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...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Cascadia-Code-2024

Serpent OS Close To Having A System Installer & Being Able To Test On Real Hardware

Serpent OS lead developer Ikey Doherty published a monthly status update for this original Linux distribution, which points to having a working OS installer soon so users can begin trying out this creation on real hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Serpent-OS-Installer-Nears

Nano 8.0 Text Editor Released With Modern Bindings Option

Kicking off a new month of open-source releases is the release of the GNU Nano 8.0 text editor...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nano-8.0-Released

Wine 9.8 Fixes Nearly 20 Year Old Bug For Installing Microsoft Office 97

Wine 9.8 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games/applications on Linux / Chrome OS, macOS, and other platforms...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.8-Released

GNOME Shell's Layout Being Improved For Smaller Displays

There's been a lot of improvements coming about in the GNOME desktop space thanks to the ongoing Sovereign Tech Fund and other initiatives toward GNOME 47...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Improve-Small-Displays

GIMP 2.10.38 Released As What Might Be The Last Of GIMP 2

GIMP 2.10.38 was released on Sunday as what might be the "possibly last" GIMP 2 stable release ahead of the upcoming GIMP 3.0 release. GIMP 2.10.38 back-ports more features from the GIMP 3.0 / GTK3 codebase plus other improvements and fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-2.10.38-Released

Framework Laptop EC Driver Being Prepared For Linux

The modular/upgradeable Framework Laptops employ an open-source embedded controller (EC) firmware derived from Google's Chrome OS EC project. This is great for open-source fans and allows re-using much of the same Chrome OS EC software support that already exists. But there is also vendor-specific commands supported by the Framework Laptop EC and thus a dedicated Linux kernel driver is …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Laptop-EC-Driver

AlmaLinux 9.4 Released With Support For Hardware Deprecated By RHEL

Following last week's release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 stable, the AlmaLinux crew today announced AlmaLinux 9.4...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-9.4-Released

Fedora 41 Approved To Make Package Builds More Reproducible

In addition to approving -O3 optimized Python builds, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESC)) this week unanimously approved a Fedora 41 change proposal for making RPM package builds more reproducible...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-More-Reproducible

Microsoft Contributes Windows On ARM64 "aarch64-w64-mingw32" Support To GCC 15

Microsoft engineers have contributed Windows On ARM64 support to the upstream GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) with the new "aarch64-w64-mingw32" target...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-aarch64-w64-mingw32

SteamOS 3.6 Preview Released With Linux 6.5, Updated Arch Linux & Mesa 24.1

Valve tonight released a SteamOS 3.6 Preview as the latest version of their Arch Linux derived operating system that powers the Steam Deck and can be installed on other devices as well...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteamOS-3.6-Preview

Linux 6.10 Adding TPM Bus Encryption & Integrity Protection

Linux 6.10 is introducing support for Trusted Platform Module (TPM2) encryption and integrity protections to prevent active/passive interposers from compromising them. This follows a recent security demonstration of TPM key recovery from Microsoft Windows BitLocker being demonstrated. TPM sniffing attacks have also been demonstrated against Linux systems too, thus the addit…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-610-TPM-Encrypt-Integrity

NVIDIA's Open GPU Linux Kernel Driver Will Soon Be The Default For Turing & Newer GPUs

While we are all waiting for the NVIDIA R555 series Linux driver beta that is expected to debut as soon as next week based on prior information with Wayland improvements (explicit sync) and more, with the NVIDIA R560 series Linux driver successor is a very interesting change: NVIDIA is planning on defaulting to using their open-source GPU kernel driver b…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-R560-Open-Default

Wasmer 4.3 Released: WebAssembly Runtime 25% Faster On Cold Startups

Wasmer 4.3 is out as the newest version of this WebAssembly (WASM) runtime that supports WASIX, WASI, and EmScript execution. This cross-platform WASM runtime continues to be focused on driving lightweight containers that can run anywhere in a very secure manner...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wasmer-4.3-Released

ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Making Good Strides On SMP CPU Support

The ReactOS project has posted their latest newsletter that outlines progress made during the past two months. ReactOS continues working to be an open-source operating system that offers application and driver binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows to in effect serve as a "open-source Windows" albeit the hardware support and application support are still an ongoing af…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-May-2024-Update

FreeBSD 14.1 Bringing Reproducibly Built Kernels, OpenZFS 2.2.4

Following last week's release of FreeBSD 14.1 Beta 1, this weekend brought the second beta candidate right on time...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.1-Beta-2-Released

Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Adds Bcachefs Installer Support

Arch Linux derived CachyOS is known for its aggressive performance optimizations and running well on modern hardware. It's also leading when it comes to adopting other new Linux/open-source features. With this weekend's May 2024 ISO update, CachyOS has rolled out initial support for installing to a root file-system based on Bcachefs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-Bcachefs-Installer

Linux Foundation Launches The High Performance Software Foundation

Back at Supercomputing 23, the Linux Foundation announced their intent on forming the High Performance Software Foundation for helping to advance open-source software for high performance computing (HPC). The Linux Foundation is now using ISC 24 this week in Hamburg, Germany for announcing that the High Performance Software Foundation has launched...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/High-Perf-Software-Foundation

SUSE Working On Upstream Linux Kernel Support For Booting The Raspberry Pi 5

While the Raspberry Pi 5 debuted last September already, sadly the mainline Linux kernel still lacks support for booting this popular single board computer... The support on Raspberry Pi OS and other downstream distributions/kernels is good, but the mainline kernel support for the Raspberry Pi SBCs remains a sore spot for this popular ARM single board computer. S…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SUSE-Upstream-Linux-RPi-5

Manjaro 24.0 Released: Powered By Linux 6.9 & The Latest Desktops

Manjaro 24.0 has been released today as the newest version of this Arch Linux derived desktop OS. Manjaro 24.0 ships with the latest the newly-released Linux 6.9 kernel and a slew of other updated packages...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Manjaro-24.0-Released

Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ Now Available For $12 To Connect NVMe Drives & More

The Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ has finally launched for allowing M.2 devices like NVMe drives, WiFi adapters, accelerators, and more to be connected to the Raspberry Pi 5...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-M2-HAT

AMD & Supermicro Collaborating On Open-Source Firmware With The OSFF

As more positive indications around AMD's OpenSIL effort for open-source CPU silicon initialization to eventually replace AGESA, both AMD and Supermicro are now collaborating with the Open-Source Firmware Foundation. Supermicro has also publicly shown off a platform with OpenSIL+Coreboot and is said to be exploring OpenBMC for future hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Supermicro-OSFF

Linux 6.10 x86 Instruction Decoder Prepares For APX & Other New Intel Instructions

The performance events updates were submitted today for the ongoing Linux 6.10 kernel merge window. This pull adds support for Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and other new Intel CPU instructions to the x86 instruction decoder...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-x86-APX-Decode

Niri 0.1.6 Wayland Compositor Adds Interactive Window Resizing & Mouse View Scrolling

Niri is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor inspired by PaperWM and heavy on the animations/effects. Out this morning is Niri 0.1.6 as the newest feature release for this Wayland compositor...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Niri-0.1.6-Wayland-Compositor

Coreboot 24.05 Released With 25 More Platforms - Including The Framework 13 AMD

Coreboot 24.05 is available today as the newest stable release of this open-source system firmware solution. With Coreboot 24.05 there is support for 25 more motherboards/platforms and an assortment of other improvements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-24.05-Released

Linux 6.10 Is Disabling NFS v2 Client Support By Default

Following the NFS server changes from a few days ago for Linux 6.10 that brought optimizations and prepping for the new "nfsdctl" utility, the Network File System client changes have been submitted and merged for this new kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-NFS-Client

Memory Sealing "mseal" System Call Merged For Linux 6.10

Merged this Friday evening into the Linux 6.10 kernel is the new mseal() system call for memory sealing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Merges-mseal

Nouveau DRM_Panic Being Worked On For Linux "Blue Screen Of Death" Type Situations

Merged for Linux 6.10 is DRM_Panic as a kernel panic screen for situations akin to Windows' well known "Blue Screen of Death". This is a kernel-based panic screen as an alternative to systemd's recent systemed-bsod. Patches have been posted by Red Hat for allowing the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Direct Rendering Manager driver to work with DRM Panic...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-DRM-Panic-Patches

Linux Patches Posted For Enabling A 22 x 35 mm RISC-V / ARM Board

Linux kernel patches were posted today for enabling Linux to boot on the LicheeRV Nano, a mini single board computer that comes in at a mere 22.86 x 35.56 mm. As interesting as the size with this SBC is the Sophgo SG2002 SoC that features a mix of RISC-V and ARM cores...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LicheeRV-Nano-Linux-Patches

Microsoft Starts Preparing Its Open-Source DirectX Shader Compiler For "HLSL 202x"

Microsoft's open-source DirectX Shader Compiler that is open-source and derived from the LLVM/Clang compiler infrastructure is out with a significant new release as it begins preparing for "HLSL 202x" as a big leap for the High-Level Shader Language...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/MS-HLSL-202x-Prep-Compiler

XZ 5.6.2 Released With The Frightening Backdoor Removed

It was two months ago today that an urgent security alert was issued over XZ being hit by malicious code that turned out to be a backdoor within liblzma added by a bad actor that worked his way into XZ co-maintainership. Longtime XZ developer Lasse Collin is back at the helm and has been auditing the prior XZ commits and today released XZ 5.6.2 with the backdoor completely removed...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XZ-5.6.2-Released

Google Enabling PowerVR Rogue GX6250 Open-Source Support With The MediaTek MT8173

Building off the PowerVR kernel driver merged in Linux 6.8 and PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa 24.0 that are both focused on Imagination's newer PowerVR Rogue architecture, Google engineers are working on enabling open-source driver support for the PowerVR Rogue GX6250 as found within the MediaTek MT8173 SoC...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PowerVR-GX6250-MT8173

Yocto 5.0 LTS Released - Now Powered By Linux 6.6 LTS, Boeing Joins The Project

Yocto 5.0 LTS has been released as the newest version from the Yocto Project that is popular for organizations assembling their own embedded/IoT-minded custom Linux distributions. The Linux Foundation also announced today that Boeing has become a Platinum Member with Yocto...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Yocto-5.0-Released

Real-Time Kernel Now Available On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Similar to the real-time kernel for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Canonical announced today the availability of their new real-time "RT" kernel for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. But like with the existing Ubuntu RT kernels, this real-time support is limited to Ubuntu Pro subscriptions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-LTS-Real-Time