Open-source News

For AMD Zen 2 and newer systems making use of the modern AMD P-State driver on Linux for CPU frequency scaling, ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) interface is being used. For managing the ACPI CPPC energy performance preference (EPP), Intel's x86_energy_perf_policy utility is now being extended to AMD processors...

ChipStar 1.1 was released this past week as one of the open-source projects to help in porting HIP and CUDA applications to support the industry-standard SPIR-V. ChipStar acts to get HIP/CUDA codes working on SPIR-V with OpenCL or Intel's oneAPI Level Zero...

As I wrote about at the start of January, the open-source ATI Radeon R300 Linux graphics driver continues seeing new improvements even all these years later thanks to the open-source community. This wasn't some one-off work either in 2024 for this R300 to R500 GPU OpenGL driver but more work has since landed...

Radeon R300 Open-Source Driver Continues Seeing New Improvements In 2024  Phoronix

Game Boy homebrew scene alive and well thanks to the open source GB Studio  GamingOnLinux

Proton Hotfix gets updated for TEKKEN 8 online play on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Easy command line Linux tricks  Network World

Easy command line Linux tricks  Network World

Enshrouded is the Latest Open-World Hit on Steam: How It Runs on Steam Deck Linux  Chichester News

Welcome to Linux Rabbit — Your Gateway to IT Excellence!  Medium

How to setup SSH in GitHub by example  TheServerSide.com

Linux Shell Scripting: A Pathway to Automated System Excellence  Linux Journal

Linux Kernel's IPv6 Implementation Flaw  CybersecurityNews

Linux Kernel’s IPv6 Implementation Flaw Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code  CybersecurityNews

Following the recent branching of LLVM 18, LLVM 18.1-rc1 was released today as the first test candidate for this half-year update of this widely-used open-source compiler stack...

As a follow-up to last week's article around the GCC compiler seeing patches for AMD RDNA3 GPU support so that it's "working for most purposes", that code has now been merged and it's also been confirmed to also bring the RDNA2 support up to a working state...

Linux hardware vendor Purism that is known for their crowd-funded Librem 5 smartphone effort, Linux-loaded laptops, and other privacy-minded wares announced a first public offering of Purism stock on the StartEngine platform...

A Linux Hardware Vendor Is Valuing Itself At $75000000 USD  Phoronix

Faster Integration of OpenSync through Linux SDN support  Macau Business

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 38: The Stagnant Demesne  GamingOnLinux