Open-source News

While last week saw the main set of thermal and power management updates for Linux 6.0, a few more items were sent in this week for the v6.0 merge window...

Linux 6.0 Adds Raptor Lake P Support To Intel's TCC Cooling Driver  Phoronix

How to Use Sar (System Activity Reporter)  Linux Journal

Google's bug bounty boss: Finding and patching vulns? 'Totally useless'  The Register

How to Check If a File Exists in Linux Bash Scripts  How-To Geek

Makulu Linux Shift makes shifting between desktop layouts easy  TechRepublic

3 ways to Install Discord on Debian 11 Bullseye Linux  Linux Shout

Linux Fu: The Chrome OS Flex Virtualization  Hackaday

Linux Fu: The Chrome OS Flex Virtualization  Hackaday

MX Linux makes sharing folders with Samba as simple as it gets  TechRepublic

MX Linux makes sharing folders with Samba as simple as it gets  TechRepublic

Weston 11.0 Alpha is out as the newest feature milestone for this reference Wayland compositor that has seen quite an uptick in development activity this year...

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 5965WX Benchmarks Show Some Speedups With Linux 6.0 Git  Phoronix

With AMD EPYC showing some nice gains on Linux 6.0, I've been eager to begin testing Linux 6.0 on more systems especially now that the v6.0 merge window is winding down... With now having the shiny new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 5965WX, I decided to take this high-end 24-core chip for a run with Linux 6.0 Git to see how it performs over Linux 5.19 stable...

Businesses should dump Windows for the Linux desktop  The Register

CISA warns of UnRAR security flaw affecting Linux systems  BetaNews

The EFI changes were merged last week for the Linux 6.0 cycle and contain two notable improvements on the ARM64 side...

IPFS as the "InterPlanetary File-System" protocol for peer-to-peer network support in decentralized file sharing as a distributed file-system is now supported with FFmpeg 5.1. IPFS developers at Protocol Labs are also looking at expanding support for this protocol to other open-source projects...

The Linux kernel continues making preparations around the very exciting Compute Express Link (CXL) thanks to the work of Intel engineers...

The NFS server improvements have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.0 merge window...