Open-source News

NTFS Driver For Linux 6.5 Brings Small Optimizations & Fixes  Phoronix

KDE developers remain quite busy working on the Plasma 6.0 desktop development as well as making other enhancements and fixes to their open-source desktop stack...

Novel Linux kernel vulnerability exploitable for elevated privileges  SC Media

Solus 4.4 'Harmony' Linux distribution now available for download  BetaNews

Solus 4.4 “Harmony” Released with Secure Boot Support, Linux 6.3, and More  9to5Linux

While Solus is still working toward its new approach based on Serpent OS and other significant fundamental changes to the Linux distribution, shipping today is Solus 4.4 as the latest incremental update to this Linux distro popular with enthusiasts...

Solus Linux 4.4 Released - Powered By Linux 6.3, Latest Budgie ...  Phoronix

Wine 8.12 is available today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...

China's openKylin 1.0 arrives. Our verdict? Not a bad-looking, er, Ubuntu remix  The Register

China's Linux for the home market, openKylin, reaches 1.0  The Register

Meta has published the Intermediate Graphics Library (IGL) as a new cross-platform library to provide a single low-level interface that works atop native graphics APIs from OpenGL and Vulkan to Apple's Metal...

What AMD's Latest Linux Patches Reveal About Upcoming Zen 5 CPUs  Hot Hardware

Linux 6.5 Brings New "cachestat" Syscall For Querying Page Cache ...  Phoronix

A new system call found in Linux 6.5 is "cachestat" that allows user-space to query page cache statistics for a file in order to make more informed decisions...

How to Manually Install the Latest Docker Compose Version on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

In addition to Fedora 39 aiming to use the Anaconda WebUI for Fedora Workstation, shipping the latest and greatest open-source compiler toolchain components, enhance Linux gaming compatibility, eliminate Flathub filtering, and dozens of other improvements, there are also plans for a more mundane change: a colored bash prompt...

Fedora 39 Aims For A Colored Bash Prompt  Phoronix

Red Hat's open source rot took root when IBM walked in  The Register

AMD’s Next-Gen Zen 5 CPUs Receive Support in Latest Linux Patch  Wccftech

Canonical takes its LXD 'containervisor' back into the house  The Register