More Kernel Bitrot: Old & Busted UltraSPARC T2 "Niagara 2" SPU Driver Slated For Removal Following 107k lines of old driver code within the staging area of the kernel removed for Linux 6.13, over in the crypto space they are looking at some cleaning as well with plans raised to remove the Stream Processing Unit (SPU) driver for the old Sun Niagara 2, the Sun UltraSPARC T2 and this SPU was also found in the UltraSPARC T3 as well...

More Kernel Bitrot: Old & Busted UltraSPARC T2 "Niagara 2" SPU Driver Slated For Removal - Phoronix

Following 107k lines of old driver code within the staging area of the kernel removed for Linux 6.13, over in the crypto space they are looking at ...

KDE Starts December By Landing A Number Of New Features While the winter holidays are quickly approach, KDE developers remain very busy working on new feature code for the Plasma 6.3 desktop. A number of new features were merged this week for the KDE desktop...

KDE Starts December By Landing A Number Of New Features - Phoronix

While the winter holidays are quickly approaching, KDE developers remain very busy working on new feature code for the Plasma 6.3 desktop

Linux 6.13 Features: AutoFDO+Propeller Optimizations, Many AMD Additions & SDUC + NVMe 2.1 Support With the Linux 6.13 merge window having ended this past weekend, here's the Phoronix overview of all the interesting feature additions, new hardware support, and other kernel changes coming for Linux 6.13.

Linux 6.13 Features: AutoFDO+Propeller Optimizations, Many AMD Additions & SDUC + NVMe 2.1 Support - Phoronix

With the Linux 6.13 merge window having ended this past weekend, here's the Phoronix overview of all the interesting feature additions, new ha...

Mesa 24.3.1 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes Building off the Mesa 24.3 release from two weeks ago is now Mesa 24.3.1 as the first stable point release following their usual bi-weekly release regiment...

Mesa 24.3.1 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes - Phoronix

Intel Linux Display Driver Being Adapted For DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" Support The DRM Panic infrastructure has been in the Linux kernel for several releases now and allows for a kernel-based experience similar to Windows' "Blue Screen of Death as well as more recently allowing QR code kernel error messages and other features. The Intel kernel DRM driver has seen some patches for enabling DRM Panic support...

Intel Linux Display Driver Being Adapted For DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" Support - Phoronix

The DRM Panic infrastructure has been in the Linux kernel for several releases now and allows for a kernel-based experience similar to Windows&#039...

AMD ROCm 6.3 Tags Begin Appearing On GitHub Last week ROCm 6.3 was announced on the AMD Community Blog with a set of nice enhancements to this open-source GPU compute stack. While some good additions, when the announcement went live ROCm 6.2 software was still showing up as the latest and the open-source code via GitHub wasn't yet reflecting ROCm 6.3... That changed today...

AMD ROCm 6.3 Tags Begin Appearing On GitHub - Phoronix

Last week ROCm 6.3 was announced on the AMD Community Blog with a set of nice enhancements to this open-source GPU compute stack

Vulkan 1.4 Released With More Extensions Mandated, Better 8K Rendering As a lovely early Christmas present, The Khronos Group used SIGGRAPH Asia today for announcing the Vulkan 1.4 specification release...

Vulkan 1.4 Released With More Extensions Mandated, Better 8K Rendering - Phoronix

As a lovely early Christmas present, The Khronos Group used SIGGRAPH Asia today for announcing the Vulkan 1.4 specification release.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Retires While Intel has been under much financial difficulties and as they pursue their build out of new fabs to better compete with TSMC, to much surprise Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired effective today...

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Retires - Phoronix

While Intel has been under much financial difficulties and as they pursue their build out of new fabs to better compete with TSMC, to much surprise...

Qt 6.8.1 Toolkit Released With 550+ Bug Fixes Building off the early October release of Qt 6.8 LTS, Qt 6.8.1 is out today with more than 550 fixes collected over the past two months...

Qt 6.8.1 Toolkit Released With 550+ Bug Fixes - Phoronix

Building off the early October release of Qt 6.8 LTS, Qt 6.8.1 is out today with more than 550 fixes collected over the past two months.

Lutris 0.5.18 Linux Game Manager Brings Many Improvements Lutris 0.5.18 is out today as the newest version of this open-source game manager for Linux systems to help with installing and playing a variety of games whether they be native Linux titles, emulated Windows games with the likes of Wine / Proton, or console emulated games and more. Lutris also continues integrating with the likes of Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, and other online game se…

Lutris 0.5.18 Linux Game Manager Brings Many Improvements - Phoronix

Lutris 0.5.18 is out today as the newest version of this open-source game manager for Linux systems to help with installing and playing a variety o...