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)

Intel Nova Lake Support Merged For GCC 16 Compiler

([Intel] 22 October 06:09 AM EDT GCC + Nova Lake)

Following last week LLVM/Clang 22 adding Intel Nova Lake with "-march=novalake" support, the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has now received similar treatment for the promising next-generation desktop processors.



Linux 6.19 To Support Sensor Monitoring On The ASUS ROG STRIX X870E-H GAMING WIFI7

([Hardware] 22 October 05:53 AM EDT ASUS ROG STRIX X870E-H GAMING WIFI7)

For those that have been considering the ASUS ROG STRIX X870E-H GAMING WIFI7 motherboard for a high-end AMD Ryzen 9000 series desktop, sensor monitoring support will soon be working under Linux.



OpenBSD 7.8 Released With Raspberry Pi 5 Support, AMD SEV Enablement

([BSD] 22 October 05:39 AM EDT OpenBSD 7.8)

Theo de Raadt released OpenBSD 7.8 today as the newest feature release to this popular BSD operating system.



AlmaLinux 10.1 Beta Released For Popular RHEL 10 Community Distribution

([Operating Systems] 21 October 08:40 PM EDT AlmaLinux 10.1 Beta)

Earlier today the AlmaLinux project announced their plans for supporting the Btrfs file-system contrary to the stance by Red Hat with upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They have capped off the day now by releasing the AlmaLinux 10.1 beta complete with this new Btrfs support.



Linux 6.19 To Enable Networking For The EIC7700 SoC Powering The SiFive Premier P550

([Linux Networking] 21 October 08:28 PM EDT Eswin EIC7700)

Upstreamed for the current Linux 6.18 cycle was finally having mainline support for the ESWIN EIC770 SoC with its four SiFive P550 cores plus having the DeviceTree support for the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board using that SoC. Sadly not making it though for Linux 6.18 was the Ethernet controller support for the EIC7700 SoC but that is now destined to arrive in Linux 6.19.



AlmaLinux 10.1 Will Support The Btrfs File-System

([Operating Systems] 21 October 03:19 PM EDT AlmaLinux + Btrfs)

It's been nearly a decade since Red Hat notably deprecated Btrfs back in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 after it being a tech preview in earlier versions of RHEL. While upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 remains on XFS and supporting the likes of Stratis Storage with LVM, AlmaLinux today announced that their AlmaLinux 10.1 release will support Btrfs.



Valkey 9.0 Released With Ability To Achieve One Billion Requests / Second

([Programming] 21 October 02:22 PM EDT Valkey 9.0)

Valkey as the popular, Linux Foundation backed fork of the Redis key-value database is out today with its big v9.0 release.



Intel Nova Lake To Feature 6th Gen NPU

([Intel] 21 October 11:59 AM EDT Intel Nova Lake NPU)

Following the recent Xe3P graphics enablement for Nova Lake as well as Nova Lake compiler target enablement and other early hardware enablement for Intel's Nova Lake processors, today has brought initial enablement for Nova Lake's NPU.



Revisiting The SNC3 vs. HEX Mode Performance With Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids

([Memory] 21 October 11:00 AM EDT Add A Comment)

Last year following the launch of the Intel Xeon 6900P Granite Rapids processors I ran some benchmarks looking at the SNC3 vs. HEX clustering mode performance. With having an Intel Xeon 6980P server back up and running on a Giga Computing R284-A92-AAL server after my AvenueCity reference server failed nearly one year ago, I revisited the SNC3 vs. HEX clustering performance for those curious how it's looking on a modern software stack and with new/updated benchmarks.



TARmageddon Strikes: High Profile Security Vulnerability In Popular Rust Library

([Programming] 21 October 10:38 AM EDT TARmageddon)

Going public today is CVE-2025-62518, or better known by the name given by the security researchers involved: TARmageddon. The TARmageddon vulnerability affects the popular async-tar Rust library and its various forks like tokio-tar. In turn TARmageddon impacts the uv Python package manager and other users of this library.



More Kernel Graphics Driver & Accelerator/NPU Driver Updates Ready For Linux 6.19

([Linux Kernel] 21 October 09:58 AM EDT drm-misc-next)

Following the initial set of drm-misc-next updates for Linux 6.19, another round of drm-misc-next updates were sent out today in queuing ahead of that next kernel cycle. There are a number of updates to the smaller DRM graphics/display drivers as well as growing activity around the accelerator "accel" open-source drivers for different NPUs / AI accelerators.



AMD PMF Linux Driver Working On AMD SystemDeck Support

([AMD] 21 October 06:31 AM EDT AMD SystemDeck)

The AMD Platform Management Framework "PMF" Linux driver is being extended to enable better integration with user-space tooling. AMD SystemDeck is the initial beneficiary of the integration improvements to this AMD platform Linux driver.



Linux 6.19 Will Add Support For The Logitech G13 Keypad - 17 Years After Hardware Debut

([Hardware] 21 October 06:15 AM EDT Logitech G13)

The Linux 6.19 kernel coming out in early 2026 will add full support for the Logitech G13 gaming keypad, a device first launched back in 2009. Some functionality has worked in Linux over the past 17 years while full support is only coming to this next version of the Linux kernel.



Blender 5.1 Aiming For Vulkan By Default, More Improvements Coming

([Free Software] 21 October 06:05 AM EDT Blender 5.1 + Vulkan)

While the Blender 5.0 3D modeling software is being released next month, there is already exciting changes to look forward to with Blender 5.1 in the new year. Beyond AMD HIP-RT ray-tracing by default in Blender 5.1, this follow-on Blender release is also planning on enabling Vulkan API support by default.



KDE Plasma 6.5 Released With Rounded Bottom Window Corners, Better HDR & Much More

([KDE] 21 October 05:51 AM EDT KDE Plasma 6.5)

KDE Plasma 6.5 is out today as the newest major feature release for the Plasma 6 desktop. Plasma 6.5 brings many great improvements and continues further evolving this modern, Wayland-focused open-source desktop.



AMD ROCm 7.9 Running In Early Tests On Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo"

([Radeon] 20 October 09:30 PM EDT ROCm 7.9)

The most unexpected surprise today was AMD releasing ROCm 7.9 as a new technology preview / development branch for the open-source ROCm GPU compute stack just one month after formally releasing ROCm 7.0. While not a fan of how they handled the version discontinuity, ROCm 7.9 has been working out well in my very initial tests on AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo".



Tellusim Core SDK Opens Up For Use By OSI-Approved Open-Source Projects

([Linux Gaming] 20 October 08:27 PM EDT Tellusim Core SDK)

Over the weekend we wrote about the visually-impressive Tellusim Core SDK being posted to GitHub as a C++ SDK for high-end graphics and compute. The downside was that the Tellusim Core SKD was rather restrictive in only being free for education, free for companies with less than $200k USD in annual revenue, and evaluation purposes. Or you needed to obtain a negotiated license for the software. As a pleasant surprise, OSI-approved open-source projects not backed by for-profit organizations can now openly use this superb graphics SDK.



Patches Posted To Allow Hibernation Cancellation On Linux

([Linux Kernel] 20 October 05:45 PM EDT Hibernation Cancellation)

Currently on Linux if you are putting the system into hibernation, there isn't a way to interrupt it and cancel it if you change your mind, even with most systems taking a number of seconds to successfully hibernate. But a new patch series sent out this weekend would introduce that capability.



KosmicKrisp Vulkan To Apple Metal Driver Merged For Mesa 26.0

([Mesa] 20 October 02:43 PM EDT KosmicKrisp)

LunarG in August announced KosmicKrisp as a Vulkan-to-Metal driver for a better Vulkan API experience on Apple macOS devices compared to the likes of using MoltenVK as another Vulkan-on-Metal adaptation. As of today the KosmicKrisp driver for Vulkan 1.3 on Apple devices is now in the Mesa 26.0 codebase.



AMD Announces "ROCm 7.9" As Technology Preview Paired With TheRock Build System

([AMD] 20 October 02:18 PM EDT ROCm Core SDK 7.9)

AMD is hosting an AI Day out in San Francisco today and as part of those festivities today they announced the ROCm Core SDK 7.9 SDK paired with TheRock build and release infrastructure system they have been crafting.



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All that you touch, And all you create,
All that you see, And all you destroy,
All that you taste, All that you do,
All you feel, And all you say,
And all that you love, All that you eat,
And all that you hate, And everyone you meet,
All you distrust, All that you slight,
All you save, And everyone you fight,
And all that you give, And all that is now,
And all that you deal, And all that is gone,
All that you buy, And all that's to come,
Beg, borrow or steal, And everything under the sun is
in tune,
But the sun is eclipsed
By the moon.

There is no dark side of the moon... really... matter of fact it's all dark.
-- Pink Floyd, "Dark Side of the Moon"