Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 & Other Scarlett Audio Mixers To Be Supported By Linux 6.8

Picked up this week by the Linux sound subsystem's "next" development branch is a number of additions to the Scarlett USB audio mixer driver for supporting this audio hardware under Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Focusrite-Scarlett-New-Linux-68

AMD Proposes An FPGA Subsystem User-Space Interface For Linux

AMD engineers are proposing an FPGA Subsystem User-Space Interface to overcome current limitations of the Linux kernel's FPGA manager subsystem...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FPGA-User-Space-Interface-AMD

The Open-Source ATI R300 Graphics Driver Is Still Being Improved Upon In 2024

It's been over twenty years since the ATI Radeon R300 series was introduced but thanks to the open-source Mesa Gallium3D OpenGL driver, there continues to be new improvements made to this driver for these aging Radeon graphics cards on Linux. A few hundred lines of code were merged today for further enhancing the ATI R300 Gallium3D driver in 2024...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ATI-R300g-2024-Action

Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.42 Released With OpenJDK 21 Java Support

Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.42 released this week as the high performance Java Virtual Machine spun out from the IBM J9 JVM...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Eclipse-OpenJ9-0.42

Limine 7.0 Bootloader Released

Following the recent release of GRUB 2.12, another prominent open-source bootloader project is also out with a new release: Limine 7.0...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Limine-7.0-Bootloader

LLVM 18 Planned For Release In Early March

Tom Stellard announced plans this past week for releasing the LLVM 18 compiler stack in early March...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-18-Release-Schedule

openSUSE Prepares For openSUSE Leap 16 Next Year Based On ALP

It shouldn't come as much of a surprise, but openSUSE today reaffirmed that openSUSE Leap 16 will succeed the current Leap 15 series. OpenSUSE Leap 16 will be based on SUSE's Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) codebase...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Leap-16-ALP-2024

SilverStone RM51 Is A Nice 5U Chassis For Large Servers & Workstations

If you are looking for a 5U rack-mountable chassis for a high-end server or workstation, the SilverStone RM51 launched a few months ago as their latest offering in the high-end server enclosure space.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/silverstone-rm51

New AMD & Intel Laptop/Platform Support In Linux 6.8

Merged last week for the Linux 6.8 kernel were the platform driver x86 updates, which include a lot of new AMD Ryzen and Intel Core platform support and new laptop functionality...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Platform-Drivers-x86

Mesa Eyes Pulling libdrm Into Its Codebase

Longtime AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olšák has laid out a proposal to integrate the libdrm code within Mesa rather than being maintained as its own separate project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-PR-Pulling-In-Libdrm

Linux Distributions Now Encouraged To Build GTK With Vulkan

Last week I wrote about GTK landing their new unified GPU renderer and as part of that the Vulkan API support is set to be enabled by default. Linux distribution vendors are being encouraged moving forward to indeed ship with the GTK Vulkan support enabled, so we'll be seeing more Vulkan API use on the Linux desktop with OpenGL slowly fading away...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-Vulkan-Default-Ahead

Many New Features Approved This Week For Fedora 40

This week the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) signed off on a large number of change proposals for the Fedora 40 release due out in April...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Mid-Jan-Features

RISC-V With Linux 6.8 Restores XIP Kernel Support

With Linus Torvalds back to work, merged to mainline on Wednesday were the RISC-V architecture updates for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel cycle...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-Linux-6.8

Genode OS Aiming For Multi-Monitor & Suspend/Resume Support This Year

The developers behind the Genode open-source operating system framework have shared their 2024 road-map of new features they hope to accomplish this calendar year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Genode-2024-Plans

AppArmor Switches To SHA256 Policy Hashes In Linux 6.8

For those making use of the AppArmor Linux kernel security module, there is a notable change coming with the Linux 6.8 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AppArmor-Linux-6.8

Ceph Cluster Hits 1 TiB/s Using AMD EPYC Genoa + NVMe Drives

While the new PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs may feel fast with pushing 11~12k MB/s sequential reads and writes, a Ceph storage cluster has just broken the 1 TiB/s threshold...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ceph-Cluster-Hits-1-TiBs

Serpent OS To Require x86_64-v2 CPUs While Offering x86_64-v3 Packages Too

Serpent OS as the latest Linux distribution project of well known developer Ikey Doherty is off to a great start for 2024. Following all their Rust infrastructure work last year, that infrastructure work has continued while also taking on new challenges for the new year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Serpent-OS-January-2024

Fedora 40 Looks To bpfman For Managing eBPF Programs

Fedora 40 is looking at bpfman for serving as the default eBPF program manager to simplify the deployment and administration of said eBPF programs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-bpfman-eBPF-Manager

Fedora Linux 40 Looks To Replace iotop With iotop-c

Fedora Linux already ships an iotop-c package for this C alternative the the common iotop program for reporting I/O metrics under Linux, but with the upcoming Fedora 40 release it's looking at having iotop-c replace the original iotop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-iotop-c

FreeBSD Considers Making Use Of Rust Within Its Base System

FreeBSD developers are currently weighing the benefits and costs of allowing the Rust programming language to be used within the FreeBSD base system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Considers-Rust-Base

Linux 6.8 Now Enables -Wstringop-overflow To Warn About Buffer Overflows

A change merged today for the Linux 6.8 kernel intentionally following yesterday's Linux 6.8-rc1 is a move to enable the "-Wstringop-overflow" compiler option by default...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Wstringop-overflow

Gentoo Made Progress In 2023 On Binary Packages, Modern C & Reviving DEC Alpha Support

The Gentoo Linux project published a 2023 retrospective on Monday that outlines their ongoing high level of development, gaining three new developers over the past calendar year, and various initiatives embarked on by the developers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-2023-Progress

Framework Laptop 16 Delivers Great Linux Support & Performance, Excellent Customizability

The review embargo has now expired on the Framework Laptop 16, the latest innovative and upgradeable laptop from this company that has made quite a name for itself with modular and user-upgradeable laptop designs for both AMD and Intel. The new Framework Laptop 16 offers even more customizability around the keyboard/touchpad and other options including o…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-16

Steam Beta Adds VA-API DRM Video Acceleration For Remote Play

In addition to OBS adding AV1 VA-API support, some more good Linux video acceleration news this week is Valve enabling VA-API DRM hardware-accelerated video decoding when using Remote Play with the newest Steam beta...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Remote-Play-VA-API-DRM

GNOME Network Displays Adds Support For Chromecast & Miracast MICE Protocols

GNOME Network Displays is the software that allows streaming your GNOME desktop to WiFi Display devices using PipeWire. Last week GNOME Network Displays 0.91 was released with some big improvements to this software...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Network-Displays-0.91

Servo Engine Updates Bring CSS Tables & Its Browser Gets Back/Forward Buttons

As part of the renewed efforts around the Servo open-source web engine and making it usable for embedded purposes, the Servo engine has been tacking on a number of new features in recent weeks...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Updates-2024-Start

It's Becoming Possible To Use The Webcam On Newer Intel Laptops With Open-Source Linux

While Intel typically does a great job with their open-source Linux hardware support with enabling all features under Linux and doing so in a timely manner -- often well in advance of the client and server hardware availability -- an exception in recent years has been around the web cam support for many newer Intel laptops. Since Alder Lake an increa…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Webcam-IPU6-2024-State

The Budgie Desktop Hopes To Do A Wayland-Only Release This Year

The Budgie desktop that started off as the desktop project within the Solus Linux space has written a lengthy blog post outlining their highlights for 2023 as well as providing a glimpse ahead for 2024. The Budgie desktop is working eagerly on Wayland and XWayland support and hope to advance enough this year to deliver a Wayland-only release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Budgie-Wayland-2024

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Will Aim To Ship With The Linux 6.8 Kernel

As some terrific news, Canonical laid out their kernel plans for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and they are being ambitious with plans to ship the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel as their default kernel on this next long-term support Ubuntu desktop/server distribution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-Will-Use-Linux-6.8

Niri Debuts As A Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Inspired By PaperWM

The newest Wayland compositor on the scene with its first stable release is Niri, a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor inspired by the PaperWM GNOME Shell extesnsion...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Niri-0.1-Wayland-Compositor

Budgie 10.9 Desktop Brings Early Wayland Porting Work

With a goal of delivering a Wayland-only Budgie 10 desktop release later in 2024, Budgie 10.9 debuted today with the early-stage porting work to Wayland...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Budgie-10.9-Released

The Current State & Future Of GTK's New Unified Renderers

GTK recently merged their new "unified" rendering code with a focus on Vulkan API support and where Linux distributions are now encouraged to build with the Vulkan renderer. Prominent GTK developer Mathias Clasen at Red Hat has written more over the weekend about the state and future of the new Vulkan and NGL renderers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-State-Of-New-Renderers

ChipStar 1.1 Released For Compiling & Running HIP/CUDA On SPIR-V

ChipStar 1.1 was released this past week as one of the open-source projects to help in porting HIP and CUDA applications to support the industry-standard SPIR-V. ChipStar acts to get HIP/CUDA codes working on SPIR-V with OpenCL or Intel's oneAPI Level Zero...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ChipStar-1.1-HIP-CUDA-SPIR-V

GNOME Project Handbook Launches To Help New Contributors

The GNOME project has announced the GNOME Project Handbook as a new resource for helping new developers/contributors get involved with this open-source desktop environment...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Project-Handbook