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 Some Clarity On The Linux Kernel's "Compliance Requirements" Around Russian Sanctions When a number of Russian Linux developers were removed from their MAINTAINERS file in the Linux kernel, it was described as due to "compliance requirements" but vague in what those requirements entailed. Linus Torvalds then commented on the Russian Linux maintainers being de-listed and made it clear that they were done due to government compliance re… Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted Following yesterday's news first featured on Phoronix of several Linux driver maintainers being de-listed from their maintainer positions within the mainline Linux kernel over their connections to Russia, Linus Torvalds has today commented on the matter...  Nouveau With NVK Vulkan Driver Running More Games, Increasing Feature Set Collabora's Faith Ekstrand provided a status update yesterday at XDC 2024 Montreal around the state of the Nouveau kernel driver with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver as a means of open-source Vulkan API support on NVIDIA GPUs... H.264/H.265 Vulkan Encoder Support Merged Into FFmpeg The FFmpeg multimedia library continues to enhance its support around the Vulkan Video APIs with the latest commits seeing H.264 and H.265/HEVC Vulkan encode support merged... KDE Receives New Human Interface Guidelines For 2024 Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham has been working with various KDE designers and developers to establish a new set of Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)... NVIDIA Exploring Ways To Better Support An Upstream Kernel Driver Here's how an exciting message from a NVIDIA engineer that just hit the mailing list begins: "NVIDIA has been exploring ways to better support the effort for an upstream kernel mode driver for GPUs that are capable of running GSP-RM firmware, since the introduction to Nova.".. Today Marks 20 Years Since Starting Phoronix For Linux Hardware Reviews & News Well, it's been a wild ride to say the least... Today marks twenty years since I started Phoronix.com devoted to reviewing Linux hardware and ultimately enriching the Linux hardware experience with more benchmarks, open-source/Linux hardware news, and more over the years... FreeBSD 14.1 Released With Performance Improvements, OpenZFS Upgrade & Better Sound FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE is now available as the newest stable release to this leading BSD operating system. There are a number of package updates, new features, and expanded hardware support to find with FreeBSD 14.1... Linux 6.10 Adds Support For The Machenike G5 Pro Controller Following the HID changes last week that brought Steam Deck IMU and ASUS ROG Ally support along with other Human Interface Device additions, on Thursday the input subsystem updates were submitted for this new kernel. The Machenike G5 Pro gaming controller is now supported along with other input additions... Framework 13 AMD Laptop Seeing Experimental Coreboot Port The Framework Laptops are some great systems with their upgradeable/modular design, friendly Linux support, both Intel and AMD options, the latest models making use of an open-source embedded controller, and nice build quality. The Framework Laptops have proven very popular with Linux/open-source enthusiasts but one of the recurring critiques has been the lack of Coreboot firmw… @phoronix I switched from mac to #framework ca. 9 months ago. Mostly because of the upgradeable design / higher level of sustainability. What I miss the most after switching from mac is a great battery life, trackpad precision and high quality display. I will stick to framework for now, but I’m not entirely happy. Linux 6.7 Set For Release With Bcachefs File-System, Intel Meteor Lake Graphics In Good Shape The Linux 6.7 kernel is expected to be released as stable later today following the one week delay due to the end-of-year holidays. Here's a reminder about some of the best features in Linux 6.7... For At Least One Game, Mesa's NVK Driver Can Outperform NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver In at least one game running on Linux via Proton Experimental, the Mesa NVK open-source Vulkan driver paired with the latest Nouveau reverse-engineered kernel driver is delivering better performance than NVIDIA's proprietary Linux graphics driver...  @phoronix @karolherbst whoa this is a big accomplishment, congrats to the nouveau team! Xfce's Wayland Roadmap Updated Xfce 4.18 released last December with some strides on the Wayland front for this lightweight GTK-based desktop environment, but more work remains before Xfce will be fully compatible with Wayland and its own robust compositor. The Xfce Wayland road-map was recently updated to reflect the latest work on this major undertaking... EXT4 Lands A Nice Performance Improvement For Appending To Delalloc Files With the EXT4 file-system updates for Linux 6.6 there is mostly some code clean-ups and other bug fixing. But one change in particular stands out for its performance impact... New Linux Kernel Code Works On APIC "Decrapification", Suggests Dropping x86 32-bit There's a lovely new Linux kernel patch series out that's big in working on a major clean-up of the x86 APIC code (or "decrapification" as it's called in the patches) and also bringing up for discussion the idea of killing off x86 32-bit support. It's unlikely the x86 32-bit support will be removed right now, which is "just museum pieces", but as an alterna… |
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