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)

Rusticl Wins: Mesa Officially Deprecates Clover OpenCL

([Mesa] 13 March 10:10 AM EDT Rusticl Wins)

With today's Mesa 25.1-devel Git code, the "Clover" OpenCL Gallium3D state tracker is officially deprecated. Clover will be eventually removed with the Rust-written Rusticl OpenCL driver being modern, much more actively maintained, and all-around a better option than the aging Clover code.



NVIDIA RTX Remix 1.0 Released With DXVK DLSS4 & Neural Radiance Cache

([NVIDIA] 13 March 09:43 AM EDT NVIDIA RTX Remix 1.0)

NVIDIA's RTX Remix software for remastering classic games with a variety of visual enhancements reached version 1.0 today with some additional big improvements.



AMDVLK 2025.Q1.3 Brings Radeon RX 9070 Series Support

([Radeon] 13 March 08:24 AM EDT AMDVLK 2025.Q1.3)

AMD today released AMDVLK 2025.Q1.3 as their official open-source Vulkan API driver for Linux systems. With this update is support for the Navi48 GPU with the recently-launched Radeon RX 9070 RDNA4 graphics cards.



Intel Linux Graphics Driver Gets Patch To Help With Pixelflut Competition

([Intel] 13 March 06:44 AM EDT Intel Graphics + Pixelflut)

A lot of Linux 6.15 intended patches by Intel for their kernel graphics driver have accumulated like enabling Xe3 "dirty rect" mode, SVM for the Xe driver, EU stall sampling, GuC power profile tuning, and more. Yesterday another drm-intel-gt-next pull request was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window.



Zed Editor Rolls Out Native Git Integration

([Programming] 13 March 06:24 AM EDT Zed Editor + Native Git)

The Zed Editor as a modern IDE-focused text editor for programmers and developed by some of the Atom editor creators continues on quite a roll. Over the past year Zed has rolled out native Linux builds, added various AI features and also began open-sourcing its own edit prediction model. For enhancing the developer experience in more basic form, Zed has now added native Git integration.



Proposed Patches Would Allow Using Linux Kernel's libperf From Python

([Programming] 13 March 05:58 AM EDT libperf + Python)

A set of patches from IBM would introduce a C extension module for the Linux kernel's libperf code to allow usage from the Python programming language.



Mesa 25.1 To Enable Working Chromium VA-API Support

([Mesa] 13 March 06:09 AM EDT Mesa + Chromium VA-API)

A new set of Gallium3D video acceleration front-end patches by AMD contractor David Rosca allow for the Google Chromium/Chrome browser code to enjoy working VA-API accelerated video decoding with the open-source Mesa drivers.



Red Hat's Stratis 3.8 Delivers New Features

([Linux Storage] 12 March 08:32 PM EDT Stratis 3.8)

It's been a while since a new Stratis feature release for this Red Hat led effort to enhance local storage management on Linux systems. Stratis was born out of a desire to provide Btrfs/ZFS-style features atop the mature XFS file-system and the Device Mapper (DM) subsystem and they have continued pushing that goal for RHEL and other Linux environments.



Lip-Bu Tan Named As Next Intel CEO

([Intel] 12 March 04:55 PM EDT Lip-Bu Tan)

Intel announced a short time ago that Lip-Bu Tan has been named as the company's next CEO.



Ubuntu 25.10 Looks To Make Use Of Rust Coreutils & Other Rust System Components

([Ubuntu] 12 March 11:54 AM EDT Ubuntu 25.10: More Rust)

Plans have been drafted to begin using more Rust-rewritten Linux system components within the Ubuntu 25.10 release due out later this year and ahead of next year's all important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. Among the Rust components being planned for use in Ubuntu 25.10 is the Rust Coreutils "uutils" software.



AMD's 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver For Squeezing More Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance

([Processors] 12 March 11:30 AM EDT 17 Comments)

Merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel was the AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for being able to influence the kernel's scheduling decisions on AMD processors where only a subset of CCDs have the larger 3D V-Cache. With this new driver users can communicate their cache vs. frequency preference for influencing where new tasks are first placed if on the CCD with the larger L3 cache or with the higher frequency potential. Here is a look at the impact of using the AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver with the new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D.



OpenSSL 3.5 Alpha 1 Released With Server-Side QUIC

([Programming] 12 March 10:04 AM EDT OpenSSL 3.5)

OpenSSL 3.5 Alpha 1 is out today as the first development milestone on the path to releasing OpenSSL 3.5.0 in April.



AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D Linux Benchmarks Forthcoming

([AMD] 12 March 09:50 AM EDT 9900X3D)

Today marks the retail availability of the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D processors. At the top of the hour when the new AMD Zen 5 3D V-Cache processors went on sale, I found both the 9900X3D and 9950X3D in-stock and at MSRP pricing... Less than a half hour later, the 9950X3D is now out of stock while as of writing the 9900X3D remains in-stock at major Internet retailers at its $599 price point.



Linux 6.15 Set To Include Better Handling For Intel P Or E Core Only Mitigations

([Intel] 12 March 08:46 AM EDT Intel P / E Core Mitigations)

A set of patches from Intel for utilizing the CPU type for CPU matching as part of the x86 mitigation handling is likely to be part of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel. These patches are intended for helping with CPU security mitigations on Intel Core hybrid processors where there are security vulnerabilities affecting only P cores or only E cores but not both sets of CPU cores present in the system.



KDE's KWin Wayland & X11 Code Are Now Split, KWin_X11 To Be Maintained Until Plasma 7

([KDE] 12 March 06:53 AM EDT KWin Wayland & X11)

Yesterday marked the milestone of KWin's kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland code being split up. The Wayland and X11 code for the KWin compositor is now separate from each other but can be co-installable for systems wanting to support both X11 and Wayland environments.



Haiku OS Wrapping Up Its New malloc & Various Performance Optimizations

([Operating Systems] 12 March 06:44 AM EDT Haiku OS)

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project is out with a new monthly progress report to highlight its latest development accomplishments.



LLVM 20's Great Fortran Language Support With Flang

([LLVM] 12 March 06:33 AM EDT LLVM 20 + Flang)

With the newly-released LLVM 20.1 compiler stack among the many changes throughout the massive codebase is renaming the "flang-new" compiler just to "flang". This new Flang compiler front-end has matured quite well over the years to providing robust and reliable Fortran language support within the confines of the LLVM toolchain.



Jonathan Riddell Stepping Down From KDE Plasma Release Management

([KDE] 12 March 06:18 AM EDT Stepping Down)

Longtime KDE developer who has served with Plasma release management duties, KDE Neon operating system development, and former Kubuntu release manager, among other roles, announced he will be stepping down from his Plasma release management duties.



GStreamer 1.26 Released With Vulkan Improvements, H.266/VVC + LCEVC + JPEG-XS Support

([Multimedia] 11 March 08:19 PM EDT GStreamer 1.26)

GStreamer 1.26 is out today as the newest major feature release for this widely-used open-source multimedia framework.



Intel Overclocking Watchdog Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel

([Intel] 11 March 02:10 PM EDT Over-Clocking Watchdog)

An unexpected patch on the Linux kernel mailing list today by a Siemens engineer is implementing a driver for the Intel Over-Clocking Watchdog.



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and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the
master calls a butterfly.
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