Open-source News

Intel’s Emerald Rapids Xeon CPUs See 32% Boost & 18% Lower Power Consumption With A Small Patch  Wccftech

New Intel Linux Patches Continue Working To Improve Hybrid CPU Task Placement  Phoronix

Building off some "request for comments" patches sent out in April, a new set of patches appeared on Friday for the Intel P-State Linux driver for setting the asymmetric CPU capacity on hybrid systems. This is another attempt at helping to improve the Linux kernel scheduler behavior in ensuring optimal task placement between Intel Core processors having a mix of P and E cores. This patch series in particular helps when SMT / Hyper Threading support is disabled or like with upcoming Lunar Lake processors where there is no HT support...

It's been four years now that the Btrfs file-system has been the default for Fedora on the desktop. The Fedora and Btrfs love affair has been going well and is only getting better with more integration enhancements planned and a special interest group (SIG) now getting off the ground for furthering these efforts...

The Redox OS project that is a from scratch open-source operating system written in the Rust programming language now has a working web server, among other improvements achieved during the month of July...

Unveiling The SLUBStick Cross-Cache Attack On The Linux Kernel - The Cyber Express  The Cyber Express

StarBook 7: Linux-based laptop now available with Core Ultra 7 165H and matte 4K display  Notebookcheck.net

StarBook 7: Linux-based laptop now available with Core Ultra 7 165H and 4K Matte display  Notebookcheck.net

Linux 6.12 To Drop Old Code That Slows Down CPU Frequency Polling  Phoronix

The Linux 6.12 kernel cycle later this year has a change coming that will impact users of the "Schedutil" CPU frequency scaling governor. This change is dropping the "LATENCY_MULTIPLIER" that has been within the kernel code the past two decades to slowdown how frequent the CPU frequency evaluation occurs. In turn the revised logic can allow for that CPUFreq frequency re-evaluation to occur more often...

How To Manage Linux Log Services  The New Stack

Linux kernel impacted by new SLUBStick cross-cache attack  BleepingComputer

For those intrigued by the likes of the likes of Fedora Silverblue, Vanilla OS, and NixOS for an immutable Linux distribution but desiring something based on Arch Linux, Manjaro Linux has an immutable variant now available for testing...

Immutable Version Of Arch-Based Manjaro Linux Available For Testing  Phoronix

Linux: Mount Remote Directories With SSHFS  The New Stack

Want to Go Next-Level in Linux? Advanced Terms Explained  How-To Geek

While not as common as GRUB or systemd-boot, a new version of Limine is now available for this open-source, modern-focused and portable multi-protocol bootloader...

In addition to the KDE development activity this week, GNOME developers have also been busy polishing their desktop ahead of their next GNOME release in September...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekend update that recaps all of the interesting KDE development activities for the past week...

Linux Kernel 6.9 Reaches End of Life, Users Must Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.10  9to5Linux