Going back to 2016 Intel began working on MIPI SoundWire support for Linux and now in 2023, AMD has joined the party with their initial AMD SoundWire support driver landing in the mainline kernel.

LibreOffice 7.5.3 open-source office suite is now available for download and includes more than 110 bug fixes.

Recently I noticed out-of-the-box on Ubuntu Linux the performance of Intel Xeon Scalable 'Sapphire Rapids' processors was much improved for some workloads compared to tests done just weeks ago on the same Sapphire Rapids server.

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Open source, naturally by design, welcomes diversity because anyone can contribute the code from anywhere in the world. Teams are often geographically distributed, which leads to more expertise, viewpoints and life experiences and positive results.

Fedora Linux now has a better performing default storage option at a lower cost on AWS.

Dav1d as the open-source AV1 video decoder developed as part of the VideoLAN project is out with a new minor feature release.

The reference AVIF image encoder for the AV1 Image File Format has added experimental support for AV2, the next-generation codec that remains in development by the Alliance for Open Media.

While Intel Thunder Bay sparked rumors years ago as potentially being a mix of Intel x86 cores and Movidius VPU cores, although the Linux patches put it as ARM cores paired with the Movidius VPU, Thunder Bay is no more

Going back to mid-2022 AMD engineers have been working on Virtual NMI support with SVM for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) as an efficiency optimization

Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham shared that key KDE developers are currently in Germany for an in-person Plasma 6.0 development sprint.

While these days Linus Torvalds is mostly dealing with herding new code into the Linux kernel and being a gate keeper rather than actively developing new kernel code himself, for the in-development Linux 6.4 he's found himself doing a bit of coding.

Intel software engineers have released a new version of their Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC) as their C language variant with extensions for enhancing single-program, multiple-data programming for both CPUs and GPUs.

One of the missing RISC-V features now in place for the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel is system hibernation / suspend-to-disk support.

While the Linux 6.4 merge window is closing this weekend, today on the last full day of the period is Jens Axboe submitting pipe FMODE_NOWAIT support as what he's described as a big performance and efficiency improvement.

Ubuntu 23.10 daily builds are now available to download. Having given the next release a magnificent mythical codename and opened the archives for