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)

Cloud Hypervisor 44 Released With New Performance Improvements

([Virtualization] 3 February 02:43 PM EST Cloud Hypervisor 44.0)

Cloud Hypervisor 44 is now available as the newest version of this security and cloud minded Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) that operates atop Linux's KVM and the Microsoft MSHV Hypervisor.



Three New Intel Battlemage Device IDs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver

([Intel] 3 February 01:20 PM EST More Intel Battlemage GPUs?)

Three more PCI device IDs were added today to the Intel open-source Mesa 3D graphics driver code for Battlemage that could be for future higher-end products or along the lines of Data Center GPU Flex Series or other products.



Alpine Linux In An Infrastructure Crisis With Equinix Metal Sunsetting

([Operating Systems] 3 February 01:00 PM EST Alpine Linx)

Last week I wrote about the crisis plaguing X.Org / FreeDesktop.org with losing out on their cloud/server infrastructure due to losing out on their free server resources provided by Equinix at the end of April. It's not only FreeDesktop.org and all those hosted projects now rushing to find hosting alternatives and sponsorships to cover new costs, but it turns out the Alpine Linux project is also in a similar position.



Faux Bus Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Better Deal With Simple Devices

([Linux Kernel] 3 February 11:20 AM EST Faux Bus)

Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is proposing "Faux Bus" as a new "fake" bus solution for simple devices.



Firefox 135 Published With Safeguards To Prevent Overwhelming The Back History

([Mozilla] 3 February 10:32 AM EST Firefox 135)

Mozilla Firefox 135 release binaries are now available for those wanting to grab the latest browser release right away.



Red Hat Hiring To Continue Advancing The Linux Desktop In 2025

([Fedora] 3 February 10:00 AM EST Fedora 2025 Plans)

Christian Schaller as Red Hat's Director of Software Engineering outlined in a blog post today some of the areas they will be focusing on this year with Fedora Workstation development. Additionally, they will be hiring at least two more Linux desktop engineers this year at Red Hat.



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.



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