Open-source News

Valve's Linux Contributions, Wayland & Open-Source NVIDIA Milestones Topped 2023  Phoronix

After looking yesterday at the most popular Linux hardware reviews of 2023, here is a look at the most popular open-source/Linux news of the more than 2,780 original news articles authored on Phoronix this calendar year...

How free VPNs improve Linux security  Arizona Big Media

Eric Engestrom has issued an on-time bi-weekly point release for the Mesa 3D graphics drivers today principally composed of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers commonly used by the Linux desktop...

Mesa 23.3.2 Released With Plenty Of Bug Fixes For Closing Out 2023  Phoronix

Immutable  Hackaday

FLOSS Weekly Episode 763: Fedora Fixes Everything  Hackaday

Fedora Linux-based Nobara 39 now available for download -- including a specialized Steam Deck version  BetaNews

Vulnerable Linux SSH servers targeted for cryptomining, DDoS attacks  SC Media

AMD starts prep work for Zen 5 CPUs — multiple Linux patches signal Zen 5's upcoming arrival  Tom's Hardware

How to back up Ubuntu  XDA Developers

Rhino Linux 2023.4 Update Adds An Auto-Tiling Feature  It's FOSS News

One of the exciting innovations currently being explored by Canonical ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release is an x86-64-v3 build of the OS / packages. The x86-64-v3 micro-architecture feature level makes AVX/AVX2 support assumed by default as well as other modern x86_64 ISA features typically common of AMD and Intel processors the past number of years (with exceptions). Canonical's determination around what to do with a possible complementary Ubuntu x86-64-v3 build/archive is still being determined but they had released an experimental Ubuntu 23.04 based build that I decided to take for some benchmarking.

New AMD Zen 5 CPUs Support Added with Latest PMC Linux Driver  Beebom

Benchmarking The Experimental Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Build For Greater Performance On Modern CPUs  Phoronix

8 Exciting Open Source Apps Linux Users Loved Exploring in 2023  It's FOSS News

Experts analyzed attacks against poorly managed Linux SSH servers  Security Affairs

DevOps — Linux — The anatomy of SSH encryption | by Milos Vasiljevic | Dec, 2023  Medium

Over the course of 2023 I authored 180 Linux hardware reviews and featured benchmark articles, not to mention the thousands of original open-source/Linux news items. As we are about to hit the end of 2023, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews of the year...

As we roll into 2024, Wayland sadly is still proving to be a divisive topic with some frustrated with it either from past experiences or not all software yet being fully adapted to make use of Wayland directly with all available features. There's also some still hoping for an X11 renaissance that will never materialize. Well known KDE developer Nate Graham is out with a blog post today outlining his latest Wayland thoughts, how X11 is a bad platform, and the recent topic of "Wayland breaking everything" isn't really accurate...