Open-source News

This Linux distro treats your PC like source code—and it almost works  How-To Geek

High-severity guest VM escape is 1 of 2 Linux vulnerabilities to surface this week  Ars Technica

The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS platform had a very eventful June with many new features implemented and more software ported over to run on this from-scratch operating system...

Public Exploit Turns 15-Year Linux Kernel Flaw Into 5-Second Root Attack  Tech Times

The Document Foundation today announced the first beta release of the LibreOffice 26.8 open-source office suite set for its stable debut in August...

Linux Mint’s Wayland support is ‘no longer experimental’  OMG! Ubuntu

The OpenMandriva project put out a statement today concerning an attempted distribution sabotage effort. Part of the OpenMandriva GitHub repository was deleted and there was an empty package push made to OpenMandriva's Cooker repository in trying to obsolete all GNOME and COSMIC packages...

OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt  Phoronix

Miggo Security Adds Abiliy to Detect Linux Privilege Escalation Vulnerability  Security Boulevard

Valve's magical play-Windows-games-on-Linux tech is rebased, updated, and ready to play Resident Evil  PC Gamer

Given today's pricing environment around system memory, a Phoronix Premium supporter recently requested some benchmarks to quantify the performance difference from single to dual channel memory. In considering a new computer build, he is contemplating whether to go for a single stick of DDR5 memory until memory prices hopefully subside in the future. For those in a similar boat, here are some benchmarks of single versus dual channel memory on an Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus "Arrow Lake" desktop.

Single vs. Dual Channel Memory Performance With The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus  Phoronix

Single vs. Dual Channel Memory Performance With The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus  Phoronix

ORICO 88 Series 4-Bay USB4 NVMe SSD Enclosure Review: Fast Storage That Works Natively on Linux  It's FOSS

Linux Fu: The Local Phonebook  Hackaday

Bad Epoll Zero-Day Vulnerability Enables Local Privilege Escalation on Linux Systems  Security Boulevard

Linux Now Runs on the Atari Jaguar, a 1993 Console With Just 2 MB of RAM  Linuxiac

Intel has formally archived some more of their now-unmaintained open-source projects this week...

Intel Sunsets Quantum Intrinsics & Other Open-Source Projects This Week  Phoronix

AMD ZenDNN 6.0 released today as a significant update to this open-source deep neural network library for helping to accelerate inferencing on AMD Zen processors from Ryzen to EPYC...