Open-source News

AMD Threadripper 7980X Performance On Linux Two Years After Release  Phoronix

'I like boring, and boring to me is no super exciting new features that will break machines for millions of people around the world' says Linux creator Linus Torvalds  PC Gamer

Here's how I rank the most popular lightweight Linux desktops  How-To Geek

Red Hat previews Project Hummingbird: impenetrable images boosting the software supply chain  SDxCentral

Beginning yesterday and continuing today are several patch series beginning to lay the foundation in the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver for enabling some next-generation graphics IP. Due to the AMD graphics driver block by block enablement strategy and IP-based discovery adopted by their driver over the past few years, it's not clear what this new hardware enablement is for whether it's RDNA5 / UDNA or some RDNA4 refresh. In any event, the Linux driver enablement has begun...

AMD Begins Posting Open-Source Linux Patches For Their Next-Gen GPU IP  Phoronix

Intel engineers today posted Linux kernel patches for plumbing a brand new Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" driver for the next-generation memory controller design debuting with Xeon Diamond Rapids...

Intel "imh_edac" Driver Being Developed For New Memory Controller With Diamond Rapids  Phoronix

"The real work in Linux isn't being done by me," Linus reveals his recent situation: He hasn't been a programmer for nearly 20 years, hasn't touched AI programming, and all his stress comes from "people".  36Kr

Back in September the Qualcomm X2 Elite SoCs were announced for next-gen Windows 11 on Arm laptops. Since then some initial X2 Elite enablement patches for the Linux kernel have arrived and for the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel more of that work will reach mainline. Excitingly, Linux 6.19 is now bringing GPU and display support for the Adreno X2-85 found within the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoC...

Qualcomm Upstreaming Initial GPU Support For Snapdragon X2 Elite In Linux 6.19  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds is surprisingly optimistic about vibe coding - except for this one 'horrible' use  ZDNET

Microsoft announced the Cobalt 200 processor as their next-generation cloud-native CPU for the Azure Cloud. The Cobalt 200 will feature 132 Arm Neoverse-V3 based cores...

Microsoft Announces Cobalt 200 CPU With 132 Arm Neoverse-V3 Cores  Phoronix

AMD FSR Redstone Officially Launches for Radeon RX 9000 Series on December 10, Linux Developer Makes FSR 4 Available to Older GPUs  The FPS Review

Screw it, I’m installing Linux  The Verge

Steamworks SDK adds support for Linux Arm and Android, and it seems we know the first Android game on Steam  GamingOnLinux

When it comes to GPU virtualization we have seen AMD engineers carry out a lot of work in recent years around the Xen hypervisor even when it hasn't seen as much interest from other vendors. We found out that much of their interest in Xen for GPU virtualization is due to automotive / in-vehicle infotainment demands and it remains that way. They continue cooking some new features and they say "the best is yet to come" in a new presentation on their Xen virtualization efforts...

6 things I wish I knew before moving from Windows to Linux  How-To Geek

Alice Ryhl of Google sent out the main set of Rust language code changes for the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics/display driver subsystem ahead of Linux 6.19. Notable is continued DRM core infrastructure work for Rust plus the open-source NVIDIA "Nova" driver continues taking shape albeit isn't yet ready for end-user usage...