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Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL For Business Developers

Phoronix | July 9, 2025, 10:06 a.m. | Original

Red Hat this morning went public with RHEL for Business Developers, an expansion of their RHEL Developer Program to make it easier for business developers to make use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux at no-cost for their development efforts.

RHEL For Business Developers provides self-serve, no-cost access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux suited for development use within an organization. This RHEL for Business Developers complements their existing individual developer subscription offering as part of the RHEL Developer Program. RHEL for Business Developers is just intended for development and testing

Miracle-WM 0.6 Brings Many Improvements For This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor

Phoronix | July 9, 2025, 9:54 a.m. | Original

Miracle-WM 0.6 is out today as a mega release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor by Canonical/Ubuntu developer Matthew Kosarek. Miracle-WM provides tiling window manager support inspired by i3 and Sway while being one of the most pronounced users of the Mir code.

Miracle-WM 0.6 now provides a shared library with a C interface so applications can write configuration/settings apps around Miracle-WM. There is now the Flutter-based Miracle-Settings app as an example user of this

Intel SR-IOV Support Ready For Panther Lake Graphics But Some Current Platforms Left Behind

Phoronix | July 9, 2025, 8:58 a.m. | Original

Intel discontinued Graphics Virtualization Technology (GVT-G) support several generations ago in favor of supporting SR-IOV for graphics virtualization with Iris Xe and newer integrated/discrete graphics hardware. But with the transition as well from the Linux i915 to Xe kernel graphics drivers, the official SR-IOV support state on Intel graphics is in a bit of an awkward state.

9elements cyber security developer Marcello Sylvester Bauer raised the issue of the awkward state of Intel graphics SR-IOV support under Linux. In particular

PowerVR Vulkan Driver Enhancements Merged Ahead Of Mesa 25.2

Phoronix | July 9, 2025, 6:57 a.m. | Original

The Mesa 25.2 code is expected to be branched next week to kick off the release process for this quarter's iteration of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. As such, there's going to be a mad dash over the next week to land lingering features and other improvements for Mesa 25.2. Making it into Mesa Git today was a big set of 42 patches for the Imagination PowerVR Vulkan driver.

A three month old merge request containing many PowerVR "PVR" open-

Google Developing Skia "Graphite" For Faster Chrome: Multi-Threaded + Modern Graphics APUs

Phoronix | July 9, 2025, 6:40 a.m. | Original

Google yesterday lifted the lid on their work around Skia "Graphite" as a new rasterization back-end designed for modern graphics APIs like Vulkan and supporting multi-threading by default. Skia Graphite aims to deliver much better performance within the Chrome/Chromium web browser.

Chrome uses Skia for rendering and its "Ganesh" rasterization back-end has been showing its age. Skia Ganesh was designed around OpenGL and thus doesn't pair well with modern graphics APIs and has experienced various limitations in recent years. Skia Graphite is

Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 Brings Many Security Fixes

Phoronix | July 9, 2025, 6:32 a.m. | Original

Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 on Tuesday as the newest monthly update to this in-house Linux distribution used throughout the company and by external parties.

Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 brings many security updates as usual. A variety of packages were patched for CVE fixes from CMake to glibc, GRUB2, PostgreSQL, Ruby, sudo, Valkey, and many others.

This July update to Azure Linux 3.0 also now

PHP 8.5 Alpha 1 Released With New Features

Phoronix | July 9, 2025, 6:21 a.m. | Original

The first alpha release of PHP 8.5 was issued last week in kicking off the release cycle in working toward the official PHP 8.5.0 release later in the year.

Some of the changes to be found with the PHP 8.5 Alpha 1 development release include:

- Support for Closures and first-class callables in constant expressions.

- Support for backtraces on fatal errors.

- Adding the #[\NoDiscard] attribute to indicate a function's return value is important and should be consumed.

Amarok 3.3 Released With The Music Player Ported To Qt6 / KDE Frameworks 6

Phoronix | July 8, 2025, 6:56 p.m. | Original

Just over one year after the Amarok 3.0 release after a six year hiatus that brought it to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5, Amarok 3.3 is out today as the first version taking it to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6.

Amarok 3.3 is out for taking this KDE music player into the Qt6 and KF6 world. Amarok's audio engine also now makes use of GStreamer for audio playback. GStreamer is in use for the audio playback rather than KDE's Phonon back-

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GlobalFoundries Acquiring MIPS

Phoronix | July 8, 2025, 1:52 p.m. | Original

Here's an unexpected company match... GlobalFoundries announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MIPS. Yes, the company formerly part of Wave Computing and before that Imagination and Silicon Graphics during its long history. MIPS in recent years hasn't been focused on its namesake CPU architecture but rather RISC-V core designs.

In the MIPS announcement today by Sameer Wasson, CEO, MIPS Technologies, he commented :

"This strategic move validates our product vision and accelerates our mission to power the next

Linux Patched For Transient Scheduler Attacks "TSA" Impacting AMD CPUs

Phoronix | July 8, 2025, 12:19 p.m. | Original

Made public minutes ago is Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA) as a new class of class of speculative side channel attacks affecting AMD processors.

The Linux kernel mitigation for Transient Scheduler Attacks was just merged to Linux Git:

"Add the mitigation logic for Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA)

TSA are new aspeculative side channel attacks related to the execution timing of instructions under specific microarchitectural conditions. In some cases, an attacker may be able to use this timing information to infer data from other contexts, resulting in information leakage.

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