Flattened Image Tree 1.0 Specification For Embedded Linux Systems
…These features were added for FIT v0.9, which hadn't been tagged on GitHub until yesterday. The Flattened Image Tree v0.8 releases and prior were while it lived within the…
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Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS Will Now Automatically Install HWE/OEM Kernel Packages
…04 release notes also mention that user creation is now handled earlier in the process, support for groups for automated installations, improved TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption (FDE), and various fixes. Ubuntu…
KWin Compositor In KDE Plasma 6.8 Drops Support For Desktop OpenGL
Along with releasing Plasma 6.7.2 this week, KDE developers continue to be quite busy working on new features and improvements for the Plasma 6.8 release while also furthering along…
AMD ROCm 7.14 Announced As New Production Release, Ryzen AI 400 Series Support
…and a variety of HIP enhancements for better CUDA parity. AMD's blog post tonight announcing ROCm 7.14 goes on to add: "ROCm 7.14 represents more than a feature release…
FreeBSD 15.1 Beta Released For Early Testing
…hardware support and the various WiFi driver enhancements that have been pursued as of late along with working toward better power management. As of writing, the 15.1 release notes have yet…
Linux 7.1 sched_ext Brings cgroup Sub-Scheduler Groundwork, Idle SMT Sibling Improvement
…This work was previously covered in Sub-Scheduler Support Could Be One Of The Most Exciting Features To Come For Linux 7.1 . The pull request notes some functionality is now going…
Ubuntu's "AI Kill Switch" Is Achieved By Removing Snaps, Initially Opt-In
…So removing AI features on Ubuntu will come down to removing Snaps. The AI-backed features will initially be as a "preview" and "strictly opt-in basis" for Ubuntu 26.10. For…
Linux 7.2 Preparing Intel Key Protection Technology "KPT" For Next-Gen QAT
…Intel last year began adding QAT GEN6 support to the Linux kernel and with time exposing new features from new telemetry to better QAT Zstd support . In any event, with the code…
Performance Optimizations, NVIDIA Vera, Arc Pro B70 & Other Linux Highlights From Q2
…The strncpy() function for copying up to a specified number of bytes has long been deprecated and after six years of work and hundreds of patches, no more users of the strncpy…
Microsoft Reportedly Looking At Rebasing Azure Linux On Fedora
…It was noted that Microsoft as well as Fyra Labs are very interested in x86_64-v3 for Fedora. In the meeting log it's explicitly laid out: "and since Microsoft is…