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