Open-source News

Compiling the Linux kernel with LLVM's Clang code compiler continues to be more featureful with plumbing now being added to handle profile-guided optimizations (PGO) to help in achieving greater performance for optimizing kernel builds for targeted workloads...

The GNU C Library (Glibc) has landed its _Fork function implementation as an async-signal-safe fork replacement that is also expected to be made part of the next POSIX standards revision...

Glibc 2.34 Adds "_Fork" Function Ahead Of Future POSIX Revision  Phoronix

PipeWire 0.3.31 is out today as the newest version of this audio and video streams server for the Linux desktop that is becoming a viable replacement to the likes of JACK and PulseAudio...

REvil ransomware's new Linux encryptor targets ESXi virtual machines  BleepingComputer

SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 Adds Binary Compatibility With OpenSUSE Leap  ITPro Today

Gaming on Chrome OS in a pre-Borealis world  Chrome Unboxed

Azure VM Image Builder Goes GA for Windows and Linux  Virtualization Review

How to install Foreman on Rocky or Almalinux 8 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

The Linux Foundation is working to improve voice recognition ethics  Ars Technica

Earlier this year Google announced the Lyra voice codec that could work with AV1 video for video chats over 56kbps modems. Google is today shipping its newest Lyra version...

Looking for a New Distro? 10 Reasons to Try Garuda Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Intel is going to be disabling Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) by default for various Skylake through Coffee Lake processors with forthcoming microcode updates. Yes, this does mean performance implications for workloads benefiting from TSX. This change has seemingly not been talked about much at all publicly and I just happened to become aware of it when looking through new kernel patches...

Tuxedo Stellaris 15 is a Linux gaming laptop with Intel or AMD processors, NVIDIA graphics  Liliputing

Following yesterday's release of the Linux 5.13 kernel, the GNU folks have released GNU Linux-libre 5.13-gnu as their downstream that strips out support for loading binary-only firmware/microcode, blocks the ability to load binary-only kernel modules, and other sanitization work in the name of software freedom...

Look into binary files on Linux  Floridanewstimes.com

The Hantro media driver within the Linux kernel for supporting the Hantro IP-based VPU found in Rockchip and NXP i.MX8M SoCs is seeing improvements with the in-development Linux 5.14 kernel...

Peering into binary files on Linux  Network World

Linux apps are finally coming to Skylake Chromebooks... but does it matter?  Android Police

Too little, too late: Linux app support is finally coming to Skylake Chromebooks  Android Police