Open-source News

Linux Mint 23 moves user management to System Administration tool  OMG! Ubuntu

The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) has multiple performance improvements to provide its users with on the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel...

This Valentine's Day there is a lot of red on the screen for the X.Org Server with the code delta as a result of renaming of their main Git development branch and in the process selectively dropping questionable patches to the prior "master" codebase...

Hackers resurrect the 90s IRC tricks with SSHStalker  TechRadar

Vim 9.2 is out today as the newest feature release for this robust and comprehensive text editor. This Valentine's Day release for Vim lovers brings experimental Wayland support, XDG Base Directory specification support, modernized defaults for HiDPI displays, new completion features, and an improved diff mode...

Vim 9.2 Is Out with Comprehensive Completion, Wayland Support, and More  9to5Linux

Fedora made me realize Windows was the problem with my workflow  XDA

REMnux 8 Linux Toolkit for Malware Analysis Is Out to Celebrate 15th Anniversary  9to5Linux

The HID subsystem changes were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 7.0 kernel merge window. Among the Human Interface Devices (HID) work this cycle were supporting more guitars while also adding more device IDs and different laptop quirks...

Linux 7.0 Merges Support For Rock Band 4 PS4 / PS5 Guitars Plus More Laptop Quirks  Phoronix

HackerOS is what a Linux enthusiast’s OS should be  The New Stack

5 powerful Python one-liners that will make you a better coder  How-To Geek

GNOME 49.4 Released with Improvements for Nautilus, GNOME Shell, and Mutter  9to5Linux

Following Intel recently discontinuing a number of open-source projects, this week they formally discontinued their Quantum Passes open-source project that was intended to provide additional passes for their LLVM-based compiler in the Intel Quantum SDK...

This lightweight Linux distro made my 10-year-old laptop usable again  MakeUseOf

Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows  theregister.com

In addition to this week's GNOME 50 beta release, there were also other exciting developments in the GNOME ecosystem...

Beyond all of the exciting Intel/AMD x86_64 changes and improvements to enjoy with the upcoming Linux 7.0, there is one notable ARM64 feature addition this kernel cycle...

Linux 7.0 Wires Up Arm's 64-byte Single-Copy Atomic Instructions LS64/LS64V  Phoronix

I'm going back to the 2000s this weekend by installing this classic Linux distro  How-To Geek