Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away

The Linux kernel community has sadly lost one of its longtime, prolific contributors to the wireless (WiFi) drivers...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Larry-Finger-Linux-Wireless

Flowblade 2.16 Open-Source Video Editor Released

Flowblade 2.16 is out today as the newest version of this open-source non-linear video editor...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flowblade-2.16-Released

Nano 8.0 Text Editor Released With Modern Bindings Option

Kicking off a new month of open-source releases is the release of the GNU Nano 8.0 text editor...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nano-8.0-Released

Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 & Other Scarlett Audio Mixers To Be Supported By Linux 6.8

Picked up this week by the Linux sound subsystem's "next" development branch is a number of additions to the Scarlett USB audio mixer driver for supporting this audio hardware under Linux...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Focusrite-Scarlett-New-Linux-68

systemd 255-rc1 Brings "Blue Screen of Death" Support & New Tool To Spawn VMs

Systemd 255-rc1 is out this morning and it's packed with even more features for this dominant Linux init system and a growing list of other system utilities. Systemd 255 even is introducing systemd-bsod as a "Blue Screen of Death" for displaying important error messages during boot failure, systemd-vmspawn as a new tool to spawn virtual machines, and other new features...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-255-rc1

SteamVR 2.0 Officially Released With Many Improvements

For those wishing to interact with Steam from virtual reality (VR) headsets, today Valve promoted SteamVR 2.0 to stable...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteamVR-2.0-Released

Go 1.21 Promotes PGO To General Use, Boosts Most Programs 2~7% With PGO

Go 1.21 is now available as the latest version of this popular programming language...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Go-1.21-Released

Some Of The Features You Will Find Removed With KDE Plasma 6

Following the recent KDE Akademy developer conference, prominent KDE developer Nate Graham has provided more insight into some of the features being removed with the in-development Plasma 6 desktop...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-Removals

Bcachefs File-System Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.5

Capping off an exciting first day of the Linux 6.5 merge window is a pull request seeking to land the long-in-development Bcachefs file-system into this next kernel version...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-PR-Linux-6.5

AMD Has Open-Source Ryzen AI Demo Code - But Only For Windows

One of the most interesting aspects of the new AMD Ryzen 7040 series laptop processors is the new "Ryzen AI" capabilities with the new XDNA AI engine capabilities built into the SoC, leveraging IP from their Xilinx acquisition. Linux support details remain scarce but at least one of their (Windows) demos for showcasing Ryzen AI is open-source...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-AI-Open-Source-Demo

Libreboot 20230413 Released With Build System Improvements

Libreboot is the downstream of Coreboot focused on having fully open-source / free software replacements to proprietary BIOS/firmware on x86 and ARM systems. Out today is Libreboot 20230413 as the latest step forward for the project...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Libreboot-20230413

Linux Patches Confirm Intel Meteor Lake Having An L4 Cache

A new Intel graphics kernel driver patch posted by Intel on Tuesday confirm that upcoming Meteor Lake processors will feature an ADM/L4 cache...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Patch-Intel-MTL-L4-Cache

KDE Delivers More Wayland Fixes & Plasma 6.0 Changes This Week

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development summary that highlights all of the interesting desktop changes made over the course of the past seven days. This week he particularly calls out more Wayland fixes -- a common occurrence in the KDE camp...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-More-Wayland-Fixes-March

Debian 12 Bookworm's Installer Updated To Better Handle Non-Free Firmware

Debian 12 "Bookworm" is now under its soft freeze while out this weekend is the second alpha release for the Debian Installer...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-12-Installer-Alpha-2

The Current State Of Coreboot & Open-Source Firmware For AMD Hardware In 2023

Michał Żygowski of firmware consulting firm 3mdeb presented at FOSDEM 2023 this weekend in Brussels. The focus of Żygowski's presentation for the Free Open-Source Developers' European Meeting was on the current client and server hardware state for AMD platforms with Coreboot / open-source firmware...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Open-Source-FW-2023

More Feature Work Begins On KDE Plasma 6.0 As Plasma 5.27 Nears Release

KDE Plasma 5.27 is due for release on Valentine's Day (14 February) as what will also be the last feature release in the Plasma 5 series. With the imminent 5.27 release, more feature work on Plasma 6.0 has been getting underway...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-5.27-Nears

Coreboot 4.19 Released With AMD Mayan Motherboard, MSI Alder Lake Board

Coreboot 4.19 is now available as the latest tagged release for this prominent open-source project allowing various motherboards with their proprietary firmware/BIOS to be replaced by this free software solution...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-4.19-Released

KDE Sees Many Plasma Wayland Fixes This Week - Plus Spectacle Screen Recording

With Plasma 5.27 set to be the last Plasma 5 feature release in the series, KDE developers have been very busy trying to ensure that this desktop update will ship with minimal issues. There's been a ton of bug fixing to land this past week for Plasma 5.27, especially when it comes to the Plasma Wayland support...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-5.27-Many-Fixes

Nouveau Kernel Driver Patches Begin Preparing For "NVK" Open-Source Vulkan Support

Over the past year NVK has taken shape as a -- currently out-of-tree -- Mesa Vulkan driver for supporting NVIDIA graphics hardware. This open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver is inching closer to the point of being upstreamed into Mesa, but before it's usable for gamers/enthusiasts there is kernel work that must happen too...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-DRM-Patches-For-NVM