Device Tree Patches Posted For Review To Boot Linux On Apple A7 To A11 Devices Device Tree patches have been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list for review and possible upstreaming to the mainline Linux kernel for booting Apple iPhones, iPads, and iPods that use the A7 to A11 SoCs... image
Verso Taking Shape As A Servo-Powered Web Browser With Mozilla having backed away from the Servo web engine years ago and recent open-source development on Servo focused on making it suitable for embed purposes into other applications/software, it's remained to be picked up by any standalone web browser project. But taking shape over the past few months has been Verso as a ground-up build of a new Rust-based web browser making use of Servo.… image
Intel QATlib 24.09 Improves Performance For Multi-Threaded Apps & Multi-Socket Servers Intel today released a new version of QATlib, the QuickAssist Technology library for enjoying hardware-accelerated offloading of security, authentication, and compression needs. Recent Intel Xeon CPUs with built-in QAT accelerators stand to benefit a lot from the new QATlib 24.09 release... image
GNOME 47 Release Candidate Brings Last Minute Changes The GNOME 47 release candidate was announced a short time ago in preparing for the stable GNOME 47 stable desktop coming up... image
KDE Squeezes A Few More Features Into The Plasma 6.2 Desktop While KDE developers this weekend are busy attending Akademy 2024 as their annual developer conference taking place in Würzburg, Germany, prior to that there were a few last minute features merged for the upcoming Plasma 6.2 desktop... image
Slimbook KDE Plasma VI Laptop Announced - Powered By AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS The Slimbook crew shared on Twitter/X that they are showing off the new Slimbook 6 (Slimbook VI) laptop this weekend during the KDE Akademy conference taking place in the wonderful Würzburg, Germany. This new Slimbook laptop features an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS SoC and of course uses the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment out-of-the-box... image
Wayland's Weston 14.0 Compositor Released Weston 14.0 was released today as the newest feature release for this reference Wayland compositor... image
New Patches Bring Rust Linux Kernel Support To MIPS When it comes to the Rust programming language support within the Linux kernel one of the limitations is that the CPU architecture support isn't as widespread. Currently Rust for Linux supports x86_64, AArch64 (ARM64) little-endian, LoongArch, and RISC-V. While those cover the main targets, POWER is notably missing and many other niche CPU architectures supported by the Linux kernel… image
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Exciting August August was a very busy month with the first AMD Ryzen 9000 series "Zen 5" desktop processors going on sale, finally having AmpereOne 192-core Arm processors in the lab, Linux kernel development continuing to advance at a brisk pace, and a variety of other interesting software and hardware milestones. On Phoronix for the month were 213 original news articles authored by me… image
Wayland Protocols 1.37 Introduces Three New Protocols Jonas Ådahl released Wayland-Protocols 1.37 as the newest update to this defined set of Wayland protocols. With the new release there are three new protocols added plus various other maintenance items addressed within the Wayland-Protocols repository... image