Open-source News

Linux creator names and shames Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD for having 'buggy hardware'  TweakTown

OpenBoxLab Launches New RaiDrive for Linux  Kilgore News Herald

OpenBoxLab Launches New RaiDrive for Linux  PR Newswire

Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers  The Register

Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers  The Register

How to Capture Your Screen in Linux with OBS Studio  How-To Geek

Linus Torvalds is "fed up" with making kernel changes to address faulty hardware  TechSpot

11 Russians removed from Linux kernel software development project over alleged “compliance requirements”  The Insider

Intel Core Ultra 7 "Lunar Lake" Performance Up By ~22% With ASUS Linux Fix  Phoronix

Following the ASUS AIPT patch posting this weekend from an Intel Linux engineer that was analyzing my previously-published Lunar Lake results showing rather poor performance on the ASUS Zenbook S 14, the performance has been looking much better. On Monday I posted updated Intel Xe2 graphics results showing strong uplift now that the ASUS Lunar Lake laptop was operating in its standard mode rather than whisper mode. In today's article is data from more than 400 CPU/system benchmarks to see how the Core Ultra 7 256V performance has improved with this new Linux kernel patch and compared to the prior AMD Ryzen and Intel Core laptop comparison data.

Proton Experimental gets a big change for video playback in games on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Following yesterday's news first featured on Phoronix of several Linux driver maintainers being de-listed from their maintainer positions within the mainline Linux kernel over their connections to Russia, Linus Torvalds has today commented on the matter...

Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted  Phoronix

Parrot OS 6.2 Ethical Hacking Distro Introduces Launcher for Docker Containers  9to5Linux

NVIDIA detail new GPU driver vulnerabilities in their October 2024 Security Bulletin  GamingOnLinux

AlmaLinux Kitten 10: Early Access for Community Builders  info-mods.com

More than a decade ago the DTrace tracing framework from Sun Microsystems was one of the long sought features from Solaris desired by Linux developers. Oracle ended up porting DTrace to Linux over the years but without too much fanfare outside of Oracle Linux especially since the advent of (e)BPF on Linux and other tracing/debugging open-source advancements. With the recent DTrace 2.0, it's now built atop the BPF engine and other upstream kernel tracing features on Linux. Gentoo Linux today announced their support for DTrace 2.0...

Gentoo Linux Touts DTrace 2.0 Support  Phoronix

Google engineer Eric Biggers has worked on some very nice performance optimizations for the crypto code within the Linux kernel such as faster AES-GCM for Intel and AMD CPUs, much faster AES-XTS disk/file encryption with modern CPUs, and many other optimizations over the years. His latest work is on enhancing the CRC32C crypto performance for x86/x86_64 processors...

Significant CRC32C Throughput Optimization On The Way To The Linux Kernel  Phoronix