Open-source News

Tbe BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system has continued in advancing this open-source platform with more fixes and other enhancements. The project published its July recap to outline the interesting changes made...

You Can't Buy This Linux Phone Anymore  MSN

A change queued in drm-misc-next for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel cycle later this year is promoting the Nouveau driver for open-source NVIDIA GPU support to be using the GSP firmware by default. This reflects the reality that using the NVIDIA GPU System Processor "GSP" firmware with Turing and Ampere GPUs should provide a better experience than the older firmware alternative with Nouveau...

Linux 6.18 With Nouveau Driver Will Default To Using GSP Firmware  Phoronix

Intel's job cuts gut Linux driver support  Fudzilla.com

Wean yourself off of Windows with Linuxfx — I've tried many Linux distros designed to look and feel like Windows, and this is the best one yet  Tom's Hardware

Usb Switch USB C To Ethernet Adapter, CableCreation Gigabit Ethernet LAN Network, Ethernet Adapter For Laptop, Compatible With Nintendo Switch MacOs, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, Android Aukey Ethernet  roarmag.org

The plan for Linux after Linus? A work in progress  theregister.com

Ptyxis: Ubuntu’s Leap Into GPU-Powered Terminals  Linux Journal

Back to being FOSS, Redis delivers a new, faster version  theregister.com

FireWood Malware Emerges – New Linux Threat Executes Remote Commands and Steals Data  Cyber Press

Sad news: Another Linux distro is shutting down  Neowin

Wanna catch the AI bus? Linux Foundation India’s clarion call for Indian IT community  Analytics India Magazine

Linux hits a snag as Intel employees maintaining some of its drivers are laid off  xda-developers.com

Linux at risk – recent Intel layoffs threaten key projects, experts warn  TechRadar

SR-IOV for virtualization with the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver will only be supported on the Arc Pro products and -- unfortunately -- not the consumer Arc B-Series graphics cards...

SR-IOV Will Only Be Supported On Intel Arc Pro Graphics Cards  Phoronix

While it looked like Linux 6.17 was going to be a good baseline for support with upcoming Intel Panther Lake powered laptops given that this next kernel release ships with the Xe3 graphics enabled by default and other bits coming together, it looks like there is at least one late item only being presented today in patch form: a new "SoC Power Slider" feature as part of the Intel thermal driver for this new feature of Panther Lake SoCs...

Linux Preps For New "SoC Power Slider" With Upcoming Panther Lake  Phoronix

Back during the Linux 6.17 merge window was an optimization geared for ARM64 that could have a "16x reduction" in the number of calls. Unfortunately that commit ended up causing a rather significant regression for some systems that has now been addressed...