Open-source News

Fedora Asahi Remix brings Fedora Linux 40 and Plasma 6 to Macs with Apple Silicon  Liliputing

Securing Virtual Machines in QEMU on Linux  Security Boulevard

Since last year Intel's open-source software engineers have been working on a PCIe bandwidth controller driver for the Linux kernel to avoid thermal issues by being able to automatically reduce the PCIe link speed when needed. This driver still isn't over the finish line but today brought the fifth iteration of these patches...

Intel Revises PCIe Cooling Driver To Reduce Link Speed When Running Too Hot  Phoronix

New York's Downtown It-Girl Linux Recaps Met Gala 2024  Papermag

Recently I've been testing out the Scaleway's Elastic Metal RV1 (EM-RV1) RISC-V cloud servers. Initially they were using Ubuntu 23.10 for providing an up-to-date Ubuntu Linux RISC-V experience while quickly upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. For those curious how Ubuntu 24.04 is performing on RISC-V hardware, here are some comparison benchmarks.

Building off the recent release of Fedora 40, Fedora Asahi Remix 40 is now available for this downstream of Fedora Linux that's optimized to run on Apple Silicon ARM systems...

Fedora Asahi Remix 40 Now Available For Apple Silicon Devices, KDE Plasma 6 By Default  Phoronix

SHIFTphone 8 is the upcoming modular and easy-to-repair smartphone from Germany's SHIFT GmbH. This is the first major SHIFTphone update in four years and there are pending patches providing mainline Linux kernel support for this forthcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon powered modular/upgradeable smartphone...

SHIFTphone 8 Preparing Mainline Linux Support Ahead Of Launch  Phoronix

Linux Software Market to Reach $9,714.11 Million, Globally,  GlobeNewswire

Linux Software Market to Reach $9,714.11 Million, Globally, by 2032 at 13.8% CAGR: Allied Market Research  Yahoo Finance

Fedora Asahi Remix 40 brings Linux to Apple Silicon Mac  BetaNews

How to completely remove a Linux distro from the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)  Windows Central

AMD Linux engineers have introduced a new perf tool called "schedstat" that aims to be less resource intensive and convenient than the existing "perf sched" tool for profiling kernel scheduler behavior...

AMD Linux Engineers Introduce New "schedstat" Tool  Phoronix

With GCC 14 stable released and GCC 15 now in development on trunk, new feature code is landing for the GNU Compiler Collection. Among the early features is Microsoft contributing the "Windows on ARM64" target with aarch64-w64-mingw32. The start of the new cycle also brings code removal for features deprecated in prior cycles. Among the old code being cleared out in GCC 15 is saying goodbye to Oracle Solaris 11.3...

As noted recently, EROFS has been exploring Zstd compression support for this open-source read-only Linux file-system. Today the patch was posted for enabling Zstandard use...

Zstd Compression For EROFS Published: Better Than LZ4 But Higher CPU Costs  Phoronix

Two different merges today for Mesa 24.2 are worth calling out for the open-source Linux graphics stack...