Open-source News

You may recall the Phoronix news earlier this year around an AMD "Sabrina" SoC appearing in Coreboot for open-source system firmware support. Over the past few months we've cited a number of AMD Sabrina hits in open-source code but outside of that haven't heard much else about "Sabrina" or seen it on AMD's roadmaps...

The Linux CIFS/SMB3 client updates were merged on Sunday for the Linux 6.0 merge window. Notable with this round of updates is a performance improvement for the multi-channel mode...

Linux 6.0 SMB3 Client Code Brings Multi-Channel Performance Improvement  Phoronix

SUSE had been one of the big supporters of ReiserFS two decades ago when it was using the ReiserFS file-system by default but that practice ended in 2006. While SUSE/openSUSE hasn't defaulted to ReiserFS for many years, it has remained an install-time option and retained support for mounting ReiserFS file-systems, but that practice is likely soon ending...

Along with his various other pull requests for areas of the kernel he oversees, Greg Kroah-Hartman submitted the Linux 6.0 staging changes this week...

Realtek R8188EU Driver Sees "Huge Cleanups" With Linux 6.0  Phoronix

Linux Explained on 5 Levels of Difficulty  hackernoon.com

How to Restart a Computer  How-To Geek

Arch Linux-Based SystemRescue 9.04 Distro Brings New Packages, Improvements  9to5Linux

Demo version of Great Wall Builder, a Chinese Frontier, available for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Windows,  Game News 24

Being merged into Mesa 22.3 this morning for the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" are rewritten acceleration structures for the ray-tracing support...

BUS1 started out as a Linux kernel IPC module following the failure of KDBUS and while there still are occasional commits to that out-of-tree BUS1 kernel module, the involved (Red Hat) developers have been primarily working on Dbus-Broker as the high performance, user-space D-Bus implementation that delivers greater speed and reliability over the reference D-Bus code. Now also popping up under the BUS1 umbrella is "r-linux" as a Rust-written, capability-based Linux runtime...

BUS1 Working On "r-linux" - A Rust Capability-Based Linux Runtime  Phoronix

Each new kernel cycle there continues to be more maturity to the RISC-V processor architecture code. With Linux 6.0 there are a few new features wired up as well as bug fixes / clean-ups...

RISC-V With Linux 6.0 Improves Svpbmt, More Useful Default Kernel Configuration  Phoronix

The ACPI and power management changes for the in-development Linux 6.0 landed this week with continued preparations for upcoming Intel and AMD hardware as well as improving existing hardware support...

Earlier this year a developer stepped up willing to maintain Linux's FBDEV subsystem for frame-buffer device drivers since it fell into an unmaintained state in 2016 but even prior to that had been on the decline in the era of more proper DRM/KMS drivers. Helge Deller continues that work overseeing the frame-buffer device "FBDEV" subsystem and this week sent in the new patches for Linux 6.0...

FBDEV Updates For Linux 6.0 Bring Fixes For The Atari Graphics Chipset Driver  Phoronix

How to install BigBlueButton on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux  Linux Shout

A Wild Metadata Cleaner for Linux Appeared!  OMG! Ubuntu!