Open-source News

Red Hat And Nissan Push Open Source Linux Into AI-Driven Vehicles  Open Source For You

Copy Fail and Dirty Frag: Linux Page-Cache Exploits Target Every Major Distribution  infoq.com

Nvidia Engineer Proposes Linux Kernel Killswitch to Disable Vulnerable Functions Before Patches Land  gHacks

Linux kernel kill switch proposal sparks fierce debate  Techzine Global

Linux OS Market Share and Trends: US$11.0 Bn (2026) to US$32.0 Bn (2033), CAGR 16.5% Growth  openPR.com

Linux Receives PROM21 Temperature Sensor: AM5 Chipsets Are Finally to Become Measurable More Cleanly  igor´sLAB

Linux Receives PROM21 Temperature Sensor: AM5 Chipsets Are Finally to Become Measurable More Cleanly  igor´sLAB

Linux kernel maintainers suggest a ‘kill switch’ to protect systems until a zero-day vulnerability is patched  csoonline.com

The open-source Radeon "R300g" driver living within the Mesa codebase for supporting the aging ATI (AMD) Radeon 9500 "R300" through Radeon X1000 "R500" series graphics processors is going through a big code restructuring as part of a big undertaking in 2026... Yes, 24 years after the ATI R300 GPUs first released, thanks to a devoted open-source developer fan, there is a significant improvement in the works...

Voyager and Red Hat Propel Red Hat Enterprise Linux into Orbit with Space Edge Micro Datacenters  HPCwire

Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks  Ars Technica

'Apple does this and y'all love it': Microsoft defends its CPU trick to boost Windows 11 performance, after critics accuse it of 'cheating'  TechRadar

Quietly sneaking out at the end of last week was Vulkan 1.4.351 as the newest spec update to this high performance graphics and compute API...

Ubuntu 26.04 vs. Fedora 44: After years of testing both Linux distros, here's my verdict  ZDNET

CVE-2026-43500: Dirty Frag Linux Priv Esc Flaw  SOC Prime

First i486 Support, Now Linux Abandons i586 and i686  PC Perspective

Embedded Linux on the Tria AUBoard-15P FPGA with Whitney Knitter  Hackster.io

Experts propose Linux kernel "killswitch" following worrying recent security issues  TechRadar

HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression "DSC" Also Ready For AMDGPU Linux Driver  Phoronix

At the beginning of the month was the surprise milestone of AMD posting AMDGPU kernel driver patches for HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support. The HDMI FRL patches have since been updated to also enable HDMI 2.1's Display Stream Compression (DSC) functionality for higher resolutions and higher refresh rates with the open-source AMDGPU driver...