Linux 6.11 Features Many Exciting Updates For AMD Hardware & More It's expected to be the Linux 6.11 release day! We are just hours away from hopefully seeing Linux 6.11 stable christened as the kernel set to power the likes of Ubuntu 24.10 and Fedora 41. Here's a reminder of some of the most interesting new features and changes to look forward to with Linux 6.11... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-Feature-Recap

AMD GPU Linux Driver Becoming "Really Really Big" That It's Starting To Cause Problems The modern AMD kernel graphics driver "AMDGPU" is the biggest driver within the mainline Linux kernel and is approaching six million lines of code albeit a large chunk of that is made up of auto-generated header files for each supported GPU. But this AMDGPU kernel driver is becoming "really really big" that it's beginning to cause issues for Plymouth … https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Driver-Plymouth-Woes

Many ACPI Updates Head To The Linux 6.12 Kernel Ahead of the expected Linux 6.11 stable release today and the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit happening this coming week in Vienna, Intel engineer Rafael Wysocki submitted early the ACPI updates among the other areas of the kernel he oversees as part of the imminent Linux 6.12 merge window... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-ACPI

Ubuntu Developers Begin Working On Snapdragon X1 Elite Support With the mainline Linux kernel beginning to see DeviceTree support for a few Snapdragon X1 powered laptops like the ASUS Vivobook S15 and Lenovo Yoga Slim7x, Ubuntu developers at Canonical appear to be beginning their exploration around supporting some of the Snapdragon X1 hardware with Ubuntu Linux... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Snapdragon-X1-Begins

Fedora 42 On 64-bit ARM Might Make It Seamless To Run x86/x86_64 Programs As one of the early feature proposals for Fedora 42, there is a proposal being considered to make for a nice out-of-the-box experience running x86/x86_64 game/application binaries atop Fedora 42 AArch64 hosts... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-42-FEX-AArch64-Proposal

Fedora 42 Will Try Again To Use The New Anaconda Installer's Web UI With Fedora 41 working its way to release toward the end of October, some early feature/change proposals for Fedora 42 are being filed for what will be the Fedora Linux release out next spring... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-42-Anaconda-Web-UI-Again

KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 Brings New Capabilities Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 is out today for providing the set of Wayland protocol XML files for currently non-standard protocols that are relied upon by the Plasma desktop with KWin compositor... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-Wayland-Protocols-1.14

Device Tree Patches Posted For Review To Boot Linux On Apple A7 To A11 Devices Device Tree patches have been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list for review and possible upstreaming to the mainline Linux kernel for booting Apple iPhones, iPads, and iPods that use the A7 to A11 SoCs... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DT-Patches-A7-To-A11

Verso Taking Shape As A Servo-Powered Web Browser With Mozilla having backed away from the Servo web engine years ago and recent open-source development on Servo focused on making it suitable for embed purposes into other applications/software, it's remained to be picked up by any standalone web browser project. But taking shape over the past few months has been Verso as a ground-up build of a new Rust-based web browser making use of Servo.… https://www.phoronix.com/news/Verso-Web-Browser-Servo

Intel QATlib 24.09 Improves Performance For Multi-Threaded Apps & Multi-Socket Servers Intel today released a new version of QATlib, the QuickAssist Technology library for enjoying hardware-accelerated offloading of security, authentication, and compression needs. Recent Intel Xeon CPUs with built-in QAT accelerators stand to benefit a lot from the new QATlib 24.09 release... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-QATlib-24.09