Open-source News

Linux 6.13 PM Switches EPYC Turin To AMD P-State, More Aggressive Default For Intel GNR

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 23:07
The power management subsystem updates have been submitted for the newly opened Linux 6.13 merge window. As covered within individual articles over the past few weeks, the Linux 6.13 power management updates include some notable changes for both AMD and Intel systems...

Red Hat & Microsoft Bringing RHEL To WSL

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 21:45
The latest Linux distribution being brought to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Microsoft's blessing is none other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux... Microsoft and Red Hat jointly announced today that RHEL is coming to WSL...

Debian 13 Is Quickly Approaching - Desktop Artwork Voting Now Underway

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 21:37
The Debian 13 "Trixie" release is slated for 2025 and with the artwork voting now underway for the default desktop theme is a reminder that the release is quickly approaching...

WayVNC 0.9 Released For Wayland VNC Server With New Features

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 21:29
WayVNC 0.9 is out today as the newest feature release for this VNC server catering to wlroots-based Wayland compositors. WayVNC makes it easy to get a VNC server up and running on Sway and other wlroots-based compositors while with today's update is much more capable...

MiTAC Releases AMD openSIL Based Open-Source Firmware For Their Capri2 EPYC Server

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 19:39
Ahead of SC24, MiTAC Computing has published their open-source firmware for their Open Compute Project (OCP) designed Capri2 AMD EPYC server. This open-source firmware stack makes use of AMD's in-development openSIL for open-source CPU silicon initialization...

Intel SNC6 Sub-NUMA Clustering Support With Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 19:22
A few weeks back I wrote about Intel engineers preparing SNC6 support with Linux for six nodes per L3 cache. That was the first time hearing of SNC6 with SNC 1/2/3/4 sub-NUMA clustering modes being more common. That support is now ready for merging with the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle...

Arch Linux Working To Affirm Its Package Sources Under A BSD Zero Clause License

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 19:13
Arch Linux package sources with its PKGBUILD files and similar have lacked carrying a clear license. Arch Linux developers have been working to come together to allow all Arch Linux package sources to be licensed under a BSD zero-clause "BSD0" license...

GNU Linux-libre 6.12-gnu Continues Dealing With More Blobs In The Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 11/19/2024 - 19:04
The GNU Linux-libre 6.12-gnu kernel is now available as the downstream of the newly-christened Linux 6.12 kernel that aims to remove code depending upon non-free microcode/firmware or relying on other elements of code deemed non-free software even with much of today's hardware requiring proprietary firmware for operation...

Pages