Open-source News

I refuse to upgrade to Windows 11, here's what I'm doing instead  XDA

Linux Foundation launches 'Acrithes' for coordinated open-source vulnerability patching  디지털투데이

Linux Kernel 7.0 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 7.1  9to5Linux

Microsoft made a Linux distro, and it's not what you'd expect  How-To Geek

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was a new patch series working on scalability enhancements to the MD RAID5 software RAID code. Up to a 10~17% improvement was observed in some configurations with these RAID5 scalability patches...

Linux MD RAID5 Seeing Scalability Improvements Up To 17%  Phoronix

In development over the past three years has been Newelle as a GNOME-aligned AI virtual assistant. Out this week is Newelle 1.4.5 and it now adds AI image generation support and a redesigned chat interface...

While Plasma 6.7.1 was just released this week following the recent stable debut of Plasma 6.7, there are already a number of fixes piling up for Plasma 6.7.2 due out in July. Plus more feature work and fixes for Plasma 6.8 as the next desktop version going Wayland-only...

Reviving old PCs with Linux now that new ones cost an arm and a leg  Boing Boing

DirtyClone: A Linux Privilege Escalation That Leaves No Trace on Disk  Security Affairs

Not only is GNOME 51 working to replace GNOME System Monitor with its new replacement, but over in System76's COSMIC space they have been baking their own new system monitor too...

I made Linux look like Windows 11 for free - with a few simple tweaks to Zorin OS  ZDNET

Linux Mint vs RefreshOS: I found the best distro for new users  ZDNET

Shotcut 26.6 Video Editor Released with HDR Export and Linux Vulkan Display Option  Linuxiac

New Pedit COW Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root Access  cyberpress.org

DirtyClone Linux Kernel LPE Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root Access  cyberpress.org

Shotcut 26.6 is out today as the newest major feature release for this popular cross-platform, open-source video editing solution...

Shotcut 26.6 Released With HDR Improvements, Vulkan Display On Linux  Phoronix

2 Linux kernel flaw PoCs published, enabling local privilege escalation | news | SC Media  SC Media

Shotcut 26.6 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Vulkan on Linux Support  9to5Linux