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PhoronixSiliconLinux 7.3-rc5 Released: "Another Week, Another Large RC" In working toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release hopefully on 18 October, out today is Linux 7.3-rc5 as the newest weekly test candidate...
PhoronixSiliconBudgie 10.10.3 Released With Favorites In Budgie Menu, Labwc Bridge Improvements Budgie 10.10.3 is out today as the newest point release to this open-source desktop...
PhoronixSiliconLinux Kernel's LZ4 Compression Code Being Resynced For Better Performance & Cleanliness In addition to the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is also seeing a separate set of enhancements...
PhoronixSiliconIntel Delivers A Significant Memory Hotplugging Performance Optimization For Linux Adding to the features expected to land for Linux 7.4 is a significant performance optimization for the memory hotplugging speed for adding additional RAM.
PhoronixSiliconNew Linux Patches For Supporting Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G14's Second Camera For those considering Lenovo's recently launched and beautifully crafted ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 laptop powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", one of the lingering missing features…
PhoronixSiliconNew Patch Series Working Toward DRBD 9 Support In The Linux Kernel Earlier this year developers at LINBIT began working toward a goal of upstreaming ~15 years worth of their Distributed Replicated Block Device changes into the mainline Linux kernel.
PhoronixSiliconImproved GPU Reset Coming For Raspberry Pi Boards With Linux 7.4 In addition to this week's DRM-Misc-Next pull request introducing some new HDMI 2.0 helpers for the DRM drivers, the pull request also introduced improved GPU reset support for the Broadcom V3D GPU…
PhoronixSilicon"Toolpak" Being Devised By GNOME OS Developers, Akin To Flatpak For Tools GNOME developer Jordan Petridis published a blog post today to introduce the world to the Toolpak plans for GNOME OS...
PhoronixSiliconMM Change Slated For Linux 7.4 Yields +22904539.81% In One Metric, More Modest Wins In Others Queued this week into the slab/for-next Git branch ahead of next month's Linux 7.4 merge window is a memory management change for refilling pre-filled sheaves from the barn.
PhoronixSiliconAI Bug Fixes, Crescent Island Power Brake & Nouveau Fixes For Linux 7.3-rc5 DRM The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem fixes for the week are heavier on the side with many fixes to these kernel graphics/display drivers ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc5 release...
PhoronixSiliconAMDXDNA Linux Driver Being Enhanced For Current NPU3 Hardware The AMDXDNA open-source Linux kernel accelerator driver is seeing a fair amount of work for better supporting current-generation NPU3 neural processing units.
PhoronixSiliconKDE Plasma 6.8 Continues With Last Minute Tweaks & Fixes Even with this week's KDE Akademy conference and releasing KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2, KDE developers still found time to land last minute changes for Plasma 6.8 plus ongoing early work toward Plasma…
PhoronixSiliconLast Call For The Autumn Special For Ad-Free Viewing & Supporting Linux Hardware Testing Last call for the Phoronix autumn "Oktoberfest" Premium sale: it runs through end of day Sunday, 27 September (any timezone - I'm not particularly strict).
PhoronixSiliconNew FUTEX Syscalls Back To Being Worked On For Helping Valve's ARM64 Gaming Ambitions Going back to last year the Igalia open-source consulting firm has been working on enhancing the Linux kernel to help Steam Play gaming on ARM64 and ensuring the FEX emulator is operating efficiently…
PhoronixSiliconGDB 18.1 Debugger Brings Better Windows Support GDB 18.1 is out today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger that works across C/C++, Fortran, Rust, and other languages like Go, Ada, and more...
PhoronixSiliconRedox OS Adds IO_uring-Like API, NUMA & Gets QEMU Working The Redox OS open-source, Rust-based operating system has seen a lot of activity in recent weeks with many notable improvements landing...
PhoronixSiliconApproaching A 10 Second Linux Kernel Build The coffee window is closing. Going back many years with the time it's taken to compile the Linux kernel has been a well known opportunity for a coffee break or even eating a meal during the lengthy…
PhoronixSiliconPatches Posted For Enabling NVMe On All Apple M3 Based SoCs With Linux While Linux 7.2 brought initial Apple M3 support and Linux 7.3 brought M3 Pro / Max / Ultra support, the mainline Linux kernel support for the M3 series hardware remains very basic and not yet ready…
PhoronixSiliconAMD Sends Out New Linux Patches Further Enhancing HDMI 2.1 Reliability Linux 7.4 is going to be the big kernel release where the AMD graphics driver will finally expose HDMI 2.1 by default and comes with features including HDMI FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM.
PhoronixSiliconGo's Improving SIMD Support, Platform-Independent SIMD Interface A new blog post published on Thursday covers the experimental support for SIMD with the Go programming language.
PhoronixSiliconSamba 4.25 Released With Experimental SMB3 Persistent Handles Samba 4.25 is out as the newest stable release for this open-source software enabling file and print services sharing between Linux servers and Windows systems...
PhoronixSiliconLinux Kernel Developers Consider Adding AGENTS.md To Help Guide AI/LLM Agents While the Linux kernel continues to be bombarded with patches from AI/LLM agents, to date the kernel hasn't carried an AGENTS.md Markdown file with instructions catering to AI/LLM agents.
PhoronixSiliconQualcomm Posts Patches For Enabling GPU Support In Their Snapdragon X2 Mahua SoC Yesterday Qualcomm posted open-source GPU driver patches for their Adreno 850 GPU one day after being announced with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6.
PhoronixSiliconReactOS Lands Significant DirectX Stack Update From Wine For Enabling More Games The open-source ReactOS project striving to provide binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows applications/games as well as drivers took a huge step forward today with landing a significant update…
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