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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
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
GNU C Library glibc 2.41 Release Coming Soon With Many New Features
The GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 release should be out around the very end of January or start of February. With glibc 2.41 there are many new features coming to this widely-used libc implementation by Linux systems and elsewhere...
2025-01-03 06:41
Intel Battlemage, Raspberry Pi 500 & Linux 6.13 Excited Linux Users In December
While there was the year-end holidays, daily activity on Phoronix doesn't let up and over the course of December there were 256 original news articles around Linux/open-source on the site along with 24 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page bench...
2025-01-03 06:31
KDE Internet of Things "Kiot" Started To Provide Nice Home Assistant Integration
Longtime KDE developer David Edmundson has recently been cleaning up some scripts he's been using personally for a few years to enhance the integration between the KDE desktop and Home Assistant for open-source home automation. This work has evolved in...
2025-01-03 06:16
Patches Proposed To Begin Plumbing 32-bit LoongArch CPU Support For The Linux Kernel
Merged back in 2022 for the Linux 5.19 kernel was the LoongArch port for that Chinese processor architecture derived from MIPS and inspired in part by RISC-V. Over the past two and a half years the LoongArch Linux kernel port has continued to mature wh...
2025-01-02 15:32
32 Patches Merged For More Unification Between RadeonSI OpenGL & RADV Vulkan Drivers
Well known AMD open-source Linux graphics developer Marek Olšák landed some nice Mesa 25.0 optimizations for Christmas and now in kicking off the new year he's managed another interesting set of patches for the AMD Radeon Linux graphics stack...
2025-01-02 15:14
Linux Patches Updated For Experimental Arm Morello That Combines Arm + CHERIA ISA
Arm today sent out their third iteration of their Linux kernel patches for adding Arm Morello platform support to the kernel: an experimental extension of Armv8.2-A paired with the CHERI v7 ISA...
2025-01-02 11:19
Linux Patches Updated For Experimental Arm Morello That Combines Arm + CHERI ISA
Arm today sent out their third iteration of their Linux kernel patches for adding Arm Morello platform support to the kernel: an experimental extension of Armv8.2-A paired with the CHERI v7 ISA...
2025-01-02 11:19
Linux Prepares AMD "SRSO_USER_KERNEL_NO" Support For Zen 5 CPUs
Queued up this week via the tip/tip.git's "x86/bugs" Git branch for the Linux kernel is AMD "SRSO_USER_KERNEL_NO" support as a new SRSO/Inception mitigation handling seemingly for Zen 5 processors and beyond...
2025-01-02 10:38