Open-source News

UGREEN enters Network Attached Storage (NAS) market with diverse Linux-based NASync lineup  BetaNews

SCaLE 21x: A Community Event About Much More Than Linux  Security Boulevard

Ubuntu Linux LTS releases get up to 12 years of support — if you pay for it  BetaNews

My favorite Linux text editors (and why you should be using one)  ZDNet

KDE Plasma theming security nightmare: scripting feature can run root commands including the worst Linux meme  Notebookcheck.net

KDE Plasma theming securuty nightmare: scripting feature can run root commands including the worst Linux meme  Notebookcheck.net

Five Linux file and folder management commands you need to know  ZDNet

First release candidate of Linux kernel 6.9 looks 'fairly normal,' says Torvalds  The Register

Linux-based Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld with AMD Ryzen 7 starts at $499  Notebookcheck.net

Ubuntu Linux LTS Releases Can Now Get 12 Years of Updates  How-To Geek

Linux 6.9 Features: DM VDO, AMD Preferred Core, Intel FRED & Larger Console Fonts  Phoronix

Now that Linux 6.9-rc1 was released on Sunday to mark the end of the merge window, here is a look at all of the new features that have been merged for the Linux 6.9 kernel cycle.

Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS) releases have been support for 10 years of updates by Canonical while now that has been extended to 12 years but only for Ubuntu Pro customers going for their legacy support add-on. This 12 year support is extended retroactively going back to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...

Windows Subsystem for Linux Might Get Easier to use  How-To Geek

Orange Pi Neo Linux handheld gaming PC to sell for $499 and up  Liliputing

The latest upstream development code for the Inkscape vector graphics program has transitioned to using the GTK4 toolkit...

The Linux 6.9 kernel will be able to boot systems with large amounts of memory -- and in particular making use of HugeTLB pages -- much faster than with previous kernels, netting a noticeable reduction in boot times...

Linux 6.9 Will Boot Much Faster For Systems With Large Amounts Of RAM  Phoronix

AMD open-source Linux driver patches posted last summer enabled the new "VPE" IP block as a general purpose copy engine for future AMD GPUs. This VPE block might premiere in the upcoming AMD RDNA3.5 refresh (RDNA3+) integrated graphics but in any event AMD is already working on the incrementally improved VPE 1.1 IP with that now being supported by the Mesa 24.1 RadeonSI driver code...

Sandfly Security Secures Funding from Gula Tech Adventures & Sorenson Capital for its First-of-a-Kind Agentless ...  Yahoo Finance