Open-source News

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...

Running Android and Linux Applications on an Intel Laptop  Virtualization Review

Google engineers today introduced KFuzzTest as a new lightweight framework for in-kernel fuzz targets for internal kernel functions. KFuzzTest aims to make it easier to exercise Linux kernel code paths that are difficult to do from the system call boundary...

A new version of the Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler "ISPC" was just published for supporting that C programming language variant optimized for single program. multiple data (SPMD) programming that is optimized for Intel's various hardware offerings. While catering to Intel hardware, ISPC 1.28 notably adds new AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 processor targets...

I use one simple tool to update my Linux OS and all of its software in minutes — Topgrade auto-detects and updates all of of my system via one command  Tom's Hardware

I customized my Linux desktop in minutes with this free app - here's how  ZDNET

How I used Conky to make my Linux desktop cooler - in minutes  ZDNET

XZ Utils backdoor still haunts DockerHub: dozens of Linux containers found  Cybernews

Why Breaking Your Linux Install Is a Rite of Passage  How-To Geek

I replaced Windows 11 with Linux on this mini PC, and it's already paying off for my workflow  ZDNET

Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!  Android Authority

Why Developers Prefer Linux Over Windows: A Deep Dive  Vocal

The IDXD Linux kernel driver used for the Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) support on recent Xeon processors is being cleaned up for some "not so happy code paths" after an Intel engineer uncovered memory leaks and other troubles with the open-source driver code...

Intel IDXD Accelerator Driver Cleaned Up For Some "Not So Happy Code Paths"  Phoronix

It was nearly one year ago in the Linux 6.13 kernel that the ReiserFS file-system was dropped from the mainline kernel after having been deprecated in 2022. That dropped 32.8k lines of code from the Linux kernel but some documentation remnants of ReiserFS were mistakenly left in but now in the process of dropping those remnants for the defunct file-system...