FreeBSD Working On S0ix Sleep State Support For Newer Laptops

([BSD] 3 February 08:45 AM EST FreeBSD Improvement)

FreeBSD is working on S0ix standby power state support for better handling modern Intel and AMD laptops running this popular BSD operating system.

Fwupd 2.0.5 Brings Support For More ELAN Fingerprint Readers & Fixes

([LVFS] 3 February 08:33 AM EST Fwupd 2.0.5)

Fwupd 2.0.5 is out today as the newest update to this open-source solution for system and peripheral/device firmware updating under Linux.

Sound Open Firmware 2.12 Adds NXP iMX95 Support, Zephyr RTOS For AMD ACP 6.0

([Multimedia] 3 February 06:50 AM EST Sound Open Firmware 2.12)

Sound Open Firmware 2.12 is now available to succeed the SOF 2.11 release from last September. Sound Open Firmware as a reminder is an open-source audio DSP firmware solution and related SDK/tooling. SOF started out as an open-source Intel project and has successfully evolved into an excellent multi-vendor initiative and platform agnostic.

Red Hat Releases Tuned 2.25 Daemon For Linux Adaptive Performance Tuning & Monitoring

([Red Hat] 3 February 06:26 AM EST TuneD 2.25)

Red Hat engineers have released Tuned 2.25 as the newest version of their alternative to power-profiles-daemon and similar for adaptive performance tuning and monitoring. Tuned ships with various profiles and different capabilities for tuning Linux systems from laptops on battery life up through HPC servers and enterprise storage.

Intel NPU Driver 1.13 Released For Core Ultra Linux Systems

([Intel] 3 February 06:36 AM EST Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.13)

Intel on Friday released an updated user-space driver for their Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found with Core Ultra SoCs. This user-space driver code works with the IVPU accelerator kernel driver for opening up the Intel NPU for helping speed-up AI workloads on Linux.

Turbostat Preps For Intel Clearwater Forest & Panther Lake

([Intel] 3 February 06:20 AM EST Turbostat)

Yesterday just prior to the Linux 6.14-rc1 release were some last minute changes to the Turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree.

Linux 6.14-rc1 Released With NTSYNC Completed, AMDXDNA Driver & Other Enhancements

([Linux Kernel] 2 February 07:29 PM EST Linux 6.14)

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.14-rc1 to cap off the Linux 6.14 merge window.

Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Updated With Propeller-Optimized Kernel

([Operating Systems] 2 February 12:12 PM EST CachyOS February 2025)

The CachyOS Linux distribution that is built atop the rolling-release Arch Linux distribution and has developed a following with enthusiasts and gamers is out with its newest monthly update.

GNU Binutils 2.44 Released With Gas Support For AVX10.2, New Diamond Rapids Instructions

([GNU] 2 February 09:11 AM EST GNU Binutils 2.44)

GNU Binutils 2.44 was released today as the newest version of this set of binary utilities that is important to the GNU toolchain.

Rust-CUDA Project Restarted For Enabling NVIDIA CUDA Kernels Within Rust Code

([NVIDIA] 2 February 08:41 AM EST Rust CUDA)

The open-source Rust CUDA project has been "rebooted" to get back onto the effort of allowing NVIDIA CUDA compute kernels to be coded within the Rust programming language.

LLVM 20.1-rc1 Released For Testing This Updated Compiler Stack

([LLVM] 2 February 06:47 AM EST LLVM 20.1-rc1)

The first release candidate working towards the stable release of LLVM 20 is now available for testing.

GNOME 48 Lands HDR Support Bits At The Last Minute

([GNOME] 2 February 06:55 AM EST GNOME 48 + HDR)

On Saturday was the GNOME 48 feature freeze and landing during the final moments of this feature development period was new High Dynamic Range (HDR) code for Mutter and the toggling within the GNOME Control Center.

Open-Source 0 A.D. RTS Game Adds AMD FSR Support & Vulkan Renderer

([Linux Gaming] 2 February 06:34 AM EST 0 A.D. Alpha 27)

It's been a while since having anything new to report on the 0 A.D. open-source real-time strategy (RTS) game but this week marked the 0 A.D. Alpha 27 release that they also hope will be their last alpha version.

GNOME Text Editor Gains A Sidebar, GTK's Android Backend & Other Excitement This Week

([GNOME] 2 February 06:21 AM EST GNOME This Week)

This Week in GNOME is out with its newest development summary as we embark on the GNOME 48 feature freeze.

Steam Linux Use Dips For January 2025 Amid Odd Survey Numbers

([Valve] 1 February 07:14 PM EST Steam Survey)

The Steam on Linux marketshare ended 2024 with a 2.29% against Windows at 96.1% and macOS at 1.61%. The Steam Survey numbers for January were posted this evening and they show a sizable dip for the Linux gaming use but there are also other odd discrepancies with the updated monthly figures.

GTK's X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5

([GNOME] 1 February 09:25 AM EST Broadway Deprecated Too)

GTK developers have been holding another hackfest this week for the annual FOSDEM developer conference happening this weekend in Brussels. GTK developers are working toward the GTK 4.18 stable release and continuing to think more about GTK 5.

gendwarfksyms Tool Added To Linux 6.14 To Help With Rust Push

([Linux Kernel] 1 February 09:11 AM EST gendwarfksyms)

Merged on Friday to the Linux 6.14 kernel were the Kbuild feature changes for this cycle. Most notable with these kernel build changes is the introduction of the gendwarfksyms tool that is used as part of the ongoing Rust programming language push within the Linux kernel.

Intel Battlemage, NVIDIA RTX 50 & Linux Kernel Excitement From January

([Phoronix] 1 February 07:00 AM EST January 2025 Highlights)

During the month of January on Phoronix were 292 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 13 featured-length Linux hardware reviews and other multi-page benchmark specials. Here's a look back at the most exciting Linux/open-source news and content over the past month.

Linux 6.14 RISC-V Kernel Adds Support For T-Head Vector Extensions, GhostWrite

([RISC-V] 1 February 06:44 AM EST T-Head Vector)

The RISC-V CPU architecture feature updates have now been submitted and merged for the nearly-over Linux 6.14 merge window.

KDE Plasma 6.3: "It's Looking Pretty Good!"

([KDE] 1 February 06:22 AM EST KDE Plasma 6.3)

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekly recap of all the interesting KDE Plasma changes for the past week. With less than two weeks until the Plasma 6.3 stable release, Nate Graham began his weekly update by remarking that the Plasma 6.3 desktop is "looking pretty good!"