetooth Driver
Following last month's release of Wine 10.0 as the newest annual stable release of Wine for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms, Wine 10.1 is out today. Wine 10.1 kicks off the bi-weekly development release cycle trek that w...
2025-02-07 18:57
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS standard support is coming to an end – options for AWS Users
As our recent blog post mentioned, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) is reaching the end of its standard support period. This means the free version will no longer receive security updates. For AWS users, you have two options: upgrade to a newer LTS versi...
2025-02-07 18:39
GNOME's LocalSearch Metadata Extractor Ditches GStreamer For FFmpeg
While the GNOME project has long been closely tied to the GStreamer multimedia framework, GNOME's LocalSearch has decided to abandon its GStreamer use in favor of using FFmpeg/libav directly...
2025-02-07 16:43
IO_uring Zero-Copy Receive Support Ready For Linux 6.15 Networking
It's looking like IO_uring zero-copy receive support should be ready for the Linux 6.15 kernel cycle this spring...
2025-02-07 13:57
Calibre 7.25 Adds Support for Importing KFX Files from 2024 Kindle Devices via MTP
Calibre 7.25 open-source ebook management software is now available for download with support for importing KFX files from 2024 Kindle devices that use the MTP protocol. The post Calibre 7.25 Adds Support for Importing KFX Files from 2024 Kindle Device...
2025-02-07 13:31