Open-source News

World's most popular operating system threatened by new form of malware  TweakTown

Hypervisor Showdown: Performance of Leading Virtualization Solutions  StorageReview.com

The Linux Foundation Announces Schedule for Open Source Summit Europe 2024  PR Newswire

World's first RISC-V laptop preloaded with Ubuntu  The Register

World's first RISC-V laptop with Ubuntu preloaded touts AI smarts and octa-core chip  The Register

This Linux distro could be the solution for anyone jumping ship from Windows  MSN

Hacking Made Easy: A Beginner's Guide to Penetration Testing with Kali Linux  Linux Journal

OIN expands Linux patent protection yet again (but not to AI)  ZDNet

Here's how an exciting message from a NVIDIA engineer that just hit the mailing list begins: "NVIDIA has been exploring ways to better support the effort for an upstream kernel mode driver for GPUs that are capable of running GSP-RM firmware, since the introduction to Nova."..

openSUSE Leap 15.6 arrives with extended support, KDE Plasma 5.27.11, and more  Notebookcheck.net

Fwupd 1.9.21 is now available for this open-source software for facilitating system firmware and device/peripheral firmware updates under Linux and other platforms...

Google further blurs the lines between ChromeOS (Chromebooks will use the Android Linux kernel and Android ...  Liliputing

IPFire Linux Firewall Gets Experimental Btrfs Support, Intel RFDS Mitigations  9to5Linux

This dangerous new form of malware is attacking Windows and Linux systems alike  TechRadar

DC-ROMA Laptop II packs an octa-core RISC-V processor, 16GB of RAM and Ubuntu Linux  Liliputing

Yaskawa robot uses Wind River Linux for AI and autonomy  Control Global

This Linux distro could be the solution for anyone jumping ship from Windows  ZDNet

Deepin Linux V23 RC2 delivers a kung fu kick from China to knock out Windows 11  BetaNews

The past few months open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso has been developing an open-source accelerator driver for Rockchip's NPU. The experimental driver has shown the open-source code can compete with Rockchip's proprietary driver and Vizoso has been working to develop an upstream-minded driver for a kernel driver living within the "accel" subsystem and then leveraging Mesa's Teflon for the user-space component. Yesterday the "Rocket" accel kernel driver was posted for the Rockchip NPU...

"Rocket" Accelerator Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Posted For Rockchip NPU  Phoronix