AMD's Work On Upstreaming AMDGPU/ROCm Debugging Support Into GDB

The AMD ROCm Debugger "ROCgdb" is maintained as a fork of the GNU Debugger (GDB) with support added for the heterogeneous debugging of the ROCm compute platform. ROCgdb works well and is distributed as part of the ROCM stack. The good news is that AMD is also working on getting this AMDGPU/ROCm debug support added into the upstream GDB debugger...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-ROCm-Debugging-GDB

The 2024 State Of Open-Source AMD Firmware

Last year at FOSDEM 2023 there was a presentation on the state of AMD open-source firmware and since then a lot has changed from the AMD openSIL announcement to new platforms being in the process of being enabled. At FOSDEM 2024 this past weekend in Brussels was a fresh look at the current state of AMD open-source firmware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/2024-AMD-OSS-Firmware-State

The Greenfield In-Browser Wayland Compositor Is Fast Enough For Gaming

While there are a lot of Wayland compositors out there that aren't too different from each other in terms of features, one of the more unique ones is Greenfield. The Greenfield Wayland compositor has been out there for a few years now as an in-browser HTML5-based solution that is continuing to prove itself capable and even fast enough for handling Linux gaming...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Greenfield-Compositor-2024

WireGuard Driver Merged To DragonFlyBSD Kernel

Merged today to DragonFlyBSD Git is the WireGuard protocol driver for leveraging this popular tech...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DragonFlyBSD-WireGuard-Merge

Fedora Atomic Desktops Born Out Of Fedora Silverblue Success

Born out of the success of Fedora Silverblue and the other Fedora immutable variants relying on RPM-OSTree, Fedora has announced Fedora Atomic Desktops as the new branding for these spins...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Atomic-Desktops

Rust Kernel Support On AArch64 Ready To Go For Linux 6.9

The 64-bit Arm (AArch64) little-endian kernel will be ready to support the Rust kernel code with the upcoming Linux 6.9 cycle...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-AArch64-Rust-Support

AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source

While there have been efforts by AMD over the years to make it easier to port codebases targeting NVIDIA's CUDA API to run atop HIP/ROCm, it still requires work on the part of developers. The tooling has improved such as with HIPIFY to help in auto-generating but it isn't any simple, instant, and guaranteed solution -- especially if striving for optimal perform…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/radeon-cuda-zluda

OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 Achieved On Apple M1 With Linux Driver

The Asahi Linux project working on the AGX Gallium3D driver for Mesa has now managed to achieve OpenGL 4.6 conformance as well as OpenGL ES 3.2. This is a big upgrade for the Linux OpenGL support on the Apple M1 as previously only OpenGL 4.1 was exposed...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenGL-4.1-Asahi-Apple-M1

Core NGINX Developer Forks Web Server Into Freenginx

Maxim Dounin as one of the longtime core developers of the Nginx web server announced the creation today of a new fork of the project called Freenginx...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nginx-Forked-To-Freenginx

Qt Creator 13 Beta Brings Improved Docking UI, Qt App Manager Support

The Qt Creator 13 Beta is now available for testing for this Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment (IDE) that also supports a growing number of other programming languages too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-Creator-13-Beta

Fast Dedup Coming To OpenZFS For Overhauling Deduplication Capability

The folks at iXsystems and Klara are contributing Fast Dedup support to upstream OpenZFS and beginning to roll out this improved deduplication support within TrueNAS SCALE starting next month...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-Fast-Dedup

GhostBSD 24.01.1 Released: Based On FreeBSD 14, Many Improvements

GhostBSD as one of the few actively maintained desktop-focused BSD distributions is out with a new release this week...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GhostBSD-24.01.1-Released

Bcachefs Receives Funding By NLNet With NGI Zero Grant

The Bcachefs file-system that was mainlined to the Linux kernel last year has received a grant from the NLNet Foundation...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-NLNet-Grant

NetBSD 10.0 Should Be Released Soon - Likely Last RC Debuts

NetBSD 10.0-RC5 was released on Wednesday as what is hopefully the last release candidate...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-10.0-RC5-Released

GNOME Prompt Becomes Ptyxis

The GNOME Prompt terminal emulator in-development by Christian Hergert with a focus on GPU-acceleration and being a very speedy and beautiful terminal option has been renamed to Ptyxis...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Prompt-Terminal-Ptyxis