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)

Vulkan 1.4.308 Brings NVIDIA's Provisional Present Metering Extension

([Vulkan] 14 February 06:14 AM EST VK_NV_present_metering)

Vulkan 1.4.308 was quietly released last week and besides a few fixes what makes it interesting is the provisional VK_NV_present_metering extension.



Valkey 8.1-rc1 Delivers Fresh Performance Improvements

([Programming] 14 February 06:05 AM EST Valkey 8.1)

Valkey as the open-source in-memory store forked from Redis is preparing for its next feature release.



TrueNAS 25.04 "Fangtooth" Beta Unifies Linux SCALE & FreeBSD CORE Efforts

([Operating Systems] 14 February 12:00 AM EST TrueNAS 25.04 Beta)

TrueNAS 25.04 beta was released on Thursday as another step toward unifying the TrueNAS CORE OS derived from FreeBSD and the Linux-based TrueNAS SCALE.



OBS Studio Raises Issues With Fedora's Flatpak Package

([Free Software] 13 February 08:39 PM EST Legal Action Raised)

The OBS Studio open-source screencasting and streaming app has called out Fedora's poor Flatpak packaging of the application and is threatening as going as far as legal action if it isn't addressed.



Zed Editor Introduces Open-Source "Zeta" Edit Prediction Model

([Free Software] 13 February 03:58 PM EST Zed + Zeta)

The Zed code editor for macOS and Linux systems has proven to be quite popular for this Rust-based editor started by the creators of the Atom editor. Their latest feature being introduced is Zeta as an open-source edit prediction model to further enhance this code editor with AI capabilities.



Bcachefs Freezes Its On-Disk Format With Future Updates Optional

([Linux Storage] 13 February 02:18 PM EST Bcachefs On-Disk Format Frozen)

The latest round of Bcachefs file-system fixes have been submitted today for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel. Besides fixes for the current kernel, it was announced today that the on-disk format for the file-system is now considered frozen in its latest development "master" branch.



Hector Martin Resigns From The Asahi Linux Project

([Operating Systems] 13 February 10:56 AM EST Asahi Linux)

Last week Hector Martin resigned from upstream maintainership of the Apple Silicon code for the Linux kernel. At the time he was still going to contribute to the Asahi Linux project's downstream kernel but in a surprise move today, he has decided to resign as project leader of Asahi Linux.



Linux 6.14-rc3 To Fix Platform Profile Support For Newer AMD-Powered ThinkPads

([Hardware] 13 February 10:41 AM EST Platform Profile)

Submitted today via the x86 platform driver updates ahead of Linux 6.14-rc3 on Sunday are some Lenovo ThinkPad patches that may interest some users.



Google Releases AOM-AV1 3.12 With More Performance Optimizations

([Multimedia] 13 February 09:51 AM EST AOM AV1)

For those preferring the AOM-AV1 open-source AV1 video encoder over SVT-AV1, Rav1e, or other AV1 encoders, Google this week unveiled AOM-AV1 3.12.



Wayland Color Management & HDR Protocol Support Merged

([Wayland] 13 February 08:25 AM EST Wayland HDR!)

As a quick follow-up to the article earlier today... The Wayland Color Management and HDR protocol support is now merged to upstream Wayland Protocols!



Device Trees For Apple T2 SoCs Slated For Upstreaming In Linux 6.15

([Apple] 13 February 06:58 AM EST Apple T2 SoC DTs)

While there has been the recent drama over upstream maintainership over Apple Silicon / Asahi Linux code, Sven Peter is continuing to move things forward for the upstream kernel and this week sent out a set of Apple SoC DeviceTree updates intended for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle.



NVIDIA Wiring Up Autonomous Performance Level Selection To Linux CPPC CPUFreq Driver

([Hardware] 13 February 06:40 AM EST cppc_cpufreq)

Similar to the Autonomous Performance Level Selection and Energy Performance Preference (EPP) support already found within the Intel P-State and AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling drivers for their modern processors, NVIDIA engineers are working on similar support for the CPPC CPUFreq driver that can benefit their Grace processor.



Wayland Color Management & HDR Protocols Expected To Be Merged Imminently

([Wayland] 13 February 06:30 AM EST Today, Today, Todau)

Today could finally be the day. In the works for 5+ years, the Wayland color management and HDR protocol additions look like they will finally be merged in the coming hours.



OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Switching From AppArmor To SELinux For New Installations

([SUSE] 12 February 08:47 PM EST OpenSUSE + SELinux)

SUSE/openSUSE has a long history with the AppArmor Linux security module going back to the Novell days and when AppArmor was originally known as SubDomain. OpenSUSE/SUSE and Ubuntu Linux have been big proponents of AppArmor for Linux security but now moving forward on new installations of openSUSE Tumbleweed it will be defaulting to Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux).



Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Delayed To Next Week

([Ubuntu] 12 February 07:06 PM EST Ubuntu 24.04.2 Delayed)

Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS along with new point releases for its derivatives had been scheduled for release on Thursday. But a last minute issue has delayed this release.



ARCTIC Freezer 4U-SP5 Provides Effective Cooling For AMD EPYC 9004/9005 CPUs

([Cooling] 12 February 02:00 PM EST 3 Comments)

Along with the recently reviewed ARCTIC Freezer 4U-M for Ampere Altra, ARCTIC Cooling had also recently sent over their ARCTIC Freezer 4U-SP5 heatsink for cooling AMD EPYC 9004/9005 server processors within 4U rackmount height requirements. This cooler does a very good job at keeping even 400 Watt processors running well.



Mesa 25.0-rc3 Released With Numerous RADV & RadeonSI Fixes

([Mesa] 12 February 12:51 PM EST Mesa 25.0-rc3)

Mesa 25.0-rc3 is out today as a rather large weekly release candidate to Mesa 25.0 that will be debuting as stable later this month.



GNU Shepherd 1.0.2 Service Manager Delivers Fixes

([GNU] 12 February 10:00 AM EST GNU Shepherd 1.0.2)

In addition to the recent release of SysVinit 3.14 and systemd continuing to tack on new features, the GNU Shepherd system/user service manager written in Guile Scheme is out today with a new release.



Linux 6.13 Performance For 250Hz vs. 1000Hz Timer Frequency Comparison

([Linux Kernel] 12 February 10:05 AM EST Tick Frequency)

Given the recent patch proposal to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz, I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at the 250Hz vs. 1000Hz comparison on some modern desktop hardware.



Linux 6.15 To Bring More Improvements To DRM Panic "Screen of Death"

([Linux Kernel] 12 February 06:52 AM EST Black Screen of Death)

Now that the Linux 6.14 merge window has passed, new feature material aiming for the Linux 6.15 kernel is beginning to get ready for staging in DRM-Next ahead of that next merge window opening up around the end of March. Sent out today was the first batch of drm-misc-next changes for Linux 6.15 that include more work on DRM Panic for that Linux equivalent to Microsoft Windows' "Blue Screen of Death" as well as changes to the other smaller Direct Rendering Manager drivers.



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Two computer people discussing those old stories about Bill Gates' name
adding up to 666 in ASCII:

"I hear that if you play the NT 4.0 CD backwards, you get a satanic
message"

"...That's nothing. If you play it forward, it installs NT 4.0!"