Open-source News

More Companies Now Backing Valkey As Leading Redis Fork  Phoronix

Linux Foundation seeks collaborators for new interoperability open standard  Healthcare IT News

Linux Kernel 6.8 End of Life: Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.9 Now  Security Boulevard

SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6 now available with major kernel update and enhanced hardware support  Notebookcheck.net

The Portable Computing Language "PoCL" that started off as a CPU-based OpenCL implementation has grown to support multiple hardware targets from NVIDIA PTX to Intel Level Zero to AMD ROCm and other innovations like a recent remote driver for transparent OpenCL across networked systems. PoCL 6.0 was released today for delivering the latest enhancements to this independent OpenCL compute implementation and continuing to enhance support for its different hardware targets...

CentOS 7 holdouts thrown a support lifeline by SUSE  The Register

CentOS 7 holdouts thrown a support lifeline by SUSE  The Register

Well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has shown no signs of hitting the end of the road for optimizing OpenGL support within the Mesa/Gallium3D driver stack. More than one decade since joining AMD and more than a decade and a half of being involved with Mesa since beginning as a student developer, Marek still isn't slowing down with his performance optimizations and new features to benefit the open-source Radeon Linux graphics drivers...

KDE Plasma 6.1 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

A set of patches for the Linux kernel's Intel P-State driver aim to ensure Intel Xeon servers can hit their highest clock frequencies following changes in the server's performance profile. It turns out some special handling is needed to update the highest frequencies of a CPU after boot to ensure the performance profile is properly reflected...

New Linux Patches To Help Ensure Intel Xeon Servers Can Achieve Highest Frequencies  Phoronix

Tails 6.4 Anonymous OS Introduces Random Seed to Strengthen All Cryptography  9to5Linux

Fedora developers are hoping that the long-awaited GIMP 3.0 will ship before October and be all ready for serving as the default GIMP package with the in-development Fedora 41...

A set of patches were posted on Monday in aiming to get aging AMD Radeon GFX7/GFX8 era graphics processors working on Loongson LoongArch platforms. These patches for handling old Radeon Hawaii~Polaris GPUs on Loongson point to a "massive platform bug" with these domestic Chinese systems...

This Project Lets You Run Linux as an App on Android  It's FOSS News

Last week marked the inaugural release of the X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit to make it easier to compile the X.Org Server. That v0.0.1 release was limited to supporting Debian/Apt-based Linux distributions while now this helper toolkit has been extended to support FreeBSD and NetBSD too...

Linux-Style Habit Trackers  Trend Hunter

Squad, Offworld's tactical FPS should now run better on Linux with EAC issues fixed  GamingOnLinux

These 5 Linux file managers are better than what you're using now - and they're free  ZDNet

New SUSE Liberty Linux Lite Offering Provides Secure, Stable, and Future-Proof Solution for Centos 7 Users Bracing ...  PR Newswire