So far, it’s just a proof-of-concept, but it wants to grow up to be a layered — or modular — Linux distro that can become the workhorse of the European Union.

Here is open-source at its finest with a NVIDIA Linux kernel engineer ultimately making a fix to a performance regression that came up for AMD integrated and discrete graphics when running on the early Linux 6.15 kernel code…

Sven Peter who remains one of the very active Asahi Linux developers and working on upstreaming various elements of Apple Silicon support for the Linux kernel has sent up warning flares around the eventual Apple M4 support…

In addition to all of the memory management “MM” changes merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel, a secondary round of MM updates was submitted and subsequently merged for this next kernel version. Interesting here is using the recent MSEAL system call for being able to now seal system mappings…

Yet another Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite powered laptop seeing new DeviceTree patches for enabling Linux support is the HP EliteBook Ultra G1q…

The Chinese LoongArch CPU architecture will enjoy slightly better support with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel…

For those looking to replace their proprietary BIOS with the open-source Coreboot on a supported platform or are already doing so, Coreboot 25.03 is out today to provide the newest capabilities for this open-source BIOS/firmware solution…

Monitoring is a critical component of any infrastructure setup. Prometheus and Grafana are powerful open-source tools that work together to provide robust monitoring and visualization capabilities. This tutorial guides you through setting up Prometheus on one server and Grafana on another, creating a distributed monitoring system.

Emacs has a long and revered history. The original program was written in 1976 as a set of macros for an existing text editor called TECO.

Rust 1.86 is out now, bringing trait upcasting support, safer mutable indexing for slices and maps, and stable target feature support for safe functions.

PorteuX 2.0 is out today as a new update to this portable Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux and inspired by both Slax and Porteus distros, designed to be small, fast, portable, modular, and immutable.

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AMD software engineers today released AOMP 21.0-0 as the newest snapshot of their LLVM/Clang compiler downstream focused on providing the best OpenMP/OpenACC GPU offloading support to AMD GPUs and Instinct accelerators via the ROCm software stack…

WattWise is a lightweight, opensource, command-line tool to monitor the power usage of your system in real-time.

The Khronos Group today published the OpenCL 3.0.18 specifications as the latest incremental update to OpenCL 3.0…

You maybe haven’t thought about it, but every time you ask your favorite generative AI platform a question, you’re pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Last month I posted benchmarks showing the performance when using the new 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver on Linux using the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D. This optimizer driver allows tuning the “amd_x3d_mode” for indicating your prefereoce for the CCD with the higher frequency or larger cache size. For some additional insight into the 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver performance impact on Linux, here are benchmarks looking at the difference while using the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D.

Two separate patch series updated this week for the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver stack is the still-ongoing work around the DRM sharpness property for the new adaptive sharpening filter with Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics and then separately is the work to bring VRAM Self Refresh (VRSR) over to the modern Xe kernel driver…

Network automation, security, and predictive maintenance are the top AI applications, according to LF Networking’s global survey on the state of open networking.

Linux power management and ACPI subsystems maintainer Rafael Wysocki last week sent out the assortment of ACPI/PM material for the new Linux 6.15 kernel cycle. The AMD P-State driver continues to be heavy with its code churn and there have been various other optimizations and code clean-ups. The CPUIdle Menu governor also received some performance tuning worth mentioning…