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AerynOS Tooling Now Written In Rust Rather Than D, New Software Updates

Phoronix | June 30, 2025, 8:27 p.m. | Original

Coincidentally after writing this morning wondering about what's going on with AerynOS (formerly known as Serpent OS), contributors "NomadicCore" and "Ermo" have issued a new project update outlining what's been going on the past few months.

While there hasn't been much external communication out of the project and project leader Ikey Doherty remains absent, there has been a lot happening. AerynOS tooling has been converted from the D programming language to now being written in Rust. AerynOS has also rebuilt every recipe in

Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel Brings Experimental Panther Lake Support

Phoronix | June 30, 2025, 7:24 p.m. | Original

While Q2 is drawing to an end in the coming hours, Intel software engineers this evening just released the Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2025Q1 update that provides all of their latest patches around Intel GPU/video acceleration for this widely-used, open-source multimedia library that have yet to be upstreamed into FFmpeg proper.

The Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel is their developer staging area for Intel acceleration patches still working their way to FFmpeg Git. Notable with this 2025Q1 update is providing experimental support

Ubuntu Debcrafters Team Formed To Help Ensure The Health Of The Ubuntu Archive

Phoronix | June 30, 2025, 11:56 a.m. | Original

Jon Seager as the VP of Engineering at Canonical today publicly announced the formation of their "Debcrafters" global team to help ensure the health of the Ubuntu Archive.

The Ubuntu developers part of this Debcrafters team will help ensure the punctual syncing and merging of Debian (DEB) packages from upstream Debian. Seager explained in the Debcrafters announcement:

"This team will take the lead on syncing & merging packages from Debian, reviewing proposed migration issues, upstreaming Ubuntu deltas, and take ownership of major transitions such as upgrades to glibc and

The Best Boring Benchmarks: Rocky Linux 10 & AlmaLinux 10 Performance Against RHEL 10

Phoronix | June 30, 2025, 10:20 a.m. | Original

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AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux remain two of the most popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives that are maintained by the open-source community. With the recent Rocky Linux 10 GA release that followed the recent AlmaLinux 10 release for re-basing against Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 , here are some benchmarks looking at the performance of these popular downstreams compared to RHEL 10.

With AlmaLinux 10.0 and Rocky Linux 10.0 being derived from the same sources as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0

KDE Improving Its Clock With Wayland Picture-In-Picture Protocol

Phoronix | June 30, 2025, 8:55 a.m. | Original

KDE developers are improving its clock "KClock" app with leveraging the experimental Wayland picture-in-picture protocol support.

For purposes like embedding a clock or timer window picture-in-picture while screensharing a presentation, KClock is adding Wayland picture-in-picture support for this functionality that will be available under KDE Plasma with the Wayland session but not under X11.

KDE developer Kai Uwe Broulik wrote a blog post aorund the improved KDE clock handling thanks to Wayland picture-in-picture mode. While experimental

AMD Instinct Accelerators With So Much vRAM Have Exposed Linux Hibernation Issues

Phoronix | June 30, 2025, 7:07 a.m. | Original

Too much vRAM and too many Instinct accelerators per server is causing system hibernation to fail on some high-end AMD AI Linux-powered servers. Having eight accelerators each with 192GB of device memory can in turn cause system hibernation to run into problems if the Linux server has only 2TB of system RAM... But a new patch series was posted today in working to address this problem with the Linux kernel for high-end systems failing to hibernate. A similar issue is that when thawing the system

It's Now Been Three Months Since The Last AerynOS Release

Phoronix | June 30, 2025, 6:46 a.m. | Original

Released three months ago was the first AerynOS ISO release for that Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty and from there plans were laid to provide "accelerated delivery of milestone ISOs." But now Q2 is ending without any further announcements from this interesting Linux distribution formerly known as SerpentOS.

After many announcements over the course of Q1, SerpentOS now known as AerynOS had been making some interesting improvements as they built out their own Rust-based infrastructure and package management and more. Now being three months since their last announcement and

Btrfs Preps Experimental Large Data Folios For Better Performance

Phoronix | June 30, 2025, 6:23 a.m. | Original

It looks like Linux 6.17 could end up enabling experimental support for large data folios that could help with bringing some performance improvements under real-world workloads for this copy-on-write file-system.

Qu Wenruo of SUSE has a patch queued in David Sterba's Btrfs "for-next" branch to enable experimental large data folio support. Qu explains on the patch message:

With all the preparation patches already merged, it's pretty easy to enable large data folios:

- Remove the ASSERT

Fedora 44 Will Not Pursue The Idea Of Ending 32-bit x86 Software Packages

Phoronix | June 30, 2025, 6:12 a.m. | Original

A proposal raised last week for Fedora 44 was to drop i686 support with ending multi-lib and x86 32-bit packages support . But following a fair amount of opposition to the idea, this matter isn't going to be pursued for next spring's Fedora 44 release.

Similar to the Fedora change proposal last week that wanted to replace the X.Org Server with the XLibre fork and then that idea was withdrawn days later , this proposal around ending the Fedora i

Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2 Launches For $4

Phoronix | June 30, 2025, 6:02 a.m. | Original

The newest product in the Raspberry Pi family launching today is the Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2.

The Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2 is the organization's first standalone WiFi and Bluetooth radio module. The Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2 is priced at $4 USD and makes use of the same Infineon CYW43439 employed by the Raspberry Pi Pico and Pico 2 W. Raspberry Pi hopes this new radio module offering will pair with deployments making use of the RP2040 / RP2050

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