Category Archives: Linux

Debian 12.4 “Bookworm” Released with 94 Bug Fixes and 65 Security Updates

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The Debian Project announced today the release and general availability of Debian 12.4 as the third ISO update to the latest Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” operating system series, superseding Debian 12.3 which was halted due to an issue in the EXT4 file system leading to data corruption.

Source: LXer – Debian 12.4 “Bookworm” Released with 94 Bug Fixes and 65 Security Updates

Bottomley: Solving the Looming Developer Liability Problem

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James Bottomley writes
that open-source developers are increasingly likely to be held liable for
flaws in their code and suggests a solution:

Indemnification means one party, in particular circumstances,
agreeing to be on the hook for the legal responsibilities of
another party. This is actually a well known way not of avoiding
liability but transferring it to where it belongs. As such, it’s
easily sellable in the court of public opinion: we’re not looking
to avoid liability, merely trying to make sure it lands on those
who are making all the money from the code.



Source: LWN.net – Bottomley: Solving the Looming Developer Liability Problem

Ampere Altra Max Continues To Deliver Competitive Power Efficiency To AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon

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While it’s been three years now since Ampere Altra Q80 was first introduced and two years since first testing the 128-core Ampere Altra Max, this ARM server platform has aged rather well with more robust hardware platforms coming to market with better firmware, the AArch64 Linux/open-source software ecosystem as a whole improving a lot during this time and more open-source projects receiving ARM optimizations, and other improvements made. While we’re eagerly awaiting to see AmpereOne hardware, here is a look at how Ampere Altra Max M128-30 is standing up against current AMD EPYC Genoa(X) and Bergamo server CPUs along with Intel Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids processors in raw performance and power efficiency.

Source: Phoronix – Ampere Altra Max Continues To Deliver Competitive Power Efficiency To AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon

One Line Patch Doubles Mesa NVK Performance For Talos Principle… To 18 FPS

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A patch merged this weekend for Mesa 24.0-devel is helping the performance of the open-source NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs but the performance remains well short still of the proprietary NVIDIA Linux graphics driver stack…

Source: Phoronix – One Line Patch Doubles Mesa NVK Performance For Talos Principle… To 18 FPS

[$] Some recent and notable changes to Rust

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The Rust project makes incremental releases every six
weeks, a fact that makes it easy to overlook some of the
interesting changes coming to the language, such as new
ABIs, better debugger support, asynchronous traits, and
support for C strings.
The end of the year provides an opportunity to look back
over the past several months of updates, and to look
forward to what to expect in 2024.

Source: LWN.net – [$] Some recent and notable changes to Rust

WayVNC 0.8 Preparing Transient Seats, Automatic Server-Side Resizing & Detached Mode

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WayVNC v0.8 is working its way toward release as a VNC server for wlroots-based Wayland compositors like Sway. WayVNC continues to make it quite easy to have VNC support for Wayland desktops employing wlroots and this next release brings even more features…

Source: Phoronix – WayVNC 0.8 Preparing Transient Seats, Automatic Server-Side Resizing & Detached Mode

Kioxia Donates SDK To Linux Foundation For Software-Enabled Flash SDK

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Storage company Kioxia that was spun off from Toshiba several years ago has donated a software development kit (SDK) to the Linux Foundation for establishing the Software-Enabled Flash SDK. This is for opening new doors and innovative uses around flash memory…

Source: Phoronix – Kioxia Donates SDK To Linux Foundation For Software-Enabled Flash SDK

Kernel prepatch 6.7-rc5

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The 6.7-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for
testing.

Nothing looks particularly scary, which is good, because if it had
been, I wouldn’t have had the capacity to deal with it last week.

Let’s hope it stays that way even as I am getting better. Because the
holidays are almost upon us, and I’m woefully underprepared.



Source: LWN.net – Kernel prepatch 6.7-rc5

AMD WBRF Ready For Linux 6.8 To Mitigate WiFi Radio Interference

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Since earlier this year AMD has been working on Linux support for WBRF for mitigating WiFi radio frequency interference (RFI) with their latest Ryzen 7000 and forthcoming Ryzen 8000 series mobile processors. That work looks like it will be ready to land in Linux 6.8…

Source: Phoronix – AMD WBRF Ready For Linux 6.8 To Mitigate WiFi Radio Interference

Unvanquished 0.54.1 Released With Rendering Fixes & Better Bots

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Unvanquished has been a promising open-source first person shooter game in development for over a decade. It started out putting monthly alpha releases and quite a brisk development pace but in recent years the releases have been much less frequent. This year started out with Unvanquished 0.54 being released and in now approaching the end of the year is seeing a new point release…

Source: Phoronix – Unvanquished 0.54.1 Released With Rendering Fixes & Better Bots