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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Linux 7.0

« on: April 12, 2026, 07:49:16 pm »

I've just manually built the kernel for Fedora 44 (as of now Fedora has not yet, likely they are going to stick to 6.19 for the F44 release). So far no issue, everything just work for me. Having said that I do not run DB, web server or NAS on the blackbird system so I could not verify if there are regressions to those applications

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Operating Systems and Porting / [NEWS] Linux 7.0

« on: April 12, 2026, 06:20:30 pm »

More information: https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges

Key highlights from the Linux 7.0 changelog include:

File Systems:

* XFS: Introduction of autonomous self-healing capabilities.
* EXT4: Enhanced performance for concurrent direct I/O writes.
* Performance & Memory:
* Faster swap mechanisms.
* Improved memory reclamation for file caches.
* Standardized generic I/O handling.

Architecture & Security:

* Intel TSX optimizations.
* Quantum-resistant kernel module signing.

Language Support:

* The Rust language experiment is considered complete and is now a core, non-experimental part of the kernel.

Hardware Support:

*General improvements and support for new hardware devices


POWERPC
kdump: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
powernv: Enable cpuidle state detection for POWER11
book3s64: Hash / SLB fixes & improvements (cover)
smp: Expose die_id and die_cpumask

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Applications and Porting / Re: Little Snitch for Linux!

« on: April 11, 2026, 11:07:15 pm »

Isn't it the popular firewall for OSX? I fondly remember then it was quite good

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Applications and Porting / Re: Firefox WebAssembly (WASM) on ppc64le? Jitsi Meet, Zoom, etc not working

« on: April 01, 2026, 11:52:32 pm »

I am going to try to make his JIT work run again on the newer version - still in progress. I will NOT touch the WASM in this work

ref: https://github.com/runlevel5/firefox/pull/1

READY for testing:

* Ion JIT
* WASM
* WASM SIMD
* POWER9 Optimization

Basically it is on par with ARM64 backend

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Applications and Porting / Re: RustiCL on Fedora 39

« on: March 30, 2026, 05:47:25 pm »

It's been awhile, perhaps you should give it another a go

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-Modern-CL-Conformance

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Unvanquished is now fully open-sourced

« on: March 30, 2026, 05:29:53 pm »

Another progress with supporting NaCl sandboxing feature

https://github.com/DaemonEngine/Daemon/pull/1946

That is to use box64 emulation

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] UT99, UTGOLD, UT2004 on native PPC64LE!

« on: March 29, 2026, 05:15:35 pm »

You are right, the game is indeed not CPU bound. It's not clear to me if OldUnreal team has any plan to add Vulkan renderer for UT2004.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] UT99, UTGOLD, UT2004 on native PPC64LE!

« on: March 27, 2026, 08:31:15 pm »

I guess let's wait for UT2004 v3374 released first then we could try to convince OldUnreal team to do the same for UT99 and UTGOLD

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] UT99, UTGOLD, UT2004 on native PPC64LE!

« on: March 27, 2026, 08:22:22 pm »

It's HERE FOLKS! Please grab Preview17 version https://github.com/OldUnreal/UT2004Patches/releases/tag/3374-preview-17

Great thanks to Tim and OldUnreal team for the enormous efforts to get this great game supported

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [BUG] Linux 7.0-rc1

« on: March 26, 2026, 08:56:29 pm »

is the issue finally resolved? Or you simply revert those ppc changes in your own downstream patch?

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] Unvanquished is now fully open-sourced

« on: March 26, 2026, 04:48:17 am »

FYI the game could be played easily after disabling NaCL sandboxing (which does not support POWER btw)

https://github.com/DaemonEngine/Daemon/pull/1945

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Operating Systems and Porting / Chimera Linux planning to retire support for Big endian for 32bit and 64bit PPC

« on: March 26, 2026, 04:10:01 am »

ref: https://chimera-linux.org/news/2026/03/retiring-powerpc.html

Maintaining support for Little Endian is already hard enough. I can understand q66's decision. I personally has no particular softwares that would benefit greatly from BE.

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Operating Systems and Porting / A bootloader in Rust

« on: March 18, 2026, 09:28:38 am »

I just randomly bump into this interesting project https://siliconislandblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/18/booting-with-rust-chapter-3/

We all have been using grub for boot loader so to see yet another project trying to address shortcomings of grub is definitely intriguing.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 44 Beta is out!

« on: March 17, 2026, 05:18:43 pm »

Great choice! Enlightenment is indeed a great option. I vividly remember back then when Samsung was sponsoring this project for their Tizen OS. Btw is amdgpu working well with FreeBSD?

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] UT99, UTGOLD, UT2004 on native PPC64LE!

« on: March 16, 2026, 05:34:09 pm »

Tim said Preview 12 will be available natively! Amazing news! I cannot wait to go back to this beautiful game