Porting the curl command-line tool and library with Goa
For more than a decade, we have a port of the curl library for Genode available. With the use of Sculpt OS as a daily driver as well as the plan to run Goa natively on Sculpt OS by the end of the year, the itch to also port the curl command-line tool b...
DRM User-Space API For Apple Silicon Graphics Posted For Review
While the Asahi AGX Gallium3D and Honeykrisp Vulkan drivers continue to be developed within mainline Mesa for supporting OpenGL and Vulkan with Apple Silicon M1/M2 SoCs, the necessary Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver has yet to be upstreame...
Building generative AI? Get ready for generative UI
There’s currently no stopping generative AI spending. Analyst firm Omdia expects spending on generative AI applications to hit $58 billion by 2028. Yet while this level of investment is a significant amount, actual deployment of generative AI applic...
Vibes won’t make your software successful
I regret to inform you that vibes don’t pay the bills. Specifically, open source vibes. For as long as I’ve followed open source, there has been a tendency for the industry to focus on normative values of open source, i.e., why people should embra...
Fedora Community Ops 2024 Reboot: A Retrospective
The Fedora Community Operations (CommOps) Initiative, formally titled “Community Ops 2024 Reboot,” ran from late 2023 to December 2024, aiming to bolster community support within the Fedora Project. This initiative demonstrated a strong interest wi...
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...
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 ...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 9th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for March 9th, 2025, brings news about Firefox 136, Ubuntu Touch OTA-8, PipeWire 1.4, GNOME 48 Release Candidate, KeePassXC 2.7.10, KDE Gear 24.12.3, Clonezilla Live 3.2.1, Garuda Linux “Broadwing”, Firefox 137 beta, Mo...
Dash to Panel GNOME Extension Gets Big Update
A big update to the perennially popular GNOME Shell extension Dash to Panel is rolling out, including new settings to go from Dash to Panel to dock mode! Admittedly, that doesn’t sound like a new feature given that Dash to Panel is based on code from...
