Open-source News

How to Use the Nessus Vulnerability Scanner on Linux  BollyInside

Building State Machines on Linux  Electronic Design

Mesa's Rusticl is a yet-to-be-merged OpenCL implementation for Mesa Gallium3D drivers written in the Rust programming language. The latest code now can pass the Khronos OpenCL 3.0 Conformance Test Suite!..

Linux Foundation control helps ready SONiC for enterprise  TechTarget

Cryptomining botnet targeting Docker on Linux systems  CSO Online

Mesa 22.1-rc1 AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance vs. NVIDIA  Phoronix

Error in ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware code may offer some Linux users a shield  SC Media

With Mesa 22.1 having been branched and working its way towards release in early to mid May, it's a good time to deliver some fresh Linux gaming benchmarks on the latest GPU drivers. In this article are some reference benchmark results of various AMD Radeon graphics cards on Mesa 22.1-rc1 as of branching paired with Linux 5.17 and then benchmarked against NVIDIA's latest driver and various GeForce RTX GPUs.

How to play retro games in your Chromebook's Linux terminal  Chrome Unboxed

XeroLinux: A Beautiful Arch-Based Linux Distribution for Beginners  MUO - MakeUseOf

Hyperledger Foundation Teams with Palm NFT Studio on Deep Dive into the Carbon Footprint of NFTs  Yahoo Finance

XeroLinux: A Beautiful Arch-Based Linux Distribution for Beginners  MUO - MakeUseOf

Hyperledger Foundation Teams with Palm NFT Studio on Deep Dive into the Carbon Footprint of NFTs  PR Newswire

How to Use the chattr Command on Linux  How-To Geek

Last year open-source developers called on Intel to open-source their "PSE" firmware. The Programmable Services Engine (PSE) introduced with Elkhart Lake is an Arm Cortex-M7 companion core responsible for various tasks and is programmed by a binary-only firmware module. While it started out as a proprietary, binary blob, the PSE firmware has now been open-sourced!..

Intel in cooperation with the Alliance for Open Media has done on a terrific job on the development of SVT-AV1 for open-source, high performance CPU-based AV1 video encoding. This morning marks the release of SVT-AV1 1.0...

How to Add any User to a Group on Linux  BollyInside

While to date no major hardware vendors are focusing on their open-source Mesa-based drivers for running on Windows (though there has been independent work like building RADV on Windows), other Mesa code is seeing interest and usage under Windows...

Laid out earlier this month was a change proposal for removing legacy X.Org drivers with the Fedora 37 release later this year...

Back in February was the interesting work laid out by Red Hat engineers for their looking at using eBPF within the kernel's HID subsystem. A new patch series attempting this innovative use of the in-kernel JIT virtual machine has been published...