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)

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.



Nouveau On NVIDIA Turing GPUs & Newer Will Now Prefer NVK+Zink For OpenGL

([Nouveau] 11 March 12:40 PM EDT NVK + Zink For OpenGL)

As a sign of the times for both the NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa and the generic Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan code, with next quarter's Mesa 25.1 release when using a NVIDIA Turing GPU or newer with the Nouveau driver stack it will now default to using Zink atop NVK for OpenGL rather than the existing NVC0 Gallium3D driver.



CrossOver 25.0 Announced - Built Atop Wine 10.0 For Linux & macOS

([WINE] 11 March 11:19 AM EDT CrossOver 25.0)

CodeWeavers that continues to be the largest patron to the development of the open-source Wine software announced today CrossOver 25.0 as the newest version of their commercial downstream.



GNOME Dash To Panel Extension Development Being "Passed On"

([GNOME] 11 March 08:52 AM EDT Dash To Panel)

The GNOME Dash To Panel extension that allows moving the dash into the GNOME main panel has proven popular with GNOME desktop users for an integrated icon taskbar and status panel on GNOME Shell. Unfortunately though one of the main developers to Charles Gagnon is "passing on" development of the extension moving forward.



AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Delivers Excellent Performance For Linux Developers, Creators & Technical Computing

([Processors] 11 March 09:00 AM EDT 56 Comments)

Ahead of tomorrow's availability of the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPUs in retail channels, today the embargo lifts on being able to deliver Ryzen 9 9950X3D reviews and performance benchmarks. Simply put, for Linux creators, developers, enthusiasts, and others running technical computing workloads and other similar tasks on their desktop, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D with its 16 cores / 32 threads and 144MB total cache makes for an excellent desktop CPU. In this review are around 400 Linux benchmarks looking at the captivating performance and competitive power efficiency of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D.



COBOL Language Frontend Merged For GCC 15 Compiler

([GNU] 11 March 06:22 AM EDT COBOL GCC Compiler)

A big albeit late feature landed today for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler... The COBOL programming language front-end has been merged!



Linux Kernel Patches Posted For The ESWIN EIC7700 SoC + SiFive HiFive Premier P550

([RISC-V] 11 March 06:10 AM EDT ESWIN EIC7700 + HiFive Premier P550)

Patches were posted to the Linux Kernel Mailing List this morning for wiring up the ESWIN EIC7700 RISC-V SoC support and the most notable board using this SoC so far, the SiFive HiFive Premier P550.



Servo Makes Improvements To Its Demo Browser & Embedding API

([Free Software] 11 March 05:55 AM EDT Servo In February)

The Servo open-source web engine is out with its February 2025 status update to highlight work on the engine itself as well as its demo browser and embed API capabilities for using Servo by other applications.



AMD Announces The EPYC Embedded 9005 Series

([AMD] 11 March 05:11 AM EDT AMD EPYC Embedded 9005 Series)

Since last year we have continued to be impressed by the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" server processors while today they are announcing the EPYC Embedded 9005 line-up. The AMD EPYC Embedded 9005 Series processors are much like the EPYC 9005 series processors but with a few differences.



FreeBSD 13.5 Released With Device Driver Updates & Fixes

([BSD] 10 March 08:53 PM EDT FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE)

FreeBSD 13.5 is out today as the final update to the FreeBSD 13 series. Users should begin making plans for upgrading to the current FreeBSD 14 stable series or eyeing the future FreeBSD 15.0 release.



OpenZFS 2.3.1 Released With Linux 6.13 Compatibility, Many Fixes

([Linux Storage] 10 March 04:53 PM EDT OpenZFS 2.3.1)

Building off the big OpenZFS 2.3 feature release from January, OpenZFS 2.3.1 is out today with Linux 6.13 kernel compatibility as well as various bug fixes.



Mir 2.20 Brings Focus Stealing Prevention, Workaround/Quirk Fixes

([Ubuntu] 10 March 03:02 PM EDT Mir 2.20)

Mir 2.20 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical-developed Wayland compositor and set of libraries for developing Wayland-based shells.



Box64 0.3.4 Released: Faster & Steam Now Runs With Box32 On ARM64

([Linux Gaming] 10 March 12:43 PM EDT Box64 0.3.4)

Box64 0.3.4 is out today as the newest version of this open-source Linux x86_64 user-space emulator that runs on ARM64 as well as RISC-V 64-bit and LoongArch 64-bit systems.



DRM User-Space API For Apple Silicon Graphics Posted For Review

([Mesa] 10 March 11:57 AM EDT DRM User-Space API)

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 upstreamed. But hitting the mailing list today is a patch getting the user-space API (UAPI) with more eyes on as the precursor to the actual kernel driver that is currently held up by waiting on Rust kernel abstractions to be upstreamed.



AMD EPYC 9845 Makes For A Persuasive Upgrade With Performance & Energy Efficiency

([Processors] 10 March 10:30 AM EDT 8 Comments)

With the new AMD EPYC 9005 processors there are SKUs up to 500 Watt with the likes of the EPYC 9965 flagship at 192 cores for Turin Dense cores or 128 Turin classic cores with the EPYC 9755. But for those looking at upgrading from an existing EPYC 9004 series server and bound by the motherboard BIOS support and/or cooling/power capacity, 400 Watts is a sweet spot. Many of the existing platforms designed for EPYC 9004 Bergamo/Genoa(X) and now extended for EPYC 9005 Turin are limited to a 400 Watt TDP. With the prior AMD EPYC 9655 testing I have already shown off the great Zen 5 uplift when maintaining the same core counts as Zen 4, but even sticking to 400 Watts at the top-end is room for more. The EPYC 9845 is AMD's top-end SKU for 400 Watts or less that allows for 160 dense cores (320 threads) per socket compared to the 128 core EPYC 9754 Bergamo. Effectively the same power level and 25% more -- and better (Zen 5C) -- cores. Plus with EPYC Turin supporting the new AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver there is greater headroom in optimizing for power efficiency if so desired. Here is a look at how the AMD EPYC 9845 delivers a great leap to performance and power efficiency for those looking at a surprisingly robust upgrade from prior generation EPYC 9004.



Fedora 43 Looking At RPM 6.0, JPEG-XL Wallpapers & Other Early Change Proposals

([Fedora] 10 March 09:58 AM EDT Fedora 43)

Fedora 42 isn't even releasing until next month but a number of early change proposals have been filed for the upcoming Fedora 43 development cycle that will be released this autumn.



ASUS PRIME X670E-PRO WIFI & AMD BC-250 Sensor Monitoring With Linux 6.15

([Hardware] 10 March 09:00 AM EDT Linux 6.15 HWMON)

The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates are building up ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window opening up later this month. Here is a look at a few of the HWMON changes worth mentioning to be found in this next version of the Linux kernel.



Intel Preps Xe3's "Dirty Rect" Feature For Linux 6.15

([Intel] 10 March 06:52 AM EDT Dirty Rectangle FBC)

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 work but it does provide a new "dirty rect" feature being introduced with next-gen Intel Xe3 graphics.



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