Linux 6.14 Thermal Drivers Get Ready For Intel Panther Lake
Intel's upstreaming work around the next-gen Core Ultra "Panther Lake" processors continues for the Linux kernel. Among other code being prepped for submitting during the Linux 6.14 merge window, on Monday the thermal driver updates were focused on ena...
Linus Torvalds Adapts Linux User Address Masking To Use CMOV
In addition to merging a number of the pull requests yesterday for the start of the Linux 6.14 cycle, Linux creator Linus Torvalds did merge some of his own new code as well. While his time these days working on new kernel code itself is more limited w...
Bcachefs Changes Merged Without Issue For The Linux 6.14 Kernel
As a follow-up to yesterday's article around the on-disk format changes and other feature work on Bcachefs for Linux 6.14, the changes ended up being merged without issue for this next kernel version. That came after the Bcachefs changes were rejected ...
Refine (Advanced GNOME Settings Apps) Adds More Options
A clutch of new customisation and configuration options were added to Refine, a GTK4/libadwaita app in the vein of GNOME Tweaks (but better), over the weekend. Refine is compelling due to its goal of offering the “convenience to add or remove options...
openSUSE Board Elections Update
Members of the openSUSE Election Committee have informed the project that Board elections are underway. Four candidates are running for three open seats. The final candidate list is: Chuck Payne Ish Sookun Jeff Mahoney Rachel Schrader Key Dates Jan. 19...
An Introduction to Open Source Licensing for complete beginners
Open source is one of the most exciting, but often misunderstood, innovations of our modern world. I still remember the first time I installed linux on my laptop, saw the vast array of packages I could install on it, all the utilities and libraries tha...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 19th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for January 19th, 2025, brings news about Linux kernel 6.13, Linux Mint 22.1, MX Linux 23.5, OpenZFS 2.3, DXVK 2.5.3, Dillo 3.2, as well as all the latest distro and software updates. The post 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: Janu...
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Arrives For Linux Testing
Earlier this month at CES was the announcement of the GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" series. Among the first of these consumer Blackwell GPUs is the GeForce RTX 5090 flagship graphics card that is set to retail for $1999 USD. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Fo...
Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q4 Adds Battlemage GPU Support
Intel software engineers overnight published their new quarterly release of the Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel, the collection of the company's patches against this open-source multimedia library for enhancing the Intel GPU acceleration support while the patch...
