The crew working on enhancing the FreeBSD laptop support is hoping to have an install option within the installer of FreeBSD 15 that will easily provide a KDE Plasma based desktop environment.

Currently FreeBSD desktop/laptop users need to carry out a base install and then boot into the FreeBSD installation with its console and then proceed to install the desktop of your choice via the package management system. The hope with FreeBSD 15.0, which aims to be released later this calendar year, is to integrate a desktop option into the

The first release candidate of Python 3.14 is now available for testing as what will be this year's big feature update to this popular scripting language.

Python 3.14 is bringing the new tail-call interpreter that can help deliver better performance , various other performance improvements , free-threaded Python is now officially supported compared to its previous experimental status, deferring the evaluation of type annotations, a new "compression.zstd" module providing Zstandard compression, a zero-overhead external debugger interface for CPython

The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optimal media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Intel-based Macs as release-blocking.

The first proposal raised is whether to drop the Fedora Release Criteria around optimal media boot support. This is around Fedora release installer images that must boot when written to optical media (DVDs). Fedora dropped officially testing optical media support in 2020

Sven Peter today sent out all of the Apple SoC driver and DeviceTree (DT) updates aiming for the soon-to-happen Linux 6.17 merge window.

The Apple SoC DT/driver changes for the Linux 6.17 aren't too particularly exciting with few changes to note for end-users. Arguably most interesting is the DeviceTree updates adding the bindings and nodes for the Apple GPU driver. However, the Apple GPU driver itself isn't yet ready for upstreaming to the mainline kernel as

While downstream Ubuntu is the most popular Linux option for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered "Windows on Arm" laptops, that's because of their concept images containing a number of "hacked packages" to lead to a decent user experience. But for upstream Debian Linux the prospects of running it on Snapdragon X Elite/Plus laptops is less than ideal with a number of problems persisting -- similar to other Linux distributions focused on running the mainline Linux kernel and other upstream software.

Debian developer and Linaro engineer Christopher Obbard presented

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week voted to approve a number of new features/changes for the upcoming Fedora 43 release.

Among the newly-approved Fedora 43 changes that have been signed off by FESCo include:

- Golang 1.25 for providing the latest Go programming language support.

- Fedora's Anaconda installer is cleared to drop support for UEFI on MBR partitioned disks -- leaving only UEFI on GPT partitions support.

- Cross-compilation support for the Free Pascal Compiler shipped

A late change to the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end that may help efforts particularly for the ROCm compute support on RDNA3 hardware is finally merging support for using true 16-bit instructions and registers on all RDNA3 GPUs.

Merged earlier this summer was [AMDGPU][True16] set true16 mode as default on gfx110x . As noted there for enabling the "True16" mode on all GFX110x RDNA3 GPUs:

"There are quite a

Arm engineer Karunika Choo has been leading the effort to enable support for the latest Mali GPUs within the open-source and upstream "Panthor" DRM kernel graphics driver for Linux. This work includes being able to enable the latest Mali 5th Gen GPUs on this open-source graphics driver.

Published on Monday were the latest round of patches for enabling support for newer Mali GPUs with the Panthor driver. For end-users the exciting aspect is enabling support for the Mali G310, G510,

LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today announced the availability of Fwupd 2.0.13 for handling firmware updates on modern Linux systems.

With Fwupd 2.0.13 there is some new hardware support for devices able to carry out firmware updates under this open-source software. The HP USB-C 100W G6 Dock, Logitech Bulk Controller peripherals, and more MediaTek scaler devices have all joined the growing supported hardware list for Fwupd and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (