Open-source News

Qualys Warns of a GNU C Library Flaw Leading to a Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Linux  Hackster.io

Containers inherit breakout bugs in Linux tools  iTnews

Vanilla OS 2 'Orchid' Beta: A New Chapter in Linux Evolution  BNN Breaking

You may recall from a few months back that the "open-source Windows" project ReactOS was going to be working on improving its GUI setup/installation. Progress is indeed being made there as shared in the latest ReactOS blog entry around further enhancing its GUI installer as an alternative to the text-mode setup...

Lunar Lobster Is Dead: How To Upgrade to Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur  LinuxInsider

Back in November 2022 AMD announced Brotli-G for GPU-accelerated Brotli compression. Brotli has proven very worthwhile for compressing web assets and other material while AMD's Brotli-G modifies the bitstream format to be more optimal for handling by GPUs rather than just relying on CPU (de)compression. Today Brotli-G 1.0 was finally released...

Linux Mint 22: Codename & New Cinnamon Feature Revealed  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Mint 22 is named 'Wilma'  BetaNews

Sorry Linux Users, glibc 2.37 And 2.36 Have A Serious Vulnerability  PC Perspective

How to access and sync iCloud notes on Linux  ZDNet

My favorite Linux email client flunked spellcheck until I did this  ZDNet

GNU C Library Vulnerability Leads to Full Root Access  SecurityWeek

The newest frontier by the Linux Foundation is getting involved with coming up with a formal file format specification for Lottie, the vector graphics animation format based on JSON...

Linux Foundation Gets Involved With Lottie To Develop Formal File Format Specification  Phoronix

How to Encode or Decode a base64 String on Linux  How-To Geek

Linux Mint 22 Codenamed “Wilma”, Will Be Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  9to5Linux

Posted at the start of 2022 was a set of 2.3k patches dubbed "fast kernel headers" to massively speed-up build times for compiling the kernel and to address dependency hell situations. While it was quick to iterate at first and some bits got upstreamed, it's been months since hearing anything new on the fast kernel headers topic. But today a new patch series was posted that's restarting the effort in working towards massively speeding up kernel build times...

Fast Kernel Headers Work Restarted For Linux To Ultimately Speed Up Build Times  Phoronix

Linux users beware — this security flaw could allow attackers to get root on major distros, so take extra care  TechRadar

Linux vs Windows: 5 reasons to switch (and 5 reasons not to)  Sportskeeda