…Someone has stepped up to maintain an old, very rare file-system driver but admittedly doesn't even use it and just submitted basic fixes. Or is it just better removing that…
…The stubbed out implementation from a few months ago was enough to get the Dorico music notation / scorewriter software working on Wine. But simply stubbing out the implementation wasn't enough to…
…5 Comments The Spack package manager is quite popular in the HPC / supercomputer space for scientific software. Even with the more selective niche than a typical general purpose OS package manager, large…
…Add A Comment Since March we have been seeing patches from AMD software engineers beginning to enable their next-generation "AIE4" NPU platform under Linux. We still don't know for sure…
…David Airlie of Red Hat wrote in Friday's pull request of DRM fixes for Linux 7.1: "Weekly drm fixes, not contributing to things settling down unfortunately, lots of driver fixes…
…non-free-software kernel modules, blocks the loading of loadable microcode/firmware even when it means greatly reduced hardware support, and other sanitization of code in the name of software freedom. The…
…8 Comments GNOME Circle as the initiative for third-party/independent software applications and libraries extending the GNOME desktop ecosystem is taking a stand against AI slop. The GNOME Circle policy has…
…Plus there are several small bug fixes. Most notable with Flatpak 1.18 is adding support for AMD's /dev/kfd device exposed by the AMDKFD kernel compute driver. The DRI device…
…Zero-copy support is great for better performance and efficiency, but in kernel space it does increase the likelihood of exploiting its semantics by malicious software. The Linux AF_ALF code for…
…WayVNC 0.10 also implemented legacy DES authentication support in order to work with legacy software like macOS' Remote Desktop. WayVNC is developed on GitHub for downloads and all the details on…