Open-source News

Ingo Molnar today submitted the main set of kernel scheduler updates for the in-development Linux 6.0 (nee 5.20). The scheduler updates contain some notable changes that will be interesting to benchmark in the days ahead...

Sven Peter who has worked a lot on various aspects of Apple Silicon enablement for Linux today posted the patches enabling Apple Bluetooth driver support for Apple Silicon M1/M2 hardware and also for some Apple x86 Macs...

Linux Driver Posted Enabling Bluetooth Support For Apple M1/M2, Some x86 Macs  Phoronix

Stealth-action game Republique is now FREE and Steam Deck Verified  GamingOnLinux

Canonical adds instance tweaking to Multipass, Confidential VMs to Azure  The Register

APT vs. DNF vs. YUM: Linux Package Managers Compared  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux Mint 21 "Vanessa" now available for download  Notebookcheck.net

How to Secure Your Linux Servers With SELinux  Make Tech Easier

Padloc: An Intuitive Open-Source Password Manager  It's FOSS

KIOXIA Introduces Sample PCIe NVMe Technology-Based Flash Hardware for the Linux Foundation's Software-Enabled Flash Community Project  Business Wire

Among the early pull requests for the now-open Linux 6.0 merge window (nee Linux 5.20) are a few AMD additions worth mentioning...

Linux 6.0 Has Temperature Monitoring For Upcoming AMD CPUs, MWAIT For HPC Customers  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds says he's been waiting a 'loong time' for this Linux laptop option  ZDNet

Steam gets support for Nintendo Online classic controllers  GamingOnLinux

Merged in early July to Mesa 22.2 was the rewritten R600g NIR back-end for improving older AMD Radeon HD 5000/6000 series graphics cards on Linux with this open-source OpenGL driver. That NIR code was limited to "newer" Radeon GPUs supported by the R600g driver while now it's been extended for supporting pre-Evergreen GPUs too...

Understanding Linux Containers Before Changing the World  hackernoon.com

Released on Sunday was Unvanquished 0.53 Beta as the latest in a long string of betas for this one of the most promising open-source first person shooter (FPS) games...

In addition to being busy leading WireGuard, Jason Donenfeld continues working heavily on the Linux kernel's random number generator (RNG) code. For Linux 6.0, a number of RNG improvements are ready...

Linux gaming overlay MangoHud version 0.6.8 out now  GamingOnLinux

Following yesterday's release of Linux 5.19 stable the FSFLA folks maintaining the GNU Linux-libre kernel released their downstream version that strips out support for loading proprietary kernel modules as well as stripping out drivers/support that requires non-free/closed-source microcode/firmware files...