ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

GNOME Mutter Now "Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend"

([GNOME] 5 November 08:15 AM EST GNOME Mutter Removes X11)

The merge to GNOME Mutter has finally happened that "completely drops" the X11 back-end to make GNOME strictly focused on Wayland-based environments.



LXQt 2.3 Released With Improved Wayland Support

([Desktop] 5 November 08:08 AM EST LXQt 2.3)

LXQt 2.3 is out today as the newest release of this lightwight, Qt-based desktop environment.



3mdeb Achieves Good Progress Porting Coreboot+OpenSIL To AMD Turin Motherboard

([Coreboot] 5 November 06:04 AM EST Gigabyte MZ33-AR1)

Over the past few months the open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb has been porting Coreboot and AMD's new openSIL silicon initialization library to the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1. The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 is a broadly available motherboard that supports the latest-generation AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" server processors. 3mdeb has been fairly successful in their quest and an early demonstrator for openSIL.



systemd-appd Is A New Component Being Planned By Flatpak Developers

([Free Software] 5 November 05:50 AM EST systemd-appd)

Given this week's release of Flatpak 1.17 for app sandboxing, open-source developer Sebastian Wick published a blog post on Tuesday around the latest Flatpak developments and a look ahead at some of the feature development planned. Arguably most significant of that is the plans for systemd-appd.



AMD Contributes BFloat16 Support To LLVM's SPIR-V Target

([LLVM] 4 November 08:32 PM EST AMD + BF16 + LLVM + SPIR-V)

AMD software engineers continue making interesting contributions to the LLVM compiler stack around SPIR-V as the IR used by Vulkan and other Khronos APIs.



Benchmarking The AMD EPYC 9V64H: Azure HBv5's Custom AMD CPU With HBM3

([Cloud] 4 November 02:00 PM EST 17 Comments)

Nearly one year ago Microsoft announced the HBv5 virtual machines powered by a custom-designed AMD 4th Gen EPYC processor with high bandwidth memory (HBM3). Finally today the Azure HBv5 series is reaching general availability for those with memory-intensive HPC applications and other workloads. Microsoft kindly provided Phoronix with HBv5 access in advance to begin testing these new VMs with the AMD EPYC 9V64H CPUs featuring HBM memory, so here are some of the first independent benchmarks of these exciting processors powering Azure's new HPC VM instances.



Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund Announced For Long-Term Support To Rust Developers

([Programming] 4 November 01:00 PM EST Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund)

The Rust Foundation announced today the creation of the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund as a new means of providing consistent, transparent, and long-term support for developers that make the Rust programming language possible.



Linux 6.19 Will Finally Support Intel's Adaptive Sharpness Filter "CASF" With Lunar Lake

([Intel] 4 November 10:51 AM EST Intel CASF)

Going all the way back to early 2024, Intel Linux engineers have been working on supporting an Adaptive Sharpening Filter new to Lunar Lake. While Lunar Lake later launched in September 2024, the Linux patches for this feature remained under review and discussion. Besides the Intel driver implementation itself for Lunar Lake and newer, it also ushers in a new DRM sharpness property to help standardize such functionality for user-space that could be used by other kernel graphics drivers. Finally with the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel, this Intel Content Adaptive Sharpness Filter "CASF" feature is being introduced to the mainline kernel.



Open Container Initiative "OCI" Runtime Spec v1.3 Released With FreeBSD Support

([BSD] 4 November 10:00 AM EST OCI v1.3)

The Open Container Initiative unveiled today the OCI Runtime Specification v1.3 update for this standard around operating system process and application containers. This runtime specification continues to evolve for outlining the configuration, execution environment, and lifecycle of a container. Notable with the v1.3 revision is introducing official FreeBSD support.



MIPS64EL & ARMEL Architectures Dropped In Debian Unstable/Experimental

([Debian] 4 November 09:35 AM EST End Of The Road)

The ARMEL and MIPS64EL architectures have been dropped from Debian unstable and experimental. This is the end of the road for these aging ARM and MIPS targets in the Debian world.



AMD's Zen 5 RDSEED Issue Is Causing Headaches For Optimized CachyOS Builds

([Operating Systems] 4 November 08:20 AM EST Zen 5)

AMD's RDSEED issue with Zen 5 processors that is in the process of being addressed with microcode/BIOS updates is in the interim causing headaches for Arch Linux powered CachyOS that provides optimized binaries for these latest Ryzen processors.



Wild 0.7 Released For This Very Fast Linker Written In Rust

([Programming] 4 November 06:18 AM EST Wild 0.7)

Wild 0.7 released on Monday as the newest feature release for this very fast linker for Linux systems competing with Mold on x86_64 / ARM64 / RISC-V devices.



Intel's LLM-Scaler Updated With OpenAI's GPT-OSS Model Support

([Intel] 4 November 06:06 AM EST llm-scaler-vllm)

Back in August was the announcement of LLM-Scaler as part of Project Battlematrix. LLM-Scaler is a new Intel software project to provide optimized AI inference capabilities on Intel graphics hardware. A new beta release of LLM-Scaler "llm-scaler-vllm" is now available with expanded LLM model coverage.



SUSE Provides U-Boot Support For The Raspberry Pi 5

([Raspberry Pi] 4 November 05:56 AM EST Raspberry Pi 5 + U-Boot)

SUSE's hardware enablement team has worked through proper U-Boot support for the Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer.



libinput 1.30-rc1 Released With Lua Plugin Support

([X.Org] 4 November 05:34 AM EST libinput 1.30)

The libinput input handling library for the Linux desktop on both Wayland and X.Org based systems is rolling out Lua plug-in support. Out today is libinput 1.30-rc1 with the initial infrastructure for supporting plug-ins written in the Lua scripting language.



Intel Preparing Linux Graphics Driver For Xe3P DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM Support

([Intel] 3 November 08:30 PM EST Advanced Link Power Management)

Last month Intel's open-source Linux software engineers began sending out Xe3P_LPD display support in preparation for display capabilities with Nova Lake. Now being built out atop that is further functionality with the most recent talking point being DisplayPort 2.1 Advanced Link Power Management (ALPM).



Rust-Based Redox OS Gets Servo Web Engine Running - Sort Of

([Operating Systems] 3 November 05:55 PM EST Redox OS + Servo)

The Rust-based Redox OS open-source operating system project is out with its October 2025 status report. Most notable is this Rust-based OS now having the Rust-based Servo web engine running... Albeit in extremely crude form at the moment.



Linux 6.19 To Optimize Exiting To User-Space For Restartable Sequences

([Linux Kernel] 3 November 05:45 PM EST Lnux 6.19 RSEQ Optimization)

Queued up in a TIP branch ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window opening in about one month's time is optimizing the Restartable Sequences "RSEQ" code for its exit to user-space code path.



Git 2.52-rc0 Starts Working On SHA1-SHA256 Interop, Hints For New Default Branch Name

([Programming] 3 November 12:28 PM EST Git 2.52-rc0)

The first test release of the Git 2.52 distributed revision control system is now available. As has been a common trend, Git 2.52 is making further preparations in anticipation of the big Git 3.0 milestone.



Flatpak 1.17 Adds Support For Sideloading From OCI Images, flatpak+HTTPS URIs

([Free Software] 3 November 11:39 AM EST Flatpak 1.17)

Flatpak 1.17 is out today as the newest feature release for this Linux app sandboxing/distribution tech. Flatpak 1.17 brings a number of exciting new features.



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Operating Systems Installed:
* Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 4 CD Set ($20 from www.chguy.net; price includes
taxes, shipping, and a $3 donation to FSF). 2 CDs are binaries, 2 CDs
complete source code;
* Windows 98 Second Edition Upgrade Version ($136 through Megadepot.com,
price does not include taxes/shipping). Surprisingly, no source code
is included.

-- Bill Stilwell, http://linuxtoday.com/stories/8794.html