Michael Larabel

Following the release of the COSMIC Alpha desktop in early August, System76 is closing out September by issuing the second alpha release of their Rust-based open-source desktop environment. COSMIC Alpha 2 is now available for their in-house Pop!_OS Linux distribution […]

Miguel Ojeda has submitted all of the Rust toolchain and infrastructure changes for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel. Rust with Linux 6.12 brings support for handling of CPU security mitigations within the kernel. The Retpoline, Straight Line Speculation (SLS), and

ChipStar 1.2 has been released as the open-source software enabling HIP/CUDA programs to be compiled and run atop SPIR-V whether it be OpenCL or Vulkan drivers. ChipStar 1.2 is the newest version of this tooling for getting HIP/CUDA codes compiled

Valve open-source graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz is well known in the Linux community for his work on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver code, various Mesa driver optimizations, and creative writing on his blog. He’s also taken up a new task:

While Intel has been making steady progress around enhancing the Linux kernel handling for CPUs with a mix of P and E cores for proper task placement and power optimizations, one area that still is less than desirable for these

The Network File System (NFS) changes have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.12 development cycle. Notable this time with NFS is adding LOCALIO protocol extension support that can lead to fairly “extreme” performance improvements in scenarios where the NFS

Joshua Ashton of Valve’s Linux graphics team has opened a Mesa merge request to support a proposed “frog-fifo-v1” protocol for Wayland to address the matter of “FIFO is fundamentally broken under Mesa’s Wayland WSI right now.” Joshua Ashton’s new merge