Open-source News

Looking Back On 30 Years Of Debian  Hackaday

LibreOffice releases new versions for Windows, macOS and Linux  iTWire

Intel is well regarded for their vast open-source contributions from being a major contributor to the Linux kernel and other areas like Mesa, GCC/glibc, and other key open-source projects to various niche projects like ConnMan and other smaller software projects. Debuting a few months ago as one of the newest open-source Intel projects catching us by surprise was Intel One Mono as a font designed for developers. Today brings a new version of that font...

Bodhi Linux 7.0 Released with New Theme & Linux Kernels  OMG! Ubuntu!

New (Windows) tools have been released that break the NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock, the "security" functionality in use since the GeForce GTX 900 days around signed firmware/BIOS handling. This authentication mechanism is what in turn has led to the GeForce GTX 700 series still being the best supported series by the open-source Nouveau driver while the GTX 900 series and later have been crippled to their low boot clock speeds due to PMU/re-clocking restrictions. While Nouveau developers have been working on the GPU System Processor (GSP) approach for RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs and newer to workaround this limitation as NVIDIA's blessed path forward, the NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock has now been broken by Windows modders...

Bugs in x86 chips force Linux kernel update  Network World

Git 2.42 is out today as the newest feature update for this dominant open-source distributed revision control system...

PCLinuxOS used to be great for Linux newbies, but not anymore  ZDNet

Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock would have been amazed at its legacy  ZDNet

Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock would have been amazed at its legacy  ZDNet

In recent days a number of feature patches were queued in HID-next to provide new driver features and hardware support within the Human Interface Device subsystem...

Several HID Driver Improvements Ready For Linux 6.6  Phoronix

Navigating your way around the Linux file system  Network World

Windows 11 Has Made the 'Clean Windows Install' an Oxymoron  Slashdot

The amdfwtool utility living within the Coreboot repository for dealing with AMD platform firmware files has now added support for EPYC 9004 "Genoa" processors...

On Friday AMD sent out another pull request of AMDGPU/AMDKFD driver changes for the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window. With the Linux 6.5 release due out likely in one week and the cut-off having passed for new "feature" code for DRM-Next, this latest AMDGPU pull request was centered around bug-fixes but also with a few minor additions...

Linux 6.6 AMDGPU Driver To Expose Current & Average Power For ...  Phoronix

Bodhi Linux 7.0 challenges Microsoft Windows 11  BetaNews

Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen4 AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U Linux ...  Phoronix

For those that have been eyeing an AMD Ryzen 7 7040 "Phoenix" series laptop for Linux use, over the coming weeks ahead there will be benchmarks and a review on the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen4 with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U laptop. With this 8-core / 16-thread Zen 4 mobile processor clocking up to 5.1GHz, 64GB of LPDDR5x-6400 memory, 1TB NVMe SSD, and 2.8K OLED display it should be a real treat if the Linux support is all in good shape...