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)

PipeWire 1.4.8 Improves Compatibility With Apple Home Pod Mini Speakers

([PipeWire] 11 September 06:45 AM EDT PipeWire 1.4.8)

PipeWire 1.4.8 is out today as the newest step forward for this increasingly critical Linux desktop component for managing audio and video streams.



GCC Rust Compiler Continues Quest To Compile The Linux Kernel Crate

([GNU] 11 September 06:11 AM EDT gccrs)

The GCC Rust compiler "gccrs" compiler developers have been keeping at it toward their goal of being able to compile the Linux kernel's Rust kernel crate and as part of that the Rust core library.



Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support

([Mozilla] 11 September 06:00 AM EDT Matroska Support)

Within the nightly builds of the Firefox web browser is finally the ability to support playback of Matroska "MKV" content.



Linux 6.18 To Introduce Pixpaper DRM Driver, boot_display DRM Attribute

([Linux Kernel] 11 September 05:44 AM EDT drm-misc-next)

Thomas Zimmermann of SUSE sent out today what is anticipated to be the last drm-misc-next feature pull request for DRM-Next that is targeting the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle.



Mesa Drops VDPAU Video Acceleration In Favor Of VA-API

([Mesa] 10 September 05:55 PM EDT Removes VDPAU)

Mesa's Gallium3D video acceleration code has long supported both the VA-API and VDPAU interfaces for video acceleration. VA-API has enjoyed more widespread support among Linux applications and typically more robust while the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) was the interface originally started by NVIDIA for their official Linux driver. As of today, Mesa has now removed support for VDPAU acceleration.



Fwupd 2.0.15 Released With Support For Newer NVIDIA ConnectX NICs

([LVFS] 10 September 02:54 PM EDT Fwupd 2.0.15)

Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced the availability today of Fwupd 2.0.15 as the latest increment to this open-source firmware updating solution built around the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS).



openSUSE Disabling Bcachefs Support For Its Linux 6.17+ Kernel Builds

([SUSE] 10 September 11:33 AM EDT openSUSE Disables Bcachefs)

Linus Torvalds recently marked Bcachefs as "externally maintained" and isn't merging any new Bcachefs code for the time being but for now at least is keeping the existing Bcachefs code in-tree for anyone that has been relying on this experimental CoW file-system from prior kernel versions. OpenSUSE announced today though they are resorting to disabling the kernel driver in their Linux 6.17+ builds.



Intel Fixes Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics Performance Issues For Linux Ahead Of Launch

([Intel] 10 September 10:43 AM EDT Xe3 Performance Problems)

A set of 14 patches were merged today to the Mesa 3D graphics driver codebase for fixing some wide-reaching performance issues that would have negatively affected the upcoming Xe3 integrated graphics with Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. The patches have been merged so will be very important that anyone buying an upcoming Intel Panther Lake laptop move to using an up-to-date Mesa to avoid these performance problems.



Hyprland 0.51 Compositor Released With Reworked Gesture System, New Animations

([Wayland] 10 September 09:38 AM EDT Hyprland 0.51)

Hyprland 0.51 is now available as the latest feature release for this unique Wayland compositor.



Zink Begins Optimizing For Workstation Graphics With SPECViewPerf: Doubles The Perf

([Mesa] 10 September 09:13 AM EDT Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan)

The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver is well optimized for Linux gaming and desktop use thanks to the work by Mike Blumenkrantz being funded by Valve. Zink has even worked with OpenCL thanks to Rusticl and now another frontier is being conquered for this generic OpenGL on Vulkan driver: workstation graphics with optimizing around the SPECViewPerf test cases.



Pogocache 1.2 Now Uses Microsoft's Mimalloc By Default: "Excellent Performance"

([Free Software] 10 September 08:36 AM EDT Pogocache)

Pogocache is the open-source fast caching software built from scratch that is optimized for low latency and CPU scalability/efficiency. Pogocache claims to outperform Memcached, Valkey, Redis, and other alternatives. Out today is Pogocache 1.2 as the newest feature release for this fast cache.



Linux Looking To Finally Kill Off HIGHPTE Support

([Arm] 10 September 06:55 AM EDT ARM HIGHPTE)

Linux kernel developers are evaluating the idea of removing HIGHPTE support from the Linux kernel due to its maintenance burden and just one ARM system currently using it.



The Newest DRM Display Driver Being Worked On For Linux: "Yhgch"

([Hardware] 10 September 06:32 AM EDT Yhgch)

The newest Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) display driver that has been in the works for the Linux kernel is "Yhgch" from Inspur.



Intel Loses One Of Its NPU Driver Maintainers: "Time To Let Someone Else Deal With The NPU Bugs"

([Intel] 10 September 05:54 AM EDT Intel IVPU)

Following the numerous Intel Linux developer departures last month from the company following layoffs at Intel and others deciding to voluntarily leave, there is another one to report today. One of the Intel IVPU accelerator driver maintainers for the Intel NPUs found in Core Ultra SoCs is departing the company.



LLVM 21.1.1 Ships A Variety Of Compiler Fixes

([LLVM] 10 September 05:42 AM EDT LLVM 21.1.1)

For those preferring for the first point release to major new compiler releases before upgrading, LLVM 21.1.1 is out today along with the likes of Clang 21.1.1 for this widely-used open-source compiler stack.



Arm Announces Lumex Platform With C1 CPUs Boasting SME2, Mali G1-Ultra GPU

([Arm] 9 September 10:00 PM EDT Arm Lumex)

Arm this evening lifted the lid on Lumex, their new compute subsystem platform that is purpose-built around AI for next-gen PCs and smartphones.



Linux 6.17 Successfully Lands In Ubuntu 25.10

([Ubuntu] 9 September 08:39 PM EDT Ubuntu 25.10 + Linux 6.17)

Back in May was the announcement by Canonical's kernel team that they were planning to ship Linux 6.17 in Ubuntu 25.10 as what will be the latest upstream kernel version when that Ubuntu release ships in October. But due to the timing of the Linux 6.17 release around late September and the Ubuntu 25.10 kernel freeze around the same time, it's led to some confusion with committing to a Linux 6.17-rc or potentially some suggesting Ubuntu 25.10 would ship with a Linux 6.16 kernel and then ship v6.17 as a stable release update. Well, the situation is more clear with Linux 6.17 having been merged now as the default kernel of Ubuntu 25.10.



Rust Coreutils 0.2.2 Released With Faster base64: Outperforming GNU's base64

([Programming] 9 September 04:43 PM EDT Rust Coreutils 0.2.2)

It was just a few days ago that Rust Coreutils 0.2 released with "massive" performance gains and production-ready Ubuntu support. Rust Coreutils 0.2.2 is out today and is delivering a few more enhancements -- most excitingly is a faster base64 command that can now outperform the GNU Coreutils version.



FEX 2509 Delivers More Performance For x86 Binaries On ARM64 Linux

([Free Software] 9 September 02:28 PM EDT FEX 2509)

FEX 2509 is out today as the latest monthly update to this open-source emulator allowing unmodified x86/x86_64 games and applications to run in ARM64 Linux environments.



AMD openSIL Production Phase Reaffirmed For 2026

([AMD] 9 September 01:09 PM EDT AMD openSIL)

One of the AMD software initiatives we have been most excited about in recent times has been openSIL. AMD openSIL is working toward open-source CPU silicon initialization that will jive better with the likes of Coreboot and ultimately replace their existing AGESA implementation. AMD openSIL is expected to span AMD's wide gamut of processors from client/embedded through server offerings. It's still looking to be on track for production readiness in 2026.



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I always will remember -- I was in no mood to trifle;
'Twas a year ago November -- I got down my trusty rifle
I went out to shoot some deer And went out to stalk my prey --
On a morning bright and clear. What a haul I made that day!
I went and shot the maximum I tied them to my bumper and
The game laws would allow: I drove them home somehow,
Two game wardens, seven hunters, Two game wardens, seven hunters,
And a cow. And a cow.

The Law was very firm, it People ask me how I do it
Took away my permit-- And I say, "There's nothin' to it!
The worst punishment I ever endured. You just stand there lookin' cute,
It turns out there was a reason: And when something moves, you shoot."
Cows were out of season, and And there's ten stuffed heads
One of the hunters wasn't insured. In my trophy room right now:
Two game wardens, seven hunters,
And a pure-bred guernsey cow.
-- Tom Lehrer, "The Hunting Song"