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FreeBSD In Q4 Saw More Work For AMD Systems, Framework Laptops & PinePhone Pro
The FreeBSD project this morning published their quarterly status report that outlines all of the interesting OS improvements and other changes made during Q4'2024...
2025-02-27 08:45
Fish 4.0 Shell Released With Code Ported From C++ To Rust
Entering beta last year was the Fish Shell 4.0 release that migrated its codebase from C++ to Rust. Out today is the first stable 4.0 release for the Rust-ed version of the popular Fish Shell...
2025-02-27 08:24
AMD Open-Sources GMLIB For RadeonSI Driver - Working On HDR Video Support
Merged today for Mesa 25.1 is introducing a new previously AMD-internal library to the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver dubbed GMLIB. This GMLIB code is being used by RadeonSI in conjunction with Radeon GPUs having the Video Processing Engine (VPE...
2025-02-27 06:58
x86 32-bit Changes Look To Be Ready For Linux 6.15 - Drops Support For More Than 4GB RAM
Over the past few months there's been an in-progress patch series by Arnd Bergmann for cleaning up the x86 32-bit kernel support for running on x86_64 CPUs. After the third iteration of the patches were posted this week, these x86 32-bit CPU clean-ups ...
2025-02-27 06:34
Zink Working On A "Nice Performance Boost" For OpenCL / DaVinci Resolve
Mike Blumenkrantz as the lead developer of Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation and working for Valve as part of their Linux graphics team has been spending much time recently optimizing for OpenCL with the Rusticl Gallium3D driver...
2025-02-27 06:25
Mozilla Introducing ‘Terms of Use’ to Firefox
Hot off the back of its recent leadership rejig, Mozilla has announced users of Firefox will soon be subject to a ‘Terms of Use’ policy — a first for the iconic open source web browser. “Although we’ve historically relied on our open source l...
2025-02-26 19:45
Mozilla is Introducing ‘Terms of Use’ to Firefox
Hot off the back of its recent leadership rejig, Mozilla has announced users of Firefox will soon be subject to a ‘Terms of Use’ policy — a first for the iconic open source web browser. “Although we’ve historically relied on our open source l...
2025-02-26 19:45
Git 2.49-rc0 Released With "git backfill", zlib-ng Preparations & Rust Interface
Git maintainer Junio C Hamano announced Git 2.49-rc0 today as an early preview release for the next version of this widely-used, distributed version control system...
2025-02-26 13:57
5G without compromise: Building mission-critical private networks for Industry 4.0 with open source
Enterprises across industry verticals are looking for new ways to increase the efficacy of their businesses. One way to do this is building an efficient pipeline of processes, employees, devices, and services that are all tightly integrated to get the ...
2025-02-26 11:00
AMD EPYC Turin Power Profile Selection Impact On Performance & Efficiency
Last week I published an article looking at the power efficiency of 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" using the modern AMD P-State driver and the Power Profile options. The AMD P-State driver being used by default now for the EPYC 9005 series processors on Linu...
2025-02-26 11:00
AMD Driver Lands DCC For Multi-Plane Formats With RDNA4, Tiling For Video Buffers
More RadeonSI Gallium3D changes worth mentioning have landed today in Mesa 25.1 Git for the open-source Linux graphics driver stack...
2025-02-26 08:55
Intel Graphics Driver With Linux 6.15 To Allow Tuning The GuC Power Profile
Following the various Intel graphics driver feature updates sent out earlier this week in building up the new kernel graphics/display driver features for Linux 6.15, another prominent pull request was sent out yesterday with additional material...
2025-02-26 06:51
FineIBT-BHI Looks To Be Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.15 To Provide Tougher Kernel Defenses
FineIBT-BHI as a means of tougher kernel defenses for fending off Branch History Injection (BHI) looks like it will be ready for upstreaming in next month's Linux 6.15 merge window...
2025-02-26 06:30
Mesa's Vulkan WSI Now Supports Wayland Color Management
Adding to the flurry of open-source work recently around the merged Wayland color management protocol for supporting HDR, the Mesa Vulkan Windowing System Integration (WSI) code has added support for this protocol...
2025-02-26 06:17
Spectre Mitigations Being Worked On For BPF Programs
A "request for comments" patch series sent out on Monday is working on Spectre mitigations for BPF programs using speculation barriers...
2025-02-26 06:08
Framework Announces Framework Desktop and 2-in-1 Framework Laptop 12
Framework announced the Framework Desktop and Framework Laptop 12, along with an updated Framework Laptop 13. Here are the details! The post Framework Announces Framework Desktop and 2-in-1 Framework Laptop 12 appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not repro...
2025-02-26 00:13
Framework Announces Ryzen AI Max Powered Desktop, Framework Laptop 12
Earlier today Framework Computer held a virtual and in-person event to announce their 2nd gen offerings in the form of a mini-ITX desktop powered by the new Ryzen AI Max SoCs, a 2-in-1 convertible laptop with the Framework Laptop 12, and Ryzen AI 300 s...
2025-02-25 20:22
Christoph Hellwig Steps Down From One Of His Kernel Roles Following Rust Drama
Following the recent Rust drama within the Linux kernel that came out in part because Christoph Hellwig expressed objections to Rust bindings for the DMA mapping helpers that he is a maintainer of, Hellwig has now stepped down as one of the DMA mapping...
2025-02-25 18:42
KDE Plasma 6.3.2 Released with Animated WebP and GIF Support for Spectacle
KDE Plasma 6.3.2 is now available as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series with more bug fixes and other improvements. The post KDE Plasma 6.3.2 Released with Animated WebP and GIF Support for Spectacle a...
2025-02-25 16:54
App Grid Wizard Puts GNOME Shell Shortcuts into Folders
The application picker (aka app grid) in GNOME Shell is pretty perfect as it comes, showing launchers for installed apps plus the ability to rearrange them using drag and drop and create custom folders to group apps together. Some folks prefer a little...
2025-02-25 16:44