Open-source News

App Fleet: Open-Source App to Automate Your Workspace on Linux  It's FOSS News

Google may be planning to ship a rare upgrade to Tensor-powered Pixel phones  Android Authority

The latest notable feature addition for Mesa 24.0 worth mentioning is to NVK, the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver that works with the Nouveau DRM kernel driver for providing increasingly robust Vulkan API support on this alternative to NVIDIA's proprietary graphics driver...

Tensor-powered Pixels rumored to receive rare update  PhoneArena

Beyond the usual new wired/wireless network hardware support and the other routine churn in the big Linux networking subsystem, the Linux 6.8 kernel is bringing some key improvements to the core networking code that can yield up to a ~40% improvement for TCP performance when encountering many concurrent network connections...

Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40%  Phoronix

5 Bash Script Examples to Help You Learn Linux Programming  MUO - MakeUseOf

Arch Linux is finally going the way of Fedora and others in making Dbus-Broker its default D-Bus daemon implementation...

Arch Linux Will Now Use Dbus-Broker As Its Default D-Bus Daemon  Phoronix

Thanks to Valve's open-source developers, the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has landed experimental support for transfer queues for facilitating SDMA image copies...

System76's New Linux Workstation Has Updated AMD Threadripper CPUs  How-To Geek

System76 Thelio Ramps Up AI & Creator Performance With New AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs  Phoronix

System76 has opted to offer new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors in their Thelio Major desktop line-up to provide for greater performance from AI and creator workloads to all common code compilation and other tasks leveraging many CPU cores/threads. The new System76 Thelio Major powered by Zen 4 Threadripper is being shown off this week at CES 2024 in Las Vegas at AMD's booth. A review on the new Thelio Major workstation will also be forthcoming on Phoronix...

7 Ways to Append Text to a File on Linux  How-To Geek

Cross-distribution support improvements coming for Canonical's Snap packages  GamingOnLinux

MESA “RADV” Vulkan Driver To Recieve Performance Optimizations For AMD FSR 3 & VKD3D-Proton  Wccftech

Embedded Linux IoT Security: Defending Against Cyber Threats  Security Boulevard

Attackers Targeting Poorly Managed Linux SSH Servers  Security Boulevard

GE-Proton 8-26 and 8-27 released with various game fixes for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

AMD makes heavy use of the LLVM compiler infrastructure by their graphics drivers and compute stack while the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has to a lesser extent supported AMD graphics targets too in the context of GPU compute / OpenMP device offloading. That AMD Radeon/Instinct support for GCC has been carried out over the years by Mentor Graphics and other stakeholders. The latest on the AMD GPU expedition for GCC is that the upcoming GCC 14 compiler will finally be supporting AMD RDNA3 (GFX11) graphics hardware...