Open-source News

From Teletype to Terminal Window: The 3 Eras of Unix Terminals  How-To Geek

Linux 6.12-rc5 Disabling Intel's Linear Address Masking "LAM" Due To Security Concerns  Phoronix

Intel merged Linear Address Masking into the Linux kernel last year as a means of allowing user-space to store metadata within some bits of pointers without masking it out before use. LAM can be useful for virtual machines, sanitizers / profiling / memory tagging, and other uses. While the brand new Intel Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs support LAM, the Linux kernel is now disabling LAM out of security concerns...

For the past year Intel software engineers have been developing a PCIe cooling driver to reduce the PCIe link speed to cope with thermal issues. In the future with PCI Express 6.0 this driver may be further adapted to also reduce the PCIe link width when encountering thermal problems. This cooling driver is now ready for merging with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel...

The Linux NETFS code as a network file-system helper library is seeing patches to help enhance the read performance for solutions like CIFS as well as adding single blob object support...

Snapdragon 8 Elite Has Full Linux Support, Making It Easier To Run PC Games Through Emulation, GPU Side To Require Patches To Ensure Optimum Performance  Wccftech

Snapdragon 8 Elite Has Full Linux Support, Making It Easier To Run PC Games Through Emulation, GPU Side To Require Patches To Ensure Optimum Performance  Wccftech

In addition to Eric Biggers of Google being busy working on various crypto and hashing performance optimizations, the longtime Linux developer has also been working on "dm-inlinecrypt" for better leveraging inline block device encryption...

DM-INLINECRYPT Being Worked On To Leverage Inline Block Device Encryption  Phoronix

5 Reasons to Start Using the Linux Command Line  How-To Geek

Vulkan 1.3.300 debuted on Friday with a handful of fixes and one new extension...

Steam Beta removes option to globally disable Steam Play plus Game Recording improvements  GamingOnLinux

Mastering the Linux File System: My Go-To Commands and Tips  How-To Geek

TrueNAS, a Linux Distro for Low Cost Network-Attached Storage  The New Stack

With Linux 6.13 there is going to be the initial kernel graphics driver support for Xe3 in integrated form to be found with next-gen Panther Lake processors. Merged today for Mesa 24.3 this quarter is the initial OpenGL and Vulkan driver enablement for Xe3 graphics...

Submitted today were a set of x86 platform driver fixes for merging ahead of the Linux 6.12-rc5 release due out on Sunday. For the most part mostly mundane fixes. But notable is an ASUS WMI fix to address the Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" performance issue I've pointed out now in several articles...

ASUS WMI Fix Submitted For Linux 6.12-rc5 To Handle Lunar Lake Performance Issue  Phoronix

Framework Laptop 13 AMD 2.8K review: AMD and Linux is a modular match made in heaven  XDA Developers

Linux Is Not a Windows Substitute: Here's How You Should Approach It  How-To Geek

Following the recent concerns over Bitwarden potentially moving further away from open-source given SDK changes that appeared, Bitwarden has now further addressed the situation to ease the community concerns...