Open-source News

With Mozilla having backed away from the Servo web engine years ago and recent open-source development on Servo focused on making it suitable for embed purposes into other applications/software, it's remained to be picked up by any standalone web browser project. But taking shape over the past few months has been Verso as a ground-up build of a new Rust-based web browser making use of Servo...

ClangIR is a new IR for LLVM's Clang compiler built atop MLIR. Thanks to this year's Google Summer of Code, there has been progress on being able to compile GPU kernels using ClangIR as another improvement for heterogeneous programming with this open-source compiler stack...

With this past weekend's release of Linux 6.11-rc7, the kernel changes for the week were larger than prior RCs and Torvalds was a bit hesitant on releasing v6.11 this coming Sunday due to the upcoming that takes place next week in Vienna, Austria. But after a bit of time and feedback from other kernel developers, Torvalds is now more inclined to release Linux 6.11 this coming Sunday rather than dragging it out for an extra week...

The latest Rust-written OpenCL driver "Rusticl" work by Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst is support for shader variants and introducing an optimized kernel variant...

The Crew 2 and The Crew Motorfest are getting offline modes  GamingOnLinux

Linux and BSD alternative Redox OS reaches version 0.9.0 with COSMIC desktop applications and multiple optimizations  Notebookcheck.net

Bookmarks | And now for Microsoft Linux?  TechCentral

Change Between sysvinit and systemd in MX Linux  It's FOSS

WolfSSL is an embedded SSl/TLS library designed for a range of use-cases and available as open-source under the GNU GPLv2. WolfSSL was recently packaged and added to Fedora Linux since Netatalk began building against wolfSSL and in the longer-term plans to require its use. So the Fedora packager of Netatalk went ahead with packaging up wolfSSL. But this in turn has led to issues and as of today is now being "immediately retired from Fedora."..

As part of the ongoing AmpereOne testing at Phoronix with the 192-core AmpereOne A192-32X flagship processor, I've been working on several different Linux distribution benchmarks with this Supermicro AmpereOne server. That comparison in full should be published next week while worth highlighting on its own are some of the gains seen with the in-development CentOS Stream 10 that serves as the upstream to what will be Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. There are some nice performance gains seen on AArch64 with CentOS Stream 10 compared to CentOS Stream 9.

CentOS Stream 10 Showing Nice Performance Uplift In Early Benchmarks On AmpereOne  Phoronix

Juno Tab 3 is an overpriced Linux tablet with an Intel N100 processor and 12GB RAM  Liliputing

The rocky road to upgrading Ubuntu Linux 24.04  ZDNet

Is the Juno Tab 3 Linux tablet an open-source Microsoft Surface Pro alternative?  BetaNews

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI Integrates IBM's Granite with InstructLab Tools  ADT Magazine

Intel today as part of their "Patch Tuesday" released new CPU microcode for recent generation Core and Xeon processors. Two security updates were made along with fixing a handful of functional issues...

Intel CPU Microcode 20240910 Fixes Two Security Issues, Various Functional Issues  Phoronix

Juno Tab 3 Linux Tablet Launches at $699 with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  9to5Linux

Juno Tab 3 Linux Tablet Launches at $699 with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  9to5Linux

Parallels Desktop 20 Makes It Easy to Run Windows or Linux on Your Mac  Review Geek