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February 7, 2024
When it comes to open-source compiler toolchain components and more broadly often unsung heroes in the low-level open-source space, one of the most interesting successes in recent years has been the Mold linker that has proven itself a viable alternative to GNU ld and Gold or LLVM's lld linkers
February 7, 2024
Canonical engineer Till Kamppeter was at FOSDEM 2024 last weekend in Belgium to talk up the Snap packaging format spearheaded for Ubuntu Linux as well as their ongoing work around Ubuntu Core Desktop for providing an all-Snap based operating system.
February 7, 2024
After reviewing the Ryzen 7 8700G and the Ryzen 5 8600G as these new Zen 4 processors with RDNA3 integrated graphics, the latest AMD 8000G series CPU in the Linux benchmarking lab at Phoronix is the Ryzen 5 8500G.
February 6, 2024
Valve contractor Friedrich Vock who is part of the team working on the open-source Linux graphics drivers has merged another RADV ray-tracing optimization for this open-source AMD Vulkan driver with this improvement in next quarter's Mesa 24.1 release.
February 6, 2024
Daniel Kiper with Oracle has provided a status update on current GRUB bootloader development activities, a look ahead, and plans for hopefully having out the next release in November.
February 6, 2024
When hearing of 'Orange Pi Neo' this weekend from sources at FOSDEM 2024, I just assumed it was yet another Orange Pi single board computer..
February 6, 2024
Overnight the latest fixes to the Linux 6.8 kernel were merged including two that are 'serious' and will be back-ported to the existing stable Linux 6.7 kernel as well.
February 6, 2024
Stemming from work done at Amazon Web Services (AWS) for better handling hypervisor live updates, a 'request for comments' patch series was sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list for Pkernfs
February 6, 2024
A new release of Eclipse OpenJ9 is now available, the high-performance Java Virtual Machine formerly developed by IBM as the J9 VM.
February 6, 2024
Last year at FOSDEM 2023 there was a presentation on the state of AMD open-source firmware and since then a lot has changed from the AMD openSIL announcement to new platforms being in the process of being enabled