Open-source News

New OpenSSH Vulnerability (CVE-2024-6409) Requires Patching  The Cyber Express

Over the years there have been various attempts at getting the open-source RADV Vulkan driver on Windows, Faith Ekstrand of Collabora has been recently hacking on it and achieving success for having this popular Radeon Vulkan API driver for Linux working under Windows...

Experimental Code Gets Open-Source Mesa RADV Vulkan Driver Running On Windows  Phoronix

How to use the pv command  Network World

Adding to the growing list of changes that is making September's GNOME 47 desktop release quite a delight, the Mutter compositor has merged another great feature...

Google to provide a four-year support period for Linux kernel releases used in Android phones  TechSpot

No, Linux isn't always best for IoT  BetaNews

Eldorado Ransomware Targeting Windows and Linux with New Malware  HackRead

An extremely simple mDNS server for Linux « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!  Adafruit Blog

Eldorado Ransomware Strikes Windows and Linux Networks  Infosecurity Magazine

Google Commits to Four Years of Android Linux Kernel Updates  WebProNews

AMD vs. NVIDIA Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance On Linux With Breaking Limit  Phoronix

Basemark last week released GPUScore: Breaking Limit as a "groundbreaking cross-platform ray-tracing benchmark" that is scalable from mobile to desktops. They self-describe Breaking Limit as "the world's first true cross-platform benchmark for ray tracing." Given that and the benchmark meeting my benchmarking criteria, I've been trying it out on various AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards under Linux.

AMD's GPUOpen group this morning released the FidelityFX SDK 1.1 version that incorporates FidelityFX Super Resolution 3.1 (FSR 3.1) as the newet version of their game upscaling tech. Plus it introduces new components in the for of the Breadcrumbs Library and Brixelizer...

Merged for Mesa 24.2 is a massive set of patches providing a new platform abstraction for NVK, the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver. With this new platform abstraction it begins to open the door toward running the NVK driver on alternative kernel (DRM) drivers...

Google Just Extended Linux Kernel Support for Android: This is Good!  It's FOSS News

Eldorado ransomware campaign found targeting Windows and Linux systems alike  TechRadar

Check Rockchip NPU Usage on Linux  It's FOSS

Clonezilla Live 3.1.3 Disk Cloning Tool Is Here Powered by Linux Kernel 6.9  9to5Linux

Intel Pushes Out New Linux Patches For Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake, Focusing On Next-Gen Performance Monitoring ...  Wccftech