Open-source News

Fedora Approves a New Spin With Miracle Window Manager  It's FOSS News

Nutanix and Red Hat Expand Collaboration to Power the Next-Generation of Virtualized and Cloud-Native Workloads  Business Wire

There's a lot of file-system activity going on for the Linux 6.10 merge window: Bcachefs safety improvements, better OCFS2 write performance, continued XFS online repair, and even a "mail-in merge request" from prison for ReiserFS. The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) has also seen some new feature work this cycle and has now been merged...

F2FS With Linux 6.10 Delivers Better Performance On Zoned Storage  Phoronix

André Zwing continues hacking on the Hangover project as a means of running Windows applications on AArch64 Linux by leveraging Wine and pairing it with emulators like QEMU, FEX, or Box64. Besides the initial AArch64/ARM64 focus, Hangover can be important for bring Windows game/application on Linux support eventually to other architectures like POWER and RISC-V...

Hangover 9.9 Adds Support For Using The NTSYNC Driver  Phoronix

Latest Ubuntu Security Updates: Fixing Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities  Security Boulevard

PERIMETER: Legate Edition released on Steam with Linux support  GamingOnLinux

While GCC 14 recently debuted as stable in the form of GCC 14.1, for those relying on the GCC 13 compiler that debuted last year there is now a new point release available with many bug fixes...

Long-term supported distros' kernel policies are all wrong  The Register

In addition to the CXL updates for Linux 6.10 that were sent in last week, the PCI subsystem updates this week bring a notable addition for Compute Express Link (CXL) devices...

The Qt Company today released Qt 6.7.1 as the first point release for the cross-platform Qt 6.7.1 toolkit. Since releasing Qt 6.7 just under two months ago, they have fixed more than 400 bugs...

Qualcomm and their partners at Linaro have been busy working on the Linux support for the Snapdragon X Elite as the high-end Arm SoC beginning to roll-out for laptops. The latest Snapdragon X Elite upstreaming is Embedded DisplayPort and DisplayPort support for the Snapdragon X Elite...

Linux 6.10 Adds eDP/DisplayPort Support For The Snapdragon X Elite  Phoronix

BreadboardOS firmware for the Raspberry Pi RP2040 features a Linux-like terminal  CNX Software

Best Linux desktop of 2024  TechRadar

OS Prober is Disabled in Ubuntu 22.04, Here’s a Workaround  OMG! Ubuntu!

Elon Musk Suggests Shifting 'Consumer Desktops To Linux' As Satya Nadella Promotes Microsoft's New Windows AI ...  Benzinga

Elon Musk Suggests Shifting 'Consumer Desktops To Linux' As Satya Nadella Promotes Microsoft's New Window  Benzinga

The XFS file-system improvements have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel...