Open-source News

I turned my old Galaxy phone into a pocket Linux server with Termux  Yahoo Tech

I turned my old Galaxy phone into a pocket Linux server with Termux  How-To Geek

You can now finally run Linux containers in Windows – without third-party tools  TechRadar

3 sudo replacements and the one that makes it entirely useless  How-To Geek

VirtualBox 7.2.12 fixes a kernel panic bug affecting Arch Linux users  Neowin

Microsoft lets Azure Linux 4 out of the cloud in downloadable ISO form  The Register

Red Hat has contributed new system-wide tunables infrastructure to the GNU C Library "glibc" that allows specifying system-wide tunables via the new /etc/tunables.conf configuration file...

Perfection in Linux isn't adding features—Openbox taught me its about removing them  How-To Geek

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team continues taking special focus on AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 era GPUs for enhancing the open-source graphics driver support for these aging graphics cards...

RADV & RadeonSI Drivers See New Fixes For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs  Phoronix

PS5-Linux - The Slim can finally run Linux  Korben

RootBoard open-hardware Linux handheld launches with Raspberry Pi Zero support  LinuxGizmos.com

KDE Plasma finally added per-screen virtual desktops, and it's yet another reason I'm not going back to Windows  XDA

10ZiG Announces General Availability of 10ZiG Manager v6 and Linux Virtual Appliance  PRWeb

AI-Generated Browser Ransomware Abuses Chromium API on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android  The Hacker News

6 Backup Tools for Linux Users of All Kind  It's FOSS

Linux fixed my oldest PC problems—and it has nothing to do with speed  Yahoo Tech

Linux fixed my oldest PC problems—and it has nothing to do with speed  How-To Geek

For those that prefer waiting until the first bug-fix/point release before upgrading to a major new feature series, GCC 16.2 is being planned for an early August release for delivering back-ported bug fixes to the GCC 16 compiler...

The Asahi Linux project published a new blog post outlining recent development efforts in getting Apple Silicon hardware working with their downstream Linux distribution. There is ongoing work on bringing up Apple M3 support, fixing boot support for macOS 27 beta systems, Apple Video Decoder (AVD) support progress, and more...