Open-source News

A new software project covered on Phoronix last year was SCALE for natively compiling CUDA applications for AMD GPUs. This "clean room" implementation of CUDA building off the open-source LLVM codebase continues going strong and out this week is SCALE 1.3 with more features and hardware support for compiling CUDA software for AMD GPU execution...

SCALE 1.3 Adds BFloat16 & Other New Features For Compiling CUDA Apps On AMD GPUs  Phoronix

Linux io_uring PoC Rootkit Bypasses System Call-Based Threat Detection Tools  The Hacker News

Completely separate from the big performance regression I noted earlier this week for the Linux 6.15 Git kernel and fixed yesterday in the upstream codebase, another significant performance issue was also uncovered and fixed this week in Linux 6.15 Git...

Linux 6.15 Fixes A Performance Issue For Extremely Heavy Read-Only Workloads  Phoronix

Linux systems vulnerable to a new rootkit invisible to security solutions  Cybernews

Powerful Mini-PCs Provide Efficient Replacement for Desktop Computers  LinuxInsider

Linux 'io_uring' security blindspot allows stealthy rootkit attacks  BleepingComputer

Hackers can now bypass Linux security thanks to terrifying new Curing rootkit  BetaNews

I'm a Linux power user, and this distro made me rethink what an operating system can be  ZDNET

9 Linux Gaming Myths That Just Won't Die  How-To Geek

New Linux kernel patches have been posted adding the necessary Device Tree files so that Linux is able to boot on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered Dell Inspiron 14 Plus laptop...

New Patches Get Linux Booting On The Snapdragon X1-Powered Dell Inspiron 14 Plus  Phoronix

Mesa has supported on-disk shader cache for years to help speed-up game load times and overall system efficiencies. They had shifted from a multi-file cache layout to a single file cache for greater space savings. Steam also added support for the single-file cache. But now upstream Mesa is shifting back from the single-file cache default to the multi-file cache over performance issues...

At the end of last year the upstreaming efforts began for a Raspberry Pi HEVC decoder driver for getting H.265/HEVC accelerated decode working on the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers with the mainline kernel. Nearly a half-year later that effort is still ongoing but yesterday brought the third iteration of this driver...

Raspberry Pi HEVC Decoder Linux Driver Updated For Mainline Kernel Attempt  Phoronix

The latest bit of hardware enablement coming out of Asahi Linux and queued for introduction in the mainline kernel the next cycle is PCI Express (PCIe) support for the Apple M2 Pro SoC...

PCIe Controller Support For The Apple M2 Pro Coming To The Mainline Linux Kernel  Phoronix

FOSS Weekly #25.17: Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 Release Follow-ups, Logseq, ZimaBoard and More  It's FOSS

The top 6 GNOME extensions I install first (and what they can do for you)  ZDNet