Open-source News

Linux distributors, open source developers warned to update Ghostscript  IT World Canada

Last week we began seeing AMD engineers post Linux patches for "Family 26" (1Ah) CPU enablement that is more than likely for Zen 5 processors. This week the AMD "1Ah" work has carried forward with new patches having been merged into the Linux 6.5 kernel...

Linux 6.5 Adds In Some Next-Gen CPU Enablement For AMD PMF (Zen 5)  Phoronix

12 Incredibly Useful KDE Apps That Are Worth Trying  MUO - MakeUseOf

New PyLoose Linux malware mines crypto directly from memory  BleepingComputer

Linux could be 3% of global desktops. What happened to Windows?  Ars Technica

Get a bunch of cyberpunk games in this latest bundle  GamingOnLinux

Linux 6.5 Features From USB4 v2 To More WiFi 7, Unaccepted ...  Phoronix

Now that the Linux 6.5 merge window ended this past weekend, here is the usual Phoronix overview that lists all the prominent new features and changes coming for this next version.

How to Edit the Linux Hosts File  TechRepublic

Last month AMD Linux kernel driver patches revealed a new feature called FreeSync Panel Replay that is basically an improvement over Panel Self Refresh (PSR) for laptop displays. That code didn't make it for the recently-closed v6.5 merge window but this week AMD engineers did post a second iteration of the patches...

AMD Updates FreeSync Panel Replay Support For Linux  Phoronix

AMD has made available the FidelityFX SDK solution available via GPUOpen as their easy-to-integrate offering for FidelityFX technologies...

Tabletop inspired roguelike adventure Abalon adds Linux ...  GamingOnLinux

Linux Hits All-Time High of 3% of Desktop PC Share After 30 Years  Tom's Hardware

SuSE Take On Red Hat, Forking RHEL  Hackaday

While the Linux 6.5 kernel merge window just ended days ago and there still is two months to go until that stable release, already the lead developer of the Bcachefs file-system is working to get the code merged for Linux 6.6...

Bcachefs File-System Plans To Try Again To Land In Linux 6.6  Phoronix

As a follow-up to the news last week when I pointed out that Intel has begun working on Granite Rapids D compiler support for the GNU Compiler Collection, that code has now been merged for next year's GCC 14 release...

Libva 2.19 has been released as the newest feature update for this centralized library used by the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) on Linux and other platforms...