RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 Available from $199
Framework make the most exciting laptops around —I don’t own one to be able to say they’re good, but the modular components, and upgradeable and repairable ethos is unlike anything else. As news earlier this year that owners would be able to swap...
Mesa 24.3-rc2 Brings Fixes For Intel & NVK Drivers
Last week Mesa 24.3 was finally branched and Mesa 24.3-rc1 subsequently issued for getting the release process kicked off for this quarterly 3D graphics driver feature release. Out today is Mesa 24.3-rc2 with an initial batch of fixes...
Board Election for Three Seats Opens
Members of the openSUSE’selection committee have provided notice to the project about the start of this year’s board election. This election there are three board seats up for grabs. The election begins its nomination process today and invites all ...
GNU C Library Merges Support for getrandom vDSO
Back in Linux 6.11 support for getrandom() in the vDSO was upstreamed for much better performance in providing speedy yet secure random number generation (RNG) needs. Since Linux 6.11 getrandom in the vDSO has expanded to more CPU architectures and now...
20th edition of Jesień Linuksowa
Jesień Linuksowa (Linux Autumn) was held in Rybnik, Poland, October 25–27, 2024. This was the 20th occurrence of this conference organized by the Polish Linux Users Group. The presenters and audience are mostly local, with about 50 participants, but...
VMware Workstation is Now Free for Commercial Use Too
Back in the spring, VMware did something unexpected: it made its desktop hypervisor software free to download and use on Windows, macOS, and Linux. No trial period, no in-app purchases, no feature limitations; the full version of VMware Workstation Pro...
Intel Idle Support For Granite Rapids D Going Into Linux 6.13
The "intel_idle" driver provides CPU idle time management for Intel processors on Linux for helping to put the processor into low-power states in conjunction with the MWAIT instruction. With the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel, the Granite Rapids D support ...
