Open-source News

AMD engineers on Monday posted a few new patch series for enabling some updated IP (intellectual property) blocks within their open-source AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver. This new IP is presumably part of the ongoing hardware enablement work for their next-generation RDNA4 graphics...

Ubuntu Kernel Updates Patch Multiple Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities  Security Boulevard

Navigating the Complexities of Linux Security: A Comprehensive Guide  Security Boulevard

I Switched to Linux Full Time. There’s seemingly been a recent uptick… | by voxnaut | Feb, 2024  Medium

Critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distros allows for bootkits  Ars Technica

Intel Arrow Lake platform support has been merged to Mesa 24.1 for providing the ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) open-source drivers with support for the next-generation Intel Core integrated graphics...

Intel Arrow Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Support Merged For Mesa 24.1  Phoronix

Linux Foundation forms Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance  SDTimes.com

Linux Foundation launches Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance with AWS, Cisco, IBM and others  SDxCentral

The Real Shim Shady - How CVE-2023-40547 Impacts Most Linux Systems  Eclypsium

How to back up and restore a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distro  XDA Developers

Linux group announces Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance  TechTarget

Best AI applications: Tools that you can run on Windows, macOS, or Linux  XDA Developers

IBM pitches bite-sized $135k LinuxONE box for SMBs  The Register

IBM pitches bite-sized $135k LinuxONE box for smaller biz types  The Register

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Leaning Toward Low-Latency Kernel Optimizations By Default  Phoronix

Last month it was noted on Phoronix that Canonical's kernel team is looking at folding their low-latency kernel optimizations into their generic kernel builds. Right now Ubuntu maintains a separate "lowlatency" kernel flavor with Kconfig tweaks in the name of low-latency responsiveness as an alternative to their "generic" kernel default, but for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS it continues looking like they'll move forward with this change of incorporating the changes into their default kernel build...

Doing math on the Linux command line  Network World

Doing math on the Linux command line  Network World

While there are a lot of Wayland compositors out there that aren't too different from each other in terms of features, one of the more unique ones is Greenfield. The Greenfield Wayland compositor has been out there for a few years now as an in-browser HTML5-based solution that is continuing to prove itself capable and even fast enough for handling Linux gaming...