The Asahi Linux project, which is working to implement support for Linux on
Apple CPUs, has published a detailed 6.19
progress report.

We’ve made incredible progress upstreaming patches over the past 12
months. Our patch set has shrunk from 1232 patches with 6.13.8, to
858 as of 6.18.8. Our total delta in terms of lines of code has
also shrunk, from 95,000 lines to 83,000 lines for the same kernel
versions. Hmm, a 15% reduction in lines of code for a 30% reduction
in patches seems a bit wrong…

Not all patches are created equal. Some of the upstreamed patches
have been small fixes, others have been thousands of lines. All of
them, however, pale in comparison to the GPU driver.

The GPU driver is 21,000 lines by itself, discounting the
downstream Rust abstractions we are still carrying. It is almost
double the size of the DCP driver and thrice the size of the
ISP/webcam driver, its two closest rivals. And upstreaming work has
now begun.

Adam Harvey, on behalf of the crates.io
team has published a blog
post to inform users of a change in their practice of publishing
information about malicious Rust crates:

The crates.io team will no longer publish a blog post each time a
malicious crate is detected or reported. In the vast majority of cases
to date, these notifications have involved crates that have no
evidence of real world usage, and we feel that publishing these blog
posts is generating noise, rather than signal.

We will always publish a RustSec
advisory when a crate is removed for containing malware. You can
subscribe to the RustSec
advisory RSS feed to receive updates.

Crates that contain malware and are seeing real usage or
exploitation will still get both a blog post and a RustSec
advisory. We may also notify via additional communication channels
(such as social media) if we feel it is warranted.

The Linux 7.0 kernel is shipping improvements for LoongArch, the Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS64 and RISC-V and has been showing much potential for their domestic PC manufacturing…

Vim is a popular text editor on Linux, providing advanced features and functionalities compared to its competitor, the GNU Nano editor.

Asahi Linux developers have published a status report following the recent Linux 6.19 kernel release to outline recent progress and upcoming items around Apple Silicon support on Linux. This year will also mark five years that Asahi Linux has been around for bringing Linux to the Apple M-Series hardware…

As part of enhancing the FreeBSD experience on laptops and desktops, FreeBSD developers have been working toward adding a convenient desktop install option to their text-based installer for easily deploying the KDE Plasma desktop along with the necessary GPU drivers. After it didn’t get wrapped up in time for the FreeBSD 15.0 release, that desktop installer option is now ready for testing…

Last year we began seeing Linux patches preparing the kernel for Intel Data Streaming Accelerator “DSA” 3.0 IP. Finally with the Linux 7.0 kernel those patches in updated form have now been merged…

COSMIC Desktop 1.0.7 adds configurable typing actions in Workspaces Overview and resolves several full-screen and tiling-related crashes.

With its latest release, GStreamer adds native support for AI inference engines including ONNX Runtime, LiteRT, and Burn, along with tensor decoders for YOLO, face detection, tracking, and more.

As a late stage change for GNOME 50 ahead of its official debut next month and following last week’s GNOME 50 beta is plumbing the Mutter compositor for a new “sdr-native” color mode option…

The NTFS3 driver maintained by Paragon Software for Microsoft NTFS file-systems today saw a batch of improvements merged for Linux 7.0 This comes as there is also the competing “NTFS Remake” driver that began a few months ago as the “NTFSPLUS” driver. That NTFS Remake driver isn’t looking like it will be submitted for the Linux 7.0 merge window so at least for now the NTFS3 driver continues seeing improvements with the latest mainline kernel code…

Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to resetOracle has promised a “decisive new approach” to MySQL, the popular open source database it owns, following growing criticism of its approach and the prospect of a significant fork in the code.…

Discover an AI-powered uh-halp command line tool that can help you in your command-line journey with the steps to install it in your favorite Linux distribution.

AMD sent out a set of Linux kernel patches today for enabling use of a new instruction dubbed RMPOPT. Given the timing of these patches, RMPOPT is presumably a feature coming with next-gen AMD EPYC Zen 6 “Venice” processors…

The LED subsystem updates for the Linux kernel typically aren’t too noteworthy each kernel cycle but with Linux 7.0 is a new TI RGB LED driver that captured my attention in being curious over its “autonomous animation engine” integration…

With a new digital sovereignty assessment and an open framework, Red Hat is courting Europe’s policymakers and CIOs — but homegrown EU rivals and U.S. politics make it an uphill climb.

The post Oh Là Là! Red Hat Open Sources Digital Sovereignty Readiness Tool appeared first on FOSS Force.

DNF 5.4 is out today as the latest release for this next-generation RPM package management solution used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and various other RPM-based Linux distributions…

The close_range system call for closing all file descriptors “FDs” in a given range should enjoy a nice speed boost with the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel…

One of the limitations of the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver has been the lack of its support for HDMI 2.1 and later. AMD has wanted to support HDMI 2.1+ functionality under Linux but it’s been legally blocked by the HDMI Forum. But anxious independent users have been working on open-source patches for wiring up HDMI 2.1 into the AMDGPU driver outside of the realm of AMD and the HDMI Forum’s blessings…

Crowd Supply has featured the xSDR, a compact M.2 2230 A+E-key software-defined radio module that combines a Lime Microsystems LMS7002M RF transceiver with an AMD Artix-7 FPGA. Designed for direct integration into laptops, tablets, embedded PCs, and edge systems, it delivers 2×2 MIMO RX/TX operation across a 30 MHz to 3.8 GHz tuning range.