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A new driver in the Linux 6.19 kernel is the ASUS Armoury driver for supporting additional functionality with the ROG Ally gaming handhelds and other ASUS ROG gaming hardware like their laptops. The ASUS Armoury driver builds off the existing ASUS WMI driver but provides some design improvements to make it better than handling it within the existing driver. There is support for adjusting the APU-allocated memory, Intel core count control for P and E cores, FHD and UHD mode switching for display panels, and other features typically only exposed via the system BIOS…

Where FOSS desktop OSes meet geopoliticsHands On Uniontech’s Deepin 25.0.10 release shows that the Chinese desktop world isn’t waiting on Western tech. It’s modern and good-looking, and (pausing only to sigh deeply) has built-in “AI”.…

Arduino expands the UNO Q lineup with a 4GB RAM and 32GB storage variant, making the hybrid Linux SBC better suited for standalone use.

KDE Plasma 6.6 feature development work continues winding down while Plasma 6.7 has begun seeing more feature work. This week also saw at least nine different crash fixes affecting Plasma/KWin…

Depreciation of popular management tool requires a new look at Azure-based systemMicrosoft recently announced it will deprecate System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Packs (MPs) for SQL Server Reporting Services, Power BI Report Server,and SQL Server Analysis Services.…

Discover the recommended ways to install Figma on Linux, explore potential issues with unofficial methods, and optimize your Figma experience on the Linux desktop.

Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library “glibc” was released on Friday evening as the newest half-year feature update. This is a very feature packaged update and even managed to be released ahead of the 1 February release plan…

GNU Guix 1.5 is out after three years, delivering Plasma 6.5, GNOME 46 on Wayland, rootless package management, and more than 12,500 new packages.

With Equinix Metal headed for shutdown, Alpine Linux has secured fresh backing from regional cloud and hosting providers, emerging with more diverse and resilient infrastructure than before.

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Similar to the new Intel IPU 7.5 firmware upstreamed for Panther Lake this week, Cirrus has upstreamed their CS42L45 codec firmware for upcoming Dell and Lenovo laptops making use of this audio codec…

As Big Red’s governance of the popular database comes into question, contributors to MySQL consider wresting controlDevelopers in the MySQL community are working together to challenge Oracle to improve transparency and commitment in its handling of the popular open source database, while considering other options, including forking the code.…

Queued into tip/tip.git’s “sched/urgent” Git branch today is a patch to disable the kernel scheduler’s NEXT_BUDDY functionality that was re-implemented back during the Linux 6.19 merge window. It turns out to cause some performance regressions that have yet to be otherwise addressed…

Fraunhofer HHI this week released a new version of VVenC, their open-source H.266 video encoder. Among the changes this release are more performance optimizations for ARM and I have run some comparison benchmarks using a NVIDIA GB10 SoC with the Dell Pro Max GB10…

Filesystems seem to be one of those many areas where the problems are well
understood, but there is always somebody working toward a better solution.
As a result, filesystem development in the Linux kernel continues at a fast
pace even after all these years. In recent news, the EROFS filesystem is
on the path to gain a useful page-cache-sharing feature, there is a new
NTFS implementation on the horizon, and XFS may be about to get an
infrastructure for self healing.

In addition to the release today of Vulkan 1.4.340 with the new descriptor heap “VK_EXT_descriptor_heap” extension and three other new extensions, The Khronos Group’s Vulkan Working Group has also published the Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone…

AMD today released a new version of Ryzen AI Software, the user-space packages for Microsoft Windows and Linux for making use of the Ryzen AI NPUs for various AI software tasks like Stable Diffusion, ONNX, and more…

Version
1.5.0 of the GNU Guix package manager and the Guix System have
been released. Notable improvements include the ability to run the
Guix daemon without root privileges, support for 64-bit RISC-V, and
experimental support for the GNU Hurd kernel.

The release comes with ISO-9660 installation images, virtual
machine images, and with tarballs to install the package manager on
top of your GNU/Linux distro, either from source or from
binaries—check out the download page. Guix users can update by running
guix pull.

It’s been 3 years since the previous release. That’s a lot of time,
reflecting both the fact that, as a rolling release, users
continuously get new features and update by running guix pull; but it
also shows a lack of processes, something that we had to address
before another release could be made.

During that time, Guix received about 71,338 commits by 744 people,
which include many new features.

LWN last looked at Guix in
February 2024.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.18.7 and 6.12.67 stable kernels. As always, each
contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to
upgrade.

GNU Guix 1.5 is out today as the latest major release for this platform built around its functional package manager. This is a big upgrade with it having been three years since the GNU Guix 1.4 release…