Open-source News

Arch Linux Pulls the Plug on New AUR Registrations After Malware Flood  It's FOSS

Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero on their graphics processors has been bringing up Nova Lake support since January. With today's release of the Intel Compute Runtime 26.22.38646.4, the Nova Lake Xe3P support has matured to the state of it being advertised now as under an "early support" status...

We tested Linux on the new Lenovo ThinkPad T16 Gen 5 AMD  Notebookcheck

VirtualBox 7.2.10 Adds Initial Linux Kernel 7.1 Support  Linuxiac

A patch series merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel addresses a race condition that can occur when a container is exiting yielding "VFS: Busy inodes after unmount" messages and a possible user-after-free condition. But the patch series also goes further and delivers a very nice optimization to lower the container unmounting latency for environments with heavy I/O load...

Linux 7.1 is here to end the Intel 486 CPU era - and do some serious legacy clean up  ZDNET

Commodore releases $500 Linux-based phone that doesn't support Slack or Instagram  Cybernews

Linux kernel 7.1 sends Intel 486 support to silicon heaven  The Register

A Brief History Of Unix Commands On Windows: CoreUtils (Again)  Hackaday

Linux 7.2 Adds Ability To Limit Programs To Only Open Regular Files, Avoid Being Tricked Or Doing Silly Things  Phoronix

Merged as part of the many VFS changes for Linux 7.2 is the new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag for the openat2 system call. This can be used to limit programs to only open regular file-systems and avoid accidentally or intentionally opening up device files or other non-conventional data files on the file-system...

Commodore Callback 8020 Is a Linux Phone Built to Block the Web  Linuxiac

Following last week's Wine 11.11 release that brought alpha modifier support for opacity handling with the Wine Wayland driver, merged this week to Wine is support for fractional scaling with the Wine Wayland driver...

KDE Plasma 6.7 out with per-screen virtual desktops, Wayland upgrades, better support for background apps  GamingOnLinux

The x86/cpu changes have been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel with an interesting span of changes covering 36 years from the Intel 486 days up to adding the new "rugged" Panther Lake variant...

Linux 7.2 Continues Removing Old i486 Code Remnants, Adds Rugged Panther Lake  Phoronix

Epic Games is looking for someone to "Champion" a Linux-friendly anti-cheat in new job listing  PC Guide

Commodore announces Linux-based flip phone with ‘no social media, no browser’ — the Callback 8020 will be available in five retro colorways starting at $499, runs 99% of Android apps  Tom's Hardware

Giada 1.5 Hardcore Loop Machine Adds New Tick-Based Audio Rendering Engine  9to5Linux

The XFS file-system updates for the Linux 7.2 kernel aren't too notable with the exception of its zone allocator being promoted from behind its previously-experimental flag...