Open-source News

Android's Linux Terminal app picks up some new tricks in QPR1 Beta 5  Android Authority

Fwupd 2.1.6 Improves Firmware Update Handling on Linux  Linuxiac

While the Linux 7.2 feature merge window ended just days ago and the better part of two months now before v7.2 will be released as stable, there are already features beginning to accumulate that will target the Linux 7.3 cycle. The most exciting change I've seen to kick off that dance ahead of Linux 7.3 is addressing a "significant" bottleneck affecting small direct I/O performance with speedy storage such as PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs...

Linux 7.3 To Overcome "Significant Bottleneck" For Small I/O With PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs  Phoronix

Fwupd 2.1.6 Linux Firmware Updater Released with New Features and Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

AMD Sends Out Latest Linux Patches For RMPOPT Optimization  Phoronix

Earlier this year AMD disclosed the RMPOPT instruction that given the timing will seemingly be introduced with upcoming Zen 6 EPYC "Venice" processors. The RMPOPT feature amounts to a performance optimization for AMD EPYC SEV-SNP enabled servers by cutting down on the associated Reverse Map Table (RMP) overhead. Linux enablement of AMD RMPOPT remains ongoing and out this week is the latest iteration of the enablement...

I turned my old Galaxy phone into a pocket Linux server with Termux  How-To Geek

You can now finally run Linux containers in Windows – without third-party tools  TechRadar

3 sudo replacements and the one that makes it entirely useless  How-To Geek

Microsoft lets Azure Linux 4 out of the cloud in downloadable ISO form  The Register

Red Hat has contributed new system-wide tunables infrastructure to the GNU C Library "glibc" that allows specifying system-wide tunables via the new /etc/tunables.conf configuration file...

Perfection in Linux isn't adding features—Openbox taught me its about removing them  How-To Geek

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team continues taking special focus on AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 era GPUs for enhancing the open-source graphics driver support for these aging graphics cards...

RADV & RadeonSI Drivers See New Fixes For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs  Phoronix

RootBoard open-hardware Linux handheld launches with Raspberry Pi Zero support  LinuxGizmos.com

KDE Plasma finally added per-screen virtual desktops, and it's yet another reason I'm not going back to Windows  XDA

10ZiG Announces General Availability of 10ZiG Manager v6 and Linux Virtual Appliance  PRWeb

6 Backup Tools for Linux Users of All Kind  It's FOSS

Linux fixed my oldest PC problems—and it has nothing to do with speed  How-To Geek