Open-source News

Kicking off a new month of open-source releases is the release of the GNU Nano 8.0 text editor...

Qualcomm Joins LF Networking at Platinum Level, Brings Expertise in Intelligent Communication and Computing to ...  StreetInsider.com

Serpent OS Close To Having A System Installer & Being Able To Test On Real Hardware  Phoronix

Serpent OS lead developer Ikey Doherty published a monthly status update for this original Linux distribution, which points to having a working OS installer soon so users can begin trying out this creation on real hardware...

GNU nano 8.0 Released with New Options and Various Improvements  9to5Linux

Yocto Project 5.0 “Scarthgap” released with Linux 6.6 and plenty of changes  CNX Software

Last November the PCI-SIG announced CopprLink as the PCI Express cable name for both internal and external cabling. Today the embargo has lifted on the CopprLink cable specifications for both PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 6.0...

Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers v2.1 out with Linux support now available  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat Simplifies Standard Operating Environments Across the Hybrid Cloud with Latest Version of Red Hat ...  Business Wire

Radiation-Tolerant RISC-V FPGA for Linux in space ...  eeNews Europe

Intel motherboard manufacturers have begun rolling out BIOS updates containing an "Intel Baseline Profile" option to apply stock power limits to modern Intel processors. This is being driven by instability claims for 13th Gen and 14th Gen Intel Core processors having stability issues for some Windows gamers that is being attributed to multi-core enhancement (MCE) and other power options commonly set on enthusiast desktop motherboards. As the first of several ongoing tests I'm working on at Phoronix, here are some preliminary findings for using the Intel Baseline Profile option on an ASUS motherboard with the Core i9 14900K under Ubuntu Linux.

Intel Baseline Profile Yields Odd Power/Performance On Linux  Phoronix

I Used macOS for Years. Here's Why I Prefer Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

NVIDIA 550.78 released fixing issues for RTX 4xxx series GPUs notebooks  GamingOnLinux

This terminal app uses AI to help you understand the command line  ZDNet

Vodafone joins Linux edge group in industry push  Mobile World Live

How to create a bootable Linux USB drive  ZDNet

Punting GPU Drivers From The Initramfs Due To Ever Increasing Firmware Bloat  Phoronix

For now Fedora / Red Hat is not making any immediate changes, but the ever increasing sizes of required GPU firmware files is causing Linux distribution vendors to re-think including GPU kernel graphics drivers as part of the initramfs...

Popular terminal tool you could use on Windows and WSL is no more, but there are already some great alternatives  Windows Central