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Intel Touch Host Controller Drivers Nearing The Mainline Linux Kernel
For the past several months Intel Linux software engineers have been working on Intel Touch Host Controller drivers as an IP block on the PCH for handling touchscreen, touchpad, and related touch input devices. On Sunday the fourth iteration of these d...
2025-01-06 06:14
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 5th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for January 5th, 2025, brings news about Debian 13 installer alpha, KDE Plasma 6.2.5, Nobara 41, PeaZip 10.2, as well as all the latest distro and software updates. The post 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 5th, 2025 appea...
2025-01-06 00:39
Linux 6.13-rc6 Released Following A Fairly Quiet Week
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.13-rc6 as the newest weekly test release of the Linux 6.13 kernel that is working its way toward stable later in January...
2025-01-05 17:28
ChromeOS UCSI Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.14 Cycle
With the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle Google is poised to have its ChromeOS UCSI driver upstreamed...
2025-01-05 12:21
Xubuntu 25.04 Preparing Xfce 4.20 Desktop Upgrade
For fans of the Xubuntu derivative of Ubuntu Linux, the upcoming Xubuntu 25.04 release will feature the Xfce 4.20 desktop...
2025-01-05 10:58
Phoronix Forums Upgrade - Helping To Improve Site Responsiveness
This morning I rolled out upgraded forum software to improve the forum experience and also hopefully help the overall Phoronix.com site performance with the database server being hammered recently from the forums...
2025-01-05 08:47
Loongson Introducing An EDAC Driver For LoongArch + ECC Memory Systems
Loongson's LoongArch processors for the Chinese market have been primarily for desktop systems but it looks like their workstation/server ambitions may be growing with now contributing an Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) driver for Loongson SoCs w...
2025-01-05 06:51
Serpent OS Demonstrates Working Offline Rollbacks With Its Package Manager
Hot off the recent Serpent OS Alpha release and talking up new features for 2025, this original Linux distribution led by open-source developer Ikey Doherty is now demonstrating its offline rollback support with integration around its package managemen...
2025-01-05 06:42
Marvell Begins Working On Linux Support For Their Next-Gen Octeon "CN20K" DPU
For Marvell's line of Octeon line of data processing units (DPUs) and baseband processors, it looks like a new DPU is on the way with the CN20K silicon seeing work on enabling Linux support...
2025-01-05 06:17
Rusticl OpenCL Driver Nearing Cross-Vendor Shared Virtual Memory Support
Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst who continues persevering with the Rusticl Rust-based OpenCL driver for Mesa has an exciting late Christmas present on the way... He's been hacking on Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support for Rusticl that works across GPU v...
2025-01-04 07:27
GNOME Now Has Refine As An Alternative To GNOME Tweaks, Phosh 0.44 Released
There weren't too many changes this week for the GNOME project given the end of year holidays wrapping up and many taking time off. But This Week in GNOME is out with its newest issue to highlight the interesting desktop changes that did get made...
2025-01-04 06:36
LLVM Had Another Exciting Year With More Than 37k Commits, 35.5 Million Lines
LLVM development has peaked in recent years at around 37k commits per year for this huge, innovative open-source compiler stack. It was another very exciting year for this leading open-source compiler stack...
2025-01-04 06:27
KDE Starts 2025 With Accessibility Improvements & Better Graphics Tablet Controls
After a short break over the holidays, KDE developer Nate Graham is back with his "This Week in Plasma" series to highlight the interesting KDE Plasma desktop changes made each week...
2025-01-04 05:57
Bits from the DPL
Dear Debian community, this is bits from DPL for December. Happy New Year 2025! Wishing everyone health, productivity, and a successful Debian release later in this year. Strict ownership of packages I'm glad my last bits sparked discussions about barr...
2025-01-04 00:00
Wine 10.0-rc4 Released With Another 13 Bugs Fixed
In gearing up for the Wine 10.0 stable release that is likely to take place later in January, Wine 10.0-rc4 is out today as the newest test release to deliver the latest bug fixes...
2025-01-03 19:15
New Linux Patches Enhance AMD Radeon Video Encode/Decode For Older GPUs
Since Raven/Picasso APUs and Navi GPUs there is Video Core Next (VCN) as the modern unified video encode/decode block for Radeon graphics. But for those with older Radeon GPUs where there are the Unified Video Decode (UVD) and Video Coding Engine (VCE)...
2025-01-03 13:36
Cloudflare Talks Up Multi-Path TCP But Dings Linux's Less Than Ideal Support
The folks at Cloudflare have published another great engineering blog post with this time covering Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP) as a very interesting addition to the TCP spec. But there they acknowledge the less than ideal Linux support especially on the cli...
2025-01-03 10:25
LibreOffice 25.2 RC1 Brings Many Open-Source Office Suite Improvements
LibreOffice 25.2 Release Candidate 1 is out for testing today ahead of the stable release of this free software office suite around the start of February...
2025-01-03 10:05
systemd Saw A Record Number Of Commits In 2024
While systemd has been around for a decade and a half, it's showing no signs of slowing down for driving new innovations to Linux for this system and service manager...
2025-01-03 08:48
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