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GNU Debugger GDB 15.1 Brings Better Python Support

([GNU] 7 July 05:39 PM EDT GDB 15.1 Released)

GDB 15.1 was released on Sunday as the first version in the GNU Debugger 15 branch for this widely-used, open-source debugging solution.



Direct3D 8 Support "D8VK" Merged Into DXVK

([Linux Gaming] 7 July 02:44 PM EDT D3D8 In DXVK)

Direct3D 8 support by way of the D8VK project has now been merged into DXVK, the widely relied upon open-source software for mapping Direct3D 9/10/11 atop Vulkan that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for enjoying Windows games on Linux.



Linux Mint 22 Aims To Be Out This Month After Fixing Many Bugs

([Operating Systems] 7 July 08:49 AM EDT Linux Mint 22)

Ubuntu-based Linux Mint 22 aims for release this month after a busier than usual period of bug fixing.



More HID BPF Functionality & New Drivers For Linux 6.11

([Hardware] 7 July 08:35 AM EDT HID BPF)

Upstreamed to the mainline Linux kernel last year was HID BPF as a means of more easily shipping new drivers and in particular quirks/workarounds for different HID devices. This allows for some nice continued innovations around (e)BPF within the Linux kernel. With Linux 6.11 there is yet more HID BPF capabilities to be upstreamed as well as new drivers.



Linux Seeing Improved Support For The Lenovo Yoga C630 WOS ARM Laptop After Five Years

([Hardware] 7 July 06:44 AM EDT Lenovo Yoga C630 WOS)

When it comes to (non-Apple) ARM laptops all the excitement these days is around the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC. But for those that happen to have a 5+ year old Lenovo Yoga C630 WOS laptop or come across one in a bargain bin, the Linux kernel is seeing improved support for this older ARM laptop powered by an aging Snadragon 850 SoC.



Linux 6.11 To Introduce Block Atomic Writes - Including NVMe & SCSI Support

([Linux Storage] 7 July 06:19 AM EDT Atomic Writes)

The Linux kernel's block subsystem for storage is poised to introduce support for atomic writes with the upcoming Linux 6.11 merge window.



Linux 6.11 To Add Perf Support For Intel Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake

([Intel] 6 July 08:30 AM EDT perf)

The latest Linux kernel enablement work for upcoming Intel Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors is perf subsystem support.



GNOME's Key Rack & Phosh Mobile Wayland Shell See New Releases

([GNOME] 6 July 06:31 AM EDT This Week In GNOME)

This Week in GNOME is out with their newest issue to detail changes made by various GNOME components over the first few days of July.



KDE Plasma 6.2 To Support libinput's Auto-Scrolling Feature

([KDE] 6 July 05:59 AM EDT Plasma 6.2)

It's been a busy start to July with KDE developers tackling more features for Plasma 6.2 while continuing to deliver fixes to the modern KDE Plasma desktop stack.



Intel IDXD Driver To Better Handle Accelerators In Event Of Hardware Errors

([Intel] 5 July 03:31 PM EDT IDXD Reset On Hardware Errors)

Intel's IDXD driver is what enables the Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) under Linux as found since Sapphire Rapids as part of Intel's accelerator offerings on their Xeon processors. With patches posted today, the IDXD driver will help the hardware recover in case of errors to provide a more robust experience.



Linux 6.11 To Upstream Support For Mobileye EyeQ 6H SoC

([Hardware] 5 July 10:34 AM EDT Mobileye EyeQ6)

Back in Linux 6.9 the Mobileye EyeQ5 SoC support was upstreamed for that MIPS-based platform powering Mobileye's level-5 autonomous driving system. With the upcoming Linux 6.11 kernel, support for the newer Mobileye EyeQ6 is being upstreamed.



Linux 6.11 Likely To Land DM-Verity Multi-Buffer Hashing For Big Speed Boost

([Linux Storage] 5 July 09:48 AM EDT DM-Verity Multi-Buffer Hashing)

One of several nice Linux performance optimizations recently by Eric Biggers of Google has been speeding up DM-Verity via multi-buffer hashing. DM-Verity is used for transparent integrity checking of block devices and this multi-buffer hashing code looks like it will land with the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle.



Linux 6.11 To Offer More Fine-Tuned Control Over Swappiness

([Linux Kernel] 5 July 09:12 AM EDT Swappiness)

As part of the memory management changes expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle is allowing more fine-tuned control over the swappiness setting used to determine how aggressively pages are swapped out of physical system memory and into the on-disk swap space.



Linus Torvalds Unconvinced By getrandom() In The vDSO

([Linux Security] 5 July 06:48 AM EDT Random In The vDSO)

While there were plans of adding getrandom() in the vDSO with the upcoming Linux 6.11 merge window to speed up user-space random number generation access, Linus Torvalds is unconvinced by the work and intends to reject any pull request with it for Linux 6.11.



Raspberry Pi OS Brings Labwc Wayland Compositor As Optional Alternative To Wayfire

([Raspberry Pi] 5 July 06:24 AM EDT Raspberry Pi OS 2024-07-04)

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released Raspberry Pi OS 2024-07-04 as the newest update to this default operating system for Raspberry Pi ARM single board computers.



Debian General Resolution Hopes To Move Useful "tag2upload" Forward

([Debian] 4 July 08:32 PM EDT tag2upload)

A Debian General Resolution was called following a lengthy and contentious period among Debian stakeholders on moving forward tag2upload, a system that lets Debian developers and maintainers more easily carry out source-only uploads by using a signed Git tag.



Linux Looking To Make 5-Level Paging Support Unconditional For x86_64 Kernel Builds

([Linux Kernel] 4 July 03:48 PM EDT 5-Level Paging On AMD / Intel)

It's been nearly one decade since Intel began working on 5-level paging support for the Linux kernel to allow for greater virtual and physical address space with expanding memory sizes. The 5-level paging kernel-side bits were upstreamed back in Linux 4.12 in 2017 and enabled by default since 2019 with Linux 5.5. Intel CPUs for a while (since Ice Lake) have supported 5-level paging and AMD CPUs too since Zen 4. The Linux kernel may move to unconditionally enabling 5-level paging support for x86_64 kernel builds.



AMD Appears To Be Aiming For Good Radeon RDNA4 GPU Support In Linux 6.11

([Radeon] 4 July 09:07 AM EDT RDNA4 + Linux 6.11)

While Linux 6.10-rc7 is due out this weekend and it's usually around the -rc6 timeframe when is the effective new material cut-off to DRM-Next of new graphics/display driver code aiming for the next kernel cycle, AMD is working to squeeze a bit more in for the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle.



Linux Kernel Patches Posted For The Radxa ROCK 5 ITX Board

([Hardware] 4 July 08:25 AM EDT ROCK 5 ITX)

Patches have been posted for enabling the ROCK 5 ITX board for working with the mainline Linux kernel.



FEX 2407 Emulator For x86_64 Binaries On ARM Now Handles AVX/AVX2

([Linux Gaming] 4 July 06:41 AM EDT FEX 2407)

This month's FEX 2407 release as the open-source emulator for running x86_64 binaries on AArch64 (64-bit ARM) is a big one with now handling AVX/AVX2.



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