Kernel Space

• Linux Kernel 3.14 RC3 Released with Updated Drivers and Fixes

  Linux kernel 3.14 RC3 includes several updated drivers (GPU, media, block, etc.), architecture updates (x86, ARM64, s390), filesystem improvements (Btrfs, VFS, NFS, OCFS, and kernfs fixes), as well as various mm and tooling (perf) improvements.

• What if Linus Torvalds Would Have Accepted Job Proposal of Steve Jobs?

  Linus Torvalds, the man behind the wonderful project Linux and Git was offered job by Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Inc. Torvalds never met Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft but he met Jobs in the year 2000 when he was working with Transmeta corporation, an American fabless semiconductor company. Jobs invited Torvalds to Cupertino Camps of Apple. Torvalds was offered thick salary and remarkable position within the organization and was supposed to do Non-Linux things at Apple. This was the point, Torvalds disagreed. Moreover Torvalds did not like the Mac Kernel, Mach.

• 25 Mythical and Humorous Facts About Linux Creator Linus Torvalds





• Reflections From OpenDaylight Summit





• Linux Video of the Week: Inside the OpenDaylight SDN Project

  Earlier this month at the OpenDaylight Summit, the software defined networking project announced its first code release, called Hydrogen.
  
  Their open source controller is now available for download, published for everyone to see and use. But the structure and culture that got the project to this point, about one year after its formation, isn't so readily available for outsiders to see and understand.





• The Open Virtualization Alliance Gains New, Cloud-focused Members

  As users everywhere begin to warm up to the benefits of running multiple operating systems in tandem, virtualization has become one of the hottest corners of the technology arena. Many open source tools are helping to drive this trend, and that is making the work of the Open Virtualization Alliance very important. The group has been up and running for years, and late last year it joined the Linux Foundation in an effort to integrate its efforts more closely with the Linux community.





• Kdbus Will Likely Be Merged Into The Kernel This Year

  All of the code for kdbus is living within its own Git repository right now and also there's code within the systemd Git while a compile-time switch must be activated now within systemd. Developers are hoping kdbus will be reviewed and merged into the upstream Linux kernel this year. Lennart shared a couple of kdbus features out on the horizon include sandboxing support, yielding CPU time to destination, priority inheritance, and priority queues.





• Linux System and Kernel Programming Weekend Training Programs in Multiple Cities





• Linux Foundation Promotes KVM Open Source Cloud Virtualization

Graphics Stack

• Wayland's Libinput Gets New Multi-Touch Touchpad

  This new multi-touch touch-pad implementation presents support for one / two / three finger tapping, two-finger scrolling, clickfinger, drag-n-drop on clickpads, and single-touch touch-pad support. There's also work underway in the clickpad software button support and better timeout handling. Other possible features include trackstick mode support, disable-while-tapping, pinch/rotation support, and other features.





• Formerly Confidential SGI Tapes Now Freed To The Public

  An SGI fan and Phoronix reader happened to have an old set of SGI tapes dating back to the 90's regarding "Tech Talk" and "KGSI Radio" on SGI wares. The Phoronix reader, Steven Hill, digitized these recordings and obtained permission to release them from SGI after formally being marked confidential.





• What It Takes To Port An X11 Application To Wayland





• AMD Publishes New Code For Open-Source VCE Video Encode

  AMD has published a second version of their open-source Linux driver code for exposing the "VCE" video engine on modern Radeon GPUs under Linux via OpenMAX for accelerated H.264 video encoding.





• Another OpenGL 4.1 Extension Comes To R600 Gallium3D

  The Radeon R600 Gallium3D driver has picked up support for another OpenGL extension that's mandated by the OpenGL 4.1 specification.





• 9-Way AMD Radeon Comparison On Ubuntu With Catalyst 14.1 Beta

  For those curious how AMD's Catalyst Linux performance is doing as we get 2014 underway with the first Catalyst 14.1 beta, here are benchmarks from nine different AMD Radeon graphics cards under Ubuntu Linux and running this latest publicly available driver when looking at both the OpenGL graphics and OpenCL compute performance.