Open-source News

New attack on Linux kernel bypasses modern defense  Techzine Europe

ETA Prime builds sub $250 Linux gaming PC  Notebookcheck.net

At Last, Chumby Is Ready  Hackaday

Fractal 8 Released: The Linux Matrix Messaging App Gets Better!  It's FOSS News

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 4th, 2024  9to5Linux

Forget Microsoft Windows 11, Nitrux 3.6.0 should be your next OS  BetaNews

The second weekly release candidate of Linux 6.11 is now available for testing...

Linux 6.11-rc2 Addresses A Lot Of "Silly Noise"  Phoronix

As the next step toward releasing GNOME 47.0 in mid-September, the GNOME 47 beta release is imminent and today the GNOME Shell and Mutter compositor "47.beta" releases were made...

GNU Binutils 2.43 is out as stable this Sunday as the newest update to this important piece of the open-source GNU compiler toolchain...

The Open-Source AMD GPU Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Nears 5.8 Million Lines  Phoronix

Last August I wrote an article about the open-source AMD GPU kernel driver crossing 5 million lines of code -- including their overzealous header files -- and following the recent Linux 6.11 merge window curiosity got the best of me with how much larger the kernel driver is now that the initial RDNA4 support is merged... Well, it's about to cross 5.8 million lines, or about a 16% increase just over the past year...

Ahead of the Linux 6.11-rc2 kernel due for release later today there is the weekly "x86/urgent" material to merge...

Linux 6.11-rc2 To Recognize More AMD Zen 5 CPUs  Phoronix

StarBook 7 Linux laptop comes with a choice of Intel N200 or Core Ultra 7 165H chips  Liliputing

Linux: Secure Yourself With GnuPG on Linux  The New Stack

Intel’s Emerald Rapids Xeon CPUs See 32% Boost & 18% Lower Power Consumption With A Small Patch  Wccftech

New Intel Linux Patches Continue Working To Improve Hybrid CPU Task Placement  Phoronix

Building off some "request for comments" patches sent out in April, a new set of patches appeared on Friday for the Intel P-State Linux driver for setting the asymmetric CPU capacity on hybrid systems. This is another attempt at helping to improve the Linux kernel scheduler behavior in ensuring optimal task placement between Intel Core processors having a mix of P and E cores. This patch series in particular helps when SMT / Hyper Threading support is disabled or like with upcoming Lunar Lake processors where there is no HT support...

It's been four years now that the Btrfs file-system has been the default for Fedora on the desktop. The Fedora and Btrfs love affair has been going well and is only getting better with more integration enhancements planned and a special interest group (SIG) now getting off the ground for furthering these efforts...