Open-source News

Real-Time Kernel Now Available On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Phoronix - Thu, 05/30/2024 - 22:37
Similar to the real-time kernel for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Canonical announced today the availability of their new real-time "RT" kernel for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. But like with the existing Ubuntu RT kernels, this real-time support is limited to Ubuntu Pro subscriptions...

Servo Web Engine Continues Advancing But Seeing Just $1.6k In Monthly Donations

Phoronix - Thu, 05/30/2024 - 22:26
The Rust-written Servo web engine as a reminder was started as a Mozilla project but then abandoned and now developed by multiple organizations as part of Linux Foundation Europe. The Servo project has put out a new status update that highlights the work accomplished in recent weeks...

Yocto 5.0 LTS Released - Now Powered By Linux 6.6 LTS, Boeing Joins The Project

Phoronix - Thu, 05/30/2024 - 22:09
Yocto 5.0 LTS has been released as the newest version from the Yocto Project that is popular for organizations assembling their own embedded/IoT-minded custom Linux distributions. The Linux Foundation also announced today that Boeing has become a Platinum Member with Yocto...

AMD & Intel Team Up For UALink As Open Alternative To NVIDIA's NVLink

Phoronix - Thu, 05/30/2024 - 20:00
It's rare for an advanced media briefing to involve representatives from both AMD and Intel, but that happened yesterday. AMD and Intel along with Broadcom have formed the Ultra Accelerator Link "UALink" as a new open standard they are hoping to use to take on NVIDIA's proprietary NVLink interface...

Intel Battlemage Platform Support Begins Landing In Mesa 24.2

Phoronix - Thu, 05/30/2024 - 18:33
The Intel Battlemage discrete graphics support is beginning to come together for the open-source Linux graphics driver stack as the successor to DG2/Alchemist. In addition to all the Xe2 work for what's found with Lunar Lake, more Battlemage Linux kernel and user-space driver work has been appearing recently. The milestone crossed today is the initial Battlemage "BMG" platform support being merged for the Mesa 24.2 OpenGL/Vulkan drivers...

Pages