Open-source News

The basics of SSH usage  ZDNet

NVIDIA has posted 13k lines of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver code for review for supporting their NVDLA IP block...

10 Fun Games to Play in the Linux Terminal  How-To Geek

How to Install Garuda Linux on PC  BollyInside

How to install Windows software on Linux with Bottles  BollyInside

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" is set to be officially released this Thursday while available today are the hopefully-final release candidate images...

Arduino turns to Linux for the heavy lifting Portenta X8  Electronics Weekly

Arduino turns to Linux for the heavy lifting Portenta X8  Electronics Weekly

With the Arch Linux based Asahi Linux running well on the Apple M1 (aside from accelerated graphics and various other features not implemented yet), one of the areas I was curious about was how well LLVM Clang and GCC C/C++ compilers compete when running on the Apple M1 with Linux. In this article are some quick benchmarks looking at how the stock compilers on Asahi currently compare for Apple's Arm-based SoC.

Being worked on for a while has been a more powerful Motorola 68000 "m68k" virtualization target. It looks like that new virtual machine target will come with Linux 5.19 for allowing m68k guests with up to 3.2GB of RAM and up to 128 VirtIO devices...

Advantest joins Open Invention Network for Linux cooperation  Electronics Weekly

Advantest joins Open Invention Network for Linux cooperation  Electronics Weekly

Sophos Unveils Powerful Cloud Workload Protection Advancements with New Linux and Container Security Offerings  Tahawul Tech

Last weekend saw the release of Box86 0.2.6 and Box64 0.1.8 for enjoying x86 and x86_64 Linux binaries on 64-bit Arm and other CPU architectures. Out today meanwhile is the release of FEX-Emu 2204 as another open-source project making it easy to run x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64...

Linux-based Set Top Box Market 2022 Global Insights and Business Scenario –Sagemcom, Skyworth, Huawei – Political Beef  Political Beef

Global Linux-based Set Top Box Market Share Valuation 2022 with Top Countries Data Analysis Boosting the Growth, Key Dynamics, Recent and Future Demand, Trends, Industry Size and Forecast Research Report 2026  Digital Journal

Sophos unveils powerful Cloud Workload Protection advancements with new Linux, container security offerings  ITWeb

While most Linux distributions will include linux-firmware.git firmware files as the collection of firmware/microcode binaries needed by various mainline Linux kernel drivers, Debian does not. While the kernel drivers are open-source, the firmware files tend to be binary-only/closed-source, but these days are increasingly necessary for any level of functional support. Thus Debian is left in the awkward position of either providing poor hardware support and users left wondering what's going on or to make some improvements to better deal with today's world of firmware necessities...

Debian To Consider Changing How It Treats Closed-Source Firmware  Phoronix

There are many networking changes already building up in "net-next" ahead of the Linux 5.19 kernel cycle kicking off this summer. Merged yesterday is support within the Mellanox Ethernet "mlxsw" kernel driver for supporting the NVIDIA Mellanox SN4800 modular switch...