Open-source News

Valve releases Proton 8.0-3 for Linux and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

ΔV: Rings of Saturn is a game for real space nerds - out now  GamingOnLinux

How to Fix the “No Root File System Is Defined” Error in Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

The DRM subsystem is slated to pickup a GPU Virtual Address "VA" Manager with the Linux 6.6 kernel that is motivated by work around Vulkan sparse memory binding requirements...

GPU VA Manager To Land In Linux 6.6  Phoronix

Self-Replicating P2PInfect Worm Is Leaving A Trail Of Malware In Windows And Linux PCs  HotHardware

Ask Hackaday: What's Linux Anyway?  Hackaday

Linux Foundation Announces Formation of Ultra Ethernet Consortium  Fagen wasanni

Apple M2 On Linux Performance Against AMD Zen 4 Mobile SoCs  Phoronix

The most common request from my recent ROG Ally benchmarking with the Ryzen Z1 SoC and also the Ryzen 7 7840U laptop SoC testing has been wanting to know how these Zen 4 mobile processors compete with Apple's M2 on Linux. Well, for those curious, here are some initial performance figures of the Apple M2 in a MacBook Air running Asahi Linux up against the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme and Ryzen 7 7840U SoCs on Linux.

CIQ Launches New Rocky Linux Support Partner Program - High ...  insideHPC

How to Use pstree to Display Running Linux Processes as a Tree  MUO - MakeUseOf

Vulkan 1.3.258 was published today as the newest revision to this high performance graphics and compute API. There's many fixes with the last Vulkan spec update having been in early July but making this release more notable are two new extensions...

First up the belated Mesa 23.1.4 is now available as the latest stable point release in the Mesa 23.1 series...

Enhance Your Linux Journey: Customize Directory Colors in RHEL ...  Medium

AMD CPU Microcode Will Be Getting Larger With Future Processors  Phoronix

Future AMD CPUs will be having larger microcode patches and thus the Linux kernel is now being adapted to better handle that increased microcode payload...

Prior to LLVM/Clang becoming so popular within organizations and it maturing well on x86_64, AArch64, and other architectures, Open64 was once quite popular in areas now dominated by LLVM and GCC. Open64 had been popular with academic researchers, AMD even maintained their Open64 optimized compiler a decade prior to the LLVM-based AOCC, and was quite popular in the HPC space. Surprisingly there's been some recent activity on the Open64 compiler code...

AMD EDAC Linux Driver Gets Ready For The Instinct MI300 APUs  Phoronix

New patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list prepare the AMD Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) driver for the upcoming AMD Instrinct MI300 APUs...