Rust 1.90 Released With LLD Default On Linux x86_64 While macOS x86_64 Demoted
([Programming] 18 September 09:51 AM EDT
Rust 1.90)
Rust 1.90 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language.
Python 3.14-rc3 Released Ahead Of Next Month's Official Release
([Programming] 18 September 09:25 AM EDT
Python 3.14)
Python 3.14-rc3 is out today as the final test preview ahead of next month's official Python 3.14 stable release.
NVIDIA To Make $5B Investment Into Intel - x86 RTX SoCs & More To Come
([Intel] 18 September 07:51 AM EDT
NVIDIA + Intel)
NVIDIA is making a $5 billion investment into Intel and the two companies will work together on custom data center and client CPUs.
Fedora Forge Announced For Modernizing Fedora's Development & Collaboration
([Fedora] 18 September 06:36 AM EDT
Fedora Forge)
The Fedora Forge has been soft-launched for Fedora contributors to help modernize the development and collaboration tools around the Linux distribution.
Linux Mint Releases LMDE 7 Beta
([Operating Systems] 18 September 06:42 AM EDT
Linux Mint Debian Edition 7)
Following the recent release of Linux Mint 22.2 as the Linux Mint project's premiere operating system currently built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, today marks the beta release of Linux Mint Debian Edition 7.
Linux 6.17 AMD PMF Driver Adding New ACPI ID For Upcoming AMD Platform
([Linux Kernel] 18 September 06:25 AM EDT
"upcoming AMD platforms")
A new round of platform-drivers-x86 "fixes" were submitted today for the nearly-complete Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. While on the fixes stage of the kernel, the x86 platform driver changes can be interesting when it comes to new device IDs for enabling new products late in the kernel cycle.
Microchip LAN969x SoC Going Upstream In Linux 6.18
([Linux Networking] 18 September 06:02 AM EDT
Microchip LAN969x SoC)
One of the new SoCs to be supported by the upstream Linux 6.18 kernel is the Microchip LAN969x.
Intel's Latest Open-Source Project To End & Layoff Developers... But A New Home At NumPy
([Intel] 17 September 08:00 PM EDT
x86-simd-sort)
Beyond shutting down the Clear Linux project, various Linux driver maintainers let go that have even led to some Intel drivers being "orphaned" in the Linux kernel, there is another open-source project that has ended at Intel with the developers departing the company. Though at least this project has found a new open-source home under the NumPy umbrella.
AMD "GFX1251" Target Added To LLVM As Latest RDNA 4.5 APU
([AMD] 17 September 04:47 PM EDT
AMD GFX1251)
The past few months we have been intrigued by an AMD GFX1250 target added to the LLVM codebase for the AMDGPU shader compiler back-end. GFX12 is RDNA4 and GFX1250 is presumably some "RDNA 4.5" / "RDNA Refresh" part akin to GFX1150 having been for the RDNA 3.5 parts with Strix Halo / Strix Point. The prior LLVM code confirmed GFX1250 is in APU form factor but product details beyond that have been scarce. Today a new AMD GFX1251 target was merged to LLVM.
OpenJDK 25 & GraalVM 25 Released With 32-bit x86 Support Removed
([Programming] 17 September 03:12 PM EDT
OpenJDK Java 25)
Released yesterday was the OpenJDK Java 25 release along with Oracle's GraalVM 25 alternative JVM.
AMD Hardware Would Ideally Be Supported By ROCm For ~10 Years
([AMD] 17 September 02:49 PM EDT
ROCm Hardware Support)
While down to AMD Austin yesterday for the Instinct MI355X and ROCm 7.0 launch, I had the chance to chat again with Anush Elangovan. As the VP of AI Software at AMD, talking with Anush is always insightful and technical in nature. One of the questions I posed him was around the length of hardware support with ROCm.
GNOME 49 Officially Released With Wayland Improvements, Showtime As Video Player
([GNOME] 17 September 11:29 AM EDT
GNOME 49)
GNOME 49.0 is out today as the latest half-year feature release to the GNOME desktop that will go on to power the likes of Fedora Workstation 43 and Ubuntu 25.10.
Latest Open-Source AMD Improvements Allowing For Better Llama.cpp AI Performance Against Windows 11
([Software] 17 September 10:48 AM EDT
20 Comments)
When recently carrying out the Windows 11 25H2 vs. Ubuntu Linux benchmarks I also ended up carrying out some Llama.cpp AI benchmarks as the first time exploring the AI inferencing performance between Windows and Linux for both CPU and GPU-accelerated deployments. Here are those results for exploring the Llama.cpp performance between Windows and Linux with different large language models.
A Quick Look At The AMD Instinct MI355X With ROCm 7.0
([AMD] 17 September 09:00 AM EDT
AMD Instinct MI355X + ROCm 7.0)
Yesterday I was invited along with a small group of others to try out the AMD Instinct MI355X accelerator down in Austin, Texas. The AMD Instinct MI355X is fully supported with the newly-released AMD ROCm 7.0.
systemd 258 Released With systemd-factory-reset & Other New Tools
([systemd] 17 September 08:21 AM EDT
systemd 258)
Systemd 258 is out today as stable as the latest major feature release to this Linux init system and service manager.
Microsoft Rolls Out A Linux 6.12 LTS Option For Azure Linux
([Microsoft] 17 September 08:00 AM EDT
Azure Linux 3.0.20250910)
Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20250910 as the newest version of this in-house Linux distribution used by Azure and other services. Azure Linux 3.0 has long been using the Linux 6.6 LTS kernel while now Linux 6.12 LTS is a new option focused on providing better hardware enablement support.
Linux 6.18 To Add Detection For FreeBSD's Bhyve Hypervisor
([Virtualization] 17 September 06:00 AM EDT
Linux + Bhyve)
A patch making it to a TIP Git branch this week adds Linux kernel support for detecting the FreeBSD Bhyve hypervisor, which will become important with today's growing server CPU counts.
Intel Compute Runtime 25.35.35096.9 Ships Newest Features & Optimizations
([Intel] 17 September 05:00 AM EDT
Intel Compute 25.35.35096.9)
Intel shipped the Compute Runtime 25.35.35096.9 as their newest monthly feature update to this open-source GPU compute stack for their integrated and discrete graphics wares for providing OpenCL and Level Zero support.
Mesa's Zink Driver Achieves Hits Major Milestone For Workstation Graphics
([Mesa] 17 September 04:00 AM EDT
Faster SPECViewPerf)
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team is the one who has been driving the development forward on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver. While traditionally focused on getting OpenGL games running over Zink, recently he has taken to optimizing Zink for workstation graphics.
Haiku OS Addressing Slow "git status" Performance Relative To Linux
([Operating Systems] 17 September 12:00 AM EDT
Haiku Performance)
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project published a new blog post to outline some of their latest development activity. One of the areas they have been focusing on in the performance department has been for addressing much slower git status performance compared to Linux.