Open-source News

Linux Foundation sets up India entity to boost open source collaboration  Yahoo Finance

Linux Foundation sets up India entity to boost open source collaboration  TechCrunch

Linux 6.13 Delivering Some Incremental Gains With AMD EPYC 9575F Performance  Phoronix

With the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel one of the biggest features for those using new AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors is using the AMD P-State driver by default for servers/motherboards with ACPI CPPC support enabled. But even for platforms without that where ACPI CPUFreq remains the default, the Linux 6.13 kernel is still showing some nice incremental uplift at large on these new AMD server processors. Here are some Linux 6.11 vs. 6.12 vs. 6.13 Git kernel benchmarks using an AMD EPYC 9575F 64-core server.

Going back to April 2024, SiFive announced the HiFive Premier P550 as an interesting RISC-V developer board to succeed their HiFive Unleashed that was a nice little RISC-V board. There were delays in shipping the HiFive Premier P550 but they have been making progress and are now ready to ship Ubuntu 24.04 LTS pre-installed on this RISC-V board. They have also lowered the pricing on these RISC-V boards...

For fans of OpenMandriva or just wanting to reminisce over the former Mandrake Linux days, OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 is out today as the newest update to this Linux distribution...

OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 Released With KDE Plasma 6 Desktop By Default  Phoronix

Miracle-WM 0.4 Enhances i3-IPC Support for Better Integration  info-mods.com

Windows just got smashed — by a better OS: OpenMandriva ROME update is here to show you why Linux is better!  BetaNews

Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” Beta Is Now Available for Download with Cinnamon 6.4  9to5Linux

It was just a little more than one month ago that AlmaLinux Kitten 10 became available for testing for this new OS release derived from the CentOS Stream 10 sources that is upstream to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Today the AlmaLinux crew announced the first beta release of AlmaLinux 10...

AlmaLinux 10 Beta Released For Testing  Phoronix

OpenMandriva Lx 24.12 Released with COSMIC Desktop Spin, Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS  9to5Linux

SIOS Protection Suite for Linux Achieves SAP Recertification for Integration with SAP S/4HANA  The Manila Times

SIOS Protection Suite for Linux Achieves SAP Recertification for Integration with SAP S/4HANA  GlobeNewswire

SIOS Protection Suite for Linux Achieves SAP Recertification for Integration with SAP S/4HANA  Yahoo Finance

Linux Foundation launches LF India to boost open source innovation  The Hindu

Miracle-WM is the Mir-based Wayland tiling window manager that is inspired in part by the likes of i3 and Sway. Miracle-WM also has a goal to be a flagship example of a Mir-based full featured window manager with this project being led by a Canonical engineer. Out today is Miracle-WM 0.4 to deliver the latest features...

Linux Foundation unveils LF India: A new hub for Open Source innovation and collaboration  The Financial Express

Back at the 2024 LLVM Developers' Meeting was an interesting presentation by AMD engineer Joseph Huber for how they have been exploring running common, standard C/C++ code directly on GPUs without having to be adapted for any GPU language / programming dialects or other adaptations...