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ASUS PRIME X670E-PRO WIFI & AMD BC-250 Sensor Monitoring With Linux 6.15
The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates are building up ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window opening up later this month. Here is a look at a few of the HWMON changes worth mentioning to be found in this next version of the Linux kernel...
2025-03-10 09:00
Intel Preps Xe3's "Dirty Rect" Feature For Linux 6.15
Along with other exciting Intel kernel graphics driver updates submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window, another batch of drm-intel-next code was sent out today to DRM-Next. This pull request is mostly around bug fixing and other low-level wo...
2025-03-10 06:52
Linux's ARM Apple Support Now Has Another Code Reviewer
In hopefully helping Asahi Linux reduce their downstream patch burden and helping to enhance the overall flow of new Apple Silicon related code into the mainline Linux kernel, another developer has agreed to serve as an official code reviewer over the ...
2025-03-10 06:42
The New Rust-Written NVIDIA "NOVA" Driver Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15
For quite a while Red Hat engineers have been developing the open-source, Rust-written NOVA driver to in effect serve as the successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau driver that isn't too actively developed in more recent times. But unlike Nouveau's...
2025-03-10 00:00
Linux 6.14-rc6 Released With More Panther Lake Additions, AMD Microcode Signing Fix
Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.14-rc6 a few minutes ago as we work toward the stable Linux 6.14 kernel release later in March...
2025-03-09 20:20
AMD Preparing "High Precision" Mode For Upcoming Instinct MI350X (GFX950)
On Friday AMD sent out another batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver feature patches destined for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle. One notable feature in this late pull request is introducing a new "high precision" mode to be found with the GFX...
2025-03-09 10:27
Intel Preps Linux For "Platform Temperature Control" With Lunar Lake & Panther Lake SoCs
Intel's new Platform Temperature Control (PTC) feature is a hardware-based solution to manage skin and/or board temperatures of a device. Platform Temperature Control will adjust the SoC power/performance if the temperature thresholds are exceeded, whi...
2025-03-09 10:00
More Apple Silicon Updates For Linux 6.15 Help M1/M2 Plus iPad / iPod / iPhone
Already queued ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window opening later this month are DeviceTree support for Apple's T2 SoCs as well as other DeviceTree additions set to be mainlined. A third round of DeviceTree patches were sent out on Sunday morning to th...
2025-03-09 07:48
ALGOL 68 Compiler Front-End Not Being Merged Into GCC At This Point
ALGOL 68 is an imperative programming language that's more than a half-century old and went on to inspire and influence other programming languages. It has its place in programming language history but a recently published compiler front-end for ALGOL ...
2025-03-09 07:35
Intel NPU Firmware Files Upstreamed To linux-firmware.git
For two years now the Intel IVPU accelerator driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that's part of the Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" CPUs and newer. Only this week though was the firmware for the Intel NP...
2025-03-09 07:22
Wine Releases Framework Mono 6.14 In Taking Over The Mono Project
Last year Microsoft donated the Mono Project to Wine for its stewardship under the WineHQ umbrella. Today marks the Framework Mono 6.14 release as the first major Mono release in five years and the first under the WineHQ organization...
2025-03-08 12:28
Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 Enhances GNU Compatibility, Uutils To Port More Common Unix Tools
The uutils project has released Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 as the newest version of this GNU Coreutils rewrite within the Rust programming language. Uutils developers will also be targeting more common Unix tools to port over to Rust too...
2025-03-08 10:02
GTK On Android & macOS Seeing Improvements
In addition to Friday's very exciting GNOME 48 release candidate with some last minute features, there have also been some other GNOME-related changes this week to call out...
2025-03-08 07:07
Mesa's Venus Driver Adds Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support For VMs
Mesa's Venus driver that allows for 3D graphics acceleration within virtual machines is now able to make use of the Vulkan ray-tracing extensions when using Mesa 25.1-devel along with updated Venus Protocol and Virglrenderer code...
2025-03-08 06:50
Wine-Staging 10.3 Adds Patch For A 15 Year Old Bug
Building off yesterday's release of Wine 10.3 is now Wine-Staging 10.3 for this more experimental version of Wine that is presently shipping 347 experimental/testing patches atop the upstream state...
2025-03-08 06:38
KDE This Week Took Care Of "A Very Large Number Of Bugs"
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting KDE Plasma improvements merged for the week...
2025-03-08 06:22
Wine 10.3 Wires Up Wayland Driver Clipboard Handling, Vulkan Video Decode Within WineD3D
Wine 10.3 was just released as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to run Windows applications and games under Linux and other platforms...
2025-03-07 16:40
GNOME 48 Release Candidate Brings Late Mutter Features & Other Changes
The GNOME 48 release candidate "48.rc" is out this evening as we approach the stable release of the GNOME 48 desktop in two weeks...
2025-03-07 16:22
Vulkan Video Continues Making Inroads, VP9 Decode Planned For This Year
At the Vulkanised 2025 conference a few weeks back in Cambridge (UK) there were a few presentations concerning Vulkan Video for this cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode/decode interface...
2025-03-07 13:28
Ubuntu To Revert "-O3" Optimizations, Continues Quest For Easier ARM64 Installations
Canonical engineer Matthieu Clemenceau has posted a status update on the behalf of the Ubuntu Foundations engineers now half-way through the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle. A number of notable package updates have landed as well as continued work on be...
2025-03-07 11:10