Open-source News

Upgraded Linux-Friendly Framework Laptop Shifts To Intel 12th Gen "Alder Lake"  Phoronix

Best Music And Audio Software for Linux of 2022 May  BollyInside

How to Install and Use Bitwarden on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to install Borgmatic for easy Linux server backups  TechRepublic

How to Use chattr Command on Linux  BollyInside

Intel today has lifted the embargo on SYCLomatic, their new open-source tool to help migrate code-bases targeting NVIDIA's CUDA so they can be re-purposed to target C++ and SYCL -- thereby being able to leverage Intel's graphics processors and jiving with their oneAPI goals...

The KDE development community today announced the release of the Plasma 5.25 beta...

Canonical Job Advert Suggests Expanding 'Ubuntu Gaming' Team  Tom's Hardware

Red Hat 2022: Linux In a New Avatar, OpenShift Upgrades, and Other Announcements  Toolbox tech news

Linux OS Market Anticipated to Surpass USD 21.05 Billion by 2030 with a CAGR of 17.93% - Report by Market Research Future (MRFR)  GlobeNewswire

Linux OS Market Anticipated to Surpass USD 21.05 Billion by 2030 with a CAGR of 17.93% - Report by Market Research Future (MRFR)  GlobeNewswire

Linux OS Market Anticipated to Surpass USD 21.05 Billion by 2030 with a CAGR of 17.93% - Report by Market Research Future (MRFR)  Yahoo Finance

Distro Delights, New Release Mania, Forking KDE, Windows in a Bottle  LinuxInsider.com

Intel's Clear Linux Outpacing Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Fedora 36 & Other H1'2022 Distros  Phoronix

Given the recent releases of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Fedora 36 among other recent OS updates, it's time for a fresh look at how various Linux distributions are performing. This Linux benchmarking bout is looking at the Xeon Platinum 8380 2P "Ice Lake" performance across Arch Linux, Debian, openSUSE, CentOS Stream, AlmaLinux, Fedora, Ubuntu, and Intel's Clear Linux.

Last week I wrote about how well known Mesa developer Samuel Pitoiset who is employed by Valve already started working on GFX11 (RDNA3) support for RADV, the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver in Mesa that isn't officially supported by AMD but remains more popular than their own "AMDVLK" driver. More GFX11/RDNA3 preparation work remains ongoing and it's looking like if trends continue this open-source driver could be ready for RDNA3 graphics cards in time for launch...

POCL as the "Portable Computing Language" that gets OpenCL running on CPUs as well as via LLVM allowing for targeting NVIDIA GPUs, AMD HSA environments, and other cases, is now preparing to roll-out OpenCL 3.0 support...

Multi-Gen LRU (MGLRU) remains a very promising effort for enhancing Linux system performance and particularly about providing a superior experience when the Linux kernel is dealing with system memory pressure. MGLRU v11 was posted this week while we await to see if it will be mainlined come the v5.19 merge window...

MGLRU Revved Once More For Promising Linux Performance Improvements  Phoronix

Back in 2017 for the Linux 4.11 kernel the statx system call was added for allowing enhanced file information reporting. Since then various file-systems began adding Statx support and worked its way up into Glibc and the like in user-space for Linux finally having file creation time reporting and other attributes. Two separate statx-related additions are now working their way to the kernel...