Rust-Based Coreutils 0.0.26 Increases Compatibility With GNU Coreutils
The uutils’ Rust-based Coreutils implementation is out with another update that further increases the drop-in replacement compatibility with GNU Coreutils… ⌘ Read more

Llamafile 0.8.1 GPU LLM Offloading Works Now With More AMD GPUs
It was just a few days ago that Llamafile 0.8 released with LLaMA 3 and Grok support along with faster F16 performance. Now this project out of Mozilla for self-contained, easily re-distributable large language model (LLM) deployments is out with a new release… ⌘ Read more

GTK 4.15 Released With Vulkan Renderer By Default
GTK 4.15.0 is now available as part of the new unstable series for this widely used open-source toolkit. Most notable with GTK 4.15.0 is the Vulkan renderer being used by default on supported systems… ⌘ Read more

KDE Fixes Adaptive-Sync Issues & Less Glitches During GPU Resets
KDE developer Nate Graham is back from the latest KDE sprint in Germany and out with his new weekly status report to highlight all of the interesting KDE changes that landed this week… ⌘ Read more

Proton 9.0 RC2 Makes More Windows Games Playable On Linux, Other Fixes
Valve and CodeWeavers today released the Proton 9.0 Release Candidate 2 build based off Wine 9.0 for powering Steam Play to enjoy an excellent assortment of modern (and legacy) Windows games on Linux… ⌘ Read more

New Patches Significantly Reduce Zink Driver Startup Time
Given a two year old bug against Mesa around slow initialization/start-up time for GTK4 on Intel graphics, prolific Zink developer Mike Blumenkrantz recently took to optimizing Zink’s start-up time for this generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation… ⌘ Read more

GNOME Foundation To Focus On Fundraising After Years Running A Deficit
After several years of the GNOME Foundation running at a deficit (loss), the GNOME Foundation is going to be driving a push for greater fundraising… ⌘ Read more

GCC 14.1 Compiler Aiming For Release Around 7 May
As mentioned following the AMD GFX90C target being added, the GCC 14 compiler code was branched from the main Git branch with release preparations for GCC 14 underway. A status report was just published outlining release plans for getting GCC 14.1 stable out around 7 May… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.10 Adding Intel Low-Latency Hint To Aggressively Boost GT Frequency For GPU Compute
Following the big set of Xe DRM driver updates for Linux 6.10 and earlier Adaptive Snyc SDP, Lunar Lake display support, and more DG2 PCI IDs for i915 pulls sent in over weeks prior for this next kernel version, the drm-intel-gt-next pull request was submitted today for last minute Intel graphics driver feature changes aiming for Linux 6.10… ⌘ Read more

Servo Web Engine Now Passing Acid2 Layout Engine Test
The Servo web engine developers have enjoyed a busy April with a number of new features added to this Rust creation… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Open-Sources MS-DOS 4.0 Under MIT License
After publishing open-source versions of MS-DOS years ago for versions 1.25 and 2.0, Microsoft and IBM have now announced that MS-DOS 4.0 has been open-sourced under an MIT license… ⌘ Read more

Systemd 256-rc1 Brings A Huge Number Of New Features
Systemd 256-rc1 is available this evening and it comes with many new features and improvements to existing features. It’s a big one… ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA Developer Opens Feature Pull Request For Open-Source NVK Driver
If your interest didn’t pique enough when the former Nouveau lead developer joined NVIDIA and sent out a big patch series for this originally-reverse-engineered, open-source NVIDIA kernel driver, here’s another plot twist: another NVIDIA engineer opening a merge request adding to the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver… ⌘ Read more

Red Hat Offering Up To 4 Years Extra Support For RHEL7
This year already marks ten years since the introduction of RHEL 7. While the Red Hat Enterprise Linux support period is typically 10 years, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 they have decided to extend that by up to four years with Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS)… ⌘ Read more

Wayland 1.23 Alpha Released With OpenBSD Support & New APIs
As expected, the Wayland 1.23 Alpha release is now available as this next Wayland release looks to officially roll-out toward the end of May… ⌘ Read more

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X & Intel Core i9 14900K: Ubuntu 22.04 vs. 23.10 vs. 24.04 Linux Performance
As part of my ongoing benchmarking of the newly-released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Linux distribution, today’s focus is looking at the high-end Intel Core i9 14900K and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X desktops while comparing the performance across Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu 23.10, and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for dozens of workloads. ⌘ Read more

Intel Releases OpenVINO 2024.1 With More Gen AI & LLM Features
Intel engineers have just released OpenVINO 2024.1, the newest feature release for this excellent open-source AI toolkit that continues expanding its features and capabilities particularly around Generative AI “GenAI” and Large Language Models (LLMs)… ⌘ Read more

Sovereign Tech Fund Makes New Investments Into GNOME & PHP, Bug Bounty For systemd
Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund has been making significant, much-needed investments into various open-source upstream projects from the GNOME desktop to Rust-written Coreutils and more. Today the Sovereign Tech Fund outlined their latest funding for advancing the open-source software ecosystem… ⌘ Read more

Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Enables VK_KHR_shader_float_controls2
Following yesterday’s Mesa 24.1 feature branching, Mesa 24.2-devel is now open for the Mesa Git mainline code and some early feature work has begun for that Q3 release series… ⌘ Read more

Fedora Miracle Spin Proposed For Fedora 41
Not to be confused with Fedora’s “Beefy Miracle” from a decade ago during their entertaining codename days, but a Fedora Miracle spin has been proposed for the now-open Fedora 41 development cycle… ⌘ Read more

Llamafile 0.8 Releases With LLaMA3 & Grok Support, Faster F16 Performance
Llamafile has been quite an interesting project out of Mozilla’s Ocho group in the era of AI. Llamafile makes it easy to run and distribute large language models (LLMs) that are self-contained within a single file. Llamafile builds off Llama.cpp and makes it easy to ship an entire LLM as a single file with both CPU and GPU execution support. Llamafile 0.8 is out now to join in on the LLaMA3 fun as well as delivering other model support and enha … ⌘ Read more

Etnaviv NPU Optimizations Make It Into Mesa 24.1
In addition to many RadeonSI driver optimizations that were merged just prior to yesterday’s code branching and Mesa 24.1-rc1 release, a number of Etnaviv driver improvements were also merged for benefiting that recent Vivante NPU IP open-source driver work… ⌘ Read more

Mesa 24.1-rc1 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Improvements
Shortly following today’s Mesa 24.1 code branching, the first release candidate has been announced by ongoing Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom… ⌘ Read more

RadeonSI Squeezes “Many Improvements Around The Whole Driver” Into Mesa 24.1
Down to literally minutes before the Mesa 24.1 codebase was branched for making up this quarter’s Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan driver to then be tested and stabilized with a stable release around mid-May, a number of AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver patches were merged… ⌘ Read more

Radeon GPU Profiler 2.1 Adds Radeon GPU Analyzer Interoperability
AMD’s GPUOpen team today released the Radeon GPU Profiler 2.1 software that now sports interoperability with the Radeon GPU Analyzer… ⌘ Read more

GCC 14 vs. LLVM Clang 18 Compiler Performance On Fedora 40
One of the leading-edge benefits of Fedora Linux is that it always ships with the most up-to-date open-source compiler toolchains at release. For their spring releases each year, it typically means shipping with a GCC compiler that isn’t even officially released as stable yet. With this week’s release of Fedora 40, it’s shipping with GCC 14.0.1 as the development version that will culminate with the inaugural GCC 14 stable release in the coming weeks. Plu … ⌘ Read more

New AMD Linux Patch Acknowledges More Zen 5 CPU Models
A new AMD Linux kernel patch queued today via “x86/urgent” for routing into the Linux 6.9 development kernel expands the range of recognized CPU model IDs for upcoming Zen 5 processors… ⌘ Read more

Red Hat Releases DNF 4.20 In Preparation For DNF5
DNF 4.20 was released this morning by Red Hat as a stepping stone toward the upcoming DNF5 package manager… ⌘ Read more

Polychromatic 0.9 OpenRazer GUI Frontend Released With Port To PyQt6
Polychromatic is the open-source software package that serves as a GUI front-end to the OpenRazer drivers for allowing Razer devices to be configured under Linux for managing keyboard/mice RGB lighting and other options. With today’s Polychromatic 0.9 release there is a port for the Qt6 toolkit… ⌘ Read more

TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 Released For A Wonderful NAS Platform
The folks at iXsystems have released TrueNAS SCALEE 24.04 as the newest iteration of their Linux-based platform for network attached storage (NAS) devices. TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 brings better performance, new features, and additional hardware support… ⌘ Read more

Nginx 1.26 Released With Experimental HTTP/3 Support
Nginx 1.26 stable is out as the newest version of this popular alternative to the Apache web server while also able to work as a load balancer, reverse proxy, and HTTP cache. Nginx 1.26 incorporates the great work from the Nginx 1.25 mainline branch such as experimental HTTP/3 support… ⌘ Read more

Wine’s Wayland Driver Will Finally Set The Window Title
A small but notable patch was merged to upstream Wine overnight: the window title for application windows is now actually set under Wayland… ⌘ Read more

QEMU 9.0 Released WIth True Multi-Queue Support For VirtIO Block Driver
QEMU 9.0 is out tonight as the latest feature release for this prominent component to the open-source Linux virtualization stack… ⌘ Read more

FFmpeg Makes Progress On Dolby Vision Support
The widely-used, open-source FFmpeg multimedia library has seen commits this week advancing its support for Dolby Vision… ⌘ Read more

Mozilla Has Been Rewriting Its Crash Reporter In Rust
Mozilla hopes you’ll never have to see it, but they’ve been rewriting their crash reporting application for Firefox within the Rust programming language… ⌘ Read more

Intel Has Many Improvements For The Xe Graphics Driver In Linux 6.10
Intel today sent out more than one hundred new feature patches to DRM-Next of new “Xe” kernel graphics driver material they have readied for the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel merge window… ⌘ Read more

Framework Raises $18M In New Funding, More Collaborations Coming With Cooler Master
The folks behind the very popular Framework upgradeable/modular laptops announced today $18M in new funding and a few other interesting details… ⌘ Read more

Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful Upgrade
It’s Fedora 40 release day! Fedora 40 is now available for download from mirrors for this leading Linux distribution… ⌘ Read more

NVK Vulkan Driver Adds Implicit Pipeline Caching To Boost DXVK Performance
Adding to the impressive number of features to be found in this quarter’s Mesa 24.1 release is now the open-source NVIDIA “NVK” Vulkan driver supporting implicit pipeline caching… ⌘ Read more

CBD Proposed For The Linux Kernel: CXL Block Device
The latest Compute Express Link (CXL) feature work being pursued for the mainline Linux kernel is a driver to create CXL block devices for storage. On Monday a “request for comments” patch series sent out the initial code for setting up CXL shared memory to be used as Linux block devices… ⌘ Read more

Bcachefs Sends In More Fixes For Linux 6.9: Recovery & Repair Issues Settling Down
Another week, another round of Bcachefs file-system fixes for the mainline Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more

AMD Prepping Fixes & Enhancements For P-State CPUFreq Driver
The AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for Zen 2 and newer processors has been working out well in its roughly two years of being in the mainline Linux kernel. The AMD P-State driver has helped with ensuring modern Ryzen systems are delivering optimal performance and power efficiency. Recently AMD Linux engineers have been working on a few fixes and enhancements to this CPUFreq driver… ⌘ Read more

NetBSD 9.4 Released With Security & Stability Fixes
NetBSD 10.0 debuted last month with a long list of improvements and other enhancements that built up over the past several years. For those not yet taking the leap to this big NetBSD update, NetBSD 9.4 is out today for those relying on the stable NetBSD 9 series… ⌘ Read more

Steam On Linux Changes The Default Scaling Factor For 4K Displays
With tonight’s Steam client beta update they have reduced the default scaling factor for those running it on Linux with a 4K display… ⌘ Read more

Linux AMDGPU Control Application Adds vBIOS Dumping, Fan Control Hysteresis
LACT 0.5.4 is out as the open-source and independently developed “Linux AMDGPU Control Application” for this community AMD Linux graphics driver control panel option given the lack of any official Radeon GUI management solution from AMD… ⌘ Read more

Fwupd 1.9.17 Adds Firmware Updating For ASUS DC201 & Realtek RTS541x
Richard Hughes of Red Hat has announced the released of Fwupd 1.9.17, the newest update to this open-source solution for system and device firmware updating under Linux that is paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for a streamlined user experience… ⌘ Read more

Reverse Engineered MSI WMI Platform Driver Being Worked On For Linux
Submitted for code review this weekend was a new MSI WMI Platform driver that was developed via reverse engineering MSI laptops. Initially this MSI WMI Platform driver is just exposing fan speed sensors but ultimately can be more useful for other Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) features… ⌘ Read more

Kioxia KCD8XPUG1T92 CD8P-R & KCMYXVUG3T20 CM7-V PCIe 5.0 SSDs
While there is a growing number of PCIe 5.0 consumer NVMe SSDs available through Internet retailers, when it comes to PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD data center / enterprise grade solid-state drives there aren’t as many yet and even for announced ones they have been relatively in short supply. In preparing for some upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS tests and ahead of next-gen servers arriving, I was recently searching for some new PCIe 5.0 data center solid state driv … ⌘ Read more

Steam Deck Motion Sensors Being Worked On For Linux’s HID-Steam Driver
A patch is undergoing work to add Steam Deck IMU support to the HID-Steam kernel driver for supporting the accelerometer and gyroscope sensors of the Steam Deck controller… ⌘ Read more

Intel Enabling Linux Driver Display Support For Upcoming “Battlemage” GPUs
Intel’s open-source Linux graphics driver engineers have been busy working to enable the display support for the upcoming Battlemage graphics cards as the successor to DG2/Alchemist… ⌘ Read more