Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta announced a new proposal for " A Technology Innovation Lifecycle Process for Fedora ." With the help of Google's Gemini AI, Spaleta laid out a proposal to help Fedora make greater accommodations for experimental concepts and building more interest around innovative ideas without a firm commitment to integrate them into Fedora proper until they can be assured of sustainability.

It's a lengthy proposal and ultimately around fostering more innovations in the Fedora space without commiting to shipping and maintaining said features. Spaleta mentioned that this idea came

The current crop of RISC-V SoCs are still much slower than alternative CPU architectures and lead to much longer build times for Fedora packages as a result. There's hope with next-gen RISC-V processors being faster but for now even compiling Binutils as an example is around five times slower than x86_64 -- and that's with disabling compiler link-time optimizations (LTO) for RISC-V to avoid an even longer build process.

Marcin Juszkiewicz of Red Hat who has

The first alpha release of OpenSSL 4.0 is now available for testing. With OpenSSL 3.0 they are removing support for SSLv3 that has been deprecated for over one decade while also dropping OpenSSL engines and other removals while also adding in some new features.

OpenSSL 4.0 does away with a lot of old code for this widely used library. On the new feature side, OpenSSL 4.0 is adding support for TLS Encrypted Client Hello (a.k.a. RFC 9849)

Over the past two decades SUSE Linux has been passed around several times. From Novell's acquisition of SUSE back in 2003 to then being acquired by The Attachmate Group to then merging with Micro Focus and then the SUSE business being acquired by private equity firm EQT back in 2018. A report out today indicates that EQT may now be looking to sell off SUSE.

A Reuters report out today notes that private equity firm EQT is exploring a sale of SUSE for as much as $6 billion

The Linux ZRAM module for creating compressed block devices in RAM could be on the edge of a nice I/O compression performance boost.

Gao Xu of the HONOR company posted a patch to the Linux kernel mailing list for optimizing the LZ4 dictionary compression performance with ZRAM. According to the engineer, the few dozen lines of code patch can improve the dictionary compression performance by over 50% in ZRAM I/O tests.

"Calling `LZ4_loadDict()` repeatedly in Zram causes significant overhead due to

The Free Software Foundation is hiring a new engineering and certification manager for leading the Respect Your Freedom "RYF" hardware certification program. The FSF RYF program is about certifying hardware that respects the user's freedom and privacy for control over the device, such as no proprietary firmware blobs needed to be loaded at run-time, no digital rights management / digital restrictions, and complies with their other free software ideals.

The FSF RYF program has certified some useful hardware over the years such as the POWER9-powered Raptor

Following Intel archiving various open-source projects that they are no longer maintaining amid open-source setbacks due to reduced staffing and other corporate restructuring, another round of Intel open-source projects were formally archived on Monday.

The ipmctl open-source user-space code for configuring and managing Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory modules has been archived. Intel exited the Optane memory business, sadly, a while ago and they hadn't updated the ipmctl code in about two years. But now it's formally been laid to

Intel Linux engineers are preparing the Linux kernel's Intel Thermal driver for supporting Directed Package Thermal Interrupts as a new feature of recent Intel CPUs.

Rather than package-level thermal interrupts being broadcast to all CPU cores, newer Intel CPUs allow for just broadcasting them to one CPU core tasked with the package-wide events. This cuts down on resource contention and can avoid needlessly waking up possible idle CPU cores.

The Linux patches don't note which new Intel CPU cores support this directed package thermal interrupts functionality, but