Tesla Uses Coreboot Among Other Open Source Solutions

Tesla uses multiple open source projects in its soft- and hardware. One of these examples is the adoption of Coreboot, adding to the Linux Kernel, LMMS, and lots of other software.

The full self-driving (FSD) chip is made by Samsung, Tesla's partner in that area.

The source code of the Github repository shows Coreboot references to a "Turbo TRAV" SoC and also a "Turbo Sentinel" which seem to be new iterations of motherboards. You can find the repo here.

It's interesting to see that this company uses open source software extensively. And it's nice to know that Mr. Musk and his company pay respect to the developers of projects used in the electrical cars.

Self-driving cars are the future, so it seems. We'll see how Linux and other open source projects like Coreboot improve the Tesla ecosystem in the years ahead. There a many open source alternatives out there, and we're sure that Tesla continues to implement solutions based on free software.

Boost Your Debian / Ubuntu Performance With The XanMod Kernel

If you haven't been a Linux user for a long time, you're probably on Ubuntu or any of the other "standard" Debian derivatives (Xubuntu, Kubuntu, or even Devuan). The standard kernel that ships with the LTS variants of Ubuntu operating systems is not optimized for performance but rather for compatibility. If you want to get more out of your hardware, it's recommended to install an optimized kernel for that purpose. There are several alternatives to the mainline kernel. The XanMod Kernel is one of these alternatives and relatively easy to install on your own Ubuntu / Debian machine. You can learn more about the XanMod Kernel here: https://xanmod.org The latest release by the XanMod developer team includes the following changes : - Preemptive Full Tickless Kernel at 500Hz w/ Tuned CPU Core Scheduler. - Tuned Multi-Queue Block Layer w/ Low-Latency BFQ I/O Scheduler. - Caching, Virtual Memory Manager and CPU Governor improvements. - RCU Boost for bett

Linus Torvalds Now Using AMD Threadripper After 15 Years Of Intel

Linux 5.7 will probably soon become available as a stable release, until then the new 5.7-rc7 Kernel has been distributed to toy around with and reports bugs. The full message regarding Linux 5.7-rc7 can be found here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whan1CiRtcgBt-5SkW-ga_GeLH5+AO26RmK7vOA5yw9ng@mail.gmail.com/ The quoted part is about Linus Torvalds looking forward to getting more performance out of his rig, now sporting an AMD Threadripper 3970x instead of an Intel processor. In fact, the biggest excitement this week for me was just that I upgraded my main machine, and for the first time in about 15 years, my desktop isn't Intel-based. No, I didn't switch to ARM yet, but I'm now rocking an AMD Threadripper 3970x. My 'allmodconfig' test builds are now three times faster than they used to be, which doesn't matter so much right now during the calming down period, but I will most definitely notice the upgrade during the next merge window.

Firefox 73 Released With "Smarter Console"

Firefox 73.0 was released yesterday as the new stable Firefox browser version used by millions of people around the globe. Whether it's to avoid yet another Google spyware product (like Chrome) or just because Firefox offers so much more flexibility through extensions, Firefox is still going strong. With the new update, Mozilla introduces several useful things that users might have missed before. One feature seems to be extremely useful for web developers: the console has become smarter, according to the Firefox devs. Console output can be styled pretty easily via options added to the console.log() function. The following is the example from the Mozilla blog: console.log('There has been a problem with your fetch operation: %c' + e.message, 'color: red; padding: 2px 2px 2px 20px; background: yellow 3px no-repeat url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAwAAAAMCAYAAABWdVznAAAACXBIWXMAAA 7EAAAOxAGVKw4bAAAApUlEQVQoz5WSwQ3DIBAE50wEEkWkABdBT+bhNqwoldBHJ

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