Open-source News

North Korean Hackers Deploy Linux FASTCash Malware for ATM Cashouts  HackRead

North Korean hackers utilizing Linux tool to hack ATMs  ATM Marketplace

Qualcomm engineers have developed VCL as a new open-source OpenCL driver for use with VirtIO-GPU for providing OpenCL hardware acceleration within virtual machines...

Last week at the X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC2024) in Montreal there was a talk showcasing Mesa's open-source Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver running atop Windows 11...

Intel Lunar Lake vs. AMD Strix Point Platform Profile Performance Comparison  Phoronix

For those that have been eager to see more Intel Core Ultra Series 200V Lunar Lake Linux testing, here is the latest installment of testing as well as an update from Intel following my Lunar Lake Linux testing recent reports. Today's article is looking at Intel Lunar Lake versus AMD Strix Point across different ACPI Platform Profile configurations for whether you are after peak performance or the most power savings.

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) support for the C23 programming language standard is now considered "essentially feature-complete" with GCC 15. As such they are preparing to enable the C23 language version (using the GNU23 dialect) by default for the C language version of GCC when not otherwise specified...

SUSE sees growth in multi-Linux support and containers  ComputerWeekly.com

First Linux Kernel 6.7 Release Candidate Announced  Security Boulevard

Red Hat has announced the GA release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI 1.2. RHEL AI was announced earlier this year as Red Hat's AI solution for a foundation model platform to develop / test / run Granite GenAI models. Not to be confused with the RHEL operating system itself, RHEL AI is all about building large language models for enterprise software with Granite LLMs and InstructLab tooling...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI 1.2 Brings AMD ROCm + Instinct Tech Preview  Phoronix

Red Hat Accelerates Generative AI Innovation with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI on Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers  AiThority

Red Hat Accelerates Generative AI Innovation with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI on Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers  Business Wire

Red Hat Accelerates Generative AI Innovation with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI on Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers  StockTitan

Linux System 'noexec' Mount Flag Flaw Allows Malicious Code Execution  CybersecurityNews

AMD Linux Graphics Driver To Switch To More Aggressive Power Heuristics By Default  Phoronix

It looks like for the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle there could be a nice performance boost for AMD Radeon discrete graphics cards with the AMDGPU kernel driver poised to set more aggressive power heuristics by default...

The open-source Intel Low Power Mode Daemon (LPMD) software is out with a new release for optimizing active idle power on modern Intel Core systems under Linux. The Intel LPMD daemon is able to configure the system depending upon workload, utilization, and other hints for delivering the most power efficient cores and behavior of the processor...

A set of patches sent out today for testing allow for faster truncating on the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) that can yield around a 54% speed-up for deleting files...

Microsoft has released Azure Linux 3.0.20241005 as the "October 2024" update to the company's in-house Linux distribution...