Mesa 25.0 Is Trending Well For Release Later This Month Mesa 25.0-rc2 was released yesterday and it's rather boring on the changes, but that's a good thing during this bug fixing phase...

Mesa 25.0 Is Trending Well For Release Later This Month - Phoronix

Mesa 25.0-rc2 was released yesterday and it's rather boring on the changes, but that's a good thing during this bug fixing phase.

GRUB Continues Working Toward Its Next Release In 2025 As somewhat of an annual tradition for the FOSDEM conference, Daniel Kiper of Oracle presented a status update on the GRUB bootloader. As one of the GRUB maintainers he offers great insight to activity around this most common Linux bootloader...

GRUB Continues Working Toward Its Next Release In 2025 - Phoronix

As somewhat of an annual tradition for the FOSDEM conference, Daniel Kiper of Oracle presented a status update on the GRUB bootloader

An Early Performance Regression Hitting Highly Threaded Workloads On Linux 6.14-rc1 With Linux 6.14-rc1 released I have begun trying out the new development kernel on a few systems locally. At least for high core count hardware tested thus far, Linux 6.14 at the moment during this early testing phase is sporting some performance regressions within some multi-threaded workloads.

An Early Performance Regression Hitting Highly Threaded Workloads On Linux 6.14-rc1 - Phoronix

With Linux 6.14-rc1 released I have begun trying out the new development kernel on a few systems locally.

Debian 13 Will Aim To Include GNOME 48, Debian/Ubuntu Begin Packaging GNOME Papers For those wondering whether Debian 13 would see the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop packages given the upcoming Debian 13 "Trixie" development freezes, it looks like this updated GNOME release will be squeezed in...

Debian 13 Will Aim To Include GNOME 48, Debian/Ubuntu Begin Packaging GNOME Papers - Phoronix

For those wondering whether Debian 13 would see the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop packages given the upcoming Debian 13 'Trixie' development ...

Serpent OS Development Slowing Down Amid Lack Of Funding Serpent OS is the original Linux distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus Linux fame and has been pursuing its own package management system and new innovations in the Linux distribution landscape. While there has been recent success and new development builds coming out, feature development on Serpent OS is expected to slowdown now due to a lack of project funding...

Serpent OS Development Slowing Down Amid Lack Of Funding - Phoronix

Serpent OS is the original Linux distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus Linux fame and has been pursuing its own package management system a...

GEICO Insurance Company Developing TuxTape - A New Linux Kernel Livepatching Solution Red Hat's Kpatch, Oracle's Ksplice, and SUSE's kGraft are the most well known solutions currently for Linux kernel live-patching primarily for applying security patches to running Linux servers. It wasn't on my bingo card for insurance giant GEICO working baking their own Linux kernel live-patching solution, but they announced it this weekend and it …

GEICO Insurance Company Developing TuxTape - A New Linux Kernel Livepatching Solution - Phoronix

Red Hat's Kpatch, Oracle's Ksplice, and SUSE's kGraft are the most well known solutions currently for Linux kernel live-patching pri...

Three New Intel Battlemage Device IDs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver Three more PCI device IDs were added today to the Intel open-source Mesa 3D graphics driver code for Battlemage that could be for future higher-end products or along the lines of Data Center GPU Flex Series or other products...

Three New Intel Battlemage Device IDs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver - Phoronix

Three more PCI device IDs were added today to the Intel open-source Mesa 3D graphics driver code for Battlemage that could be for future higher-end...

Alpine Linux In An Infrastructure Crisis With Equinix Metal Sunsetting Last week I wrote about the crisis plaguing X.Org / FreeDesktop.org with losing out on their cloud/server infrastructure due to losing out on their free server resources provided by Equinix at the end of April. It's not only FreeDesktop.org and all those hosted projects now rushing to find hosting alternatives and sponsorships to cover new costs, but it turns out the A…

Alpine Linux In An Infrastructure Crisis With Equinix Metal Sunsetting - Phoronix

Last week I wrote about the crisis plaguing X.Org / FreeDesktop.org with losing out on their cloud/server infrastructure due to losing out on their...

Red Hat Hiring To Continue Advancing The Linux Desktop In 2025 Christian Schaller as Red Hat's Director of Software Engineering outlined in a blog post today some of the areas they will be focusing on this year with Fedora Workstation development. Additionally, they will be hiring at least two more Linux desktop engineers this year at Red Hat...

Red Hat Hiring To Continue Advancing The Linux Desktop In 2025 - Phoronix

Christian Schaller as Red Hat's Director of Software Engineering outlined in a blog post today some of the areas they will be focusing on this...

Fwupd 2.0.5 Brings Support For More ELAN Fingerprint Readers & Fixes Fwupd 2.0.5 is out today as the newest update to this open-source solution for system and peripheral/device firmware updating under Linux...

Fwupd 2.0.5 Brings Support For More ELAN Fingerprint Readers & Fixes - Phoronix

Fwupd 2.0.5 is out today as the newest update to this open-source solution for system and peripheral/device firmware updating under Linux.