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)

More ASUS & HP Laptops See Platform Driver Support For Linux 7.1-rc5

([Hardware] 23 May 06:17 AM EDT x86 Platform Drivers)

This week's x86 platform driver fixes include not only a handful of bug fixes but also enabling some additional laptops within existing drivers for HP and ASUS devices.


DreamWorks' Open-Source MoonRay Renderer Now Part Of The Academy Software Foundation

([Free Software] 23 May 06:05 AM EDT MoonRay)

Back in 2022 it was announced DreamWorks Animation was open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer that has been used in production feature films. It ended up being published as open-source in March 2023 as OpenMoonRay and since then has continued advancing with new feature releases and improvements. Now it's being contributed to the Academy Software Foundation as the newest project.


FreeBSD 15.1-RC1 Released: Fixes With Now Seeing More AI-Discovered Security Issues

([BSD] 22 May 08:52 PM EDT AI Security Woes)

In addition to the recent influx of Linux security vulnerabilities affecting Linux, FreeBSD has also begun receiving security reports via AI/LLM-driven discovery tools. FreeBSD 15.1-RC1 is out today ahead of the planned official release in June and it brings a handful of security fixes out of this new AI-driven security research space.


GNOME Commander 2.0 Released Following Rewrite In Rust & GTK4

([GNOME] 22 May 08:24 PM EDT GNOME Commander 2.0)

GNOME Commander, the orthodox file manager for the GNOME desktop that was inspired by Norton Commander, has been rewritten in the Rust programming language and also now using the GTK4 toolkit.


Linux 7.1 Merges AMD Dynamic EPP Fixes, Intel Bartlett Lake Scaling Fix

([Linux Kernel] 22 May 02:50 PM EDT Linux 7.1 Power Management)

Merged today for Linux 7.1 was this week's power management fixes with a few notable fixes for both AMD and Intel platforms.


OpenCL 3.1.1 Released To Address A Possible Performance Regression

([Standards] 22 May 12:29 PM EDT OpenCL 3.1.1)

Released earlier this month was the OpenCL 3.1 specification with a focus on enhancing AI and HPC workloads for this long-time Khronos specification. Out today is OpenCL 3.1.1 as a point release with an emphasis on addressing a possible performance regression of OpenCL 3.1.


systemd 261-rc1 Released With OS Installer, IMDS Subsystem & New storagectl

([systemd] 22 May 10:27 AM EDT systemd 261)

The first release candidate of systemd 261 is out today and it includes yet more features for this Linux init system and service manager.


Linux Provides Better Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Over Windows 11

([Operating Systems] 22 May 09:20 AM EDT 37 Comments)

Last month with the new AMD Zen 5 "Dual Edition" 3D V-Cache CPU, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition showed great performance on Linux across a range of workloads. Curious if the operating system was playing into the greater benefit of Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 versus just the workloads tested, this article is looking at both the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 on Microsoft Windows 11 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Linux across a range of native benchmarks.


HP Panther Lake Systems Now Have Intel ISH Firmware For Linux

([Hardware] 22 May 08:12 AM EDT HP + Intel Panther Lake)

For those with a new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptop from HP or considering one of these new systems, the Intel ISH firmware has now been upstreamed to linux-firmware.git for enhancing the out-of-the-box support.


AMD PMC Linux Driver Preps For Zen 6 CPUs

([AMD] 22 May 06:31 AM EDT AMD SoC Power Management Controller)

The AMD SoC Power Management Controller Driver is the latest seeing patch activity now in preparing for next-gen Zen 6 processors.


Proposed Multi-Thread Parallel Compilation "MTPC" For LLVM Is Great News

([LLVM] 22 May 06:18 AM EDT Multi-Thread Parallel Compilation)

A new proposal volleyed today among LLVM developers is for Multi-Thread Parallel Compilation "MTPC" for the ThinLTO link-time optimization code. This is great news for today's high core count CPUs when looking to compile very large LLVM modules.


Expanded Reset Support Coming For AMDGPU To Recover From More GPU Compute Hangs

([Radeon] 22 May 05:50 AM EDT Pipe Reset Support)

A set of 42 patches were posted on Thursday for the AMDGPU kernel driver and associated AMDKFD compute driver code for enabling pipe reset capabilities for compute workloads.


Linux Sound Subsystem Also Seeing Many Fixes Driven By AI/LLMs

([Multimedia] 22 May 05:43 AM EDT Linux Sound)

It's not only the Linux networking subsystem where many fixes have been appearing -- including several notable security fixes for local privilege escalation issues -- leading to "craziness" from AI / LLMs. The Linux sound subsystem has also been seeing an uptick in activity with many "assisted-by" patches coming about in recent weeks.


Today's Linux Networking Fixes: "Craziness Continues With No End In Sight"

([Linux Networking] 21 May 07:04 PM EDT Linux 7.1 Networking)

Driven by AI/LLM bots like Shashiko uncovering new issues within the Linux kernel source tree, including various security vulnerabilities like Dirty Frag, the mailing list has been wild with bug reports and fixes. Today's networking fixes pull request for Linux 7.1 continues to highlight the ongoing craziness and fears that the worst may be yet to come.


CHUWI's $449 USD Wildcat Lake Laptop Should Work Fine With Linux

([Hardware] 21 May 03:53 PM EDT CHUWI UniBook)

CHUWI this week announced their UniBook laptop as a ~$449 USD laptop that aims to compete with Apple's MacBook Neo. While shipping with Microsoft Windows 11, it should be Linux-friendly and we'll soon be putting it to the test at Phoronix.


Linux 7.2 To Enable SR-IOV Support For Intel Nova Lake's Xe3P Graphics

([Intel] 21 May 03:22 PM EDT SR-IOV For Nova Lake)

Open-source Intel software engineers today sent out their latest round of Xe kernel graphics driver updates to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of next month's Linux 7.2 merge window.


SUSE/openSUSE Agama Installer Now Warns For No-Desktop Installs, Supports systemd-boot

([SUSE] 21 May 02:07 PM EDT SUSE Agama Installer)

SUSE engineers continue working on their modern "Agama" operating system installer used by the latest SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Linux distributions. Out today is Agama 21 to incorporate their latest OS installer enhancements.


NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell Performance Delivering Excellent Linux Performance

([Graphics Cards] 21 May 11:43 AM EDT 33 Comments)

Recently I received the line-up of the NVIDIA RTX PRO "Blackwell" workstation graphics cards for seeing how these newest professional offerings from NVIDIA are performing on Linux and competing against the AMD Radeon AI PRO and Intel Arc Pro B-Series competition.


KMSCON 10.0 Released With Natural Scrolling Option, Libseat VT Support

([Free Software] 21 May 09:45 AM EDT KMSCON 10.0)

KMSCON 10.0 is out today as the newest feature release to this terminal emulator for Linux that can serve as an alternative to the in-kernel VT.


Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Adding Expandable Heap Support With Linux 7.2

([AMD] 21 May 08:57 AM EDT Expandable Heap)

AMD engineers continue enhancing the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux.


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Examples of the output generated when running commonly typed commands
under YODIX, the new Unix-like operating system for Star Wars fans
(Submitted by Dave Finton):

# pwd
Know you not where you are. Show you I shall.

# uptime
When 900 years you be, look this good you will not.

# cd /win95
Once you start down the Dark Path, forever will it dominate your destiny!

# winnuke 192.168.1.0
That, my friend, will lead you to the dark side. Help you I will not.

# rm -rf /
Idiot you are. Yeeesss.

# shutdown -h now
Luke... there is... another... Sky... walker...