Open-source News

FreeBSD 14 has been released as stable today as the newest major release of this leading open-source BSD operating system...

FreeBSD 14.0 Released: Supports Up To 1024 CPU Cores ...  Phoronix

EndeavourOS Ditches Xfce for KDE Plasma with the Galileo Release  9to5Linux

Rocky Linux 9.3 Brings Back Cloud and Container Images for PowerPC 64-Bit  9to5Linux

Firefox 120 Ready With Global Privacy Control, WebAssembly GC ...  Slashdot

Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver atop the Nouveau DRM kernel driver is now officially Vulkan 1.0 conformant for passing all the necessary Vulkan 1.0 conformance test suite cases. Though don't get your hopes too high for this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver as the performance is still overall slow and the driver stack remains a work-in-progress, but at least it's a step in the right direction...

Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver Is Now Conformant For Vulkan 1.0  Phoronix

Can AI Be Used to Fine-Tune Linux Kernel Performance? - Slashdot  Slashdot

Fwupd 1.9.9 Released with Support for Lenovo X1 Yoga Gen7 530E 2-in-1 Laptops  9to5Linux

Open Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver NVK Reaches Vulkan 1.0 Conformance  9to5Linux

Ahead of the official release announcement due out tomorrow, the Mozilla Firefox 120.0 release binaries are now available...

Firefox 120 Ready With Global Privacy Control, WebAssembly GC ...  Phoronix

How openSUSE Tumbleweed makes a great case for rolling release Linux distributions  ZDNet

Apache ActiveMQ Vulnerability Exploited In The Wild – Gridinsoft Blog  GridinSoft

Get some quality games in the Action Roguelikes bundle from Humble  GamingOnLinux

Mozilla Firefox 120 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X & 7970X Linux Performance Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX Linux Performance ...  Phoronix

Last month AMD announced the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series along with the new Threadripper PRO 7000 WX Series for bringing Zen 4 to the HEDT and workstation space. Ahead of AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors becoming available via DIY retailers on the 21st, today marks the review/performance embargo expiration for the Threadripper 7000 series. First up today is a look at how the new Threadripper 7970X 32-core and Threadripper 7980X 64-core processors are performing for Linux HEDT workstations... Or the TLDR: the incredible Linux performance and potential for a wide-range of creator and developer workloads now possible with the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series.

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X/7980X Linux benchmark review shows just how well the new Zen 4 powered HEDT Threadripper processors can perform with up to the 64 core flagship offering. The results were stunning while today the review embargo also expires on the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 series for the professional-catered SKUs that offer up to 96 cores and support up to 8 channel DDR5 system memory. Here are the initial benchmarks of the 96-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX for showing the performance potential of this outright workstation performance monster if your budget allows.