Open-source News

Linux debuts decentralized trust with Hedera and 100+ members  TradingView

The EROFS read-only open-source file-system has seen initial patches posted today for beginning to re-implement the C code within the Rust programming language for better safety guarantees and the possibility of more performance optimizations...

A Re-Implementation Of The EROFS File-System In Rust Has Started  Phoronix

IGEL App Creator Portal makes it fast and easy to package Linux apps for IGEL OS  PR Newswire

How to set up a Linux NFS server on your home network (and why)  ZDNet

How to Install Software on Linux  Lifehacker

Redox OS is the fastest Linux distro I've tested, and you should try it despite what it's missing  ZDNet

Linux Foundation Adopts Hedera’s Open-Source Hashgraph Tech — Unites 100+ Companies for Decentralized Trust Initiative  CCN.com

Linux Foundation announces several new subgroups during Open Source Summit Day 1  SDTimes.com

Following the weekend news of the AMDGPU kernel driver becoming too large that it's causing the Plymouth boot splash screen on slower Linux systems to time-out, longtime AMD Linux graphics driver engineer Marek Olšák expressed a new idea for helping to reduce some bloat from this AMD kernel graphics driver...

Idea Raised For Reducing The Size Of The AMDGPU Driver With Its Massive Header Files  Phoronix

AWS hands OpenSearch to Linux Foundation – is this why Elasticsearch was made open source again?  DevClass

Hedera Joins Linux Foundation's Decentralized Trust as Founding Premier Member  Coinspeaker

GNU Linux-Libre 6.11 Kernel Released for Software Freedom Lovers  9to5Linux

With Valkey 8.0, the Linux Foundation thumbs its nose at Redis  Techzine Europe

Linux kernel 6.11 is out - with its own BSOD  ZDNet

While having the Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD server in the lab for AmpereOne benchmarking with the flagship AmpereOne A192-32X processor, I took the opportunity to run some fresh GCC vs. LLVM Clang compiler performance benchmarks on AArch64. Here are those results for that healthy competition between these open-source C/C++ compilers on AmpereOne cores.

Building off yesterday's Linux 6.11 release, the GNU Linux-libre 6.11-gnu kernel is now available that is the downstream stripping out driver support/features depending upon closed-source microcode/firmware and other modifications in the name of software freedom and ensuring no closed-source bits are used on Linux-libre-enabled systems...

Linux Foundation + CNCF Patently Defend Open Source Software  Forbes

AMD’s Linux graphics driver is getting too big for older machines  Tom's Hardware