Open-source News

New Linux Kernel Patches From Intel Delivering +18% Database Performance  Phoronix

With Fedora 43 releasing in the coming weeks, Fedora stakeholders are beginning to plot their feature ideas for next year's Fedora 44 release. One of the early F44 feature submissions pending approval is switching /boot on Fedora Cloud images to being a Btrfs file-system subvolume...

One of the early changes merged for the in-development Mesa 26.0 is adding support to Intel's "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver for supporting the low-latency hint supported by the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver...

Ahead of the Linux 6.18-rc2 release on Sunday, the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes for the week were sent out today. There is the usual assortment of different kernel graphics driver fixes, mostly with the Intel and AMD drivers as usual. In particular a few Intel driver fixes make this week's pull worth mentioning...

Linux Graphics Driver Fixes Readied For Linux 6.18-rc2  Phoronix

Looks like Farlight 84 is now broken on Linux with their latest anti-cheat video calling it out  GamingOnLinux

LinkPro: An eBPF-Based Rootkit Hiding Malicious Activity on GNU/Linux  GBHackers News

LinkPro Rootkit Uses eBPF to Conceal Malicious Activity on GNU/Linux Systems  Cyber Press

Valve's Linux graphics driver team contributions aren't limited to just enhancing the rasterization and ray-tracing graphics performance of the open-source Linux GPU drivers for gaming. Beyond other interesting contributions from that talented group of open-source Linux graphics developers over the years and for other areas like enhancing old GPU hardware support, merged this week for the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver is a massive improvement to benefit the Llama.cpp AI performance...

Valve Developer Contributes Major Improvement To RADV Vulkan For Llama.cpp AI  Phoronix

Threat Actors Exploit Cisco SNMP Vulnerability To Install Linux Rootkits  LinkedIn

Operation Zero Disco: Threat actors targets Cisco SNMP flaw to drop Linux rootkits  Security Affairs

Why an immutable distro is the perfect starting point for new Linux users  XDA

Fedora 43 had been planning for an early final target release date of 21 October. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen as a "No-Go" was declared at the Fedora Linux 43 release meeting...

Fedora 43 Is Not Ready For Release Next Week  Phoronix

Over the years we have seen various workarounds like disabling RDSEED for select AMD CPUs due to hardware bugs and early on in the Zen days were also some RdRand issues due to different problems. It turns out the newest AMD EPYC 5th Gen "Turin" processors have a new RDSEED issue...

A Phoronix reader pointed out a bug report from 2015 now getting renewed interest... Linux software RAID via MD RAID, DRBD, LVM RAID, and similar software-based solutions can be broken from user-space around O_DIRECT usage. The issue is that these RAID arrays can be put silently into an inconsistent state across disks...

Linux Affected By Decade Old Bug In Software RAID Around O_DIRECT Usage  Phoronix

News - Hackers exploit Cisco SNMP flaw to deploy Linux rootkits  teiss

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list and GNU Binutils mailing list today is an intriguing message from a longtime x86/x86_64 expert around a "a corporate entity other than Intel/AMD" using some x86 opcodes not used by AMD or Intel processors...