Linux 7.1 Expected To Begin Removing i486 CPU Support
It’s finally time: a patch queued into one of the development branches ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1…
AMD & Valve Deliver Better Kaveri / Kabini APU Experience With Upcoming Linux 7.1
A nice Easter surprise are some last minute updates submitted to DRM-Next of the final planned AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature…
hid-omg-detect: Linux Driver In Development To Detect Malicious HID Devices
Zubeyr Almaho has been leading work on a new HID driver named hid-omg-detect with an intent on passive…
AMD Introduces GAIA Agent UI For Privacy-First Web App For Local AI Agents
AMD’s GAIA AI agent framework (that previously stood for “Generative AI Is Awesome” albeit they seemed to have…
Sashiko Now Providing AI Reviews On Rust Code For The Linux Kernel
A few days ago Google engineers went public with Sashiko with their agentic AI code review for the…
Bcachefs 1.37 Released With Linux 7.0 Support, Erasure Coding Stable & New Sub-Commands
Kent Overstreet today released Bcachefs 1.37 as the newest feature release to this out-of-tree file-system driver and user-space…
Linux 7.0 Lands Improvements To Deal With Upcoming Rust Changes, Build Reproducibility
Merged to mainline yesterday for Linux 7.0 were yet more Rust changes in preparing for upcoming Rust releases…
KDE Linux Adds Apple APFS File-System Support, Workaround For Frustrating AMDGPU Issue
In addition to GNOME OS seeing recent improvements, KDE Linux continues seeing more enhancements too for this leading…
Open-Source “GreenBoost” Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMs
An open-source, independently developed Linux kernel module called GreenBoost aims to augment the dedicated video memory on NVIDIA…
Linux 7.0 Credits Now Honor The Creator Of Linux-Next
There’s the usual flurry of last minute fixes and other items being herded into the Linux 7.0 codebase…
GNU Gawk 5.4 Released With New MinRX Regex Matcher, Faster Reading Of Files
Developers behind the widely-used GNU Awk text processing utility today released Gawk 5.4. Gawk 5.4 is now using…
AOMedia Open Audio Codec “OAC” Aims To Be The Successor To Opus
While the Alliance For Open Media “AOMedia” is most known for developing the AV1 open video codec, the…