Open-source News

4 Ways Red Hat's Source Code Restrictions Affect Other Distros  MUO - MakeUseOf

An independent developer has posted an open-source Linux driver for review in order to handle the Apple Studio Display backlight control under Linux. The Apple Studio Display uses a Thunderbolt (DP) interface for display but lacks any hardware controls. Thus a USB interface is used by the monitor for controlling attributes like the display backlight brightness...

Apple Studio Display Linux Driver Published To Control The Backlight  Phoronix

Lavapipe as the software-based Vulkan implementation within Mesa has now landed support for Vulkan descriptor extensions and in turn this CPU-based Vulkan implementation can begin running some Direct3D 12 games with VKD3D-Proton. Keep in mind, however, the performance is severely limited...

Currently most avionics real-time operating systems for airplanes are proprietary and very specialized for safety assurance reasons. Using Linux though and other open-source software would ease development, open more developers to being able to work on said avionics platforms, have much better documentation, and lower other barriers, but there are challenges currently involved...

The Current Challenges With Using Linux On Airplanes  Phoronix

Linux creator Linus Torvalds doesn't write as much actual kernel code these days as he used to. These days he's often busy overseeing the upstream kernel development community with reviewing code, managing releases, and chiming in on mailing list discussions. Once in a while though he gets down and dirty with some low-level kernel hacking just as he's done now for Linux 6.5 with improving the user-mode stack expansion code...

Linus Torvalds Gets Coding To Improve Linux's User-Mode Stack ...  Phoronix

The Compute Express Link (CXL) enablement in the Linux kernel remains ongoing and with the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel are yet more features now being enabled for this exciting industry standard...

Linux 6.5 Adds CXL Device Sanitization, Secure Erase, CXL 3.0 ...  Phoronix

KDE developers finished out June on a high note with many features and new fixes landing for Plasma 6.0 development as well as refinements for later Plasma 5.27 point releases...

How to Copy Files in Linux (2 Ways)  Beebom

The Suicide Attempt by Red Hat [Opinion]  It's FOSS News

Rocky Strikes Back At Red Hat  Hackaday

Former Canonical Developer is Working on a Script that Replaces ...  Slashdot

With the first-half of the year amazingly already in the books, here is a look back at what's captivated Linux/open-source fans the most from all the content on Phoronix. So far this year I have personally written 1,407 original news articles on software/hardware topics and another 74 original Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles...

What's Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts & Linux Users The Most So ...  Phoronix

While OpenZFS 3.0 has been talked about for a few years with macOS support, it doesn't appear to be on the immediate horizon and the OpenZFS 2.2 release is being worked on currently for providing a few new features to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation on Linux and FreeBSD systems...

OpenZFS 2.2-rc1 Brings Linux Container Support, BLAKE3 ...  Phoronix

8 Things You Need to Know Before Switching From Windows to ...  MUO - MakeUseOf