VMware Workstation Shifting From Proprietary Code To Using Upstream KVM

This isn't an off-schedule April Fools' Joke or anything like that but an exciting sign of the times: VMware Workstation will be shifting off its proprietary base and onto leveraging the upstream Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) for virtualization needs moving forward...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/VMware-Workstation-KVM

Academy Software Foundation Releases OpenVDB 12.0 Under New License

The Academy Software Foundation that is made up of many different vendors released OpenVDB 12.0 as the newest major release to this sparse volume data structure library and tooling that is an Academy Award winning library started by DreamWorks Animation...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASF-OpenVDB-12.0

Ubuntu Hoping To Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Ubuntu developer Simon Quigley laid out the plans for hoping Ubuntu packages will move from Qt 5 to Qt 6 so that by the time of the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cycle in early 2026 that the older version of this graphical toolkit can be removed...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Hopes-Removing-Qt-5

Xfce 4.20 Pre1 Pre-Release Published For Testing

Right on schedule for releasing the Xfce 4.20 desktop in December, the "Pre1" pre-release was posted on Friday for testing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-4.20-Pre1-Released

KDE Will Nicely Notify You When Apps Are Being Killed Due To Out-Of-Memory

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development summary of interesting KDE changes in closing out October...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-OOM-Notifications

Rust-Based Redox OS Gets RISC-V Working, Also Now Booting On The Raspberry Pi 4

The Redox OS open-source Rust-based operating system project is out with their newest monthly development update...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-For-October-2024

F2FS File-System Adding Device Aliasing Feature For Nifty Uses

The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is adding a device aliasing file feature that could appear in the upcoming Linux v6.13 merge window...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/F2FS-Device-Aliasing

LXQt 2.1 Released With New Wayland Session Component

LXQt 2.1 is now available as the latest feature release to this Qt-based lightweight desktop environment. Most significant with LXQt 2.1 is the introduction of the lxqt-wayland-session component...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXQt-2.1-Released

Linux 6.13 To Enhance Logic For Trusting Built-In Thunderbolt Controllers

Due to the possibility of DMA attacks from connected Thunderbolt devices, Linux and other platforms have built up safeguards over the years and different security levels for Thunderbolt to better protect systems having this high speed interface exposing PCIe. With the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel, the logic of the kernel is being enhanced to better detect and trust…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Thunderbolt-Trust

Haiku Enjoyed A Busy October Implementing More Features

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS has remained very active implementing more features and fixes as we approach the end of 2024...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-October-2024

Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation

Earlier this year was a Fedora change proposal seeking to make KDE Plasma the default over GNOME for Fedora 42. A compromise of sorts has now been settled on with the Fedora Desktop Spin being promoted to an "Edition" status that will put it on the same level as the GNOME-based Fedora Workstation Edition...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-KDE-Desktop-Promoted

Basic Support For Many Pre-M1 Apple Devices Coming To Linux 6.13

While not as exciting as if it were Apple M3/M4 device support hitting the upstream mainline Linux kernel, but for those with some older Apple (pre-M1) devices around, support for a number of older SoCs and boards is set to arrive with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Better-Apple-Pre-M1

Fedora Stakeholders Debate Concerns Over "Karma" Term For Their Updates System

The latest terminology within the Fedora camp causing concern is "karma" that's long been used for conveying feedback around package updates with their Bodhi software used for gating Fedora Linux package updates...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Bodhi-Karma-2024

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Enters Beta With Many New Features & Updates

The first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10) was released on Wednesday with a wide variety of new/updated packages, new features, and other changes over RHEL 9...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-RHEL-10-Beta

Supermicro H13SSL-N For AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" 1P Servers

While it's difficult still finding Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" motherboards/servers widely available at Internet retailers/distributors, when it comes to the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors that launched just last month, there is better availability thanks in large part to leveraging the existing SP5 socket. For those wanting to assemble a single socket AMD EPYC 9005 series…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/supermicro-h13ssln-epyc-turin

FreeCAD 1.0 Released With UI/UX Improvements, New Materials System

FreeCAD 1.0 was just released as a major update to this leading open-source, cross-platform 3D parametric modeler software...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeCAD-1.0-Released

Zrythm 1.0 Released For Powerful Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation

Zrythm 1.0 released today as a big milestone for this open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software that caters from professional users down to beginners...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zrythm-1.0

ReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel

Linus Torvalds just merged the change to the Linux 6.13 kernel that goes ahead and deletes the ReiserFS file-system from the source tree. Removing ReiserFS from the Linux tree lightens the kernel by 32.8k lines of code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReiserFS-Deleted-Linux-6.13

GCC 15 Ends Support For Altera Nios II Embedded Processors

The GCC 15 code compiler that is releasing as stable in the early months of 2025 has removed all support for the Altera Nios II CPU target...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-15-Drops-Altera-Nios-II

AMD Begins Work Upstreaming More Versal 2 SoC Support For Linux

Back in April AMD announced the Versal Gen 2 Adaptive SoCs for AI-driven embedded systems. In preparing for Versal2 evaluation kits expected around the middle of the year and production silicon by the end of 2025, AMD software engineers have begun ramping up their open-source and upstream-focused Linux driver support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Versal-2-Linux-Upstreaming

Linux Kernel Performance Bottlenecks Spotted By Mold Developer

Open-source developer Rui Ueyama who is the lead developer of the Mold high performance linker and previously on the LLVM lld linker has written a detailed mailing list post that highlights some observed performance bottlenecks within the Linux kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Bottlenecks-Mold

Rust Hypervisor Firmware v0.5 Supports For More CPUs & Improves EFI Support

The Rust Hypervisor Firmware is a project out of the Cloud Hypervisor umbrella for developing open-source, Rust-based firmware that can be launched from any environment able to load ELF binaries and run them via the PVH booting standard. Rust Hypervisor Firmware v0.5 is out this weekend with the newest capabilities...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Hypervisor-Firmware-0.5

Resources System Monitoring App For GNOME Now Displays NPU Usage

As an alternative to the GNOME System Monitor application for system monitoring, Resources has been in development as a currently unofficial, GNOME-aligned resource/hardware monitoring application written in the Rust programming language. Resources v1.7 was released on Friday and now has the ability to monitor NPU usage and other enhancements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Resources-1.7