Open-source News

Microsoft released CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230924 this week as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution. The driving force behind this release is to get out rebuilt AArch64 packages following the recent GCC security vulnerability that affected Arm 64-bit built software...

Microsoft CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230924 Rebuilds AArch64 Packages ...  Phoronix

ReactOS Deutschland e.V. has hired a longtime contributor to this "open-source Windows" project to spend the next five months working on the ReactOS GUI setup mode as an alternative to their classic text-based setup mode...

"Open-Source Windows" ReactOS To See Improved GUI Setup ...  Phoronix

Disclosed back in August was the Inception vulnerability affecting all Zen processors. It took until today though for the mainline Linux kernel to mitigate Hygon processors for this vulnerability for those Zen 1 CPUs formed from the AMD-Chinese joint venture...

Linux Now Mitigating Hygon CPUs For Inception/SRSO Vulnerability  Phoronix

Is Linux Truly The Best Privacy Alternative For The Average User?  Medium

Is Linux Truly The Best Privacy Alternative For The Average User?  Medium

Mission Center: A Sleek System Monitoring App for Linux  It's FOSS News

How To Download A File In Linux  Robots.net

Wine 8.17 is out with vkd3d v1.9 and initial Wayland window ...  GamingOnLinux

How To Download Kali Linux On Windows  Robots.net

The 8 Best Markdown Editors for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

GNU Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary  Slashdot

The xf86-video-siliconmotion X.Org driver has seen its first new release in six years for supporting the Silicon Motion Lynx and Cougar chipsets found in vintage laptops...

Raspberry Pi 5, Steam Deck & New AMD CPUs Dominated Q3  Phoronix

During the third quarter on Phoronix were 689 original Linux/open-source news articles and another 50 Linux hardware reviews / benchmark articles. Here's a look back at what excited Linux enthusiasts this quarter...

Stemming from reports of several fake crypto apps appearing in Canonical's Snap Store that aimed to steal user funds, temporary restrictions have been put in place while Canonical investigates the security matter...

Proton Experimental adds fixes for Crysis 2 & 3, Starfield, Deep ...  GamingOnLinux

Symlink unter Linux erstellen: So funktioniert's  praxistipps.chip.de