Open-source News

I used Microsoft Office, Photoshop, and more on Linux with WinApps — here's how it went  XDA

Building off the work in months prior around Device Mapper atomic write support and related infrastructure, the md-linear target for linear software RAID support will enable atomic write support with the upcoming Linux 6.18 merge window...

Kali Linux 2025.3 drops ARMel support and gets refreshed Nexmon firmware  Notebookcheck

SUSE Partners with Nvidia to Integrate CUDA Toolkit in Linux Distros  WebProNews

Linux dances the samba… but hits a race condition. A critical flaw threatens the kernel.  Red Hot Cyber

Raspberry Pi 500+ announced as their premium desktop keyboard PC  GamingOnLinux

I replaced all my bash scripts with Python, and here’s what happened  XDA

PostgreSQL 18.0 is out today as the annual major feature release for this widely-used SQL database server. PostgreSQL 18 is a big one with many exciting performance optimizations and other new features...

Beckhoff launches TwinCAT for Linux with virtualized PLC capabilities  Design World

Queued this week into the BPF subsystem's "bpf-next" Git branch ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window are some exciting feature additions...

Deutsche Bundesbank is latest central bank to join LF Decentralized Trust  ledgerinsights.com

New LockBit 5.0 Ransomware Variant Attacking Windows, Linux, and ESXi Systems  Cyber Security News

Earlier this month the VMSCAPE CPU security vulnerability was made public and affecting both AMD and Intel processors. VMSCAPE can lead to leaking information from a user-space hypervisor via speculative side channels. An Intel engineer today posted a new set of patches for helping to reduce the mitigation costs of VMSCAPE protections on modern Intel processors...

Intel Posts New Linux Patches To Reduce Overhead Of VMSCAPE Mitigation  Phoronix

LockBit 5.0 Ransomware Surfaces With Support for Windows, Linux, and ESXi  CyberInsider

Switching to Linux: How to Replace Everyday Apps With Open-Source Alternatives  How-To Geek

GE-Proton 10-17 released fixing Warframe as probably other games too  GamingOnLinux

Bcachefs goes DKMS after Torvalds' kernel banishment  theregister.com

While the Mold linker has been very impressive for its speed the past few years compared to the linkers out of the LLVM and GNU toolchain projects, there is a new high speed linker on the scene and it's written in Rust: meet Wild...

Wild: A Very Fast Linker Written In Rust, Aims To Outperform Mold Linker  Phoronix