Open-source News

Reviving A 15-Year Old Asus EeePC With Modern MX Linux  Hackaday

ChipStar 1.2 has been released as the open-source software enabling HIP/CUDA programs to be compiled and run atop SPIR-V whether it be OpenCL or Vulkan drivers...

Can You Run Linux On An Intel 4004 CPU From 1971? Yes, But It Takes Days To Boot  Hot Hardware

RTOS vs Linux: The IoT battle extends from software to hardware  BetaNews

While Intel has been making steady progress around enhancing the Linux kernel handling for CPUs with a mix of P and E cores for proper task placement and power optimizations, one area that still is less than desirable for these hybrid Intel Core processors is around virtualization. But Intel engineers are now actively working on improving the Linux virtualization infrastructure for being able to convey the P/E core differences among vCPUs so that the guest VMs can better behave in such environments...

Intel Working To Improve Virtualization Handling For P/E-Core Hybrid CPUs  Phoronix

Rust In Linux 6.12 Prepares For Rust Binder, Supports Sanitizers & CPU Mitigations  Phoronix

Miguel Ojeda has submitted all of the Rust toolchain and infrastructure changes for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel...

Cloudflare's always-interesting technical blog laid out their details today concerning their next-gen "12th Generation" in-house servers that will be powering their vast web infrastructure. With these next-gen Cloudflare servers they are going with AMD EPYC 9684X Genoa-X processors...

Timothy Arceri with the Valve Linux graphics team has merged the code for Mesa GLSL to convert to NIR at compile-time and in turn dropping the old GLSL IR linker with this being a multi-year effort now wrapped up for Mesa 24.3...

What’s Your Favorite Linux File Manager?  How-To Geek

Essential Linux Security Practices | by Karthikeyan Nagaraj | Sep, 2024  Medium

The Network File System (NFS) changes have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.12 development cycle. Notable this time with NFS is adding LOCALIO protocol extension support that can lead to fairly "extreme" performance improvements in scenarios where the NFS client and server are on the same host...

Linux 6.12 NFS Adds LOCALIO Protocol For "Extreme" Performance Boost  Phoronix

Fwupd 1.9.25 Adds Support for Dell K2 Docks and More Intel USB4 Hubs  9to5Linux

Red Hat engineer Richard Hughes this morning released Fwupd 1.9.25 as the newest feature release to this open-source solution paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for making firmware updates on Linux a breeze for an increasing number of systems and peripherals. With Fwupd 1.9.25, the supported device list has grown a little bit longer...

Fwupd 1.9.25 Supports Firmware Updates For A Few More Devices Under Linux  Phoronix

The high performance open-source Mold linker has released version 2.34 with various improvements while also deciding to throw in the towel on DEC Alpha processor support...

Arch Linux-based Liya 2.1 rolls out with the 6.11.0-1 kernel  Notebookcheck.net

Cross-platform Nexus Mods app adds support for Mod Collections, fixes REDmod on Linux  GamingOnLinux