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KDE Plasma 6.1 Released With Easier Remote Desktop Support, Wayland Explicit Sync

([KDE] 18 June 10:43 AM EDT KDE Plasma 6.1)

Right on schedule today KDE released Plasma 6.1 as the first feature update to the Plasma 6 desktop stack that debuted back in February.



Framework Laptop 13 To See A RISC-V Motherboard Option

([Hardware] 18 June 11:00 AM EDT RISC-V Laptop)

Framework Computer Inc announced today that they have been working with DeepComputing on a partner-developed RISC-V motherboard for the Framework Laptop 13.



More Companies Now Backing Valkey As Leading Redis Fork

([Free Software] 18 June 10:35 AM EDT Valkey)

Announced back in March by the Linux Foundation was Valkey as a Redis fork following upstream licensing changes. In the few months since the Valkey in-memory NoSQL data store has put out its first release and has continued attracting more interest from Linux/open-source communities. Today the Linux Foundation announced another handful of organizations now throwing their weight behind Valkey.



PoCL 6.0 OpenCL Implementation Brings OpenMP For CPU Driver, More Remote Driver Features

([Programming] 18 June 08:48 AM EDT Portable Computing Language 6.0)

The Portable Computing Language "PoCL" that started off as a CPU-based OpenCL implementation has grown to support multiple hardware targets from NVIDIA PTX to Intel Level Zero to AMD ROCm and other innovations like a recent remote driver for transparent OpenCL across networked systems. PoCL 6.0 was released today for delivering the latest enhancements to this independent OpenCL compute implementation and continuing to enhance support for its different hardware targets.



Marek Olšák Lands Support In Mesa 24.2 To Vectorize IO In The GLSL Linker

([Mesa] 18 June 08:23 AM EDT Vectorize IO)

Well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has shown no signs of hitting the end of the road for optimizing OpenGL support within the Mesa/Gallium3D driver stack. More than one decade since joining AMD and more than a decade and a half of being involved with Mesa since beginning as a student developer, Marek still isn't slowing down with his performance optimizations and new features to benefit the open-source Radeon Linux graphics drivers.



New Linux Patches To Help Ensure Intel Xeon Servers Can Achieve Highest Frequencies

([Intel] 18 June 07:04 AM EDT Hitting Top Frequencies)

A set of patches for the Linux kernel's Intel P-State driver aim to ensure Intel Xeon servers can hit their highest clock frequencies following changes in the server's performance profile. It turns out some special handling is needed to update the highest frequencies of a CPU after boot to ensure the performance profile is properly reflected.



Fedora 41 Hopes The GIMP 3.0 Photoshop Alternative Will Be Ready To Shine

([Fedora] 18 June 06:44 AM EDT GIMP 3.0 + Fedora 41)

Fedora developers are hoping that the long-awaited GIMP 3.0 will ship before October and be all ready for serving as the default GIMP package with the in-development Fedora 41.



Patches For AMD GPUs On Loongson Point To "Massive Platform Bug" For These Chinese CPUs

([Radeon] 18 June 06:30 AM EDT AMDGPU Patches)

A set of patches were posted on Monday in aiming to get aging AMD Radeon GFX7/GFX8 era graphics processors working on Loongson LoongArch platforms. These patches for handling old Radeon Hawaii~Polaris GPUs on Loongson point to a "massive platform bug" with these domestic Chinese systems.



X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit v0.0.2 Adds NetBSD & FreeBSD Support

([X.Org] 18 June 05:56 AM EDT X.Org Testing Ground)

Last week marked the inaugural release of the X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit to make it easier to compile the X.Org Server. That v0.0.1 release was limited to supporting Debian/Apt-based Linux distributions while now this helper toolkit has been extended to support FreeBSD and NetBSD too.



Fedora 41 Aims To Ship AMD SEV-SNP Confidential Virtualization Host Support

([AMD] 17 June 04:49 PM EDT AMD SEV-SNP For Fedora 41)

With the release of Fedora 41 in October, this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution is hoping to have all the software bits aligned that its AMD SEV-SNP virtualization stack will be all squared away for this latest iteration of Secure Encrypted Virtualization.



Intel Releases OpenVINO 2024.2 With Llama 3 Optimizations, More AVX2 & AVX-512 Optimizations

([Intel] 17 June 02:28 PM EDT OpenVINO 2024.2)

Intel today released OpenVINO 2024.2, the newest version of its open-source AI toolkit for optimizing and deploying deep learning (A) inference models across a range of AI frameworks and broad hardware types.



GNOME Software To Better Support NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver

([GNOME] 17 June 12:00 PM EDT GNOME Software)

As a planned change for Fedora 41, Red Hat engineers are working on upstream GNOME Software better supporting the NVIDIA proprietary driver installation by allowing the installation to work gracefully with UEFI Secure Boot enabled systems.



FreeBSD 14.1 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6.4 vs. NetBSD 10 vs. Linux Benchmarks

([Operating Systems] 17 June 11:30 AM EDT 55 Comments)

After last week looking at how FreeBSD 14.1 has improved performance over FreeBSD 14.0, here is an expanded cross-OS comparison now looking at how the new FreeBSD 14.1 stable release compares to the recently released NetBSD 10.0, the current DragonFlyBSD 6.4 release, and then CentOS Stream 9 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for some Linux comparison data points.



Sovereign Tech Fund Opens Up To Smaller Investments & Updated Criteria

([Free Software] 17 June 09:32 AM EDT Sovereign Tech Fund)

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has been making sizable investments into various Linux desktop projects, the Rust-based Coreutils implementation, libmicrohttpd, PHP, a systemd bug bounty, and other prominent open-source software that could benefit from greater financial resources. Today they have announced they have opened up for a new round of applications for those open-source projects seeking funding from this German government initiative.



Open Image Denoise 2.3 Prepares For Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake & Battlemage

([Intel] 17 June 09:15 AM EDT Open Image Denoise 2.3)

Intel's Open Image Denoise open-source software that is a denoising library used by Blender and other applications is out with a new feature release as it prepares for the integrated graphics of upcoming Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors as well as nearing the launch of Xe2 / Battlemage discrete graphics.



Linux To Incorporate Intel CPU Hybrid Topology For Determining Vulnerabilities/Mitigations

([Intel] 17 June 06:55 AM EDT Intel Hybrid For Mitigations)

Within the every increasingly complex world of CPU security mitigations, Intel engineers have submitted Linux kernel patches to begin taking into account the CPU core "hybrid" topology when determining relevant CPU security vulnerabilities and in turn the mitigations to apply.



The JFS File-System Remains In Sad Shape With The Upstream Linux Kernel

([Linux Storage] 17 June 05:31 AM EDT JFS Still Not Orphaned)

While at the start of 2023 was talk among kernel developers for orphaning the JFS file-system at a time that developers began the processes toward removing the ReiserFS file-system driver, the Journaled File-System so far remains within the mainline kernel and not yet officially orphaned.



Fedora 41 Looks To Offer A KDE Plasma Mobile Spin

([KDE] 17 June 06:18 AM EDT Fedora 41 KDE)

Two new change proposals have been filed for enhancing the KDE offerings with this autumn's Fedora 41 release.



NumPy 2.0 Brings Faster Performance Thanks To Intel's x86-simd-sort & Google's Highway

([Programming] 17 June 06:09 AM EDT NumPy 2.0)

NumPy 2.0 was released on Sunday that's been in the making for the past year and their first major release since 2006. While it comes with API/ABI breakage, NumPy 2.0 delivers new features and performance improvements.



Linux 6.10-rc4 Released With Another Week Worth Of Driver Fixes

([Linux Kernel] 16 June 04:56 PM EDT Linux 6.10-rc4)

Linus Torvalds as the father of the Linux kernel set aside some time this Father's Day to release Linux 6.10-rc4.



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