Open-source News

New Spectre v2 attack impacts Linux systems on Intel CPUs  BleepingComputer

Gentoo Linux partners with Software in the Public Interest (SPI)  BetaNews

The turbostat utility is useful on Linux systems for reporting idle/power-state statistics, temperatures, and other useful metrics for modern CPUs. It's also able to dive deeper and provide various MSR values and counters and other intriguing CPU bits. For much of these features root access is required and thus turbostat has bailed out up to this point if not running as root. But as a number of the metrics can still be obtained without root access, turbostat is finally being adapted to handle running better as a non-root user...

Turbostat Becomes Semi-Useful To Non-Root Users  Phoronix

Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel is where they maintain their various yet-to-be-upstreamed patches for the FFmpeg multimedia library either to enhance/enable new Intel graphics hardware support or improve/add extra functionality to this widely-used open-source library. With the Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q1 release they are shipping a new filter for dealing with older content as well as several other new features...

The first handheld to use PlaytronOS is some Web3 thing - the SuiPlay0x1  GamingOnLinux

Fibocom to Unveil a Series of Linux-based Edge AI Solutions Mastering the Peak Performance for Industrial ...  IoT Business News

Fibocom to Unveil a Series of Linux-based Edge AI Solutions Mastering the Peak Performance for Industrial A...  IoT Business News

Due to yesterday's Native BHI vulnerability disclosure affecting all Intel processors with this variant of Branch History Injection (BHI) not requiring BPF to exploit, a slew of new Linux kernel stable releases are out today to back-port this security mitigation...

Linux 6.8.5 & Other Stable Kernel Updates Due To Native BHI Vulnerability  Phoronix

While the Gentoo Foundation has long existed, to reduce the organizational complexity and overhead as well as becoming effectively a tax deductible non-profit at the US federal level, Gentoo Linux has become an associated project with Software in the Public Interest (SPI)...

Gentoo Linux Now An SPI Project  Phoronix

WallEscape Vulnerability Leaks User Passwords in Linux  Security Boulevard

Best lightweight Linux distro of 2024  TechRadar

Virtually and actually, LXC 6 and Incus 6 are here – both LTS versions  The Register

Fibocom to Unveil a Series of Linux-based Edge AI Solutions Mastering the Peak Performance for Industrial ...  PR Newswire

Microsoft's Azure Linux formerly known as CBL-Mariner for their in-house Linux distribution is out with a new version. Azure Linux 2.0.20240403 was released overnight and comes with a number of security updates and other fixes...

Following yesterday's news of Canonical launching Ubuntu Pro For Devices, the latest mobile/embedded news in the Ubuntu space this week is Canonical partnering with Qualcomm...

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Announces New Collaboration With Qualcomm  Phoronix

For several years Intel has been developing the OpenCL Intercept Layer to assist in debugging OpenCL software. It's been nearly two years since the last release of this open-source OpenCL interception layer while today brings v3.0.4 with a number of optimizations and new features...