Improved Diagnostics For GCC 16 - Including Support For Outputting To HTML Next year's GCC 16 compiler release is continuing the trend of enhancing the compiler diagnostics support, including new features like optionally outputting compiler error/warning diagnostics to HTML format for better analysis... image
Many Debian/Ubuntu Packages For Intel Accelerators & Other Intel Software Have Been Orphaned In addition to some Intel Linux kernel drivers being "orphaned" following the corporate restructuring at Intel between developers being laid off and others deciding to pursue opportunities elsewhere, these changes have also led to a number of Intel-related software packages within Debian being orphaned. In turn these Intel packages are also r… image
Cairo-Dock 3.6 Released With Wayland Support & HiDPI Cairo-Dock is back after a decade hiatus! From the early 2010's you may remember Cairo-Dock / GLX-Dock as a complementary dock for your Linux desktop. The last time writing about it was the Cairo-Dock 3.4 release in 2014 when it was working toward EGL/Wayland support. Since then it was rather inactive the past decade besides a small 3.5 update one year ago with a few fixes. But out this w… image
Linux 6.18 Will Be A Big Improvement For Servers Encountering DDoS Attacks A set of patches merged via the networking pull request for the Linux 6.18 will help servers better cope with distributed denial of service "DDoS" attacks. Thanks to a Google engineer there are some significant optimizations found in the Linux 6.18 kernel code for more efficiently handling of UDP receive performance under stress, such as in DDoS scenarios... image
EXT4, EROFS & NTF3 File-System Drivers Ready With Improvements For Linux 6.18 In addition to XFS enabling online fsck by default, Bcachefs being stripped from the mainline Linux kernel, and Btrfs improvements making for a notable first few days of the Linux 6.18 window, there's more. The EXT4, EROFS, and NTFS3 drivers are bringing the latest batch of file-system changes for Linux 6.18... image
openSUSE Leap 16 Released - Requires x86-64-v2 CPUs, No x86 32-bit Support By Default OpenSUSE Leap 16.0 is out today as this community Linux distributiom built from the same sources as SUSE Linux Enterprise 16... image
Academy Software Foundation's OpenColorIO Adds Vulkan Support The Academy Software Foundation's OpenColorIO "OCIO" project as a color management solution for motion picture production and related uses has added support for the Vulkan API... image
Mesa PowerVR Driver Lands Changes For Vulkan 1.2 Support Changes merged this week to the Mesa PowerVR Vulkan driver now allow it to support all of the functionality required by the Vulkan 1.2 specification... image
AMD Publishes Open-Source openSIL Code For Phoenix SoCs After originally hoping to publish the open-source code last year, today AMD published the initial openSIL code for enabling Phoenix SoCs to make use of this in-development CPU silicon initialization alternative to AGESA... image
Qualcomm Posts Initial Open-Source GPU Driver Patches For Adreno 800 Series Qualcomm engineers have posted the initial patches for bringing up the newest Adreno 800 series graphics IP within the open-source MSM Linux kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver... image