Musl libc 1.2.5 Released With RISC-V 32-bit & LoongArch 64-bit Ports

Musl libc 1.2.5 released on Thursday as the newest version of this lightweight, speedy, and free software C library implementation that is popular for embedded use, containers, and elsewhere...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/musl-libc-1.2.5

Coreboot 24.02 Released - Supporting Three New Motherboards

Succeeding last year's Coreboot 4.22 release is now a new release... Coreboot 24.02. This open-source system firmware project is now the latest to shift to a year-month versioning system. The newly-christened Coreboot 24.02 brings support for three new motherboards, a number of ACPI updates, and also pulls in the new GRUB 2.12 and other changes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-24.02-Released

AMD Announces Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA Family

For those interested in FPGAs, AMD today unveiled the Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA product family with hardware coming in 2025...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Spartan-UltraScale-Plus

Microsoft Rebranding CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution To "Azure Linux"

Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution used for a variety of purposes had been known as CBL-Mariner for "Common Base Linux" while now it appears to be in the process of transitioning to Azure Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Azure-Linux

UWSM Aims To Be A Universal Wayland Session Manager

UWSM is short for the Universal Wayland Session Manager and it incorporates systemd's help in managing the Wayland compositors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/UWSM-Wayland-Session-Manager

Lisa Su Says The "Team Is On It" After Tweet About Open-Source AMD GPU Firmware

George Hotz with Tiny Corp that is working on Tinygrad and TinyBox for interesting developments in the open-source AI space has previously called out AMD over ROCm issues. Yesterday yielded new tweets by "the tiny corp" over AI training runs crashing with MES errors and then called for AMD open-sourcing the firmware to which AMD CEO Lisa Su has responded...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lisa-Su-Tweet-OSS-Firmware

Linux 6.8 Released As Stable With New Intel Xe Graphics Driver

Linus Torvalds has gone ahead and released Linux 6.8 as stable today rather than drawing this cycle into overtime...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Released

Dynamic Kernel Stacks Proposed For Linux With Big Memory Savings

A "request for comments" patch series was posted on Monday for a new dynamic kernel stacks feature for Linux. Early testing has shown the potential for significant memory savings...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dynamic-Kernel-Stacks-RFC

SDL Storage API Merged For SDL 3.0

Going back years but documented in 2022 has been a desire for the SDL hardware/software abstraction layer popular with cross-platform games to offer an abstracted file-system API. That's finally come to reality with the new SDL_Storage interface added for SDL 3.0...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL3-SDL_Storage-API-Merged

XWayland Nukes The NVIDIA EGLStream Backend

XWayland had targeted both the Generic Buffer Management (GBM) and EGLStream APIs due to NVIDIA not supporting GBM like all of the other Linux drivers. But now that the NVIDIA proprietary Linux graphics driver has been boasting GBM support and advancing with their Wayland platform support in general, XWayland is letting go of the EGLStream mess...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-Drops-EGLStream

More Organizations Join The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, v1.0 Spec In Q3

Announced last summer was the Ultra Ethernet Consortium started by the Linux Foundation along with AMD, Intel, Cisco, Meta, Microsoft, Broadcom, and other organizations. Ultra Ethernet aims for high performance networking for the likes of AI and HPC. The group announced today they've courted an additional 45 organizations to become members of this consortium and t…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ultra-Ethernet-45-More-Members

The Significant Corporate Importance & Pressure Around Mesa Open-Source Linux 3D Drivers

It has taken many years but the Mesa 3D open-source graphics drivers have proven very successful from the open-source AMD Vulkan and OpenGL drivers proving they can be capable of competing with the closed-source drivers not only for gaming but also workstation tasks, the Windows vs. Linux graphics driver performance gap largely closed, Microsoft ev…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Revert-For-SPECViewPerf

Red Hat's Long, Rust'ed Road Ahead For Nova As Nouveau Driver Successor

Red Hat's display driver team has recently been devising plans for Nova, a new to-be-developed Linux DRM kernel driver written in Rust for open-source NVIDIA graphics support as the successor/replacement to Nouveau for newer NVIDIA GPU generations supporting the GPU System Processor (GSP). Making this effort all the more involved is being written in Rust at a tim…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Nova-Rust-Abstractions

KDE Sees A Number Of Regression Fixes & Some Crash Fixes This Week

KDE developers continue to be quite busy fixing a variety of regressions -- including some crashes -- with the new KDE Plasma 6 desktop stack. Plasma 6.0.3 will ship next week with yet more fixes while some feature work toward Plasma 6.1 is also underway...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.0.3-Prep

Rust Bindings Posted For KMS Drivers, VKMS Ported To Rust

So far when it comes to Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) / Kernel Mode-Setting (KMS) display drivers for Linux, there are Rust efforts underway for the Apple Silicon kernel graphics driver with the Asahi Linux project as well as the new Nova effort for a modern open-source NVIDIA kernel driver from Red Hat. Also now out from Red Hat is posting the Rust bindings for KMS to review plus port…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Rust-KMS-RVKMS

Rust-Written Coreutils 0.0.25 With Improved GNU Compatibility

Out this weekend is a new version of uutils' Coreutils 0.0.25 as the Rust-written drop-in replacement to GNU Coreutils for common utilities found on Linux platforms and other systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-uutils-0.0.25

SysVinit 3.09 Now Allows Building With musl C Library, Passing Boot Messages To Firmware

While most Linux distributions have long since moved on from SysVinit in favor of systemd for init duties, this weekend SysVinit 3.09 was released for any legacy users and holdouts still enjoying the System V-init style experience...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SysVinit-3.09

Inkscape Development Version Switches To Using GTK4

The latest upstream development code for the Inkscape vector graphics program has transitioned to using the GTK4 toolkit...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Inkscape-Switches-To-GTK4

Linux 6.9 Deprecates The EXT2 File-System Driver

While Linux 6.9 brings many great changes and new features / hardware support, on the deprecation side it's deprecating the classic EXT2 file-system driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Deprecates-EXT2

Fedora 40 Beta Released With GNOME 46 & KDE Plasma 6.0 On Wayland Desktops

The beta release of Fedora 40 is now available for testing ahead of the planned official release next month...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Beta-Released

SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0

With the SDL library that's widely-used by cross-platform games with the current SDL 3.0 development code it prefers Wayland over X11, but a new pull request would temporarily revert that on the basis of the Wayland ecosystem still not being up to par...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-3.0-Wayland-Possible-Revert

Blender 4.1 Released With Faster Linux CPU Rendering & AMD RDNA3 APU Support

Blender 4.1 is officially out today as the newest version of this wildly popular, open-source and cross-platform 3D modeling software...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.1-Released

Fedora 41 Will Try Again To Switch To DNF5 Package Manager

Fedora 39 had hoped to use the DNF5 package manager by default as the next iteration of this package management solution for RPM-based distributions. But DNF5 wasn't ready and then delayed to Fedora 41 -- skipping over the Fedora 40 series due to the RHEL 10 branching from it and not wanting the very new DNF5 to be part of that marge. Now the change proposal has been re-filed for…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Tries-Again-DNF5

AMD Releases Orochi 2.0 With More CUDA/HIP Functions Implemented For Better Portability

AMD GPUOpen's Orochi project as a remidner is the effort for allowing dynamic runtime switching between the Radeon HIP and NVIDIA CUDA APIs to allow better cross-GPU portability. Today marks the availability of Orochi 2.0 for enhancing this API to target NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HIP hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Orochi-2.0-HIP-CUDA

GitHub Disables The XZ Repository Following Today's Malicious Disclosure

Today's disclosure of XZ upstream release packages containing malicious code to compromise remote SSH access has certainly been an Easter weekend surprise... The situation only looks more bleak over time with how the upstream project was compromised while now the latest twist is GitHub disabling the XZ repository in its entirety...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GitHub-Disables-XZ-Repo

KDE Introduces New Marknote App

KDE developers have announced the first release of Marknote, a new note-taking application for the KDE Plasma desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Marknote-App

NetBSD 10.0 Released With Much Improved Hardware Support & Faster Performance

After being in development since 2019, the huge NetBSD 10.0 is out today as a wonderful Easter surprise...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-10.0-Released