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)

Apple Silicon OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Updated This Week For Mesa 24.3

([Mesa] 3 November 06:11 AM EST Asahi Linux Sync)

Alyssa Rosenzweig has pushed the latest Apple Silicon OpenGL "AGX Gallium3D" and Vulkan "Honeykrisp" code from the Asahi Linux development repository into the Mesa Git codebase ahead of this quarter's Mesa 24.3 release.



Snapdragon X1 Elite CPUFreq Support Revised In Latest Linux Patches

([Arm] 3 November 05:58 AM EST Snapdragon X1 Elite CPUFreq)

While the mainline Linux kernel has begun seeing initial support for various Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops, various feature limitations are outstanding before these Qualcomm-powered laptops really become usable for daily use. For instance, just a few days ago the audio firmware was finally upstreamed to make setting up X1 Elite laptops easier. Another important feature as an example is CPUFreq driver support for CPU frequency scaling to ensure optimal performance and power efficiency.



FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 1 Released To Work Toward This Next Release

([BSD] 2 November 03:49 PM EDT FreeBSD 14.2)

FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 1 is out today as the first tagged test snapshot in working toward this newest FreeBSD 14 point release.



Cloudflare's Pingora 0.4 Rust Framework Released With Experimental Windows Support

([Free Software] 2 November 12:00 PM EDT Cloudflare Pingora 0.4)

Cloudflare's Pingora Rust framework that was written as a replacement to Nginx and made publicly open-source earlier this year with a focus on building fast and reliable networked systems is out with its newest feature release.



Genode-Based Sculpt OS 24.10 Introduces Multi-Monitor Support

([Operating Systems] 2 November 08:44 AM EDT Sculpt OS 24.10)

Sculpt OS for what has been working to become a general purpose operating system built off the original Genode is out with a new feature release.



Intel Lands VVC VA-API Hardware Decoding Into FFmpeg

([Multimedia] 2 November 06:49 AM EDT VVC VA-API + FFmpeg)

Intel has integrated VVC VA-API hardware accelerated decoding support into the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library.



KDE Will Nicely Notify You When Apps Are Being Killed Due To Out-Of-Memory

([KDE] 2 November 06:30 AM EDT OOM Notifications)

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development summary of interesting KDE changes in closing out October.



Vulkan 1.3.301 Released With New Extension For HDR Vivid

([Vulkan] 2 November 06:20 AM EDT VK_HUAWEI_hdr_vivid)

Vulkan 1.3.301 was published on Friday with the lone new extension this release being a rare contribution from Huawei adding HDR Vivid support with VK_HUAWEI_hdr_vivid.



Xfce 4.20 Pre1 Pre-Release Published For Testing

([Desktop] 2 November 06:03 AM EDT Xfce 4.20 Pre1)

Right on schedule for releasing the Xfce 4.20 desktop in December, the "Pre1" pre-release was posted on Friday for testing.



Steam On Linux Marketshare Hits 2.0% For October, AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers Approaches 75%

([Valve] 1 November 08:12 PM EDT 2.00%)

Earlier this year and through July Steam on Linux was enjoying above a 2% marketshare thanks to the success of the Arch Linux powered SteamOS and Steam Deck offerings. But then for August and September Steam on Linux use was below 2%. After a 0.13% rise in October, Steam on Linux is back to sitting at a 2.00% marketshare.



Wine 10.0 Release Plans Aim For Mid-January Release

([WINE] 1 November 01:28 PM EDT Wine 10.0 Release Plans)

Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard has laid out plans for releasing Wine 10.0 around mid-January as the annual stable release for this open-source software to run Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms.



Ubuntu's Great Mainline Kernel PPA Hasn't Been Working Since Mid-September

([Ubuntu] 1 November 11:54 AM EDT Sad Face)

One of the very convenient features for Ubuntu Linux users who want to run the very newest upstream kernel releases or simply test a new kernel build for verifying bug fixes or functionality has been the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA. It's been around for years, backed by Canonical, and very convenient for fetching pre-built AArch64 / ARM / POWER / RISC-V / x86_64 kernel binaries as Debian packages... With options of stable/test kernel versions as well as daily packages. Sadly, it's been broken once again and has been in that manner since mid-September.



Valve Engineer Fixes Massive Performance Issue For RADV Driver With AMD FSR2 Sample

([Radeon] 1 November 10:26 AM EDT AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2)

With the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release there is a huge improvement coming for those using the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver with the AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 sample app.



Google Chrome/Chromium Lands linux_drm_syncobj_v1 For Wayland Explicit Sync

([Google] 1 November 09:31 AM EDT Chrome linux-drm-syncobj)

The Google Chrome/Chromium web browser code has merged support for linux_drm_syncobj_v1 as the modern Wayland protocol for explicit buffer synchronization.



New Intel Diamond Rapids Patch For GCC Confirms AVX10.2-512, APX & Other ISA Features

([Intel] 1 November 07:00 AM EDT -march=diamondrapids)

Intel software engineers have been very busy recently with upstreaming various elements of support into the Linux kernel, open-source compilers and more for the next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors. Following the recent GCC prep patches for Diamond Rapids to work on the ISA additions around AMX-AVX512, AMX-FP8, AMX-FP32, and others, a new patch was posted today for actually exposing the "-march=diamondrapids" compiler target and in turn confirming all of the new ISA capabilities.



Intel Arrow Lake, AMD EPYC Turin & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Interesting October

([Phoronix] 1 November 06:34 AM EDT October Highlights)

October is now in the books after writing 247 original news articles and another 24 Linux hardware reviews / featured multi-page benchmark articles. From the launches of Intel Arrow Lake and AMD EPYC 9005 to other interesting new hardware, the Russian Linux kernel drama, Linux 6.12 developments and early Linux 6.13 patches queuing in "-next" branches, October was an interesting month both for hardware and open-source software.



Ubuntu Hoping To Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

([Ubuntu] 1 November 06:24 AM EDT Moving To Qt 6)

Ubuntu developer Simon Quigley laid out the plans for hoping Ubuntu packages will move from Qt 5 to Qt 6 so that by the time of the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cycle in early 2026 that the older version of this graphical toolkit can be removed.



Bcachefs Reining In Bugs: Test Dashboard Failures Drop By 40% Over Last Month

([Linux Storage] 1 November 06:08 AM EDT Bcachefs)

As part of the latest Bcachefs fixes pull request, lead developer Kent Overstreet has provided an update on the bug situation for this advanced copy-on-write open-source file-system.



Miriway 24.10 Compositor Adds systemd Integration, DE-Specific Configurations

([Wayland] 1 November 06:13 AM EDT Miriway 24.10)

Miriway 24.10 was released on Halloween as the newest version of this Mir-based Wayland compositor. Miriway is developed by Canonical/Ubuntu developers as a compositor for other desktops like Xfce, MATE, LXQt and others as a way to ease their migration path to Wayland.



Academy Software Foundation Releases OpenVDB 12.0 Under New License

([Free Software] 1 November 05:53 AM EDT OpenVDB 12.0)

The Academy Software Foundation that is made up of many different vendors released OpenVDB 12.0 as the newest major release to this sparse volume data structure library and tooling that is an Academy Award winning library started by DreamWorks Animation.



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