Linux

System insights with command line tools: lsof and lsblk
In our ongoing series on Linux system insights, we have a look into essential command-line utilities that provide information about the system’s hardware and status. Following our previous discussions on lscpu, lsusb, dmidecode and lspci, we now ...
2024-09-11 08:00
Device Tree Patches Posted For Review To Boot Linux On Apple A7 To A11 Devices
Device Tree patches have been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list for review and possible upstreaming to the mainline Linux kernel for booting Apple iPhones, iPads, and iPods that use the A7 to A11 SoCs...
2024-09-11 06:50
Verso Taking Shape As A Servo-Powered Web Browser
With Mozilla having backed away from the Servo web engine years ago and recent open-source development on Servo focused on making it suitable for embed purposes into other applications/software, it's remained to be picked up by any standalone web brows...
2024-09-11 06:22
LLVM Makes Progress On Using ClangIR To Compile GPU Kernels
ClangIR is a new IR for LLVM's Clang compiler built atop MLIR. Thanks to this year's Google Summer of Code, there has been progress on being able to compile GPU kernels using ClangIR as another improvement for heterogeneous programming with this open-s...
2024-09-11 06:04
Torvalds Inclined To Release Linux 6.11 This Coming Sunday
With this past weekend's release of Linux 6.11-rc7, the kernel changes for the week were larger than prior RCs and Torvalds was a bit hesitant on releasing v6.11 this coming Sunday due to the upcoming that takes place next week in Vienna, Austria. But ...
2024-09-11 05:57
Kernel Shader Variants Merged For Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL Driver
The latest Rust-written OpenCL driver "Rusticl" work by Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst is support for shader variants and introducing an optimized kernel variant...
2024-09-11 05:46
Juno Tab 3 Linux Tablet — Nice, But Overpriced?
Juno Computers have announced their latest Linux tablet, the Juno Tab 3, and it’s available to buy preloaded with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (or a choice of other Linux distributions). Which is great. The Juno Tab 3 is powered by an Intel N100 processor, 1...
2024-09-10 20:28
wolfSSL "Immediately Retired" From Fedora Linux For Failing To Follow Packaging Rules
WolfSSL is an embedded SSl/TLS library designed for a range of use-cases and available as open-source under the GNU GPLv2. WolfSSL was recently packaged and added to Fedora Linux since Netatalk began building against wolfSSL and in the longer-term plan...
2024-09-10 20:11
Join Canonical in Bangalore at Dell Technologies Forum
Canonical is thrilled to be joining forces with Dell Technologies at the upcoming Dell Technologies Forum – Bangalore, taking place on 12 September. This premier event brings together industry leaders and technology enthusiasts to explore the lat...
2024-09-10 19:08
CentOS Stream 10 Showing Nice Performance Uplift In Early Benchmarks On AmpereOne
As part of the ongoing AmpereOne testing at Phoronix with the 192-core AmpereOne A192-32X flagship processor, I've been working on several different Linux distribution benchmarks with this Supermicro AmpereOne server. That comparison in full should be ...
2024-09-10 16:00
Intel CPU Microcode 20240910 Fixes Two Security Issues, Various Functional Issues
Intel today as part of their "Patch Tuesday" released new CPU microcode for recent generation Core and Xeon processors. Two security updates were made along with fixing a handful of functional issues...
2024-09-10 14:25
GNU C Library Tuning For AArch64 Helps Memset Performance By ~24%
A patch merged yesterday to the GNU C Library (glibc) codebase can help the memset() function's performance by 24% as measured on an Arm Neoverse-N1 core...
2024-09-10 13:00
Intel Linux Graphics Driver To Finally Expose GPU Package Temperature
With the upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel the Intel graphics driver will finally be able to report GPU fan speeds. Another long sought feature is also on the way for this open-source Linux driver: GPU package temperature reporting for Intel discrete GPUs...
2024-09-10 12:24
AlmaLinux Announces Certification SIG, Hardware Certification Program
AlmaLinux to further distinguish itself from other RHEL-based Linux distributions has announced a Certification Special Interest Group (SIG) and out of that is coming a AlmaLinux Hardware Certification Program...
2024-09-10 11:27
Canonical Working To Package GraalVM For Ubuntu Linux
While OpenJDK Java is available via the Ubuntu package archive and the go-to JVM on Ubuntu Linux, Canonical is working to package up Oracle's GraalVM as another option for enhancing the Java stack on Ubuntu...
2024-09-10 10:42
Intel QATlib 24.09 Improves Performance For Multi-Threaded Apps & Multi-Socket Servers
Intel today released a new version of QATlib, the QuickAssist Technology library for enjoying hardware-accelerated offloading of security, authentication, and compression needs. Recent Intel Xeon CPUs with built-in QAT accelerators stand to benefit a l...
2024-09-10 08:55
Let’s meet at World Summit AI and talk about open source and AI tooling, with a dash of GenAI
Date: 9-10 October 2024 Booth: B8 After Data & AI Masters, we cross the North Sea to attend one of the leading AI events inEurope. Between the 9th and 10th of October, our team will be in Amsterdam at World Summit AI for the second year in a row. I...
2024-09-10 08:35
Intel Preps Native PCIe Enclosure Management "NPEM" For Standardized Storage LEDs
Intel engineers have been working on enabling NPEM for Linux: Native PCIe Enclosure Management as a means of standardized storage LED indicators...
2024-09-10 07:00
Ubuntu 24.10 Desktop To Ship With Sysprof Profiler Pre-Installed
Following Canonical's decision to enable frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and then they ended up adding a number of performance tools to ship by default with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, for Ubuntu 24.10 a late change is adding another tool to be ins...
2024-09-10 06:32
Canonical’s Anbox Cloud brings new development and testing features to improve in-vehicle infotainment
Support for AAOS (Android™ Automotive OS) enables improved testing and seamless scalability to make Android Automotive development easier. London, 9 September 2024. We are thrilled to announce that Anbox Cloud, Canonical’s solution to stream apps f...
2024-09-09 13:00