Open-source News

NVIDIA software engineer Andrea Righi has implemented his "scx_rustland" Linux Rust scheduler within eBPF for very promising performance results...

Reimplementing A Linux Rust Scheduler In eBPF Shows Very Promising Results  Phoronix

Wine 9.15 is out this Saturday as the newest bi-weekly development release for enabling Windows games and applications to run on Linux systems and other environments...

Kubuntu Focus M2 Gen 5 Linux laptop review  TechRadar

Scan Your Linux Server for Viruses With ClamAV  The New Stack

Niri as a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor inspired by PaperWM is out with a new feature release. Niri 0.1.8 is the new release out today and it also marks the project's one year birthday...

This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue that details the latest improvements being made thanks to their Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) funding along with other development efforts squeezing into next month's GNOME 47 desktop release...

Well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák continues relentlessly optimizing the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver and related code for ensuring the AMD graphics stack can reach peak performance...

KDE developers remain very busy this summer working toward the Plasma 6.2 release with exciting new features...

The rise of Linux as a mainstream operating system  The Business Standard

System76 Launches the First COSMIC Alpha, as it Seeks to Redefine the Linux Desktop Environment  Hackster.io

Last week I wrote about a tiny Linux patch yielding up to 32% faster performance and up to 18% less energy for Emerald Rapids CPUs. That patch is an adjustment to the Intel P-State driver's Energy Performance Preference (EPP) value for that Intel Xeon Scalable family. Today that patch was merged for the Linux 6.11 kernel...

Linux 6.11 Merges Intel P-State Patch For Emerald Rapids To Yield Better Performance  Phoronix

Are You Going to Try the COSMIC Linux Desktop?  How-To Geek

A number of Phoronix readers have been requesting a fresh re-test of the experimenta; Bcachefs file-system against other Linux file-systems on the newest kernel code. Your wish has been granted today with a fresh round of benchmarking across Bcachefs, Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS using the Linux 6.11-rc2 kernel. This round of testing was carried out on the newly-released Solidigm D7-PS1010 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs that offer very speedy performance for modern Linux desktops and servers.

An Initial Benchmark Of Bcachefs vs. Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS On Linux 6.11  Phoronix

Canonical Announce Major Ubuntu Kernel Change  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux boot time reduced by 0.035 seconds thanks to a one-line kernel patch — aligning the slab in the ACPI code makes Linux boot faster  Tom's Hardware

Tuxedo starts pre-selling InfinityFlex 14 Linux-based 3-in-1 convertible with Intel Raptor Lake-U CPU  Notebookcheck.net

Intel's Arrow Lake-H could feature three types of CPU cores according to Linux patch — hybrid designs could get more complex  Tom's Hardware