Intel spots a single line of code that sees Linux gain a massive nearly 40 times or 4000% performance gain.
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AMD's Ryzen processors are getting a performance boost on both Windows and Linux thanks to an AGESA firmware update.
Linus Torvalds has accepted Microsoft's Hyper-V upgrade which should lead to Linux booting up faster than before in the very near future.
Windows 11 used to come out on top but is handily beaten by Linux distro Ubuntu again in the latest set of tests. In some of these benchmarks, the performance gap is especially large.
Microsoft is adding support for XFS as a root file system on Linux. The change was announced with the latest update to CBL-Mariner which is Microsoft's Linux-based OS for Azure 1P.
Linux kernel version 6.4 is getting improved Rust code. This was revealed by some of the most recent patches. This update comes hot on the heels of the recent news regarding Windows 11's Rust support.
Recently, we reported that F2FS, Btrfs, and EXT4, were getting significant performance improvements on Linux. Following that, Linux's NTFS driver is also getting some optimizations.
As Microsoft makes more progress with ReFS on Windows 11, Linux is also getting performance optimizations and improvements on some of its major file systems, namely, F2FS, Btrfs, and EXT4.
Python developers who spent some time coding over the holiday break may want to check out an advisory regarding a malicious PyTorch package that was being fetched from PyPI last week.
Meta has announced that its management of the PyTorch framework will be handed over to the new PyTorch Foundation, which is in turn a part of the Linux Foundation. A board will guide its future.
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Linus Torvalds, the head of Linux, is super-pleased with how smoothly things have gone so far for Linux kernel 5.18 for stuff like adding features and launching new release candidates.
Ubuntu's upcoming 21.10 distro is far ahead of Windows 10 and 11 in performance in some of the applications as per a report. The performance is especially impressive in CPUs-intense workloads.
SPDX is the second Linux Foundation standard to receive ISO designation to manage supply chain security. It has also been employed by tech companies like Intel, Microsoft, and Sony for over ten years.
Microsoft has partnered with various organizations including Accenture, GitHub, and ThoughtWorks to form the Green Software Foundation which aims to promote sustainable and green software development.
Sigstore is a new Linux Foundation project described as "Let's Encrypt for Code Signing". The tool is developed by Google, Red Hat, and Smallstep, and is designed to offer better provenance for code.
HP is among 34 organisations that have just joined the Linux Foundation. The PC maker has joined up as a Silver member and will help develop and maintain open source software, such as Linux.
Uber is the latest firm to join The Linux Foundation consortium. Uber has joined as a Gold member which will see it donate $100,000 annually. Uber joins the likes of Microsoft, Google, and Samsung.
The Linux Foundation and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have created the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) in order to improve the state of open source software in media.
The Hyperledger project, which was initiated by the Linux Foundation at the end of 2015, has just passed 250 members. Hyperledger brings entities together to advance different blockchain projects.
Deutsche Telekom is the latest big name to join the ranks of The Linux Foundation. The firm's 200,000 employees will help the firm in spreading open standards and open source software.
Samsung has decided to join the Linux Foundation Network Fund as a Platinum Member. The grouping allows companies to more effectively work together to pursue technologies like 5G and IoT.
Acting as a natural next step after joining the Linux Foundation last year, Microsoft has now become a member of a cloud-oriented sub-organization called the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
"Microsoft and the Linux Foundation may have had our disagreements in the past,", the Foundation's Jim Zemlin said today, "but one thing we've always agreed on is that developers are super-important."
Microsoft has announced that it will be joinging as a founding member of the R Consortium formed by the Linux Foundation along side Google and Oracle for creating a vibrant data science community.
The latest "Who writes Linux?" report from the Linux Foundation has revealed that Intel has leapfrogged Red Hat to become the top contributor to the Linux kernel development.
Microsoft is among the members of a new group called the Core Infrastructure Initiative which has been formed by the Linux Foundation to make sure OpenSSL issues such as Heartbleed don't happen again.
The Linux Foundation has announced that Valve has officially joined its organization as part of Valve's push for its Linux based SteamOS and its Steam Machines launch in 2014.
Microsoft announced that they are one of the founding members of the OpenDaylight Project, an effort run by the Linux Foundation designed to create a new and common Software-Defined Networking.
A solution to boot Linux-based operating systems on a PC with Windows 8 installed has finally been released by the Linux Foundation after taking longer to release than expected.
A solution to boot Linux-based operating systems on a PC with Windows 8 installed is still in the works at the Linux Foundation but it's apparently taking longer than expected.
The Linux Foundation announced this week that it has found a way to allow people who have Windows 8 installed on their PCs to boot up to a Linux OS, or any open source OS.
In a new report from the Linux Foundation, it was revealed that Microsoft is now listed for the first time as a developer that contributed to the Linux kernel, ranking at number 17 on the list.
Development of the open source Linux based operating system MeeGo is shutting down as the Linux Foundation is moving on to a new open source OS project, Tizen.
