Phoronix Black Friday Reminders Just a quick reminder this "Black Friday" if you would like to help show your support... image
Linux 6.13 SoundWire Preps DisCo 2.0 Support The SoundWire subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux 6.13 kernel. This cycle brings new AMD driver support as well as supporting the MIPI DisCo 2.0 specification...
Wine 9.22 Enables Wayland Driver By Default Wine 9.22 is out this weekend ahead of the Wine 10.0-rc1 in two weeks... image
KDE Plasma 6.3 Sees More Feature Work, One More Crash Fix For KWin KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekly development recap that highlights all of the interesting work taking place within the KDE desktop space... image
Linux CoC Announces Decision Following Recent Bcachefs Drama Following the recent messaging from Bcachefs lead developer Kent Oversteet that Bcachefs changes for Linux 6.13 were rejected on the basis of his Code of Conduct, the Linux CoC committee has now formally announced their decision... image
Nice File Performance Optimizations Coming With Linux 6.13 In addition to the pull requests managed by Microsoft engineer Christian Brauner for VFS untorn writes for atomic writes with XFS and EXT4, Tmpfs case insensitive file/folder support, new Rust file abstractions, and the renewed multi-grain timestamps work, another interesting Linux 6.13 pull submitted by Brauner revolves around VFS file enhancements... image
ReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel Linus Torvalds just merged the change to the Linux 6.13 kernel that goes ahead and deletes the ReiserFS file-system from the source tree. Removing ReiserFS from the Linux tree lightens the kernel by 32.8k lines of code... image
Arch Linux Working To Affirm Its Package Sources Under A BSD Zero Clause License Arch Linux package sources with its PKGBUILD files and similar have lacked carrying a clear license. Arch Linux developers have been working to come together to allow all Arch Linux package sources to be licensed under a BSD zero-clause "BSD0" license... image
Ubuntu Praises 5~7% PGO Compiler Optimization Performance Benefits Over the past year we have seen Canonical engineers focus more on optimizing the performance potential of Ubuntu Linux. With Ubuntu 25.04 they are now using the -O3 compiler optimization level by default and there has been other efforts like better performance tooling on Ubuntu and frame pointers by default. Another area they have been exploring is making use of Profi… image
GCC 15 Compiler Development Shifts From Features To Bug Fixing GCC 15 feature development is now officially over with entering stage three development to focus on fixing compiler bugs... image