Open-source News

The past several months saw much discussion over a proposal to add "-fno-omit-frame-pointer" as a default compiler flag to Fedora Linux that would improve profiling/debugging but with possible performance implications that can vary based on the application/workload. While just over one month ago FESCo rejected that change, they re-voted today and decided after all to allow this change to happen but to ensure that packages can easily opt-out if they find performance regressions. By Fedora 40 they will also re-visit the matter to determine if the benefits and performance costs are justified...

WordPress Sites Under Attack from Newly Found Linux Trojan  Dark Reading

New Linux Malware Can Exploit Numerous WordPress Plugins  MUO - MakeUseOf

Vanilla OS 22.10: An Arch and Fedora-compatible Ubuntu  The Register

DragonFlyBSD 6.4 is now available as the newest version of this open-source BSD operating system forked long ago from FreeBSD...

It's been one year and a few days since BusyBox 1.35 was released while today it's been succeeded by BusyBox 1.36 for this software package that is common to embedded Linux environments with the lone executable providing a plethora of commands and functionality...

Researchers Discover New Linux Malware Targeting WordPress Sites  Infosecurity Magazine

Using the Linux locale command  Network World

Using the Linux locale command  Network World

GIGABYTE announced this morning they have spun off their server business unit and formed Giga Computing for their enterprise products moving forward...

Intel is using the CES 2023 to announce their 13th Gen Intel Core mobile H/P/U-series processors, additional 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" desktop CPUs for the 35 and 65 Watt tiers, and new Intel Processor (formerly Celeron) and Core i3 N-series processors.

Fwupd 1.8.9 Adds SHA384 Support for TPM Hashes, New Devices ...  9to5Linux

Malware Delivered to PyTorch Users in Supply Chain Attack  SecurityWeek

Fwupd 1.8.9 was just released as the newest version of this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems...

Linux use overtakes macOS on the Stack Overflow Survey  GamingOnLinux

It’s Official: Fedora Linux 38 Will Offer Fedora Budgie and Sway Spins  9to5Linux

The Tellusim Engine that is focused on professional simulations, visualizations, urban planning, VR/AR, and other 3D tasks has added a comprehensive set of Rust programming language bindings...

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved of several more changes / new features planned for Fedora 38...

Linux 6.3 To Bring Analog TV Support Improvements  Phoronix

With the Linux 6.2 merge window behind us, feature work for the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) changes targeting now the Linux 6.3 kernel have begun queuing with DRM-Next...