Open-source News

Manjaro Linux releases Xahea 24.1 with GNOME, Plasma, and XFCE updates  BetaNews

With the recent Intel layoffs and early retirement / buyout packages, I have been curious to see what impact it will have on the open-source/Linux software engineers at the company. There's at least a few driver maintainers that have unfortunately departed the company but at least no major exodus of their well respected Linux software engineers...

Some Intel Linux Driver Maintainers Have Left The Company  Phoronix

Pine64’s Linux E-ink Tablet Is Coming Back  Review Geek

Pine64’s Linux E-ink Tablet Is Coming Back  How-To Geek

Why Don't Linux Commands Say Anything When They Run?  How-To Geek

The Redox OS open-source Rust-written operating system project has published their September 2024 status update...

Redox OS Making Progress On RISC-V Support, Eyes QEMU & Neovim Ports  Phoronix

Decade-Old Linux Vulnerability Can Be Exploited for DDoS Attacks on CUPS  HackRead

With the Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors that launched last week there are SNC3 and HEX clustering modes for these new processors. The default Sub-NUMA Clustering 3 (SNC3) mode for the three compute dies while the HEX mode is like SNC1 mode formerly for all three compute dies acting as one NUMA node. Using the flagship 128-core Intel Xeon 6980P processors, I ran some benchmarks looking at the real-world performance difference for SNC3 vs. HEX clustering modes on Granite Rapids.

A roadmap/schedule has been published for the lightweight Xfce 4.20 desktop. If all goes well this next iteration of the Xfce desktop will be out before Christmas...

Say goodbye to Microsoft Windows 11 and hello to Nitrux Linux 3.7.0  BetaNews

Embedded Executive: Zephyr Could Be the OS You’ve Been Waiting For, Linux Foundation  Embedded Computing Design

How To Secure SSH Access on Ubuntu Servers (Video Tutorial)  ITPro Today

For those wanting to build really nifty and complex text user interfaces (TUIs) for terminal applications, Notcurses is one of the options for maximizing the "terminal bling" with some rather vibrant features that goes well beyond what's offered with the likes of Ncurses. It's been nearly two years since the last release while was surprised today to see out a new version...

The Linux 6.11 kernel introduced getrandom() in the vDSO for faster yet secure user-space random number generation needs. In addition to patches pending for Glibc to make use of getrandom() vDSO support, Golang is now another early user of this functionality...

Golang Now Enables Speedier getrandom() On Linux  Phoronix

For those making use of OpenVPN for your virtual private network (VPN) needs, years in the making has been an "OVPN" Linux kernel driver to enhance the performance by offloading more of the work to kernel-space...

OpenVPN Kernel Driver Patches Updated For Improving VPN Performance  Phoronix

Manjaro 24.1 "Xahea" debuted on Tuesday as the newest update to this Arch Linux based distribution. Manjaro 24.1 is the first new tagged release since May and with it comes updated desktop options, the Linux 6.10 kernel, and other package upgrades...