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A bug in the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver leading to some laptop displays freezing after periods of use may finally be close to being resolved. Given the length and quantity of bug reports and one of the problematic commits being tracked back to 2017, it's a heavy hitting issue for some Linux users. With the help of Claude Code, it looks like a fix is on the way to the Linux kernel...
The cryptographic subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window...
SonicDE is a new community project focused on preserving KDE’s X11 desktop components as upstream Plasma moves fully to Wayland.
PipeWire 1.6.7 audio/video server for Linux is now available for download with fixes for various issues and regressions for the ALSA sound stack, scheduler, the RT portal, and more.
Canonical and the Ubuntu Release Team have implemented an important policy change for Ubuntu flavors moving forward. If they are to have an official release, they must now successfully submit a beta release...
PipeWire 1.6.7 is out with fixes for silent ports after sample rate changes, ALSA sync regressions, and several smaller audio improvements.
With the ongoing work around the AMD GFX1250 (and GFX1251) in the open-source AMD Linux driver stack, it's led to a lot of speculation about these parts in the GFX12 series associated with RDNA4. RDNA4 refresh? Or a lot of signals have pointed to GFX125x being possible AI/HPC accelerators such as for the upcoming Instinct MI400 series. Adding to the intrigue is GFX1251 being an APU. The latest LLVM compiler activity is further pointing to GFX1250/GFX1251 being for enterprise hardware...
The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) drivers, such as for dealing with ECC memory error reporting, are heavy on the Intel side with Linux 7.2 in preparing for upcoming hardware...
Overnight Valve released SteamOS 3.8.10 into the stable channel. for succeeding SteamOS 3.7. There's a lot happening across the board to their in-house Linux platform for the likes of the Steam Deck and upcoming Steam Machine hardware...
There are a number of time(r) core subsystem changes for the Linux 7.2 kernel to better harden the kernel...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: State of Fedora; mTHP creation; overlayfs; buffer-heads cleanup; 7.1 statistics. Briefs: curl summer of bliss; 7.1 kernel; AUR compromise; Fedora election; FairScan 2.0; Firefox 152.0; Homebrew 6.0.0; KDE Plasma 6.7; LWN topic list; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
Audacity 4’s first public beta arrived this month with the biggest design change the iconic open-source audio editor has seen in decades. The audio editor’s interface, built on wxWidgets since the project began, now runs in Qt. However, the audio engine which handles file I/O, project storage and the built-in effects, uses the older codebase, wired up to the new frontend via a module called au3wrap. In a sense, Audacity 4 is a new look atop the same core engine, although the Github changelog choose to frame it as a “ground-up rewrite” in Qt, that appears to be only relate […]
Yay 13.0 adds Lua hooks, PKGBUILD age visibility, and new automation tools following recent concerns over AUR package security.
The ongoing rise in AI/LLM-generated patches hitting the mailing lists and affecting development workflows continues to impact Linux kernel development. For the ARM64 architecture updates in Linux 7.2 is an interesting anecdote over over feeling like this activity has "slowed us down a little on the feature side" and having to deal with this AI/LLM patch activity resulted in some features now being postponed from making it for this current Linux kernel development cycle...
With fresh funding from the Linux Foundation’s Alpha Omega initiative, FreeBSD is turning to AI tools and paid security staff to hunt vulnerabilities across its codebase. The post FreeBSD Launches AI-Assisted Project to Find and Fix Vulnerabilities appeared first on FOSS Force.
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