Notices by Phoronix (phoronix@masto.ai)

ReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel

Linus Torvalds just merged the change to the Linux 6.13 kernel that goes ahead and deletes the ReiserFS file-system from the source tree. Removing ReiserFS from the Linux tree lightens the kernel by 32.8k lines of code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReiserFS-Deleted-Linux-6.13

Zrythm 1.0 Released For Powerful Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation

Zrythm 1.0 released today as a big milestone for this open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software that caters from professional users down to beginners...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zrythm-1.0

WayVNC 0.9 Released For Wayland VNC Server With New Features

WayVNC 0.9 is out today as the newest feature release for this VNC server catering to wlroots-based Wayland compositors. WayVNC makes it easy to get a VNC server up and running on Sway and other wlroots-based compositors while with today's update is much more capable...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/WayVNC-0.9-Wayland-VNC

TUXEDO Computers Relicenses Some Of Their Drivers To GPLv2

Following the proposed patches this week to adjust the Linux kernel's module loader to treat the TUXEDO Computers drivers as proprietary due to being GPLv3 licensed rather than GPLv2 to jive with the rest of the upstream kernel code, some of the TUXEDO drivers have now been re-licensed...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/TUXEDO-Some-Drivers-GPLv2

Red Hat Acquiring Neural Magic To Bolster Open-Source AI Offerings

Red Hat announced today they have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Neural Magic, an AI software company behind the likes of DeepSparse and nm-vllm...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Neural-Magic

Memtest86+ 7.20 Adds Support For Intel Arrow Lake & AMD Zen 5

Memtet86+ 7.0 debuted back in January while now as we approach the end of 2024, Memtest86+ 7.20 is now available as the latest significant update to this open-source memory tester commonly used on Intel and AMD systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Memtest86-Plus-7.20

Debian 12.8 Released With Many Bug Fixes & Security Updates

Debian 12.8 is out today as the latest media refresh for the "Bookworm" release with numerous security fixes along with other general bug fixes included as part of the assortment of package updates...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-12.8-Released

Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation

Earlier this year was a Fedora change proposal seeking to make KDE Plasma the default over GNOME for Fedora 42. A compromise of sorts has now been settled on with the Fedora Desktop Spin being promoted to an "Edition" status that will put it on the same level as the GNOME-based Fedora Workstation Edition...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-KDE-Desktop-Promoted

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache

Ahead of tomorrow's availability of the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor as the first Zen 5 CPU released with 3D V-Cache, today the review embargo lifts. Here is a look at how this 8-core / 16-thread Zen 5 CPU with 64MB of 3D V-Cache is performing under Ubuntu Linux compared to a variety of other Intel Core and AMD Ryzen desktop processors.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-linux

GIMP 3.0 RC1 Released For Testing

The long elusive GIMP 3.0 image editor that is a free software alternative to Adobe Photoshop has finally reached the release candidate phase of development...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-RC1

FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 1 Released To Work Toward This Next Release

FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 1 is out today as the first tagged test snapshot in working toward this newest FreeBSD 14 point release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.2-Beta-1-Released

AMD Formally Announces Ryzen 7 9800X3D Specs - Should Be Great For Linux Creators

AMD has been teasing the Ryzen 9000X3D Zen 5 CPUs with 3D V-Cache and today they formally announced the specs of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor that will begin shipping 7 November...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-7-9800X3D

Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Affecting X.Org Server For 18 Years

CVE-2024-9632 was made public today as the latest security vulnerability affecting the X.Org Server. The CVE-2024-9632 security issue has been present in the codebase now for 18 years and can lead to local privilege escalation...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-CVE-2024-9632

Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted

Following yesterday's news first featured on Phoronix of several Linux driver maintainers being de-listed from their maintainer positions within the mainline Linux kernel over their connections to Russia, Linus Torvalds has today commented on the matter...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs

Solus 4.6 Released With Continued Merged Usr Migration, Experimental Software Centers

Solus 4.6 is out as the newest version of this popular desktop Linux distribution that is known for its default Budgie desktop while also shipping with other desktop options...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Solus-Linux-4.6

Wine 9.19 Brings Improved Window Positioning On Wayland

We are quickly working our way to the end of the calendar year where Wine 9.xx bi-weekly development releases will focus on a shift to stability for releasing Wine 10.0 in early 2025. But we're not there yet and Wine 9.19 is out today to deliver the newest batch of features and fixes for this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and apps on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.19-Released

Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6

Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package. It's been making use of the GTK toolkit but now the developers have decided to switch to Qt6 instead...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zrythm-Abandoning-GTK-For-Qt

Many ACPI Updates Head To The Linux 6.12 Kernel

Ahead of the expected Linux 6.11 stable release today and the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit happening this coming week in Vienna, Intel engineer Rafael Wysocki submitted early the ACPI updates among the other areas of the kernel he oversees as part of the imminent Linux 6.12 merge window...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-ACPI

Hyprland 0.43 Wayland Compositor Releases, Raises Build Requirements To C++26

Hyprland 0.43 is out as the newest version of this independent, very customizable Wayland compositor focused on providing a dynamic tiling experience...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hyprland-0.43-Wayland

AMD To Provide Update On Long-Term Strategy For Open-Source Firmware

Next month AMD will be providing an update on their long-term strategy for open-source firmware. Central to their open-source firmware plans is their OpenSIL effort that remains in development for eventually replacing AGESA on future generations of Ryzen and EPYC platforms...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Open-Source-FW-Strategy