Open-source News

Intel Compute Runtime 23.39.27427.23 has been released today as the newest version of this open-source GPU compute stack for Windows and Linux systems for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support. The Compute Runtime works from aging Broadwell and Skylake/Gen9 graphics up through the latest DG2 discrete graphics and the recently launched Meteor Lake processors with their much improved integrated graphics...

Intel CR 23.39.27427.23 Delivers Latest Open-Source GPU Compute Capabilities  Phoronix

The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel display/graphics driver changes have been submitted for the Linux 6.8 kernel. As expected and to much excitement, the experimental new Xe kernel graphics driver is included for introduction in Linux 6.8 as well as the Imagination PowerVR driver for select Rogue GPUs. Plus there's new AMDGPU driver additions and other improvements with this pull, including the initial AMD color management code...

Intel's New "Xe" Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8 Along With Imagination's PowerVR Driver  Phoronix

Mirai-Based NoaBot Launches a DDoS Attack on Linux Devices  GBHackers

Linux-Based Handheld PCs  Trend Hunter

Mesa 24.0 feature development has concluded for this quarterly feature update to this set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers most notably for AMD Radeon and Intel graphics on Linux but also an increasing number of smaller drivers, like for Apple Silicon, the NVK / Nouveau drivers, Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan, and more...

Linux Foundation Welcomes OpenTofu, the Terraform™ Fork  Read IT Quik

Linux 6.8 is continuing the work toward allowing the sysctl sentinel to be removed, the final empty element on sysctl arrays. This ongoing effort will in turn allow for saving an extra 64 bytes on each sysctl array and will enhance the build time size of the kernel...

Linux 6.8 Continues Work For Clearing The sysctl Sentinel Bloat  Phoronix

With it being nearly one year since the release of Qt 6.5 LTS and Qt 6.6 having debuted in October, The Qt Company has not put Qt 6.5 LTS into its commercial-only phase with today's Qt 6.5.4 release...

Eric Engestrom has released Mesa 23.3.3 as the latest stable update to this set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan graphics drivers plus being the first update of the new year...

How to check your CPU usage in Linux  Tom's Guide

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Building a Robust LAMP Stack on Ubuntu/Debian  Linux Journal

It's not too often hearing Linus Torvalds himself raising the alarm bells over performance regressions of the Linux kernel, but that happened this evening with the ongoing Linux 6.8 merge window. Torvalds' AMD Ryzen Threadripper system suddenly was suffering from much longer build times at least as a result of new code for this kernel...

Linus Torvalds Hits Nasty Performance Regression With Early Linux 6.8 Code  Phoronix

GNU Hurd Has Been Making Progress On Its x86_64 Support  Phoronix

While GNU Hurd predates the Linux kernel, its hardware support has been woefully behind with very limited and dated hardware support compared to modern PC/server hardware. Not only that, its been largely x86 limited but during Q4'2023 the developers involved have made progress on x86_64 support and begun tackling AArch64 porting...

Following the Bcachefs file-system having finally been upstreamed in the Linux 6.7 kernel, with the Linux 6.8 merge window now ticking the file-system's lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted a set of feature additions and performance optimizations to this copy-on-write (CoW) file-system...