The open-source ollama project that makes it easy to get up and running with a variety of LLMs under Windows, macOS, and Linux is out with a new release. The ollama v0.17.0 release is driven by new functionality around enhancing the OpenClaw onboarding process.

For those interested in OpenClaw, the AI agent that runs on your machine and allows interacting with a variety of files / apps services while being focused on interfacing with the user via messaging platforms, there is improved integration with ollama 0

Following last week's main set of DRM kernel graphics driver feature updates for Linux 7.0, merged on Friday to Linux 7.0 Git was the first round of fixes to these Direct Rendering Manager drivers. Dominating most of the code changes in this latest pull were AMDGPU fixes, including more enhancements for aging Radeon graphics processors.

The now-merged code to Linux 7.0 includes more AMDGPU fixes from Timur Kristóf of Valve's open-source Linux graphics team. Timur Kristóf has

AMD AOMP 23.0-0 was released overnight as the latest build of this LLVM/Clang downstream that continues to carry the very latest AMD patches focused on delivering the best support for GPU offloading to Radeon/Instinct hardware with the likes of the OpenMP and OpenACC APIs. AOMP continues to serve as a great leading-edge compiler for the best AMD GPU offloading experience until the patches ultimately work their way into upstream LLVM.

AOMP 23.0-0 is re-based against the very latest LLVM/

For those making use of the Ceph open-source, distributed storage platform, with the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel they are introducing support for the AES256K key type.

The Ceph authentication code in Linux 7.0 has merged support for the AES256K key type. The CEPH_CRYPTO_AES256KRB5 key type is based on Kerberos 5 / AES256-CTS-HMAC384-192. This support is complementary and doesn

This week marked the release of KDE's Plasma 6.6 desktop as a very successful release that overall is in very robust shape and performing well. While Plasma 6.6 overall is in great shape, there are various bugs - including crash fixes - that have already been queued for the upcoming Plasma 6.6.1. KDE developers are also quite busy on the trek toward Plasma 6.7.

This Week In Plasma is out with its newest issue to highlight interesting developments. Plasma 6.7 is

As some good news out of Intel today on the Linux/open-source side following last year's layoffs, they're hiring for some new Linux software development roles -- including for enhancing their Linux graphics driver stack that also includes a focus on Linux gaming with the likes of Valve's Proton (Steam Play).

Intel passed along six new engineering roles they have posted as recently as yesterday -- three of which are for GPU software development engineers where the focus isn't only on HPC/

Drgn is the programmable debugger developed by Meta engineer Omar Sandoval that has proven quite versatile and popular with Linux kernel developers and others. After nearly two dozen releases already, Drgn v0.1 was released this week as another big step forward for this open-source debugger.

Drgn v0.1 is a "huge release" that brings a crash compatibility mode, built-in commands, memory searching, code address to source location lookups, and other enhancements.

Drgn provides a few built-in commands for running

Following GNOME 50's Mutter merging sdr-native color mode support for wide color gamut displays this week, another late addition to Mutter has now been merged ahead of next month's GNOME 50 stable release.

The late change merged today to Mutter Git is supporting the Wayland color management v2 protocol. Mutter already was supporting the initial color management protocol but now is updated to include the latest adjustments to it found in the upstream Wayland Protocols spec.

There are various minor changes with the v2 bump,