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)

Linux 6.9-rc7 Released: The Kernel Is Looking Good

([Linux Kernel] 5 May 05:21 PM EDT Linux 6.9)

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.9-rc7 and it's looking good like the Linux 6.9 stable kernel will hopefully be out next Sunday.



New Intel P-State Linux Driver Patches To Better Handle Hybrid Core CPUs

([Intel] 5 May 11:37 AM EDT Asymmetic CPU Capacity)

Intel's power management lead Rafael Wysocki posted a set of patches recently for working out asymmetic CPU capacity on hybrid Core x86 systems.



Linux 6.10 To Support Sound On ASUS ROG 2024 Laptops, Lenovo ThinkPad 13X

([Hardware] 5 May 09:06 AM EDT Sound Patches)

Cirrus engineers have seen a number of patches queued into the Linux sound subsystem's "for-next" branch for enabling audio support on some new laptops with the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel cycle.



Mesa's Venus Vulkan Driver Updated To Allow QEMU Support

([Virtualization] 5 May 06:20 AM EDT Venus Driver + QEMU)

Mesa's Venus Vulkan driver has made cross-device functionality optional in order to enable QEMU support for this open-source driver for virtualized environments.



Synaptics Releases DisplayLink 6.0 USB Graphics Driver Package For Linux

([Hardware] 5 May 06:45 AM EDT DisplayLink USB Graphics 6.0 Driver)

Synaptics this week published a big update to their out-of-tree graphics driver package for DisplayLink USB graphics.



ASUS ROG RAIKIRI & Lunar Lake Point M Device IDs Sent In For Linux 6.9-rc7

([Hardware] 5 May 06:13 AM EDT New Device IDs)

Ahead of the Linux 6.9-rc7 kernel being released later today, some last minute pull requests for the week have enabled some new bits of hardware support where only new device IDs are necessary and thus safe to add at this late stage of Linux 6.9 development.



NetBSD On The State & Future Of X.Org/X11

([X.Org] 4 May 08:36 AM EDT X.Org Dependence)

While on Linux the desktop environments, graphics stack, and other application software is steadily adopting Wayland support and focusing less on X11/X.Org support, the state of Wayland support and the open-source graphics driver stack in general is less robust among the BSDs. The NetBSD project published a status report around their ongoing dependence and modifications to their X.Org stack.



GNOME Shell's Layout Being Improved For Smaller Displays

([GNOME] 4 May 07:00 AM EDT GNOME Improvements)

There's been a lot of improvements coming about in the GNOME desktop space thanks to the ongoing Sovereign Tech Fund and other initiatives toward GNOME 47.



Wine-Staging 9.8 Comes In At 430 Patches, Fixes A 16 Year Old Game

([WINE] 4 May 06:48 AM EDT Wine-Staging 9.8)

Following yesterday's Wine 9.8 release that fixes a nearly 20 year old bug for installing Microsoft Office 97, Wine-Staging 9.8 is out today as the even more experimental blend of Wine that carries hundreds of extra patches that are going through a testing period toward upstreaming into the main codebase.



Valve Working On Explicit Sync Support For "NVK" NVIDIA Vulkan Driver

([Nouveau] 4 May 06:52 AM EDT NVK Explicit Sync)

In addition to all of the contributions Valve graphics engineers have been making to the open-source Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver, they have also begun investing in improvements to the open-source Mesa NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver too. With pending patches there is now explicit GPU synchronization support working for the NVK driver in conjunction with their Gamescope compositor.



KDE Readies More Changes For Next Month's Plasma 6.1

([KDE] 4 May 06:23 AM EDT KDE Changes)

KDE developers have been busy the first few days of May with all eyes shifting to the upcoming Plasma 6.1 desktop.



Wine 9.8 Fixes Nearly 20 Year Old Bug For Installing Microsoft Office 97

([WINE] 3 May 08:51 PM EDT Wine 9.8)

Wine 9.8 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games/applications on Linux / Chrome OS, macOS, and other platforms.



GCC's Rust Compiler To See Improvements With GSoC 2024

([GNU] 3 May 02:20 PM EDT Rust Front-End)

Google Summer of Code 2024 (GSoC '24) accepted projects have been announced with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) seeing seven student developers engaging this summer with several of them focused on enhancing GCC's Rust front-end.



FreeBSD Working On Improving Its Audio Stack & Creating Graphical OS Installer

([BSD] 3 May 10:20 AM EDT FreeBSD)

The FreeBSD project has published its Q1'2024 status report to outline various advancements over the past few months.



FEX 2405 Gets Close To Running Far Cry On ARM Linux Systems

([Linux Gaming] 3 May 07:45 AM EDT FEX 2405)

FEX as the open-source project to run x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 Linux systems is out with its newest monthly release. With FEX 2405, they are close to having the game Far Cry (2004) running on ARM Linux devices.



Fwupd 1.9.19 Supports New Docks, Incorporates More Fixes

([LVFS] 3 May 07:19 AM EDT Fwupd 1.9.19)

LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes has released Fwupd 1.9.19 as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems.



Mold 2.31 Now ~10% Faster When Linking Very Large, Debug Info Enabled Binaries

([Programming] 3 May 07:27 AM EDT Mold 2.31)

Rui Ueyama announced the release of Mold 2.31 today as the newest version of this high speed linker alternative to LLVM LLD and GNU Gold.



Intel Talks Up Their Latest Compiler Toolchain Enhancements For AVX10.1, AMX & More

([Intel] 3 May 04:00 AM EDT Intel Compiler Contributions)

Intel software engineer Victor Rodriguez presented at the Open-Source Summit North America last month on their open-source compiler toolchain work for enabling ISA capabilities of upcoming Intel CPUs as well as using simulation tools for helping to test compiler enhancements/optimizations moving forward.



OpenZFS 2.2.4 Released With Linux 6.8 Support

([Linux Storage] 3 May 12:01 AM EDT OpenZFS 2.2.4)

OpenZFS 2.2.4 was released on Thursday evening to provide the latest ZFS file-system support on Linux and FreeBSD platforms.



Dell Laptop Platform Profile Patches Being Worked On For Linux

([Hardware] 3 May 12:00 AM EDT Fan Mode Changing For Laptops)

A patch recently posted to the Linux kernel mailing list is working on implementing ACPI Platform Profile support for modern Dell laptops to allow users to have more control over their balanced / cool / quiet / performance behavior of the laptop and its resulting impact on the fan noise / cooling performance.



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The Preacher, the Politician, the Teacher,
Were each of them once a kiddie.
A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature.
Do I want one? God Forbiddie!
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