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)

openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 Brings Nice Improvements To This Lightweight Linux OS

([SUSE] 6 December 08:48 AM EST openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1)

openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 is now available as the newest version of this lightweight Linux operating system built for containerized environments and virtualized workloads.



Fwupd 2.0.3 Delivers Latest Firmware Updating Capabilities For Linux Systems

([LVFS] 6 December 08:38 AM EST Fwupd 2.0.3)

Fwupd 2.0 debuted back in October while out today is Fwupd 2.0.3 as the newest incremental update to this open-source solution for updating system and device firmware under Linux.



Fedora 42 Eyes Replacing SDL2 With sdl2-compat To Leverage SDL3

([Linux Gaming] 6 December 06:58 AM EST sdl2-compat For Fedora 42)

The SDL2 library is widely used by cross-platform games and other software. Fedora 42 is eyeing the possibility of replacing SDL2 with the sdl2-compat code so that by way of this compatibility layer the newer SDL3 version will ultimately be used instead.



Broadcom BCM2712 MOPLET Graphics For Linux 6.14, Other Early drm-misc-next Code

([Linux Kernel] 6 December 06:43 AM EST drm-misc-next)

While the Linux v6.13 merge window has been over for less than one week, already the first pull requests of new feature code are being submitted to DRM-Next for queuing the display/graphics driver changes ahead of the Linux 6.14 merge window in two months.



MGLRU Sees New Performance Optimizations For Linux

([Linux Kernel] 6 December 06:19 AM EST Multi-Gen LRU)

It's been a while since there have been any new advancements or performance optimizations to talk about for Multi-Gen LRU (MGLRU) that was upstreamed to the Linux kernel two years ago as a very exciting kernel innovation. But that's changing now with some fresh performance optimizations being worked on for the MGLRU code.



AMD P-State Driver Improvements Getting Ready For Linux 6.14

([AMD] 6 December 06:27 AM EST amd_pstate)

While Linux 6.13-rc1 was only released this past Sunday and there is around two months to go until the start of the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle, AMD P-State driver improvements are already beginning to collect for this next kernel cycle.



Ubuntu 25.04 Planning To Use GCC 15 As Well As Exploring Greater LLVM Use

([Ubuntu] 5 December 08:30 PM EST Ubuntu 25.04 Roadmap)

Canonical's Matthieu Clemenceau as the Engineering Director for the Ubuntu Foundations Team has provided a public roadmap around some of the plans for Ubuntu 25.04. This next Ubuntu Linux (non-LTS) release that is due out in April is set to enjoy more performance optimizations and other exciting bits.



Linux 6.12 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel

([Linux Kernel] 5 December 04:42 PM EST Linux 6.12 LTS)

Linux stable maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman officially designated Linux 6.12 as this year's long-term support (LTS) kernel version.



Redox OS Makes Progress On Emulator Support, Better Documentation & Hardware Fixes

([Operating Systems] 5 December 04:16 PM EST Redox OS)

The Rust-based Redox OS original open-source operating system project is out with a new status report to detail the enhancements they have made over the past several weeks.



COSMIC Alpha 4 Released For System76's Rust-Based Desktop

([Desktop] 5 December 10:46 AM EST COSMIC Alpha 4)

System76 today released the newest development/testing version of their Rust-based desktop environment designed for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution.



NVIDIA 565.77 Linux Driver Released As First Stable R565 Build

([NVIDIA] 5 December 10:13 AM EST NVIDIA 565.77)

For the past month and a half the NVIDIA R565 Linux driver series has been in public beta with a number of (X)Wayland improvements, DMA-BUF enhancements, VKD3D fixes, and a variety of other enhancements. Today the NVIDIA 565.77 Linux driver was released as the first stable build in the series.



Alpine Linux 3.21 Released With Linux 6.12 & GCC 14, LoongArch CPU Support

([Operating Systems] 5 December 08:48 AM EST Alpine Linux 3.21)

Alpine Linux 3.21 is out today as the newest version of this simple, lightweight, and security-minded Linux distribution that is popular for use within containerized environments, embedded systems, and more.



Linus Torvalds Comes Out Against "Completely Broken" x86_64 Feature Levels

([Linux Kernel] 5 December 06:54 AM EST No Feature Levels In The Kernel)

With the new Linux kernel patches posted yesterday for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernels on x86_64 CPUs as part of that patch series was introducing new Kconfig build options around the x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels. It turns out though that Torvalds is completely against how the x86_64 feature levels are handled by the compiler toolchain folks and doesn't want to see it invading the kernel.



Imagination PowerVR Driver Being Extended To Work On RISC-V

([RISC-V] 5 December 06:34 AM EST RISC-V + Imagination PowerVR)

The Linux 6.8 kernel merged the Imagination PowerVR driver as a new open-source driver for supporting the PowerVR "Rogue" graphics architecture and being developed in tandem by Imagination Tech with their upstream Mesa Vulkan driver. Initially this PowerVR driver was catering to ARM SoCs with the Rogue graphics while now the open-source driver is being extended to work on RISC-V too.



New AMD XDNA Linux Driver Patches Add Ryzen AI NPU6 IP, Other Improvements

([AMD] 5 December 06:21 AM EST Ryzen AI NPU6)

The "AMDXDNA" accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPU is set to be introduced in the Linux 6.14 kernel next year. Ahead of that debut, a new set of patches from AMD surfaced on Wednesday to provide fixes and code improvements as well as introducing support for newer Ryzen AI "NPU6" IP.



Linux Patches Would Allow RISC-V To Use A 64K Page Size

([RISC-V] 5 December 06:04 AM EST RISC-V 64K Page Size)

Patches from a Bytedance engineer for the Linux kernel allow for overcoming the current 4K page size limitation of RISC-V and introduce a new 64K page size option.



Mesa 24.3.1 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes

([Mesa] 4 December 08:41 PM EST Mesa 24.3.1)

Building off the Mesa 24.3 release from two weeks ago is now Mesa 24.3.1 as the first stable point release following their usual bi-weekly release regiment.



Intel Linux Display Driver Being Adapted For DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" Support

([Intel] 4 December 04:55 PM EST Intel i915 + DRM_Panic)

The DRM Panic infrastructure has been in the Linux kernel for several releases now and allows for a kernel-based experience similar to Windows' "Blue Screen of Death as well as more recently allowing QR code kernel error messages and other features. The Intel kernel DRM driver has seen some patches for enabling DRM Panic support.



NVIDIA vs. AMD GPU Workstation Performance For Blender 4.3

([Graphics Cards] 4 December 01:39 PM EST 24 Comments)

With the recent release of Blender 4.3 for this leading open-source 3D modeling software, I've been carrying out some fresh NVIDIA vs. AMD GPU benchmarks for accelerated rendering across several different popular benchmark scenes.



Debian 13 Desktop Theme Finalized Ahead Of Next Year's Release

([Debian] 4 December 10:53 AM EST Debian 13 Theme)

As a follow-up to last month's article around the Debian 13 release processes continuing and desktop artwork voting underway for Debian 13 "Trixie", the winning desktop theme/artwork was announced today.



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