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      AlmaLinux Rolls Out New Software/Hardware Certification Portal, Self-Certify App

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:02

    Two years ago RHEL-derived AlmaLinux announced a hardware certification program as part of their Certification Special Interest Group (SIG). They have now expanded their hardware certification program to include third-party software certification on AlmaLinux too plus a new app that users can install for self-certifying their system...
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      Linux Kernel Introducing New Taint Due To Fuzzing Bots Yielding Impractical Bug Reports

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:08

    The Linux kernel is having to introduce a new taint flag "TAINT_FORCED_BIND" to deal with fuzzing bots like Syzbot abusing Linux's bind/unbind sysfs functionality and generating bug reports for impractical and not at all relevant hardware/driver combinations...
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      Mir 2.30 Released Now With Rust Required, Mir Roadmap Published

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:51

    Canonical today released Mir 2.30 as the newest release of this Wayland compositor library for building out different shells and other functionality from smart mirrors to other consumer devices...
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      Fwupd 2.1.8 Released With New Hardware Support From ASUS, Lenovo & Others

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:23

    Lead LVFS/Fwupd developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced Fwupd 2.1.8 today as the newest feature release for this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems. With Fwupd 2.1.8 comes support for a number of newer devices plus plenty of bug fixes...
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      "slab_tiny" Boot Option Proposed For Tiny Linux Systems With Very Limited RAM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:10

    In 2022 the SLOB allocator was deprecated and removed with Linux 6.4 a year later. SLOB was popular with embedded systems with minimal amounts of RAM, so as a result the CONFIG_SLUB_TINY Kconfig option was then added for configuring the slab allocator for a minimal memory footprint for systems with 16MB of RAM or less. The CONFIG_SLUB_TINY is now on the chopping block with a proposed rework to the allocator code for making the "tiny" memory handling a boot time option...
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      Linux 7.4 DRM Infrastructure Better Supporting HDMI 2.0 With New Helpers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:49

    Sent out today was the latest weekly pull of drm-misc-next changes of feature material to queue in DRM-Next for Linux 7.4. Most notable in this week's pull request are a number of patches for enhancing the HDMI 2.0 handling in the DRM core infrastructure and display helpers...
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      Debian Inference Portal Launches To Provide Free AI/LLM Inferencing To Debian Developers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    With Debian voting to allow the responsible use of generative AI, there is now a new initiative funded by Scaleway to make it easier for Debian contributors to leverage AI: the Debian Inference Portal...
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      Qualcomm Talks Up Linux On Snapdragon X2 Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    Qualcomm at their Snapdragon Summit taking place in Hawaii are talking up the forthcoming Linux support for Snapdragon X2 series laptops...
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      Lemonade Fixes AMD APU Model Streaming, Drops OpenMOSS ROCm As ~40x Slower Than Vulkan

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    The AMD-aligned Lemonade open-source project for serving as a local AI server released 2026.39.1 today as well as issuing a release candidate of 2026.40 as their next release. Besides adapting to a new versioning scheme, the Lemonade SDK updates today bring a few notable changes...