Open-source News

Linus Torvalds: "This is Garbage!" Criticizes the RISC-V Patch for Linux 6.17  Red Hot Cyber

Debian 13 'trixie' released with five years of support and new architecture options  BetaNews

Why some games on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck have broken videos and what you can do  GamingOnLinux

While there is already MoltenVK for Vulkan implemented over Apple's Metal graphics API, the graphics engineers at LunarG have announced KosmicKrisp as a Mesa-based driver implementing Vulkan over Metal...

Hackers Turn Linux Webcams into Keystroke Injection and Attack Platforms  Cyber Press

Hackers Weaponized Linux Webcams as Attack Tools to Inject Keystrokes and Launch Attacks  CyberSecurityNews

Legitimate System Functions Weaponized to Steal Secrets in Shared Linux Environments  Cyber Press

Recently we looked at the performance of the AMD EPYC 4545P that is a 16 core 65 Watt processor in the EPYC 4005 "Grado" series. This is quite an interesting processor for those after low-power servers, edge AI deployments, and other purposes with no similar Ryzen 9000 series processor or competition from Intel offering sixteen performance cores at around 65 Watts. Complementing all the performance and power data from that review article, here are some additional tests putting its performance and efficiency compared to the original AMD EPYC 7601 flagship processor that ushered in the EPYC family eight years ago.

Linux desktop frozen? My 5 go-to tricks to try - before forcing a hard reboot  ZDNET

Linux Cache-Aware Scheduling / Load Balancing Updated With New Tuning Knob  Phoronix

Intel engineer Chen Yu posted a fresh round of Linux kernel patches working on cache-aware scheduling/load-balancing for this functionality being sought after both by Intel and AMD. The new patches should address some performance regressions observed in the prior patches...

For those making use of the Network File System (NFS), the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel is bringing some nice improvements both for the NFS server and client code...

Linux developer receives public warning from Torvalds  Techzine Global

Debian 13 arrives with major updates for Linux users - what's new in 'Trixie'  ZDNET

UnplugRed ModMan, a free perlin noise modulation plugin for mac, Linux and Windows  synth anatomy

Linux Webcams Weaponized to Inject Keystrokes and Execute Attacks  GBHackers News

Legitimate System Functions Exploited to Steal Secrets in Shared Linux Setups  GBHackers News

Classic Marathon Trilogy on Steam gets a Beta with Linux support and lots of overall improvements  GamingOnLinux

Torvalds blasts kernel dev for late 'garbage' RISC-V patches  theregister.com

For hybrid CPU core designs from recent Intel Core (Ultra) processors to ARM big.LIITTLE, a patch series was posted today in seeking to enhance the generic ACPI processor idle driver around processors with multiple types of CPU cores...