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      CentOS Project Promotes They Are "Open To All"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 July, 2023

    With all the news in recent weeks following Red Hat's decision to limit access to RHEL sources that in turn lead to changes for AlmaLinux, finding new ways to obtain sources at Rocky Linux, interesting statements from Oracle, and even SUSE forking RHEL. The public RHEL sources now will basically be the upstream CentOS Stream code for which future Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions are ultimately based. The CentOS Project issued a new statement on Friday...
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      systemd 254-rc2 Brings A Few More Changes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 July, 2023

    Earlier this month brought the release of systemd 254-rc1 with a new soft-reboot mechanism, officially deprecating System V scripts, a new systemd-battery-check process that runs at boot to check any system battery level status, and various other changes. On Friday systemd 254-rc2 was released with a few more changes...
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      uutils 0.0.20 Improves GNU Coreutils Compatibility For This Rust-Written Replacement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 July, 2023

    The uutils project continues advancing as a modern, drop-in replacement to the GNU Coreutils utilities that is written in the Rust programming language...
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      Imagination Tech Rolls Out Latest PowerVR Rogue DRM Kernel Driver Patches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 July, 2023

    Imagination Technologies today published their fourth iteration of their in-development PowerVR DRM kernel graphics driver targeting their Rogue architecture and future graphics IP. This open-source kernel driver ultimately will go along with their PowerVR Vulkan driver they continue developing within the Mesa code-base...
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      Linux 6.6 Will Make It Easy To Disable IO_uring System-Wide

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 July, 2023

    While IO_uring has been one of the most interesting kernel innovations of recent years and can allow for great speed-ups to async I/O, there have been some security concerns and with the Linux 6.6 kernel it will be easier for Linux administrators to disable it system-wide if so desired...
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      AMD Working To Allow Linux To Handle Up To 128 DRM Devices Per System

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 July, 2023

    AMD Linux engineers are working on extending the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem used by their GPUs/accelerators to allow up to 128 DRM devices per system...
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      COSMIC Desktop Implements Fractional Scaling, Wallpaper Settings

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 July, 2023

    System76 developers working on their Rust-written COSMIC desktop have recently been improving a number of areas of this open-source desktop...
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      GTK Support For macOS Potentially Moving Back To "Best Effort" Approach

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 July, 2023

    The GTK toolkit and GLib support for Apple's macOS may be taking a back-seat to other platforms moving forward and would fall into a "best effort" category...
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      New Intel Lunar Lake / Arrow Lake / Arrow Lake S Patches For GCC

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 July, 2023

    Yesterday Intel engineers sent out early compiler patches for Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake with adding the new instructions of AVX-VNNI-INT16, SM3, SHA512, and SM4. Today that new instruction support was complemented by a new patch out of Intel for actually adding the new Lunar Lake, Arrow Lake, and Arrow Lake S targets to GCC...