Open-source News

Linus Torvalds Takes On A Performance Patch: "I Relax By Playing ...  Phoronix

"Some people relax with a nice drink by the pool, I relax by playing around with inline [Assembly code]," as a nice quote of the day as Linus Torvalds explained after he took on improving upon a performance optimization patch that was proposed for the ongoing Linux 6.5 merge window...

The Linux coders turning the ROG Ally and other handhelds into Steam Deck clones  Ars Technica

The Linux coders turning the ROG Ally and other handhelds into Steam Deck clones  Ars Technica

The Linux coders turning the ROG Ally and other handhelds into Steam Deck clones  Ars Technica

The power management and ACPI feature changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel. As usual, it's most interesting on the Intel and AMD fronts with the power management changes for this kernel that will be released as stable in August...

Linux 6.5 Now Defaults To AMD P-State "Active" EPP For Modern Ryzen Systems  Phoronix

Microsoft uncovers cryptojacking ploy used to breach Linux devices  Windows Central

Ingo Molnar submitted today the scheduler updates destined for the Linux 6.5 kernel. Most noticeable with the CPU scheduler changes are enhancing SMP (Hyper Threading) load balancing for Intel Core CPUs of a hybrid design with a mix of P and E cores...

Valve nabs critical video developer from Apple Silicon Linux project  AppleInsider

Blender 3.6 is out today as the latest exciting update for this open-source, cross-platform 3D modeling software. Exciting with Blender 3.6 is adding Intel hardware ray-tracing support when making use of Arc Graphics. AMD graphics cards on Windows can also enjoy HIP ray-tracing but sadly isn't supported yet for Linux...

Blender 3.6 Released With Intel Arc Graphics Ray-Tracing, AMD HIP ...  Phoronix

Using PuTTY to connect to Linux  Network World

How to combine Linux commands together for a more efficient experience  ZDNet

Linux 6.5 To Enhance Load Balancing For Intel Hybrid CPUs  Phoronix

Building A Full Linux Debug Kernel Optimized From 53GB To 25GB ...  Phoronix

Processing the vmlinux.o object with objtool has been the most memory intensive step of the Linux kernel build process. Prior patches have already worked to reduce this objtool memory use while compiling the Linux kernel and a big patch series now set for Linux 6.5 is set to sharply reduce the maximum heap use...

Steam Deck compatibility with Starfield to be discussed "later down ...  GamingOnLinux

Valve pulls in another graphics driver developer for Linux gaming  GamingOnLinux

Bcachefs hopes to finally merge in Linux 6.5 while for those wanting a mature Linux file-system with all the bells and whistles, Btrfs is a good candidate worth considering. With Linux 6.5 there is a continuation of the recent Btrfs trend around performance improvements...