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OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Switching From AppArmor To SELinux For New Installations
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Switching From AppArmor To SELinux For New Installations
108 Minutes Ago - SUSE - OpenSUSE + SELinux - 1 Comment

SUSE/openSUSE has a long history with the AppArmor Linux security module going back to the Novell days and when AppArmor was originally known as SubDomain. OpenSUSE/SUSE and Ubuntu Linux have been big proponents of AppArmor for Linux security but now moving forward on new installations of openSUSE Tumbleweed it will be defaulting to Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux).

Linux 6.15 To Bring More Improvements To DRM Panic "Screen of Death"
Linux 6.15 To Bring More Improvements To DRM Panic "Screen of Death"
16 Hours Ago - Linux Kernel - Black Screen of Death - 11 Comments

Now that the Linux 6.14 merge window has passed, new feature material aiming for the Linux 6.15 kernel is beginning to get ready for staging in DRM-Next ahead of that next merge window opening up around the end of March. Sent out today was the first batch of drm-misc-next changes for Linux 6.15 that include more work on DRM Panic for that Linux equivalent to Microsoft Windows' "Blue Screen of Death" as well as changes to the other smaller Direct Rendering Manager drivers.

Intel C1 Demotion Knob Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Help Newer Xeon CPUs
Intel C1 Demotion Knob Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Help Newer Xeon CPUs
16 Hours Ago - Intel - Intel C1 Demotion Knob - 1 Comment

A patch has been proposed for the Linux kernel to add a C1 demotion knob via /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/c1_demotion for more control over lower power state handling for recent Xeon Scalable processors. This C1 demotion knob can help with the performance of some workloads for Intel Xeon servers but at the cost of increased power consumption.

11 February

Intel CPU Microcode Updated For Five New Security Issues
Intel CPU Microcode Updated For Five New Security Issues
11 February 12:15 PM EST - Intel - Intel CPU Microcode - 1 Comment

Intel just published new CPU microcode for Alder Lake, Emerald Rapids, Ice Lake, Raptor Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Sierra Forest, and other platforms going back to Coffee Lake H. There are five new security issues being addressed plus a number of different functional issues being resolved.

GNOME 48 Now Allows Grouping Notifications By App
GNOME 48 Now Allows Grouping Notifications By App
11 February 10:18 AM EST - GNOME - Notifications Grouped By App - 47 Comments

While the GNOME 48 feature and UI freezes went into effect just a little more than one week ago, a freeze exception was granted for merging support in GNOME Shell for grouping notifications on a per-app basis.

AMD AOMP 20.0-2 Compiler Adds The "flang-new" Fortran Compiler Option
AMD AOMP 20.0-2 Compiler Adds The "flang-new" Fortran Compiler Option
11 February 06:24 AM EST - AMD - AMD AOMP 20.0-2 - Add A Comment

AOMP 20.0-2 was released on Monday as the newest update to this AMD downstream of the LLVM/Clang/Flang code that is focused on delivering the latest staging/testing patches around OpenMP offloading to AMD GPUs using ROCm. Many of AMD's AMDGPU/OpenMP patches end up being upstreamed into LLVM proper while AOMP is the staging area for those wanting to have the latest and best experience for Clang C/C++ and Flang Fortran offloading to AMD Instinct/Radeon hardware.

10 February

Python 3.14 Lands A New Interpreter With 3~30% Faster Python Code
Python 3.14 Lands A New Interpreter With 3~30% Faster Python Code
10 February 09:02 AM EST - Programming - Python 3.14 New Interpeter - 23 Comments

Merged last week for Python 3.14 is a new tail-call intepreter that aims to offer significantly better performance with around 10% faster performance in PyPerformance or around a 40% speed-up in Python-heavy benchmarks. This tail-call interpeter can even outperform the current Python JIT compiler but for maximum performance benefits Python should be built with Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO).

Union Hopes To Address KDE's Fragmented Ways Of Styling Apps
Union Hopes To Address KDE's Fragmented Ways Of Styling Apps
10 February 08:51 AM EST - KDE - KDE Union - 49 Comments

KDE/Qt apps can be styled many different ways with Qt widgets, SVG-based styling, Qt Quick, and other routes for styling of applications. That fragmentation of different ways to styling KDE apps can probe problematic for UI designs and lead to a less cohesive user experience. KDE developer Arjen Hiemstra is hoping to change that with the Union project.

9 February

New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel
New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel
9 February 06:39 AM EST - Apple - Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer - 43 Comments

This week was the dramatic decision by Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin to step down as upstream kernel maintainer for the Apple Silicon (ARM) code following friction with other kernel developers over Rust affairs within the kernel. He still intends to contribute code to Asahi Linux's downstream kernel and Linus Torvalds has already merged the patch dropping him as an upstream maintainer. Now a new co-maintainer has volunteered to help oversee the Apple Silicon code for the mainline kernel.

Wine-Staging 10.1 Delivers 361 Patches Atop Upstream Wine
Wine-Staging 10.1 Delivers 361 Patches Atop Upstream Wine
9 February 06:17 AM EST - WINE - Wine-Staging 10.1 - 2 Comments

Following the release of Wine 10.1 on Friday for kicking off the new bi-weekly development releases after last month's Wine 10.0 stable release, Wine-Staging 10.1 is out today to get things moving once again for this experimental flavor of Wine.

8 February

Clang Thread Safety Checks Begin Uncovering Bugs In The Linux Kernel
8 February 11:02 AM EST - LLVM - Linux Kernel -Wthread-safety - 61 Comments

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week were two competing solutions for new LLVM Clang capability / thread safety analysis to the Linux kernel. Two developers had separately been working on implementations for the Linux kernel to make use of Clang's "-Wthread-safety" functionality. Ultimately the upstream kernel will likely settle upon the superior or unified solution while already making use of these new checks is uncovering Linux kernel bugs.

GNU G-Golf v0.8 Released For Writing GTK Apps In Guile/Scheme
8 February 07:00 AM EST - GNU - GNU G-Golf 0.8 - 12 Comments

Years in the making, GNU G-Golf 0.8 was released on Friday as a significant release for this GNU project. No, it's not a golfing simulator or anything like that, but rather a Guile Object Library for GNOME so that you can develop GTK applications from the Guile/Scheme programming language.

7 February

Vulkan Cooperative Matrix Merged For RDNA4 GPUs With RADV, DCC Support Inches Closer
7 February 11:28 AM EST - Radeon - AMD RDNA4 Improvements - 5 Comments

Last week when RADV lead developer Samuel Pitoiset with Valve was commenting on the AMD RDNA4 state with the Mesa RADV driver it was noted that Vulkan cooperative matrix support, Vulkan Video encode/decode, and DCC support were still missing. But in the past week one of the items is now crossed off the list and another is continuing to see new patch activity.

Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer
7 February 08:32 AM EST - Apple - Asahi Linux - 193 Comments

Following arguments on the Linux kernel mailing list the past few days over some Linux kernel maintainers being against the notion of Rust code in the mainline Linux kernel and trying to avoid it and very passionate views over the Linux kernel development process, Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin has removed himself from being an upstream maintainer of the ARM Apple code.

Bcachefs Preps More Fixes For Linux 6.14, Continues Tracking Down Other Bugs
7 February 06:33 AM EST - Linux Storage - Bcachefs - 28 Comments

With the Linux 6.14 kernel Bcachefs has its last big planned on-disk format upgrade before removing the "experimental" tag on this copy-on-write file-system. Well, that's the hope at least. In addition to some early fixes last week, some additional Bcachefs fixes are now pending for merging to the mainline kernel while continuing to track down some other bugs.

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