Open-source News

Back in February I wrote about AMD having quietly funded the effort for a drop-in CUDA implementation for AMD GPUs built atop the ROCm library. This was an incarnation of ZLUDA that originally began as a CUDA implementation for Intel GPUs using oneAPI Level Zero. While AMD discontinued funding ZLUDA development earlier this year, this CUDA implementation for AMD GPUs is continuing to see some new code activity...

400000 Linux Servers Hit by Ebury Botnet  OODA Loop

Linux's Coolest Terminal Tool Is Dead, Here's What to Use Instead  How-To Geek

Linus Torvalds now favors Ampere Arm chip over Apple Silicon MacBook for building Linux kernels — says he's now ...  Tom's Hardware

Red Hat's Olivier Fourdan just announced the stable release of XWayland 24.1 as the newest feature release for this X.Org Server code allowing X11 clients to work within the confines of Wayland compositors...

The networking subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.10 kernel. As usual it's a big update with some 90,083 new lines of code and 37,889 lines removed...

Deepin Linux V23 RC: A Windows 11 alternative from China  BetaNews

Linux 6.10 Networking Adds New Intel Hardware Support, More WiFi 7 Enablement  Phoronix

It's been the better part of two months since the last AMDVLK driver update while today the AMDVLK 2024.Q2.1 driver has been christened...

Thousands of Linux servers infected by Ebury malware  TechRadar

400,000 Linux Servers Hit by Ebury Botnet  SecurityWeek

Three Reasons DevOps Should Consider Rocky Linux 9.4  DevOps.com

Ebury Botnet Malware Compromises 400,000 Linux Servers Over Past 14 Years  The Hacker News

The big batch of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver updates for the Linux 6.10 merge window were sent out today that includes the new "Panthor" driver for newer ARM Mali/Immortalis graphics processors and the usual hearty assortment of Intel and AMD graphics driver changes...

Arm Mali/Immortalis GPU Driver, New AMD Graphics IP & Lunar Lake Display In Linux 6.10  Phoronix

https://github.com/canonical/mirCanonical engineer Matthew Kosarek just released Mir 2.17 as the newest version of this open-source Wayland compositor that can be used for building Wayland-based shells and has shown some interesting potential with the likes of Miracle-WM and Miriway...

Manjaro Linux 24.0 'Wynsdey' Releases With Linux Kernel 6.9  It's FOSS News

Along with the various Intel Xe2 driver changes that are ongoing for the Intel Linux graphics driver stack, over in the sound subsystem the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel is bringing HDMI audio support for upcoming Intel Battlemage graphics cards...

Looks Like Arch Linux Is Going To Officially Support ARM/RISC-V  It's FOSS News

400000 Linux Servers Hit by Ebury Botnet  SecurityWeek