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)

Haiku OS Restores EXT4 Compatibility, RISC-V Once Again Booting

([Operating Systems] 14 June 08:55 AM EDT Haiku OS)

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS published their latest monthly report to outline progress made over the past month.



KDE Plasma 6.5 To Introduce Wayland Picture-In-Picture Support

([KDE] 14 June 06:08 AM EDT Wayland PIP)

While KDE Plasma 6.4 is set for release next week, there are already exciting feature improvements brewing for Plasma 6.5.



Wine 10.10 Brings Updated Mono, 38 Bug Fixes

([WINE] 13 June 07:18 PM EDT Wine 10.10)

Wine 10.10 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms.



Bcachefs Is Now Able To Auto-Fix A Few More Fsck Errors

([Linux Storage] 13 June 05:00 PM EDT Bcachefs Fixes For Linux 6.16)

Another round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted and merged this week for the ongoing Linux 6.16 cycle, including the ability to auto-fix more file-system check "fsck" errors.



Intel Begins Preparing Linux For Next-Gen DSA 3.0 Accelerators

([Intel] 13 June 02:08 PM EDT Intel DSA 3.0 Accelerators)

In addition to Intel recently upstreaming Linux support for new QAT "Gen 6" hardware as their next-generation QuickAssist Technology IP, Intel today began posting Linux kernel driver patches for a new version of their Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA). It looks like upcoming Xeon processors will be rolling out a lot of new accelerator IP.



LibreOffice 25.8 Beta Released For Testing

([LibreOffice] 13 June 12:47 PM EDT LibreOffice 25.8)

LibreOffice 25.8 beta is now available for this popular open-source office suite. LibreOffice 25.8 has been baking many improvements for this popular Microsoft Office alternative and leading office suite option for the Linux desktop.



Vulkan 1.4.318 Released With A New Valve Extension

([Vulkan] 13 June 11:57 AM EDT Vulkan 1.4.318)

Just one week past the notable Vulkan 1.4.317 release, Vulkan 1.4.318 is out with some documentation clarifications plus two new extensions.



Google Cloud C4D Performance Benchmarks At The Top-End Show 39% Generational Improvement With EPYC Turin

([Processors] 13 June 12:00 PM EDT Add A Comment)

Back in April at Google Cloud Next was the introduction of the new C4D family of VMs powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. Back on launch day I looked at the C3D vs. C4D performance at some of the smaller, more common VM sizes. In today's article is a look at the top-end performance of the C4D family with 384 vCPUs. For those wondering about the compute potential of the c4d-standard-384, here are some benchmarks of this 192-core / 384-thread EPYC Turin configuration compared to the prior C3D AMD EPYC Genoa based instance that topped out at 360 vCPUs.



Wayland Protocols 1.45 Brings Background Effects, Pointer Warp & Session Management

([Wayland] 13 June 11:42 AM EDT Wayland Protocols 1.45)

Wayland Protocols 1.45 was released today with new staging and experimental protocols for Wayland compositors to begin rolling out.



Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Initial Support For VP9 Decoding

([Vulkan] 13 June 09:56 AM EDT VP9 Vulkan Video)

Introduced last week with Vulkan 1.4.317 was Vulkan Video support for VP9 video decoding. Following that the open-source Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver landed its VK_KHR_video_decode_vp9 support and now similarly the open-source Intel Vulkan driver has too.



OpenMoonRay Introduces NUMA Support

([Free Software] 13 June 09:03 AM EDT OpenMoonRay)

Two years ago DreamWorks Animation open-sourced their MoonRay renderer that is an award-winning, state-of-the-art production MCRT renderer used for a number of feature films. Since then they have continued advancing this open-source code as OpenMoonRay and adding more features. The newest feature release of OpenMoonRay is now available with yet more capabilities for this impressive renderer.



Sound Open Firmware 2.13 Released With Intel Panther Lake & Wildcat Lake Support

([Multimedia] 13 June 08:51 AM EDT Sound Open Firmware 2.13)

Sound Open Firmware 2.13 debuted today as the newest feature update to this open-source audio DSP stack started by Intel. With Sound Open Firmware 2.13 comes support for new Intel platforms and other enhancements.



AMD Previews Instinct MI400 Series & Helios AI Rack

([AMD] 12 June 02:29 PM EDT AMD Instinct MI400)

On top of announcing today the AMD Instinct MI350 series, ROCm 7.0, and introducing the AMD Developer Cloud, AMD also teased the next-generation Instinct MI400 / Instinct MI450 series coming in 2026.



Rocky Linux 10.0 Reaches GA As Free RHEL 10 Alternative

([Operating Systems] 12 June 01:44 PM EDT Rocky Linux 10.0)

Following the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 release going GA in May, Rocky Linux 10.0 is now available as this free alternative to RHEL 10.



AMD Developer Cloud Announced In Enabling Developer Access To Instinct MI355X & More

([AMD] 12 June 01:58 PM EDT AMD Developer Cloud)

What will likely be one of the most under-reported announcements from AMD AI Day 2025 is the AMD Developer Cloud... It's set to play a big role moving forward but today isn't as exciting itself as the likes of the Instinct MI350 series and ROCm 7.0 software.



ROCm 7.0 Goes Into Preview With MI350X/MI355X Support, Big Performance Improvements

([AMD] 12 June 01:36 PM EDT AMD ROCm 7.0)

Alongside announcing the AMD Instinct MI350 series at their AI day, ROCm 7.0 was also introduced and will be available today in preview form.



OpenZFS 2.2.8 Released With Newer Linux Kernel Support

([Linux Storage] 12 June 01:27 PM EDT OpenZFS 2.2.8)

While OpenZFS 2.3 has been stable for several months, for those still relying on the OpenZFS 2.2 series there is a new stable point release.



AMD Announces Instinct MI350X & MI355X With Fully Upstream Open-Source Linux Support

([AMD] 12 June 01:11 PM EDT AMD Instinct MI350 + Open-Source)

AMD at its Advancing AI Day event in San Jose announced the Instinct MI350X and MI355X accelerators. Exciting open-source fans will be that the Instinct MI350 series features fully open-source driver support and that is already mainline within the Linux kernel.



OpenGL 4.6 Now Exposed For Old AMD Evergreen & Cayman GPUs On Linux Driver

([Radeon] 12 June 12:20 PM EDT OpenGL 4.6 For R600g)

Merged yesterday for Mesa 25.2 is an exciting change for those still making use of vintage Radeon GPUs... OpenGL 4.6 support is now exposed for the Radeon R600g Gallium3D driver.



Measuring The Performance Cost To AMD Memory Guard With Ryzen AI PRO CPUs

([Software] 12 June 08:00 AM EDT 11 Comments)

While the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 and Ryzen AI Max+ 395 are very similar processors just as the Ryzen PRO processors are to other non-PRO parts, one of the differences with the AMD PRO Technologies come down to AMD Memory Guard providing full system memory encryption. From the HP BIOS with the ZBook Ultra G1a there is a convenient toggle for this full memory encryption support and thus I decided to carry out some benchmarks to measure the performance cost to this memory encryption feature on this AMD Strix Halo SoC.



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