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Linux BSOD, NVIDIA Linux Excitement, Intel Sierra Forest & Other June Highlights

([Phoronix] 1 July 06:56 AM EDT June 2024 Highlights)

With the month of June wrapped up, here is a look back at the most popular open-source/Linux news and reviews from notable hardware launches to a lot of exciting kernel activity.


AMD Landing ISP 4.x IP In Linux 6.11, Strix Point & Granite Ridge IP Versions Confirmed

([Radeon] 1 July 06:27 AM EDT AMDGPU ISP 4.x)

AMD on Friday sent out another round of AMDGPU/AMDKFD patches for queuing in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.11 merge window opening up in about two weeks.


Arch Linux Powered EndeavourOS Restores ARM Support

([Operating Systems] 1 July 05:51 AM EDT EndeavourOS + ARM)

Arch Linux built EndeavourOS has released new install media in celebrating the project's fifth anniversary. Making this 5th anniversary release all the more exciting is the project has restored support for EndeavourOS on ARM.


GNOME Shell & Mutter See "47.alpha" Releases With Many Big Changes

([GNOME] 30 June 08:42 PM EDT GNOME 47 Alpha)

GNOME 47 Alpha is approaching in the coming days and on Sunday evening the "47.alpha" versions were declared for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor. This alpha milestone is a big one with seeing enhanced VR headset support, the ability to build Wayland-only desktop environments, GNOME Shell accent color integration, and other Wayland improvements.


Linux 6.10-rc6 Arrives As A "Fairly Calm" Release

([Linux Kernel] 30 June 06:24 PM EDT Linux 6.10)

The Linux 6.10 kernel cycle continues trending along nominally and giving hope for an on-time stable kernel release in two weeks.


RISC-V Memory Hot Plugging To Be Introduced With Linux 6.11

([RISC-V] 30 June 09:31 AM EDT Memory Hot Plugging/Unplugging)

The RISC-V kernel port with Linux 6.11 is introducing the ability to handle memory hot plugging/unplugging.


Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Powered ASUS Vivobook S15 Laptop Seeing Linux Patches

([Hardware] 30 June 07:02 AM EDT ASUS Vivobook S15)

For those interested in laptops powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite SoC, it's looking like the ASUS Vivobook S15 model could be one of the first devices with decent Linux support. There are patches undergoing review for upstreaming the ASUS Vivobook S 15 DeviceTree support so that much of the basic functionality is working under Linux but various features are known to be broken.


Kernel Optimizations, XZ, AMD ZLUDA, NOVA, EPYC 4004 & Other H1'2024 Highlights

([Phoronix] 30 June 06:20 AM EDT H1-2024 Highlights)

With the first half of the year drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most popular content on Phoronix so far in 2024. Year to date there has been 1,530 original news articles so far and 78 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles written by your's truly. There has been a lot happening in 2024 from Linux kernel improvements to exciting new hardware and other open-source advances.


Reverse-Engineered Vivante Driver Brings Improved Performance & Fixes For Linux 6.11

([Hardware] 30 June 06:39 AM EDT Etnaviv Driver)

The Etnaviv kernel graphics driver that provides reverse-engineered open-source support for Vivante graphics (and NPU) IP has seen a fresh round of patches ready to go for queuing in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.11 cycle kicking off in mid-July.


Linux 6.10 Lands Improved Support For LG's Latest Laptops

([Hardware] 30 June 06:13 AM EDT LG 2024 Laptops)

Merged on Saturday ahead of today's Linux 6.10-rc6 release is the latest batch of x86 platform driver changes. Notable as part of this week's fixes is improving support for the very latest (2024) LG laptop models.


Debian 12.6 Released With Many Security Updates & Bug Fixes

([Debian] 30 June 06:05 AM EDT Debian 12.6)

For those on the Debian stable train, Debian 12.6 is out this weekend as the newest point release to Debian Bookworm.


Linux Prepares New Spectre BHI Mitigation Option For Cloud Environments

([Linux Security] 29 June 08:24 AM EDT spectre_bhi=vmexit)

For the Branch History Injection variant of Spectre (Spectre BHI) there is a patch pending to add a new mitigation option for that two year old CPU security vulnerability.


Chrome's Coreboot Firmware Adapting For 64-bit Boot, Prepping For Intel Panther Lake

([Coreboot] 29 June 06:39 AM EDT Chrome 64-bit Firmware)

The Open-Source Firmware Foundation is out with an interesting blog post by Google firmware engineer Subrata Banik around adapting the Coreboot-based Chrome AP Firmware for 64-bit booting. The transition to 64-bit booting is happening for the system firmware powering Chromebooks and other Chrome devices and is driven in part for Intel Panther Lake generation hardware.


GNOME Ends Out June With New Libadwaita Addition, Optional Building Without X11

([GNOME] 29 June 06:23 AM EDT GNOME Changes)

This Week in GNOME is out with the latest summary to highlight all of the interesting changes this week.


Niri 0.1.7 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds Fractional Scaling

([Wayland] 29 June 05:49 AM EDT Niri 0.1.7)

Niri 0.1.7 is out today as the latest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. While the version number may not signify it, Niri 0.1.7 is quite a notable feature update.


KDE Developers Fix More Bugs For Plasma 6.1, Begin More Feature Work On Plasma 6.2

([KDE] 29 June 05:33 AM EDT KDE This Week)

KDE developers have still been busy addressing early fallout from the Plasma 6.1 desktop that released earlier this month while also beginning more feature activity for Plasma 6.2.


Wine 9.12 Lands Rewrite Of CMD.EXE Engine & Other Improvements

([WINE] 28 June 08:27 PM EDT Wine 9.12)

Wine 9.12 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release and in passing roughly the half-way point before Wine 10.0 stable enters the sights for early 2025.


Intel Preps More eDP Panel Replay Driver Code For Linux 6.11

([Intel] 28 June 11:49 AM EDT drm-intel-next)

On top of already having queued Intel Battlemage display support and the Battlemage device PCI IDs and other Intel kernel graphics driver features like hardware hang replays, Intel engineers today sent out another batch of "drm-intel-next" material slated for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle.


Servo Web Engine Gets WebGPU Running On OpenGL ES & Other New Features

([Free Software] 28 June 09:39 AM EDT Servo June 2024)

The Rust-written Servo web layout engine continues progressing for this open-source project now stewarded by the Linux Foundation Europe and seeing code contribution from a range of developers. They have published their June 2024 status update to outline the latest accomplishments for this alternative web engine.


DRM Panic "Screen of Death" To Gain Monochrome Logo Support In Linux 6.11

([Linux Kernel] 28 June 08:37 AM EDT Monochrome Logo Support)

The DRM Panic handler in Linux 6.10 that is used for presenting a visual error message in case of kernel panics and similar when CONFIG_VT is disabled continues seeing new features. This is the Linux equivalent to Windows' Blue Screen of Death or in the case of DRM Panic can also be a black screen of death. With Linux 6.11, the DRM Panic display can now handle monochrome logos.


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