Software — Open Source — April 2nd, 2024

5 Linux network-related commands every new user should know
If you're just starting on your Linux journey, these command lines will help you immensely for network-related purposes.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

AMD Announces Ryzen Embedded 8000 Series With Focus On Industrial AI
AMD today announced the Ryzen Embedded 8000 series processors -- their first AMD embedded chips to offer Ryzen AI with the onboard Neural Processing Unit (NPU). This AMD XDNA NPU support is similar to the existing Ryzen AI on the Ryzen 8000 series.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

AMD Says They'll Be Open-Sourcing More Of Their GPU Software Stack & Hardware Docs
AMD Radeon posted to Twitter/X that "coming soon" they will be open-sourcing additional portions of their software stack as well as putting out more hardware documentation.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

AMD's Longtime Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Advocate Retires
After working at ATI/AMD for more than a quarter century and being the open-source graphics driver manager during the early days, John Bridgman has retired.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

ASUS WMI Driver For Linux Preps New Features For Recent ASUS Laptops
Open-source developer Luke Junes continues doing a great job near single-handedly improving ASUS laptop support for Linux users. His many improvements over time to the ASUS-WMI kernel driver has enabled new features and functionality for ASUS laptops on Linux. Sent out on Monday was the newest patch series with additional feature work to this driver.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME
A change proposal filed for fedora 42 seeks to make KDE Plasma the default desktop of Fedora Workstation while GNOME would move to its own separate spin/edition. The proposal has yet to be voted on by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) but given Red Hat's deep roots with GNOME, I have a hard time seeing this pass at least in the near-term.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

Fedora Linux 40 Final Freeze Today
It is expected that the final release freeze for Fedora Linux 40 will begin later today. There will be a stable status assigned to packages that resolve blocker or freeze exception bugs, while other builds will continue to be in the updates-testing phase until they are ultimately approved.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

From Russia with love: ROSA Fresh 12.5 delivers an improved Linux experience
From the land of matryoshkas and balalaikas, ROSA, a developer of system and infrastructure software, has released ROSA Fresh 12.5. This new version of the Russian-developed operating system is a blend of significant improvements and fresh features, aimed at improving both convenience and security.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.1 Merges Vulkan Support For Wayland Explicit Sync
Mesa 24.1's Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code now has support for the Wayland linux-drm-syncobj-v1 protocol for explicit synchronization support.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

New XZ backdoor scanner detects implant in any Linux binary
Firmware security firm Binarly has released a free online scanner to detect Linux executables impacted by the XZ Utils supply chain attack, tracked as CVE-2024-3094.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

Open source foundations unite on common standards for EU's Cyber Resilience Act
Adopted last month, the new legislation will come into force starting 2027
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

PCIe 7.0 Specification v0.5 Published - Full Spec Next Year
The PCI-SIG announced today that they have published their newest revision "version 0.5" of the forthcoming PCI Express 7.0 specification.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

Qt 6.7 Released With Many Improvements For This Cross-Platform Toolkit
Qt 6.7 is out as the newest feature update to this cross-platform, commercial-focused toolkit.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

SDL 2.30.2 Released Along WIth New SDL3 Preview
The Simple DirectMedia Layer software/hardware abstraction layer commonly used by games and other cross-platform software is out with a new SDL 2.30.2 stable release as well as a new SDL3 preview release.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

Some Relief For Linux Admins living in terror of the XZ backdoor
Thanks to a curious and technically skilled engineer by the name of Andres Freud, Linux admins are living in a bit of a nightmare world. He discovered a backdoor in the XZ Utils package which contains a number of tools and libraries at the heart of many Linux distros.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

The Linux Kernel Begins Preparing For Rust 1.78 Upgrade
Following the recent upgrade to Rust 1.77, the Linux kernel Rust code is preparing to move to Rust 1.78 that will be released as stable in about one month.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 Continues Running Well As A Powerful AMD Ryzen 7 Linux Laptop
The past two months I've been testing out the TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 laptop as a new AMD Ryzen laptop from this Bavarian Linux PC retailer. It's been working out very well under Linux (as would be expected of TUXEDO Computers) and quite adaptable for power and performance. For those needing a capable Linux laptop the TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 has proven quite stable and reliable under both their in-house TUXEDO OS distribution as well as Ubuntu Linux.
April 2nd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 29th, 2024

AMD Releases Orochi 2.0 With More CUDA/HIP Functions Implemented For Better Portability
AMD GPUOpen's Orochi project as a reminder is the effort for allowing dynamic runtime switching between the Radeon HIP and NVIDIA CUDA APIs to allow better cross-GPU portability. Today marks the availability of Orochi 2.0 for enhancing this API to target NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HIP hardware.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

Apple Researchers Detail Method to Combine Different LLMs to Achieve State-of-the-Art Performance
Many large language models (LLMs) have become available recently, both closed and open source, further leading to the creation of combined models known as Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs). Yet, few or none of them unveil what design choices were made to create them, say Apple researchers who distilled principles and lessons to design state-of-the-art (SOTA) Multimodal LLMs (PDF).
March 29th, 2024 — Source

Beware! Backdoor found in XZ utilities used by many Linux distros (CVE-2024-3094)
A vulnerability (CVE-2024-3094) in XZ Utils, the XZ format compression utilities included in most Linux distributions, may "enable a malicious actor to break sshd authentication and gain unauthorized access to the entire system remotely," Red Hat warns.
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Easy-to-use make-me-root exploit lands for recent Linux kernels. Get patching
CVE-2024-1086 turns the page tables on system admins
March 29th, 2024 — Source

Fedora 41 Will Try Again To Switch To DNF5 Package Manager
Fedora 39 had hoped to use the DNF5 package manager by default as the next iteration of this package management solution for RPM-based distributions. But DNF5 wasn't ready and then delayed to Fedora 41 -- skipping over the Fedora 40 series due to the RHEL 10 branching from it and not wanting the very new DNF5 to be part of that merge.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

GNOME's Mutter Lands DRM Sync Obj v1 Support For Explicit Sync On Wayland
Merged on Thursday to GNOME's Mutter compositor is support for the linux-drm-syncobj-v1 Wayland protocol that is used to handle the global migration to explicit synchronization.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

HashiCorp Released Version 2.3 of Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes
HashiCorp recently released version 2.3 of Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes with a new feature: the ability to initiate workspace runs declaratively. The Terraform Cloud Operator for Kubernetes was introduced in November 2023 to provide a Kubernetes-native experience while leveraging Terraform workflows.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

Intel Releases Its March 2024 Open-Source Linux GPU Compute Stack Update
Intel is ending out the month and quarter with the latest update to its open-source Compute Runtime and Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) code that enables OpenCL and Level Zero support on Linux systems and is also used by their Windows driver too.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

Malicious SSH backdoor sneaks into xz, Linux world's data compression library
STOP USAGE OF FEDORA RAWHIDE, says Red Hat while Debian Unstable and others also affected
March 29th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Drives AMD 4th Gen EPYC Performance Even Higher For Some Workloads
Now that the Linux 6.9 merge window is past I've begun testing out this in-development kernel on more hardware platforms in the lab. While some performance boosts like Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" running faster on Linux 6.9 was to be expected given EPP tuning in the new kernel specific to those SoCs, one of the unexpected delights has been seeing AMD 4th Gen EPYC performance with some nice performance gains over Linux 6.8 stable.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.2.18RC1 and 8.3.5RC1 for Fedora/RHEL released
Remi Collet has released Release Candidate versions of PHP versions 8.3.5 and 8.2.18 in his testing repository for deployment on Fedora and Enterprise Linux. These versions are available as software collections for parallel installation and as base packages.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

Red Hat issues urgent alert for Fedora Linux users due to malicious code
In a recent security announcement, Red Hat's Information Risk and Security and Product Security teams have identified a critical vulnerability in the latest versions of the "xz" compression tools and libraries.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

Updated Windows NT Sync Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel
CodeWeavers' Elizabeth Figura has been working on the NTSYNC driver to implement Windows NT synchronization primitives for the Linux kernel in order to help the performance of various Windows games running on Linux by the likes of Wine / Valve's Proton (Steam Play). The third iteration of that driver was posted overnight as it seeks to go into the mainline Linux kernel.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

XZ Struck By Malicious Code That Could Allow Unauthorized Remote System Access
Red Hat today issued an "urgent security alert" for Fedora 41 and Fedora Rawhide users over XZ. Yes, the XZ tools and libraries for this compression format. Some malicious code was added to XZ 5.6.0/5.6.1 that could allow unauthorized remote system access.
March 29th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 28th, 2024

Arm China Looking At Upstreaming Their "Zhouyi" NPU Driver Into The Linux Kernel
Arm China is looking at upstreaming their "Zhouyi" NPU driver into the Linux kernel via the recently-created accelerator "accel" subsystem. The Arm China Neural Processing Unit (NPU) driver in its current form has both an open-source kernel and user-space stack.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Canonical Bumps LTS Support to 12 years
If you're worried that your Ubuntu LTS release won't be supported long enough to last, Canonical has a surprise for you in the form of 12 years of security coverage.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

EROFS Drops "Experimental" Warning For FSDAX With Linux 6.9
Adding to the Linux 6.9 features is a minor post merge window change: the read-only ROFS file-system is no longer treading its FSDAX support as experimental.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Flatpak 1.15.7 Will Now Automatically Remove Obsolete Driver Versions
Simon McVittie issued the Flatpak 1.15.7 pre-release on Wednesday with a few notable changes for this widely-used open-source app sandboxing and distribution framework.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

GNU Coreutils 9.5 Can Yield 10~20% Throughput Boost For cp, mv & cat Commands
While the uutils Rust-written Coreutils effort has been chugging along, the upstream GNU Coreutils effort is showing no signs of slowing down. Out today is GNU Coreutils 9.5 with yet more feature work and bug fixes including a security fix for a chmod issue that's been around since the beginning.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Google Cloud's C3D Instances Provide Strong Performance Value For PingCAP's TiDB
Some time ago I ran through a number of
March 28th, 2024 — Sourcebenchmarks of Google Cloud's C3D VMs powered by AMD EPYC Genoa processors. The AMD EPYC 9004 series showed terrific performance with strong generational improvements over the Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

KDE neon 20240328 released
A new version of KDE neon has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Intel "Family 6" CPU Era Coming To An End Soon: Code Suggests Cooper Forest & Adams Lake
Since the mid-90's with the P6 micro-architecture for the Pentium Pro as the sixth-generation x86 microarchitecture, Intel has relied on the "Family 6" CPU ID. From there Intel has just revved the Model number within Family 6 for each new microarchitecture/core.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Linux Foundation Launches Valkey As A Redis Fork
Given the recent change by Redis to adopt dual source-available licensing for all their releases moving forward (Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1), the Linux Foundation announced today their fork of Redis.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

More Efficient VirtIO DRM Driver To Import Scanout Buffers From Other Devices
Patches posted today by an Intel engineer allow for importing scanout buffers from other devices with the VirtIO DRM driver that is used in the virtualization space. The importing of scanout buffers from other devices/drivers can allow for more efficient use by avoiding excess copies.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Proxmox gives VMware ESXi users a place to go after Broadcom kills free version
New import wizard makes the switch from ESXi to Proxmox a bit more graceful.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Redis Switches to SSPLv1: Restrictive License Sparks Fork by Former Maintainers
Redis has recently announced a change in their license by transitioning from the open-source BSD to the more restrictive Server Side Public License (SSPLv1). The move has promptly led to a fork initiated by former maintainers and reignited discussions surrounding the sustainability of open-source initiatives.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Reverse-Engineered Rockchip NPU Driver Hitting Same Performance As Proprietary Driver
Open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso recently began the effort of creating an open-source, reverse-engineered driver for the Rockchip NPU found in some of the latest Rockchip SoCs. After succeeding at open-source NPU driver support for the VeriSilicon NPU IP, Vizoso took up the challenge of working on Rockchip NPU support. With his open-source user-space driver he's already got his first model running.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Software vendors dump open source, go for the cash grab
First, they build programs with open source. Then they build their business with open source. Then they abandon it and cash out.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

The 'pure' version of Kodi for Ubuntu Linux is dead
Team Kodi, which has long provided Personal Package Archives (PPA) for Ubuntu users seeking up-to-date and undiluted versions of the hugely popular Kodi media player, has announced the retirement of the service. This decision was apparently made due to the high maintenance overhead associated with its upkeep.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Using Microsoft's Retina to monitor Kubernetes networks
The open-source Retina brings observability to container networks in Kubernetes using eBPF.
March 28th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 27th, 2024

Blender 4.1 Benchmarks Confirm Even Faster CPU Render Times Under Linux
Blender has long enjoyed faster CPU rendering under Linux compared to using Microsoft Windows. Across many different processors over the years consistently we see faster Linux CPU render performance than under Windows, though that's typically the case for most renderers. With yesterday's release of Blender 4.1, there is even faster Linux CPU render speeds. Here are some initial Blender 4.0 vs. 4.1 benchmarks.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Canonical Continues Exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Images - Now In Microsoft's Cloud
Ubuntu maker Canonical has spent the past several months exploring Ubuntu x86-64-v3 based images for leveraging the x86_64 micro-architecture feature level capabilities to target the level embracing AVX/AVX2, FMA, BMI2, and other instructions supported largely since Intel Haswell and AMD Excavator era processors.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Fedora 40 Beta Released Soon
With the official release of Fedora 40 coming in April, it's almost time to download the beta and see what's new.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Intel Xe Developers Begin Looking At Cross-Device & Cross-Driver HMM
The Intel open-source engineers working on the modern Xe DRM kernel graphics driver have begun looking at Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM) support for cross-device and cross-driver scenarios as the latest exciting feature work for this still-experimental driver.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 4.19.311 released
Linux kernel version 4.19.311 is now available:
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.214 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.214 is now available:
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.15.153 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.153 is now available:
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.4.273 released
Linux kernel version 5.4.273 is now available:
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.23 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.23 is now available:
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.7.11 released
Linux kernel version 6.7.11 is now available:
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.8.2 released
Linux kernel version 6.8.2 is now available:
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.7-17 released
Steven Barrett has released a new Liquorix Linux kernel update based on Linux Kernel 6.7.11 for Debian and Ubuntu.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Engineer Sends Rust Linux Kernel Patches For In-Place Module Initialization
What a time we live in where Microsoft not only continues contributing significantly to the Linux kernel but doing so to further flesh out the design of the Linux kernel's Rust programming language support. A previously unimaginable combination of Microsoft, the Rust programming language, and the Linux kernel.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Pop!_OS Upgrades To The Linux 6.8 Kernel
Besides its desktop-level customizations, further differentiating System76's Pop!_OS Linux distribution from its Ubuntu LTS package base is the tendency to roll down newer versions of the upstream Linux kernel once validated across System76's portfolio of laptops and desktops.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Qubes OS 4.2.1 released
The stable release of Qubes OS 4.2.1, which includes a consolidation of security patches, bug fixes, and other updates following the release of Qubes 4.2.0, has been made available. In addition to the numerous updates, it comes with the Fedora 39 template, all of the 4.2 dom0 updates, and Linux 6.6.x as the default kernel.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

RHEL 9.4 Beta Brings Full Support For Intel SGX & DSA Accelerator Drivers
Red Hat has made the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Beta available to their customers this week for those wanting to test the next iteration of RHEL9.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Samba 4.20.0 released
Samba 4.20.0 has been released. In order to address the CVE-2022-37967 (KrbtgtFullPacSignature) vulnerabilities, Samba now requires MIT 1.21 when it is built against a system named MIT Krb5 that is functioning as an Active Directory controller. The JSON package for Perl is no longer necessary for Samba builds that make use of the imported Heimdal. Samba 4.20.0 has been released. In order to address the CVE-2022-37967 (KrbtgtFullPacSignature) vulnerabilities, Samba now requires MIT 1.21 when it is built against a system named MIT Krb5 that is functioning as an Active Directory controller. The JSON package for Perl is no longer necessary for Samba builds that make use of the imported Heimdal.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

SDL3 Will Keep Wayland Default At Least For The Time Being
Following several days of discussions from both sides of the table over whether SDL 3.0 should revert its Wayland over X11 preference in light of some aspects of the Wayland ecosystem support not being in good shape, for now at least SDL 3.0 is sticking to the Wayland support by default.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Tails 6.1 released
Tails version 6.1 is now available for download. In this version, the Tor Browser is updated to version 13.0.13, and Thunderbird is updated to version 115.9.0. Onion circuits, welcome screen errors, videos, passphrase issues, tailscloner installation and upgrade to multiple partitioned devices, display custom persistent storage features, and mitigate Intel CPU vulnerabilities are some of the issues that have been fixed.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

TornadoVM v1.0.3 OpenJDK/GraalVM Plug-In For Java Heterogeneous Hardware Support
TornadoVM is the OpenJDK and GraalVM plug-in that opens up the Java programming language to heterogeneous hardware support by allowing the easy targeting of Java code to TornadoVM targets including OpenCL, NVIDIA PTX, and SPIR-V -- in addition to CPUs. With the SPIR-V and OpenCL support in turn this means Java can run not only on GPUs but also some FPGAs and other devices.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu Legacy Support expands Ubuntu LTS lifespan to 12 years
Canonical has made the announcement that Legacy Support, an add-on for Ubuntu Pro, is now available. This add-on extends the security and support coverage for Ubuntu LTS releases to a period of twelve years.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.6.23 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.6.23 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.7.11 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.7.11 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.8.2 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.8.2 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
March 27th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 25th, 2024

5 Linux file and folder management commands you need to know
Already know the 5 most essential Linux commands? Great! But for maximum productivity, you should learn these 5 too. (You'll thank me later.)
March 25th, 2024 — Source

AI bubble or not, Nvidia is betting everything on a GPU-accelerated future
LLMs powering generative AI may be moving GPUs, but Huang and co already looking at next big opportunity
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Apple AI: Everything you need to know about artificial intelligence changes coming to iPhone, iOS 18 and beyond
Smarter Siri, Mac, and iPhone?
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Apple buying AI services from Chinese tech giant Baidu, say reports
Chinese media is reporting that Apple is buying AI services from local tech giant Baidu. The WSJ had earlier reported that the iPhone maker had been in discussions with the company, to use its AI smarts in iOS 18.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Apple might finally let you freely customize Home Screen icons on iPhone
A change is coming with iOS 18.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Broadcom showcases huge XPU AI accelerator for mystery client
A network-centric platform designed to scale at the lowest power
March 25th, 2024 — Source

China's A.I. Powered Robot Nearly Fights Back After Being Hit, Pulled By Trainer
Chinese robotics technology firm LimX Dynamics' Biped Robot P1's latest demonstration test shows the machine's ability to respond remarkably well when threatened by a human and traverse complex terrain. The robot uses reinforcement learning to respond to outside stimuli such as moving objects or bumps on a path, according to the firm.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Canonical Extends Ubuntu LTS Support To 12 Years For Ubuntu Pro Customers
Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS) releases have been support for 10 years of updates by Canonical while now that has been extended to 12 years but only for Ubuntu Pro customers going for their legacy support add-on. This 12 year support is extended retroactively going back to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Copilot Pro GPTs versus ChatGPT Plus GPTs in-depth comparison guide
If you're interested in learning more about the differences offered by two of the main AI models available Microsoft Copilot Pro and OpenAI's ChatGPT. You might be interested in learning more about the differences between the custom GPTs you can create with both.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Ensuring the open source moment continues
When the Open Source Definition isn't applied to cloud-distributed software, and the General Public License allows cloud companies to grow rich without contributing much, everyone loses.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

First release candidate of Linux kernel 6.9 looks 'fairly normal,' says Torvalds
Improved workqueues mean the end of tasklets is looming at long last
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Fedora 40 Beta Released Soon
With the official release of Fedora 40 coming in April, it's almost time to download the beta and see what's new.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Introduction
This is a multi-part blog looking at a FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC running Linux. This machine has an Intel N100 processor, 16GB of RAM, 512GB M.2 SSD and is available for under £100. It sounds like an ideal low cost machine to run Linux. This series will examine every aspect of this Mini PC in detail from a Linux perspective. We'll compare the machine with other ultra small form factor PCs along the way.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Hackers poison source code from largest Discord bot platform
The Top.gg Discord bot community with over 170,000 members has been impacted by a supply-chain attack aiming to infect developers with malware that steals sensitive information.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

How would you sum up a decade of Kubernetes?
The CNCF is looking for a tenth anniversary logo
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Inkscape Development Version Switches To Using GTK4
The latest upstream development code for the Inkscape vector graphics program has transitioned to using the GTK4 toolkit.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Intel NPU Linux Driver 1.2 Released
Intel today published a new version of its NPU Linux driver user-space components that goes along with their iVPU accelerator kernel driver for enabling the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found within their latest Meteor Lake systems.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 185 is available for testing
Core Update 185 of IPFire 2.29 has been made available for testing. Bug fixes and package updates have been implemented in the most recent version of the IPFire intrusion prevention system (IPS). The Intrusion Prevention System, Suricata 7, now supports HTTP/2, deflate compression, byte-ranges, TLS client certificates, IKEv1, PostgreSQL protocol, BitTorrent parser, QUICv1, and GQUIC.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Large language models use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge
Large language models, such as those that power popular artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT, are incredibly complex. Even though these models are being used as tools in many areas, such as customer support, code generation, and language translation, scientists still don't fully grasp how they work.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Features: DM VDO, AMD Preferred Core, Intel FRED & Larger Console Fonts
Now that Linux 6.9-rc1 was released on Sunday to mark the end of the merge window, here is a look at all of the new features that have been merged for the Linux 6.9 kernel cycle.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Will Boot Much Faster For Systems With Large Amounts Of RAM
The Linux 6.9 kernel will be able to boot systems with large amounts of memory -- and in particular making use of HugeTLB pages -- much faster than with previous kernels, netting a noticeable reduction in boot times.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Machine learning model demonstrates effect of public breeding on rice yields in climate change
Climate change, extreme weather events, unprecedented records in temperatures, and higher, acidic oceans make it difficult to predict the long-term fate of modern crop varieties.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.1 Merges AMD Radeon VPE 1.1 Engine Support
AMD open-source Linux driver patches posted last summer enabled the new "VPE" IP block as a general purpose copy engine for future AMD GPUs. This VPE block might premiere in the upcoming AMD RDNA3.5 refresh (RDNA3+) integrated graphics but in any event AMD is already working on the incrementally improved VPE 1.1 IP with that now being supported by the Mesa 24.1 RadeonSI driver code.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Most in-demand skills for 2024 — hint, genAI is at the top
Generative artificial intelligence is transforming the ways people work and what they'll need to get a job in today's skills-based hiring environment.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Novel quantum algorithm proposed for high-quality solutions to combinatorial optimization problems
Combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) have applications in many different fields such as logistics, supply chain management, machine learning, material design and drug discovery, among others, for finding the optimal solution to complex problems. These problems are usually very computationally intensive using classical computers and thus solving COPs using quantum computers has attracted significant attention from both academia and industry.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Mozilla Calls on Regulators to Support Open Source AI Models
Mozilla has joined with dozens of companies and organizations to make its case in a letter to the Department of Commerce.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Nvidia's AI chip dominance is being targeted by Google, Intel, and Arm
The UXL Foundation project wants to eliminate the proprietary software barriers keeping developers locked into using Nvidia's AI tech.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Open-Sora open source alternative to OpenAI's Sora text-to-video AI
Following on from the unveiling of Sora, OpenAI's powerful text-to-video AI model earlier this year a new alternative to Sora has emerged in the form of Open-Sora. Which stands out as a community-driven platform, offering an alternative to proprietary models like OpenAI's Sora. Its goal is to make video production accessible to everyone.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI Q Star theoretical AI model explained
If you are interested in learning more about the OpenAI Q* Star AI model which is apparently under development. This quick guide provides an overview of what we know so far and what you can expect from this AI model that could be taking us even closer to artificial general intelligence (AGI). But what is Q* and how does it work?
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A More Reliable Approach
With generative AI models such as ChatGPT in place, chatbots are presenting improvements in language recognition abilities.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Saving hours of work with AI: How ChatGPT became my virtual assistant for a data project
Ever wondered how to leverage AI for mundane tasks? I'll demonstrate how ChatGPT turned hours of grunt work into minutes, using a shopping challenge on Temu.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Study tests if AI can help fight cybercrime
Artificial Intelligence (AI) could become a crucial asset to fight the growing global risk of cybercrime, a new study with Charles Darwin University (CDU) has found.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

SUSE Announces Upgrades to Kubernetes and Edge Management Products
SUSE, a provider of open source software solutions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise, Rancher Prime (a Kubernetes management platform), and NeuVector Prime (a Kubernetes container security platform), has unveiled significant upgrades to its cloud-native and Edge portfolio. These enhancements aim to help customers securely deploy and manage business-critical workloads across diverse environments.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

SysVinit 3.09 Now Allows Building With musl C Library, Passing Boot Messages To Firmware
While most Linux distributions have long since moved on from SysVinit in favor of systemd for init duties, this weekend SysVinit 3.09 was released for any legacy users and holdouts still enjoying the System V-init style experience.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

The Future of Kubernetes: Potential Improvements Through Generative AI
Generative AI, a technology that generates new data similar to the original ones, could enhance Kubernetes' efficiency, usability, and functionality.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Tiny Corp Changes Course Yet Again With Plans To Offer AMD Radeon GPUs
It was just last week that Tiny Corp put their AMD Radeon graphics powered compute boxes "on hold" after being frustrated with the lack of select firmware source code and ultimately hitting various bugs. This wasn't the first time they had put their AMD Radeon graphics plans on-hold or dismissed it outright.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

What is AI? Everything to know about artificial intelligence
If you want to know about the fascinating and fast-developing technologies of artificial intelligence, we cover everything from machine learning and general AI to neural networks.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

XWayland-Run 0.0.3 Adds Support For KDE's KWin
Since last year Red Hat engineers have been developing xwayland-run and wlheadless-run for spawning X11 clients within its own dedicated XWayland rootful instance and for running a Wayland client on a set of supported Wayland headless compositors, respectively.
March 25th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 22nd, 2024

AM 6.1 released
A new version of the AM application manager for AppImage is available. AM is an application manager that is inspired by AUR and serves as an AppImage manager, installer, and updater. It currently contains over 1800 AppImage packages and official standalone applications for GNU/Linux, which are derived from tar and zip archives.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source

AOMP 19.0-0 Released For AMD's OpenMP Offloading Compiler
RADEONAMD on Thursday published AOMP 19.0-0 as the newest version of their LLVM/Clang downstream compiler focused on delivering the latest OpenMP device offloading support for their Radeon GPUs and Instinct accelerators.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source

GCC Compiler Adds Support For Device Offloading With AMD RDNA3 APUs (GFX1103)
While there is AOMP for OpenMP device offloading based on the LLVM/Clang compiler, less talked about and not as feature-rich is the AMDGCN back-end within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) that is also worked on for OpenMP device offloading capabilities to Radeon GPUs.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source

Is Kubernetes worth it?
A dirty little secret in the cloud world is that container workloads have a higher total cost of ownership than they should.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Adds New RISC-V Vector-Accelerated Crypto Routines
The RISC-V architecture updates were sent out today for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel ahead of the v6.9-rc1 release this Sunday.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source

LLVM BOLT Optimizations Net ~6% Improvement For GNOME's Pango
BOLT that was upstreamed into LLVM in 2022 by Facebook/Meta allows for optimizing the layout of binaries as a post-linking step to yield increased performance. BOLT like Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) first requires the profiling step to generate perf recordings to feedback in for the optimization process, but the gains can be significant.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source

LoongArch Enables More Kernel Functionality With Linux 6.9
Loongson continues enabling more kernel functionality for their LoongArch processor port for the upstream Linux kernel. With Linux 6.9 they sent out today a set of patches enabling more features for this Chinese CPU architecture.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Enables DNS Tunneling By Default For WSL - More Reliable Networking
Microsoft is rolling out WSL 2.2.1 to WIndows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) users with more reliable networking support, hang fixes, and other improvements.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source

NVK Driver Adds Vendor ID Workaround For Games Expecting NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver
Due to some games checking the graphics card's vendor ID and matching to NVIDIA then just assuming it's NVIDIA's official (proprietary) driver in use, the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver has added a workaround to allow concealing the vendor ID in order to bypass NVIDIA-specific checks such as for the driver version in use.
March 22nd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 20th, 2024

A Game Is Finally Announced For The Open 3D Engine
Announced back in 2021 by the Linux Foundation was Amazon Lumberyard becoming the Open 3D Engine and the Linux Foundation fostering the Open 3D Foundation for evolving this new open-source game engine. Three years later there is now a commercial game announced for the Open 3D Engine (O3DE).
March 20th, 2024 — Source

AMD FSR 3.1 Announced With Vulkan Support
RADEONAMD used the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2024) this week to announce FSR 3.1, the latest iteration of their FidelityFX Super Resolution tech for game upscaling.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

Bcachefs Fixes Deadlock In Recovery, More Fixes Coming
Following the revised Bcachefs code making it into Linux 6.9 and a warning for Bcachefs multi-device users to move past Linux 6.7, a batch of fixes was merged overnight for Linux 6.9 while further fixes to this file-system are expected soon.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

DXVK 2.3.1 Allows For More Efficient Shader Code Generation On NVIDIA GPUs
DXVK 2.3.1 has been released for this Steam Play component that implements the Direct3D 9/10/11 APIs atop Vulkan. Notable with DXVK 2.3.1 is VK_NV_raw_access_chains support for more efficient shader code generation on NVIDIA GPUs.
March 20th, 2024 — Source or Source

GNOME 46 released
The release of GNOME 46, also known as "Kathmandu," has been announced by Matthias Clasen. This version of GNOME includes remote login, variable refresh rates, accessibility improvements, enhanced notifications, and improved settings.
March 20th, 2024 — Source or Source

GNOME 46 Kathmandu: Elevating the Linux desktop environment with new features and enhancements
The GNOME project has announced the release of GNOME 46, codenamed “Kathmandu.” This latest version of the Linux desktop environment brings a host of enhancements and new features. There are even five new apps: Letterpress, Switcheroo, Decibels, Fretboard, and Railway.
March 20th, 2024 — Source or Watch Video

GNOME 46 Released With Improved Search, Experimental VRR & More Polish
The GNOME project has announced the much anticipated release of the GNOME 46 desktop.
March 20th, 2024 — Source or Watch Video

How to deploy software to Linux-based IoT devices at scale
Deploying software to large fleets of Linux-based devices is a complex and critical process that requires careful planning and automated execution. Start with these best practices.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

IBM Posts GCC Patches For -mcpu=power11 Support
In-step with early Power11 patches in Linux 6.9, IBM engineers have posted the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patches for enabling -mcpu=power11 targeting within this open-source compiler.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Lowering The Overhead Of CR3 Writes
The x86/entry pull request last week for the Linux 6.9 kernel contained just a single patch but it was a significant one at that in that it helps lower the overhead for CR3 writes and the benefits can be visible for workloads like Linux's perf functionality.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

My 5 favorite multimedia player apps for Linux and what they can do for you
Three of my top five Linux music and video players are also available on MacOS and Windows. But which one should you choose?
March 20th, 2024 — Source

New Pentesting Distribution to Compete with Kali Linux
SnoopGod is now available for your testing needs
March 20th, 2024 — Source

Red Hat's Long, Rust'ed Road Ahead For Nova As Nouveau Driver Successor
Red Hat's display driver team has recently been devising plans for Nova, a new to-be-developed Linux DRM kernel driver written in Rust for open-source NVIDIA graphics support as the successor/replacement to Nouveau for newer NVIDIA GPU generations supporting the GPU System Processor (GSP). Making this effort all the more involved is being written in Rust at a time when various kernel abstractions are still being devised and not yet upstreamed.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

The top 5 GNOME extensions I install first (and what they can do for you)
If GNOME is your desktop environment of choice, then you owe it to yourself to experience the customizations that come with extensions. Here are my top 5 favorites that help make GNOME more useful.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

Tiny Corp Puts Their AMD-Powered Compute Boxes "On Hold"
Tiny Corp has been frustrated before with AMD / ROCm and planned to drop AMD graphics cards in their planned compute boxes over it only to go back to AMD GPUs with their open-source driver stack later. It's now happened again following frustrations over firmware binaries.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

XWayland Rootful Lands HiDPI / Fractional Scaling Support
Running XWayland in rootful mode now allows for working HiDPI and fractional scaling support.
March 20th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 18th, 2024

4MLinux 45.0 now available for download
The 4MLinux project has announced the stable release of its 45.0 series, delivering a ton of updates and new features. This lightweight Linux distribution continues to offer a quality experience for both desktop and server environments.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

AMD Posts Updated Linux Patches For P-State Core Performance Boost
While AMD P-State driver's Preferred Core support was merged for Linux 6.9, another notable addition to this driver is still undergoing the patch review process: Core Performance Boost.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" CPU Enablement Merged For GCC 14
Back in February AMD posted GCC compiler enablement support for Zen 5 with the new "znver5" target ahead of launch. Since then it's been rather quiet and nervous not seeing this support merged ahead of the upcoming GCC 14 stable release, but this morning it's finally happened: the AMD Zen 5 processor enablement has been merged to GCC Git in time for the GCC 14.1 stable release that will be out in the coming weeks.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

CoreCtrl 1.4 Brings Radeon RX 7000 Series Fan Curve Controls, Intel CPU Temperatures
CoreCtrl 1.4 was released this weekend as the newest version of this open-source, independently-developed GUI utility for managing CPU and GPU performance characteristics and power/thermal monitoring under Linux, among other capabilities. CoreCtrl does a good job at offering basic GUI-driven controls and monitoring for CPUs and GPUs in the absence of any official GUI solutions by the likes of AMD and Intel.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

F39-20240315 updated Live isos released
The Fedora Respins SIG is pleased to announce the latest release of Updated F39-20240215-Live ISOs, carrying the 6.7.9-200 kernel.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Juno Computers Launches Another Linux Laptop
If you're looking for a powerhouse laptop that runs Ubuntu, the Juno Computers Neptune 17 v6 should be on your radar.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Adds Support For Several Samsung Bluetooth HID Devices
Along with the input subsystem updates for the Linux 6.9 kernel, the HID subsystem updates were also merged in recent days for this next Linux kernel release. Notable of this pull is enabling support for some newer Samsung Wireless input devices.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Continues Clearing Out Code For Intel's Defunct "Carillo Ranch" Platform
Last year Linux kernel developers began clearing out code for Intel's nearly two decade old "Carillo Ranch" platform that was a 90nm 32-bit single core processor for embedded devices in the sub 20 Watt space. It was a ~2007 product that never shipped but the Linux kernel code was left in the upstream tree until beginning to see it removed last year.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

LLVM Clang Shows Off Great Performance Advantage On NVIDIA GH200's Neoverse-V2 Cores
With my recent NVIDIA GH200 Grace CPU benchmarks carried out remotely via GPTshop.ai, besides looking at areas like the 64K kernel page size performance benefits I also ran some fresh benchmarks looking at the performance difference when the binaries were generated by LLVM Clang rather than the default GCC compiler on Ubuntu Linux.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Loft Labs simplifies multi-cluster Kubernetes management for Rancher users
Loft Labs announced vCluster for Rancher, enabling self-service virtual Kubernetes cluster creation and management for teams already using Rancher for Kubernetes management.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

MAINGEAR and Phison unveil PRO AI Shodan Ubuntu Linux Workstations
MAINGEAR and Phison have announced the launch of the new MAINGEAR PRO AI workstations. These workstations are equipped with Phison's aiDAPTIV+ technology, specifically designed to make Large Language Model (LLM) development and training more accessible and affordable for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Open source comes to real-time metering
Is the complexity of billing better handled by buying software or building it? Lago offers developers a chance to get back to solving core business problems.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Raspberry PI OS 5.2 is served
The new version of Raspberry Pi comes with updated software and some new features. Raspberry Pi 5.2 will ship with new firmware, Linux kernel 6.6.20, and will be updated to Chromium 122 and Firefox 123 if you like to use that browser. A new feature is the ability of the raspi-config program can to update the Pi 4 and later model's onboard EEPROM.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Rust Coreutils & Reproducible Builds Receives Funding From The Sovereign Tech Fund
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund continues investing significant sums of money for important open-source projects. Among the latest projects receiving funding from the STF are the Rust-written Coreutils implementation and Reproducible Builds.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Simplify, Process, and Analyze: The DevOps Guide To Using jq With Kubernetes
Master `jq` for efficient Kubernetes JSON data handling with our expert guide. Gain insights and streamline your DevOps workflow with practical examples.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

The 6 Linux commands you need to know for user management
If you're just now starting your journey with Linux, these are the commands you need to know to manage users.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version
Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus
March 18th, 2024 — Source

XWayland Nukes The NVIDIA EGLStream Backend
XWayland had targeted both the Generic Buffer Management (GBM) and EGLStream APIs due to NVIDIA not supporting GBM like all of the other Linux drivers. But now that the NVIDIA proprietary Linux graphics driver has been boasting GBM support and advancing with their Wayland platform support in general, XWayland is letting go of the EGLStream mess.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Zorin OS 17.1 makes it even easier to run your must-have Windows apps on Linux
If you want the security and reliability of Linux, but still have Windows apps you need to use, Zorin OS 17.1 is the OS for you.
March 18th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 15th, 2024

AI might be influencing your vote this election. How to spot and respond to it.
AI versus social media companies, government leaders, and the rest of us.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

ARM64 Rust Support & dpISA 2023 Extensions Merged For Linux 6.9
All of the ARM64 (AArch64) feature updates have been merged for the Linux 6.9 kernel. Besides the new SoC and platform hardware support, there are a few ARM64 architecture updates worth pointing out.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

Fresh version of Windows user-friendly Zorin OS arrives to tempt the Linux-wary
Adding extra shine to Ubuntu Jammy... with the lightweight edition to follow
March 15th, 2024 — Source

FUSE Passthrough Mode Merged For Linux 6.9
The FUSE passthrough mode that's been years in the making for better performance was merged upstream today for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel!
March 15th, 2024 — Source

Intel Releases SVT-AV1 2.0 For Even Faster AV1 Encoding
Intel has published SVT-AV1 2.0 as the newest major feature release to this leading open-source CPU-based AV1 video encoder. Along with various API changes, SVT-AV1 2.0 has yet more encode performance optimizations.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 184 released
We are celebrating the next release of IPFire: Version 2.29 - Core Update 184. This release comes with a number of improvements around the entire operating system and a large number of packages updates. Although this change log isn't the longest, this update packs a lot of important changes and we recommend to install while it is still hot!
March 15th, 2024 — Source

Libxml2 2.12.6 released
Regressions: parser: Fix detection of duplicate attributes in XML namespace. xmlreader: Fix xmlTextReaderConstEncoding. html: Fix htmlCreatePushParserCtxt with encoding. xmllint: Return error code if XPath returns empty nodeset.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

LXD 5.21 LTS Released With UI By Default, AMD SEV Memory Encryption For VMs
Ahead of next month's Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release, Canonical has released LXD 5.21 as the newest feature update to this container and VM manager. LXD 5.21 now ships with a production-grade graphical user interface by default, brings AMD SEV support for memory encryption of VMs on EPYC CPUs, object storage support, and other features.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

Mechanoid brings Wasm to embedded systems and IoT
Open source framework allows developers to build and run WebAssembly applications on microcontrollers and other small devices.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

mesa 24.0.3
Hello everyone, The bugfix release 24.0.3 is now available.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

Mobileye EyeQ5 SoC Support Upstreamed In Linux 6.9
While Mobileye has already announced EyeQ6 and EyeQ7, being upstreamed in the Linux 6.9 kernel is finally support for the EyeQ5 SoC used for advanced driver-assistance systems in various automobiles. The EyeQ5 is a MIPS-based platform now capable of running an upstream kernel.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

PHP version 8.2.17 and 8.3.4
RPMs of PHP version 8.3.4 are available in the remi-modular repository for Fedora ≥ 37 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky...) and in the remi-php83 repository for EL 7.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

Release candidates: Godot 4.1.4 RC 2 & 4.2.2 RC 2
Many core team members are heading to the Game Developers Conference next week, and preparing for this event in parallel to working on the upcoming Godot 4.3 release has kept us really busy!
March 15th, 2024 — Source

SparkyLinux 7.3 released
SparkyLinux 7 has now reached its third point release. A complete set of packages from the stable repositories of Debian and Sparky, as well as LibreOffice 7.4.7, KDE Plasma 5.27.5, LXQt 1.2.0, MATE 1.26, Xfce 4.18, Openbox 3.6.1, Firefox 115.8.0esr, Thunderbird 115.8.0, VLC 3.0.20, and Exaile 4.1.3, are included in the package update.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

Securing Azure Kubernetes with Falco
The open-source cloud-native runtime security tool is now a graduated CNCF project. Is it time to use it in your Kubernetes applications?
March 15th, 2024 — Source

The Performance Impact Of Intel's Register File Data Sampling "RFDS" Mitigation
Earlier this week on Patch Tuesday was the disclosure by Intel of the Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) vulnerability and mitigation via updated CPU microcode and a kernel patch. RFDS is around malicious user-space software potentially being able to infer stale register values from kernel space.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

The Ultimate Guide to Kubernetes: Maximizing Benefits, Exploring Use Cases, and Adopting Best Practices
Explore this guide to Kubernetes. Learn about maximizing its benefits, explore use cases, and learn how to adopt best practices.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

VKD3D-Proton 2.12 Released With Initial Support For NVIDIA Reflex
VKD3D-Proton 2.12 is out today as the newest version of this software used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for implementing Direct3D 12 over the Vulkan API. With VKD3D-proton 2.12 is initial support for NVIDIA Reflex technology along with various other features.
March 15th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 14th, 2024

AMD Makes HIP Ray-Tracing Open-Source
AMD's HIP Ray-Tracing library "HIP RT" has been one of the few projects under the GPUOpen umbrella that starts off as closed-source software but then is eventually open-sourced... That happened now with the HIP ray-tracing code becoming publicly available.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Fedora Linux 40 Beta RC 1.5 released
A new release candidate for the upcoming Fedora Linux 40 beta release is available for testing to address Bug 2269385 - rhgb breaks custom/minimal install on most filesystem layouts
March 14th, 2024 — Source

How to share files across your network from these popular Linux GUIs
Want to create network shares on your Linux machine but avoid the command line? It's easy, and I'll show you exactly how to do it.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Intel & AMD Enjoy SoundWire Updates With Linux 6.9
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai with SUSE has submitted all of the core sound updates and driver changes for the ongoing Linux 6.9 kernel merge window.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Intel Launches Core i9 14900KS, Clocking Up To 6.2GHz
Intel today is introducing the Core i9 14900KS as their newest "world's fastest desktop processor" with up to 6.2GHz clock frequencies.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240314 released
A new version of KDE neon has been released. KDE neon is a Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu and the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Krita Looking More At GPU Acceleration & AI In 2024
The Krita open-source graphics editor and digital art program is looking at possibly adding some AI features to its arsenal as well as possible GPU acceleration and other new features in 2024.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Kubernetes Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution on Windows Endpoints
A high-severity Kubernetes vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-5528 can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on Windows endpoints.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.0.3 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes
Eric Engestrom has released Mesa 24.0.3 as the newest bi-weekly bug-fix release to the current Mesa 24.0 stable series graphics drivers.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.1 Adds Support For The Intel Data Center GPU Flex 170G
The current Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series products that were announced in 2022 built off Arctic Sound M are the Data Center GPU Flex 140 and Data Center GPU Flex 170 while now a new "170G" variant was added for Intel's open-source Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan drivers.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Open source is not insecure
Open source doesn't have a security problem. It has a distribution problem.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

openSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Rolling Out KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, But No Wayland Default Yet
The openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling release Linux distribution has begun rolling out the KDE Plasma 6.0.1, Gear 24.02 apps, and Frameworks 6.0 packages. Plasma 5 is being replaced within the Tumbleweed repository but openSUSE Tumbleweed isn't yet transitioning to the Wayland session by default.
March 14th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 11th, 2024

AMD P-State Preferred Core Submitted For Linux 6.9 While Intel Meteor Lake Gets Tuned
The in-development Linux 6.9 kernel is finally landing support for AMD Preferred Core as part of the power management updates for this mid-2024 kernel release.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

AMD Posts Performance Monitoring Patches For Zen 5 CPUs
While Linux 6.8 carries some elements of Zen 5 CPU support, more upstream Linux enablement for the next-generation AMD processors remains ongoing. Sent out this morning were the initial patches around AMD Zen 5 performance monitoring and events for the perf subsystem.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

Btrfs Enjoys Performance Optimizations With Linux 6.9
SUSE's David Sterba sent out the Btrfs updates today for the Linux 6.9 merge window. Besides stabilization and bug fixes there are also some minor performance optimizations to see with this next kernel.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

Intel Makes Continuous Profiler Open-Source To Help Improve CPU Performance
Intel this morning released Continuous Profiler as open-source, a software solution developed by Intel Granulate for aiming to help boost CPU performance.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

GNU Linux-libre 6.8-gnu Dealing With Blobs From New Intel Drivers
GNU Linux-libre 6.8-gnu is out as the newest downstream kernel variety endorsed by the Free Software Foundation that takes the upstream Linux kernel but does away with proprietary module support and stripping out drivers/functionality contingent upon binary-only microcode/firmware and other elements not deemed up to their free software standards.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Making It Easier Managing Security Mitigation Options
The x86/core changes were submitted today for the now-open Linux 6.9 merge window. Among other changes, the x86 CPU security mitigation options within the Linux kernel Kconfig have been adjusted where appropriate to make more clear the options/features are for security mitigations.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.8 offers some exciting new features and 'fixes all over'
Although it's not a historically big kernel, Linux 6.8 still has plenty to offer and will ship with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Here's what else to know.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

Magnet Goblin Delivers Linux Malware Using One-Day Vulnerabilities
The financially motivated threat actor Magnet Goblin is targeting one-day vulnerabilities to deploy Nerbian malware on Linux systems.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

New Open Source Tool Hunts for APT Activity in the Cloud
The CloudGrappler open source tool can detect the presence of known threat actors in cloud environments.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

Raspberry Pi V3D Graphics Driver Preps For Super Pages To Boost Performance
Igalia continues maintaining the Broadcom V3D open-source graphics driver code that is used by the Raspberry Pi single board computers. With a new patch series posted today for the V3D DRM driver, support for Super Pages is enabled to help with enhancing the graphics performance. In many benchmarks having Super Pages can enhance the performance by a few percent but in some extreme cases can be 19~42% faster.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Support Installs With NVMe-Over-TCP Drives
The Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release next month will roll out initial support in its server installer for being able to handle root file-system setups on NVMe-over-TCP scenarios for remote drives.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

x86/cpu Change For Linux 6.9 Slightly Eases Future AMD Zen CPU Enablement
A number of x86-related pull requests were already submitted today for kicking off the new Linux 6.9 merge window. With the x86/cpu pull for this new kernel cycle there is just one patch and it's for slightly easing future AMD Zen processor enablement under Linux.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.8.0 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.8.0 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

ZorinOS 17.1 Released, Includes Improved Windows App Support
If you need or desire to run Windows applications on Linux, there's one distribution intent on making that easier for you and its new release further improves that feature.
March 11th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 8th, 2024

AMD Squeezes In Additional GPU Enablement Code For Linux 6.9
While the Linux v6.8 kernel may debut as stable as soon as this weekend, a last-minute pull request of some new AMD graphics IP was submitted today to DRM-Next in aiming to make it for the imminent Linux 6.9 merge window.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

How To Engage More Developers With Open Source Projects
"Developer Chasm" is a stage where open-source project growth is stuck after initial engagement. To fix this, simplify communication using the QUAKE method.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Improved Case-Insensitive File Handling Coming To Linux 6.9
The optional case-insensitive file/folder handling under Linux that's hooked up for various file-systems like EXT4 and F2FS will benefit from improved performance on the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Improved Debugging Of Suspend/Resume For AMD Ryzen Laptops On Linux Coming With MP2 STB
AMD engineers and those debugging s2idle suspend/resume issues for Ryzen laptops under Linux will soon have more information at disposal for newer SoCs supporting MP2 STB functionality.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 Squeezing In Support For A Few Newer HP HyperX Controllers
Sent in today as part of the input subsystem fixes for the current Linux 6.8 kernel cycle are adding support for several more HP HyperX gaming controllers.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 Set To Drop The Old NTFS File-System Driver
Merged two years ago with Linux 5.15 with the "NTFS3" driver developed by Paragon Software with working read-write support and other improvements for supporting Microsoft's NTFS file-system driver. This driver was a big improvement over the original NTFS read-only driver found in the mainline kernel and faster than using the NTFS-3G FUSE file-system driver.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.7-13 released
Steven Barrett has released a new Liquorix Linux kernel update based on the Linux Kernel 6.7.9 for Debian and Ubuntu.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Wine 9.4 Released With VKD3D 1.11 Bundled, OpenGL Support For Wayland Driver
Wine 9.4 is out today as a rather notable bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

VirtualBox KVM Backend Adds Support For SR-IOV Graphics
Announced one month ago by Cyberus Technology was an open-source KVM back-end for VirtualBox. This work by Cyberus allows for using the KVM hypervisor with VirtualBox as opposed to its custom kernel module maintained by Oracle. That KVM back-end has now been extended to support SR-IOV graphics virtualization.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

VSCodium 1.87.1.24068 released
A new version of VSCodium, which is a version of Visual Studio Code that was built without any Microsoft branding or telemetry, has been released.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.04 Helping Achieve Greater Performance On Intel Xeon Scalable Emerald Rapids
While Ubuntu 24.04 LTS won't be officially out until the back-half of April, here is an early look at how the Intel Xeon Scable "Emerald Rapids" performance is looking right now compared to Ubuntu 23.10 and the current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS series in a variety of benchmarks. As largely expected with the software updates, the new Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will help achieve greater server/HPC performance on recent Intel processors.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Vulkan 1.3.280 Released With NVIDIA Ray-Tracing Validation Extension
Vulkan 1.3.280 is out today as the newest spec update for this high performance graphics, compute, and video API.
March 8th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 6th, 2024

AMD Introducing FRU Memory Poison Manager In Linux 6.9
Queued for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle is an FRU Memory Poison Manager "FMPM" developed by AMD that may later be adapted for other non-AMD platforms. The FRU Memory Poison Manager is working to persist information around known bad/faulty memory across reboots.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Glasskube an Emerging Kubernetes Package Management System
The cloud-native landscape is thriving, but a crucial aspect remains missing: a robust package management system. Glasskube, an open-source emerging project in this domain, with its first release (v0.0.1), wants to close this gap. While ecosystems like Android and iOS enjoy the ease and security of app stores, managing software deployments in Kubernetes has often been a complex and manual process.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

OpenVINO 2024.0 Brings More GenAI Features, New JavaScript API
Intel today released their open-source OpenVINO 2024.0 toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference across a range of hardware.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI goes public with Musk emails, claiming he backed for-profit plans
Be careful what you write in that message
March 6th, 2024 — Source

OpenAI responds to Musk lawsuit by publishing his emails: Urged it to raise $1 billion, called Tesla a "cash cow"
The feud gets messier
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Optimizing Kubernetes Clusters for Better Efficiency and Cost Savings
At the core of constructing a high-performing and cost-effective Kubernetes cluster is the art of efficiently managing resources by tailoring your Kubernetes workloads.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 5.27.11 released
A new update that addresses a number of bugs has been made available for Plasma 5.27.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux Malware Campaign Targets Misconfigured Cloud Servers
A new malware campaign has been observed targeting misconfigured Apache Hadoop, Confluence, Docker, and Redis instances.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux Market Share Surpasses 4% for the First Time
Look out Windows and macOS, Linux is on the rise and has even topped ChromeOS to become the fourth most widely used OS around the globe.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 4.19.309 released
Linux kernel version 4.19.309 is now available:
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.212 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.212 is now available:
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.15.151 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.151 is now available:
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Linux kernel 5.4.271 released
Linux kernel version 5.4.271 is now available:
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Linux kernel 6.1.81 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.81 is now available:
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Linux kernel 6.6.21 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.21 is now available:
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Linux kernel 6.7.9 released
Linux kernel version 6.7.9 is now available:
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft has started referring to its CBL-Mariner distro as Azure Linux
While it came as a bit of a surprise when it first became public, it has been known for some time that Microsoft has its own Linux distro called CBL-Mariner. The name has been questioned by many, and it is in the process of changing.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Proton 9.0 Beta 14 released
A new beta version of Proton 9.0 has been released for testing.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Linux at Home: Plan your Ideal Garden with Linux
We are told by our governments that in the current crisis the single most important action we can take is to stay at home. The repeated message is that everyone should minimise time spent outside the home. By following this directive, this will flatten the spread of the coronavirus, thereby protecting our health service, and saving lives.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Lisa Su Says The "Team Is On It" After Tweet About Open-Source AMD GPU Firmware
George Hotz with Tiny Corp that is working on Tinygrad and TinyBox for interesting developments in the open-source AI space has previously called out AMD over ROCm issues. Yesterday yielded new tweets by "the tiny corp" over AI training runs crashing with MES errors and then called for AMD open-sourcing the firmware to which AMD CEO Lisa Su has responded.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

LLVM/Clang 18.1 Released With Intel AVX10.1 Work, Adds Clearwater Forest & Panther Lake
Out today is the big LLVM/Clang 18.1 release. Due to shifting to a new versioning scheme like GCC, today's LLVM 18.1 release is the first major stable release in the new series for what previously would have been called LLVM 18.0.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA R550 Linux Driver's Open Kernel Modules Performing Well On GeForce GPUs
With the recent NVIDIA 550.54.14 Linux driver release the R550 series is now out as stable. One of the prominent changes with the NVIDIA R550 Linux driver is bringing the GeForce and workstation GPU support up to "CERTIFIED" quality when using NVIDIA's open kernel modules that are distributed as part of their driver package.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

RADV Now Supports Experimental VK_EXT_shader_object For RDNA3 GPUs Using NGG
Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics team recently wrapped up experimental support for the RADV Vulkan driver for EXT_shader_object support using Next-Gen Geometry (NGG) on RDNA3/GFX11 graphics processors.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Tiny Corp At "70%" Confidence For AMD To Open-Source Some Relevant GPU Firmware
Following the news from earlier around George Hotz' Tiny Corp raising new AMD GPU issues and calling for the MES firmware to be open-sourced followed by a positive message from AMD CEO Lisa Su, there's a new update on the matter following a meeting today between Tiny Corp and AMD.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

UWSM Aims To Be A Universal Wayland Session Manager
UWSM is short for the Universal Wayland Session Manager and it incorporates systemd's help in managing the Wayland compositors.
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Year of Linux on the desktop creeps closer as market share rises a little
25% increase in seven months... But it depends how you count it
March 6th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 4th, 2024

AMDGPU Linux Driver No Longer Lets You Have Unlimited Control To Lower Your Power Limit
The AMDGPU Linux driver up until the recent Linux 6.7 kernel release has let you lower the power limit of your graphics card with, well, no limits... This has allowed AMD Radeon Linux users to limit their GPU power draw when desiring for power/efficiency reasons. But since Linux 6.7 they've begun enforcing a lower-power limit set by the respective graphics card BIOS. Users petitioned to have this change reverted but in the name of safety this lower-limit enforcement will stand.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Arch Linux 2024.03.01 released
A new Arch Linux installation image based on Linux Kernel 6.7.6 has been released. Arch Linux is a lightweight distribution for advanced users who always want the latest packages.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Arch Linux's Pacman 6.1 Released With Cache Server Support
It was two years since the release of Pacman 6.0 as Arch Linux's package manager software while overnight Pacman 6.1 was released with a tag line "it's been a while..." With Pacman 6.1 comes a few new features.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Canon's updated SDK extends Linux compatibility
Canon Europe announces the latest evolution in its EOS Digital Software Development Kit (EDSDK) -- free of charge software now fortified with Linux compatibility. EDSDK has long been pivotal in allowing software developers and computer programmers to design tailored digital solutions for controlling Canon cameras, making it an indispensable tool for professionals in the field. Core features include remote shooting, image transfer, camera setting and live view monitor.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

HDMI Forum Kills AMD's Open Source Linux Driver
Linux power users will just have to move to DisplayPort.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Descriptor Buffer Support To Reduce Linux Gaming CPU Overhead
The VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer extension was made public in November 2022 with Vulkan 1.3.235 while finally this past week Intel's open-source Mesa "ANV" driver has merged support for this extension. This Vulkan extension is important for Linux gaming and other scenarios to lower CPU overhead.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

KDE Neon shows that the Plasma 6 Linux distro is something truly special
If you've been anxiously awaiting KDE Plasma 6, the wait is over and it was well worth it.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

KDE's Plasma 6 Officially Available
KDE's Plasma 6.0 "Megarelease" has happened, and it's brimming with new features, polish, and performance.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

LACT 0.5.3 Released For Managing AMD Graphics Cards Under Linux
With the absence of any official AMD Radeon graphics control panel / settings GUI for Linux enthusiasts/gamers, there are several open-source projects striving to be a viable Radeon GUI control area for Linux gamers/enthusiasts.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Linux for desktop market share surpasses 4% for the first time, says Statcounter
Statcounter, a website that tracks the market share of web browsers, operating systems, and search engines, is reporting that Linux on the desktop has over 4% market share for the very first time (Statcounter records ChromeOS as a separate operating system despite being based on Linux).
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Linux Foundation Tackles Financial Fraud With Open Source Platform
The open source platform Tazama provides cost-effective monitoring of digital financial transactions to prevent fraud in real time.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.8-rc7 released
So we finally have a week where things have calmed down, and in fact 6.8-rc7 is smaller than usual at this point in time. So if that keeps up (but that's a fairly notable "if") I won't feel like I need to do an rc8 this release after all.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.7-12 released
Steven Barrett has released a new Liquorix Linux kernel update based on the Linux Kernel 6.7.8 for Debian and Ubuntu.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.1 Lands Support For GFX11.5.1 "RDNA3 Refresh" Variant
When it comes to the AMD "RDNA3 Refresh" GFX11.5 open-source driver support, to date it's mostly been focused on the GFX 11.5.0 (GFX1150) IP while now being enabled within Mesa 24.1 for the open-source RadeonSI/RADV drivers is support for a GFX 11.5.1 (GFX1151) variant.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Nouveau Supporting HDMI 2.1 Won't Hopefully Be Too Challenging Thanks To NVIDIA Firmware
While there is a lot of frustration from the news last week of the HDMI Forum rejecting AMD's open-source HDMI 2.1 driver support plans, the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver won't hopefully have too challenging of an experience in enabling HDMI 2.1 functionality since much of the display handling there is left up to NVIDIA's (closed-source) firmware binaries.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Opus 1.5 Audio Codec Able To Make Extensive Use Of Machine Learning
Xiph.Org's Opus open-source audio format for lossy audio coding has rolled out Opus 1.5 as a big update that is now making greater use of machine learning.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

pg_ivm 1.8 released
IVM Development Group is pleased to announce the release of pg_ivm 1.8. Changes since the v1.7 release include: Bug fixes
March 4th, 2024 — Source

PgBouncer 1.22.1 released
PgBouncer 1.22.1 has been released. This release fixes issues caused by some clients using COPY FROM STDIN queries. Such queries could introduce memory leaks, performance regressions and prepared statement misbehavior.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

RHSA-2024:1063: Important: edk2 security update
An update for edk2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

The Compositor Modules "COMO" To Build Wayland Compositors Have Arrived
Open-source developer Roman Gilg who is known for his work on KWinFT prior to its rebranding as Theseus' Ship has some more important news to share today by way of Phoronix. Here's his guest post announcing The Compositor Modules.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

The following .NET 6.0 updates have been released for Fedora Linux:
.NET is a fast, lightweight and modular platform for creating cross platform applications that work on Linux, macOS and Windows.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

The open source problem
Software freedom. User freedom. Why do we have to choose? Licensing hasn't kept pace with the reality of software in the cloud and AI.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Thunderbird Update for Ubuntu
Updated Thunderbird packages are available for Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, and 23.10:
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Thunderbird, Firefox-ESR updates for Debian 10
The following two Mozilla updates are available for Debian GNU/Linux 10:
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Tiny Core Linux 15 stuffs modern computing in a nutshell
Updated with kernel 6.6, latest GCC and glibc, still under 25 MB
March 4th, 2024 — Source

UltraJSON, Blender, Tox updates for Gentoo
The following updates have been released for Gentoo Linux:
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Updated AMDGPU VCN Firmware Fixes VP9 Decoding Issues
For those that have experienced glitches while playing back VP9 video content using AMD's Video Core Next (VCN) for GPU acceleration, updated firmware should fix those VP9 decode problems.
March 4th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 3rd, 2024

FFmpeg Merges DVD-Video Demuxer
Better late than never, merged yesterday into the FFmpeg Git codebase is a DVD-Video demuxer.
March 3rd, 2024 — Source

GDB 14.2 Brings A Few Fixes For The GNU Debugger
GDB 14.2 has been released to provide a few fixes for the GNU Debugger over its state found in last year's GDB 14.1.
March 3rd, 2024 — Source

GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 RC Brings Modifier-Aware Screencasting, VRR & X.Org Sync Fix
In preparation for the GNOME 46 release candidate, the "46.rc" versions of GNOME Shell and Mutter were published this morning. The release candidate work is mostly about fixing outstanding issues but there are also some lingering fixes that made it into these releases.
March 3rd, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240303
KDE neon is our installable Linux with continuous integration and deployment. It's based on Ubuntu who had a new Long Term Support Release recently so we've rebased it on Ubuntu 20.04 now.
March 3rd, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Proving To Be Unlike The Rocky KDE 4 Launch
Nate Graham is out with his belated weekend update to highlight all of the interesting KDE development activity for the week. This week, of course, saw the release of KDE MegaRelease 6 with Plasma 6.0, KDE Gear 24.02, and KDE Frameworks 6.0 in tow. Post-launch Graham characterizes Plasma 6.0 as being in good shape and the extra QA paying off
March 3rd, 2024 — Source

OpenMediaVault 7.0 Released For Debian 12 Powered NAS Platform
OpenMediaVault 7.0 was released today as a major update to this open-source Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution built around Debian Linux. This plug-based NAS platform with web UI allows supporting a variety of services/protocols is now even more capable with the OpenMediaVault 7.0 availability.
March 3rd, 2024 — Source

Redox OS Scores A Massive Performance Boost For I/O
The Rust-written Redox OS is out with a new monthly status report to outline the enhancements made to this open-source operating system during the month of February.
March 3rd, 2024 — Source

Wine Code Merged To Overcome A Vulkan Performance Penalty
Merged this week ahead of the Wine 9.4 development release due out next Friday is support for using the new Vulkan VK_EXT_map_memory_placed extension to overcome a performance penalty with Windows on Windows 64-bit (WOW64) for games/apps.
March 3rd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 2nd, 2024

AMD FreeSync Video Facing Retirement In Linux 6.9
Back in 2020 AMD rolled out a video mode optimization for FreeSync on Linux, continued being revised in 2021, FreeSync Video mode then attempted by default in 2022 but then was reverted and then only last year FreeSync Video enabled by default. But now come Linux 6.9, the feature appears to be effectively retired.
March 2nd, 2024 — Source

HDMI Forum 'blocks AMD open sourcing its 2.1 drivers'
Want all-FOSS 120Hz 4K video on Linux, or 5K at 240Hz? Bad news...
March 2nd, 2024 — Source

Intel open sources its NPU Acceleration library enabling compact AI models to run on Meteor Lake NPU
Intel open sources NPU Acceleration software for developers Developers seeking to improve their software for next-gen Intel processors should consider looking into a new library released by the company. The software called NPU Acceleration Library is open source, and it is now available for download.
March 2nd, 2024 — Source

Mutter Merges Experimental Variable Refresh Rate For GNOME 46
It's happened! After three years in the making, the GNOME desktop Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" support has been merged after obtaining a feature freeze exception for GNOME 46 due out later in March.
March 2nd, 2024 — Source

Proxmox Mail Gateway 8.1 available
Proxmox Mail Gateway 8.1 is available! The new version of our email security solution is based on Debian 12.5, uses the newer Linux kernel 6.5, as well as ZFS 2.2.2. The latest major version of Apache SpamAssassin 4.0.0 and PostgreSQL 15.6 are included.
March 2nd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 1st, 2024

Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters
Just 13% of provisioned CPUs, 20% of memory utilized, study finds
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Coreboot 24.02 Released - Supporting Three New Motherboards
Succeeding last year's Coreboot 4.22 release is now a new release... Coreboot 24.02. This open-source system firmware project is now the latest to shift to a year-month versioning system. The newly-christened Coreboot 24.02 brings support for three new motherboards, a number of ACPI updates, and also pulls in the new GRUB 2.12 and other changes.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February
February was an exciting month in the hardware and Linux/open-source space with 224 original news articles written by your's truly over the past month along with 15 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark featured articles.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Experimental VRR Support Might Still Land For GNOME 46
The long in-development work for Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support plumbed into GNOME's Mutter compositor might still make it for the GNOME 46 desktop release due out this month. It's still being treated as an experimental feature at this point but a feature freeze exception is being sought to allow its inclusion this release rather than waiting for GNOME 47 in the autumn.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Intel Enables Fastboot Across The Board With Their Graphics Driver In Linux 6.9
A last set of drm-intel-next feature patches were submitted this week for DRM-Next to stage ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel merge window.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Intel Makes Open-Source Its Python NPU Acceleration Library
Intel has made open-source its NPU Acceleration Library (intel-npu-acceleration-library) as a user-space library for Windows and Linux systems for interfacing with the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found initially on their new Meteor Lake laptops.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Intel's oneDNN Neural Network Library Prepares For Lunar Lake Xe2, Sierra Forest & GNR
Intel has published oneDNN 3.4 as the newest version of this Deep Neural Network Library that is part of their oneAPI software collection. The oneDNN library provides deep learning primitives for software like PyTorch, MXNet, ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, MATLAB Deep Learning Toolbox, and other sotware.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 4.19.308 released
Linux kernel version 4.19.308 is now available:
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.211 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.211 is now available:
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.15.150 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.150 is now available:
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux Kernel 5.4.270 released
Linux kernel version 5.4.270 is now available:
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.1.80 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.80 is now available:
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.6.19 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.19 is now available:
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.7.7 released
Linux kernel version 6.7.7 is now available:
March 1st, 2024 — Source

MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firefox, and more updates for AlmaLinux
The following security updates have been released for AlmaLinux:
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Musl libc 1.2.5 Released With RISC-V 32-bit & LoongArch 64-bit Ports
Musl libc 1.2.5 released on Thursday as the newest version of this lightweight, speedy, and free software C library implementation that is popular for embedded use, containers, and elsewhere.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Panthor DRM Driver Set For Linux 6.9, Arm Mali Gen10 Merged To Panfrost Gallium3D
It looks like the new Panthor DRM driver will be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel now that it made it into drm-misc-next today. In turn the Mesa 24.1-devel code has landed support for this newer Arm Mali graphics into the Panfrost Gallium3D driver.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

The X.Org Foundation Needs More Candidates To Hold An Election
The X.Org Foundation's elections for the Board of Directors have been delayed as there weren't enough participants nominated for the available seats to hold an election.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Enters Its Feature Freeze
Now rolling into March, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" has entered its feature freeze period ahead of its official release in April.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Won't Support JPEG-XL Out-Of-The-Box
There had been some hope that the Ubuntu 24.04 desktop would support the JPEG-XL image format out-of-the-box, but that isn't going to happen as a default change.
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Unbound, PostgreSQL, Systemd, and more updates for Oracle Linux
The following updates have been released for Oracle Linux:
March 1st, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 28th, 2024

10 Best Free Graphical Web Browsers
A web browser is the quintessential desktop application. Everyone needs one, and there is not a desktop Linux distribution
February 28th, 2024 — Source

Amazon to spend $1 billion on startups that combine AI with robots
"We're also a long way off from replacing all humans."
February 28th, 2024 — Source

AMD Zen 4 versus Zen 4C Performance, Zen 4C Core Scaling With Ryzen 5 8500G
Besides the integrated RDNA3 graphics making the Ryzen 8000G series desktop APUs interesting, making the AMD Ryzen 5 8500G a fun benchmarking target besides its sub-$200 price tag is having a mix of Zen 4 and Zen 4C cores. Here are some benchmarks looking at the Zen 4 versus Zen 4C performance and power efficiency when offlining various core combinations on the Ryzen 5 8500G desktop processor.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source
Back in 2022 Cloudflare announced they were ditching Nginx for an in-house, Rust-written software called Pingora. Today Cloudflare is open-sourcing the Pingora framework.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

Companies overspend on Kubernetes thanks to underutilization of resources
Kubernetes is one of the most widely used container tools, but failure to accurately forecast resources leads to overprovision, waste and overspending.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

From Eliza to ChatGPT: why people spent 60 years building chatbots
For almost as long as we've been making computers, we've been trying to find better, more human ways to talk to them.
February 28th, 2024 — Source or Watch Video

Former Textio CEO Kieran Snyder dives into new research on how AI is impacting the workplace
Kieran Snyder, the co-founder and former CEO of Seattle-based Textio, has launched her next project, less than two months after stepping back from the augmented writing startup.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

FUSE Passthrough Support May Land For Linux 6.9 To Help Boost I/O Performance
Being worked on and off for several years has been FUSE read/write passthrough support for improving the performance of File-Systems in User-Space by avoiding the daemon overhead on a per-file basis where read/write operations are forwarded by the kernel directly to the lower file-system rather than the FUSE daemon. FUSE passthrough mode has shown to be a big performance win and it looks like it could be finally mainlined come Linux 6.9.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

GE-Proton8-33 released
GE-Proton8-33 has been released, and it includes rebase and fixup ntsync for wine and proton side, as well as PROTON_HEAP_ZERO_MEMORY for helldivers 2. Additionally, it updates vkd3d-proton, dxvk, bleeding edge, and protonfixes, and it removes the star citizen eac patch, which is no longer required. GE-Proton is a fork of the Wine-based Proton compatibility tool for Steam Play.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD
One of the limitations of AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver has been the inability to implement HDMI 2.1+ functionality on the basis of legal requirements by the HDMI Forum. AMD engineers had been working to come up with a solution in conjunction with the HDMI Forum for being able to provide HDMI 2.1+ capabilities with their open-source Linux kernel driver, but it looks like those efforts for now have concluded and failed.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

Intel Xe Kernel GPU Driver Starts Landing SR-IOV Bits & Other Features For Linux 6.9
Upstreamed for Linux 6.8 is the experimental Xe kernel graphics driver that is a modern replacement to the "i915" Direct Rendering Manager driver. The Xe kernel driver targets Tigerlake graphics and newer while it won't be until Lunar Lake / Xe2 when it aims to become the default driver for Intel iGPU/dGPU graphics.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

Kali Linux 2024.1 released with 4 new tools, UI refresh
Kali Linux has released version 2024.1, the first version of 2024, with four new tools, a theme refresh, and desktop changes.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

KDE MegaRelease 6 Debuts For Plasma 6.0, KF6 & Gear 24.02
Today's the day! KDE MegaRelease 6 is out for shipping Plasma 6.0, KDE Frameworks 6.0, and KDE Gear 24.02 apps.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6 brings big updates to the desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems
The KDE team has released KDE Plasma 6, the biggest update to the free and open source desktop environment since Plasma 5 launched nearly ten years ago.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6 released
The KDE community proudly presents Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 and Gear 24.02.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6: Revolutionizing Linux desktop with far prettier and superior interface than Microsoft Windows 11
The KDE community has announced the release of its latest "MegaRelease 6," which includes Plasma 6, Frameworks 6, and Gear 24.02. This update brings a host of new features, improvements, and enhancements to the KDE ecosystem.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

NixOS free open source Linux makes system configuration easy
If you're in the market for a Linux distribution that offers advanced package and system management, NixOS is a platform that might catch your interest. It stands out with its unique approach to handling software packages and system configurations, aiming to provide users with both stability and flexibility.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

NVK Vulkan Driver Lands Shader Object & Graphics Pipeline Library
The open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver within the Mesa codebase has merged support for the important VK_EXT_shader_object and VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library extensions. Additionally, as part of supporting these new extensions, this introduces the code for a common Vulkan runtime to Mesa.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

OpenPanel -- remote server administration and configuration system
OpenPanel is a completely modular open source control panel for Internet Service Providers.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.2.17 RC2 released
Sergey Panteleev has announced the second release candidate for PHP 8.2.17.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.3.4 RC1 released
Jakub Zelenka has announced the release candidate for PHP 8.3.4.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

Simplifying SQL Server and Kubernetes Across Hybrid/Multi-Cloud
Enabling automated configuration and streamlined management and deployment across on-premise, public cloud, and hybrid infrastructure.
February 28th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 27th, 2024

5 things to consider before leaping from one Linux distribution to another
If you've grown tired of your current Linux distribution, you need to think carefully before you migrate to something else.
February 27th, 2024 — Source

74 percent of codebases have high-risk open source vulnerabilities
The percentage of codebases with high-risk open source vulnerabilities -- those that have been actively exploited, have documented proof-of-concept exploits or are classified as remote code execution vulnerabilities -- increased from 48 percent in 2022 to 74 percent in 2023, according to new research.
February 27th, 2024 — Source

64K Kernel Page Size Performance Benefits For HPC Shown With NVIDIA's GH200 Grace CPU
By default the AArch64 kernel on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions tend to default to a standard 4K page size but for newer AArch64 hardware especially in the server/HPC space, there can be great benefits to using a 64K page size. As it's been a while since I last ran any 64-bit ARM 4K versus 64K kernel page size benchmarks, while having remote access to the NVIDIA GH200 I ran a fresh comparison for looking at the performance advantages to switching over to a 64K page size kernel.
February 27th, 2024 — Source

Alibaba staffer offers a glimpse into building LLMs in China
Chinese tech companies are gathering all sorts of resources and talent to narrow their gap with OpenAI, and experiences for researchers on both sides of the Pacific Ocean can be surprisingly similar. A recent X post from an Alibaba researcher offers a rare glimpse into the life of developing large language models at the e-commerce firm, which is among a raft of Chinese internet giants striving to match the capabilities of ChatGPT.
February 27th, 2024 — Source

AMD Preparing ROCm 6.1 For Release With New Features
It looks like AMD will soon be announcing the ROCm 6.1 update to its open-source GPU compute stack.
February 27th, 2024 — Source

GIMP security update for RHEL 8.4
Updated GIMP packages are available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4:
February 27th, 2024 — Source

FreeBSD 13.3-RC1 Improves WiFi Stability, Takes Care Of Some Kernel Panics
The first release candidate of FreeBSD 13.3 is now available for testing. While FreeBSD 14 stable has been out now for months, FreeBSD 13.3 is the latest in the prior series for those continuing to rely on FreeBSD 13 in production.
February 27th, 2024 — Source

Intel HFI Driver Can "Save Tons Of CPU Cycles" By Only Enabling Itself When Needed
The Linux kernel has supported the Intel Hardware Feedback Interface "HFI" via the "intel_hfi" driver since 2022 for bettering supporting Core hybrid processors. The Intel HFI can be used for communicating performance and energy efficiency capabilities of individual CPU cores of the system.
February 27th, 2024 — Source

KWinFT Compositor Now Known As Theseus' Ship
Ahead of this week's big KDE Plasma 6.0 release, the KWinFT project forked from the KDE KWin compositor code is re-branding as Theseus' Ship.
February 27th, 2024 — Source

Libgit2 and WPA updates for Debian
The following security updates are available for Debian GNU/Linux:
February 27th, 2024 — Source

Libre-SoC Open-Source GPU/VPU Project Loses Key Funding
Longtime Phoronix readers may recall the Libre-SoC project that for the past 5+ years has been wanting to build a libre/open-source SoC for graphics acceleration and other uses.
February 27th, 2024 — Source

Mold Linker Performance Remains Very Compelling In 2024 Over GNU Gold/ld, LLVM lld
The Mold high performance linker has long been known for offering excellent performance over GNU Gold/ld and LLVM lld while some fresh benchmark numbers reinforce the competitive advantage that persists today for this open-source project.
February 27th, 2024 — Source

OpenSSL and PHP updates for Ubuntu
The following updates have been released for Ubuntu Linux:
February 27th, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.2.17 RC1 released
Sergey Panteleev has announced the release candidate for PHP 8.2.17.
February 27th, 2024 — Source

RADV Driver Lands Vulkan Video AV1 Decode For Mesa 24.1
With the Mesa 24.1-devel Git code as of this morning, the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver is now exposing the VK_KHR_video_decode_av1 for Vulkan Video accelerated decoding of AV1 video content.
February 27th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 26th, 2024

Intel Xeon D "Granite Rapids-D" Processors Coming In 2025
Intel confirmed at their MWC 2024 briefings that Granite Rapids D will debut in 2025 as the successor to Ice Lake D for Xeon D edge processors.
February 26th, 2024 — Source

KDE Announces New Slimbook V with Plenty of Power and KDE's Plasma 6
If you're a fan of KDE Plasma, you'll be thrilled to hear they've announced a new Slimbook with an AMD CPU and the latest version of KDE Plasma desktop.
February 26th, 2024 — Source

KiCad 8.0 Released For Leading Open-Source EDA Software
KiCad 8.0 has been released as the latest major feature release for this open-source Electronics Design Automation (EDA) software suite. KiCad supports designing PCB layouts, provides a 3D viewer for inspecting PCBs, and other functionality.
February 26th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.8-rc6 released
Another week, another rc. Nothing here really stands out.
February 26th, 2024 — Source

Mesa OpenGL Threading Work Sees Much Reduced Memory Footprint For OpenGL Calls
Longtime AMD open-source Mesa developer Marek Olšák after more than one decade working officially for AMD and years before that as an independent open-source contributor going back to the R300g days still has not run out of new performance optimizations to pursue.
February 26th, 2024 — Source

Reverse-Engineered NPU Driver Tantalizingly Close To Proprietary Driver Performance
When it comes to neural processing unit NPU/AI accelerators for Linux there is open-source options with the likes most notably of Intel-owned Habana Labs leading the way, Intel's iVPU driver for the NPU found within Meteor Lake SoCs, AMD recently posting a Ryzen AI Linux driver, etc.
February 26th, 2024 — Source

PVM Virtualization Framework Proposed For Linux - Built Atop The KVM Hypervisor
Ant Group and Alibaba have proposed PVM, the Pagetable Virtual Machine, as a new virtualization framework built upon the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. PVM does not require hardware-assisted virtualization while working with KVM-enabled software like Kata Containers.
February 26th, 2024 — Source

Samba 4.20.0rc3 Available for Download
This is the third release candidate of Samba 4.20. This is *not* intended for production environments and is designed for testing purposes only.
February 26th, 2024 — Source

SDDM 0.21 Display Manager Released With Better Wayland Support, Qt6 Fixes
Released last June was the SDDM 0.20 display manager with experimental Wayland support and other enhancements after being in development for three years. Out this morning is SDDM 0.21 as another step toward SDDM 1.0 with improved Wayland support and other enhancements to this Qt-tooled display manager.
February 26th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 25th, 2024

Bcachefs Publishes Patches For Disk Accounting Rewrite
Kent Overstreet on Saturday evening posted a set of 21 patches to overhaul the disk accounting code for the Bcachefs file-system. This change does break compatibility with the existing disk accounting on-disk format and thus will require an upgrade when moving to the new version, which may land for Linux v6.9.
February 25th, 2024 — Source

GNOME Makes Progress On GPU-Accelerated Screencasting, systemd-homed Home Encryption
GNOME developers remain quite busy with various new initiatives thanks to their funding from their Sovereign Tech Fund. There's some screencasting enhancements still on deck for GNOME 46, various GNOME accessibility improvements forthcoming, and also ongoing work around systemd-homed home directory encryption support.
February 25th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 x86/urgent Update Beefs Up Protection Against Side Channel CPU Bugs
Sent in this morning via the "x86/urgent" pull request ahead of the Linux 6.8-rc6 kernel later today is a set of patches from Intel to ensure clearing of CPU buffers using the VERW instruction happens at the latest possible point in the return-to-userspace code path. This is being done to better protect against CPU bugs like Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS).
February 25th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Pushes Out Big February Update For CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distro
Microsoft's in-house CBL-Mariner Linux distribution has routinely seen weekly-ish updates to this open-source code used within Azure, WSL, and other areas of the Redmond company. But it's been one month since the prior CBL-Mariner 2.0 release... That changed Saturday night with a shiny new release.
February 25th, 2024 — Source

Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Lands Improvements For ReBAR
The open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver within Mesa 24.1-devel has seen improvements made for systems capable of Resizable BAR "ReBAR" support.
February 25th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 24th, 2024

CachyOS Moves To Glibc 2.39 & Other Package Upgrades For February
CachyOS 240224 was released today for this Arch Linux derived desktop distribution that focuses on being a "blazingly fast and customizable Linux distribution" with a variety of desktop options, employing LTO and other optimizations for packages, optional x86-64-v3 binaries, and other tuning to make for a speedy out-of-the-box Linux experience.
February 24th, 2024 — Source

Intel Releases OSPRay Studio 1.0 As Its Awesome Interactive Visualization & Ray-Tracing App
Back in 2020 Intel announced OSPRay Studio as its new oneAPI app for ray-tracing and photorealistic rendering built atop its OSPRay ray-tracing engine. Since then we've continued to watch OSPRay Studio pickup new features, add GPU rendering support, and more. On Friday night the OSPRay Studio 1.0 release was finally christened.
February 24th, 2024 — Source

Sway 1.9 Released - Using New wlroots Rendering API For Better Performance
Sway 1.9 has been released as the newest feature release of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor built atop the closely-aligned wlroots Wayland compositor library.
February 24th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 23rd, 2024

A path out of bloat: A Linux built for VMs
What Linux distros could learn from the inventor of the hypervisor
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

AM 6.0.2 released
A new version of the AM application manager for AppImage is available. AM is an application manager that is inspired by AUR and serves as an AppImage manager, installer, and updater. It currently contains over 1800 AppImage packages and official standalone applications for GNU/Linux, which are derived from tar and zip archives.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan 2024.Q1.2 released
AMD has released an updated version of its AMDVLK Linux Open Source Driver for Vulkan, which also includes improvements and new features. The Khronos Vulkan Headers have been updated to version 1.3.277, multiple extensions have been enabled, performance has been optimized for Detroit becoming human, Raytracing intermittent hangs with early pair compression have been fixed, and a crash issue with Vulkan loader version 1.3.275 has been fixed.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

AMDVLK 2024.Q1.2 Brings Several New Vulkan Extensions
It's been almost exactly one month since the release of AMDVLK 2024.Q1.1 and today that's been succeded by AMDVLK 2024.Q1.2 that brings a number of new Vulkan extensions plus some performance tuning.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

Imagemagick, Chromium, IWD updates for Debian
The following security updates are available for Debian GNU/Linux:
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

Intel Extension For PyTorch Now Officially Supports Arc A-Series Graphics
Intel's latest release of their Intel Extension for PyTorch "IPEX" now officially supports their consumer Arc A-Series Graphics hardware across Linux, Windows, and also WSL2.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

Is the future of open source software at risk due to protestware?
SMU Associate Professor Christoph Treude examines the foundations for studies on open-source software and protestware.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

RHSA-2024:0937: Important: kpatch-patch security update
An update for kpatch-patch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 4.19.307 released
Linux kernel version 4.19.307 is now available:
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.210 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.210 is now available:
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.15.149 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.149 is now available:
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.4.269 released
Linux kernel version 5.4.269 is now available:
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.79 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.79 is now available:
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.18 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.18 is now available:
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.7.6 released
Linux kernel version 6.7.6 is now available:
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 Features Excite With New Intel Xe Driver, Performance Optimizations & New Hardware
While the Linux 6.8 kernel merge window has been over for several weeks now, due to a busy February of new hardware releases and lots of Linux hardware reviews/benchmarking, I've been behind in writing up my Linux 6.8 feature recap. For those wanting a concise look at the many great changes coming with Linux 6.8 that will debut as stable in March, here's an overview of the interesting Linux 6.8 changes.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver 550.54.14 released
NVIDIA has released a new Linux display driver. The update fixes several bugs, including issues with HDMI FRL displays flickering or blanking when enabling VRR with 8 bits per color channel, corrupted window decorations in some applications, and issues with WSI X11 swapchains. It also addresses Xid errors on Hogwarts Legacy and Forza Horizon 4.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.1 Now Builds Zink By Default, Also Building D3D12 Driver By Default On Windows
As a follow-up to the news of Mesa looking at enabling Zink by default as part of the drivers to build out-of-the-box, that change has now been merged. Additionally, the D3D12 Mesa driver that sees regular contributions by Microsoft engineers is also now being compiled by default when running on Windows.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

Micron Engineer Sends Out Linux Patches For New FAMFS File-System
A request for comments patch series was posted today for FAMFS, a new special purpose file-system proposal out of Micron for dealing with Fabric-Attached Memory (FAM) devices such as will become more common within the Compute Express Link (CXL) server space.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

NetworkManager 1.46 Can Now Manage Ethtool EEE Settings, IPv4 DAD Default & 2FA VPNs
NetworkManager 1.46 was released on Thursday as the newest stable update to this software commonly used for managing Linux wired and wireless network connections from the Linux desktop as well as from command-line environments via the nmcli utility.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

Nouveau Driver Squeezes In Some Last Minute Minor Additions For Linux 6.8
Sent in overnight was this week's batch of DRM "fixes" for Linux 6.8 that included some mostly minor fixes plus a few notable but small patches to Nouveau, the upstream open-source NVIDIA DRM/KMS kernel driver.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA 550.54.14 Release Brings R550 Series Linux Driver To Stable
NVIDIA today released their 550.54.14 driver, which is their first production-ready/stable driver version in the R550 series.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

Pdns-Recursor, Firefox, Chromium updates for Fedora
The following security updates have been released for Fedora Linux:
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

PHP-Composer2, Bind, Python3 updates for SUSE
The following updates are available for openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise:
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

SDL3 Introduces A Vulkan Renderer
The Simple DirectMedia Library that is commonly used as an abstraction layer by cross-platform games and other software is now introducing a Vulkan renderer with SDL3.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS released
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, as well as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

VSCodium 1.86.2.24054 released
A new version of VSCodium, a version of VS Code built without Microsoft branding or telemetry, has been released.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

What is SSH and how do you use it? The secure shell basics you need to know
Need to remote into a Linux machine? You need SSH. Here's everything to know about this handy Linux command.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

What's the point of Elon Musk's AI company?
Between a Grok and a hard place
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.6.18 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.6.18 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.7.6 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.7.6 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
February 23rd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 21st, 2024

A Linux Kernel API For Today's Complex RGB Devices Is Being Devised
When it comes to today's complex RGB lighting for PC peripherals and the like it's mostly been left up to user-space. With most RGB devices interfacing via USB, it's been up to Linux user-space projects like OpenRGB, OpenRazer, etc, to implement their RGB lighting controls as needed. But as RGB lighting use continues to grow in the PC space for better or worse, there's an increasing need for a kernel API to handle complex RGB devices. Such an API is currently being devised.
February 21st, 2024 — Source

Ardour 8.4 released
A new version of the digital audio workstation Ardour has been released.
February 21st, 2024 — Source

Bottles 51.11 released
Bottles 51.11 has been released. Bottles is a program that allows you to configure Wine environments to run Windows software.
February 21st, 2024 — Source

Grab Improves Kafka on Kubernetes Fault Tolerance with Strimzi, AWS AddOns and EBS
Grab updated its Kafka on Kubernetes setup to improve fault tolerance and completely eliminate human intervention in case of unexpected Kafka broker terminations. To address the shortcomings of the initial design, the team integrated with AWS Node Termination Handler (NTH), used the Load Balancer Controller for target group mapping, and switched to ELB volumes for storage.
February 21st, 2024 — Source

IBM Begins Work On Power11 Enablement For Upcoming Linux 6.9
The first "Power11" patches were queued today into the PowerPC's "next" Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle.
February 21st, 2024 — Source

Intel Mesa Driver Code Working To Split Off Old Broadwell "Gen8" Graphics Code
Intel's Iris Gallium3D driver for modern OpenGL support works on hardware going back to old Broadwell processors with "Gen8" integrated graphics as does the HasVK Vulkan driver for Haswell/Broadwell. But in allowing to focus on the common Skylake "Gen9" graphics and newer/future Intel graphics architectures, pending Mesa code is working to split-off that old Broadwell/Gen8 code.
February 21st, 2024 — Source

Intel Meteor Lake Linux Patches Set to Optimize Default Power Modes
Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors—the Monday morning notes reveal in-house software engineers are implementing default power profile adjustments. Meteor Lake CPUs have been operating on a default "balanced_performance" mode since their December 2023 launch—Linux adjustments will affect the processor's Energy Performance Preference (EPP) under Linux (similar to Windows Power Plans).
February 21st, 2024 — Source

Intel QATlib 24.02 Brings Support For GEN 5 QAT Devices
Intel has released a new version of QATlib, their user-space support library for the QuickAssist Technology (QAT) via add-in hardware and recent Xeon Scalable processors.
February 21st, 2024 — Source

Jim Zemlin and the Linux Foundation share not-so-secret open-source sauce
Collaborative innovation has been the group's driving force for a quarter of a century. Or, to paraphrase Lao Tzu, the journey of a thousand open-source programs starts with a single project.
February 21st, 2024 — Source

Monthly Sponsorship Includes Early Access to elementary OS 8
If you want to get a glimpse of what's in the pipeline for elementary OS 8, just set up a monthly sponsorship to help fund its continued existence.
February 21st, 2024 — Source

Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Moving To NVK + Zink For OpenGL On Newer GPUs
Mesa 24.1 Git has landed the initial infrastructure for allowing drivers to choose to using Zink instead for OpenGL via this OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation. The motivating factor for this latest Mesa work is for using Zink atop the NVK Vulkan driver for newer NVIDIA GPUs.
February 21st, 2024 — Source

VVenC 1.11 Brings More Performance Improvements For H.266/VVC Encoding
Fraunhofer on Tuesday released their latest feature update to the Versatile Video Encoder for open-source H.266/VVC encoding.
February 21st, 2024 — Source

WebKitGTK Moving To Skia For 2D Rendering To Yield Better Performance
WebKitGTK as the port of the WebKit rendering engine used by GNOME Web (Epipahny) and other software for displaying web content is transitioning to using Skia for its 2D rendering.
February 21st, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 19th, 2024

AMD Graphics Driver Gets "More New Stuff" For Linux 6.9: Continued RDNA4 Enablement
Following the initial AMDGPU driver updates targeting Linux 6.9 that were submitted to DRM-Next one week ago, another batch of AMDGPU feature updates were sent out today ahead of this next kernel cycle kicking off in March.
February 19th, 2024 — Source

Damn Small Linux revived my original Eee PC. Here's how to use it on any old computer.
Even a 17-year-old netbook can browse the modern web.
February 19th, 2024 — Source

DebConf24 to be Held in South Korea
Busan will be the location of the latest DebConf running July 28 through August 4
February 19th, 2024 — Source

Do you need antivirus on Linux?
If you've been a Windows user for years, then you are well aware of the need for antivirus software. It's a given. But does the same hold true for the open-source operating system?
February 19th, 2024 — Source

Fedora Linux 39-20240215 Updated ISOs released
The Fedora Respins Special Interest Group (SIG) has made available updated Fedora Linux 39 ISO images that include Kernel 6.6.14-200 as well as other latest updates. You will be able to save a significant amount of time and effort after installation by using this collection of updated ISOs.
February 19th, 2024 — Source

Fedora Workstation's Anaconda Web UI Installer Delayed To Fedora 41
For over two years Red Hat's engineers working on the Anaconda installer have been working on a modern web-based installer UI that integrates with Cockpit and is a modern alternative to their GTK-based installer interface for deploying Fedora Linux and eventually RHEL too. The hope was to offer this web UI installer option for Fedora Workstation 40 but that's now been delayed to Fedora 41.
February 19th, 2024 — Source

GNOME 46 Fedora Test Week
In preparation for the upcoming release of Fedora Linux 40, the Fedora Quality Assurance team is currently conducting a test week for GNOME 46 desktop and core applications. This week will last from today until February 22.
February 19th, 2024 — Source

HexChat open-source IRC client is forking dead
In a surprising turn of events, the popular IRC client HexChat has announced its final release, 2.16.2, marking the end of an era for the open-source project. The release, which was made public on February 9, 2024, includes a handful of minor fixes and features that have been in the works over the past two years.
February 19th, 2024 — Source

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Wrapping Up Adaptive Sync SDP Support
The Intel "i915" LInux kernel graphics driver has been working to wrap-up support for enabling Adaptive Sync SDP for DisplayPort (DP) for their graphics cards.
February 19th, 2024 — Source

Intel Lunar Lake "Xe2" Graphics Firmware Upstreamed For Xe Linux Driver
Intel is upstreaming the necessary Lunar Lake "LNL" graphics firmware nice and early to linux-firmware.git for their "Xe2" integrated graphics.
February 19th, 2024 — Source

Linux Still Working To Disable RNDIS Drivers In 2024
Back in January 2023 was an attempt to disable kernel drivers for Microsoft's RNDIS protocol. The Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) is home to security concerns for this protocol built atop USB for virtual Ethernet functionality.
February 19th, 2024 — Source

Kdenlive 23.08.5 released
The popular open-source video editing tool Kdenlive has received an update.
February 19th, 2024 — Source

Miracle-WM Announced As A Wayland Compositor Built On Mir
Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek announced the first-ever release of Miracle-WM as a Wayland compositor built on top of Mir.
February 19th, 2024 — Source

Mozilla Firefox 123.0 Available With Improved Translation Support, New Developer Features
Firefox 123.0 binaries are available today ahead of the official announcement tomorrow for this newest monthly web browser update.
February 19th, 2024 — Source

Prompt Engineering Tutorial for AI/ML Engineers
What is prompt engineering and how does it work? In this article, we take a deep dive into prompt engineering, its techniques, and the best practices to be followed.
February 19th, 2024 — Source

Samba 4.19.5 Available for Download
This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.19 release series.
February 19th, 2024 — Source

Sparky Linux is a blazing-fast distro that can keep your older machines running for years
If you have old computers sitting around, why not give them new life with this Debian-based Linux distribution that's as easy to use as it is quick?
February 19th, 2024 — Source

Thinking about switching to Linux? 10 things you need to know
Why is now the perfect time to migrate to Linux? There's the security and support, all the choices - and great apps! Plus, it's just so easy.
February 19th, 2024 — Source

Third Version Of Linux Atomic Console Support Posted
Posted on Sunday was the third iteration of the patches working toward the threaded/atomic non-blocking console "NBCON" support that is known to be one of the last blockers to sort out before the remainder of the Linux real-time "RT" patches can be upstreamed.
February 19th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 16th, 2024

5 Best Open-Source CRM for 2024
Discover the top open-source CRM software for your business needs. Explore features, benefits, and pros and cons in our review.
February 16th, 2024 — Source

Cleaning Up A Mess: Linux 6.9 Likely To Land Rework Of x86 CPU Topology Code
Longtime Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner with Intel-owned Linutronix has been spending much time over the past several months reworking the Linux kernel's x86 CPU topology evaluation code. This is to clean-up a mess of aging kernel code as well as some areas of the code being incorrect in today's era of hybrid Intel Core processors with a mix of P / E cores with the E cores lacking SMT/HT and thus throwing off prior kernel assumptions.
February 16th, 2024 — Source

Iced Toolkit For Rust GUIs Reaches v0.12 With New Features
Iced is the Rust GUI library that's been gaining quite a lot of interest by Rust developers for creating cross-platform user interfaces. Iced is also what's being used by the Pop!_OS COSMIC desktop environment. Iced v0.12 released yesterday as the first new release for this GUI toolkit since last July.
February 16th, 2024 — Source

Intel Making It Easier To Reproduce Linux GPU Hangs On Real Hardware
Intel engineers working on their open-source Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan driver code currently replay captured error state / GPU hangs using a simulator, but a new patch proposal allows for replaying GPU hangs on the actual hardware. In turn this will hopefully help Intel driver developers better address some real-world issues.
February 16th, 2024 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.1.78 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.78 is now available:
February 16th, 2024 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.6.17 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.17 is now available:
February 16th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.7.5 released
Linux kernel version 6.7.5 is now available:
February 16th, 2024 — Source

Mesa 23.3.6 released
This is the last release of the 23.3 series. Users are encouraged to switch to the 24.0 series to continue receiving bugfixes.
February 16th, 2024 — Source

New GNOME Mutter Code Prepares Fractional Scaling For XWayland
A merge request was opened this week for plumbing fractional scaling support for XWayland clients running on the GNOME Mutter compositor.
February 16th, 2024 — Source

openSUSE's "Agama" Next-Gen Linux Installer Plans For A Busy 2024
Ahead of the SUSE/openSUSE Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) their engineers have been working on a new web-based OS installer. Originally known as the "D-Installer" and now going by the "Agama" name, this new installer architecture has plans for many architectural improvements this calendar year.
February 16th, 2024 — Source

RADV Driver Fixes Mesh Shader Support For AMD Phoenix APUs
Valve's Linux graphics driver team has fixed the Vulkan mesh shader support for those using RDNA3 integrated graphics with Phoenix APUs on the latest Mesa RADV driver code.
February 16th, 2024 — Source

Tutorial: Installing and Using Prometheus in Kubernetes
This guide will help you set up Prometheus to monitor your Kubernetes cluster effectively.
February 16th, 2024 — Source

Vulkan 1.3.278 Released With Two New Extensions - One Will Help Wine / Steam Play
Vulkan 1.3.278 was published this morning and in addition to the usual documentation corrections/clarifications, there are also two new Vulkan extensions in tow.
February 16th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 14th, 2024

Asahi Linux project's OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple's
Newest driver supports the latest versions of OpenGL and OpenGL ES.
February 14th, 2024 — Source

Auto-Cpufreq 2.2.0 released
A new version of Auto-Cpufreq has been released. Auto-Cpufreq is an automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux based on active monitoring of laptop's battery state, CPU usage, CPU temperature and system load.
February 14th, 2024 — Source

Core NGINX Developer Forks Web Server Into Freenginx
Maxim Dounin as one of the longtime core developers of the Nginx web server announced the creation today of a new fork of the project called Freenginx.
February 14th, 2024 — Source

Fedora Unleashes Atomic Desktops
Fedora has combined its solid distribution with rpm-ostree system to make it possible to deliver a new family of Fedora spins, called Fedora Atomic Desktops.
February 14th, 2024 — Source

IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 184 is available for testing
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 184, is available for testing. IPFire is a powerful and professional open-source firewall solution.
February 14th, 2024 — Source

Intel Prepares For New Adaptive Sharpening Filter Coming With Lunar Lake's Xe2 Graphics
A new feature coming with the display engine on Intel Lunar Lake's Xe2 graphics is an adaptive sharpening filter that has minimal power and performance impact.
February 14th, 2024 — Source

Intel's oneDNN Preps For Sierra Forest & Granite Rapids, Lands More Optimizations
Intel's oneDNN Deep Neural Network Library used for building deep learning applications is preparing another release that continues going heavy on performance optimizations and preparing for future Intel hardware generations.
February 14th, 2024 — Source

KTrust launches an automated red team for Kubernetes security
KTrust, a Tel Aviv--based security startup, is taking a different approach to Kubernetes security from many of its competitors in the space. Instead of only scanning Kubernetes clusters and their configurations for known vulnerabilities, KTrust is taking a more proactive approach. It deploys an automated system that tries to hack into the system.
February 14th, 2024 — Source

Kubernetes Security Firm KTrust Emerges From Stealth With $5.3M in Funding
Israel-based Kubernetes security firm KTrust emerges from stealth mode with $5.3 million in seed funding from VC Awz Ventures.
February 14th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Says VS Code Will Work with Ubuntu 18.04
If you're a user of Microsoft's VS Code and you're still using Ubuntu 18.04, you can breathe a sigh of release that the IDE will continue working... for a while.
February 14th, 2024 — Source

New Nouveau Patch Would Allow Optionally Enabling GSP Mode By Default
With the Nouveau driver support for using the NVIDIA GSP (GPU System Processor) that was added in Linux 6.7, that is only used by default on the GeForce RTX 40 "Ada" GPUs and moving forward where otherwise there is no accelerated support. The NVIDIA GSP is present in the GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" and RTX 30 "Ampere" hardware too, but not used by default unless setting a module option to enable the mode. However, a new patch is pending that would allow kernel builders to optionally enable the GSP mode by default.
February 14th, 2024 — Source

OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 Achieved On Apple M1 With Linux Driver
The Asahi Linux project working on the AGX Gallium3D driver for Mesa has now managed to achieve OpenGL 4.6 conformance as well as OpenGL ES 3.2. This is a big upgrade for the Linux OpenGL support on the Apple M1 as previously only OpenGL 4.1 was exposed.
February 14th, 2024 — Source

PSP 14.0 & Other New AMD Graphics IP Enablement Continues For Linux Ahead Of RDNA4
In recent weeks there have been a lot of open-source AMD Radeon graphics driver patches flying around for the GFX12 graphics engine, Video Core Next 5, and other new graphics intellectual property (IP) blocks that appear to be for next-generation "RDNA4" Radeon graphics. This week yet more patches have been posted publicly.
February 14th, 2024 — Source

"SandBox Mode" Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Improve Memory Safety
While there is already the work underway on allowing the Rust programming language within the Linux kernel in part to leverage its memory safety potential, a proposal was sent out this morning for a new "SandBox Mode" for the Linux kernel to also increase the memory safety of C code within the kernel.
February 14th, 2024 — Source

System76's COSMIC Desktop Nearing Alpha Release
In a Valentine's Day blog post, System76 has outlined how they are nearing the release of their alpha build of the COSMIC desktop environment that they have been developing as part of their Pop!_OS Linux distribution.
February 14th, 2024 — Source

The Importance Of The TUXEDO Driver Package On Their Newer Ryzen Laptops
As an important notice to those with new TUXEDO laptops such as the TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 powered by the Ryzen 7 7840HS, installing their DKMS-based driver package can be very important if aiming to achieve maximum performance.
February 14th, 2024 — Source

Thunderbird Making Progress With Adopting Rust Code
Earlier this month at FOSDEM in Brussels was a presentation by developers Brendan Abolivier, Ikey Doherty, and Sean Burke on the Thunderbird mail client beginning to make use of the Rust programming language within its codebase.
February 14th, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 'command-not-found' tool can be abused to spread malware
A logic flaw between Ubuntu's 'command-not-found' package suggestion system and the snap package repository could enable attackers to promote malicious Linux packages to unsuspecting users.
February 14th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 12th, 2024

AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source
While there have been efforts by AMD over the years to make it easier to port codebases targeting NVIDIA's CUDA API to run atop HIP/ROCm, it still requires work on the part of developers. The tooling has improved such as with HIPIFY to help in auto-generating but it isn't any simple, instant, and guaranteed solution -- especially if striving for optimal performance.
February 12th, 2024 — Source

AMDGPU LLVM Adding GFX 9/10/11 "Generic Targets" To Build Once & Run On Multiple GPUs
Code merged today to mainline LLVM is preparing for the notion of generic targets across the GFX9, GFX10, and GFX11 GPU families. With follow-on work these generic targets are aiming to allow compiling code once and then running across multiple GPUs in the given hardware family.
February 12th, 2024 — Source

Bootloader Vulnerability Affects Nearly All Linux Distributions
The developers of shim have released a version to fix numerous security flaws, including one that could enable remote control execution of malicious code under certain circumstances.
February 12th, 2024 — Source

Heroic Games Launcher 2.13 released
Heroic Games Launcher 2.13 has been released. Heroic Games Launcher is an open-source game launcher that uses the Legendary CLI tool to support games from the Epic Games Store, GOG, and Amazon Games.
February 12th, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.9 To Support Samsung Wireless Gamepad, Keyboards & Action Mouse
Samsung engineers have been extending their "samsung" HID driver to support more of their wireless input devices by the mainline Linux kernel.
February 12th, 2024 — Source

OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Raises Data Corruption Concerns
At the end of last year OpenZFS 2.2.2 was released to fix a rare but nasty data corruption issue but it turns out there are other data corruption bug(s) still lurking in the OpenZFS file-system codebase.
February 12th, 2024 — Source

Rust Kernel Support On AArch64 Ready To Go For Linux 6.9
ARMThe 64-bit Arm (AArch64) little-endian kernel will be ready to support the Rust kernel code with the upcoming Linux 6.9 cycle.
February 12th, 2024 — Source

Samba 4.20 RC2 released
The second release candidate for Samba 4.20, which is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix, has been made available for testing.
February 12th, 2024 — Source

Sparky 2024.02 released
New ISO images (LXQt, MATE, Xfce, KDE, MinimalGUI, and MinimalCLI) of SparkyLinux rolling edition based on Debian GNU/Linux 13 Trixie (testing) are now available.
February 12th, 2024 — Source

Taming the Cloud Cost Beast With Kubecost 2.0
Developers and architects can tame Kubernetes spending through granular monitoring, automation, and machine learning-powered insights.
February 12th, 2024 — Source

The first Linux distribution to deliver a pure KDE Plasma 6 environment is here
Have you been anticipating the fresh feel of the new KDE Plasma 6 desktop? The wait is over with KaOS 2024.01.
February 12th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 9th, 2024

5 Linux productivity apps I depend on every day, and how to install them from Snap
In fact, some of these apps are only available via Snap, a great source for so much software that may not be available to install in your native package manager.
February 9th, 2024 — Source

2024 Vulkan Developer Conference Slides Posted
Vulkanised 2024 took place this week in Sunnyvale, California as the 6th go at this Vulkan Developer Conference. The slides from this conference are now available for those wishing to learn more about this open industry standard cxompute/graphics API.
February 9th, 2024 — Source

Apache NetBeans 21-rc3 released
The third release candidate for the Apache NetBeans 21 IDE has been released for testing.
February 9th, 2024 — Source

Building An AMD HIP Stack From Upstream Open-Source Code
While AMD ships pre-built ROCm/HIP stacks for the major enterprise Linux distributions, if you are using not one of them or just want to be adventurous and compile your own stack for building HIP programs for running on AMD GPUs, one of the AMD Linux developers has written a how-to guide.
February 9th, 2024 — Source

Etnaviv NPU Driver Further Boosts Performance, Striking Closer To The Proprietary Driver
Merged for Mesa 24.1 is Teflon for Etnaviv NPU driver support in enabling reverse-engineered, open-source driver support for VeriSilicon NPU IP similar to the long-standing Etnaviv Gallium3D graphics support for Vivante graphics. Tomeu Vizoso who has been leading the work on the Etnaviv NPU support has managed to achieve another performance victory and taking the open-source driver performance closer to the proprietary driver.
February 9th, 2024 — Source

Fedora Atomic Desktops Born Out Of Fedora Silverblue Success
Born out of the success of Fedora Silverblue and the other Fedora immutable variants relying on RPM-OSTree, Fedora has announced Fedora Atomic Desktops as the new branding for these spins.
February 9th, 2024 — Source

helloSystem Publishes New Experimental Build Based On FreeBSD 14.0
The macOS-inspired, FreeBSD-based helloSystem open-source operating system has published a new experimental build based on the fresh FreeBSD 14.0.
February 9th, 2024 — Source

Intel Arrow Lake Graphics Support Ready For Linux 6.9
Along with the recently merged Intel OpenGL and Vulkan driver support for Arrow Lake next-generation Core processors with Mesa 24.1, it looks like the i915 kernel graphics driver support for Arrow Lake will be all-set with the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle.
February 9th, 2024 — Source

Linux Patch Pending To Fix Support For The Transmeta Crusoe CPU
While the Linux kernel has seen increased activity around dropping old/unused hardware drivers and other support, for old hardware that is still proven to be used on upstream Linux kernel releases does stick around and even will see the occasional fix... The latest example of that is a fix on the way for restoring Linux kernel support for the Transmeta Crusoe, the x86-compatible processor released back in 2000.
February 9th, 2024 — Source

MythTV 34 Released For Open-Source DVR/PVR
In an era of Internet streaming digital video recorders (DVR) / personal video recorder (PVR) software isn't nearly as popular as it was in the past, but the long-used open-source MythTV software is out with its first major update in one year.
February 9th, 2024 — Source

Shim vulnerability exposes most Linux systems to attack
This low-level software is the glue that enables Linux to run on Secure Boot PCs, and it has a nasty problem.
February 9th, 2024 — Source

Targeted Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler Optimization Rules Out 2k+ SPEC CPU Submissions
SPEC has effectively invalidated more than two thousand SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark submissions after it was discovered the Intel oneAPI DPC++ compiler was effectively "cheating" per their standards with a targeted optimization.
February 9th, 2024 — Source

The Ongoing Open-Source Work To Enable Webcam Support On Recent Intel Laptops
Webcamera support on recent generations of Intel laptops have tended to be a mess due to the Intel IPU6 requiring an out-of-tree kernel driver and a proprietary user-space component. But fortunately thanks to the work of Linar and Red Hat on a "SoftISP" implementation within libcamera, it's becoming possible to leverage these recent MIPI-based webcameras on an open-source software stack.
February 9th, 2024 — Source

Wine 9.2 Released With System Tray Fixes, Better ARM Exception Handling
Wine 9.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of this software for enjoying Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms.
February 9th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 7th, 2024

AM 5.6.3 released
It has been announced that a new version of the AM Application-Manager has been made available. AM is an application manager hat is inspired by AUR and serves as an AppImage manager, installer, and updater. It currently contains over 1800 AppImage packages and official standalone applications for GNU/Linux, which are derived from tar and zip archives.
February 7th, 2024 — Source

AMD Ryzen 5 8500G: A Surprisingly Fascinating Sub-$200 CPU
After reviewing the Ryzen 7 8700G and the Ryzen 5 8600G as these new Zen 4 processors with RDNA3 integrated graphics, the latest AMD 8000G series CPU in the Linux benchmarking lab at Phoronix is the Ryzen 5 8500G. The Ryzen 5 8500G is a 6-core / 12-thread processor with RDNA3 graphics that retails for just $179 USD.
February 7th, 2024 — Source

Apple's push towards Siri improvements continues with a text-powered open-source image editing AI model
There are ongoing rumors that Apple intends to bring some big improvements to Siri later this year. We've heard multiple times that Apple is working on new large language models (LLM) that could see its devices gain new AI capabilities the likes of which no Apple platform has been able to boast to date.
February 7th, 2024 — Source

CloudNativePG 1.22.1, 1.21.3, and 1.20.6 released
CloudNativePG versions 1.22.1, 1.21.3, and 1.20.6 have been made available for download. As a PostgreSQL Kubernetes Operator, CloudNativePG is responsible for orchestrating the entire life cycle of a PostgreSQL cluster. This includes everything from bootstrapping and configuration to high availability and connection routing, backups, and disaster recovery.
February 7th, 2024 — Source

Critical flaw in Shim bootloader impacts major Linux distros
A critical vulnerability in the Shim Linux bootloader enables attackers to execute code and take control of a target system before the kernel is loaded, bypassing existing security mechanisms.
February 7th, 2024 — Source

Intel's Clear Linux distribution adds support for APX and AVX10, which aren't out yet
Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and Advanced Vector Extensions 10 (AVX10) are seemingly being added for future CPU support
February 7th, 2024 — Source

Kubernetes Updates and Maintenance: Minimizing Downtime Challenges
Discover the strategies and best practices for Kubernetes updates and maintenance to minimize downtime and streamline your Kubernetes management with Atmosly.
February 7th, 2024 — Source

Manjaro Linux gaming handheld is the biggest Steam Deck challenger yet
This is going to be the first direct Linux gaming handheld competitor to the Linux-based OS Steam Deck.
February 7th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Confirms Bringing Sudo For Windows, Is Open-Source Too
There's been recent reports that Microsoft is bringing sudo to Windows as discovered in recent Windows 11 Insider previews. This was briefly confirmed today by Microsoft in a since-removed blog post as well as noting that it's open-source.
February 7th, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Says VS Code Will Work with Ubuntu 18.04
If you're a user of Microsoft's VS Code and you're still using Ubuntu 18.04, you can breathe a sigh of release that the IDE will continue working... for a while.
February 7th, 2024 — Source

New Linux Kernel Patches Begin Plumbing Rust Support Into Bcachefs Driver
There's been much excitement around the Bcachefs file-system since it was mainlined in the Linux kernel at the end of last year. Looking ahead to Linux 6.9 it's looking like it may be one of the first file-system drivers to begin making use of the Rust programming language.
February 7th, 2024 — Source

Python-uamqp, Java-17-OpenJDK, Cpio, Slurm updates for SUSE
The following updates are available for openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise:
February 7th, 2024 — Source

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.15 Security updates for RHEL
Updated Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.15 packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8, and 9:
February 7th, 2024 — Source

Snaps & Ubuntu Core Desktop Talked Up At FOSDEM 2024
Canonical engineer Till Kamppeter was at FOSDEM 2024 last weekend in Belgium to talk up the Snap packaging format spearheaded for Ubuntu Linux as well as their ongoing work around Ubuntu Core Desktop for providing an all-Snap based operating system.
February 7th, 2024 — Source

The Mold Linker Is Great & Set To Become Even Better
When it comes to open-source compiler toolchain components and more broadly often unsung heroes in the low-level open-source space, one of the most interesting successes in recent years has been the Mold linker that has proven itself a viable alternative to GNU ld and Gold or LLVM's lld linkers
February 7th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 5th, 2024

AMD Ryzen 5 8600G Linux Performance
Last week the new AMD Ryzen 8000G series processors with Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA3 graphics became available in retail channels. The initial launch-day Linux testing was focused on the Ryzen 7 8700G processor, which showed great uplift for the integrated graphics over the Ryzen 5000G series with Vega/GFX9 graphics and the Ryzen 7000 series with their cut-down RDNA2 integrated graphics.
February 5th, 2024 — Source

Another Optimization Comes For Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing In Mesa 24.1
Valve contractor Friedrich Vock who is part of the team working on the open-source Linux graphics drivers has merged another RADV ray-tracing optimization for this open-source AMD Vulkan driver with this improvement in next quarter's Mesa 24.1 release.
February 5th, 2024 — Source

ChimeraOS 2024-02-04 (e820ed2) released
New ChimeraOS installation media is now available. ChimeraOS is an operating system that offers a unique couch gaming experience. Play your favorite games right away after installation by booting straight into Steam Big Picture.
February 5th, 2024 — Source

Data Lineage in Modern Data Engineering
Data lineage is a critical aspect of data engineering that often plays a pivotal role in ensuring data quality, traceability, and compliance.
February 5th, 2024 — Source

Deepin 23 aims to reclaim the title of the most beautiful Linux desktop
Beta 3 is out now for testing and it's everything you could expect in a modern desktop. But there is one caveat to using Deepin Linux.
February 5th, 2024 — Source

Google Making $1M USD Investment To Improve Rust & C++ Interoperability
Google is announcing today they are contributing $1M USD to the Rust Foundation to focus on enhancing interoperability between the C++ and Rust programming languages.
February 5th, 2024 — Source

Guide for Voice Search Integration to Your Flutter Streaming App
Learn how to integrate voice search in your Flutter streaming app for Android and iOS platforms with these step-by-step guides.
February 5th, 2024 — Source

How To Pass the Certified Kubernetes Administrator Examination
In this article, we'll guide you through the CKA exam, offering tips, resources, and a study plan to help you succeed.
February 5th, 2024 — Source

How To Use Open Source Intelligence To Help Secure Your Digital Footprint
If you find yourself worrying about the latest breach that may have compromised your personal data, or you want to know exactly what about you is online, it is not all that hard to find out. You must know where to look, however, which is the most difficult part.
February 5th, 2024 — Source

Intel Begins Rolling Out APX & AVX10 Binaries For Their Linux Distribution
Ahead of any processors being released with support for Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and Advanced Vector Extensions 10 (AVX10), Intel's in-house Clear Linux distribution is already beginning to roll-out binaries compiled for APX+AVX10 use.
February 5th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.77 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.77 is now available:
February 5th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.16 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.16 is now available:
February 5th, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.7.4 released
Linux kernel version 6.7.4 is now available:
February 5th, 2024 — Source

Linux Mint Debian Edition Makes Me Believe It's Finally the Year of the Linux Desktop
Stable, beautiful, intuitive, and not littered with bloatware, Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) improves on the popular Ubuntu version.
February 5th, 2024 — Source

LLVM/Clang Can Work Fine As A GCC Replacement For Linux Distributions
While the performance of LLVM/Clang is on-par with GCC these days on both x86_64 and AArch64 and the C/C++ support is very robust compared to many years ago, most Linux distributions continue using the GCC compiler and GNU toolchain by default. OpenMandriva is a well known Linux distribution that for several years has been a Clang-built Linux distribution while for three years now the Chimera Linux distribution has also been relying exclusively on an LLVM toolchain.
February 5th, 2024 — Source

Orange Pi Neo Coming As A Ryzen 7 + Linux Powered Handheld Device
When hearing of "Orange Pi Neo" this weekend from sources at FOSDEM 2024, I just assumed it was yet another Orange Pi single board computer... But then to hear it's a handheld game console from Orange Pi again gives off the impression of some low-power ARM device. It turns out though that the Orange Pi Neo is a forthcoming AMD Ryzen powered handheld gaming console.
February 5th, 2024 — Source

PipeWire To Work On Vulkan Converters & Processing Filters
With PipeWire 1.0 having been released toward the end of last year and is now commonly used by Linux distributions out-of-the-box for managing audio/video streams, you may be wondering about the future plans for this open-source software from Red Hat.
February 5th, 2024 — Source

Purism Crowdfunding Launched
The first public offering on StartEngine crossed the US$ 100,000 mark within 48 hours of launch.
February 5th, 2024 — Source

ScaleOps Automates Rightsizing to Reduce Kubernetes Costs
ScaleOps, a startup working in the cloud resource management sector, has unveiled a fully automated cloud-native cost-saving platform. ScaleOps claims to reduce cloud costs by up to 80% with a fully automated platform that continuously optimizes and manages cloud-native resources during runtime.
February 5th, 2024 — Source

VOPD Scheduler For Valve's ACO Compiler Merged Into Mesa 24.1
A pull request open for the past eight months for implementing a VOPD scheduler for the Valve-developed ACO "AMD Compiler" back-end has now been merged for Mesa 24.1-devel.
February 5th, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 2nd, 2024

Deepin 23 Beta 3 released
The third beta version of Deepin OS 23 is now available for testing. The system has been updated with new features, including explanatory text on the Grub page during safe mode installation, support for certain i386 devices' drivers, and normal installation of Steam native applications and game operation.
February 2nd, 2024 — Source

Escape the death grip of Windows 11 and embrace Linux: Nitrux 3.3.0 unveils a world beyond Microsoft's boundaries
Fan favorite Nitrux has reached version 3.3.0, a significant jump for the Linux-based operating system. Dubbed "ab," the new distro features software updates, bug fixes, performance enhancements, and comprehensive hardware support. If you're looking for an alternative to Microsoft's Windows 11, this is the perfect choice.
February 2nd, 2024 — Source

Fedora Linux 39-20240201 Updated ISOs released
The Fedora Respins Special Interest Group (SIG) has made available updated Fedora Linux 39 ISO images that include Kernel 6.6.13-200 as well as other latest updates. You will be able to save a significant amount of time and effort after installation by using this collection of updated ISOs.
February 2nd, 2024 — Source

Debian 64-bit time_t Transition Underway For Addressing Y2038 Problem On 32-bit Systems
Debian Experimental has begun its package rebuilds for its 64-bit time_t transition for ensuring 32-bit architectures running Debian Trixie will be able to operate past the Year 2038.
February 2nd, 2024 — Source

Intel Arc Graphics A580 / A750 / A770 Linux Performance For Early 2024
Earlier this week I posted a 35-way Linux graphics card comparison featuring the new NVIDIA RTX 40 SUPER graphics cards and other recent AMD and NVIDIA hardware I had available while using the latest Linux drivers.
February 2nd, 2024 — Source

Intel Open Image Denoise Rolls Out Metal Support, Expanded AArch64 Support
Intel's open-source oneAPI components continue to not only embrace Intel's diverse range of CPUs / GPUs / accelerators but continues to better support competing platforms too. Today's Open Image Denoise release candidate brings more for Apple hardware, AArch64 processors, and NVIDIA CUDA.
February 2nd, 2024 — Source

Initial Support For The Lenovo Legion Go Controllers Added To Linux 6.8
Being merged today as part of the input subsystem "fixes" for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel is supporting the controllers of the Lenovo Legion Go handheld game console.
February 2nd, 2024 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.7-7 released
Liquorix is a distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads.
February 2nd, 2024 — Source

Mesa Merge Request Opened For RADV Driver With VK_KHR_video_decode_av1
Following yesterday's release of VK_KHR_video_decode_av1 in Vulkan 1.3.277 for AV1 video decoding, a Mesa merge request has already been opened for adding the VK_KHR_video_decode_av1 extension to the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver.
February 2nd, 2024 — Source

OBS Studio 30.1 Beta Released With AV1 For VA-API & AV1 For WebRTC/WHIP Output
Following the release of OBS Studio 30.0 last November, OBS Studio 30.1 Beta 1 was released today as what will be the next feature release for this open-source software that is popular with livestreamers and other game streaming / desktop recording purposes.
February 2nd, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.2.16RC1 and 8.3.3RC1 for Fedora/RHEL released
Remi Collet has released PHP 8.2.16RC1 and 8.3.3RC1 packages for Linux distributions based on Fedora and RHEL.
February 2nd, 2024 — Source

Redox OS Porting More Linux Software Over, Including COSMIC Apps
The Rust-based Redox OS open-source project has published a new blog post outlining some of their recent accomplishments as well as a look ahead to other technical adventures planned for this year.
February 2nd, 2024 — Source

Torvalds Has It With "-Wstringop-overflow" On GCC Due To Kernel Breakage
One of the new features for Linux 6.8 that was merged late was enabling the -Wstringop-overflow compiler option to warn about possible buffer overflows in cases where the compiler can detect such possible overflows at compile-time. While it's nice in theory, issues on GCC has led Linus Torvalds to disabling this compiler option as of now Linux 6.8.
February 2nd, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.6.15 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.6.15 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features.
February 2nd, 2024 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.7.3 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.7.3 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
February 2nd, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 1st, 2024

4MLinux 45.0 Beta released
4MLinux 45.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

6 free, powerful creation tools for Linux
We reveal the six most ingenious free applications under Linux.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

A theoretical model for reliability assessment of machine learning systems
For a machine learning system comprising multiple machine learning models and input data, researchers at University of Tsukuba developed a theoretical model for evaluating the effect of diversity in machine learning models and input data used in a machine learning system on the reliability of its output.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

AI can help, and hurt, student creativity
Teachers across the country are grappling with whether to view AI tools like ChatGPT as friend or foe in the classroom. My research shows that the answer isn't always simple. It can be both.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

AI2 open sources text-generating AI models — and the data used to train them
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2), the nonprofit AI research institute founded by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is releasing several GenAI language models it claims are more "open" than others — and, importantly, licensed in such a way that developers can use them unfettered for training, experimentation and even commercialization.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Allen Institute for AI promises new insights into large language models with OLMo release
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) on Thursday released a highly anticipated open-source large language model, along with the underlying data and code meant to significantly improve understanding of how generative AI actually works.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Arch Linux 2024.02.01 released
A new Arch Linux installation image based on Linux Kernel 6.7.2 has been released. Arch Linux is a lightweight distribution for advanced users who always want the latest packages.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

ChatGPT Enterprise versus ChatGPT Team: Which is the best for your business?
OpenAI recently released another business option - ChatGPT Team. Even though it may seem similar to ChatGPT Enterprise, there are some major differences.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Containerd, X.Org, Chromium, WebKitGTK+, Libaom updates for Gentoo
The following security updates are available for Gentoo Linux:
February 1st, 2024 — Source

ELevate Project Updates
An updated version of ELevate Next Generation (NG) has been made available, according to an announcement made by the AlmaLinux OS Foundation.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

GNU libmicrohttpd 1.0 Released For Embed-Friendly Web Server
GNU libmicrohttpd version 1.0.0 is out today as the first major release of this C library implementing an easy-to-run HTTP web server that is embed-friendly for use by other applications.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Google Adds AI Image Generator to Bard, Rivals ChatGPT
Google has officially announced that an AI image generator will be integrated into Bard after PetaPixel reported it was happening two weeks ago.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Google Bard now has an AI image generator — how it plans to avoid another Taylor Swift deepfake fiasco
It's powered by Google's latest diffusion model, Imagen 2
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Has Machine Learning Made it Easier to Make Carbon Nanomaterials?
Researchers at Tohoku University

and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed a machine learning method published in Nature Communications, enabling the prediction and control of carbon nanostructure growth on metal surfaces, thus facilitating the exploitation of carbon nanotechnology's chemical versatility in electronics and energy processing devices.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Heroic Games Launcher 2.12.1 released
Heroic Games Launcher 2.12.1 has been released. Heroic Games Launcher is an open-source game launcher that uses the Legendary CLI tool to support games from the Epic Games Store, GOG, and Amazon Games.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240201 released
A new version of the KDE neon ISO image has been released. In addition to the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop environment, KDE neon is a Linux distribution that can be installed and is based on Ubuntu.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

LibreOffice 24.2 unveils new features and improvements alongside switch to date-based version numbering
The latest version of popular open-source office suite LibreOffice is here, but its release number may surprise those expecting to see LibreOffice 7.7. Instead, LibreOffice 24.2 makes its bow as developer The Document Foundation switches to a new date-based version numbering system.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.76 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.76 is now available:
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.15 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.15 is now available:
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.7.3 released
Linux kernel version 6.7.3 is now available:
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.7-5 released
Liquorix is a distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

mesa 23.3.5
The bugfix release 23.3.5 is now available.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.0.0 released
The release of the new Mesa 24.0.0 feature release has been announced by Eric Engestrom. Among the many highlights of this release are the following: the new PowerVR Vulkan driver for Imagination's GPU; the NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK has seen many improvements; the AMD Vulkan driver RADV has seen ray-tracing performance improvements; and the Microsoft OpenGL driver D3D12 has reached OpenGL 4.6 support.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

PgBouncer 1.22.0 released
PgBouncer version 1.22.0 has been made available for download. PgBouncer is a connection pooler for PostgreSQL that is lightweight.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Postfix, OpenJDK, Firefox-ESR, Python-Asyncssh, Debian-Secruity-Support, Xorg-Server updates for Debian
The following security updates are available for Debian GNU/Linux:
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Probabl is a new AI company built around popular library scikit-learn
Probabl isn't your average AI startup, as this new French company is an Inria spin-off company that revolves around an open source data science library called scikit-learn — Inria is a well-known French technology research institute.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

ROCm 6.0.2 released
AMD has released a new point release of the ROCm GPU computation platform, which includes minor bug fixes to improve the stability of applications that run on the MI300 GPU.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Samba 4.18.10 released
It has been announced that Samba 4.18.10 has been released. Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Sendmail update for Slackware
A sendmail security update has been released for Slackware Linux:
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension
Introduced in April 2021 was the initial Vulkan Video support for a new video encode/decode API built around Vulkan. That initial Vulkan Video support was catered to H.264 and H.265 while finally with today's Vulkan 1.3.277 release there is a new extension introduced for AV1 video decoding.
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Xen, Slurm, TonySSH, Mbed TLS updates for SUSE
The following security updates are available for openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise:
February 1st, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 31st, 2024

35-Way Linux GPU Graphics Comparison, Initial NVIDIA RTX 40 SUPER Linux Benchmarks
Here's a fresh look at the AMD Radeon versus NVIDIA GeForce Linux graphics/gaming performance across a variety of workloads as well as our first look at the GeForce RTX 4070 series and RTX 4080 SUPER performance.
January 31, 2024 — Source

A Controller To Identify Unused and Unhealthy Kubernetes Resources
K8s-cleaner can be used to identify and remove unused or stale resources, and it can also be used to notify you when it has cleaned up resources.
January 31, 2024 — Source

AMD P-State Linux Driver Gets Fixed Up For Threadripper 3000 Series CPUs
The AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for improved thermal/power/performance behavior under Linux works for Zen 2 and newer systems where the platform exposes ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Controls (CPPC) support. There's been a caveat though of the "amd_pstate" driver having issues for the Zen2-based Ryzen Threadripper 3000 series. With a newly-published set of patches, that issue should be resolved.
January 31, 2024 — Source

EROFS Lands Big Optimization In Linux 6.8 For Low-Memory Scenarios
Merged overnight for Linux 6.8 is enhancing the EROFS read-only open-source file-system to perform better in low-memory scenarios. Not just better, but significantly better performance.
January 31, 2024 — Source

Fast Kernel Headers Work Restarted For Linux To Ultimately Speed Up Build Times
Posted at the start of 2022 was a set of 2.3k patches dubbed "fast kernel headers" to massively speed-up build times for compiling the kernel and to address dependency hell situations. While it was quick to iterate at first and some bits got upstreamed, it's been months since hearing anything new on the fast kernel headers topic.
January 31, 2024 — Source

Godot 4.3 Game Engine To Feature Native Wayland Support
The newest feature tacked onto the Godot 4.3 open-source game engine is featuring native support for Wayland on Linux.
January 31, 2024 — Source

GNU C Library Vulnerability Leads to Full Root Access
Researchers at Qualys call attention to a vulnerability in Linux's GNU C Library (glibc) that allows full root access to a system.
January 31, 2024 — Source

How To Pass the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer Examination
In this article, we'll guide you through the CKAD exam, offering tips, resources, and a study plan to help you succeed.
January 31, 2024 — Source

Introducing Kubecost 2.0
Kubecost launches Kubecost 2.0 with Kubernetes network monitoring, collections, cost forecasting, actions, anomaly detection, and more.
January 31, 2024 — Source

KDE Megarelease 6 RC2 Available For Testing
Releasing at the end of February is the much anticipated Plasma 6.0 desktop where the Wayland session is the default. Plasma 6.0 will be joined by KDE Frameworks 6.0 and the Qt6-ported KDE Gear apps too. Out today for closing out January is the second release candidate of these packages.
January 31, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6 RC2 released
The second release candidate of the KDE 6 components has been released for testing.
January 31, 2024 — Source

Kubernetes 1.29 Released with KMS V2 Improvements and nftables Support
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) released Kubernetes 1.29, named Mandala, last month. The latest release introduced features such as load balancer IP mode for services, mutable pod resources for Windows containers, and nftables for the kube-proxy.
January 31, 2024 — Source

LibreOffice 24.2 Released For This Leading Free Software Office Suite
LibreOffice 24.2 is now available as the latest major update to this leading cross-platform, free software office suite to compete with the likes of Microsoft Office.
January 31, 2024 — Source

Linux Foundation Gets Involved With Lottie To Develop Formal File Format Specification
The newest frontier by the Linux Foundation is getting involved with coming up with a formal file format specification for Lottie, the vector graphics animation format based on JSON.
January 31, 2024 — Source

Linux Mint 22 is named 'Wilma'
It's a big day in the Linux world as the codename for the upcoming Linux Mint 22 has finally been unveiled. Named "Wilma," this release will introduce a number of new features, including a new tool in its Cinnamon edition -- the Nemo Actions Organizer.
January 31, 2024 — Source

My favorite Linux email client flunked spellcheck until I did this
If you've switched to Evolution groupware as your email client of choice, you'll want to enable the automatic spellcheck. Yes, the command line is required.
January 31, 2024 — Source

Sorry Linux Users, GLIBC 2.37 and 2.36 have a serious vulnerability
Hey Linux admins, time to update your GNU C Library to 2.38 as glibc 2.37 and glibc 2.36 have a rather nasty vulnerability. There is a difficult but not impossible to exploit heap-based buffer overflow attack which will give an attacker root access to your devices, at which point you are pretty much hosed.
January 31, 2024 — Source

Unlocking the Power of Robust Kubernetes Clusters: The Backbone of Modern Applications
Explore the capabilities of Kubernetes clusters and learn how Atmosly enhances their orchestration for increased agility, scalability, and efficiency.
January 31, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 29th, 2024

A Linux Hardware Vendor Is Valuing Itself At $75,000,000 USD
Linux hardware vendor Purism that is known for their crowd-funded Librem 5 smartphone effort, Linux-loaded laptops, and other privacy-minded wares announced a first public offering of Purism stock on the StartEngine platform.
January 29, 2024 — Source

How to back up a Linux directory to a remote machine with rsync
Backing up a local directory to one on a remote machine on Linux is fast and flexible with this Linux command line tool.
January 29, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 24th, 2024

Apache NetBeans 21-rc2 released
The second release candidate for the Apache NetBeans 21 IDE has been released for testing.
January 24, 2024 — Source

Firefox 122 Release Includes Official DEB for Ubuntu Distros
Finally, Mozilla has returned to Ubuntu's/Debian's roots to offer an official DEB package for those who prefer to not use the Snap package.
January 24, 2024 — Source

Fwupd 1.9.12 Adds Support For More Devices & AMD CPU Checks Updated
Red Hat's Richard Hughes has released Fwupd 1.9.12 as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution that is developed along with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for simplifying system firmware and peripheral/device firmware updates under Linux.
January 24, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA 550 Linux Beta Driver Released With Many Fixes, VR Displays & Better (X)Wayland
For going along with today's GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER graphics card launch (Linux review in the days ahead due to late arrival of my RTX 40 series hardware), NVIDIA has published their first R550 series Linux driver beta. The NVIDIA 550.40.07 Linux driver is now available with many bug fixes and a few new features.
January 24, 2024 — Source

Orca Flags Dangerous Google Kubernetes Engine Misconfiguration
Attackers could take over a Kubernetes cluster if access privileges are granted to all authenticated users in Google Kubernetes Engine.
January 24, 2024 — Source

Teflon Merged To Mesa 24.1 As Gallium3D Frontend For TensorFlow Lite
Teflon has been merged into Mesa 24.1 as a Gallium3D front-end that TensorFlow can load for delegating the execution of operations in a neural network model. Teflon was created initially for the Etnaviv Gallium3D driver for being able to run AI inferencing on Vivante NPUs.
January 24, 2024 — Source

Ventoy 1.0.97
Create bootable USB drive for ISO files.
January 24, 2024 — Source

What Is Kubernetes Right-Sizing and Should I Care?
Kubernetes leads container orchestration, but rising costs pose challenges. Autoscaling offers tailored solutions for efficiency and sustainability.
January 24, 2024 — Source

Zed Code Editor Now Open-Source
The Zed code editor being led by the creators of the Atom editor and Tree-sitter syntax parsing framework have announced today that the Zed editor is being open-sourced.
January 24, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 26th, 2024

AMD Core Performance Boost Patches Posted For P-State Linux Driver
While not quite as exciting as yesterday's AMD XDNA driver publishing for Ryzen AI on Linux, a notable patch series out of AMD today on the Linux front is enabling AMD Core Performance Boost controls within their P-State CPU frequency scaling driver.
January 26, 2024 — Source

AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan 2024.Q1.1 released
AMD has released an updated version of its AMDVLK Linux Open Source Driver for Vulkan, which also includes improvements and new features. The Khronos Vulkan Headers have been updated to version 1.3.273, and features such as VK_KHR_calibrated_timestamps, VK_EXT_image_compression_control, improved RayTracing pipeline compile time, Linux gang-submit, and support for D24_UNORM_S8_UINT and X8_D24_UNORM_PACK32 have been updated as well.
January 26, 2024 — Source

AMDVLK 2024.Q1.1 Brings Gang Submit, Faster Ray-Tracing Pipeline Compilation
AMDVLK 2024.Q1.1 has dropped as AMD's first open-source Vulkan API driver release of the new year for Radeon graphics on Linux.
January 26, 2024 — Source

Contribute at the KDE Plasma 6 Test Week
The KDE Special Interest Group is currently completing Plasma 6's integration for the upcoming Fedora Linux 40. Consequently, a testing week has been scheduled by the KDE SIG and QA teams, beginning on Monday, January 29, 2024, and ending on Monday, February 5, 2024.
January 26, 2024 — Source

KDE neon 20240125 released
A new version of the KDE neon ISO image has been released. In addition to the most recent version of the KDE Plasma desktop environment, KDE neon is a Linux distribution that can be installed and is based on Ubuntu.
January 26, 2024 — Source

How to Install Java on Debian 12
A guide that explains how to install Java on Debian GNU/Linux 12 was published by the LinuxBuzz blog.
January 26, 2024 — Source

It's Becoming Possible To Use The Webcam On Newer Intel Laptops With Open-Source Linux
While Intel typically does a great job with their open-source Linux hardware support with enabling all features under Linux and doing so in a timely manner -- often well in advance of the client and server hardware availability -- an exception in recent years has been around the web cam support for many newer Intel laptops. Since Alder Lake an increasing number of Intel-powered laptops have been relying on a raw MIPI camera sensor connected to the IPU6 IP.
January 26, 2024 — Source

Japser, Firefox, BlueZ, and more updates for SUSE
The following updates are available for openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise:
January 26, 2024 — Source

OpenJDK-8 security update for Debian 8 and 9
There are several vulnerabilities in the OpenJDK Java runtime that have been addressed by updated packages for OpenJDK 8 that are available for both Debian GNU/Linux 8 and 9 Extended LTS. These vulnerabilities could lead to side channel attacks, the leakage of sensitive data to log files, denial of service, or the bypassing of sandbox restrictions:
January 26, 2024 — Source

Plasma Discover 5.27.10.1 released
Jonathan Riddell has published an announcement that a new version of Plasma Discover has been released for download. Through the use of Plasma Discover, you will be able to locate and install programs, games, and tools with the assistance of this tool.
January 26, 2024 — Source

Red Hat Updates RHEL Pricing For The Cloud - Now Scales With vCPU Count
Red Hat announced today that beginning April they will be rolling out a new pricing model for Red Hat Enterprise Linux use in the public cloud.
January 26, 2024 — Source

Servo Engine Updates Bring CSS Tables & Its Browser Gets Back/Forward Buttons
As part of the renewed efforts around the Servo open-source web engine and making it usable for embedded purposes, the Servo engine has been tacking on a number of new features in recent weeks.
January 26, 2024 — Source

Sway 1.9-rc1 Supports New Wayland Extensions & Better Rendering Performance
Simon Ser just released Sway 1.9-rc1 as the newest test release for this i3-inspired Wayland compositor.
January 26, 2024 — Source

The best Linux distros for beginners: Expert tested
The best Linux distros for beginners are as easy to use as MacOS or Windows -- really.
January 26, 2024 — Source

Uutils 0.0.24 Advances Rust-Written Coreutils Implementation
The uutils project providing a Rust-written Coreutils re-implementation has released v0.0.24 and it passes another 29 GNU test cases as the project nears its 1.0 release.
January 26, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 22nd, 2024

Achieving Kubernetes Monitoring Nirvana: Prometheus and Grafana Unleashed
Master the art of Kubernetes monitoring by setting up Prometheus and Grafana for real-time insights into your clusters and actionable dashboards.
January 22, 2024 — Source

Artificial Insufficient: Several Microsoft Copilot Pro subscribers report performance issues despite promised 'priority access' during peak times
Multiple Microsoft Copilot Pro users have flagged performance issues, further citing a less-than-pleasant user experience.
January 22, 2024 — Source

Fedora 40 Looks To bpfman For Managing eBPF Programs
Fedora 40 is looking at bpfman for serving as the default eBPF program manager to simplify the deployment and administration of said eBPF programs.
January 22, 2024 — Source

Fedora Linux 40 Looks To Replace iotop With iotop-c
Fedora Linux already ships an iotop-c package for this C alternative to the common iotop program for reporting I/O metrics under Linux, but with the upcoming Fedora 40 release it's looking at having iotop-c replace the original iotop.
January 22, 2024 — Source

FreeBSD Considers Making Use Of Rust Within Its Base System
FreeBSD developers are currently weighing the benefits and costs of allowing the Rust programming language to be used within the FreeBSD base system.
January 22, 2024 — Source

GNOME's Dynamic Triple Buffering Now Latency Optimized For Raspberry Pi & X.Org
While back in December the GNOME dynamic triple buffering was self-proclaimed to be "ready to merge", so far that hasn't happened yet. With the GNOME 46 feature freeze scheduled for 10 February, it remains to be seen if this long-worked-on dynamic triple/double buffering will be ready in time for this six month release. In any event, this past week saw a new optimization queued for this code.
January 22, 2024 — Source

How to create a bootable Linux USB drive
If you want to install Linux on a desktop, you'll first have to create a bootable USB drive with your distribution of choice.
January 22, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 Now Enables -Wstringop-overflow To Warn About Buffer Overflows
A change merged today for the Linux 6.8 kernel intentionally following yesterday's Linux 6.8-rc1 is a move to enable the "-Wstringop-overflow" compiler option by default.
January 22, 2024 — Source

Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE ISOs Now Available For Running On Linux 6.5
Released earlier this month was Linux Mint 21.3 and out-of-the-box it continues to run on the Linux 5.15 LTS kernel... Quite old at this point and was the Ubuntu 22.04 default for which Linunx Mint 21 is based. For those unable to boot Linux Mint 21.3 due to running on newer AMD/Intel hardware or other platform compatibility issues, the Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE ISOs are now published that utilize Linux 6.5 by default.
January 22, 2024 — Source

MX Linux 23.2 "Libretto" Released
MX-23.2 is a second refresh of the MX-23 release and mostly consists of bug fixes and updates, but users will find a couple of new tools in the mix.
January 22, 2024 — Source

NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.4 Released With Updated DXVK, Performance Improvements & Fixes
As part of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series launch RTX Remix was announced for helping game modders remaster older game titles for RTX/ray-tracing. RTX Remix 0.1 debuted last April as the initial version of their software to provide path-tracing support for classic games. Out today is the latest work for helping to remaster classic games with the debut of RTX Remix 0.4.
January 22, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.2.15 and 8.3.2 for Debian 10 LTS/11/12
Ondřej Surý has released PHP 8.2.15 and 8.3.2 packages for Debian GNU/Linux 10 LTS, 11, and 12.
January 22, 2024 — Source

White goods giant fires legal threats to unplug open source plugin
'Substantial increase in AWS calls' triggers takedown notice
January 22, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 19th, 2024

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS Linux Performance With The TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3
When it comes to AMD Zen 4 laptop testing to date I've done a lot of testing with the Ryzen 7 7840U as well as the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U which have proved to be very capable 8-core / 16-thread laptop processors with performant integrated graphics and running great on Linux -- besides the current lack of Ryzen AI.
January 19, 2024 — Source

AppArmor Switches To SHA256 Policy Hashes In Linux 6.8
For those making use of the AppArmor Linux kernel security module, there is a notable change coming with the Linux 6.8 kernel.
January 19, 2024 — Source

Ditch Microsoft Windows 11: SparkyLinux rolling 2024.01 emerges as the superior, cutting-edge alternative
SparkyLinux developers have announced the release of the first rolling update of 2024. Dubbed "Sparky 2024.01," this latest version is particularly noteworthy for integrating the Linux kernel 6.6 as its default, a move that sets a new standard in the distribution's performance and compatibility. Accompanying this kernel upgrade is a suite of updated packages sourced from both Debian 'trixie' and Sparky's 'sisters' testing repositories.
January 19, 2024 — Source

FreeRDP 3.2 Fixes Wayland Client Scaling + Wayland Keyboard Handling Fixes
Following last month's FreeRDP 3.0 release with many improvements for this Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation, FreeRDP 3.2 is out today with a number of fixes -- especially as it pertains to Wayland support.
January 19, 2024 — Source

Genode OS Aiming For Multi-Monitor & Suspend/Resume Support This Year
The developers behind the Genode open-source operating system framework have shared their 2024 road-map of new features they hope to accomplish this calendar year.
January 19, 2024 — Source

How to Install and Compile Kernel in Debian
TecMint published a tutorial that shows you how to install and compile a kernel in Debian.
January 19, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 Adds Input Driver For Adafruit Seesaw Gamepad
For those wanting to build/mod their own Linux gaming handheld or craft a controller for other uses, the Adafruit Seesaw gamepad has a driver premiering with Linux 6.8.
January 19, 2024 — Source

Linux Can Now Engage GFXOFF When Running ROCm Compute Apps On RDNA3 GPUs
Merged as part of an initial batch of AMDGPU/AMDKFD fixes for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel is support for enabling the GFXOFF feature when ROCm compute applications are active on GFX11 (RDNA3) hardware.
January 19, 2024 — Source

QSB-099: Qrexec policy leak via policy.RegisterArgument service
A security update for the policy.RegisterArgument service is available for Qubes OS 4.2 systems.
January 19, 2024 — Source

Revolutionizing Kubernetes With K8sGPT: A Deep Dive Into AI-Driven Insights
Harness the power of AI-driven insights to oversee and manage Kubernetes clusters for optimal performance effectively.
January 19, 2024 — Source

Servo Browser Engine Making Embedded App Progress With Tauri
The Servo open-source browser engine originally started by Mozilla has seen renewed development in recent time by Linux Foundation Europe and via developers at firms like Igalia. Last year they drafted plans for focusing on making Servo embed-friendly so that this Rust-written code could be easily leveraged by desktop apps and frameworks.
January 19, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 16th, 2024

~5 Minutes Of Coding Yields A 6%+ Boost To Linux I/O Performance
IO_uring creator and Linux block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe spent about five minutes working on two patches to implement caching for issue-side time querying in the block layer and can yield 6% or more better I/O performance.
January 16, 2024 — Source

Apache NetBeans 21-rc1 released
The first release candidate for the Apache NetBeans 21 IDE has been released for testing.
January 16, 2024 — Source

Asahi Linux team issues promising update on efforts to conquer Apple Silicon
Good progress for penguinistas keen on Macs
January 16, 2024 — Source

Chromium and perl-Spreadsheet-ParseXLSX updates for SLE 15
The following two security updates are available for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15:
January 16, 2024 — Source

Computer scientists makes noisy data: Can it improve treatments in health care?
University of Copenhagen researchers have developed software able to disguise sensitive data such as those used for machine learning in health care applications. The method protects privacy while making datasets available for the development of better treatments.
January 16, 2024 — Source

FreeImage and X.Org X Server updates for Ubuntu
The following two updates are available for Ubuntu Linux:
January 16, 2024 — Source

Gnome 46 Alpha Available for Public Testing
The development team behind Gnome has released the latest alpha build for testing and it offers some pretty cool new additions.
January 16, 2024 — Source

GCC Rust Compiler "gccrs" Sees ~900 New Patches Upstreamed For GCC 14
Merged this afternoon to GCC Git ahead of the upcoming GCC 14.1 stable release is a big update to the GCC Rust "gccrs" compiler front-end.
January 16, 2024 — Source

GFS2 File-System Enables Non-Blocking Lookups With Linux 6.8
The Global File-System 2 (GFS2) for Linux clusters continues to advance thanks to Red Hat and with Linux 6.8 there is now support for non-blocking lookups.
January 16, 2024 — Source

Here's how OpenAI plans to address election misinformation on ChatGPT and Dall-E
The company detailed its efforts in a new blog post.
January 16, 2024 — Source

Improved mapping gives decision makers a new tool for protecting infrastructure as Arctic warms
New insights from artificial intelligence about permafrost coverage in the Arctic may soon give policymakers and land managers the high-resolution view they need to predict climate-change-driven threats to infrastructure such as oil pipelines, roads and national security facilities.
January 16, 2024 — Source

Intel Arc GPUs Can't Run The Finals On Linux But Concealing GPU Vendor Does The Job
The Finals has seen immense popularity amongst gamers across every platform, however, an interesting bug has surfaced on Linux which won't let users play the game on an Intel Arc GPU unless the vendor is hidden.
January 16, 2024 — Source

Intel Meteor Lake CPUs Will Be Able To Clock Higher On Linux 6.8
Following last week's Linux 6.8 power management updates, Linux PM/ACPI subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki of Intel sent out a secondary set of changes this morning. Most notable with this second round of power management material is allowing Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors to clock higher with the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver.
January 16, 2024 — Source

Kernel, Thunderbird, Wireshark, and more updates for SUSE
The following updates have been released for SUSE Linux:
January 16, 2024 — Source

Kubernetes Gateway API versus Ingress
Kubernetes Gateway API is a significant upgrade from the native Ingress. Check out a comparison between the two based on four dimensions.
January 16, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 Introduces New Syscalls For More Detailed File-System Mount Information
Merged back at the start of the Linux 6.8 merge window were the VFS mount API updates that introduce two new system calls: statmount() and listmount() for reading more detailed information about file-system mounts.
January 16, 2024 — Source

Linux dev delivers 6% file system performance increase -- says 'it was literally a five minute job'
Jens Axboe, developer of IO_uring, says he's been thinking about implementing this update for years.
January 16, 2024 — Source

Linux Mint 21.3 is here - and it's outstanding
The latest Linux Mint update is an excellent Linux desktop for many reasons.
January 16, 2024 — Source

mv Command Examples in Linux
The mv command in Linux is used to rename and move files. Please don't confuse it with the cp command. The cp command is used to copy files from one to another directory, whereas the mv command is for cutting and pasting files
January 16, 2024 — Source

Nettle and libuv updates for Gentoo
The following two security updates are available for Gentoo Linux:
January 16, 2024 — Source

NetworkManager bug fix update for Oracle Linux 8
Updated NetworkManager packages are available for Oracle Linux 8:
January 16, 2024 — Source

New AMD & Intel Laptop/Platform Support In Linux 6.8
Merged last week for the Linux 6.8 kernel were the platform driver x86 updates, which include a lot of new AMD Ryzen and Intel Core platform support and new laptop functionality.
January 16, 2024 — Source

Pentagon using ChatGPT? Oh sure, for cyber-things and veterans, says OpenAI
Just days after ban on 'military and warfare' applications goes away, Davos hears the details
January 16, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.2.15 released
Sergey Panteleev has announced the release of PHP 8.2.15.
January 16, 2024 — Source

PHP 8.3.2 released
Jakub Zelenka has announced the release of PHP 8.3.2.
January 16, 2024 — Source

RLSA-2024:0256: Moderate: python3 security update
An update is available for python3. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list.
January 16, 2024 — Source

Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results For Gaming Performance
A Canonical engineer has been experimenting with implementing a Linux scheduler within the Rust programming language. His early results are interesting and hopeful around the potential of a Rust-based scheduler that works via sched_ext for implementing a scheduler using eBPF that can be loaded during run-time.
January 16, 2024 — Source

Simplifying Kubernetes Deployments: An In-Depth Look at Helm
Explore how Helm simplifies Kubernetes deployments with charts, templates, and version tracking, ensuring efficient and manageable management.
January 16, 2024 — Source

Team at Anthropic finds LLMs can be made to engage in deceptive behaviors
A team of AI experts at Anthropic, the group behind the chatbot Claude, has found that LLMs can be exploited to engage in deceptive behavior with general users. They have published a paper describing their research into the problem on the arXiv preprint server.
January 16, 2024 — Source

Team develops AI technology for robot work that can be applied to manufacturing process
An AI (artificial intelligence) technology for robot work, which allows robots to be easily applied to manufacturing processes, has been developed for the first time in the world. The newly developed technology can be used in a variety of processes, such as the manufacturing of automobiles and machine parts, as well as assembly and production, and is expected to contribute to the improvement of the working environment at manufacturing sites in the future.
January 16, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu Linux Working On Installer Support For NVMe-over-TCP
Ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release that is all important for servers, Canonical engineers are working on extending their installer support to handle NVMe-over-TCP setups.
January 16, 2024 — Source

VirtualBox 7.0.14 released
VirtualBox 7.0.14 has been released with various bug fixes. VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.
January 16, 2024 — Source

Wine 9.0 released
Wine 9.0 is now available, a stable release resulting from over 7,000 individual changes. Key improvements include the new WoW64 architecture and the experimental Wayland driver.
January 16, 2024 — Source or Source

X.Org Server & XWayland Updated Due To Another Six Security Vulnerabilities
It was in 2013 a security researcher called the X.Org Server security state "worse than it looks" and quite a disaster from the security/bug perspective for the aging codebase. A decade later there's still no shortage of security vulnerabilities being uncovered within the X.Org Server.
January 16, 2024 — Source

Xerces-C++ update for Ubuntu 20.04/22.04/23.04/23.10
Updated Xerces-C++ packages are available for Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, 23.04, and 23.10:
January 16, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 15th, 2024

Arduino Open Source Report 2023 is now available to download
The Arduino community has experienced a significant boost in open-source activity this year, with a host of new projects and tools that have enriched the DIY and maker scenes. If you're an enthusiast or professional in this field, you've probably noticed the wide range of contributions that have come to light, including hardware advancements and software enhancements.
January 15, 2024 — Source

AMD Releases AOMP 18.0-1 Compiler Based On ROCm 6.0, Defaults To -O2 Optimizations
As the first new tagged version of AMD's AOMP LLVM-based OpenMP-focused compiler for offloading to their Instinct / Radeon GPUs, AOMP 18.0-1 was released today with many changes.
January 15, 2024 — Source

Btrfs In Linux 6.8 Transitions Metadata Processing To Using Folios
While not as notable as the Bcachefs additions, more work on XFS online repair, and other file-system updates for Linux 6.8, the Btrfs file-system driver changes for Linux 6.8 were merged last week.
January 15, 2024 — Source

Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce Driver Merged For Linux 6.8
Merged last week to the mainline kernel were all of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem driver updates for the Linux 6.8 cycle, which includes introducing the Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO driver.
January 15, 2024 — Source

GNOME 45.3 released
Javier Jardón has announced the release of the third bugfix release for GNOME 45.
January 15, 2024 — Source

Kernel 6.7 Test Week for Fedora Linux
The Fedora QA team is conducting a test week from January 21 to January 28 for Kernel 6.7 in Fedora Linux 39.
January 15, 2024 — Source

libvirt 10.0 Released With QEMU VM Migration Improvements
Libvirt as the virtualization API/toolkit developed by Red Hat for managing virtualization on Linux is out today with its v10.0 release.
January 15, 2024 — Source

Libxml2 2.12.4 released
Nick Wellnhofer has announced the release of Libxml2 2.12.4.
January 15, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 Brings More Sound Hardware Support For Intel & AMD, Including The Steam Deck
Waiting for pulling into the mainline kernel once Linus Torvalds is back online following Portland's winter storms is the sound subsystem updates for Linux 6.8, which include a lot of new sound hardware support.
January 15, 2024 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.6.12 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.12 is now available:
January 15, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.73 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.73 is now available:
January 15, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.15.147 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.147 is now available:
January 15, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 4.19.305 released
Linux kernel version 4.19.305 is now available:
January 15, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.208 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.208 is now available:
January 15, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.4.267 released
Linux kernel version 5.4.267 is now available:
January 15, 2024 — Source

LLVM 18 Planned For Release In Early March
Tom Stellard announced plans this past week for releasing the LLVM 18 compiler stack in early March.
January 15, 2024 — Source

Microsoft Releases First CBL-Mariner Linux Distro Update Of 2024
Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution CBL-Mariner that is used for a variety of purposes from Azure to WSL has seen its first release of 2024. While the distribution has at times released up to a few new versions per month, there hadn't been a new release since late November given the holidays.
January 15, 2024 — Source

openSUSE Prepares For openSUSE Leap 16 Next Year Based On ALP
It shouldn't come as much of a surprise, but openSUSE today reaffirmed that openSUSE Leap 16 will succeed the current Leap 15 series. OpenSUSE Leap 16 will be based on SUSE's Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) codebase.
January 15, 2024 — Source

Opera and zlib updates for Gentoo
The following two security updates are available for Gentoo Linux:
January 15, 2024 — Source

pg_back 2.2.0 released
A new version of pg_back, a backup tool for PostgreSQL databases has been released.
January 15, 2024 — Source

Python3, SqLite, Rsync, .Net, Krb5 updates for RHEL
The following updates are available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
January 15, 2024 — Source

QPDF, libspf2, KTextEditor updates for Gentoo
The following security updates are available for Gentoo Linux:
January 15, 2024 — Source

Squid, GNUTLS, Edk2, and more updates for Oracle Linux
The following updates have been released for Oracle Linux:
January 15, 2024 — Source

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Ship With Some Extra GNOME Performance Optimizations
In addition to the GNOME triple buffering patches that still haven't been merged to Mutter's mainline branch, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and upstream Debian are slated to currently carry a few extra performance optimizations.
January 15, 2024 — Source

Upgrade to Linux Mint 21.3 from 21.2, 21.1 and 21
DebugPoint published a tutorial on how to upgrade to Linux Mint 21.3 from 21.2, 21.1, and 21 using the graphical method.
January 15, 2024 — Source

W3M, GNU binutils, Libspf2, MySQL, libssh2 updates for Ubuntu
The following security updates are available for Ubuntu Linux:
January 15, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 13th, 2024

Fedora 40 Looks To Ship AMD ROCm 6 For End-To-End Open-Source GPU Acceleration
Fedora 40 is looking at shipping the AMD ROCm 6.x GPU compute stack to offer "end-to-end open-source GPU acceleration" with ease for this Red Hat funded Linux distribution.
January 13, 2024 — Source

Git Developers Discuss The Possibility Of Beginning To Use Rust Code
The latest open-source project eyeing the possibility of beginning to allow the Rust programming language to be used within its codebase is the Git project.
January 13, 2024 — Source

Intel Submits Latest CXL Feature Code For Linux 6.8
Intel engineer Dan Williams continues leading the charge around Compute Express Link (CXL) enablement for the Linux kernel.
January 13, 2024 — Source

KDE Frameworks 5.114.0 released
13th January 2024. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.114.0.
January 13, 2024 — Source

KVM With Linux 6.8 Adds Intel LAM For Guests, More Confidential VMs Work
The KVM virtualization changes for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel is quite heavy on the feature side.
January 13, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 Merge Window On Hiatus Due To Winter Storm
Linus Torvalds just announced he's had to put the Linux 6.8 merge window on hold due to a brutal winter storm knocking the Pacific Northwest.
January 13, 2024 — Source

Lutris 0.5.15 Fixes Crashes When Using Wayland With High DPI Gaming Mice
Lutris 0.5.15 has been released as the newest version of this open-source game manager that allows managing games from within Steam, GOG, various retro game console / emulator solutions, and other sources.
January 13, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 12th, 2024

AMD P-State Preferred Core Support For Linux Tried A 13th Time
One of the features sadly not having made it in time for the Linux v6.8 kernel merge window is the AMD P-State Preferred Core support. This is about being able to properly communicate to the kernel and scheduler about "preferred cores" such as cases of some CPU cores having higher maximum frequencies or better performance characteristics than others.
January 12, 2024 — Source

Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.42 Released With OpenJDK 21 Java Support
Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.42 released this week as the high performance Java Virtual Machine spun out from the IBM J9 JVM.
January 12, 2024 — Source

EROFS Adds Sub-Page Compressed Data Support To Help Out Android & ARM64 Servers
The read-only EROFS open-source file-system continues to prove quite popular for Android mobile devices as well as containerized environments. With the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel EROFS adds initial support for sub-page compressed data support.
January 12, 2024 — Source

FreeRDP and Prometheus SNMP Exporter updates for Gentoo
The following two security updates are available for Gentoo Linux:
January 12, 2024 — Source

GNOME 46.alpha released
Jordan Petridis has announced the availability of the first alpha version for the GNOME 46 desktop environment.
January 12, 2024 — Source or Source

How To Install Paper GTK and Icon Theme on Ubuntu
Paper Icon Theme is a popular and modern Ubuntu desktop theme. This theme is inspired and based on Google's material design. However, some aspects are adjusted for the best suite of the desktop environment. The paper icon theme demands at least GTK 3.16 for better integration.
January 12, 2024 — Source

How To Reset, Powerwash, and Restore Your Chromebook
Chromebook is a versatile, secure, and open source operating system made by Google for the web and cloud-based digital life. However, after the integration of Google Play, it has become a multi-functional OS. Despite being a solid OS, you might need to reset or restore your Chromebook many times.
January 12, 2024 — Source

Kernel, .NET, NSS, and more updates for Rocky Linux
This update affects Rocky Linux SIG Cloud 9.
January 12, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 Upstreams More Intel TDX Bits For Protecting KVM Guests
Intel has prepared additional Trust Domain Extensions enablement code for the ongoing Linux 6.8 kernel merge window.
January 12, 2024 — Source

Linux Gains An Open File Server Implementation For Tractors & Agriculture Machinery
Pengutronix a short time ago on the Linux kernel mailing list announced the Open ISOBUS FileServer (FS) and Client Implementation... Piquing my interest, I looked up this ISO 11783-13 standard that this file server aims to implement, but it wasn't quite what I was expecting.
January 12, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.207 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.207 is now available:
January 12, 2024 — Source

Linux Mint 21.3 released
The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 21.3 "Virginia".
January 12, 2024 — Source or Source

Linus Torvalds On Linux 6.8 DRM: "Testing Is Seriously Lacking"
While the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver updates for Linux 6.8 excitingly include the new Intel "Xe" DRM and PowerVR Imagination drivers, AMD color management properties in experimental form, Raspberry Pi 5 graphics support, and more, Linus Torvalds isn't happy with some of the new Intel Xe driver code.
January 12, 2024 — Source

PHP-phpseclib security updates for Debian 11 and 12
Updated phpseclib packages have been released for both Debian GNU/Linux 11 and 12:
January 12, 2024 — Source

PulseAudio 17.0 Released With A Few New Features
While most modern desktop Linux distributions have migrated over to PipeWire for the roles once handled by PulseAudio (and JACK, among others), for those still relying on the PulseAudio sound server the PulseAudio 17.0 release was made available today.
January 12, 2024 — Source

Researchers release open-source space debris model
MIT's Astrodynamics, Space Robotics, and Controls Laboratory (ARCLab) announced the public beta release of the MIT Orbital Capacity Assessment Tool (MOCAT) during the 2023 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Space Forum Workshop on Dec. 14. MOCAT enables users to model the long-term future space environment to understand growth in space debris and assess the effectiveness of debris-prevention mechanisms.
January 12, 2024 — Source

TigerVNC, Xorg-X11, Thunderbird, and more for CentOS
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2024:0145 Moderate
January 12, 2024 — Source

Wine 9.0-rc5 Released With 22 Fixes From Game Crashes To Performance Issues
The fifth release candidate of Wine 9.0 is now available for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux, Chrome OS, and other platforms.
January 12, 2024 — Source

Wine release 9.0-rc5
The Wine development release 9.0-rc5 is now available. This is expected to be the last release candidate before the final 9.0.
January 12, 2024 — Source

Your pacemaker should be running open source software
Using embedded medical technology, such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, or insulin pump? What's running inside is a complete mystery
January 12, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 11th, 2024

8 Best Mail Transfer Agents (MTA's) for Linux
In this article, we have looked a slight understanding of how MTA's (Mail Transfer Agents) work and a list of the best and most used MTA's on Linux systems.
January 11, 2024 — Source

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.3 dev 2
We left for the holiday season with a first snapshot towards Godot 4.3, and we came back to work after a good break to literal piles of pull requests ready to be merged! Godot development never really stops with hundreds of contributors all over the world, each with their own motivations for when and how to contribute to the engine.
January 11, 2024 — Source

Fedora 40 Looks At Packaging Its Own PyTorch
While on Fedora and other Linux distributions it can be as easy as running "pip3 install torch" or similar for deploying the PyTorch machine learning framework, Fedora 40 is looking at packaging PyTorch on its own for enhancing the Fedora Linux user experience.
January 11, 2024 — Source

KTextAddons 1.5.3 released
KTextAddons is a library with Various text handling addons used by Ruqola and Kontact apps. It can be compiles for both Qt 5 and 6 and distros are advised to compile two builds for each until Ruqola is ported to Qt 6.
January 11, 2024 — Source

Intel CR 23.39.27427.23 Delivers Latest Open-Source GPU Compute Capabilities
Intel Compute Runtime 23.39.27427.23 has been released today as the newest version of this open-source GPU compute stack for Windows and Linux systems for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support. The Compute Runtime works from aging Broadwell and Skylake/Gen9 graphics up through the latest DG2 discrete graphics and the recently launched Meteor Lake processors with their much improved integrated graphics.
January 11, 2024 — Source

Intel's New "Xe" Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8 Along With Imagination's PowerVR Driver
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel display/graphics driver changes have been submitted for the Linux 6.8 kernel. As expected and to much excitement, the experimental new Xe kernel graphics driver is included for introduction in Linux 6.8 as well as the Imagination PowerVR driver for select Rogue GPUs.
January 11, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 Adds New Gaming Handhelds, Google Tensor & Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 + X Elite SoCs
All of the ARM SoC and platform driver changes have been submitted for the Linux 6.8 kernel that include bringing up the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs, enabling various low-cost gaming handheld console devices, finally upstreaming Google Tensor G1 support, and other hardware additions.
January 11, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 Continues Work For Clearing The sysctl Sentinel Bloat
Linux 6.8 is continuing the work toward allowing the sysctl sentinel to be removed, the final empty element on sysctl arrays. This ongoing effort will in turn allow for saving an extra 64 bytes on each sysctl array and will enhance the build time size of the kernel.
January 11, 2024 — Source

Machine Learning in Linux: Lama Cleaner -- self-hostable inpainting tool
In essence, Machine Learning is the practice of using algorithms to parse data, learn insights from that data, and then make a determination or prediction. The machine is 'trained' using huge amounts of data.
January 11, 2024 — Source

Mesa 23.3.3 Released With A Few Fixes For Intel, RADV & Zink
Eric Engestrom has released Mesa 23.3.3 as the latest stable update to this set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan graphics drivers plus being the first update of the new year.
January 11, 2024 — Source

Mesa 24.0 Feature Development Ends With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Features
Mesa 24.0 feature development has concluded for this quarterly feature update to this set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers most notably for AMD Radeon and Intel graphics on Linux but also an increasing number of smaller drivers, like for Apple Silicon, the NVK / Nouveau drivers, Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan, and more.
January 11, 2024 — Source

mesa 24.0.0-rc1
I'm happy to announce the start of a new release cycle with the first release candidate, 24.0.0-rc1.
January 11, 2024 — Source

Qt 6.5.4 LTS Released As First Commercial-Only Release In The Series
With it being nearly one year since the release of Qt 6.5 LTS and Qt 6.6 having debuted in October, The Qt Company has now put Qt 6.5 LTS into its commercial-only phase with today's Qt 6.5.4 release.
January 11, 2024 — Source

System76's COSMIC Desktop Working Toward Its Alpha Release
The System76 crew has put out a new blog post outlining the work ahead toward their upcoming alpha release of their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment and in turn the Pop!_OS 24.04 release expected to happen "over the summer".
January 11, 2024 — Source

Valve Lands A Last Minute AMD ACO Improvement For Mesa 24.0
This week prior to the Mesa 24.0 feature freeze / code branching, a notable merge request landed that had been worked on the past few months by one of Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver developers.
January 11, 2024 — Source

XWayland Adds "-Output" Option For Better Rootful Fullscreen Control
As part of the Red Hat led effort for making XWayland's rootful mode more useful and the ability to run X11 desktop sessions within XWayland as part of RHEL 10 dropping the X.Org Server support besides XWayland, a new "-output" option was added to XWayland for better control over placement of rootful fullscreen windows.
January 11, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 10th, 2024

7 Considerations for Multi-Cluster Kubernetes
This article compares Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud highlighting challenges like complexity, interoperability, security, and resiliency strategies.
January 10, 2024 — Source

A 2024 Discussion Whether To Convert The Linux Kernel From C To Modern C++
A six year old Linux kernel mailing list discussion has been reignited over the prospects of converting the Linux kernel to supporting modern C++ code.
January 10, 2024 — Source

Biggest Linux kernel release ever welcomes bcachefs file system, jettisons Itanium
Farewell IA64, hello snapshots and Rusty refinements
January 10, 2024 — Source

GNU Hurd Has Been Making Progress On Its x86_64 Support
While GNU Hurd predates the Linux kernel, its hardware support has been woefully behind with very limited and dated hardware support compared to modern PC/server hardware. Not only that, its been largely x86 limited but during Q4'2023 the developers involved have made progress on x86_64 support and begun tackling AArch64 porting.
January 10, 2024 — Source

Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel Updated With Meteor Lake Support & More DNN Functionality
Intel engineers have released their FFmpeg Cartwheel 2023Q4 release, the quarterly set of updates to the FFmpeg multimedia library that they are still working to get upstreamed where appropriate but for now is a convenient home to all of their interesting FFmpeg patches from improved video acceleration for Intel graphics hardware to neural network features still being developed and other patches that aren't yet ready for inclusion into upstream FFmpeg.
January 10, 2024 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.0 Release Candidate Available For Testing
In working toward the stable release of Plasma 6.0 at the end of February, today marks the release candidate of Plasma 6.0 along with the updated Qt6-ported KDE Gear apps and KDE Frameworks 6.0 that comprise the "KDE 6th Megarelease" software.
January 10, 2024 — Source

KDE's 6th Megarelease - Release Candidate 1
Every few years we port the key components of our software to a new version of Qt, taking the opportunity to remove cruft and leverage the updated features the most recent version of Qt has to offer us.
January 10, 2024 — Source

Linux 4.14 LTS Reaches End-Of-Life After Six Years
Linux 4.14 debuted at the end of 2017 with exciting features at the time like AMD Vega improvements, working on the since-failed Intel Cannonlake graphics, Zstd compression support, and more. The kernel has advanced a heck of a lot since then and Linux 6.7 recently debuted. It's now time that Linux 4.14 LTS has been declared end-of-life.
January 10, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 Perf Tools Add Support For AMD Zen 4 Memory Controller Events
The tooling changes around the perf subsystem have been submitted for the Linux 6.8 kernel merge window and provide some new hardware features and other new perf profiling capabilities.
January 10, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 To Support ACPI-Based Enumeration Of CSI-2 / MIPI Cameras
Along with the Linux 6.8 power management updates, maintainer Rafael Wysocki at Intel also sent in the ACPI updates for this next kernel version. While the ACPI changes for the kernel are often just routine churn, this cycle it's bringing a new feature: device enumeration for CSI-2 and MIPI DisCo for Imaging support. This will allow MIPI cameras moving forward to be enumerated via the platform firmware on ACPI-based systems.
January 10, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 4.14.336 released
Linux kernel version 4.14.336 (EOL) is now available:
January 10, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.72 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.72 is now available:
January 10, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.11 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.11 is now available:
January 10, 2024 — Source

NSS, TigetVNC, Kernel and more updates for RHEL
The following security updates have been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
January 10, 2024 — Source

openSUSE-SU-2024:0016-1: important: Security update for opera
openSUSE Security Update: Security update for opera
January 10, 2024 — Source

RedCloth and FAAD2 updates for Gentoo
The following two security updates are available for Gentoo Linux:
January 10, 2024 — Source

System76 Updates Thelio to Offer New AMD Threadripper CPUs
If you're looking to get the most power for your desktop, System76 has what you need by way of a Thelio desktop powered by the Zen 4 AMD Threadripper.
January 10, 2024 — Source

Twisted and GNU C Library updates for Ubuntu
The following two updates are available for Ubuntu Linux:
January 10, 2024 — Source

Vcc Announced As The Vulkan Clang Compiler
Coming out of Saarland University is Vcc, the Vulkan Clang Compiler. Vcc provides an "honest attempt to bring the entire C/C++ language family to Vulkan" as an interesting new compiler.
January 10, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 9th, 2024

A Nifty Way To Access Linux Memory/RAM Information
Making use of dmidecode is the go-to way of being able to read various DIMM memory information on Linux systems like the model number, speed, and other attributes. But sadly using dmidecode is restricted to root due to needing to access /dev/mem. But it turns out there is another less reported way to receive much the same information.
January 9, 2024 — Source

Arch Linux Will Now Use Dbus-Broker As Its Default D-Bus Daemon
Arch Linux is finally going the way of Fedora and others in making Dbus-Broker its default D-Bus daemon implementation.
January 9, 2024 — Source

GCC 14 Compiler Lands Initial Support For Targeting AMD RDNA3 "GFX11" GPUs
AMD makes heavy use of the LLVM compiler infrastructure by their graphics drivers and compute stack while the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has to a lesser extent supported AMD graphics targets too in the context of GPU compute / OpenMP device offloading. That AMD Radeon/Instinct support for GCC has been carried out over the years by Mentor Graphics and other stakeholders.
January 9, 2024 — Source

GNOME 44.8 released
GNOME 44.8 is now available. This is a stable bugfix release for GNOME 44. All operating systems shipping GNOME 44 are encouraged to upgrade.
January 9, 2024 — Source

How to add song recognition to the Linux desktop
If Linux is your desktop operating system of choice, and you'd like to add song recognition software into the mix, SongRec has your back.
January 9, 2024 — Source

LibreOffice 24.2 RC1 Free Software Office Suite Released
Ahead of the planned release at the start of February, the release candidate of LibreOffice 24.2 is now available for this leading free software office suite to rival Microsoft Office predominantly on Linux systems as well as other platforms.
January 9, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 HID: Steam Controller Driver Fixes From SteamOS, Nintendo NSO Controller Support
The HID driver updates for Linux 6.8 include some useful additions primarily for Linux gamers or those otherwise making use of modern game controllers for other input purposes.
January 9, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40%
Beyond the usual new wired/wireless network hardware support and the other routine churn in the big Linux networking subsystem, the Linux 6.8 kernel is bringing some key improvements to the core networking code that can yield up to a ~40% improvement for TCP performance when encountering many concurrent network connections.
January 9, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 Power Management Prepares For Upcoming Intel Server Processors
Intel engineer and longtime Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki on Monday sent out all the PM updates for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel.
January 9, 2024 — Source

RADV Driver Lands "Highly Experimental" Transfer Queue Support
Thanks to Valve's open-source developers, the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has landed experimental support for transfer queues for facilitating SDMA image copies.
January 9, 2024 — Source

System76 Thelio Ramps Up AI & Creator Performance With New AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs
System76 has opted to offer new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors in their Thelio Major desktop line-up to provide for greater performance from AI and creator workloads to all common code compilation and other tasks leveraging many CPU cores/threads. The new System76 Thelio Major powered by Zen 4 Threadripper is being shown off this week at CES 2024 in Las Vegas at AMD's booth.
January 9, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 8th, 2024

A new Linux kernel has been released and it's one of the largest ever
Linux kernel 6.7 is now available for use. Here's what to expect.
January 8, 2024 — Source

AMD Announces The Radeon RX 7600 XT For 1080p~1440p Gaming At $329
In addition to announcing the Ryzen 8000G series and new Ryzen 5000 series processors, AMD kicked off CES 2024 in Las Vegas by announcing the Radeon RX 7600 XT as their newest RDNA3 discrete graphics card for gamers.
January 8, 2024 — Source

AMD Introduces Ryzen 8000G Series & Even New Ryzen 5000 Series CPUs
AMD used CES 2024 to announce their new Ryzen 8000G series desktop processors and even introducing some new Ryzen 5000 series SKUs. Here are the key details from today's AMD Ryzen announcements while awaiting hardware for Linux testing.
January 8, 2024 — Source

AMD's OpenGL Linux Driver Already Scored A Nice Performance Win For 2024
While much of the focus by graphics vendors these days is on their Vulkan driver support/performance and less so about OpenGL in 2024, AMD's open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for Linux systems is still showing no signs of slowing down and still scoring more performance victories.
January 8, 2024 — Source

GNU Linux-libre 6.7 Cleans Up Graphics Driver Blobs, Addresses New Drivers
Following Linus Torvalds' release of the Linux 6.7 kernel last night, the FSFLA folks have released GNU Linux-libre 6.7-gnu as their downstream that strips out non-free microcode/firmware blob support and removes other bits that are not deemed in the interest of free software.
January 8, 2024 — Source

GTK Lands Their New Unified GPU Renderer, Vulkan Build Enabled By Default
There's been much work recently on a new unified renderer for the GTK toolkit. Yesterday a merge request was opened and already merged that enables Vulkan by default.
January 8, 2024 — Source

Intel Announces Core 14th Gen 35/65 Watt Desktop CPUs, 14th Gen HX Mobile CPUs
Following last month's Meteor Lake announcement, Intel is using CES 2024 this week in Las Vegas for announcing their complete line-up of new Intel Core mobile CPUs as well as completing the line-up of Core 14th Gen desktop processors at 35 and 65 Watt TDPs.
January 8, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 4.14.335 released
Linux kernel version 4.14.335 is now available:
January 8, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 4.19.304 released
Linux kernel version 4.19.304 is now available:
January 8, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel 5.4.266 released
Linux kernel version 5.4.266 is now available:
January 8, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 EDAC Ready To Deal With Errors On AMD AI Accelerators & Intel Meteor Lake P/PS
The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates for Linux 6.8 have been submitted for dealing with ECC reporting under Linux and the other error detection/recovery driver updates.
January 8, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 Landing A Tantalizing Optimization For Common $PATH-Based Searches
For the execve() system call to execute a program by pathname, the Linux 6.8 kernel is set to land a new optimization to "dramatically" speed-up PATH searches.
January 8, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 Picks Up AMD CPU Optimization To Avoid Unnecessarily Serializing MSR Accesses
The x86 CPU pull request is ready for the Linux 6.8 kernel and besides adding new AMD Zen feature flags easily isolating different CPU generations, there is also an AMD CPU optimization to avoid an unnecessary MFENCE+LFENCE barrier.
January 8, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 Scheduler Changes Include New EEVDF Fast Path, Additional Scheduler Tuning
Ingo Molnar sent in all of the scheduler changes this morning for the now-open Linux 6.8 merge window.
January 8, 2024 — Source

Open source's new mission: To boldly go where no software has gone before
FOSS's license to exist depends on helping users. It has to learn to think that way
January 8, 2024 — Source

Rust Toolchain Upgrade Submitted For Linux 6.8
Rust For Linux maintainer Miguel Ojeda was among those submitting early pull requests of code feature changes for the now-open Linux 6.8 kernel cycle.
January 8, 2024 — Source

Samba 4.19.4 released
Samba 4.19.4 has been released. Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix.
January 8, 2024 — Source

Some Intel Arrow Lake CPUs To Feature Revised Xe LPG+ Graphics IP
The Intel engineers enabling next-generation Arrow Lake processors for Linux have largely been just adding new device IDs and other mostly minor changes over current Meteor Lake processors. It was that way too for Arrow Lake's integrated graphics with largely re-using existing Meteor Lake graphics support, but now it's come to light that select Arrow Lake SKUs will feature updated graphics IP.
January 8, 2024 — Source

Two AI features Introduced in Deepin Linux 23 Beta 2 Release
In a bid to challenge Microsoft's Copilot, the developers of Deepin have announced they've begun the process of integrating AI into the desktop.
January 8, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 7th, 2024

Defying obsolescence, AMD's 22-year-old Radeon GPUs get new Linux drivers
Thanks to the open source community
January 7, 2024 — Source

Heroic Games Launcher 2.12.0 released
Heroic Games Launcher 2.12.0 has been released. Heroic Games Launcher is an open-source game launcher that uses the Legendary CLI tool to support games from the Epic Games Store, GOG, and Amazon Games.
January 7, 2024 — Source

Intel Core Ultra 7 Meteor Lake versus AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme Performance
In recent days there have been leaks about an MSI "CLAW" gaming handheld device set to be announced this coming week at CES in Las Vegas. Making this gaming handheld device interesting is that unlike the Valve Steam Deck and ASUS ROG Ally or Legion Go, it's expected to be the first handheld featuring an Intel Meteor Lake SoC.
January 7, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.7 Released With Bcachefs, Intel Meteor Lake In Good Shape & Nouveau GSP Support
As anticipated Linus Torvalds went ahead and just released the Linux 6.7 kernel as the first new version of 2024.
January 7, 2024 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.6-14 released
Steven Barrett has released another Liquorix Linux kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.6.10 for Debian and Ubuntu.
January 7, 2024 — Source

Memtest86+ 7.0 Released With IMC Polling & Initial ECC Polling
Debuting in late 2022 was memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used open-source RAM tester. Coming out today is memtest86+ 7.0 as the latest major update to this leading PC memory testing solution.
January 7, 2024 — Source

Mesa RADV Driver Baking Improvements For VKD3D-Proton With AMD FSR3
Landing in Mesa 24.0-devel this week alongside other exciting changes is some pending work for enhancing VKD3D-Proton and AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) support for the RADV Vulkan driver.
January 7, 2024 — Source

OpenBLAS 0.3.26 Brings More x86_64 Optimizations, Better LoongArch64 & ARM64
OpenBLAS 0.3.26 was released this week as the newest feature update to this open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) library.
January 7, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 6th, 2024

Chromium update for Fedora 38
An updated chromium package is available for Fedora Linux 38:
January 6, 2024 — Source

GNOME Merges RDP Graphical Remote Login Support
After the merge request was open since August of 2022, merged today is support within the GNOME Remote Desktop code for handling graphical remote log-ins.
January 6, 2024 — Source

GNOME's Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Support Continues Coming Together
For the GNOME desktop among the technologies that will hopefully mature into good shape this year are high dynamic range (HDR) display support as well as variable refresh rate (VRR). When it comes to the VRR support there's been more Mutter progress made in this effort.
January 6, 2024 — Source

Google Chrome Adds VA-API Video Acceleration On Wayland
One of the limitations of Google Chrome's Wayland support has been the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) not being supported for GPU-based video acceleration as it's directly targeted the libva-x11 library. But with code merged on Friday to Chromium, libva-drm is now used to allow for working VA-API acceleration on X11 or Wayland.
January 6, 2024 — Source

Linux 6.8 To Add Support For The AMD MicroBlaze V Soft-Core RISC-V Processor
A few months back AMD announced the MicroBlaze V processor as a soft-core RISC-V processor for embedded system use. With Linux 6.8 the necessary DeviceTree support is landing for the AMD MicroBlaze V.
January 6, 2024 — Source

Linux Security Roundup for Week 2, 2024
Here is a roundup of last week's Linux security updates for AlmaLinux, Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora Linux, Gentoo Linux, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux, and Ubuntu Linux.
January 6, 2024 — Source

OpenJPH v0.10 JPEG2000 Library Adds AVX-512 Support
OpenJPH as the open-source library implementing JPEG2000 Part-15 (JPH / HTJ2K) support is out with a big feature release.
January 6, 2024 — Source

ProtonUp-Qt 2.9.1 released
ProtonUp-Qt v2.9.1 has been released. ProtonUp-Qt is a tool to install and manage Proton-GE for Steam and Wine-GE for Lutris.
January 6, 2024 — Source

R update for Gentoo
A R security update has been released for Gentoo Linux:
January 6, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — January 5th, 2024

CUPS filters, RDoc, WebKitGTK+, BlueZ, C-Ares updates for Gentoo
The following security updates are available for Gentoo Linux:
January 5, 2024 — Source

Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) update for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Updated Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) packages are available for Ubuntu Linux 22.04 LTS:
January 5, 2024 — Source

Thunderbird, TigerVNC, Firefox updates for AlmaLinux
Updated thunderbird, tigervnc, and firefox packages are available for AlmaLinux:
January 5, 2024 — Source

Tomcat9 and Exim4 updates for Debian 10 LTS
Updated tomcat9 and exim4 packages have been released for Debian GNU/Linux 10 LTS:
January 5, 2024 — Source

Wine 9.0-rc4 Released With More Wayland Fixes, Additional Game Fixes
After no release candidate of Wine 9.0 was published last week due to the end-of-year holidays, Wine 9.0-rc4 is out as the newest test candidate for this forthcoming stable version to enjoy Windows games and applications on Linux.
January 5, 2024 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 29th, 2023

AppMan 5.3.1 released
A new version of AppMan has been released. AppMan is a bash script capable of installing, updating, and uninstalling thousands of AppImage packages.
December 29, 2023 — Source

From Whiskey Lake To Meteor Lake: The Intel CPU Linux Performance Evolution
Yesterday I ran through a number of benchmarks looking at how the Intel integrated graphics have evolved from the Gen9/Skylake era through the new Meteor Lake CPUs with integrated Arc Graphics.
December 29, 2023 — Source

Gentoo Ends Out 2023 By Offering Up Binary Packages For Direct Installation
The Gentoo Linux project's Portage package manager has long supported the ability to deal with binary packages while moving forward they are finally leveraging that to offer binary packages for download and direct installation.
December 29, 2023 — Source

GNUTLS, Python-Pip, Postfix, and more updates for SUSE
The following security updates have been released for openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise:
December 29, 2023 — Source

Squid and Podman-TUI updates for Fedora
Updated squid and podman-tui security updates are available for Fedora Linux:
December 29, 2023 — Source

Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 Focal Brings PinePhone Images, Initial Snap Support
Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 Focal is out today as the UBport's latest release of this Ubuntu mobile adaptation for smartphones and tablets. This is the third release to be based on their Ubuntu 20.04 LTS base, which is quite aging at this point but still better off than their earlier 16.04 LTS foundation.
December 29, 2023 — Source

Vulnerabilities in Google Kubernetes Engine Could Allow Cluster Takeover
Two flaws in Google Kubernetes Engine could be exploited to escalate privileges and take over the Kubernetes cluster.
December 29, 2023 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 28th, 2023

Enlightenment 0.26.0 Has Improved Stability and New Features
The latest version of the open-source lightweight window manager, compositor, and desktop shell has arrived with plenty of improvements and features.
December 28, 2023 — Source

GCC 13 versus Clang 17 Compiler Benchmarks, Early Clang 18 & GCC 14 Development Benchmarks
As it's been a while since last delivering any competitive GCC versus LLVM Clang compiler competitive analysis and with the year quickly drawing a close, here's a fresh look at the GCC versus Clang C/C++ compiler performance of various resulting application binaries tested on x86_64. GCC 13 versus Clang 17 were tested as what's readily available on Ubuntu 23.10 Linux plus a look ahead in using the latest GCC 14 and LLVM Clang 18 development snapshots as of this week.
December 28, 2023 — Source

Intel Integrated Graphics Performance From Gen9 To Meteor Lake Arc Graphics
With my Intel Meteor Lake benchmarking that began last week with the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H within an Acer Swift Go 14 laptop, the area I've been most impressed by so far with this new generation of Intel mobile processors is the integrated Arc Graphics performance. In a prior article I showed how Intel Meteor Lake graphics are a big upgrade and now competing with AMD RDNA3 integrated graphics while also capable of delivering better power efficiency.
December 28, 2023 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.6-10 released
Steven Barrett has released another Liquorix Linux kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.6.8 for Debian and Ubuntu.
December 28, 2023 — Source

Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode — dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing
2024 could be the year of the Linux diagonal desktop.
December 28, 2023 — Source

Linux Machines with Poorly Secured SSH Servers are Under Attack
A new cryptocurrency miner is attacking Linux servers to co-opt them into a cryptocurrency mining network as well as spreading distributed denial-of-service attacks.
December 28, 2023 — Source

The Upsides and Downsides of Open Source Adoption
According to Hila Fish, the benefits of open source projects are supporting rapid innovation, the flexibility provided to customize and adapt tools, and transparency of the code which can enhance security efforts. The downsides are that security by obscurity doesn't apply, open source is potentially prone to abuse, and when open source tools are not backed up by companies, it might result in a lower level of maintainability.
December 28, 2023 — Source

Valve's Linux Contributions, Wayland & Open-Source NVIDIA Milestones Topped 2023
After looking yesterday at the most popular Linux hardware reviews of 2023, here is a look at the most popular open-source/Linux news of the more than 2,780 original news articles authored on Phoronix this calendar year.
December 28, 2023 — Source

Zhaoxin Preparing Preferred Core Support For Their CPUs On Linux
Similar to Intel and AMD processors with not all cores necessarily being created equal, Zhaoxin engineers are working on plumbing preferred core support for their processors into the Linux kernel.
December 28, 2023 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 27th, 2023

AlmaLinux Cloud, Container and Live Media Images Updates
The cloud, container, and live media images of AlmaLinux have been updated.
December 27, 2023 — Source

Benchmarking The Experimental Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Build For Greater Performance On Modern CPUs
One of the exciting innovations currently being explored by Canonical ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release is an x86-64-v3 build of the OS / packages. The x86-64-v3 micro-architecture feature level makes AVX/AVX2 support assumed by default as well as other modern x86_64 ISA features typically common of AMD and Intel processors the past number of years (with exceptions).
December 27, 2023 — Source

Fedora Linux-based Nobara 39 now available for download -- including a specialized Steam Deck version
Nobara 39, the latest iteration of the Linux distribution, has officially been released, bringing significant advancements and a host of new features. Based on Fedora 39, this release focuses heavily on enhancing the gaming experience and refining the desktop environment. There is even a special variant designed specifically for the Steam Deck.
December 27, 2023 — Source

KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future
As we roll into 2024, Wayland sadly is still proving to be a divisive topic with some frustrated with it either from past experiences or not all software yet being fully adapted to make use of Wayland directly with all available features. There's also some still hoping for an X11 renaissance that will never materialize.
December 27, 2023 — Source

Nobara 39 2023-12-26 released
GloriousEggroll has released Nobara Linux 39. The Nobara project is a modified version of Fedora Linux that includes gaming-specific modifications such as WINE dependencies, obs-studio, third-party codec packages such as those for gstreamer, third-party drivers such as NVIDIA drivers, and so on.
December 27, 2023 — Source

Raspberry Pi 5 & New AMD Ryzen CPUs Excited Linux Readers The Most In 2023
Over the course of 2023 I authored 180 Linux hardware reviews and featured benchmark articles, not to mention the thousands of original open-source/Linux news items. As we are about to hit the end of 2023, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews of the year.
December 27, 2023 — Source

The evolution of open source in the enterprise [Q&A]
Open source software has been around for decades, it's thriving, effective and disrupting in the enterprise more than ever.
December 27, 2023 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 26th, 2023, 2023

AMD PMF Policy Binary Support Queued For Linux 6.8
As part of AMD's Platform Management Framework (PMF) and working on new Ryzen features like the Smart PC Solutions Builder, a set of patches are queued up ahead of the Linux 6.8 kernel cycle support for policy binary support with the PMF driver.
December 26, 2023 — Source

How to download files on Linux without a web browser (and why you should)
If you're looking for the fastest, most reliable method of downloading online files on Linux, wget is the way to go.
December 26, 2023 — Source

KDE KWin Merge Request Opened For Dynamic Triple Buffering
Similar to the long-worked-on or GNOME dynamic triple buffering that is applied when the (most commonly integrated) graphics fall behind schedule in rendering the desktop, a merge request for KDE's KWin compositor has also seen similar work in this area for helping the iGPU catch-up in rendering via a "triple buffering" implementation.
December 26, 2023 — Source

Kubernetes monitoring: 5 essential strategies for DevOps success
Monitoring Kubernetes clusters is a critical aspect of managing cloud-native applications. Kubernetes, a favored tool among giants like Spotify and Major League Baseball, empowers developers to create and operate at scale. However, the complexity of Kubernetes with its multitude of nodes and containers demands a robust monitoring strategy.
December 26, 2023 — Source

Meteor Lake EPP Tuning For Greater Performance Or Power Efficiency With Intel Ultra Core 7
With all of my initial Intel Core Ultra 7 155H benchmarking since last week from the Windows 11 versus Linux performance to the integrated Intel Arc Graphics performance it was at the Linux 6.7 kernel defaults / OS defaults.
December 26, 2023 — Source

More CXL Feature Code Prepped Ahead Of Linux 6.8
Intel Linux engineers continue eagerly working on the Compute Express Link (CXL) code for the Linux kernel with more server hardware coming to market supporting this high-speed open standard for CPU-to-device and CPU-to-memory connections.
December 26, 2023 — Source

Nobara 39 2023-12-26 released
GloriousEggroll has released Nobara Linux 39. The Nobara project is a modified version of Fedora Linux that includes gaming-specific modifications such as WINE dependencies, obs-studio, third-party codec packages such as those for gstreamer, third-party drivers such as NVIDIA drivers, and so on.
December 26, 2023 — Source

Zoom Open-sources New Vulnerability Impact Scoring System VISS
Zoom Vulnerability Impact Scoring System, or VISS for short, aims to help organizations enforce security measures based on a new approach to vulnerability scoring that prioritizes actual demonstrated impact over theoretical security impact possibilities.
December 26, 2023 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 24th, 2023

Enlightenment 0.26.0 Linux desktop environment released -- enhanced stability and new features
The latest version of Enlightenment, 0.26.0, has arrived, bringing a slew of improvements and new features to this popular Linux desktop environment. This release emphasizes on squashing numerous minor bugs, enhancing user experience, and introducing some experimental features.
December 24, 2023 — Source

Fedora 40 Plans To Unify /usr/bin & /usr/sbin
One of the latest change proposals filed for Fedora 40 is to unify their /usr/bin and /usr/sbin locations.
December 24, 2023 — Source

Intel Wires Up Dual-SIMD8 Dispatch For Mesa Drivers
Intel's open-source Linux drivers for OpenGL (Iris) and Vulkan (ANV) this week for Mesa 24.0 received support for dual-SIMD8 dispatch on Gen12 graphics (Tigerlake) and newer.
December 24, 2023 — Source

LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2023
It's widely known that Christmas is a time for indulgence, goodwill to everyone, and above all a time for lists. So there's no better time to compile a list for the year. Once you've digested everything below, you can plan your New Year resolutions. Let's make next year different by sticking to them for more than a week!
December 24, 2023 — Source

LoongArch KVM Support Extended To Allow LSX/LASX SIMD Support
With the Linux 6.7 kernel there is now KVM virtualization support for LoongArch CPUs. With the upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle, that KVM support is being further extended for these RISC-V-inspired and MIPS64-derived Chinese processors.
December 24, 2023 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 23rd, 2023

Ceph, FFmpeg, Gitea, Flatpak, SABnzbd updates for Gentoo
The following updates are available for Gentoo Linux:
December 23, 2023 — Source

Enlightenment 0.26 Released With Various Improvements
It's been two years since the release of Enlightenment 0.25 and now just ahead of Christmas there is Enlightenment 0.26 released by Carsten Haitzler.
December 23, 2023 — Source

Lab Wayland Compositor 0.7 Released — Ported To wlroots 0.17
Lab Wayland Compositor (labwc) is out with a new version ahead of Christmas for this wlroots-based window-stacking compositor that is inspired by the Openbox window manager.
December 23, 2023 — Source

Linux Kernel 5.15.145 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.145 is now available:
December 23, 2023 — Source

LLVM Moves To A Versioning Scheme Like GCC — N.1 Version For Stable Branch
Following discussions with upstream developers, LLVM is changing its versioning as part of the branch creation process to better distinguish mainline development builds of LLVM against those from stable (or soon to be stable) release branches.
December 23, 2023 — Source

Osslsigncode security update for Debian 10
An osslsigncode security update has been released for Debian GNU/Linux 10 LTS to address a buffer overflow vulnerability.
December 23, 2023 — Source

Razer Wolverine V2 Controller Support Coming With Linux 6.7
With a set of input driver patches set to be merged today for the Linux 6.7-rc6 kernel, the XPad driver is adding support for Razer's Wolverine V2 Xbox controller.
December 23, 2023 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 22nd, 2023

Anticipating the Journey: Launching Your First Open Source Project
Guidance on open sourcing, covering expectation management, issue management, privacy and security risks, sustainable licensing, and dependency management.
December 22, 2023 — Source

ASRock Launches AI QuickSet Software For Linux
Here's a pleasant Christmas present and one I certainly wasn't expecting... Motherboard manufacturer ASRock has announced software for Linux! Well, not any motherboard management/configuration software for their desktop motherboards or anything like that but rather a Linux port of their AI QuickSet software that is intended to help users "experience AI in one click."
December 22, 2023 — Source

ASRock Launches Linux Version of AI QuickSet Software Tool
Leading global motherboard manufacturer, ASRock, just released the Microsoft Windows 10/11 64-bit version of the AI QuickSet software tool, which can help users quickly download, install and configure artificial intelligence (AI) application has aroused widespread response. Today it launches the Linux version of the AI QuickSet software tool, allowing Linux platform users quickly experience the fun of richer artificial intelligence (AI) applications!
December 22, 2023 — Source

Exiv2, LibSSH, Arduino, QtWebEngine, NASM, LibRaw updates for Gentoo
The following security updates are available for Gentoo Linux:
December 22, 2023 — Source

Fedora Linux available for all Apple Silicon Macs but one
We've seen Linux running on Apple Silicon Macs before, but this week marks the first time you can run Fedora Linux on M1 and M2 Macs.
December 22, 2023 — Source

Intel Fixes Up Baldur's Gate 3 On Linux With Arc Graphics
For those with Intel Arc Graphics on Linux and wanting to enjoy the game Baldur's Gate 3 thanks to the power of Valve's Steam Play software, an important fix has been merged to Mesa 24.0-devel and set for back-porting to Mesa 23.3. This should take care of rendering issues being reported for Baldur's Gate 3 with Intel graphics on Linux when using the Vulkan renderer.
December 22, 2023 — Source

Intel Is Hosting An Open-Source Community Survey For Developers
In helping to guide Intel's open-source interests in 2024, the company is hosting an Open-Source Community Survey. Intel is looking for feedback from open-source developers and other community stakeholders about your principal interests and concerns.
December 22, 2023 — Source

OpenSSH and Curl updates for Debian
Updated OpenSSH and Curl packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux:
December 22, 2023 — Source

PHP 8.1.27, 8.2.14 and 8.3.1 for Fedora/RHEL released
Remi Collet has released PHP 8.1.27, 8.2.14, and 8.3.1 packages for Linux distributions based on Fedora and RHEL.
December 22, 2023 — Source

Speculative decoding what is it and why does it matter?
In the rapidly evolving world of technology and digital communication, a new method known as speculative decoding is enhancing the way we interact with machines. This technique is making a notable difference in the speed of language models, which are the brains behind the digital assistants we use every day. By harnessing the power of parallel processing in modern graphics processing units (GPUs), speculative decoding can anticipate several possible outcomes at once, speeding up the generation of text.
December 22, 2023 — Source

Tails 5.21 released
A new version of Tails, a portable operating system that offers security from snooping and censorship, has been released.
December 22, 2023 — Source

Trying Out & Benchmarking The New Experimental Intel Xe Linux Graphics Driver
One of the new features to look forward to with the upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle is the merging of the experimental "Xe" Intel kernel graphics driver. This driver has been in development for quite a while but has reached the state now at which Intel is comfortable with developing it further while in the mainline kernel tree.
December 22, 2023 — Source

TUXEDO Computers Updates Its Linux Control Center Software
Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers has announced TUXEDO Control Center 2.1 as their newest update to this software for managing your notebook's vitals from the Linux desktop.
December 22, 2023 — Source

Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues
With this week's release of Firefox 121, Wayland is being used by default

when encountering a native Wayland desktop. Shipping as part of Firefox 121 is wayland-proxy as a C++ module to serve as a Wayland proxy load balancer.
December 22, 2023 — Source

Wine 9.0-rc3 Released With 35 Fixes In Total, Some Wayland Driver Fixes
The third weekly release candidate of Wine 9.0 is now available for this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms.
December 22, 2023 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 21st, 2023

Amphion open source Text-to-Speech (TTS) AI model
If you're venturing into the world of audio, music, and speech generation, you'll be pleased to know that a new open-source AI Text-to-Speech (TTS) toolkit called Amphion might be worth further consideration and investigation. Designed with both seasoned experts and budding researchers in mind,
December 21, 2023 — Source

Asahi's Fedora remix dazzles and baffles on Apple Silicon
Take an M1 or M2-powered Mac and turn it into a fast ARM64 PC, if that's what you fancy
December 21, 2023 — Source

Bcachefs Lands More Fixes Ahead Of Linux 6.7 Stable Debut
The Bcachefs file-system has landed some additional fixes ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.7 stable release.
December 21, 2023 — Source

Darktable 4.6.0 released
Pascal Obry has announced the release of Darktable 4.6.0, an open-source photography workflow application and raw developer.
December 21, 2023 — Source

Fedora 40 Looks To Utilize WiFi MAC Address Randomization For Better Privacy
Among the newly-proposed features for Fedora 40 is enabling WiFi MAC address randomization by default to yield better user privacy.
December 21, 2023 — Source

Fedora Linux 39-20231215 Updated ISOs released
Updated Fedora Linux 39 ISO images with Kernel 6.6.6-200 and other updates were made available by the Fedora Respins SIG. This collection of updated ISOs will save a significant amount of updating after installation.
December 21, 2023 — Source

Fedora Linux now runs on all M-powered Macs — except one
The first full-fledged desktop distro for M-chip Macs, Fedora Asahi Linux is a giant step forward in bridging the gap between Linux and Apple silicon hardware.
December 21, 2023 — Source

Godot 4.3 Dev 1 Released With Rendering System Refactor, D3D12
Ahead of the holidays the open-source developers working on the Godot game engine have released Godot 4.3 Dev 1 as their first test release to this next feature release.
December 21, 2023 — Source

Godot 4.3 Dev 1 released
The first development build of Godot 4.3 is now available for testing.
December 21, 2023 — Source

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H and AMD Ryzen 7 7840U have an iGPU-bound benchmarking rematch in Linux
Following their previous CPU-only Linux benchmarking, Phoronix runs Meteor Lake Arc Graphics versus RDNA 3 iGPUs on Linux
December 21, 2023 — Source

Intel Improves FFmpeg's DNN Detect Filter For AI Object Detection
With AI being all the rage these days and each vendor working on getting their wares to market with AI acceleration, besides Intel now having out their Meteor Lake CPUs that feature their Intel AI Boost (NPU), Intel is rather positioned well with their prolific open-source software contributions. One of the AI-related software contributions over the past week has been improvements to the FFmpeg multimedia library's "DNN detect" filter for object detection within videos.
December 21, 2023 — Source

Intel Posts SVM Patches For Xe Kernel Graphics Driver
Intel's new Xe kernel graphics driver is set for merging into Linux 6.8 as an experimental option. While it's being added to the next kernel cycle, it's not yet used by default for any existing Intel GPUs and its features have yet to be fully implemented and the performance has yet to be fully optimized. Among the features currently missing is Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support but a patch series posted today aims to address that functionality.
December 21, 2023 — Source

Intel Revises Work On Timed I/O PPS Functionality For Linux
Back in January I wrote about Intel working on a Timed I/O driver for Linux with PPS (Pulse Per Second) to help with time synchronization between multiple devices. There hasn't been much external talk about this Timed I/O / PPS functionality while today as we approach the end of the year a new set of Linux kernel patches were posted for wiring up this Intel PPS Generator functionality.
December 21, 2023 — Source

KDE neon 20231221 released
The KDE neon ISO image has been updated. With the most recent KDE Plasma desktop environment, KDE neon is an installable Linux distribution based on Ubuntu.
December 21, 2023 — Source

KDE Plasma 6 Beta 2 released
The second beta version of the KDE 6 components have been released for testing.
December 21, 2023 — Source

Linux 6.8 To Add Support For Several Cheap ARM-Powered Handheld Game Consoles
The upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle will be adding mainline support for several low-cost ARM Linux handheld gaming consoles that are suitable for running retro games, older game emulators, and other lightweight software.
December 21, 2023 — Source

openSUSE Tumbleweed Trying Out systemd-boot & systemd Full Disk Encryption
OpenSUSE is now providing builds of openSUSE Tumbleweed and microOS that are making use of systemd-boot as its bootloader rather than GRUB and also leveraging full disk encryption via systemd.
December 21, 2023 — Source

PostgreSQL Lands Support For Incremental Backups
Merged yesterday to the Git code for the PostgreSQL database server is support for facilitating incremental backups.
December 21, 2023 — Source

Windows 11 versus Ubuntu Linux Performance On The Intel Core Ultra 7 Meteor Lake
Following my Linux benchmarks of the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor performance where it ended up being rather disappointing but then with finding great success with the a href="https://www.phoronix.com/review/meteor-lake-arc-graphics" target="new" class="RM1">integrated Arc Graphics on Meteor Lake, like I you may be left wondering how much of a role Linux is playing with these results compared to Windows... Well, this article will shed some light on that aspect with looking at the Microsoft Windows 11 versus Ubuntu Linux performance on the Acer Swift Go 14 Meteor Lake laptop.
December 21, 2023 — Source

Zorin OS 17 released
Since the release of our last major version in August 2021, Zorin OS 16 has garnered over 6.2 million downloads. Ever since, we've been listening to your feedback and working tirelessly to build the ultimate alternative to Windows and macOS; one that helps to make your computer better, faster, easier, more secure, and privacy-respecting.
December 21, 2023 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 19th, 2023

Arcan Display Framework Receives Funding As Innovative Wayland Alternative
While much of the focus by Linux desktops as we roll into 2024 is polishing off their Wayland support, there does exist a rather innovative display server out there that's been in the works for years: Arcan.
December 19, 2023 — Source or Watch Video

Intel IAA Crypto Compression Driver To Be Merged For Linux 6.8
Set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle is the IAA crypto compression driver for allowing users of the Linux kernel's compression API to make use of the Intel Analytics Accelerator (IAA) found with Sapphire Rapids and Emerald Rapids Xeon server processors.
December 19, 2023 — Source

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H Meteor Lake versus AMD Ryzen 7 7840U On Linux In 300+ CPU Benchmarks
Last week Intel launched their Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" notebook processors. Genuinely very curious about the performance potential under Linux along with various features of these new mobile SoCs like the NPU and integrated Arc Graphics, I bought an Intel Core Ultra laptop on launch-day for carrying out Linux benchmarks.
December 19, 2023 — Source

Intel Gaudi2's Linux Driver Support Is "Very Stable At This Point", Gaudi2C Device Added
By now you've likely heard how Intel's Gaudi2 accelerator hardware is standing up very well against the NVIDIA competition especially in value. There's nothing new there but an important part to keep in mind -- and where Intel is the hands-down winner -- is the open-source ecosystem with having a fully open-source and upstream Linux kernel accelerator driver as well as their SynapseAI open-source components in user-space.
December 19, 2023 — Source

PoCL 5.0 Released With Transparent OpenCL Over Networked Systems Capability
PoCL 5.0 has been officially released as the latest version of this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that provides OpenCL support for CPU-based execution as well as various other LLVM-based hardware back-ends like for NVIDIA PTX and oneAPI Level Zero. With PoCL 5.0 is also a new experimental back-end for targeting OpenCL support distributed across networked systems.
December 19, 2023 — Source

Proton 8.0-5 released
Valve Software has updated Proton 8.0-5 to enable AMD AGS for Devil May Cry 5. Proton is a tool based on WINE for use with the Steam client, which allows games that are exclusive to Windows to run on the Linux operating system.
December 19, 2023 — Source

Fedora Asahi Remix 39 now available for M1 and M2 Apple Silicon Mac computers
The long-awaited Fedora Asahi Remix 39 Linux distribution is now generally available, marking a very special moment for both Linux enthusiasts and Apple users alike. Developed through a collaboration between the Fedora Asahi Special Interest Group and the Asahi Linux project, this release is set to make Apple hardware more attractive to Linux users.
December 19, 2023 — Source

Fedora Asahi Remix 39 released
Fedora Asahi Remix 39 for Apple Silicon Macs based on Fedora Linux 39 is now available. All MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, Mac Studio and iMac systems with M1 and M2 chips are supported.
December 19, 2023 — Source

Fedora Asahi Remix 39 Released For Apple Silicon Macs
The Asahi Linux crew has released Fedora Asahi Remix as their Fedora 39 derived Linux distribution optimized for Apple Silicon Macs.
December 19, 2023 — Source

Fedora Asahi Remix is now available, bringing Fedora Linux to Apple Silicon Macs
The developers behind Asahi Linux have been working to bring GNU/Linux Macs with Apple Silicon for about as long as Apple has been selling them. While early builds of their Linux for Mac software were based on Arch Linux ARM, this summer the Asahi team announced a new flagship operating system that would instead be based on Fedora.
December 19, 2023 — Source

Fedora Linux 39-20231215 Updated ISOs released
Updated Fedora Linux 39 ISO images with Kernel 6.6.6-200 and other updates were made available by the Fedora Respins SIG. This collection of updated ISOs will save a significant amount of updating after installation.
December 19, 2023 — Source

FFmpeg Begins Landing Support For AOMedia's IAMF — Immersive Audio Model and Formats
Yesterday the initial code for supporting the Alliance For Open Media's Immersive Audio Model and Formats (IAMF) was merged for the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library.
December 19, 2023 — Source

MLVWM for SparkyLinux
The MLVWM desktop is now available for SparkyLinux.
December 19, 2023 — Source

The Mainline Linux Kernel To Finally Support The Google Tensor GS101 SoC & Pixel 6
The Google Tensor GS101 SoC launched in 2021 with the Google Pixel 6 smartphone. More than two years later the mainline Linux kernel is finally to see upstream support with the forthcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle.
December 19, 2023 — Source

Vulkan 1.3.274 Released With Video Encode Extensions Promoted
As what's likely to be the last Vulkan API spec update before Christmas, Vulkan 1.3.274 was released today with the Vulkan Video encode extensions promoted as well as adding some other new extensions as a nice end-of-year gift.
December 19, 2023 — Source

XWayland Video Bridge 0.4 released
An updated version of XWayland Video Bridge is now available.
December 19, 2023 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 18th, 2023

Docker Image Building Best Practices
In this comprehensive guide, we will explore best practices for Docker image building to help you optimize your development and deployment processes.
December 18, 2023 — Source

Gigabyte Waterforce AIO Cooler Driver Set To Premiere In Linux 6.8
A new driver set to be merged in the upcoming Linux 6.8 cycle is "gigabyte_waterforce" as a new kernel driver for supporting Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO coolers.
December 18, 2023 — Source

Intel 5th Gen Xeon Performance Benchmarks: Impressive Efficiency Gains With "Optimized Power Mode"
With the new Intel 5th Gen Xeon "Emerald Rapids" processors there is a new feature called the Optimized Power Mode (OPM). This Optimized Power Mode can be enabled via the system BIOS for Emerald Rapids for helping to reduce the CPU power consumption when not running at full utilization. With Intel claiming that up to 110 Watts of server power savings can be conserved when running at 30~40% utilization, I was curious and set out to run my own Optimized Power Mode benchmarks with the Xeon Platinum 8592+ processors.
December 18, 2023 — Source

Intel Lunar Lake Thunderbolt Support Being Prepped For Linux
While Intel Meteor Lake processors only launched last week, Intel Linux engineers have already been busy for some time enabling next-generation Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors.
December 18, 2023 — Source

It's Looking Like 2024 Could Be The Year Of HDR On The Linux Desktop
KDE developer Xaver Hugl has shared a status update on the current state of HDR support for the KDE Plasma desktop.
December 18, 2023 — Source

KDE neon 20231218 released
The KDE neon ISO image has been updated. With the most recent KDE Plasma desktop environm
December 18, 2023 — Source

Manjaro Linux 23.1.0 "Vulcan" Released
Christmas has come a bit early for Manjaro fans, as version 23.1.0 is already available for download and installation
December 18, 2023 — Source

Nintendo Switch Online Controller Support Coming With Linux 6.8
The Nintendo HID open-source driver is being extended with the Linux 6.8 kernel to support the Nintendo Switch Online "NSO" controllers.
December 18, 2023 — Source

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Will Be Able To Boot On The Mainline Linux 6.8 Kernel
All the pieces have been aligned that the mainline Linux 6.8 kernel should be able to boot on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC without any out-of-tree patches being necessary.
December 18, 2023 — Source

Shotcut 23.12 Released With Wayland Crash Fix, Upgraded AV1 Encode/Decode
Shotcut 23.12 debuted this weekend as the newest version of this open-source non-linear video editing solution for Linux, Windows, and macOS systems.
December 18, 2023 — Source

Microsoft discovers critical RCE flaw in Perforce Helix Core Server
Four vulnerabilities, one of which is rated critical, have been discovered in the Perforce Helix Core Server, a source code management platform widely used by the gaming, government, military, and technology sectors.
December 18, 2023 — Source

Microsoft's Windows AI Studio Dev Tool Requires Linux
Microsoft recommends developers use the Windows Subsystem for Linux that's built into Windows.
December 18, 2023 — Source

Thirty-two years of Linux and its community
Linus Torvalds: People are hard, code is easy, and Rust's role in Linux's future.
December 18, 2023 — Source

This new Canonical feature solves my biggest problem with online productivity apps
If you're a fan of either Google Workspace or Office 365 Online, Ubuntu desktop Linux will soon make it possible for them to feel like standard desktop apps.
December 18, 2023 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 15th, 2023

AMD ROCm 6.0 Now Available To Download With MI300 Support, PyTorch FP8 & More AI
Earlier this month at AMD's AI event in San Francisco they announced ROCm 6.0 while launching the MI300X and MI300A accelerators. While announced back on the 6th, today marks the actual availability of ROCm 6.0 with the source code and binaries now publicly available.
December 15, 2023 — Source

ASUSTOR Data Master: AiMaster -- NAS management app for mobile devices
The first two articles in this series walked you through getting started with the Linux-based ASUSTOR Data Master Operating System (ADM OS), and explored the operating system in detail. My review explored how you can control the NAS from the web interface.
December 15, 2023 — Source

Canonical Details Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop Plans + Ongoing X11 Sunsetting Discussions
Tim Holmes-Mitra with Canonical has shared some roadmap highlights for the Ubuntu desktop with the in-development Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
December 15, 2023 — Source

Fedora 40's Linker Will Now Error Out On Security Issues
In addition to Fedora 40 applying systemd hardening settings to bolster system security, another security enhancement now approved by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) is on having the linker error out on encountering possible security issues.
December 15, 2023 — Source

Framework 13 AMD Workaround Prepared For Linux To Deal With A Suspend Issue
A quirk has been discovered with the AMD-powered Framework 13 inch laptop where if a user closes the laptop's lid on an already-suspended system, the system will wake up. A set of Linux kernel patches are on the way to workaround this issue.
December 15, 2023 — Source

GNOME 44.7 released
Abderrahim Kitouni has announced the release of GNOME 44.7.
December 15, 2023 — Source

GNOME Gets A New Terminal Choice: Prompt
A few months back GNOME developer Christian Hergert noted that Linux terminal emulators could be much faster following his experiments but then concluded at the time he didn't want to develop a new terminal becase "creating your own terminal is like 20 lines of code these days." Well, he ended up shifting stance a bit and has now announced Prompt, a new container-focused terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop.
December 15, 2023 — Source

Intel 5th Gen Xeon Performance Benchmarks With DDR5-4800 versus DDR5-5600
With Intel's just-launched 5th Gen Xeon "Emerald Rapids" processors headlined by the 64-core Xeon Platinum 8592+, one of the key upgrades with these new server processors is now supporting DDR5-5600 memory compared to DDR5-4800 with Sapphire Rapids and also the memory frequency limit with AMD's EPYC Zen 4 processors. Here are some benchmarks of the flagship Xeon Platinum 8592+ when being tested with DDR5-4800 versus DDR5-5600 memory modules.
December 15, 2023 — Source

Intel VC-Intrinsics Updated With Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake & XeHPCVG Support
OpenSUSE is now providing builds of openSUSE Tumbleweed and microOS that are making use of systemd-boot as its bootloader rather than GRUB and also leveraging full disk encryption via systemd.
December 15, 2023 — Source

Linux Kernel, Curl, QEMU, and more updates for SUSE
The following security updates have been released for openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise:
December 15, 2023 — Source

Manjaro Linux 23.1.0 'Vulcan' now available to download -- choose from GNOME, Plasma, and XFCE editions
After months of diligent development, the Manjaro team has finally launched version 23.1.0. Code-named "Vulcan," this version of the Linux-based operating system is chock full of enhancements and security improvements. Most notably, this release addresses critical security vulnerabilities in the xorg-stack and refines the overall package offerings.
December 15, 2023 — Source

Mesa 23.3.1 Rolls Out Fixes From D3D12 To RADV
It's been two weeks since Mesa 23.3 was punctually released and this week has been succeeded by the Mesa 23.3.1 point release with the first batch of bug/regression fixes.
December 15, 2023 — Source

Open to attack: The risks of open-source software attacks
Open-source software (OSS) is now so widely used that it is incredibly difficult to find an organization that doesn't incorporate OSS in some form or another -- whether that be in a standalone open-source product, or more commonly, in the form of OSS packages. Though its usefulness cannot be doubted, the prevalence of this software is exactly what makes it a major target for cyber-attacks.
December 15, 2023 — Source

pgAdmin 4 8.1 released
The graphical PostgreSQL management tool pgAdmin 4 has been updated. The updated version includes 21 bug fixes and new features.
December 15, 2023 — Source

The Intel_Idle Linux Driver Prepares For Grand Ridge SoCs
While some at Intel were busy launching the 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids", other Linux engineers at the company were pushing ahead on their new hardware enablement quest for future platforms. Sent out on the same day as Emerald Rapids being announced were continued patches for enabling Grand Ridge.
December 15, 2023 — Source

Wine 9.0-rc2 Released With 33 More Fixes — Including Wine Wayland Fixes
Wine 9.0-rc2 is now available as the latest weekly release candidate on the road to the stable Wine 9.0 release in early 2024.
December 15, 2023 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 14th, 2023

4 Best Free and Open Source Linux CRM Software
For a profit-making business to be successful, the customer must rank as the most important part of the chain. After all, without customers the business would not even exist.
December 14, 2023 — Source

AMD Publishes FSR 3 Source Code
Back in September AMD released FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) and at the time they noted the open-source code would be made available "soon". As a nice Christmas present, the FSR3 source code is public as of today.
December 14, 2023 — Source

Arch Linux ALHP Adds x86-64-v4 Repository For Packages Built With AVX-512
The unofficial "ALHP" repositories for Arch Linux have begun offering an x86-64-v4 tuned repository for packages built against this current highest x86-64 micro-architecture feature level for the latest Intel and AMD processors with AVX-512 support.
December 14, 2023 — Source

Dbus-Broker 34 Released For High Performance D-Bus Message Broker
There's been nothing new on the BUS1 front this year for capability-based IPC within the Linux kernel... In fact, the BUS1 out-of-tree kernel module has gone untouched for years now. But out of the BUS1 project has been Dbus-Broker for a high performance D-Bus message broker in user-space that doesn't break existing D-Bus compatibility. Out today is the newest version of that project closely tied to systemd developers.
December 14, 2023 — Source

KDE neon 20231214 released
The KDE neon ISO image has been updated. With the most recent KDE Plasma desktop environment, KDE neon is an installable Linux distribution based on Ubuntu.
December 14, 2023 — Source

KDE Ships Frameworks 5.113.0
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.113.0.
December 14, 2023 — Source

KDE Plasma Mobile 6 Porting Underway
While there has been much talk this year about KDE Plasma 6.0 on the desktop as it gears up for release at the end of February, there's been less talk about the Plasma Mobile work for having the KDE stack on smartphones. But it turns out some progress is quietly being made on KDE Plasma Mobile for bringing it aligned with the "6" platform.
December 14, 2023 — Source

Intel Launches Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" Mobile Processors
At Intel's AI Everywhere event they officially launched their new Core Ultra branded Meteor Lake processors that will begin appearing in new laptops. Intel Core Ultra aims to deliver their most power efficient client processors, deliver around twice the GPU performance of existing integrated graphics, and via the NPU feature more robust AI capabilities.
December 14, 2023 — Source

Intel Announces Xeon E-2400 & Xeon D-1800/D-2800 CPUs
While Intel's AI Everywhere event today was primarily focused on Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" laptop processors and 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" processors, Intel also briefly announced their newest Xeon D and Xeon E series processors.
December 14, 2023 — Source

Intel Launches 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" Server Processors
In addition to announcing the Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors, Intel's AI Everywhere event in New York City also served as the launch point for 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" server processors. Emerald Rapids is an incremental improvement over Sapphire Rapids with emboldened AI capabilities, energy efficiency improvements, and now up to 64 cores per socket.
December 14, 2023 — Source

Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ "Emerald Rapids" Linux Benchmarks
Following the 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" overview, you are likely wondering about the performance claims made by Intel and how they shake up in independent testing as well as how Emerald Rapids competes against AMD EPYC Genoa(X) and Bergamo. If so this article is for you with the Phoronix benchmarks of the new flagship Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ 64-core processors being tested in both single and dual socket modes.
December 14, 2023 — Source

Linux Kernel of the Beast 6.6.6 exorcised by angelic 6.6.7 update
The rapture of the black T-shirt brigade was very short indeed
December 14, 2023 — Source

Wine-GE-Proton8-26-LoL released
GloriousEggroll has released a hot fix for the Wine-GE Proton build for League of Legends.
December 14, 2023 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 12th, 2023

Cling 1.0 Released For Interactive C++ Interpreter
Cling 1.0 was released this week for this open-source interactive C++ interpreter that builds atop LLVM/Clang. Cling is implemented as an extension to LLVM/Clang to serve as an interpeter leveraging the read-eval-print loop (REPL) concept and relies on just-in-time (JIT) compilation.
December 12, 2023 — Source

FFmpeg Lands CLI Multi-Threading As Its "Most Complex Refactoring" In Decades
The long-in-development work for a fully-functional multi-threaded FFmpeg command line has been merged! The FFmpeg CLI with multi-threaded transcoding pipelines is now merged to FFmpeg Git ahead of FFmpeg 7.0 releasing early next year. FFmpeg is widely-used throughout many industries for video transcoding and in today's many-core world this is a terrific improvement for this key open-source project.
December 12, 2023 — Source

Maintenance release: Godot 4.2.1
We released Godot 4.2 two weeks ago, with major improvements and bug fixes all around the engine. Like any big feature release, it had a few rough edges which we've been focusing on addressing in the past couple of weeks. This allows us to already publish this first maintenance release, Godot 4.2.1, which irons out some of those issues while fully preserving compatibility.
December 12, 2023 — Source

HP Z6 G5 A Makes For An Incredibly Powerful AMD Workstation For Creators & Developers
Since the release of the Threadripper 7000 series on 20 November I've carried out and published many benchmarks of these new HEDT/PRO CPUs including the flagship AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX featuring 96-cores / 192-threads.
December 12, 2023 — Source

Intel Visual Sensing Controller Enablement Work Continues For Linux 6.8
Linux 6.6 brought an initial Intel Visual Sensing Controller "IVSC" driver. The Intel IVSC drivers have long been out-of-tree for use with Alder Lake laptops and newer. Linux 6.7 brought the La Jolla Cove Adadpter driver code as part of the IVSC controller. With Linux 6.8 there's yet more work landing on the IVSC front.
December 12, 2023 — Source

Libxml2 2.12.3 released
Nick Wellnhofer has announced the release of Libxml2 2.12.3.
December 12, 2023 — Source

Linux 6.8 Will Make It More Clear When x86 32-bit Support Is Disabled
With Linux 6.7 there's now support for enabling/disabling 32-bit program support at boot-time. The "ia32_emulation=" argument can be used for enabling/disabling 32-bit user-space program support and the ability to support 32-bit system calls. Right now when forcing off the x86 32-bit support it can be confusing if the user is unaware as no warning is currently provided, but that is about to change.
December 12, 2023 — Source

LXD 5.20 Released With Canonical Changing It To AGPLv3 Licensing
Following Canonical pulling on control of LXD and maintainership being limited to Canonical employees, LXD 5.20 was released today where they have also decided to change its license moving forward to AGPLv3 by default.
December 12, 2023 — Source

Mesa Enables S3TC Support For 3D Textures
The feature work continues pouring in for Mesa 24.0 with new OpenGL and Vulkan driver features continuing to be enabled.
December 12, 2023 — Source

ONNX Releases TurnkeyML In Collaboration With AMD For An "AI Insights Toolchain"
ONNX in collaboration with AMD have announced TurnkeyML as a new open-source machine learning toolchain focused on agile model development and deployment.
December 12, 2023 — Source

Red Hat Looks For Feedback On Its New Initoverlayfs File-System Proposal
Red Hat engineers have been developing Initoverlayfs as a scalable initial file-system. The code is currently in early form and the developers are still looking for feedback from the community as well as figuring out whether it properly belongs in kernel or user-space.
December 12, 2023 — Source

Pgpool-II 4.5.0 released
Pgpool-II 4.5.0 is now available for download. Pgpool-II is a middleware that works between PostgreSQL servers and a PostgreSQL database client to support connection pooling, replication, load balancing, and other features.
December 12, 2023 — Source

Simplifying Data Management With Kubernetes: A Guide To Persistent Volume Resizing
Learn to dynamically resize Kubernetes persistent volumes with AWS, including practical steps and automation strategies for efficient data management.
December 12, 2023 — Source

Ubuntu Linux Evaluating x86-64-v3 Based Build — AVX & Newer Intel/AMD CPUs
Canonical is experimenting with x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels! They have produced an experimental build of Ubuntu Server using x86_64_v3 for requiring basically Intel and AMD CPUs with AVX capabilities. But they aren't yet committing to it as a default or when such a change may materialize.
December 12, 2023 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 11th, 2023

AMD WBRF Ready For Linux 6.8 To Mitigate WiFi Radio Interference
Since earlier this year AMD has been working on Linux support for WBRF for mitigating WiFi radio frequency interference (RFI) with their latest Ryzen 7000 and forthcoming Ryzen 8000 series mobile processors. That work looks like it will be ready to land in Linux 6.8.
December 11, 2023 — Source

Ampere Altra Max Continues To Deliver Competitive Power Efficiency To AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon
While it's been three years now since Ampere Altra Q80 was first introduced and two years since first testing the 128-core Ampere Altra Max, this ARM server platform has aged rather well with more robust hardware platforms coming to market with better firmware, the AArch64 Linux/open-source software ecosystem as a whole improving a lot during this time and more open-source projects receiving ARM optimizations, and other improvements made.
December 11, 2023 — Source

Debian 12.4 Live Images released
Installable Debian 12.4 live ISO images are now available in GNOME, KDE, Xfce, Cinnamon, MATE, LXDE, and LXQt flavors. The 12.3 release has been skipped due to an issue with the included kernel.
December 11, 2023 — Source

Debian 12.4 Released With Dozens Of Fixes
Following Debian 12.3 being delayed due to an EXT4 data corruption bug briefly appearing in released Linux 6.1 LTS releases, Debian 12.3 has been replaced by Debian 12.4 and comes with dozens of bug fixes.
December 11, 2023 — Source

Debian GNU/Linux 12.4 released
After the third update was skipped due to a corruption issue with the included Linux kernel, the Debian project has released the fourth update for Debian GNU/Linux 12 Bookworm
December 11, 2023 — Source

How to change DNS servers on a GNOME-based Linux distribution (and why you should)
If your ISP's DNS servers are either too slow or insecure, it's easy enough to change them. If your desktop is GNOME, here's how to do it.
December 11, 2023 — Source

Linux 6.6.6 Released Due To WiFi Regression
Following a bumpy weekend due to the EXT4 data corruption bug, Linux 6.6.6 is out with just a sole change for dealing with another headache: WiFi regressions.
December 11, 2023 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.67 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.67 is now available:
December 11, 2023 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.6 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.6 is now available:
December 11, 2023 — Source

Linux Mint 21.3 Beta Available with Latest Version of Cinnamon
If you're a fan of Linux Mint, you'll be thrilled to find out that the beta version of 21.3 ships with Cinnamon 6 which includes some exciting changes.
December 11, 2023 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.6-7 released
Steven Barrett has released a new Liquorix Linux kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.6.6 for Debian and Ubuntu.
December 11, 2023 — Source

Kioxia Donates SDK To Linux Foundation For Software-Enabled Flash SDK
Storage company Kioxia that was spun off from Toshiba several years ago has donated a software development kit (SDK) to the Linux Foundation for establishing the Software-Enabled Flash SDK. This is for opening new doors and innovative uses around flash memory.
December 11, 2023 — Source

One Line Patch Doubles Mesa NVK Performance For Talos Principle... To 18 FPS
A patch merged this weekend for Mesa 24.0-devel is helping the performance of the open-source NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs but the performance remains well short still of the proprietary NVIDIA Linux graphics driver stack.
December 11, 2023 — Source

This could be the best Linux distro of the year (and it's not even close)
Zorin OS inches closer to taking me away from my go-to distribution Ubuntu Budgie and the first beta release of version 17 only solidifies that.
December 11, 2023 — Source

WayVNC 0.8 Preparing Transient Seats, Automatic Server-Side Resizing & Detached Mode
WayVNC v0.8 is working its way toward release as a VNC server for wlroots-based Wayland compositors like Sway. WayVNC continues to make it quite easy to have VNC support for Wayland desktops employing wlroots and this next release brings even more features.
December 11, 2023 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 8th, 2023

2024 Open Source Professionals Job Survey Now Open
Open Source JobHub and Linux Professional Institute (LPI) have launched the 2024 Open Source Professionals Job Survey.
December 08, 2023 — Source

Canonical Releases Multipass 1.13 RC With Snapshots Support, Migrated To Qt6
Canonical's Multipass software that is advertised as "cloud-style VMs at your fingertips" and making it easy to spin-up "Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workstation", is out with a new test release adding snapshots support and other new features.
December 08, 2023 — Source

Godot 4.2.1 RC 1 released
The first release candidate for Godot 4.2.1 has been made available for testing.
December 08, 2023 — Source

GNOME's Dynamic Triple Buffering "Ready To Merge"
It looks like GNOME 46 might finally see the dynamic triple buffering support merged for Mutter to enhance the performance particularly for systems with integrated graphics.
December 08, 2023 — Source

Intel Striving To Overhaul Their Multiple Ethernet Linux Drivers: "The Great Code Dedup"
Intel engineers maintain multiple Ethernet drivers in the Linux kernel for their wide-range of networking hardware from consumer to high-end data center wares. There's been an ongoing effort to overhaul their Ethernet driver management to reduce code duplication between the different drivers for better code sharing and with an end goal of more unification.
December 08, 2023 — Source

Legendary 0.20.34 released
Legendary, the open-source game launcher, has been updated. Legendary allows users to download and install games from the Epic Games library on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
December 08, 2023 — Source

Linux Dealing With x86 32-bit Software Security Issue For Intel TDX & AMD SEV
AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) and Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) are intended to help provide better security for virtual machines and are key elements to both companies investments around confidential computing. It turns out they have a common enemy in their VM security goals: x86 32-bit software.
December 08, 2023 — Source

Linux kernel 4.14.332 released
Linux kernel version 4.14.332 is now available:
December 08, 2023 — Source

Linux kernel 4.19.301 released
Linux kernel version 4.19.301 is now available:
December 08, 2023 — Source

Linux kernel 5.10.203 released
Linux kernel version 5.10.203 is now available:
December 08, 2023 — Source

Linux kernel 5.15.142 released
Linux kernel version 5.15.142 is now available:
December 08, 2023 — Source

Linux kernel 5.4.263 released
Linux kernel version 5.4.263 is now available:
December 08, 2023 — Source

Linux kernel 6.1.66 released
Linux kernel version 6.1.66 is now available:
December 08, 2023 — Source

Linux kernel 6.6.5 released
Linux kernel version 6.6.5 is now available:
December 08, 2023 — Source

Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver 535.146.02 released
NVIDIA has released a new Linux display driver that fixes a number of issues.
December 08, 2023 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 6.6-6 released
Steven Barrett has released a new Liquorix Linux kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.6.5 for Debian and Ubuntu.
December 08, 2023 — Source

Meta releases open-source tools for AI safety
The Purple Llama project aims to help developers build generative AI models responsibly.
December 08, 2023 — Source

Now Linux Users Can Experience BSODs Just Like Windows, Why That's A Good Thing
Everyone hates the infamous Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD), but these diagnostic displays are a necessary evil to inform users what went wrong when their computer crashes. Windows has had this feature for decades, but recently it was revealed that Linux is finally getting its own Blue Screen of Death feature, and it's way better than the new Windows version with the sad face emoji.
December 08, 2023 — Source

Open source forkers stick an OpenBao in the oven
HashiCorp software faces challenge after licensing change
December 08, 2023 — Source

PoCL 5.0-RC1 Released With Experimental OpenCL For Networked Systems
PoCL 5.0-RC1 is out today as the newest feature release being brewed for this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that allows for OpenCL code to run on CPUs as well as running OpenCL code on other back-ends such as atop NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm and other LLVM back-ends.
December 08, 2023 — Source

Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years
Krasue infects telecom firms in Thailand using techniques for staying under the radar.
December 08, 2023 — Source

Vulkan 1.3.273 Released With KHR Calibrated Timestamps Extension
Vulkan 1.3.273 was released today as the latest weekly update to this high performance graphics and compute API.
December 08, 2023 — Source

Wine 9.0-rc1 released
Alexandre Julliard has announced the availability of the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 9.0 release, which includes bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.10, support for DH encryption keys with a recent GnuTLS, keyb
December 08, 2023 — Source

Wine 9.0-rc1 Released With Upgraded VKD3D, Wine Wayland Improvements
The release process has begun for releasing Wine 9.0 as stable early next year.
December 08, 2023 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.1.66 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.1.66 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
December 08, 2023 — Source

XanMod Linux Kernel 6.6.5 released
A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.6.5 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
December 08, 2023 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 6th, 2023

Advance notice of discontinuation of openSUSE Leap 15.4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 leaves its regular maintenance and support phase on December 31st 2023.
December 06, 2023 — Source

AlmaLinux's ELevate Begins Handling EPEL Repositories
AlmaLinux's ELevate software is a wonderful utility to help ease migration between existing major versions of RHEL derivatives. In particular, it's been very useful for moving past CentOS 7 and/or upgrading from AlmaLinux 8 to 9, along with the ability to even move to other RHEL derivatives.
December 06, 2023 — Source

AMD Announces The Ryzen 8040 Series Mobile Processors With Better Ryzen AI
In addition to AMD using its AI event today for launching the Instinct MI300A and MI300X along with ROCm 6.0, AMD also announced the Ryzen 8040 series mobile processors. A big emphasis with these forthcoming laptop processors is on the AI capabilities between the dedicated NPU with AMD XDNA, Zen 4 CPU cores with AVX-512 VNNI support, and AMD RDNA3 graphics capable of accelerating AI.
December 06, 2023 — Source

AMD Details The MI300X & MI300A, Announces ROCm 6.0 Software
At AMD's AI event today the company provided more details on their Instinct MI300 series for their very exciting data center APU and CDNA3 discrete GPU accelerator. ROCm 6.0 was also announced for advancing AMD's AI software capabilities.
December 06, 2023 — Source

Apple and some Linux distros are open to Bluetooth attack
Issue has been around since at least 2012
December 06, 2023 — Source

Arch Linux 2023.12.01 Released with a Much-Improved Installer
If you've ever wanted to install Arch Linux, now is your time. With the latest release, the archinstall script vastly simplifies the process.
December 06, 2023 — Source

Austrian Game Studio Now Sponsoring Krita Development
While Blender is at the forefront of receiving corporate sponsorships and funding for advancing that open-source 3D modeling software, other free software graphics programs haven't all received the same level of support. As good news for further raising the open-source creative/graphics ecosystem, an Austrian video game studio has become one of the new Krita sponsors.
December 06, 2023 — Source

Cloudflare Talks Up Its Success In Using OpenBMC
Cloudflare has talked up their success in using the open-source Linux-based OpenBMC software for baseboard management controllers (BMCs) as a replacement to proprietary BMC software stacks.
December 06, 2023 — Source

Fedora 40 Eyes The Ability To Boot Unified Kernel Images Directly
Fedora 40 is eyeing the next phase of its unified kernel (UKI) support within the distribution that will include the ability to support booting to unified kernel image files directly without having to go through a traditional bootloader like GRUB or SD-Boot.
December 06, 2023 — Source

Feral's GameMode 1.8 Adds CPU Core Pinning & Parking
While there hasn't been much in the way of new Linux game ports from Feral Interactive since Steam Play (Valve's Proton + VKD3D-Proton) took over the scene, they do continue maintaining their GameMode open-source service and today released GameMode 1.8 with work by them and the open-source community.
December 06, 2023 — Source

How to Leverage Kubernetes' New CronJob API for Efficient Task Scheduling
Utilize Kubernetes' new CronJob API for automated tasks such as database backups, demonstrated through a detailed db-backup CronJob YAML configuration.
December 06, 2023 — Source

KDE neon 20231206 released
The KDE neon ISO image has been updated. With the most recent KDE Plasma desktop environment, KDE neon is an installable Linux distribution based on Ubuntu.
December 06, 2023 — Source

Linux Kernel, Open VM Tools, Curl Updates for Ubuntu
The following security updates has been released for Ubuntu Linux:
December 06, 2023 — Source

More AMD GFX12 Additions Land In LLVM Git For RDNA4 GPUs
As noted in late November, AMD has begun enabling new "GFX12" hardware in LLVM for their AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end. GFX12 is the target for next-generation RDNA4 graphics processors and that upstreaming effort has continued with more patches being upstreamed.
December 06, 2023 — Source

One Week Left To Vote On openSUSE's New Logo
The openSUSE project has been working on a rebranding to better differentiate between this community open-source project and SUSE itself. There's been work on a logo design contest with just under one week left to vote in this survey.
December 06, 2023 — Source

OpenShift, Migration Toolkit, Squid, PostgreSQL, Linux Firmware Updates for RHEL
The following updates has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linu
December 06, 2023 — Source

PHP 8.3.1 RC1 updated
The PHP 8.3.1 release candidate has been updated to reverse the Zend Module API_NO change.
December 06, 2023 — Source

SQLite Lands JSONB For Much Faster JSON Functions
SQLite as the leading open-source embedded database solution has landed JSONB, a rewrite of the SQLite JSON functions that can be up to "several times faster" than the existing JSON functions.
December 06, 2023 — Source

Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack
UEFIs booting Windows and Linux devices can be hacked by malicious logo images.
December 06, 2023 — Source

Software — Open Source — December 5th, 2023

Chromium and Poppler Updates for Fedora 37
To address security issues, updated Chromium and Poppler packages are now available for Fedora Linux 37:
December 5, 2023 — Source

Fedora Linux 37 is EOL
Tomas Hrcka has announced that Fedora Linux 37 is no longer receiving updates or support.
December 5, 2023 — Source

Fedora Workstation 39 Delivers Some Nice Gains For AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Graphics
Here are some benchmarks looking at the performance uplift in migrating from Fedora Workstation 38 to Fedora Workstation 39 on an AMD Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" series laptop.
December 5, 2023 — Source

Firefox Update for Fedora 37
The Firefox package for Fedora Linux 37 has received a security update.
December 5, 2023 — Source

GNOME Shell Lands Improved Icon & Text Scaling
GNOME Shell has merged a set of 35 patches to fix/improve icon and text scaling support, especially when using the Large Text mode for accessibility.
December 5, 2023 — Source

GNOME 45.2 released
Jordan Petridis has announced the second bugfix release for GNOME 45.
December 5, 2023 — Source

HAProxy and Redis Updates for Ubuntu
To address security issues, new HAProxy and Redis packages for Ubuntu Linux have been released:
December 5, 2023 — Source

Intel, AMD, Red Hat / IBM, Meta & Others Launch The AI Alliance
The AI Alliance has launched as a consortium focused on advancing open, safe, and responsible AI.
December 5, 2023 — Source

IPFire 2.27 — Core Update 182 is available for testing
Michael Tremer has announced the availability of IPFire 2.27 — Core Update 182 for testing. IPFire is an open source firewall solution that is both powerful and professional.
December 5, 2023 — Source

Kali Linux 2023.4
Kali Linux is an advanced Linux distribution used for penetration testing, ethical hacking and network security assessment. Official images hosted by TechSpot for faster downloads.
December 5, 2023 — Source

Kali Linux 2023.4 released with GNOME 45 and 15 new tools
Kali Linux 2023.4, the fourth and final version of 2023, is now available for download, with fifteen new tools and the GNOME 45 desktop environment.
December 5, 2023 — Source

Linus Torvalds on the state of Linux today and how AI figures in its future
At Open Source Summit Japan, Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds talked about Rust in Linux, Linux maintainer fatigue, and AI's future role in Linux and open-source development.
December 5, 2023 — Source

Linux 6.8 To Drop The SLAB Allocator, SLUB Optimizations Coming Too
Following the SLOB allocator removal earlier this year, the Linux 6.8 kernel in the new year is now positioned to remove the SLAB allocator. Additionally, the lone good-for-everything SLUB allocator is set to receive further optimizations.
December 5, 2023 — Source

OpenCopilot free and open-source AI Copilot for SaaS products
If you would like a little help adding extra functionality to your SaaS product with the assistance of an artificial intelligent. OpenCopilot is an AI copilot and assistant that features a, cloud-based dashboard that you can access from anywhere, at any time. Enabling your SaaS product to harness the power of AI.
December 5, 2023 — Source

PHP 8.1.27 RC1 released
Patrick Allaert has announced the release candidate for PHP 8.1.27.
December 5, 2023 — Source

PHP 8.2.14 RC1 released
Pierrick Charron has announced the release candidate for PHP 8.2.14.
December 5, 2023 — Source

PHP 8.3.1 RC1 released
Eric Mann has announced the availability of the release candidate for PHP 8.3.1.
December 5, 2023 — Source

Software — Open Source -— December 4th, 2023

.NET 7.0, PostgreSQL 13, Kernel, Leapp repository, ocfs2 Updates for Oracle Linux
The following new .NET 7.0, PostgreSQL, Kernel, Leapp repository, and ocfs2 tools updates are available for Oracle Linux:
December 4, 2023 — Source

Amanda, ncurses, OpenDKIM Security Updates for Debian 10 LTS
For Debian GNU/Linux 10 LTS, three new security updates are available that fix issues with Amanda, ncurses, and OpenDKIM:
December 4, 2023 — Source

AMD Threadripper 7980X Kernel Benchmarks On Linux 6.5 / 6.6 / 6.7
A number of Phoronix readers have been inquiring whether using the newer Linux 6.6 stable kernel or Linux 6.7 development kernel deliver any additional gains when running on the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series hardware. Here are some benchmarks looking at that while using a Threadripper 7980X workstation.
December 4, 2023 — Source

AMD Posts Linux Patches For QoS RMID Pinning / ABMC
One of the latest Linux kernel patch series posted by AMD Linux engineers is for enabling an AMD QoS RMID pinning feature found within their latest generation processors.
December 4, 2023 — Source

AWS Nitro Secure Module Driver Going Upstream For Linux 6.8
As part of AWS Nitro Enclaves, coming for the Linux 6.8 kernel in the new year is a Nitro Secure Module driver.
December 4, 2023 — Source

FEX 2312 Brings More Optimizations For Running x86_64 Games/Apps On AArch64
The newest monthly release of FEX is now available for this open-source project that allows running x86_64 games and applications on 64-bit ARM (AArch64) Linux environments.
December 4, 2023 — Source

FEX 2312 released
The FEX-EMU, which enables the execution of x86 and x86-64 binaries on an AArch64 host, has been updated.
December 4, 2023 — Source

Flowblade 2.12 Video Editor Brings Faster Proxy Rendering, Continued GTK4 Porting
Flowblade 2.12 is now available as this multi-track, non-linear video editor for Linux systems. Shotcut as another open-source video editor also recently put out a new version too.
December 4, 2023 — Source

Firefox, Thunderbird, Samba, and more updates for AlmaLinux 8
The following updates are available for AlmaLinux 8:
December 4, 2023 — Source

Open Source Software — Resources

Swift is now open source!
Swift is a general-purpose programming language that's approachable for newcomers and powerful for experts.
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