Open-source News

With 2024 drawing quickly toward a close, here is a look back at the most popular Linux kernel news of the year ranging from exciting performance optimizations and new features such as QR code error messages over to kernel drama around Russian kernel developers, Bcachefs disturbances, and the contentious growing Rust programming language use within the kernel...

What Is Wine for Linux, and How Does It Work?  How-To Geek

The 3 most Windows-like Linux distros to try because change is hard  ZDNet

A new feature landing in the SDL3 software/hardware abstraction library today that is commonly used by cross-platform games is a native system tray implementation that works across operating systems...

SDL3 Adds Cross-Platform System Tray Support  Phoronix

Can siduction OS seduce you into saying goodbye to Windows 11 in 2025?  BetaNews

Kubernetes, Rust, Linux and DOS? The Year in Open Source  The New Stack

Using the 5th Gen EPYC BIOS tuning guide published by AMD, I recently looked at the impact of AI and machine learning optimized performance by adjusting some simple BIOS knobs as well as the Java throughput, latency and power efficiency for the EPYC 9005 class processors. In this article is following the AMD BIOS tuning guide to see what performance difference there is for high performance computing (HPC) workloads following the BIOS tuning recommendations compared to the defaults with an AMD EPYC 9575F server.

Why I no longer recommend this Windows-like Linux distro  ZDNet

The best Linux distribution of 2024 is MacOS-like but accessible to all  ZDNet

Longtime open-source Radeon graphics driver developer Marek Olšák that is well known for his Mesa improvements over the years and countless optimizations even before being employed by AMD has seen some exciting patches merged just in time for Christmas...

Best of 2024: RIP CentOS. Hello AlmaLinux Rocky Linux, CentOS Stream or RHEL  DevOps.com

Intel Compute Runtime Now Advertises Production Support For Battlemage GPUs  Phoronix

The Intel Compute Runtime 24.48.31907.7 just released a few minutes ago as a Christmas Eve treat for Intel Linux graphics compute users. This updated open-source OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero driver stack now advertises production support for Battlemage (BMG / Xe2) discrete graphics along with other optimization and feature work...

Sid-based siduction 2024.1.0 launches with KDE Plasma 6 while dropping GNOME, MATE, and Cinnamon  Notebookcheck.net

This Linux laptop has a brilliant display and performance that rivals my MacBook  ZDNet

Linux I/O expert and storage expert Jens Axboe of Meta is hoping to have the uncached buffered I/O support squared away for Linux 6.14 -- a feature that's been a half-decade in the making...

A new release of libcamera is now available for this open-source camera stack solution that is increasingly used now for getting newer web cameras working on Linux and similar. With the libcamera 0.4 release there is improved hardware support and other enhancements to this camera framework solution...

The AMD Platform Management Framework "PMF" driver is set to see some enhancements come the Linux 6.14 merge window...

The widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library saw a number of commits land yesterday for enhancing the support around High Dynamic Range (HDR) content...