Stemming from the ongoing discussion around the issues raised with Fedora’s Flatpak package of OBS Studio and how Flatpaks should be prioritized within the GNOME Software app center/store, the future of RPM support within GNOME Software raised…
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Linux 6.14-rc2 Released With Apple Silicon Maintainer Change, Bcachefs Fixes
The second weekly release candidate of Linux 6.14 is now available for testing as a rather light update for the week…
Linux Patches Adjust AC Plug/Unplug Behavior During s2idle To Match Windows
A set of patches sent out on Saturday by AMD Linux engineer Mario Limonciello seek to adjust the Linux behavior for laptops/handhelds during AC plug/unplug events during s2idle to better match that of Microsoft Windows 11…
Curious Intel Linux Driver Maintainer Changes In Recent Days
This week besides the drama over Apple Silicon maintainership for the upstream Linux kernel, in recent days there has also been a number of rather subtle changes to the maintainership of several Intel Linux kernel drivers…
Intel ISPC 1.26 Compiler Delivers Improved ARM Support
Intel’s ISPC project as the Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as this C language variant for Single Program, Multiple Data programming on CPUs and GPUs is out with a new release…
New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel
This week was the dramatic decision by Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin to step down as upstream kernel maintainer for the Apple Silicon (ARM) code following friction with other kernel developers over Rust affairs within the kernel. He still intends to contribute code to Asahi Linux’s downstream kernel and Linus Torvalds has already merged the patch dropping him as an upstream maintainer. Now a new co-maintainer has volunteered to help oversee the Apple Silicon code for the mainline kernel…
Linux FineIBT-BHI Updated For Toughening Up FineIBT Kernel Defenses
Intel Linux engineer Peter Zijlstra has updated his set of patches implementing FineIBT-BHI mitigations for toughening up the FineIBT kernel protections previously introduced. This FineIBT-BHI code depends upon newly-merged code for the LLVM Clang compiler as part of the compiler defenses…
Wine-Staging 10.1 Delivers 361 Patches Atop Upstream Wine
Following the release of Wine 10.1 on Friday for kicking off the new bi-weekly development releases after last month’s Wine 10.0 stable release, Wine-Staging 10.1 is out today to get things moving once again for this experimental flavor of Wine…
SysVinit 3.14 Released: Overcomes Three Decade Limitation Of Inittab Line Length
For those continuing to make use of SysVinit as the aging init system that in the Linux world has been largely replaced by systemd, SysVinit 3.14 is out today and overcomes a long-standing limitation around the length of lines within the inittab files…
Clang Thread Safety Checks Begin Uncovering Bugs In The Linux Kernel
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week were two competing solutions for new LLVM Clang capability / thread safety analysis to the Linux kernel. Two developers had separately been working on implementations for the Linux kernel to make use of Clang’s “-Wthread-safety” functionality. Ultimately the upstream kernel will likely settle upon the superior or unified solution while already making use of these new checks is uncovering Linux kernel bugs…
GNU G-Golf v0.8 Released For Writing GTK Apps In Guile/Scheme
Years in the making, GNU G-Golf 0.8 was released on Friday as a significant release for this GNU project. No, it’s not a golfing simulator or anything like that, but rather a Guile Object Library for GNOME so that you can develop GTK applications from the Guile/Scheme programming language…
Enlightenment 0.26 Released With Various Improvements
It’s been two years since the release of Enlightenment 0.25 and now just ahead of Christmas there is Enlightenment 0.26 released by Carsten Haitzler…
Source: Phoronix – Enlightenment 0.26 Released With Various Improvements
LLVM Moves To A Versioning Scheme Like GCC – N.1 Version For Stable Branch
Following discussions with upstream developers, LLVM is changing its versioning as part of the branch creation process to better distinguish mainline development builds of LLVM against those from stable (or soon to be stable) release branches…
Source: Phoronix – LLVM Moves To A Versioning Scheme Like GCC – N.1 Version For Stable Branch
Razer Wolverine V2 Controller Support Coming With Linux 6.7
With a set of input driver patches set to be merged today for the Linux 6.7-rc6 kernel, the XPad driver is adding support for Razer’s Wolverine V2 Xbox controller…
Source: Phoronix – Razer Wolverine V2 Controller Support Coming With Linux 6.7
KDE Developers Prepare For Christmas With More Bug Fixes & Qt 6 Porting
This week brought the second beta of KDE Plasma 6.0 along with KDE Gear and KDE Frameworks updates too. The holidays haven’t resulted in KDE development slowing down too much with still a number of bug fixes being merged this week and other minor enhancements…
Source: Phoronix – KDE Developers Prepare For Christmas With More Bug Fixes & Qt 6 Porting
Lab Wayland Compositor 0.7 Released – Ported To wlroots 0.17
Lab Wayland Compositor (labwc) is out with a new version ahead of Christmas for this wlroots-based window-stacking compositor that is inspired by the Openbox window manager…
Source: Phoronix – Lab Wayland Compositor 0.7 Released – Ported To wlroots 0.17
Autoconf 2.72 Released With C23 Support, New Year 2038 Safety Option
For those still relying on GNU Autoconf for generating configure scripts for building/installing/packaging software rather than more modern alternatives like CMake and Meson, Autoconf 2.72 is out today as a nice holiday treat…
Source: Phoronix – Autoconf 2.72 Released With C23 Support, New Year 2038 Safety Option
Wine 9.0-rc3 Released With 35 Fixes In Total, Some Wayland Driver Fixes
The third weekly release candidate of Wine 9.0 is now available for this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms…
Source: Phoronix – Wine 9.0-rc3 Released With 35 Fixes In Total, Some Wayland Driver Fixes
Intel Is Hosting An Open-Source Community Survey For Developers
In helping to guide Intel’s open-source interests in 2024, the company is hosting an Open-Source Community Survey. Intel is looking for feedback from open-source developers and other community stakeholders about your principal interests and concerns…
Source: Phoronix – Intel Is Hosting An Open-Source Community Survey For Developers