Open-source News

The most popular AMD Ryzen CPUs are finally getting optimized Linux support  Techradar

The most popular AMD Ryzen CPUs are finally getting optimized Linux support  TechRadar

Geekbench Listings Reveal Windows' Subsystem for Linux  OnMSFT.com

Digital Forensics with Kali Linux - Second Edition ($24.99 Value) - free download  Neowin

With less than one month out from the official release of Microsoft Windows 11, I was curious to run some fresh benchmarks of the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build against Windows 10 21H1 to see how the performance is looking. Of course, also to see how Windows 11 is shaping up against Ubuntu 21.10 also due for release in October.

Moving Forward After CentOS 8 EOL  The Hacker News

Moving Forward After CentOS 8 EOL  Internet

Intel-owned Habana Labs now has the most open software stack among AI accelerators! While Habana Labs has long provided an open-source, upstream kernel driver for their Gaudi AI training and Goya AI inference accelerators, the user-space portions including their code compiler and run-time library have been closed-source. This has been a thorn for upstream kernel developers and their standards, but now Habana Labs has open-sourced their user-space components too...

Last week a number of patches were merged in the quest to provide the kernel with comprehensive compile-time and run-time detection of buffer overflows. Another patch series was sent out today while still for this cycle they are expected to enable the compiler warnings around array-bounds and zero-length-bounds...

How to Set JAVA_HOME in Ubuntu Linux Correctly  It's FOSS

3 Ways to install Slack Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)  H2S Media

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has made considerable strides in increasing its presence in the open source world lately. RIT's Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture minor is the first of its kind in academia. For example, its open source programs office, Open @ RIT, has begun helping RIT faculty and staff fellows build and maintain communities for their open source projects.

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The most popular AMD Ryzen CPUs are finally getting optimized Linux support  Techradar

While Vulkan is quickly taking over as the dominant graphics API for Linux gamers especially with the likes of DXVK and VKD3D-Proton mapping Direct3D atop Vulkan, OpenGL remains widely used by workstation software. It's also for workstation software where AMD's "PRO" closed-source OpenGL Linux driver has traditionally competed well (and outperformed) the open-source Mesa driver. But with all the recent changes, that's either a matter of the past or close to not being relevant with the latest Mesa enhancements...

This is one of those more open-ended posts in that I don’t have any good answers, but I’ve got a bunch of questions. I’d love to have feedback, comments, and thoughts if you have any.

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For the 30th anniversary of the Linux kernel and the 2nd version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2), we talked to Red Hatters who have been involved with Linux since the early days. Read our interview with Red Hat's Pete Zaitcev.

Over the past two years we have seen work around bringing up privacy screen support on Linux whereby an increasing number of laptops can reduce the amount of visible light when viewed at wide angles to try to block the screen contents from anyone potentially snooping at the screen. Ready to go now is the DRM/KMS user-space interface and the Intel graphics driver support now that there is a user-space "client" ready...

Paragon NTFS driver included in Linux 5.15 release  iTWire

CentOS clone Rocky Linux gets technical support  ZDNet

At the moment when running the X.Org Server in a multi-monitor configuration with displays of different refresh rates, it can lead to a poor experience with a variety of visual deficiencies when running an unredirected full-screen window with page-flipping for DRI3/Present. There is now a change that was merged into the X.Org Server with a new "AsyncFlipSecondaries" to improve that experience when running multiple displays of varying refresh rates...