Open-source News

Coreboot 25.09 was released this evening as the latest feature update to this open-source solution common to Google Chromebooks and other select motherboards/systems as an alternative to proprietary BIOS / system firmware...

Vulkan 1.4.329 is now available with one notable new extension in tow...

Introduced last year in Linux 6.10 was TPM bus encryption and integration protection for Trusted Platform Module 2 (TPM2) handling. The intent was on better TPM security after a prior security demonstration showed TPM key recovery from Microsoft Windows BitLocker as well as TPM sniffing attacks. Shortly after being merged it was limited to just an x86_64 default where it had been tested the most at the time. Now more than one year later, this feature is being disabled by default in the mainline Linux kernel...

AMD today released ROCm 7.0.2 as the newest update to the ROCm 7.0 compute stack...

AMD ROCm 7.0.2 Released With Radeon RX 9060 Officially Supported  Phoronix

This is the smallest, fastest Linux distro that actually works for everyday use  MakeUseOf

5 Linux distros that are perfect for running in a VM  XDA

AudioThing JUNE, a Roland Juno-60 Synthesizer emulation for mac, linux, win, and iOS  synth anatomy

How to Enable Secure Boot on Linux-Based Platforms  Embedded Computing Design

5 GNOME tweaks that I can't live without  XDA

Python 3.14 Performance Looking Good In Benchmarks  Phoronix

With this week's release of Python 3.14 bringing performance improvements, debugging improvements, a new Zstd compression module, and other enhancements I have been eager to run some benchmarks seeing how Python 3.14 compares to prior Python releases.

3 Cool Linux Apps Worth Trying This Weekend (October 10 - 12)  How-To Geek

Just over one year ago NVIDIA posted open-source Linux GPU driver code for GPU virtualization "vGPU" support. That NVIDIA vGPU driver work was recently revised while still posted under a request for comments (RFC) flag...

NVIDIA Posts Latest Linux Driver Patches For Open-Source vGPU Support  Phoronix

This 50 MB operating system can resurrect your old PC  MakeUseOf

Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization support within the Linux kernel continues to be steadily enhanced and it's inched along further for Linux 6.18...

Microsoft Hyper-V Support Further Improved With Linux 6.18  Phoronix

Battlefield 6 releases today and it will not be playable on any Linux / SteamOS system  GamingOnLinux

One of the exciting additions on the way for the C++26 programming language is a standardized library around Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) operations. This portable SIMD implementation makes it easier to leverage SIMD and data parallelism in C++ for better performance and to work across SIMD architectures like AVX-512...