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