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Mesa 24.3 Adds New Build Option To Allow Rusticl Driver Support To Be Enabled By Default

([Mesa] 6 October 10:22 AM EDT Rusticl Default)

Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst continues enhancing Mesa's Rusticl driver that allows for a Rust-based OpenCL driver implementation for use by Gallium3D drivers. The newest addition is a build-time option for controlling devices to be enabled by default.



Wasmer 4.4 Released To Continue Pushing Universal Apps With WebAssembly

([Programming] 6 October 09:04 AM EDT Wasmer 4.4)

Wasmer 4.4 is out as the newest version to this prominent WebAssembly (WASM) runtime that supports WASIX / WASI / EmScripten to "run software anywhere" by effectively serving as lightweight containers and being able to scale from the edge to the cloud.



Apple Vulkan Driver "HoneyKrisp" Lands Many Fixes & Features

([Mesa] 6 October 06:24 AM EDT HoneyKrisp)

HoneyKrisp as the open-source Mesa Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon graphics and developed as part of the Asahi Linux project has landed a number of enhancements into the mainline Mesa code.



OpenRazer 3.9 Adds Support For Many Newer Razer Devices On Linux

([Hardware] 6 October 06:15 AM EDT OpenRazer 3.9)

OpenRazer 3.9 is out today as the newest version of this community project providing open-source driver support for Razer peripherals on Linux. This out-of-tree set of Linux kernel drivers allows for various Razer devices to be configured and fully leveraged under Linux.



Bcachefs Fixes Pull Once Again Frustrates Linus Torvalds - Two Choices Offered

([Linux Storage] 5 October 08:24 PM EDT LKML Drama)

Linus Torvalds merged the newest round of fixes to the experimental Bcachefs file-system, but it's left Linux creator Linus Torvalds frustrated and he's presented two choices for the file-system moving forward due to the continued LKML drama.



The Long-Awaited GIMP 3.0 Closing In On Its First Release Candidate

([Free Software] 5 October 01:12 PM EDT GIMP 3.0 RC1 Coming Soon)

The long-in-development GIMP 3.0 open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop hopes to ship its release candidate in the near future.



Fedora 41 Has Working Intel IPU6 Web Camera Support With Modern Laptops

([Fedora] 5 October 09:42 AM EDT Fedora 41 + Intel IPU6)

It's been a long journey to see good web camera support for Intel Alder Lake and newer designs making use of the IPU6 imaging IP. But with Fedora 41 due for release in the coming weeks, there will finally be good out-of-the-box, open-source support for the IPU6-based web cameras in modern Intel Core laptops across Tigerlake / Alder Lake / Raptor Lake laptops.



Linux 6.12 Patches Neoverse-N3 & Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 For Speculative SSBS

([Arm] 5 October 08:53 AM EDT Plus Neoverse-A715)

We are not done yet seeing new Arm cores still impacted by the Speculative Store Bypass handling errata. Merged to Linux 6.12 on Friday was adding the speculative SSBS workaround for the Cortex-A715, Neoverse-N3, and Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 cores.



OpenZFS 2.3-rc1 Delivers RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup & Direct IO

([Linux Storage] 5 October 06:35 AM EDT OpenZFS 2.3)

OpenZFS 2.3-rc1 is now available for testing as the next major feature release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems.



SDL 3.1.3 Stable ABI Preview Release

([Linux Gaming] 5 October 06:20 AM EDT SDL 3.1.3)

Sam Lantinga released SDL 3.1.3 on Friday as their "stable ABI preview" version ahead of the SDL 3.2.0 stable release. The developer at Valve notes that SDL3 has already been "battle tested by millions of people in DOTA, CS2 and Steam" and they are now gearing up for the SDL 3.2 stable release to get SDL3 out to the masses.



KDE Plasma 6.2 Preparing For Release Next Week

([KDE] 5 October 06:11 AM EDT KDE Plasma 6.2 On 8 October)

KDE developers have been putting the finishing touches on the Plasma 6.2 desktop as it prepares to release next week. Plasma 6.2 will be out on Tuesday barring any last minute issues.



Wine 9.19 Brings Improved Window Positioning On Wayland

([WINE] 4 October 08:29 PM EDT Wine 9.19)

We are quickly working our way to the end of the calendar year where Wine 9.xx bi-weekly development releases will focus on a shift to stability for releasing Wine 10.0 in early 2025. But we're not there yet and Wine 9.19 is out today to deliver the newest batch of features and fixes for this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and apps on Linux.



Qualcomm Linux Driver Prepares For New "AIC080" Lower-Cost Cloud AI Accelerator

([Hardware] 4 October 04:10 PM EDT Qualcomm Cloud AI 80)

The Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 accelerator caters to a variety of edge-to-cloud industries. While the Qualcomm Cloud AI hardware isn't talked about as much as the AI accelerators from other vendors, there is the QAIC driver within the mainline Linux kernel for supporting the Cloud AI 100 along with associated open-source compiler and user-space stack. It turns out the Qualcomm Cloud AI family is growing with a Cloud AI 80 "AIC080" accelerator coming to market at a lower-cost.



Intel Panther Lake Introducing 5th Gen NPU - Initial Linux Patches Posted

([Intel] 4 October 01:42 PM EDT Intel Panther Lake NPU)

Intel's Linux engineers continue working on preparing for next-generation hardware support within the kernel well ahead of launch. The latest on the recent enablement around next-gen Panther Lake processors is enabling a new "5th Gen" neural processing unit (NPU) to be found with Panther Lake P.



AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Dominates Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake Performance For Linux Developers & Creators

([Processors] 4 October 01:30 PM EDT 37 Comments)

Earlier this week I delivered initial Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics benchmarks on Linux while today the focus is on Lunar Lake's CPU performance. The Xe2 graphics performance under Linux was disappointingly slow with it performing even worse than Meteor Lake while RDNA3.5 graphics led. Intel has been investigating the Xe2 Linux graphics performance but I haven't heard any updates yet. Today the attention is on the Lunar Lake CPU side under Linux and it too isn't looking too good. The performance of this 8-core Core Ultra 7 256V SoC is poor in real-world multi-threaded scenarios and the performance-per-Watt is only compelling in a subset of workloads. The AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 and AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Zen 5 SoCs tended to deliver the superior performance and power efficiency under Linux.



ZLUDA Takes On Third Life: Open-Source Multi-GPU CUDA Implementation Focused On AI

([Free Software] 4 October 10:00 AM EDT ZLUDA)

The open-source ZLUDA project began life as a drop-in CUDA replacement that ran atop Intel GPUs using the Level Zero API. Then AMD quietly began funding it for several years as a viable CUDA implementation running atop AMD GPUs until discontinued funding earlier this year. ZLUDA for AMD GPUs was then made open-source but then in August the ZLUDA code was removed at AMD's request. Today it's taking on its third incarnation.



Fwupd 2.0 Released To Drop Legacy & Deprecated Bits, Adds New Features

([LVFS] 4 October 09:41 AM EDT Fwupd 2.0)

Richard Hughes of Red Hat just announced Fwupd 2.0 as a major release to this open-source firmware updating utility for Linux systems. Fwupd 2.0 clears out a lot of long deprecated and legacy bits while adding new features and shipping many fixes.



Blender 4.3 Beta Delivers Experimental Vulkan UI Rendering

([Free Software] 4 October 08:58 AM EDT Blender 4.3)

Blender 4.3 is available today in beta form to encourage public testing of this next feature release to this leading open-source 3D modeling software.



Red Hat Engineer Working On DRM Panic Support For AMDGPU Driver

([Radeon] 4 October 06:52 AM EDT DRM Panic)

Red Hat engineer Jocelyn Falempe has been working to sort out DRM Panic support for the AMDGPU driver. The DRM Panic infrastructure is useful since it's what allows presenting a panic screen, a.k.a. a "Blue Screen of Death" type experience when running into major kernel problems. With Linux 6.12 there's now the ability to show QR codes for error messages with DRM Panic.



Zink Seeing VA-API Video Acceleration Implemented Over Vulkan Video

([Mesa] 4 October 06:39 AM EDT VA-API On Vulkan Video)

The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has experimental code now available for testing that also implements the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) atop the Vulkan Video APIs. This is an interesting effort that now allows VA-API applications to rely on drivers with Vulkan Video support underneath.



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