Open-source News

A change proposal has been filed for building the CPython interpreter and the Python standard library using the "-O3" compiler optimization flag rather than Fedora's imposed default of the "-O2" optimization level. This is being sought in the name of greater Python performance on Fedora 41...

KDE developers had a very busy week with a lot of new feature work continuing to land for Plasma 6.1 plus continuing to address bugs and other fallout from the recent Plasma 6 introduction...

Attention Linux users! RADV brings hardware-accelerated H.264/H.265 encoding for AMD GPUs  igorslab.de

APT as the packaging tool built around Debian Linux is embarking on some big upgrades with the APT 2.9 development series to then roll-out as APT 3.0. There's big improvements to the command-line user interface with the new APT and it's certainly looking nice from my initial Friday night encounter...

DaVinci Resolve 19 Public Beta now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux with new AI tools  BetaNews

KDE Frameworks 6.1 Released Ahead of the KDE Plasma 6.1 Desktop Environment  9to5Linux

The XWayland 23.2 series was introduced last August while now release preparations have begun for releasing XWayland 24.1 as the next feature release for this X.Org Server derived code for allowing X11 clients (apps / games) to work within the confines of Wayland environments...

AnberDeck mod turns Anbernic RG353V game system into a handheld Linux terminal  Liliputing

Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS Beta released  BetaNews

KDE Frameworks 6.1 is out today as the first monthly update since the release of KDE Frameworks 6.0 alongside KDE Plasma 6.0...

New Spectre v2 Vulnerability Threatens Linux Systems on Intel CPUs  Medium

Ubuntu 24.04 Beta released after week delay due to malicious code  Tom's Hardware

Beyond the core  The Register

A patch to the Linux kernel's SLUB allocator has been queued ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.10 merge window to help reduce memory consumption in extreme scenarios...

Linux 6.10 SLUB Optimization To Reduce Memory Consumption In Extreme Scenarios  Phoronix

David Rheinsberg has released Dbus-Broker 36 as the newest version of this speedy, drop-in DBus implementation for Linux systems...

Best Record Yet for Open Source Use in Business Worldwide  LinuxInsider

A near-miss hack of Linux shows the vulnerability of the internet  Vox.com

As the first new release since last September, LPython 0.21 has been released for this alpha-stage Python ahead-of-time compiler written in C++. LPython remains focused on providing "the best possible performance" especially for numerical use-cases, cross-platform compatibility, and hopes to be able to eventually transform Python code over to C++ and Fortran or other languages...

New Linux kernel vulnerability grants attackers root privileges  Notebookcheck.net