XZ Backdoor, Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Ubuntu 24.04 Made For An Exciting April
April 2024 is now in the books after writing 257 original Linux/open-source-related news articles and another 13 featured articles / Linux hardware reviews. Here’s a look back at the most exciting (popular) content from April… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Updates Cascadia Code: Its Open-Source Font For Developers
Back in 2019 Microsoft open-sourced Cascadia Code as a font designed for terminals and code editors. The goals are similar to that of Intel’s more recent One Mono as another open-source font for developers. It’s been three years since the last update to the Cascadia Code open-source font while today rolled out version 2404.23… ⌘ Read more

Rust-Written Redox OS Gets USB Keyboards & Mice Working
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… ⌘ Read more

Linux Mint Looks To Fork More GNOME Software, Make XApp More Independent
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… ⌘ Read more

Noctua NH-L12Sx77 Makes For A Great Low-Profile CPU Cooler
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. ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.5 Released For Remastering Old Games
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… ⌘ Read more

Radeon OpenGL Linux Driver Massively Improves 3D Texturing Performance For Older GPUs
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… ⌘ Read more

GCC 14.1 RC Compiler Available For Testing With AMD Znver5 Target & New C/C++ Features
The release candidate of the GCC 14 compiler is available for testing as the annual feature update to the GNU Compiler Collection… ⌘ Read more

TUXEDO Launches Another Linux Laptop Powered By The AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
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… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu Support Ongoing For The Arm-Based Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Laptop
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… ⌘ Read more

Fedora Evaluates Replacing Redis With Valkey
Given the upstream Redis software licensing changes, Fedora is evaluating replacing Redis with the new Valkey project… ⌘ Read more

TornadoVM 1.0.4 Brings OpenJDK 22 Support, New Features For Java Heterogeneous Hardware
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… ⌘ Read more

KDE’s Amarok 3.0 Music Player Released After Six Year Hiatus - Now Ported To Qt5
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… ⌘ Read more

Git 2.45 Released With Initial SHA1/SHA256 Interoperability & Reftable Support
Git 2.45 is out today as an important step forward for this widely-used, open-source distributed version control system… ⌘ Read more

openSUSE Leap 15.6 RC Brings Cockpit Web Based Server Management
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… ⌘ Read more

Intel Core Ultra “Meteor Lake” Performance Improves With Linux 6.9
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” performanc … ⌘ Read more

Raspberry Pi V3DV Vulkan Driver Implements Extended Dynamic State - Important For DXVK
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… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu Isn’t Yet Recommending GNOME’s VRR Option
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… ⌘ Read more

Linux Support On The Way For The ASUS ROG Raikiri Controller
Linux driver support is forthcoming for the ASUS ROG Raikiri gaming controller… ⌘ Read more

xconsole 1.1 Released - Preparing For Post-Y2038 Support, 18 Years After v1.0
Longtime X.Org maintainer Alan Coopersmith with Oracle released a new version of xconsole, the program that displays an X11 window containing the messages sent to /dev/console. This xconsole 1.1 release comes 18 years after the xconsole 1.0 release… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 24.10 Is The “Oracular Oriole”
For those keeping track of Ubuntu’s animal-themed codenames, Ubuntu 24.10 is now confirmed to be the Oracular Oriole… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.9-rc6 Released With This Kernel Looking “Pretty Normal”
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.9-rc6 as the latest weekly test release of Linux 6.9 as it works toward its stable release by mid-May… ⌘ Read more

AMD Enabling “Fast CPPC” For Even Greater Linux Performance & Power Efficiency On Some CPUs
While AMD Zen 4 processors whether it be the Ryzen 7000/8000 desktop/mobile series or EPYC 8004/9004 series server processors are already performing very well on Linux and with great power efficiency against the competition as shown in dozens of Phoronix articles at this point, it turns out there’s been a minor power/performance optimization left untapped yet under Linux for select Zen 4 processors. A new patch series p … ⌘ Read more

AMD Enabling “Fast CPPC” For Even Greater Linux Performance & Power Efficiency On Some CPUs
While AMD Zen 4 processors whether it be the Ryzen 7000/8000 desktop/mobile series or EPYC 8004/9004 series server processors are already performing very well on Linux and with great power efficiency against the competition as shown in dozens of Phoronix articles at this point, it turns out there’s been a minor power/performance optimization left untapped yet under Linux for select Zen 4 processors. A new patch series p … ⌘ Read more

More AMDGPU Driver Code For Linux 6.10 Brings MES Updates, FreeSync Fixes
On top of prior DRM-Next pull requests for the AMD kernel graphics driver working on next-gen GPU support along with fixes and other low-level improvements, on Friday another batch of new feature code was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window opening up in mid-May… ⌘ Read more