Open-source News

Recently there has been a fair amount of work done to clean-up the Intel/AMD x86 CPU microcode loading on Linux that has now been merged for Linux 6.7...

Linux 6.7 Overhauls x86 CPU Microcode Loading  Phoronix

FreeBSD developers have been busy preparing for the release of FreeBSD 14 as well as making a variety of enhancements to this leading BSD operating system...

FreeBSD Adding More AMD64 SIMD, Continues Improving Linux ...  Phoronix

Amazon abandonará Android en favor de su propio sistema operativo basado en Linux  MuyLinux

Canonical shows how to use Snaps without the Snap Store  The Register

Introducing the Amazon Linux 2023 runtime for AWS Lambda | Amazon Web Services  AWS Blog

Which Linux Certifications Do Employers Want?  Business News Daily

Amazon Building its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android  OMG! Ubuntu!

CNCF, LF Networking Join Forces to Drive Open Source Telecom ...  The Fast Mode

Red Hat Linux revs streamline container management  InfoWorld

GNOME Receives €1M Investment from Sovereign Tech Fund  OMG! Ubuntu!

Amazon Making its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android  OMG! Ubuntu!

CIQ Announces Rocky Linux Solutions for CentOS Migration on ...  insideHPC

How to Monitor Your System with Zabbix  Linux Journal

While AMD officially supports a much narrower range of more recent Radeon hardware with their official graphics drivers for Windows (and Linux - as it pertains to their Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver and AMDVLK official Vulkan driver), thanks to the open-source community around AMD's open-source driver code there are always nifty things that come about... As I wrote about earlier this year, an independent developer has been striving to bring Vulkan to the Radeon HD 6000 series. Yes, the 13 year old "Northern Islands" graphics processors...

Terakan Driver Continues Working To Bring Vulkan To The Radeon ...  Phoronix

Amazon's Fire OS for Smart TVs and tablets may drop Android for a new Linux-based OS  Liliputing

AMD Closing In On IOMMU SVA Support For Linux  Phoronix

The IOMMU changes for Linux 6.7 aren't particularly noteworthy besides adding SMMUv2 support for the Qualcomm SDM670 and SM7150 SoCs. But the IOMMU updates also take the kernel one step away from supporting Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA) on AMD platforms in the near future...