Open-source News

Your Linux PC Has Daemons. Here’s Everything You Need to Know About Them  How-To Geek

A bizarre new Linux malware can be found hiding in cute animal photos  MSN

One week ago in the KDE Plasma land it was talking about rounded bottom corners for windows by default while this week in the KDE Plasma space is another long overdue feature: notifications for Plasma around low printer ink cartridge levels. The upcoming KDE Plasma 6.5 will finally feature built-in notifications on printer ink levels running low...

Nvidia Engineer Pushes for AI Code Disclosure in Linux Kernel Patches  WebProNews

With Linux 6.16 expected to be released on Sunday unless an extra week of testing is deemed necessary, the Linux 6.17 merge window will then kickoff the next day. Based on monitoring the various subsystem "-next" trees and other mailing list activity, here is a look at many of the changes expected for Linux 6.17 barring last minute issues or other objections raised by Linus Torvalds...

AI-Generated Linux Miner 'Koske' Beats Human Malware  Dark Reading | Security

New tool could offer the unthinkable - an easy, in-place upgrade to Linux for a Windows 10 PC, if it can't run Windows 11  TechRadar

Longtime Linux developer Sasha Levin of NVIDIA (and formerly of Google and Microsoft) as well as being the Linux LTS kernel co-maintainer today proposed a Linux kernel AI coding assistant configuration and documentation/rules for contributing to the Linux kernel with patches that are (co)authored by AI coding utilities...

While there have been various elements of the Apple M1 and M2 SoC support in the mainline Linux kernel along with support for various Macs, different features have been missing from the upstream kernel such as the Apple GPU kernel graphics driver as one big example. On a more fundamental level, the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is going to cross off another low-level expectation for Apple Silicon Macs on the mainline kernel: the ability to reboot the system...

Linux and Raspberry Pi Save a Printer! @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi  Adafruit

Ditch cd: 3 Powerful Linux Tools to Navigate Directories at Warp Speed  How-To Geek

Another hit to the open-source Intel software ecosystem this year was the company formally archiving/discontinuing work on the PlaidML deep learning software. PlaidML was the deep learning framework that Intel acquired back in 2018 as part of their acquisition of Vertex.AI. PlaidML had a goal of "deep learning for every platform" but unfortunately those ambitions didn't materialize...

Intel Quietly Sunset Its PlaidML Open-Source Deep Learning Software  Phoronix

Android's Linux Terminal Is Getting a New Feature  Yahoo! Tech

Android's Linux Terminal Is Getting a New Feature  How-To Geek

The Linux 6.16 kernel is expected to be released as stable this coming Sunday, 27 July, barring any last minute issues that cause Linus Torvalds to have reservations over issuing v6.16 stable and to instead do a v6.16-rc8 test release. With Linux 6.16 imminent, here's a reminder about some of the most interesting features in this next Linux kernel version...

FreeBSD 15 installer to offer minimal KDE desktop  theregister.com

Ahead of the Linux 6.16 stable kernel expected to be released on Sunday, some last minute Bcachefs file-system fixes join various other kernel regression/bug fixes landing today in Git...

Bcachefs Lands Last Minute Fixes For Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Fight or Kite: I MMO on a Linux PC and you can too  Massively Overpowered