Open-source News

Sound Open Firmware 2.6 was released on Thursday for this Intel-started open-source software project for having a fully open audio DSP firmware stack and related development tooling. While initially limited to Intel hardware support, SOF has since grown and seen support from the likes of Mediatek, Realtek, NXP, and even recent AMD SoCs...

Mission Linux: How the open source software is now a lucrative target for hackers  CSO Online

China's Loongson continues preparing the software support for their upcoming 3A6000 processors that will feature several new capabilities over their inaugural LoongArch-based 3A5000 series...

LoongArch Adds Simultaneous Multi-Threading, SIMD/Vector ...  Phoronix

What it takes to keep an enterprise 'Frankenkernel' alive  The Register

Cloud Hypervisor has advanced quite nicely in the half-year it's been around since Intel software engineers began writing this Rust-based cloud-focused virtualization hypervisor. This VMM project has since become more independent and regularly receiving code contributions from the likes of Arm, Microsoft, and Tencent while also gaining the support of companies like AMD and Ampere. On Thursday marked the release of Cloud Hypervisor 33...

The PCI subsystem updates have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.5 development...

Linux 6.5 Should Spend Less Time Waiting On PCIe Devices  Phoronix

How to Create Symbolic Links in Linux  Beebom

How to Create Symbolic Links in Linux  Beebom

Intel Meteor Lake-S Canceled or Not? Patches For Desktop Lineup Still Showing Up In Linux  Wccftech

6 Ways to Run Linux Software on Mac  Make Tech Easier

Forget Windows 12, Nitrux 2.9.0 Linux distribution should be your ...  BetaNews

Canonical Releases New Ubuntu Kernel Security Updates to Fix 3 Vulnerabilities  9to5Linux

Following Red Hat's decision earlier this month to limit access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code and that leading to downstreams scrambling to figure out their paths forward to avoid tracking CentOS Stream instead and still aiming to offer 1:1 RHEL compatibility without being restricted by the Red Hat Customer Portal, the Rocky Linux distribution today expressed a few of the ideas they are considering...

Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code  Phoronix

The Arm (and RISC-V) SoC updates have been submitted for merging to the Linux 6.5 kernel. Additions this cycle include an exciting RISC-V processor now supported, NVIDIA Tegra234 "Orin" upstream additions, and other new SoCs and devices/boards being upstreamed...

Alibaba T-Head TH1520 RISC-V CPU & A Few New Arm SoCs ...  Phoronix

How to Create a New systemd Service on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme: Windows vs. Linux CPU Performance Review  Phoronix