Open-source News

Zlib-ng 2.1.4 Brings LoongArch Port, New RISC-V & ARM Optimizations

Phoronix - Sun, 10/22/2023 - 18:20
Zlib-ng 2.1.4 was released this week as the newest version of this Zlib data compression library intended for "next generation" uses. Zlib-ng continues having a lower barrier for new contributions and optimizations than the upstream Zlib repository itself to allow for it to more rapidly evolve on today's systems...

Libreboot 20231021 Brings Some Additional Laptops, Desktops / Motherboards For Testing

Phoronix - Sun, 10/22/2023 - 08:30
Libreboot 20231021 was published for testing today as the newest Coreboot downstream focused on providing only fully free software support for system firmware with more stringent open-source requirements than Coreboot itself...

Intel Optimizing Its MDS Mitigation Handling To Avoid Possible Kernel Data Leaking

Phoronix - Sat, 10/21/2023 - 21:16
An Intel engineer on Friday posted a set of Linux kernel patches that are working to refine the Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) mitigation handling for the Linux kernel to better protect some kernel data and also some very subtle performance benefits...

TuxClocker 1.2 Released With AMD GPU Thermal Monitoring, CPU Governor Controls

Phoronix - Sat, 10/21/2023 - 20:50
Ever since the release of TuxClocker 1.0 last month, this open-source community software project for enhancing overclocking controls under Linux has been living up to the "release early, release often" mantra. Out today is TuxClocker 1.2...

FreeBSD 14.0-RC2 Pulls In OpenZFS 2.2, OpenSSH 9.5p1

Phoronix - Sat, 10/21/2023 - 18:38
FreeBSD 14.0 is preparing for release in early November as a big update to this leading BSD operating system. It's going to be a great release and Friday's FreeBSD 14.0-RC2 milestone landed some last minute updates...

More Optimizations Made For Making GNOME/VTE Terminals Go Faster

Phoronix - Sat, 10/21/2023 - 18:30
Back in September GNOME developer Christian Hergert noted how Linux terminal emulators have the potential of being much faster based on his experiments. While at the time he didn't plan to pursue it further, in the weeks since he's been making enhancements to GNOME's VTE code that is used by GNOME Console and other apps...

Geany 2.0 Lightweight IDE / Text Editor Released

Phoronix - Sat, 10/21/2023 - 18:18
Thursday marked the 18th birthday of the Geany open-source text editor / lightweight integrated development environment (IDE) project. In celebrating Geany turning 18, the Geany 2.0 release was made available. Geany 2.0 continues to strive toward the project goal of being a fast and easy to use text editor for coding...

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