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)

LLVM Adopts "Human In The Loop" Policy For AI/Tool-Assisted Contributions

([LLVM] 20 January 12:13 PM EST Human In The Loop)

Following recent discussions over AI contributions to the LLVM open-source compiler project, they have come to an agreement on allowing AI/tool-assisted contributions but that there must be a human involved that is first looking over the code before opening any pull request and similar. Strictly AI-driven contributions without any human vetting will not be permitted.


Support For More Bluetooth Guitars & Other HID Changes Ahead Of Linux 6.20~7.0

([Hardware] 20 January 10:21 AM EST HID)

A lot of HID subsystem updates have been queuing up ahead of the Linux 6.20~7.0 merge window in February. There is a lot of new hardware support on the way along with quirks for some existing hardware support ranging from laptop keyboard issues to enabling support for more PS4/PS5 guitars under Linux.


Patches Ready For Linux 7.0 To Enable Intel GPU Firmware Updates On Non-x86 Systems

([Intel] 20 January 09:08 AM EST Intel dGPU Firmware Updates On non-x86)

Patches are now positioned to go into the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle for supporting Intel discrete GPU firmware updating on non-x86 systems.


Fedora 44 Feature Approved For Better Windows On ARM Laptop Experience

([Fedora] 20 January 08:08 AM EST Out-Of-The-Box On ARM)

A change proposal has been cleared by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" for providing a nice out-of-the-box experience for Windows on ARM laptops namely the recent Snapdragon X1 laptops and will also be important for the upcoming Snapdragon X2 laptops too.


Adreno Gen 8 Vulkan Graphics Merged For Mesa 26.0 To Support The Snapdragon X2

([Mesa] 20 January 06:18 AM EST Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8)

Merged in time for the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release is the merging of Vulkan driver support for the Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics support that is notably used by the new Snapdragon X2 laptop SoCs as well as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.


DragonFlyBSD Now Allows Optional AMD GCN 1.1 Support In AMDGPU Driver

([BSD] 20 January 06:02 AM EST AMD GCN 1.1)

DragonFlyBSD's AMDGPU kernel graphics driver continues to be a port of the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver. Their latest porting effort for AMD graphics on DragonFlyBSD is now enabling optional support for the GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands (CIK) graphics processors on this modern alternative to the prior Radeon kernel driver.


X.Org Server May Create A New Selective Git Branch With Hopes Of A New Release This Year

([X.Org] 19 January 08:51 PM EST XServer Main Git Repo)

A proposal has been laid out for a new X.Org Server "main" Git branch to house their development going forward and cleaning up the development lapses over the past few years. Ultimately the hope is for having a new cleaned-up X.Org Server and XWayland Git branch for shipping new releases in 2026.


New Patches From Valve Bring AMDGPU Power Management Improvements For Old GCN 1.0 GPUs

([Radeon] 19 January 04:09 PM EST Southern Islands Power Management)

Last year Valve contractor Timur Kristóf managed to improve the AMDGPU driver enough for old GCN 1.0 Southern Islands and GCN 1.1 Sea Islands GPUs that with Linux 6.19 AMDGPU is now the default for those GPUs with better performance, RADV Vulkan out-of-the-box, and other benefits. He isn't done though improving the old GCN 1.0/1.1 era GPU support on this modern AMDGPU kernel driver - a new patch series posted today brings some power management fixes.


OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE To Provide A Security & Performance Win For Dealing With Containers

([Linux Kernel] 19 January 02:44 PM EST OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE)

A new feature expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel cycle is adding an OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE flag for the open_tree() system call. This OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE option can provide a nice performance win with added security benefits if you are dealing a lot with containerized workloads on Linux.


Mozilla Now Providing RPM Packages For Firefox Nightly Builds

([Mozilla] 19 January 11:18 AM EST Firefox Nightly RPMs)

In late 2023 Mozilla began providing Debian packages of Firefox Nightly builds complete with an APT repository. Those on Debian/Ubuntu distributions have a much easier path for enjoying Firefox Nightly since then and now Mozilla engineers are providing similar RPM builds of Firefox nightly too.


CAKE_MQ Slated For Linux 7.0 To Adapt SCH_CAKE For Today's Multi-Core World

([Linux Networking] 19 January 10:55 AM EST CAKE_MQ)

Queued into the Linux networking subsystem's "net-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.20~7.0 merge window next month is cake_mq as a multi-queue aware variant of the sch_cake network scheduler. The intent with cake_mq is to better scale the network traffic rate shaper across multiple CPU cores.


How NVIDIA GB10 Performance With the Dell Pro Max GB10 Compares To The GH200

([Computers] 19 January 09:37 AM EST 4 Comments)

Earlier this month we looked at the Dell Pro Max GB10 performance up against AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" with the superior performance for the green team for performance and power efficiency. For those wondering how the Dell Pro Max GB10 performance comes up for the much talked about NVIDIA GH200, here are some comparison benchmarks.


Revocable Resource Management Appears On Track For Linux 7.0

([Linux Kernel] 19 January 08:56 AM EST Revocable Resource Management)

A new feature that appears ready for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle is revocable resource management.


New Patches Provide HDMI VRR & Auto Low Latency Mode Gaming Features For AMD Linux GPU Driver

([Radeon] 19 January 06:38 AM EST HDMI Gaming Features)

Support for newer HDMI features in the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver have been limited due to being blocked by the HDMI Forum. There are though some new HDMI gaming features being enabled via new AMDGPU kernel driver patches that are coming outside of AMD and based on public knowledge and/or "trying things out until they work/break" for functionality like HDMI Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) and Auto Low Latency Mode.


RADV Vulkan Driver Now Implements HPLOC For Even Faster Ray-Tracing Performance

([Radeon] 19 January 06:24 AM EST RADV + HPLOC)

There have been a number of nice RADV driver Vulkan ray-tracing performance optimizations for Mesa in recent times... Here is yet another merge request now merged for Mesa 26.0 and helping deliver some nice performance uplift for ray-traced games on Linux. And, yes, this is yet another Valve contribution to this open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver.


Intel LLM-Scaler-Omni Update Brings ComfyUI & SGLang Improvements On Arc Graphics

([Intel] 19 January 06:14 AM EST LLM-Scaler-Omni 0.1.0-b5)

Following last week's updated Intel LLM-Scaler-vLLM release for helping advance vLLM usage on Intel Arc Graphics, LLM Scaler Omni is out with a new release today for that LLM-Scaler environment focused on image / voice / video generation using Omni Studio and Omni Serving modes.


Myrlyn 1.0 Released For Package Manager GUI Spawned By SUSE's Hack Week

([SUSE] 19 January 06:02 AM EST Myrlyn 1.0)

Myrlyn 1.0 was released today as the package manager GUI developed by SUSE engineers and started out just over one year ago during a SUSE Hack Week event as a SUSE/Qt package manager program not dependent upon YaST or Ruby.


SPDX SBOM Generation Tool Proposed For The Linux Kernel

([Linux Kernel] 19 January 05:48 AM EST SPDX SBOM Generation Tool)

For those organizations on the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) bandwagon for increasing transparency around software components with license compliance, vulnerability management, and securing the software supply chain, proposed patches to the Linux kernel would introduce an SPDX SBOM Generation Tool.


Linux 6.19-rc6 Released With More Bug Fixes

([Linux Kernel] 18 January 07:08 PM EST Linux 6.19)

Linus Torvalds just tagged the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel in working toward the stable Linux 6.19 kernel release likely on 8 February.


ReactOS For "Open-Source Windows" Achieves Massive Networking Performance Boost

([Operating Systems] 18 January 03:09 PM EST Async Networking)

ReactOS as the long-in-development "open-source Windows" project has been on quite a roll recently. Beyond a big Windows NT 6 compatibility improvement and fixing a very annoying usability issue, for this third week of the year there is another big change landing: a significant improvement in networking performance on ReactOS.


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A young married couple had their first child. Their original pride
and joy slowly turned to concern however, for after a couple of years the
child had never uttered any form of speech. They hired the best speech
therapists, doctors, psychiatrists, all to no avail. The child simply refused
to speak. One morning when the child was five, while the husband was reading
the paper, and the wife was feeding the dog, the little kid looks up from
his bowl and said, "My cereal's cold."
The couple is stunned. The man, in tears, confronts his son. "Son,
after all these years, why have you waited so long to say something?".
Shrugs the kid, "Everything's been okay 'til now".