Open-source News

Linus Torvalds Announces Imminent Linux 6.8 Release, Marking a Milestone for Ubuntu and Fedora  BNN Breaking

Linus Torvalds declares Linux 6.8 is probably back on track for a regular release cycle  The Register

Tired of Windows tracking and invasive ads? Here's how to game on Linux  Notebookcheck.net

Debian Releases Crucial Linux Kernel Updates Across Multiple Suites: Security and Stability in Focus  BNN Breaking

Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 6.8-rc7 as we close in on the Linux 6.8 stable release in the next week or two...

Linux 6.8-rc7 Released With The Stable Kernel Potentially Coming Next Week  Phoronix

Arch Linux Elects New Leader: A Milestone Decision Shaping the Future of Open Source  BNN Breaking

Bring Linux To CH32V003 Through, Yes, RISC-V Emulation  Hackaday

ADLINK MXA-200 5G IIoT gateway ships with Debian or Yocto Linux  CNX Software

How to set environment variables in Ubuntu  XDA Developers

Best Laptops for Linux in 2024  GameRant

Tazama Launches as First Open Source Platform for Financial Fraud Prevention, Supported by Linux Foundation and Gates Foundation  BNN Breaking

In preparation for the GNOME 46 release candidate, the "46.rc" versions of GNOME Shell and Mutter were published this morning. The release candidate work is mostly about fixing outstanding issues but there are also some lingering fixes that made it into these releases...

Stealthy GTPDOOR Linux malware targets mobile operator networks  BleepingComputer

OpenMediaVault 7.0 was released today as a major update to this open-source Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution built around Debian Linux. This plug-based NAS platform with web UI allows supporting a variety of services/protocols is now even more capable with the OpenMediaVault 7.0 availability...

OpenMediaVault 7.0 Released For Debian 12 Powered NAS Platform  Phoronix

The Rust-written Redox OS is out with a new monthly status report to outline the enhancements made to this open-source operating system during the month of February...

Merged this week ahead of the Wine 9.4 development release due out next Friday is support for using the new Vulkan VK_EXT_map_memory_placed extension to overcome a performance penalty with Windows on Windows 64-bit (WOW64) for games/apps...

GDB 14.2 has been released to provide a few fixes for the GNU Debugger over its state found in last year's GDB 14.1...

Better late than never, merged yesterday into the FFmpeg Git codebase is a DVD-Video demuxer...