Zrythm 1.0 RC1 Available For Testing As Great Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation
Since going beta in 2020, the Zrythm open-source digital audio workstation software has been inching its way toward a v1.0 release. On Saturday marked the release of v1.0.0-rc.1 as a release candidate for the upcoming v1.0 release of this GTK-based digital audio workstation (DAW) software… ⌘ Read more

LLVM Clang 19 Adds Arm Neoverse-N3 / Neoverse-V3 / Neoverse-V3AE Support
Merged on Friday to the development codebase for the LLVM/Clang 19 compiler is support for the Arm Neoverse N3, V3, and V3AE SoCs… ⌘ Read more

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