LXQt 2.0 Desktop Planned For Availability In Fedora 41

A change proposal was raised this week for upgrading Fedora's LXQt desktop offering to the recently released LXQt 2.0 for the upcoming Fedora 41 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-LXQt-2.0-Packages

Mesa 24.2 Enjoyed Some Last Minute Code Cleaning & Modernization

Just prior to the Mesa 24.2 code branching / feature freeze on Thursday, two merge requests landed working on cleaning up some Mesa interfaces and code modernization...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.2-Modern-Interfaces

Rust Linux Kernel Code Prepares For CPU Mitigations Handling

The latest Rust for the Linux kernel work led by Miguel Ojeda is on preparing the Rust kernel code for various CPU security mitigations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-CPU-Mitigations

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Launch Delayed To August

While we have been super eager for the AMD Ryzen 9000 series "Zen 5" desktop processor launch that's been set for 31 July, AMD has issued a last minute delay. Instead the processors will launch in two stages in August...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-9000-Series-Delay

AMD's Unified AI Software Stack Might Be A Boon For Other Vulkan/SPIR-V Hardware Too

Earlier this month AMD talked more about their Unified AI Software Stack plans for debuting in the coming months to provide a unified software view where AI work can be seamlessly offloaded to Ryzen processors, AMD graphics, or AMD Ryzen AI NPU hardware. Another possible and exciting prospect came to mind when going through the LLVM/Clang 19 changes…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Unified-AI-Software-MLIR-SPIR-V

Fwupd 1.9.22 Released With Framework SD Expansion Card & Raspberry Pi 5 Support

Richard Hughes of Red Hat just released Fwupd 1.9.22 as the newest version of this open-source solution for allowing system and peripheral firmware updates to be carried out quickly and easily from Linux systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-1.9.22-Released

NVIDIA's Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver

With the recently introduced NVIDIA 555 Linux driver stable series their open-source GPU kernel driver modules are in great shape across consumer and professional graphics products. Over the past two years the support has evolved so much that NVIDIA is now promoting their open-source kernel driver usage and with the NVIDIA 560 Linux driver beta posted this week th…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-555-open

UBIFS File-System Being Hardened Against Power Loss Scenarios

While most Linux file-systems are rather robust in recovering when the system experiences a power loss, the UBIFS file-system is more prone to problems when a power-cut happens. With patches submitted for the Linux 6.11 merge window, UBIFS is seeing some hardening so it can better cope with the loss of power...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/UBIFS-Power-Cut-Hardening-Linux

Linux VFS Fix For 5 Year Old Bug That Could Cause Corruption, Security Issues Or Crash

Ahead of the Linux 6.11 merge window set to close tomorrow, Linux engineer Christian Brauner at Microsoft sent in a set of two VFS fixes. One of the fixes is more noteworthy that is for a five year old bug that could cause on-disk corruption, security issues, or a kernel crash...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-VFS-Fix-5-Year-Bug