Open-source News

To no real surprise given the happenings (or there the lack of) the past few months, AMD formally announced publicly today that their open-source AMDVLK driver has been discontinued in favor of the Mesa RADV driver for Vulkan needs on Linux...

AMD Officially Confirms The End Of The AMDVLK Driver  Phoronix

AMDVLK has been discontinued as AMD are throwing their "full support" behind RADV  GamingOnLinux

Strengthening Linux Security With Kernel Runtime Guard  Bank Info Security

ASRock's revamped AI Quickset WSL virtualization tool makes it easy to run Linux AI apps on Windows  Tom's Hardware

4 Windows tools I miss while using Ubuntu as my daily machine  xda-developers.com

Linux Kernel 6.18 Integrates Rust Atomics with LKMM for Reliability  WebProNews

You can get Nvidia's CUDA on three popular enterprise Linux distros now - why it matters  ZDNET

KDE Veteran Jonathan Riddell Leaves After 25 Years Amid Governance Disputes  WebProNews

Canonical Boosts Ubuntu’s NVIDIA CUDA for AI and ML Gains  WebProNews

Microsoft WSL2 on Windows 11 25H2: 10-20% Overhead in Benchmarks  WebProNews

The maintainer of the libxml2 project announced he is stepping down from this widely-used open-source library without any replacement maintainer yet determined...

ASRock AI QuickSet brings popular Linux AI tools to Windows  KitGuru

These portable operating systems are so light you don’t even need to install them  MakeUseOf

Canonical to Package and Distribute NVIDIA CUDA within Ubuntu’s Repositories  9to5Linux

ASRock unveils easy way to run Linux-based AI applications on Windows, with limited GPU support  PC Guide

The Performance Cost To Ubuntu WSL2 On Windows 11 25H2  Phoronix

It's been a while since delivering any benchmarks on Phoronix of Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) for running Linux applications and other software under the confines of Windows 11. When recently carrying out the Windows 11 25H2 vs. Linux benchmarks I also took the opportunity for seeing how WSL is performing on that leading-edge Windows release compared to running a bare metal Ubuntu Linux installation.

Canonical announced today that they will formally support the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit and also make it available via the Ubuntu repositories...

Canonical Announces Plans To Support NVIDIA CUDA, Easy Installation On Ubuntu  Phoronix