While Fedora 34 will be out around the end of next month, there are already change proposals being filed for Fedora 35 that will come in the autumn. One of those early changes for that next release cycle is referring to the OS as "Fedora Linux" within its OS release information.

Arguably most users refer to this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution as "Fedora" and have been doing so since the original "Fedora Core" days for the distribution prior to merging of the Core and Extras repositories. But

Arch Linux developers are considering some default enhancements to their Linux distribution that would increase the out-of-the-box performance.

Following openSUSE Tumbleweed using LTO by default , Fedora 33 doing it too , and Ubuntu 21.04 set to ship with LTO'ed packages , Arch Linux is finally looking at enabling link-time optimizations by default for their package builds.

Turning on link-time optimizations (LTO) often enhances the performance of the resulting binary thanks to the added optimizations that can be done

Sylvestre Ledru who is a director at Mozilla by day while also being prolific to Debian/Ubuntu and LLVM/Clang development has managed to get a Rust version of Coreutils packaged and running well enough on Debian.

Using "uutils" as a Rust implementation of the key Coreutils - GNU core utilities, some of the key CLI tools found on Linux systems - Ledru has managed to get a booting Debian system. Not only is Debian booting with the Rust-based Coreutils implementation but it's handling the most popular Debian packages

Just two days after the release of Linux 5.11.4 it has now been succeeded by Linux 5.11.5 and the maintained LTS kernels also saw new releases this morning.

Among the fixes in this latest round of point releases is a USB audio fix for the Corsair Virtuoso SE, disabling VCN for a new Navi 12 SKU, enabling headset mic support on the Acer Swift, several Btrfs file-system fixes, a fix to resume from suspend if the system is running on battery and

Intel engineers have been working on a tool called kcpuid for showing the raw CPU features/capabilities of a processor under Linux. This utility will be part of the kernel source tree and is queued up now in tip's x86/misc branch, thereby making it material for Linux 5.13 barring any issues coming up.

Users/administrators can generally rely on /proc/cpuinfo for quickly finding out CPU features of a given system. But the reported CPU information can be a bit misleading as some

If it wasn't odd enough during these pandemic times seeing Nintendo 64 support upstreamed into the Linux 5.12 kernel a few weeks back, the latest vintage hardware seeing open-source support still going on is the Motorola 68000 series 32-bit processors. LLVM/Clang today merged the "m68k" target for these three decade old processors.

The Motorola 68000 (m68k) 32-bit processors were found in early Apple

While Intel 11th Gen Rocket Lake desktop processors are launching this month, Intel's open-source Linux driver developers known for their punctual support are already preparing early code around their 14th Gen "Lunar Lake" platform.

Intel's punctual open-source/Linux support across desktop, mobile, and server platforms is one of the strong selling points for those preferring to use something on their PC besides Windows (Intel normally also does more for BSD/FreeBSD than other vendors as well). A

The patch series implementing support for Wayland's Presentation-Time protocol within the Mutter compositor has been merged ahead of this month's GNOME 40 release.

This Wayland Presentation-Time support has been in the works for GNOME the past four months and today was finally deemed ready for merging.

Wayland's Presentation Time protocol provides a means of accurate presentation timing feedback with a focus on ensuring smooth video playback and audio/video synchronization. The Presentation Time protocol has been around for years: authored in 201