Linux

Intel Working On Coreboot Support For Xeon 6 Platforms
Intel announced earlier this week ahead of the OCP Global Summit that they have partnered with the 9elements consulting firm for getting Coreboot up and running on Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" platforms...
2024-10-18 16:42
Wine 9.20 Released With WineDbg Now Using Capstone Disassembler
Wine 9.20 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development version of this open-source software to enable running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...
2024-10-18 16:37
Ubuntu Considers Replacing initramfs-tools WIth Dracut
As a possible change for Ubuntu 25.04, Canonical is evaluating the use of Dracut to replace initramfs-tools for initrd generation on Ubuntu Linux...
2024-10-18 12:55
Linux 6.13 Poised To Land Prep Patches Working Toward Proxy Execution
Years in the making has been the idea of Proxy Execution for the Linux kernel as a means of implementing priority inheritance by leveraging information from a task's scheduler context and its execution context. While the Proxy Execution patches themsel...
2024-10-18 11:26
Linux Fixes Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier "IBPB" Handling For Older AMD CPUs
Merged today to Linux 6.12 Git were bug fixes to AMD's Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier (IBPB) handling that can be optionally used as part of the Retbleed and Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO) mitigations on older AMD processors...
2024-10-18 10:42
Laptop Vendor Malibal Suggests Not Supporting Coreboot
In a rather surprising post this morning, laptop vendor Malibal that offers both Linux and Windows systems is suggesting to not support the Coreboot project for open-source system firmware...
2024-10-18 09:00
Calibre 7.20 Adds New PDF Input Engine, Updates Tolino Shine 5 Firmware
Calibre 7.20 open-source ebook manager is now available for download with a new default PDF Input engine, new firmware for the Tolino Shine 5 reader, and other changes. Here's what's new! The post Calibre 7.20 Adds New PDF Input Engine, Updates Tolino ...
2024-10-18 07:59
Calibre 7.20 Adds New PDF Input Engine, Supports New Tolino Shine 5 Firmware
Calibre 7.20 open-source ebook manager is now available for download with a new default PDF Input engine, new firmware for the Tolino Shine 5 reader, and other changes. Here's what's new! The post Calibre 7.20 Adds New PDF Input Engine, Supports New To...
2024-10-18 07:59
AMD ROCm Looks Like It Will Finally Be Supporting OpenCL 3.0 Soon
The OpenCL 3.0 compute specification has been out in finalized form since September 2020. Since then NVIDIA's official Windows/Linux drivers have been exposing OpenCL 3.0 going back to 2021, the Intel Compute Runtime stack has also been exposing OpenCL...
2024-10-18 06:38
Ubuntu Snaps Up Intel's NPU User-Space Software So It's Easier To Accelerate AI
Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical has announced the availability of an Intel NPU driver Snap package within their Snap Store to make it easier to leverage the Intel neural processing unit (NPU) on Core Ultra processors within Ubuntu Linux...
2024-10-18 06:27
Valve Contributes OpenVR Video Driver To SDL
Merged to upstream SDL today is an OpenVR video driver that was developed at Valve Software...
2024-10-18 06:14
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Has Invested Over $24.9M In Open-Source In Two Years
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) is today celebrating its second anniversary for "empowering public digital infrastructure." In the past two years it has invested more than €23 million (about $24.94M USD) into sixty open technologies...
2024-10-18 06:07
Ardour 8.10 Open-Source DAW Released with Fixes for New Major Issues
Ardour 8.10 open-source digital audio workstation is now available for download with various bug fixes and minor improvements. Here's what's changed in this release! The post Ardour 8.10 Open-Source DAW Released with Fixes for New Major Issues appeared...
2024-10-17 23:58
Microsoft Open-Sources Rust-Written OpenHCL For Running Confidential Intel/AMD VMs
Microsoft announced today the new and now open-source OpenHCL paravisor for the virtualization stack for enabling Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP confidential computing virtual machines (VMs) with this Rust-written software stack. This effort by Microsoft ha...
2024-10-17 20:28
Meet our EDU team at EDUCAUSE 2024
We’re excited to announce our participation in EDUCAUSE 2024.
2024-10-17 17:57
Intel NPU Driver Being Updated To Handle Larger AI Workloads
Following the recent patch work for enabling the Intel 5th Gen NPU premiering with Panther Lake, a new patch series posted today brings a number of improvements for this Intel neural processing unit driver -- including the ability to handle larger work...
2024-10-17 16:54
VirtualBox 7.1.4 Readies Linux Kernel 6.12 Support + More
Oracle has released the second maintenance update for the latest VirtualBox 7.1 series. VirtualBox 7.1.4 includes a small set of improvements, bug fixes, and stability enhancements to this open-source, cross-platform virtualisation tool, though new maj...
2024-10-17 14:44
Exploring The Zen 5 SMT Performance With The AMD EPYC 9755 "Turin" CPU
Continuing on with the testing around the AMD EPYC 9005 series "Turin" processors, today is a look at the Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) performance impact for Turin while using the AMD EPYC 9755 as the highest-end "Turin Classic" processor with 12...
2024-10-17 13:38
PyTorch 2.5 Released With Improved Intel GPU Support
PyTorch 2.5 is out today as the latest major update to this widely-used machine learning library...
2024-10-17 12:58
Why is Ubuntu Linux the leading choice to replace CentOS for financial services?
Financial services are powered by technology. The customer experience is increasingly driven by data, with tailoring of products and services to reflect individual behaviors and preferences. All of this rests on a foundation of secure, stable technolog...
2024-10-17 10:28