Open-source News

Libvirt 12.0 released today as this open-source virtualization API for management across different virtualization technologies/hypervisors. With libvirt 12.0, improving Bhyve as the FreeBSD hypervisor was a big focus...

DeviceTree patches worked on recently allow for the mainline Linux kernel to run on the ASUS "Kommando" IPMI Expansion Card. This is interesting for opening up new possibilities for this external IPMI/BMC expansion card but too bad that less than three years after launching it's difficult to find...

Linux Patches Bring Mainline Kernel Support For The ASUS IPMI Expansion Card  Phoronix

The oVirt 4.5.7 open-source virtualization management platform released this week after not seeing any new releases in two years. While Red Hat had started the oVirt open-source project for which their Red Hat Virtualization platform is based, since they shifted that to maintenance mode to focus on the Red Hat OpenShift platform and stopped contributing to oVirt, it's been up to the open-source community to keep it going...

This ideal distro for Linux newbies includes a bonus for Windows users  ZDNET

You Can Now Use ONLYOFFICE on Raspberry Pi Like ARM Devices  It's FOSS

In late 2024 the folks at Raspberry Pi announced the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ as an AI accelerator capable of 26 TOPS and costing $110 for pairing with Raspberry Pi single board computers. Today they announced the much more capable Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 that can begin to take on some generative AI "GenAI" models...

VoidLink Linux Malware Framework Targets Cloud Environments  SecurityWeek

Now independent, GOG is thinking about publishing games and embracing Linux  TechSpot

A popular browser is getting an official Linux version, and people aren't happy  XDA

VoidLink Malware threatens Linux based Cloud Infrastructure  Cybersecurity Insiders

Researchers unsure of purpose of new VoidLink Linux malware  iTnews

Orion Browser Releases Its First Linux Alpha  OMG! Ubuntu

Separate from the Mesa merge request talked about earlier today for new RADV code that can deliver 10x faster ray-tracing pipeline compilation for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver, another merge request landed today in Mesa 26.0 that was also carried out by Valve contractor Natalie Vock. That second merge request now in Mesa 26.0 delivers some additional gains for at least some ray-tracing games on RDNA3 and RDNA4 GPUs...

Sophisticated VoidLink malware framework targets Linux cloud servers  csoonline.com

GRUB 2.14 Released with EROFS, Argon2 KDF, and Shim Loader Protocol Support  9to5Linux

More than two years after the release of GRUB 2.12, GRUB 2.14 shipped today as the newest feature release of this widely-used bootloader on Linux systems and elsewhere...

New Linux malware targets the cloud, steals creds, and then vanishes  theregister.com

Why Linus Torvald's using AI code for fun does not mean Linux is changing  TechRadar

There still are several months to go until the official Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release -- including one month until the feature freeze and the future Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel is expected to land too before the latter kernel freeze in early April. But for those curious how Ubuntu 26.04 is looking so far for servers, here are some very early benchmarks of it on AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" in its present development state. The main motivation here for this early look was stemming from the recent rolling-release CachyOS benchmarks on AMD EPYC and wanting to see how it goes up against the current development state of Ubuntu Linux.