Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Rebranding As AerynOS
([Operating Systems] 15 February 12:00 AM EST
AerynOS)
The nearly three year old Serpent OS Linux distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus fame is going to re-brand as AerynOS.
Go 1.24 Brings Performance Improvements, Better WebAssembly Support
([Programming] 14 February 08:24 PM EST
Go 1.24)
Go 1.24 was released this week by Google engineers as the newest step forward for this popular programming language.
Dynamic Triple Buffering Merged For GNOME 48
([GNOME] 14 February 01:35 PM EST
Dynamic Triple Buffering)
As quite a Valentine's Day treat, the long-in-development dynamic triple buffering support for GNOME's Mutter compositor was just merged ahead of next month's GNOME 48 desktop release!
Linux 6.15 To Ensure PlayStation 5 Controllers Use The Correct Driver
([Hardware] 14 February 10:49 AM EST
hid-playstation)
A change queued up by an Amazon engineer ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle will ensure that PlayStation 5 controllers on Linux load with the correctly desired driver.
Fwupd 2.0.6 Adds Support For HPE Gen10/Gen10+ Servers
([LVFS] 14 February 08:52 AM EST
Fwupd 2.0.6)
Fwupd 2.0.6 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used open-source solution for system and peripheral device firmware updating under Linux.
Ubuntu Making Progress On Replacing initramfs-tools With Dracut
([Ubuntu] 14 February 07:00 AM EST
Ubuntu + Dracut Future)
As a follow-up to the news from last October of Ubuntu considering Dracut to replace initramfs-tools for initrd generation, that work remains ongoing with some improvements since having been prepared for the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release but it remains overall an active affair.
Show Your Love For Linux Hardware Coverage This Valentine's Day
([Phoronix] 14 February 06:30 AM EST
Premium Special)
If you wish to show your appreciation for all of the Linux hardware reviews, Linux benchmarking, and open-source news provided on Phoronix each and every day, you can join Phoronix Premium this Valentine's Day weekend at a discounted rate.
GNOME Software May Eventually Drop RPM Support In Favor Of Flatpaks
([GNOME] 14 February 06:37 AM EST
Dropping RPMs From GNOME Software?)
Stemming from the ongoing discussion around the issues raised with Fedora's Flatpak package of OBS Studio and how Flatpaks should be prioritized within the GNOME Software app center/store, the future of RPM support within GNOME Software raised.
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.