Open-source News

Getting Nostalgic With the Historical Coherent Operating System  It's FOSS

The Linux Mint 21.1 Beta ISOs are now going through final checks  Neowin

A new Linux flaw can be chained with other two bugs to gain full root privileges  Security Affairs

Google are now processing Stadia Hardware refunds  GamingOnLinux

Team Fortress 2 update adds VScript and you can now run Linux inside it  GamingOnLinux

Daniel Stori’s Turnoff.US – ‘inside The Linux Kernel’  Security Boulevard

NVIDIA puts out Security Bulletin for various driver issues  GamingOnLinux

Open-source antivirus ClamAV finally goes 1.0, some 20 years after launch  TechSpot

Greg Kroah-Hartman released a trio of stable kernel updates this morning that are notable in part for having mitigated the recently disclosed i915 driver security issue affecting Intel "Gen12" graphics from Tigerlake integrated graphics up through the DG2/Alchemist Arc Graphics...

Linux 6.0.11, 5.15.81 & 5.10.157 Released With Intel Gen12 Graphics Security Fix  Phoronix

Three Innocuous Linux Vulnerabilities Chained to Obtain Full Root Privileges  SecurityWeek

Linux Gains Greater Intel Alder Lake Hybrid Performance as Windows 11 Struggles  WinBuzzer

The 7 Best Independent Linux Distros You Can't Miss Out On  MUO - MakeUseOf

SadServers - A Playground for SREs, Admins And Devops Engineers  iProgrammer

Embedded Linux Market Study Providing In-depth Analysis on Top Key Companies | Intel, Microchip, Mentor Graphics and More  Digital Journal

AMD Radeon With Linux 6.1 + Mesa 23.0-dev vs. NVIDIA R525 Gaming Performance  Phoronix

With the Linux 6.1 kernel due to be released in the next week, Mesa 23.0-devel continuing to see a lot of improvements land for RADV and RadeonSI, and the NVIDIA R525 Linux driver series being available, here is a fresh look at the AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce Linux gaming performance with various graphics cards and an assortment of Linux games -- both native and via Valve's Steam Play.

While the Sway Wayland compositor has long been available via the Fedora package repositories, Sway fans within the Fedora space are hoping that Fedora 38 will ship with a Fedora Sway spin being available for an easy and out-of-the-box experience for running this i3-inspired Wayland compositor...

With the new Mesa 22.3 release one of the changes for vintage hardware users is the introduction of "HasVK" as a Vulkan driver forked from Intel's ANV codebase...

The lightweight Xfce 4.18 desktop is planning to release in two weeks while out now is the Xfce 4.18 Pre2 development milestone...