Open-source News

Get some at-home arcade game fun in this latest bundle  GamingOnLinux

Ahead of the Linux 6.5-rc2 release tomorrow there was a set of x86/x86_64 kernel changes merged overnight to deal with some weaknesses in the kernel's Control Flow Integrity (kCFI) / FineIBT (Indirect Branch Tracking) code...

Linux kCFI/FineIBT Weaknesses Addressed By Rewriting Some ...  Phoronix

With all the news in recent weeks following Red Hat's decision to limit access to RHEL sources that in turn lead to changes for AlmaLinux, finding new ways to obtain sources at Rocky Linux, interesting statements from Oracle, and even SUSE forking RHEL. The public RHEL sources now will basically be the upstream CentOS Stream code for which future Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions are ultimately based. The CentOS Project issued a new statement on Friday...

CentOS Project Promotes They Are "Open To All"  Phoronix

Earlier this month brought the release of systemd 254-rc1 with a new soft-reboot mechanism, officially deprecating System V scripts, a new systemd-battery-check process that runs at boot to check any system battery level status, and various other changes. On Friday systemd 254-rc2 was released with a few more changes...

The uutils project continues advancing as a modern, drop-in replacement to the GNU Coreutils utilities that is written in the Rust programming language...

“Exploring the Popularity and Stability of Linux for Developers”.  Medium

“Exploring the Popularity and Stability of Linux for Developers”.  Medium

Imagination Technologies today published their fourth iteration of their in-development PowerVR DRM kernel graphics driver targeting their Rogue architecture and future graphics IP. This open-source kernel driver ultimately will go along with their PowerVR Vulkan driver they continue developing within the Mesa code-base...

Debian 12-based MX Linux 23 'Libretto' achieves release candidate ...  BetaNews

5 techniques to debug network issues in Linux and Windows  TechTarget

While IO_uring has been one of the most interesting kernel innovations of recent years and can allow for great speed-ups to async I/O, there have been some security concerns and with the Linux 6.6 kernel it will be easier for Linux administrators to disable it system-wide if so desired...

Linux 6.6 Will Make It Easy To Disable IO_uring System-Wide  Phoronix

CodeWeavers blog about their Linux / Steam Deck work on Proton ...  GamingOnLinux

AMD Linux engineers are working on extending the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem used by their GPUs/accelerators to allow up to 128 DRM devices per system...

AMD Working To Allow Linux To Handle Up To 128 DRM Devices ...  Phoronix

System76 developers working on their Rust-written COSMIC desktop have recently been improving a number of areas of this open-source desktop...

The GTK toolkit and GLib support for Apple's macOS may be taking a back-seat to other platforms moving forward and would fall into a "best effort" category...

Retro-inspired JRPG 'Alterium Shift' enters Early Access  GamingOnLinux