Open-source News

COZ releases Neon v3.1.0, featuring improved usability with Ledger and beta support for Linux  NEO News Today

The Linux Mint project has published their status update for September 2024 that outlines work on this desktop-focused, Ubuntu-derived Linux distribution as well as its in-house Cinnamon desktop environment...

Cinnamon Pursuing Visual Improvements, Linux Mint Continues Working On Aptkit  Phoronix

Switching to Linux Saves You Money in More Ways Than One  How-To Geek

Linux Mint Gives First Look at New Cinnamon Theme  OMG! Ubuntu!

Zorin OS 17.2 offers even more ways to customize your Linux distro  ZDNet

Valve is pouring money into Arch Linux to further improve Steam gaming  TechSpot

Linux kernel 6.11 lands with vintage TV support  The Register

Linux kernel 6.11 lands with vintage TV support  The Register

Dmitry Grinberg Boots Linux on a Four-Bit Calculator Chip — in Less Than a Week!  Hackster.io

What’s the Worst Subscription That You Still Pay For?  Review Geek

An open-source developer at AMD has carried out a DOOM port that runs almost entirely atop AMD GPUs for rendering and the game logic. This DOOM GPU port relies on the AMD ROCm library with the LLVM libc C library for offloading the classic DOOM to the AMD GPU...

Linux Mint 22.1 Slated for Release in December with Revamped Cinnamon Theme  9to5Linux

RHEL Gives Linux A Much Needed AI Update  AIM

Mission Center (Linux System Monitor) Now Reports Fan Info  OMG! Ubuntu!

Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Graphics Performance Disappoints On Linux Review  Phoronix

20 years of Ubuntu: Canonical celebrates with upcoming 24.10 - and it's outstanding as usual  ZDNet

While I have been very eager to test out the Core Ultra 200V Lunar Lake series on Linux in part due to the new Xe2 integrated graphics, after several days of pushing a new Lunar Lake laptop on Linux the results have been very disappointing. Besides needing a very leading-edge software stack to enjoy the Xe2 accelerated graphics out-of-the-box, the performance currently is poor. It's a fraction of the Windows performance and currently falls behind the Meteor Lake graphics performance and in turn also being well behind the AMD RDNA3.5 competition with the Ryzen AI 300 series laptops.

The newly-merged sched_ext allows for the Linux kernel scheduler to be made more extensible by allowing BPF programs to be loaded to affect the kernel's scheduling behavior. There's now a similar take on CPU frequency scaling: cpufreq_ext. There's a "request for comments" patch series on cpufreq_ext for making extensible CPU frequency scaling algorithm adaptations with BPF...

Cpufreq_ext Being Worked On For BPF-Based CPU Frequency Scaling  Phoronix