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)

Rust-Written Redox OS Gets USB Keyboards & Mice Working

([Operating Systems] 30 April 07:30 PM EDT Redox OS For April 2024)

Redox OS as the from-scratch, Rust-written open-source operating system had a successful April with now having USB keyboards and mice now working with their USB HID driver.



Linux Mint Looks To Fork More GNOME Software, Make XApp More Independent

([Operating Systems] 30 April 12:13 PM EDT Linux Mint Changes)

Linux Mint published their monthly status update for April 2024 where they talk about ongoing testing for faster and more reliable repository access via the Fastly CDN to other more interesting software happenings like the likelihood that they will fork more GNOME applications as well as looking to make their XApp applications more distribution agnostic.



Noctua NH-L12Sx77 Makes For A Great Low-Profile CPU Cooler

([Peripherals] 30 April 11:14 AM EDT 7 Comments)

Last week Noctua announced the NH-L12Sx77 low-profile CPU cooler as effectively an upgraded version of their NH-L12s CPU cooler that is now slightly taller to offer better performance and improved system compatibility.



NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.5 Released For Remastering Old Games

([NVIDIA] 30 April 09:34 AM EDT RTX Remix 0.5)

NVIDIA today released RTX Remix v0.5 as the newest version of this software for remastering old/classic games with path tracing. RTX Remix builds off DXVK and leverages NVIDIA Omniverse and other tech from the green giant like DLSS to enhance older games.



GCC 14.1 RC Compiler Available For Testing With AMD Znver5 Target & New C/C++ Features

([GNU] 30 April 07:01 AM EDT GCC 14.1)

The release candidate of the GCC 14 compiler is available for testing as the annual feature update to the GNU Compiler Collection.



TUXEDO Launches Another Linux Laptop Powered By The AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

([Hardware] 30 April 06:52 AM EDT TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen4)

TUXEDO Computers a few weeks ago announced the first Linux laptop shipping with an AMD Ryzen 7 8840 series SoC and now they've announced another one powered by the latest Ryzen 7 8845HS.



Radeon OpenGL Linux Driver Massively Improves 3D Texturing Performance For Older GPUs

([Radeon] 30 April 07:07 AM EDT MUCH FASTER)

Prominent open-source AMD OpenGL driver developer Marek Olšák has merged a new tantalizing set of patches that boost the 3D texturing performance for those using RDNA1 GPUs and older.



Ubuntu Support Ongoing For The Arm-Based Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Laptop

([Ubuntu] 30 April 06:29 AM EDT Ubuntu + ThinkPad X13s)

Plans to have official support for the Arm-based Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Gen1 laptop in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS sadly didn't pan out. But there is semi-working support available for running Ubuntu 24.04 on this Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen3 powered laptop.



systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative

([systemd] 30 April 06:14 AM EDT systemd run0)

Overnight systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering wrote on Mastodon around systemd's newest effort: run0 as a sudo-like command.



Fedora Evaluates Replacing Redis With Valkey

([Fedora] 30 April 06:19 AM EDT Redis To Valkey)

Given the upstream Redis software licensing changes, Fedora is evaluating replacing Redis with the new Valkey project.



TornadoVM 1.0.4 Brings OpenJDK 22 Support, New Features For Java Heterogeneous Hardware

([Programming] 30 April 05:51 AM EDT TornadoVM 1.0.4)

TornadoVM 1.0.4 is out today as the newest version of this solution for Java offloading to GPUs, FPGAs, and other accelerators. TornadoVM allows for nice Java heterogeneous hardware support and with the TornadoVM 1.0.4 brings yet more features.



KDE's Amarok 3.0 Music Player Released After Six Year Hiatus - Now Ported To Qt5

([KDE] 29 April 04:41 PM EDT KDE Amarok 3.0)

Released back in March of 2018 was the Amarok 2.9 music player for this KDE project. Shipping today is finally Amarok 3.0 as the first major release in six years and now ported to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.



Git 2.45 Released With Initial SHA1/SHA256 Interoperability & Reftable Support

([Free Software] 29 April 01:32 PM EDT Git 2.45)

Git 2.45 is out today as an important step forward for this widely-used, open-source distributed version control system.



openSUSE Leap 15.6 RC Brings Cockpit Web Based Server Management

([SUSE] 29 April 12:21 PM EDT openSUSE Leap 15.6)

The openSUSE Leap 15.6 based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 has graduated out of its beta phase and is onto the release candidate period. Notable with openSUSE Leap 15.6 is now having nice support for the Cockpit web-based server management solution.



Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" Performance Improves With Linux 6.9

([Software] 29 April 11:03 AM EDT 1 Comment)

As part of my Linux 6.9 benchmarking I've been trying out many hardware combinations and overall seeing nice performance out of this kernel that will debut as stable in the next 2~3 weeks. AMD EPYC 4th Gen performance is boosted, Intel Xeon Max sees some AI improvements, and as shown in some prior Intel Core Ultra performance benchmarks is enhanced as well. Here are some more benchmarks looking at the Intel Core Ultra 7 "Meteor Lake" performance on Linux 6.9 compared to the current Linux 6.8 stable kernel.



Raspberry Pi V3DV Vulkan Driver Implements Extended Dynamic State - Important For DXVK

([Raspberry Pi] 29 April 10:16 AM EDT VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state)

Merged last week to Mesa 24.2-devel was an important merge request for the Broadcom V3DV Vulkan driver that is most notably used by the modern Raspberry Pi single board computers.



AMD Prepares Linux For "Bus Lock Trap" Feature On Upcoming CPUs

([AMD] 29 April 06:35 AM EDT AMD Bus Lock Trap)

An upcoming AMD micro-architecture (presumably Zen 5 given the timing and history around AMD's Linux hardware enablement...) is introducing Bus Lock Trap as a feature matching Intel's existing split/bus lock detection functionality.



Ubuntu Isn't Yet Recommending GNOME's VRR Option

([Ubuntu] 29 April 06:47 AM EDT Variable Refresh Rate)

While GNOME landed experimental Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support in GNOME 46 that is used by the new Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release, Canonical isn't yet encouraging users to test out this option.



Linux Support On The Way For The ASUS ROG Raikiri Controller

([Hardware] 29 April 06:21 AM EDT ASUS ROG Raikiri)

Linux driver support is forthcoming for the ASUS ROG Raikiri gaming controller.



Ubuntu 24.10 Is The "Oracular Oriole"

([Ubuntu] 29 April 05:54 AM EDT Oracular Oriole)

For those keeping track of Ubuntu's animal-themed codenames, Ubuntu 24.10 is now confirmed to be the Oracular Oriole.



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