Open-source News

No, You Don't Need Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), and Here's Why  MUO - MakeUseOf

The Debian release team has just announced a tentative ship date for Debian 12.0 "Bookworm"...

Debian 12.0 "Bookworm" Planned For Release On 10 June  Phoronix

Malware threat report reveals risk on Mac compared to Windows and Linux  9to5Mac

Linux to Support Firewire Until 2029  Tom's Hardware

AMD has contributed support to Mesa's VA-API Gallium3D state tracker for supporting AV1 video encoding...

Linux version of RTM Locker ransomware targets VMware ESXi servers  BleepingComputer

Charming monster collector Cassette Beasts is out now  GamingOnLinux

While AMD has yet to launch the Radeon RX 7600 or RX 7600 series graphics cards (sans the RX 7700S), AMD's GPUOpen tooling has seen new releases today in preparation for those forthcoming RDNA3 GPUs...

RTM Locker Ransomware Targets Linux Architecture  Infosecurity Magazine

Linux 6.3: What’s New ¦ AWS Layoffs are a Worry  DevOps.com

Street Fighter 6 on Steam Deck and Linux tested, Valve sets it to ...  GamingOnLinux

Play God in the Linux Terminal With Conway's Game of Life  MUO - MakeUseOf

New Intel Linux Graphics Driver Patches Allow Tuning For Up To 10~15% Better Performance  Phoronix

After profiling and raising an issue by Google's Chrome OS engineers, there is a set of "request for comments" patches out today for the Intel Linux graphics driver that can provide 10~15% better performance when operating in the tuned mode...

How to install Cockpit for Linux  TechTarget

Introduced one month ago in Vulkan 1.3.246 was the new VK_EXT_shader_object extension that was worked on by developers from Activision to Valve. Zink lead developer Mike Blumenkrantz at Valve has been busy the past few weeks on getting this shader object support wired up for use by this OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver...

Microsoft Edge & Brave browsers not loading pages or crashing ...  PiunikaWeb

Linux Has A New Firewire IEEE-1394 Maintainer - Intends To Maintain Support To 2029  Phoronix

It's likely been years since many of you have heard of Firewire and some readers likely never had the opportunity to use it. The Firewire interface was great back in the day and during the early period of digital video cameras, but modern versions of USB and Thunderbolt are far faster, allow longer cable distances, and numerous other advantages. While Firewire hasn't seen much activity in years and can be outpaced by USB 3.0 and beyond, there is a new Firewire subsystem maintainer for the Linux kernel and he intends to keep at it for the next six years...