Open-source News

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has landed a new set of patches for Mesa 23.2 that are further optimizing the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" for lower overhead in some code paths...

RADV Driver Lands More Vulkan Overhead Reduction Optimizations  Phoronix

Being merged into LLVM's libc library recently are an optimized memory copy function "memcpy" implementation for the RISC-V architecture...

There is pending patches for adding support for the LEAKSHIELD device to the Aquacomputer Linux device driver. German PC component manufacturer Aquacomputer has been enjoying support for their various products on Linux and the latest seeing support in this open-source driver is the Aquacomputer Leakshield for reporting any water cooling leaks and other performance metrics around your cooling setup...

Linux Adding Leakshield Driver Support For Reporting Liquid ...  Phoronix

Bodhi Linux 7.0 Beta is Now Available for Testing  OMG! Ubuntu!

Bodhi Linux 7.0 Beta is Now Available for Testing  OMG! Ubuntu!

As covered a few days ago on Phoronix, there's been early progress on HDR display support for the KDE desktop among other highlights this week...

How to Prevent Brute-Force Attacks on Linux Using Fail2ban  MUO - MakeUseOf

Get some quality deck-building in this game bundle  GamingOnLinux

Intel quietly released a new whitepaper and specification for their proposal on "X86-S" as a 64-bit only x86 architecture. If their plans workout, in the years ahead we could see a revised 64-bit only x86 architecture...

The Free Way To Speed Up An Old Mac  Forbes

While the Vulkan high performance graphics and compute API is backed by many vendors, Microsoft and Apple are two notable organizations that haven't backed this Khronos Group standard. For Microsoft's part, they obviously prefer their in-house Direct3D. However, Microsoft is making preparations for submitting their first Vulkan extension...

AMD engineers have been working out many quirks and oddities in system suspend/resume handling to make it more reliable on their hardware particularly around Ryzen laptops. In addition to suspend/resume reliability improvements and suspend-to-idle (s2idle) enhancements, one of their engineers also discovered an easy one-liner as a small step to speeding up system resume time...

AMD Has A One-Liner To Help Speed Up Linux System Resume Time  Phoronix

Ivan Orlov this past week posted the patches for VALSA, the Virtual ALSA sound driver that aims to help Linux kernel developers in testing and fuzzing of the sound subsystem...

Virtual ALSA Driver Posted To Help With Linux Testing/Fuzzing  Phoronix

VirusTotal Code Insights To Include Linux, Windows Script Files  Cyber Security News

2 Ways to Remove Ubuntu Software Center Packages  H2S Media

How to Find and Remove Duplicate Files in Linux  Beebom