Open-source News

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.0-rc6 and it's artificially tiny due to many of the kernel developers being preoccupied for the week...

Linux 6.0-rc6 Released After Kernel Developers Spent The Week In Dublin  Phoronix

How to tell Web apps and Android apps apart on your Chromebook  Chrome Unboxed

Want to learn Linux? Here's a list of websites that can help you learn Linux for free  The Tech Outlook

AMD Brings Ray Tracing Support In Its Open-Source Vulkan Graphics Drivers For RDNA 2 GPUs In Linux  Wccftech

The 6 Best Bitcoin Mining Software  MUO - MakeUseOf

Back in 2019 is when Intel first detailed the Data Streaming Accelerator "DSA" and began working on the Linux enablement patches. The Intel DSA is designed to help accelerate streaming and transformation operations for storage, networking, and persistent memory. Finally the DSA is coming to market by way of being found within forthcoming Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors while the DSA 2.0 accelerator is already in the works for future processors...

Intel Begins Working On Linux Support For Data Streaming Accelerator 2.0  Phoronix

DDraceNetwork "DDNet" as an open-source cross-platform game building off the DDRace and Teeworlds games recently introduced a Vulkan renderer...

DDNet Cooperative Platformer Game Adds Vulkan Renderer  Phoronix

Over the summer Jason Donenfeld of WireGuard fame proposed adding getrandom() to the vDSO for better performance to enjoy by user-space developers. This past week he sent out the latest version of this proposed kernel patch where he's seeing around a ~15x speed-up with this change...

Linux getrandom() vDSO Patch Updated For ~15x Speedup  Phoronix

Google engineer Yu Zhao this morning published MGLRU v15, the latest revision to this patch series dealing with improving the Linux kernel's page reclamation code. Multi-Gen LRU "MGLRU" has proven to offer performance benefits and particularly improve the Linux experience when dealing with low-memory situations...

MGLRU v15 Published For Last Minute Testing Of This Major Linux Improvement  Phoronix

Along with the Linux kernel preparing for its initial Rust integration, Rusticl landing in Mesa this week as the first major Rust usage within Mesa, and Cloudflare announcing an Nginx HTTP proxy replacement written in Rust, some additional Rust adoption news for the week is that the GStreamer project is now ready to ship Rust-written plug-ins as part of their official binary releases...

GStreamer Now Able To Ship Rust-Written Plugins  Phoronix

Week in review: Uber hacked, QNAP NAS devices under attack, 5 Kali Linux books to read this year  Help Net Security

Open Video Downloader is a free app for Windows, Mac and Linux that downloads videos from YouTube and others thanks to youtube-dl  Gearrice

Proposed a few years ago was Kernel Address Space Isolation (KASI / ASI) for limiting data leaks with the growing number of speculative execution attacks on CPUs. Several organizations have been involved with Address Space Isolation efforts for the Linux kernel including IBM, Oracle, and Google with various approaches. Google engineers earlier this year posted a newer iteration of ASI focused on KVM use for the cloud / VMs. ASI still hasn't made it to the mainline kernel but Google engineers this week at LPC argued that it should be be the path forward for mainline in better dealing with these CPU security vulnerabilities...

Google Engineers Argue For Linux "ASI" To Better Deal With Speculative Execution Attacks  Phoronix