More Kernel Bitrot: Old & Busted UltraSPARC T2 “Niagara 2” SPU Driver Slated For Removal
Following 107k lines of old driver code within the staging area of the kernel removed for Linux 6.13, over in the crypto space they are looking at some cleaning as well with plans raised to remove the Stream Processing Unit (SPU) driver for the old Sun Niagara 2, the Sun UltraSPARC T2 and this SPU was also found in the UltraSPARC T3 as well… ⌘ Read more

OpenWrt Affected By Security Issue That Could Have Led To Compromised Build Artifacts
A security issue was reported to the OpenWrt project this week around their Attendedsysupgrade Server (ASU) instances that could have led to compromised firmware images being served… ⌘ Read more

UMD Direct Submission “Proof Of Concept” For The Intel Xe Linux Driver
One of the interesting Intel Xe Linux kernel graphics driver patches that was volleyed for discussion last month is working on user-mode driver (UMD) direct submission support for allowing work to be directly submitted from user-space to the GPU hardware and avoiding some of the overhead of the kernel driver interactions… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft’s Azure Linux 3.0 Adds 64K Kernel Option, NFTables & Intel E800 Networking
Microsoft engineers rounded out their work week by releasing Azure Linux 3.0.20241203 on Friday evening as the newest monthly installment for their in-house Linux distribution… ⌘ Read more

KDE Starts December By Landing A Number Of New Features
While the winter holidays are quickly approach, KDE developers remain very busy working on new feature code for the Plasma 6.3 desktop. A number of new features were merged this week for the KDE desktop… ⌘ Read more

OBS Studio 31.0 Released With New Features For Screen Recording & Screencasting
OBS Studio 31.0 was released this evening as the newest feature update to this open-source, cross-platform software for live streaming and desktop screen recording purposes. OBS Studio remains a leading choice across operating systems for screen recording, game livestreaming, and similar purposes while the new v31.0 release tacks on even more features… ⌘ Read more

Wine 10.0-rc1 Released With Updated VKD3D, Initial Bluetooth Driver
The first release candidate of Wine 10.0 is out today that also now marks the feature freeze ahead of this stable release expected to be out around mid-January… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.13 Features: AutoFDO+Propeller Optimizations, Many AMD Additions & SDUC + NVMe 2.1 Support
With the Linux 6.13 merge window having ended this past weekend, here’s the Phoronix overview of all the interesting feature additions, new hardware support, and other kernel changes coming for Linux 6.13. ⌘ Read more

Box64 v0.3.2 Emulator Adds Box32 Option, Introduces Native Flags & More
Box64 v0.3.2 is out today as the newest feature release to this Linux user-space emulator for allowing x86_64 binaries to run on ARM64 (AArch64) Linux devices. Box64 is one of the leading ways for allowing x86_64 games and Steam to be able to run on ARM 64-bit Linux devices… ⌘ Read more

Linux Preps For Kunpeng ARM Server SoC With High Bandwidth Memory
New Linux patches from Huawei engineers are preparing new driver support for controlling High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) with the ARM-based Kunpeng high performance SoC… ⌘ Read more

openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 Brings Nice Improvements To This Lightweight Linux OS
openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 is now available as the newest version of this lightweight Linux operating system built for containerized environments and virtualized workloads… ⌘ Read more

Fwupd 2.0.3 Delivers Latest Firmware Updating Capabilities For Linux Systems
Fwupd 2.0 debuted back in October while out today is Fwupd 2.0.3 as the newest incremental update to this open-source solution for updating system and device firmware under Linux… ⌘ Read more

Fedora 42 Eyes Replacing SDL2 With sdl2-compat To Leverage SDL3
The SDL2 library is widely used by cross-platform games and other software. Fedora 42 is eyeing the possibility of replacing SDL2 with the sdl2-compat code so that by way of this compatibility layer the newer SDL3 version will ultimately be used instead… ⌘ Read more

Broadcom BCM2712 MOPLET Graphics For Linux 6.14, Other Early drm-misc-next Code
While the Linux v6.13 merge window has been over for less than one week, already the first pull requests of new feature code are being submitted to DRM-Next for queuing the display/graphics driver changes ahead of the Linux 6.14 merge window in two months… ⌘ Read more

MGLRU Sees New Performance Optimizations For Linux
It’s been a while since there have been any new advancements or performance optimizations to talk about for Multi-Gen LRU (MGLRU) that was upstreamed to the Linux kernel two years ago as a very exciting kernel innovation. But that’s changing now with some fresh performance optimizations being worked on for the MGLRU code… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 25.04 Planning To Use GCC 15 As Well As Exploring Greater LLVM Use
Canonical’s Matthieu Clemenceau as the Engineering Director for the Ubuntu Foundations Team has provided a public roadmap around some of the plans for Ubuntu 25.04. This next Ubuntu Linux (non-LTS) release that is due out in April is set to enjoy more performance optimizations and other exciting bits… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.12 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel
Linux stable maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman officially designated Linux 6.12 as this year’s long-term support (LTS) kernel version… ⌘ Read more

Redox OS Makes Progress On Emulator Support, Better Documentation & Hardware Fixes
The Rust-based Redox OS original open-source operating system project is out with a new status report to detail the enhancements they have made over the past several weeks… ⌘ Read more

COSMIC Alpha 4 Released For System76’s Rust-Based Desktop
System76 today released the newest development/testing version of their Rust-based desktop environment designed for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution… ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA 565.77 Linux Driver Released As First Stable R565 Build
For the past month and a half the NVIDIA R565 Linux driver series has been in public beta with a number of (X)Wayland improvements, DMA-BUF enhancements, VKD3D fixes, and a variety of other enhancements. Today the NVIDIA 565.77 Linux driver was released as the first stable build in the series… ⌘ Read more

Alpine Linux 3.21 Released With Linux 6.12 & GCC 14, LoongArch CPU Support
Alpine Linux 3.21 is out today as the newest version of this simple, lightweight, and security-minded Linux distribution that is popular for use within containerized environments, embedded systems, and more… ⌘ Read more

Linus Torvalds Comes Out Against “Completely Broken” x86_64 Feature Levels
With the new Linux kernel patches posted yesterday for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernels on x86_64 CPUs as part of that patch series was introducing new Kconfig build options around the x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels. It turns out though that Torvalds is completely against how the x86_64 feature levels are handled by the compiler toolchain folks and doesn’t want to see it invading the kernel… ⌘ Read more

Imagination PowerVR Driver Being Extended To Work On RISC-V
The Linux 6.8 kernel merged the Imagination PowerVR driver as a new open-source driver for supporting the PowerVR “Rogue” graphics architecture and being developed in tandem by Imagination Tech with their upstream Mesa Vulkan driver. Initially this PowerVR driver was catering to ARM SoCs with the Rogue graphics while now the open-source driver is being extended to work on RISC-V too… ⌘ Read more

New AMD XDNA Linux Driver Patches Add Ryzen AI NPU6 IP, Other Improvements
The “AMDXDNA” accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPU is set to be introduced in the Linux 6.14 kernel next year. Ahead of that debut, a new set of patches from AMD surfaced on Wednesday to provide fixes and code improvements as well as introducing support for newer Ryzen AI “NPU6” IP… ⌘ Read more

Linux Patches Would Allow RISC-V To Use A 64K Page Size
Patches from a Bytedance engineer for the Linux kernel allow for overcoming the current 4K page size limitation of RISC-V and introduce a new 64K page size option… ⌘ Read more