SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Price Lowered, Ubuntu 24.04 Support Ready Going back to April 2024, SiFive announced the HiFive Premier P550 as an interesting RISC-V developer board to succeed their HiFive Unleashed that was a nice little RISC-V board. There were delays in shipping the HiFive Premier P550 but they have been making progress and are now ready to ship Ubuntu 24.04 LTS pre-installed on this RISC-V board. They have also lower… image
QEMU 9.2 Released With VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support, AVX10 & Experimental Rust Support QEMU 9.2 is out today for this processor emulator that plays an important role within the open-source Linux virtualization stack... image
Haiku OS Developers Fixed Plenty Of Bugs In November The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project is out with a new monthly status update to detail their latest efforts... image
ASUS TUF GAMING X670E PLUS Seeing Linux Sensors Support For those with the ASUS TUF GAMING X670E PLUS as a ~$230 USD AM5 motherboard for Ryzen 7000/9000 series processors, this desktop motherboard is seeing support tacked onto the asus-ec-sensors hardware monitoring driver so you can enjoy working sensor readings under Linux... image
Manjaro 24.2 Released With GNOME 47 Updates, Powered By Linux 6.12 LTS Manjaro 24.2 "Yonada" is out today as the newest version of this popular desktop focused Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux... image
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... image
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... image
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. image
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... image
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... image