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Posted at the start of 2022 was a set of 2.3k patches dubbed 'fast kernel headers' to massively speed-up build times for compiling the kernel and to address dependency hell situations

Releasing at the end of February is the much anticipated Plasma 6.0 desktop where the Wayland session is the default

The newest frontier by the Linux Foundation is getting involved with coming up with a formal file format specification for Lottie, the vector graphics animation format based on JSON.

Back in November 2022 AMD announced Brotli-G for GPU-accelerated Brotli compression

Linux hardware vendor Purism that is known for their crowd-funded Librem 5 smartphone effort, Linux-loaded laptops, and other privacy-minded wares announced a first public offering of Purism stock on the StartEngine platform.

It looks like the Red Hat change restricting access to RHEL sources that was announced last year is having the unintended consequence of causing some headaches for CentOS special interest group (SIG) projects.

As I wrote about at the start of January, the open-source ATI Radeon R300 Linux graphics driver continues seeing new improvements even all these years later thanks to the open-source community

ChipStar 1.1 was released this past week as one of the open-source projects to help in porting HIP and CUDA applications to support the industry-standard SPIR-V

Following the recent branching of LLVM 18, LLVM 18.1-rc1 was released today as the first test candidate for this half-year update of this widely-used open-source compiler stack.

As a follow-up to last week's article around the GCC compiler seeing patches for AMD RDNA3 GPU support so that it's 'working for most purposes', that code has now been merged and it's also been confirmed to also bring the RDNA2 support up to a working state.