TUXEDO Computers Relicenses Some Of Their Drivers To GPLv2 Following the proposed patches this week to adjust the Linux kernel's module loader to treat the TUXEDO Computers drivers as proprietary due to being GPLv3 licensed rather than GPLv2 to jive with the rest of the upstream kernel code, some of the TUXEDO drivers have now been re-licensed...

TUXEDO Computers Relicenses Some Of Their Drivers To GPLv2 - Phoronix

Following the proposed patches this week to adjust the Linux kernel's module loader to treat the TUXEDO Computers drivers as proprietary due t...

Rustls 0.23.17 Brings More Performance Improvements Rustls 0.23.17 is out today as the newest version of this modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language and a great alternative to the likes of OpenSSL...

Rustls 0.23.17 Brings More Performance Improvements - Phoronix

Rustls 0.23.17 is out today as the newest version of this modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language and a great alternative to th...

GCC 15 Moves C Default Language Version To C23 The GCC 15 compiler on Friday switched its default C language version from the GNU dialect of C17 to the current C23 standard...

GCC 15 Moves C Default Language Version To C23 - Phoronix

The GCC 15 compiler on Friday switched its default C language version from the GNU dialect of C17 to the current C23 standard.

KDE Developers Spent The Week Fixing Bugs & Polishing While Plasma 6.3 feature development is continuing, KDE developers this week spent more time fixing bugs and polishing up existing code for ensuring a solid foundation to this open-source desktop...

KDE Developers Spent The Week Fixing Bugs & Polishing - Phoronix

While Plasma 6.3 feature development is continuing, KDE developers this week spent more time fixing bugs and polishing up existing code for ensurin...

Linux 6.12 Preps For Release With Real-Time, Sched_Ext, Stable Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5 The Linux 6.12 kernel is expected to be released this coming Sunday, 17 November, barring any last minute issues that would force the stable kernel to be diverted to the following Sunday. Linux 6.12 is delivering many exciting new features and beyond that it's all the more exciting with it expected to be this year's Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel version…

Linux 6.12 Preps For Release With Real-Time, Sched_Ext, Stable Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5 - Phoronix

The Linux 6.12 kernel is expected to be released this coming Sunday, 17 November, barring any last minute issues that would force the stable kernel...

SDL3 Improves Steam Controller Support, Now Enabled By Default A number of Steam Controller improvements have been merged for SDL, this widely-used hardware/software abstraction layer that is common to cross platform games. Among the latest Steam Controller improvements in SDL are enabling the support by default...

SDL3 Improves Steam Controller Support, Now Enabled By Default - Phoronix

A number of Steam Controller improvements have been merged for SDL, this widely-used hardware/software abstraction layer that is common to cross pl...

Apple M4 Mac Mini With macOS vs. Intel / AMD With Ubuntu Linux Performance Apple last week released their latest iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro products powered by their fourth-generation M-series Apple Silicon. The new Mac Mini in particular is interesting for under $600 starting out with the all re-designed Mac Mini with 10-core M4 and now the base model having 16GB of memory. It will take some time before there is any reasonable Linu…

Apple M4 Mac Mini With macOS vs. Intel / AMD With Ubuntu Linux Performance Review - Phoronix

Apple last week released their latest iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro products powered by their fourth-generation M-series Apple Silicon.

Ubuntu 25.04 To Further Enhance Its Installer, Aims For Linux 6.14 Kernel Canonical's Interim Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop, Oliver Smith, has shared some early roadmap plans for the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle...

Ubuntu 25.04 To Further Enhance Its Installer, Aims For Linux 6.14 Kernel - Phoronix

Canonical's Interim Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop, Oliver Smith, has shared some early roadmap plans for the Ubuntu 25.04 developmen...

Memtest86+ 7.20 Adds Support For Intel Arrow Lake & AMD Zen 5 Memtet86+ 7.0 debuted back in January while now as we approach the end of 2024, Memtest86+ 7.20 is now available as the latest significant update to this open-source memory tester commonly used on Intel and AMD systems...

Memtest86+ 7.20 Adds Support For Intel Arrow Lake & AMD Zen 5 - Phoronix

Memtest86+ 7.0 debuted back in January while now as we approach the end of 2024, Memtest86+ 7.20 is now available as the latest significant update ...

Basic Support For Many Pre-M1 Apple Devices Coming To Linux 6.13 While not as exciting as if it were Apple M3/M4 device support hitting the upstream mainline Linux kernel, but for those with some older Apple (pre-M1) devices around, support for a number of older SoCs and boards is set to arrive with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel...

Basic Support For Many Pre-M1 Apple Devices Coming To Linux 6.13 - Phoronix

While not as exciting as if it were Apple M3/M4 device support hitting the upstream mainline Linux kernel, but for those with some older Apple (pre...