Open-source News

Linux kernel 6.12 by no means 3888.9 percent faster according to developers  heise online

My Linux predictions for 2025: It's going to be a good year  ZDNet

Real-time Linux leads kernel v6.12's list of new features  ZDNet

Why I Installed Linux on an Old Laptop Instead of a Raspberry Pi  How-To Geek

All of the block subsystem changes were sent out today for the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel, including a prominent set of NVMe additions...

Linux 6.13 Rolling Out NVMe 2.1 Support & NVMe Rotational Media  Phoronix

AlmaLinux OS 9.5 Is Here as a Free Alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5  9to5Linux

Linux Kernel 6.12: Real-time capabilities, hardware boosts, and more  Developer News

At the beginning of November I wrote about AMD Linux engineers posting Linux patches enabling a new "ERAPS" feature for Zen 5. ERAPS wasn't talked about by AMD at the Zen 5 launches of the Ryzen 9000 / Ryzen AI 300 series or with the more recent EPYC 9005 "Turin" launch but when enabled, the Enhanced Return Address Prediction Security feature can help deliver some additional gains on new AMD Zen 5 systems by allowing some existing software security mitigations to be avoided. Here are some preliminary comparison benchmarks showing the benefit in affected workloads for using ERAPS on Linux with AMD Zen 5.

New AMD ERAPS Feature Yields Additional Performance Gains On Zen 5  Phoronix

New AMD ERAPS Feature Yields Additional Performance Gains On Zen 5  Phoronix

10 lessons I've learned from the open-source community that aren't about tech  ZDNet

Deepen your knowledge of Linux security  The Register

New version of Linux kernel gives users even more control  Techzine Europe

GCC 15 feature development is now officially over with entering stage three development to focus on fixing compiler bugs...

With last month's Raspberry Pi OS update they now default to Wayland on all Raspberry Pi models alongside various other operating system improvements. Out today is the latest iteration of the Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS with software updates and other changes...

Raspberry Pi OS Now Defaults To 512MB Swap, Updates Labwc Compositor  Phoronix

Following AMX-FP8 support, AMX-AVX512, and other new Intel CPU ISA features being added to the LLVM Clang 20 compiler codebase, the Intel Diamond Rapids target is now upstreamed for allowing "-march=diamondrapids" targeting for these next-generation Xeon processors...

DXVK 2.5 released one week ago with better video memory management handling, various Direct3D additions, and more. DXVK 2.5.1 is out today to fix a "major regression" as well as a few other bugs...

Btrfs With Linux 6.13 Delivers Performance Improvements & Other Features  Phoronix