Open-source News

Linux Foundation Announces the Launch of the High Performance Software Foundation  HPCwire

Supercomputer champ repeats, Infiniband tops Ethernet and Linux dominates  SDxCentral

Linux Kernel 6.9 Released — And It's Packed with Improvements  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux 6.9 arrives, plus Torvalds indicates Arm64 will get a bit more love  The Register

Linux supremo says 6.9 release has 'felt pretty normal'  The Register

I Turned These 4 New Features On After Upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04 (and You Should Too)  How-To Geek

There's another Rust upgrade coming for the Linux 6.10 kernel to bump the Rust version baseline required for building the Rust in-tree kernel components. This raising of the baseline will continue until a suitable minimum version is achieved where official Rust compiler "just works" well with the Rust'ed kernel bits. The Rust upgrade in Linux 6.10 also does away with its in-tree "alloc" fork for big code savings and simplifying maintenance...

Rust 1.78 Upgrade For Linux 6.10, Dropping In-Tree "alloc" Fork To Save ~10k Lines  Phoronix

Intel Linux driver update brings PCIe 6.0 and 7.0 thermal throttling  Notebookcheck.net

Linux Kernel 6.9 Released, This is What’s New  OMG! Ubuntu!

The various ARM SoC/platform pull requests were already merged today by Linus Torvalds for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel...

More ARM-Based Handheld Game Consoles Supported By Linux 6.10  Phoronix

AMD Linux devs jamming nearly 24000 lines of RDNA 4 supporting code into its mainstream driver suggests next-gen ...  PC Gamer

While the Raspberry Pi 5 debuted last September already, sadly the mainline Linux kernel still lacks support for booting this popular single board computer... The support on Raspberry Pi OS and other downstream distributions/kernels is good, but the mainline kernel support for the Raspberry Pi SBCs remains a sore spot for this popular ARM single board computer. SUSE engineers have been working on implementing minimal boot support for the Raspberry Pi 5 that will hopefully make it to the mainline kernel...

SUSE Working On Upstream Linux Kernel Support For Booting The Raspberry Pi 5  Phoronix

Mozilla has pushed out its release images of the Firefox 126 web browser ahead of its official debut on Tuesday...

Firefox 126 Available - Adds "Linux" To The Android User Agent String  Phoronix

EndeavorOS Gemini is as user-friendly as it is beautiful  ZDNet

The work written about one month ago on Phoronix for much faster AES-XTS on modern Intel/AMD CPUs for speeding up disk and file encryption by as much as 155% with AMD Zen 4 CPUs has been submitted for Linux 6.10! As expected, this work providing new AES-XTS implementations for modern x86_64 processors is going into Linux 6.10 as part of the crypto subsystem updates...

Linux 6.10 Makes AES-XTS Disk/File Encryption Much Faster For Modern Intel/AMD CPUs  Phoronix