Red Hat Engineer Working On DRM Panic Support For AMDGPU Driver Red Hat engineer Jocelyn Falempe has been working to sort out DRM Panic support for the AMDGPU driver. The DRM Panic infrastructure is useful since it's what allows presenting a panic screen, a.k.a. a "Blue Screen of Death" type experience when running into major kernel problems. With Linux 6.12 there's now the ability to show QR codes for error messages with DRM Panic...

Red Hat Engineer Working On DRM Panic Support For AMDGPU Driver - Phoronix

Red Hat engineer Jocelyn Falempe has been working to sort out DRM Panic support for the AMDGPU driver

Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6 Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package. It's been making use of the GTK toolkit but now the developers have decided to switch to Qt6 instead...

Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6 - Phoronix

Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package

Steam Remote Play Adds AV1 Video Streaming Support Plus More Linux Fixes Steam's Remote Play feature that allows playing Steam games on phones / tablets / TVs / other PCs while streamed from your main gaming system now is able to handle AV1 video streaming...

Steam Remote Play Adds AV1 Video Streaming Support Plus More Linux Fixes - Phoronix

Steam's Remote Play feature that allows playing Steam games on phones / tablets / TVs / other PCs while streamed from your main gaming system ...

Reverse PRIME Now Works Nicely On Ubuntu 24.10 For those making use of "reverse PRIME" setups where you have a primary NVIDIA discrete GPU while monitors are connected to Intel integrated graphics as the secondary GPU, such configurations should be working nicely with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 release under Wayland. This support is also likely to be back-ported for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS...

Reverse PRIME Now Works Nicely On Ubuntu 24.10 - Phoronix

For those making use of 'reverse PRIME' setups where you have a primary NVIDIA discrete GPU while monitors are connected to Intel integra...

Cinnamon Pursuing Visual Improvements, Linux Mint Continues Working On Aptkit The Linux Mint project has published their status update for September 2024 that outlines work on this desktop-focused, Ubuntu-derived Linux distribution as well as its in-house Cinnamon desktop environment...

Cinnamon Pursuing Visual Improvements, Linux Mint Continues Working On Aptkit - Phoronix

The Linux Mint project has published their status update for September 2024 that outlines work on this desktop-focused, Ubuntu-derived Linux distri...

DOOM Ported To Run Atop AMD ROCm + LLVM libc An open-source developer at AMD has carried out a DOOM port that runs almost entirely atop AMD GPUs for rendering and the game logic. This DOOM GPU port relies on the AMD ROCm library with the LLVM libc C library for offloading the classic DOOM to the AMD GPU...

DOOM Ported To Run Atop AMD ROCm + LLVM libc - Phoronix

An open-source developer at AMD has carried out a DOOM port that runs almost entirely atop AMD GPUs for rendering and the game logic

FFmpeg 7.1 Released With VVC Decoder Promoted To Stable, Vulkan H.264/H.265 Encode FFmpeg 7.1 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used open-source multimedia library. With FFmpeg 7.1 the VVC video decoder has been promoted to stable, there are a number of Vulkan Video improvements, and an assortment of other exciting enhancements...

FFmpeg 7.1 Released With VVC Decoder Promoted To Stable, Vulkan H.264/H.265 Encode - Phoronix

FFmpeg 7.1 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used open-source multimedia library

Linux 6.12 Features Are Super Exciting With Real-Time, Sched_ext, Intel Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5 The Linux 6.12 merge window is wrapping up today with the release of Linux 6.12-rc1 in the coming hours. This is going to be a heck of an exciting kernel. There's real-time PREEMPT_RT finally in mainline, the much anticipated sched_ext code also was merged, QR codes for DRM panic messages, initial out-of-the-box support for Intel Xe2 graphics with Luna…

Linux 6.12 Features Are Super Exciting With Real-Time, Sched_ext, Intel Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5 - Phoronix

The Linux 6.12 merge window is wrapping up today with the release of Linux 6.12-rc1 in the coming hours.

Systemd Looking At A Future With More Varlink & Less D-Bus For IPC Taking place this week in Berlin was systemd's annual "All Systems Go" developer conference. Among the interesting talks was Lennart Poettering talking about the ongoing challenges of D-Bus for inter-process communication (IPC) with systemd and how they are looking at Varlink for IPC needs moving forward...

Systemd Looking At A Future With More Varlink & Less D-Bus For IPC - Phoronix

Taking place this week in Berlin was systemd's annual 'All Systems Go' developer conference

FreeBSD To See Better Laptop Support With Investment Backed By AMD, Dell & Framework Following AMD and FreeBSD Foundation collaborations and the Sovereign Tech Fund making a big investment into FreeBSD, the FreeBSD Foundation and Quantum Leap Research have announced a $750,000 USD commitment to improve laptop support on this BSD operating system with backing by Dell, AMD, and Framework Computer...

FreeBSD To See Better Laptop Support With Investment Backed By AMD, Dell & Framework - Phoronix

Following AMD and FreeBSD Foundation collaborations and the Sovereign Tech Fund making a big investment into FreeBSD, the FreeBSD Foundation and Qu...