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)

Wine 11.11 Released With Wayland Improvements

([WINE] 12 June 05:13 PM EDT Wine 11.11)

Alexandre Julliard just released Wine 11.11 as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that powers Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and allows for running Windows games and applications under Linux as well as other platforms.



AMD Opens Pre-Orders For The Linux-Friendly Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform

([AMD] 12 June 03:34 PM EDT AMD Ryzen AI Halo)

AMD today announced the opening of pre-orders for their Ryzen AI Halo petite PC powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" and working with either Microsoft Windows or Linux.



Linux 7.2 Features Expected: Apple M3, Initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, USB4STREAM, Cache Aware Scheduling

([Linux Kernel] 12 June 12:46 PM EDT Linux 7.2 Features)

Linux 7.1 stable is expected to be released this Sunday with its many new features. Immediately following the Linux v7.1 tagging, the Linux 7.2 merge window will open and a lot of new feature material is expected to be merged over the next two weeks.



Red Hat Releases Second Developer Preview Of RHEL 10 For RISC-V

([Red Hat] 12 June 11:56 AM EDT RHEL 10.2 For RISC-V)

Last year when releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, Red Hat announced a RHEL 10.0 developer preview for RISC-V. Since then that RISC-V developer preview hadn't been updated but now Red Hat has published a new developer preview snapshot based on RHEL 10.2.



The Best Features Of Linux 7.1: FRED, New NTFS Driver & More Performance

([Linux Kernel] 12 June 11:38 AM EDT Linux 7.1 Features)

On Sunday it's anticipated that Linus Torvalds will released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel. This is a really terrific mid-year update to the Linux kernel! Here's what makes me excited about Linux 7.1.



Ubuntu 26.10 Reaffirms Plans For Switching To Dbus-Broker

([Ubuntu] 12 June 11:26 AM EDT Ubuntu + Dbus-Broker)

Among the many new features planned for Ubuntu 26.10 is switching the default D-Bus implementation over to using the high performance Dbus-Broker drop-in replacement.



Open-Source Success Achieved For Greater Transparency & Security: Running AMD openSIL + Coreboot On EPYC

([Motherboards] 12 June 11:45 AM EDT 5 Comments)

Ever since AMD announced openSIL in early 2023 for open-source CPU silicon initialization to eventually replace AGESA and enhance their Coreboot support, I have been eager to try it out. The openSIL code drops to date though have just focused on select reference platforms with only aiming for production status in the Zen 6 timeframe. But thanks to 3mdeb porting openSIL and Coreboot to a Gigabyte server motherboard, it's now possible to try out openSIL+Coreboot right now on Zen 5 hardware.



New NTFS Linux Driver Being Improved For Windows Native Symbolic Links

([Linux Storage] 12 June 09:00 AM EDT Windows Native Symbolic Links)

One of the exciting additions to the Linux 7.1 kernel is the introduction of the new NTFS file-system kernel driver. While in good shape already and proving advantageous over other NTFS open-source driver options, one of the initial limitations on it is around Windows native symbolic link handling but that is now in the process of being resolved.



Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware

([Arch Linux] 12 June 06:39 AM EDT AUR)

The Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" was hit by a large-scale malware campaign this week with more than 400 of these user-supplied packages being compromised.



AVX-512 Optimization For Linux RAID Showing Up To 41% Improvement On AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

([Linux Storage] 12 June 06:42 AM EDT AVX-512 + Linux RAID)

Linux cryptography subsystem expert Eric Biggers Eric Biggers of Google worked on some pretty nice Intel/AMD x86_64 optimizations over the years. Especially around AVX-512 optimizations within the Linux kernel's crypto code has been one of his many nice improvements to the kernel in recent times. Today he's out with another enticing AVX-512 optimization and this time it's for the software RAID code.



Wine Wayland Driver Lands Alpha Modifier Support For Opacity Handling

([Wayland] 12 June 06:15 AM EDT alpha-modifier-v1)

The Wine Wayland driver continues to be improved upon for bettering the experience around Windows games/applications running natively on Wayland Linux desktops without having to go through X11/XWayland. The newest feature merged is alpha modifier support for opacity handling of surfaces.



Qt 6.12 Beta Released With Qt Quick 3D XR Apps Now Able To Run On 2D AR Glasses

([Qt] 12 June 06:06 AM EDT Qt 6.12 Beta)

The first beta release of the Qt 6.12 toolkit is now available for testing. Qt 6.12 is packing a number of refinements and new features compared to earlier Qt6 releases. For paying Qt commercial customers, Qt 6.12 is also going to be the latest Qt6 Long Term Support (LTS) release.



GCC 15.3 Compiler Brings Nearly A Year Worth Of Bug Fixes

([GNU] 12 June 05:53 AM EDT GCC 15.3)

For those relying on last year's stable GCC 15 series in not yet having migrated to the latest GCC 16, out today is GCC 15.3 to ship all of the latest back-ported bug fixes.



Mesa 26.2 Preps For AMD GFX1156 For New, Post-Strix-Halo RDNA 3.5 Graphics

([Radeon] 11 June 01:34 PM EDT GFX1156)

Being submitted on the kernel side with the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is initial support for the GFX 11.5.6 graphics IP block along with several other newer IP blocks such as SDMA 6.4, NBIO 7.11.5, IH 6.4, HDP 6.4, MMHUB 3.4.2, SMU 15.0.5, ATHUB 3.4.2, and VPE 2.2. Now in user-space for the Mesa RadeonSI Gallium3D and RADV Vulkan drivers is the GFX1156 (GFX 11.5.6) support being prepared too.



Git 2.55-rc0 Released With Rust Enabled By Default

([Programming] 11 June 12:15 PM EDT Git 2.55)

Git 2.55-rc0 is out today as the first tagged test version of the forthcoming Git 2.55 distributed version control system. Most notable with Git 2.55 is that Rust support is being enabled by default.



Benchmarking The Performance Benefits To Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Packages

([Operating Systems] 11 June 11:24 AM EDT 37 Comments)

With Canonical engineers again experimenting with x86_64-v3 package builds for Ubuntu Linux using an "amd64v3" archive for the current Ubuntu 26.10 development, I decided to see how these latest amd64v3 packages comparing to their conventional Ubuntu 26.10 amd64 packages.



Khronos Releases glTF 2.1 To Make This 3D Asset Standard Work Well For Large Scenes

([Standards] 11 June 10:02 AM EDT glTF 2.1)

It's crazy realizing that glTF 2.0 is already nine years old for this API-neutral 3D runtime and asset delivery format. The Khronos 3D Formats Working Group today extended that with the debut of glTF 2.1 as a backward-compatible revision to the specification.



YSERVER: Modern X11 Server Written In Rust With The Help Of Claude Code

([X.Org] 11 June 09:46 AM EDT YSERVER)

Open-source developer Jos Dehaes wrote in to Phoronix today in announcing a new X11 server he has been working on from scratch that has been quietly developed to this point but now ready to announce to the world... The YSERVER.



OpenJPH 0.28 Up To 1.9x Faster With New AVX2 Optimizations For High-Throughput JPEG2000

([Free Software] 11 June 07:27 AM EDT OpenJPH 0.28)

OpenJPH as an open-source implementation of high-throughput JPEG2000 Part-15 (or JPH or HTJ2K) is now significantly faster for both encode and decode operations thanks to new AVX2 optimizations for Intel and AMD processors.



Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY Driver Coming To Linux 7.2

([Linux Networking] 11 June 05:21 AM EDT Airoha AN8801R)

One of the new network drivers destined for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window is for supporting the Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY.



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