Open-source News

5 Reasons for Regular People to Love the Linux Command Line  MUO - MakeUseOf

In addition to today seeing the GCC Rust front-end being declared ready for merging with its latest patch series sent out today, the Modula-2 front-end sent out its third revision which is also expected to now be merged as another new programming language front-end for GCC 13...

Audacity 3.2.2 Adds Realtime Capabilities to VST2 Effects, Improves Accessibility of Meters  9to5Linux

G4Music is a GTK4 Music App for Linux Desktops  OMG! Ubuntu!

Amazon joins Open Invention Network | ZDNET  ZDNet

Amazon joins Open Invention Network  ZDNet

digiKam 7.9 Open-Source Photo Management App Released with Various Improvements  9to5Linux

RHEL and its Linux relatives and rivals: How to choose  ZDNet

RHEL and its Linux relatives and rivals: How to choose  ZDNet

New MGLRU Linux Patches Look To Improve The Scalability Of Global Reclaim  Phoronix

Among the many exciting new features in Linux 6.1 is the merging of the Multi-Gen LRU "MGLRU" code as what has shaped up to be one of the best kernel innovations for 2022 for overhauling the Linux kernel's page reclamation code. The performance results already are very promising and MGLRU is being used successfully at Google and other large deployments. The work isn't over though on further advancing the kernel in this area...

Open-source Linux utility is being hijacked to hack devices  TechRadar

Linux Prepares to Launch Unix Version 6.1-rc8  The Tech Report

5 Ubuntu Linux Features You Should Be Using  How-To Geek

Linux 6.2 Looks To Enable "-funsigned-char" To Better Deal With Buggy Code  Phoronix

Among the early pull requests sent out already ahead of the Linux 6.2 merge window opening next week is a change to enable "-funsigned-char" by default for Linux kernel builds. In preparation for this compiler flag change several fixes have already landed along with a lot of early testing, so any fallout is hoped to be minimal...

Sipeed M1s DOCK: PINE64 Ox64 rival launches for US$11 with microSD card expansion  Notebookcheck.net

Dwarf Fortress arrives on Steam, works on Linux desktop and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

How to enable and disable systemd in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)  Windows Central

How to install ChromeOS Flex on a Chromebook  Android Police