Open-source News

You Probably Don't Need to Compile a Linux Kernel Anymore  How-To Geek

Earlier this year Google announced Axion as their first Arm-based CPU for the Google Cloud. Today already they are taking Axion to general availability with the new C4A instances. These new C4A instances are advertised as offering up to 50% better performance and up to 60% better energy efficiency than their current generation x86 instance types. In this article are some of the first public independent performance benchmarks of the Google Axion CPU along with comparing to existing GCE Arm and x86_64 instance types.

Mousam is a Stat-Packed Weather App for Linux  OMG! Ubuntu!

Edera Restores Security Benefits for Linux Application Memory Safety with OpenPaX  cnhinews.com

OpenPaX Announced As "Open-Source Alternative To GrSecurity" With Free Kernel Patch  Phoronix

Enterprise security firm Edera today is announcing OpenPaX that they promoted in their advance press notice as a "new open-source alternative to GrSecurity." GrSecurity being the firm focused on providing out-of-tree Linux kernel patches focused in the name of security enhancements. With OpenPaX they are open-source and publicly available kernel patch for mitigating common memory safety errors and other system hardening...

10 Common Mistakes Beginners Make With the Linux Command Line (and How to Avoid Them)  How-To Geek

Intel rolls out Linux kernel microcode fix for affected 13th/14th Generation processors  Tom's Hardware

Why geopolitics risks global open source collaborations  ComputerWeekly.com

Snapdragon 8 Elite arrives with Linux support, potentially unlocking PC gaming on phones and tablets  TechSpot

Bazzite updated to Fedora 41 with expanded PC gaming handheld support  GamingOnLinux

TUXEDO OS 4 Launches with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Base and Linux Kernel 6.11  9to5Linux

DRM_Panic is the functionality first added in Linux 6.10 for "Blue Screen of Death" type functionality when a kernel panic occurs or similar for displaying a nice graphical error message. Since the initial introduction it's been extended to handle QR code error messages, monochrome logos, and other customization options. The AMDGPU driver has new patches available for expanding the DRM_Panic support to all DCE/DCN-based graphics cards...

DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Support Being Extended To All Recent AMD GPUs  Phoronix

The RadeonSI Gallium3D driver used by all modern AMD Radeon graphics hardware has landed support in Mesa 24.3 for async VCE/UVD video operations to enhance the performance with the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library...

Support for making use of Vulkan with VirtIO-GPU while using QEMU could very soon be upstream...

Cybersecurity News: Five Eyes program, Chinese activity, Russian Linux  CISO Series

How to use a PPA in Linux to install applications safely  ZDNet

Wasmer 5.0 is now available as the latest major update to this WebAssembly (WASM) runtime focused on being able to allow developers to write "universal apps" that will run anywhere thanks to the power and versatility of WebAssembly...

Shotcut 24.10 is now available as the latest feature release to this open-source, cross-platform video editor built atop the MLT framework, Qt6, FFmpeg, SDL, and other software components...