Open-source News

How Sandboxes Can Help You Investigate Linux Malware  Cyber Security News

Linux for desktop market share surpasses 4% for the first time, says Statcounter  Neowin

KDE Neon shows that the Plasma 6 Linux distro is something truly special  ZDNet

KDE Neon shows that the Plasma 6 Linux distro is something truly special  ZDNet

KDE Neon shows that Plasma 6 is something truly special  ZDNet

OpenSSF and Linux Foundation Training & Certification Announce Scholarships to Support Women in Jordan Entering ...  PR Newswire

The power of a strategically good relationship  The Register

The transformative power of a strategically good relationship  The Register

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...

Sunshine game streaming v0.22.0 adds HDR on Linux, Wayland + NVIDIA improvements  GamingOnLinux

HDMI Forum Kills AMD's Open Source Linux Driver  ExtremeTech

Hardware hacker runs GTA: Vice City on a router with a little help from an eGPU and Debian Linux  Tom's Hardware

Linux Foundation Tackles Financial Fraud With Open Source Platform  SecurityWeek

Bazzite Linux Expands Gaming Horizons with Lenovo Legion Go Support  BNN Breaking

ShellBot Malware Targets Linux SSH Servers via Hexadecimal IP Addresses, Bypassing Detection  BNN Breaking

Linux on the desktop breaks 4% for the first time on Statcounter  GamingOnLinux

AMD wanted to incorporate parts of the HDMI 2.1 spec into its open-source Linux drivers, but the HDMI Forum's legal ...  PC Gamer

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...

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...

Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Descriptor Buffer Support To Reduce Linux Gaming CPU Overhead  Phoronix