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Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI
Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI
12 Hours Ago - WINE - Wine 10.0 - 25 Comments

As was expected this week, Wine 10.0 stable is now available as the newest annual feature release to this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Wine also serves as the basis for Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and CodeWeavers' CrossOver software.

Raspberry Pi Monitor Pairs Great With The Raspberry Pi 500 As A $100 Display
Raspberry Pi Monitor Pairs Great With The Raspberry Pi 500 As A $100 Display
12 Hours Ago - Monitors - 8 Comments

Along with recently announcing the Raspberry Pi 500 keyboard computer and the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB (review still forthcoming; the 16GB model only arrived last week), the Raspberry Pi Monitor debuted last month as their first foray into displays. For $100 USD you get a 15.6-inch 1080p display that is simple but pairs well with the Raspberry Pi 400/500 or just the single board computer or any other HDMI-connected device for that matter.

Linux 6.14 Thermal Drivers Get Ready For Intel Panther Lake
Linux 6.14 Thermal Drivers Get Ready For Intel Panther Lake
17 Hours Ago - Intel - Intel Panther Lake Thermal - Add A Comment

Intel's upstreaming work around the next-gen Core Ultra "Panther Lake" processors continues for the Linux kernel. Among other code being prepped for submitting during the Linux 6.14 merge window, on Monday the thermal driver updates were focused on enabling support for Intel Panther Lake processors.

Linus Torvalds Adapts Linux User Address Masking To Use CMOV
Linus Torvalds Adapts Linux User Address Masking To Use CMOV
17 Hours Ago - Linux Kernel - CMOV User Address Masking - 6 Comments

In addition to merging a number of the pull requests yesterday for the start of the Linux 6.14 cycle, Linux creator Linus Torvalds did merge some of his own new code as well. While his time these days working on new kernel code itself is more limited with managing the ever-growing upstream kernel community, he has managed some notable items in recent times like addressing ARM64 kernel annoyances and some performance optimizations.

Bcachefs Changes Merged Without Issue For The Linux 6.14 Kernel
Bcachefs Changes Merged Without Issue For The Linux 6.14 Kernel
21 Hours Ago - Linux Storage - Bcachefs Changes Merged - 35 Comments

As a follow-up to yesterday's article around the on-disk format changes and other feature work on Bcachefs for Linux 6.14, the changes ended up being merged without issue for this next kernel version. That came after the Bcachefs changes were rejected during the Linux 6.13 cycle due to a Code of Conduct (CoC) committee decision.

20 January

GNU Linux-libre 6.13-gnu Deals With More Questionable Code In The Kernel
GNU Linux-libre 6.13-gnu Deals With More Questionable Code In The Kernel
20 January 07:29 PM EST - GNU - GNU Linux-libre 6.13-gnu - 27 Comments

Building off yesterday's release of the Linux 6.13 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 6.13 is out today as this downstream kernel from FSF LA that strips out code pertaining to the ability to load non-free drivers/microcode and other elements not deemed within the standards of the Free Software Foundation, even when it means removing/disabling hardware support and features.

AMD Seeking Feedback Around What Radeon GPUs You Would Like Supported By ROCm
AMD Seeking Feedback Around What Radeon GPUs You Would Like Supported By ROCm
20 January 03:42 PM EST - AMD - More GPU Support - 40 Comments

An engineer from AMD by way of their Nod.ai acquisition is seeking feedback from the community around what other Radeon graphics cards you would like to see supported by the ROCm support on Linux. This community wishlist extends to ROCm Windows support as well but at least there the HIP Rutime/SDK on Windows already supports more consumer GPUs than Linux.

Wine 10.0 Expected This Week For Improving Windows Software On Linux
Wine 10.0 Expected This Week For Improving Windows Software On Linux
20 January 03:03 PM EST - WINE - Wine 10.0 - 21 Comments

After six release candidates going back to early December, it looks like Wine 10.0 stable will be ready to ship this week. This is largely as expected with the annual Wine stable releases tending to come around mid-to-late January. Here's a look at what's ahead for this stable release for enjoying Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms.

Bcachefs Sends In "The Last Big On Disk Format Upgrade" For Linux 6.14
Bcachefs Sends In "The Last Big On Disk Format Upgrade" For Linux 6.14
20 January 01:31 PM EST - Linux Storage - Bcachefs - 31 Comments

Following the Bcachefs pull requests being rejected during the Linux 6.13 cycle by the kernel's Code of Conduct committee, the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is kicking off with a big pull request so that the upstream kernel can get back into sync with the latest development code for this cycle. This pull also contains the last anticipated major on-disk format upgrade prior to the removal of the "experimental" flag for this copy-on-write file-system.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Arrives For Linux Testing
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Arrives For Linux Testing
20 January 09:00 AM EST - Graphics Cards - 39 Comments

Earlier this month at CES was the announcement of the GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" series. Among the first of these consumer Blackwell GPUs is the GeForce RTX 5090 flagship graphics card that is set to retail for $1999 USD. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founder's Edition graphics card arrived at Phoronix a few days ago to begin Linux testing.

Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q4 Adds Battlemage GPU Support
Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q4 Adds Battlemage GPU Support
20 January 06:45 AM EST - Intel - Intel FFmpeg + Battlemage - 1 Comment

Intel software engineers overnight published their new quarterly release of the Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel, the collection of the company's patches against this open-source multimedia library for enhancing the Intel GPU acceleration support while the patches work their way for upstream FFmpeg.

19 January

Linux To Allow Adjusting pid_max Per PID Namespace - Helping Old Software
Linux To Allow Adjusting pid_max Per PID Namespace - Helping Old Software
19 January 06:53 AM EST - Linux Kernel - pid_max per namespace - 1 Comment

The pid_max tunable for the maximum number of process IDs allowed simultaneously was increased by default back in 2019 with systemd. But that increase breaks a long held assumption by some user-space software that pid_max or the process ID would not be greater than 65,535. To now better workaround such outdated user-space software, a set of patches for the Linux 6.14 kernel will allow adjusting the pid_max limit on a per PID namespace basis to help cope with such software hitting such artificial limits and without having to lower the overall system limit.

18 January

Year Of The BSD Desktop? There's Going To Be A BSD Desktop Conference At Least
Year Of The BSD Desktop? There's Going To Be A BSD Desktop Conference At Least
18 January 06:42 AM EST - BSD - GhostBSDCon 2025 - 73 Comments

Technical BSD conferences aren't quite as common as the many Linux conferences these days. For the BSD conferences that do happen they tend to be more general in nature than carrying a desktop focus. But being announced this week was GhostBSDCon 2025 as a forthcoming developer conference largely focused on desktop use of this FreeBSD-derived distribution.

17 January

Many Exciting Features & New Hardware Support Expected For Linux 6.14
17 January 11:00 AM EST - Linux Kernel - Linux 6.14 Features - 4 Comments

Linux 6.13 is bringing many exciting features for its stable debut expected this Sunday. But following that it's onward to the Linux 6.14 kernel merge window for which it will be yet another very exciting round from completing the NTSYNC driver to adding new hardware support and much more. Here is a preview of some of the changes expected to be submitted for the Linux 6.14 cycle.

Linux 6.14 To Add Support For SpacemiT's "Energy Efficient AI" RISC-V CPUs
17 January 10:02 AM EST - RISC-V - SpacemiT K1 + X60 - 19 Comments

The upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel is poised to introduce initial support for SpacemiT platforms, the Chinese computing chip company developing "next-generation RISC-V high-performance CPUs." For this next Linux kernel release the SpaceMiT Key Stone K1 octa-core RISC-V AI CPU with SpacemiT X60 cores will see support.

Fedora 42 Boot Splash Screen Looks To Workaround GPU Drivers Taking Too Long To Load
17 January 07:02 AM EST - Fedora - Plymouth + Simple DRM - 30 Comments

Linux kernel graphics drivers have been growing too much in size that they are taking too long to load at boot time for quickly lighting up the display to present the nice Plymouth boot splash experience. This has led to situations of the Plymouth boot splash screen falling back to its simple text-based interface after timing out. As a workaround, Fedora 42 is looking to use the generic "SimpleDRM" driver during this initial boot splash screen experience to initially avoid the bulky DRM drivers.

16 January

AT_EXECVE_CHECK Submitted For Linux 6.14 To Help With Consistent Security
16 January 06:55 AM EST - Linux Kernel - AT_EXECVE_CHECK - Add A Comment

In anticipation of the Linux 6.14 merge window opening next week if Linux 6.13 releases as expected this coming Sunday, Google engineer Kees Cook has already sent out pull requests to Linus Torvalds of new feature code he's been aligning for the v6.14 cycle. One of the interesting pulls is the introduction of the AT_EXECVE_CHECK flag to the execveat call.

CXL Address Translation Support For AMD Zen 5 Sees Linux Patches
16 January 06:48 AM EST - AMD - AMD EPYC 9005 + CXL Address Translation - Add A Comment

A set of Linux kernel patches posted by AMD engineers last week are working on enhancing the CXL address translation support between the HPA decoder and system physical memory addresses. These patches get that CXL address translation support working for the recently launched AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" Zen 5 server processors.

Expanding Web Camera Support Among Newer Intel Laptops Planned For Fedora 42
16 January 06:13 AM EST - Fedora - Intel IPU6/IPU7 - 1 Comment

Red Hat engineer Hans de Goede wrote a blog post a few days ago around the Intel IPU6 and newer web camera support still being a challenge on Linux. While various Intel IPU6 open-source code has been upstreamed, there remain differences with a number of laptops currently available still not working out-of-the-box for web camera support on Linux. Hans de Goede has now initiated a change proposal for Fedora 42 to take care of more Intel web camera issues.

GCC Goes Ahead With The ARM64 ILP32 Deprecation
16 January 06:02 AM EST - GNU - 32-bit ARM64 ABI Deprecated - Add A Comment

As a follow-up to the recent news around GCC considering deprecating ARM64 ILP32 support, the free software developers have indeed decided to move ahead in deprecating this 32-bit ABI for ARM64.

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