Supermicro ARS-211M-NR AmpereOne Server With R13SPD Motherboard

One of the interesting highlights of September was finally having our hands on an AmpereOne server! After years of being eager to test Ampere Computing's next-generation AArch64 server processors, Ampere sent over their 192-core flagship server processor for a few weeks of testing. The review server was comprised of the AmpereOne A192-32X flagship model within a Supermicr…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/supermicro-ampereone-server

Some Intel Linux Driver Maintainers Have Left The Company

With the recent Intel layoffs and early retirement / buyout packages, I have been curious to see what impact it will have on the open-source/Linux software engineers at the company. There's at least a few driver maintainers that have unfortunately departed the company but at least no major exodus of their well respected Linux software engineers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Maintainers-Linux-Depart

Giga Computing Announces GA On Their AmpereOne Servers

After years of AmpereComputing talking about AmpereOne AArch64 server processors, it looks like we are finally on the cusp of seeing broader availability of the processors and servers/motherboards for this ARM server platform up to 192 cores. At the end of August I finally received a temporary review system with the AmpereOne A192-32X flagship SKU. That server was the Supermicro…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Giga-Computing-AmpereOne-Server

Bcachefs Fixes Pull Once Again Frustrates Linus Torvalds - Two Choices Offered

Linus Torvalds merged the newest round of fixes to the experimental Bcachefs file-system, but it's left Linux creator Linus Torvalds frustrated and he's presented two choices for the file-system moving forward due to the continued LKML drama...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Fixes-Two-Choices

GCC 15 Un-Deprecates Itanium IA-64 Linux Support

The GCC 14 compiler marked Itanium IA-64 support as obsolete with plans to remove that Intel architecture in GCC 15. But for now at least the Itanium Linux compiler support has seen some reprieve with it being un-deprecated...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-15-Undeprecates-Itanium

Ubuntu 24.10 Now Available With Linux 6.11, GCC 14 & Other Upgrades

The Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" ISOs are now officially available as the newest six-month update to Ubuntu Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.10-Released

Inkscape 1.4 Brings Numerous Enhancements To This Vector Graphics Editor

Inkscape 1.4 released on Sunday as the newest version of this cross-platform, open-source vector graphics editor...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Inkscape-1.4-Released

Intel IWD 3.0 Wireless Daemon Released For Linux Systems

Intel's iNet Wireless Daemon (IWD) for Linux systems is out with a v3.0 release for this featureful and modern alternative to WPA_Supplicant...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IWD-3.0

Rust-Written Rustls Now Reportedly Outperforming OpenSSL & BoringSSL

Rustls was initially talked up as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language for its memory safety guarantees. But now besides the talked up advantages due to being written in Rust, it has reached the point of reportedly being faster than both OpenSSL and BoringSSL...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rustls-Faster-Than-OpenSSL

RISC-V User-Space Pointer Masking Appears Ready For Linux 6.13

It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle will be adding RISC-V support for user-space pointer masking and tagged address ABI...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-Pointer-Masking-Linux

Fedora 41 Releases Today With Many Shiny New Features

Fedora 41 is ready for release today as a wonderful update to this leading edge Linux distribution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Download

Wasmer 5.0 WebAssembly Runtime Released With V8, WAMR & WASMI Backends

Wasmer 5.0 is now available as the latest major update to this WebAssembly (WASM) runtime focused on being able to allow developers to write "universal apps" that will run anywhere thanks to the power and versatility of WebAssembly...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wasmer-5.0-Released

VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Support Approaching Upstream QEMU

Support for making use of Vulkan with VirtIO-GPU while using QEMU could very soon be upstream...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/VirtIO-GPU-Vulkan-QEMU

DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Support Being Extended To All Recent AMD GPUs

DRM_Panic is the functionality first added in Linux 6.10 for "Blue Screen of Death" type functionality when a kernel panic occurs or similar for displaying a nice graphical error message. Since the initial introduction it's been extended to handle QR code error messages, monochrome logos, and other customization options. The AMDGPU driver has new patches available for e…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-DCE-DCN-DRM-Panic

OpenPaX Announced As "Open-Source Alternative To GrSecurity" With Free Kernel Patch

Enterprise security firm Edera today is announcing OpenPaX that they promoted in their advance press notice as a "new open-source alternative to GrSecurity." GrSecurity being the firm focused on providing out-of-tree Linux kernel patches focused in the name of security enhancements. With OpenPaX they are open-source and publicly available kernel patch for mi…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Edera-OpenPaX-Announced