Open-source News

It's coming a week later than anticipated but the NVIDIA R555 Linux driver beta has been released! This is the NVIDIA proprietary Linux driver update that brings Wayland explicit sync support along with a host of other important improvements...

NVIDIA 555.42.02 Linux Beta Brings Wayland Explicit Sync, GSP Firmware Used By Default  Phoronix

NVIDIA 555.42.02 Beta driver out bringing Wayland explicit sync  GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA 555 Beta Linux Graphics Driver Released with Explicit Sync Support  9to5Linux

AMD EPYC 4004 Benchmarks: Outperforming Intel Xeon E-2400 With Performance, Efficiency & Value Review  Phoronix

Over the past several years we have seen AMD Ryzen processors being used for low-cost servers, budget web hosting platforms, game servers, and more. Since the Ryzen 5000 series we have seen the likes of ASRock Rack and Supermicro putting out interesting budget-friendly Ryzen servers and that has ramped up even more with AMD Ryzen 7000 series server performance being stellar thanks to AVX-512 and other improvements making it more practical for such workloads. AMD has now solidified its positioning for entry-level servers with the introduction of the EPYC 4004 series processors. The EPYC 4004 series is derived from the Ryzen 7000 series offerings to facilitate cost conscious server options and putting the Intel Xeon E-2400 series in the crosshairs. In this review is a look at the EPYC 4004 series along with benchmarks of nearly the entire EPYC 4004 product stack compared to Intel's current top-end Xeon E-2400 series processor, the Intel Xeon E-2488 Raptor Lake.

King under the Mountain (Mountaincore) went open source as developer shuts  GamingOnLinux

Ahead of the planned release in August, the first alpha release of the LibreOffice 24.8 open-source office suite is now available for testing...

Latest Release of Stratus' Linux-Based Fault Tolerance and Virtualization Software Increases Edge Infrastructure ...  The Bakersfield Californian

Latest Release of Stratus' Linux-Based Fault Tolerance and Virtualization Software Increases Edge Infrastructure ...  Eagle-Tribune

Latest Release of Stratus' Linux-Based Fault Tolerance and Virtualization Software Increases Edge Infrastructure ...  Business Wire

Fedora Approves a New Spin With Miracle Window Manager  It's FOSS News

Nutanix and Red Hat Expand Collaboration to Power the Next-Generation of Virtualized and Cloud-Native Workloads  Business Wire

There's a lot of file-system activity going on for the Linux 6.10 merge window: Bcachefs safety improvements, better OCFS2 write performance, continued XFS online repair, and even a "mail-in merge request" from prison for ReiserFS. The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) has also seen some new feature work this cycle and has now been merged...

F2FS With Linux 6.10 Delivers Better Performance On Zoned Storage  Phoronix

André Zwing continues hacking on the Hangover project as a means of running Windows applications on AArch64 Linux by leveraging Wine and pairing it with emulators like QEMU, FEX, or Box64. Besides the initial AArch64/ARM64 focus, Hangover can be important for bring Windows game/application on Linux support eventually to other architectures like POWER and RISC-V...

Hangover 9.9 Adds Support For Using The NTSYNC Driver  Phoronix

Latest Ubuntu Security Updates: Fixing Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities  Security Boulevard

PERIMETER: Legate Edition released on Steam with Linux support  GamingOnLinux

While GCC 14 recently debuted as stable in the form of GCC 14.1, for those relying on the GCC 13 compiler that debuted last year there is now a new point release available with many bug fixes...