Open-source News

CentOS Stream 10 Starting To Get Underway, More Activity In 2024  Phoronix

As a follow-up to yesterday's article about the believed fix for the Nouveau use-after-free bug plaguing Linux 6.3 users of this open-source NVIDIA driver, the fix has now been merged to Linux 6.4 Git and in turn should also be picked up for an upcoming Linux 6.3 point release...

Linux 6.4 Lands Fix For Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Use-After-Free ...  Phoronix

Distrobox is the open-source project for quickly and easily firing up other Linux distributions as containers on your desktop. Distrobox is a delight to use if needing to try different Linux distributions on your system or wishing to leverage different distributions for specialized workloads...

Distrobox 1.5 Released With NVIDIA GPU Containers Support  Phoronix

It may be the middle of summer but there are no signs of Plasma 6.0 development efforts slowing down at all with this being another interesting week for KDE development...

Manage bookmarks outside of the browser on Linux  AddictiveTips

Python 3.12 isn't even being released until October and Python 3.13 won't be out until H2'2024, but already the developers working on tuning CPython performance are aiming to make more enhancements this next development cycle...

From Cryptojacking to DDoS Attacks: Diicot Expands Tactics with Cayosin Botnet  The Hacker News

ZTE Meng Wei elected as the Chairman of the Governing Board of ...  ELE Times

CBL-Mariner: Azure Linux Distribution Now Generally Available  InfoQ.com

i-Pi SMARC 1200 (MediaTek Genio 1200) devkit tested with a Yocto ...  CNX Software

i-Pi SMARC 1200 (MediaTek Genio 1200) devkit tested with a Yocto Linux image  CNX Software

Mozilla's Firefox 116 web-browser should have experimental PipeWire camera capturing support available for Linux users...

Firefox 116 Should Have Experimental PipeWire Camera Support  Phoronix

As a follow-up to the potentially nasty open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver bug in Linux 6.3, the issue is believed to have been figured out and a patch is pending that appears to address the issue...

The Nasty Linux 6.3 Nouveau Driver Bug Appears To Have Been Figured Out  Phoronix

Get PAYDAY 2 and lots of DLC in this Humble Bundle  GamingOnLinux

Similar to prior Wayland vs. X.Org desktop comparison impact on Linux gaming, here is a fresh round of tests looking at the (X)Wayland vs. X.Org GNOME session performance with Ubuntu 23.04 and the latest NVIDIA proprietary and AMD open-source graphics drivers on Linux.

The Vulkan API v1.3.254 specification update was published today with just a few fixes/clarifications to the documentation but also two new extensions...