Open-source News

Nouveau Preparing To Finally Enable Atomic Mode-Setting By Default  Phoronix

In addition to the Nouveau kernel driver unblocking Vulkan Video H.264 support for the Mesa NVK driver, another feature change on the way is this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver finally preparing to enable atomic mode-setting by default...

The gamer refused Windows and GeForce RTX 3090 in favor of Linux and Radeon RX 9070 XT  GameGPU

I installed FreeBSD expecting a Linux alternative and discovered something completely different  makeuseof.com

Last month the Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" saw more than 1,500 malicious packages amid a sophisticated malware attack and then also seeing an influx of spam and profanities amid this community/user-maintained repository for the popular Arch Linux distribution. Unfortunately, there is another round of AUR troubles...

Microsoft Brings Native CIS Benchmark Auditing to Linux in Azure  petri.com

Arch Linux AUR Under Another Wave Of Malicious Packages, Package Adoptions Halted  Phoronix

Sent out last night was the last batch of planned AMD P-State driver feature improvements targeting the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window...

Linux 7.3 To Allow Tuning AMD P-State Dynamic EPP With Per CPU Core Granularity  Phoronix

Optical networking pushed deeper into the cloud with IOWN, Linux MoU  SDxCentral

Valve funding port of Linux RADV Radeon Vulkan driver to Windows — cross-platform effort already runs 'Counter-Strike 2'  Tom's Hardware

BlackTech APT Deploys BlueShell Linux Backdoor Against Japanese Organizations  CyberSecurityNews

You don’t need to dual-boot anymore, there’s a better way to try another OS  How-To Geek

Servo 0.4 was just released for closing out the month of July. This month the Servo browser engine with its servoshell demo browser began rendering more real-world websites correctly...

Nouveau Patch For Linux 7.3 Allows For NVK Vulkan Video Atop NVIDIA NVDEC  Phoronix

This week's round of drm-misc-next patches for staging ahead of the Linux 7.3 kernel merge window bring an exciting change for the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver...

In recent weeks there was a proposal to enable x86_64 Shadow Stack support by default with the upcoming Fedora Linux 45 release. That change has been approved now by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) but with the feature being punted off to Fedora 46 next year...

SSH Bot Profiles Linux CPU, GPU and RAM Before Deploying Cryptocurrency Miner  CyberSecurityNews

After two weeks without any Vulkan spec update, Vulkan 1.4.358 was released overnight. Besides the usual assortment of minor clarifications/fixes, Vulkan 1.4.358 introduces one new extension: VK_EXT_image_tiling_control...

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE previously warned of many sound driver fixes due to AI/LLMs and a "new normal" of patch activity as a result. While we are approaching the end of the Linux 7.2 merge window with the stable release coming up in August, the sound patches continue trending higher and this week were "far larger than wished" ahead of Linux 7.2-rc6 due out on Sunday...