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openSUSE Leap 16 To Provide 24 Months Of Maintenance Updates / Community Support

Phoronix | Sept. 3, 2025, 3:47 p.m. | Original

SUSE's Lubos Kocman announced today on the behalf of the openSUSE team that they will be providing extended maintenance updates and community support with the upcoming Leap 16 release.

OpenSUSE Leap to date has seen a typical 12 month release cycle plus six months of updates/support to allow for smooth upgrades to the next version. With the upcoming openSUSE Leap 16 release, it will be extended to 24 months. Thus maintenance updates over two point releases for community support.

Kocman wrote on the openSUSE blog :

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Rust Innovation Lab Announced By The Rust Foundation

Phoronix | Sept. 3, 2025, 12:41 p.m. | Original

The Rust Foundation today announced the creation of the Rust Innovation Lab that will serve as a stable, neutral home to select Rust projects with governance support, legal and administrative support, fiscal sponsorship, and more.

In today's Rust announcement the Rust Innovation Lab is described as:

"The Rust Innovation Lab (RIL) is designed to provide support for funded Rust-based open source projects from the Rust Foundation in the form of governance, legal, networking, marketing, and administration, while keeping the technical direction solely

AMD Secure AVIC Primed For Linux 6.18 To Provide Better Security & Performance

Phoronix | Sept. 3, 2025, noon | Original

Ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle, which will likely end up being this year's Long Term Support (LTS) version, the AMD Secure AVIC driver appears ready for merging. The AMD Secure AVIC patches were queued this week into a TIP branch and this likely to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.18 merge window.

For over the past year now AMD engineers have been working on the Secure AVIC support for Linux as part of their Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV-SNP)

Niri 25.08 Wayland Compositor Introduces xwayland-satellite Support

Phoronix | Sept. 3, 2025, 10:50 a.m. | Original

Niri 25.08 is out this week as the newest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Notable now is adding xwayland-satellite integration for offering legacy X11 app support.

While many Wayland compositors have integrated XWayland support for X11 app/game support, Niri has resisted. Niri refrained from supporting XWayland directly due to a lot of integration work needed, a preference to cater the code just to Wayland, Niri lacks a global coordinate system needed by X11, and various other

Intel Arc Pro B50 Linux Performance Benchmarks

Phoronix | Sept. 3, 2025, 9 a.m. | Original

Intel announced the Arc Pro B-Series back at Computex consisting of the Arc Pro B50 and Arc Pro B60 graphics cards. Marking availability today and the review embargo lift is for the Arc Pro B50 for workstations, which provides 16GB of RAM, 70 Watt total board power, and a $349 USD launch price for this workstation graphics card. Here are the preliminary Linux performance benchmarks and open-source driver support metrics for the Intel Arc Pro B50.

Mesa 25.2.2 Ships The Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes

Phoronix | Sept. 3, 2025, 8:59 a.m. | Original

Mesa 25.2.2 is out today as another on-time, bi-weekly Mesa point release managed by Eric Engestrom.

Mesa 25.2.2 is now available with the latest batch of fixes atop last month's Mesa 25.2 release that serves as this quarter's feature release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers.

Some of the fixes to land for Mesa 25.2.2 over the past two weeks include:

- FIxing Mesa's GL

Fedora's Reproducible Package Build Mandate Deferred To F44

Phoronix | Sept. 3, 2025, 6:42 a.m. | Original

One of the planned changes for Fedora 43 was setting an expectation that RPM package builds are reproducible . Much of Fedora's " reproducible builds " effort is already complete but this change has now been deferred to the Fedora 44 release next year.

The hope was for Fedora 43 that "no fewer than 99%" of the RPM package builds are reproducible. The plan was to establish a clear mandate: " package builds are expected to be reproducible ."

Linux Scheduler Adapted For A Latency Win & Avoiding An RT Deadlock

Phoronix | Sept. 3, 2025, 6:31 a.m. | Original

A patch series for the Linux kernel scheduler code is queued up for expected introduction in Linux 6.18 to defer throttle when tasks exit to user-space. These changes to switch the scheduler to a task-based throttle model and task-based throttle time accounting can provide a latency win and also address a possible deadlock situation for real-time "RT" kernels.

Queued up today in tip/tip.git's "sched/core" Git branch are the patches for reworking the scheduler code around

Linux Sees Fresh Fixes For PCMCIA PC Card Support In 2025

Phoronix | Sept. 3, 2025, 6:12 a.m. | Original

It's not too often hearing PCMCIA these days as that defunct PC card standard for laptops from the 90's and early 00's. Back in 2023 Linux began dropping old PCMCIA drivers from the kernel while coming as a surprise today are some clean-ups for the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) subsystem code persisting within the Linux kernel.

Dominik Brodowski sent out a pull request today with PCMCIA fixes for the Linux kernel... This is for Linus Torvalds'

Improved Intel Vulkan Video Code Merged For Mesa 25.3

Phoronix | Sept. 3, 2025, 5:57 a.m. | Original

Merged overnight to Mesa 25.3 is an improvement for the Intel driver's Vulkan Video encode/decode handling that has been in the works the past few months.

Calder Young reworked the Intel ANV Vulkan driver and the ISL code to make use of layered surfaces for Vulkan Video encoding and decoding. Calder explained in the merge :

"I came up with a surface layout to support using layered surfaces (array textures) for Vulkan video encoding and decoding. You can do this by abusing the row and array pitch

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