Open-source News

Stepping back into the refreshingly free world of Linux  The Irish Times

Critical Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Discovered: Patches Released  BNN Breaking

Asahi Linux conformant to OpenGL 4.6 & OpenGL ES 3.2 on Apple Silicon Macs  AppleInsider

In recent weeks there have been a lot of open-source AMD Radeon graphics driver patches flying around for the GFX12 graphics engine, Video Core Next 5, and other new graphics intellectual property (IP) blocks that appear to be for next-generation "RDNA4" Radeon graphics. This week yet more patches have been posted publicly...

Damn Small Linux 2024 returns to breathe new life into old computers -- a feat Microsoft's bloated Windows 11 can't ...  BetaNews

5 Microsoft Edge features that might make it my new favorite Linux browser  ZDNet

Asahi Linux project's OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple's  Ars Technica

The Unseen Warriors: Linux Kernel Patches and Their Role in Cybersecurity  BNN Breaking

The Linux Process Journey — kmod (Linux Kernel Module Handling)  Medium

The Linux Process Journey — kmod (Linux Kernel Module Handling)  Medium

A tiny live-boot Linux installation is back from the dead — sleeping giant awakens for a new lease of life  TechRadar

Maxim Dounin as one of the longtime core developers of the Nginx web server announced the creation today of a new fork of the project called Freenginx...

Linux Foundation Launches Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance  IoT World Today

In a Valentine's Day blog post, System76 has outlined how they are nearing the release of their alpha build of the COSMIC desktop environment that they have been developing as part of their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...

The Asahi Linux project working on the AGX Gallium3D driver for Mesa has now managed to achieve OpenGL 4.6 conformance as well as OpenGL ES 3.2. This is a big upgrade for the Linux OpenGL support on the Apple M1 as previously only OpenGL 4.1 was exposed...

OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 Achieved On Apple M1 With Linux Driver  Phoronix

CIQ Offers Long-Term Support for Rocky Linux 8.6, 8.8 and 9.2 Images Through AWS Marketplace  PR Web

NES modder somehow gets 30-year-old console running Linux  Dexerto

Ubuntu 'command-not-found' tool can be abused to spread malware  BleepingComputer

Earlier this month at FOSDEM in Brussels was a presentation by developers Brendan Abolivier, Ikey Doherty, and Sean Burke on the Thunderbird mail client beginning to make use of the Rust programming language within its codebase...