Open-source News

Linux Mint 21.2 appears online before the official announcement  Neowin

With Red Hat now restricting access to the RHEL source repositories, AlmaLinux and other downstreams that have long provided "community" rebuilds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with 1:1 compatibility to upstream RHEL have been left sorting out what to do...

AlmaLinux No Longer Aims For 1:1 Compatibility With RHEL  Phoronix

Haiku: The BeOS-Inspired Open-Source Desktop OS Explained  MUO - MakeUseOf

Star Labs Byte MK II is a Linux mini PC with Intel N200 Alder Lake-N  Liliputing

Linux Hacker Exploits Researchers With Fake PoCs Posted to GitHub  Dark Reading

System76 Open Sources the Electronics for Virgo, Its Upcoming In ...  Hackster.io

Linux Is The Next Platform, But Who Pays To Maintain It?  The Next Platform

Blockchain IoT Market will rise due to need for secure data sharing ...  Digital Journal

System76 Open Sources the Electronics for Virgo, Its Upcoming In-House Linux Laptop Design  Hackster.io

Fake Linux vulnerability exploit drops data-stealing malware  BleepingComputer

Linux has over 3% of the desktop market? It's more complicated than that  ZDNet

Factorio upgraded with controller support - now in the stable release  GamingOnLinux

Star Labs Unveils the Byte Mk II Mini Linux PC, Drops AMD for Intel CPU  9to5Linux

Similar to what I have shown with the Ryzen 9 7950X AVX-512 desktop performance and AMD EPYC 9004 series AVX-512 server performance, the new Ryzen 7040 series mobile processors are exhibiting great AVX-512 performance for laptops. In today's article is a look at the performance impact when toggling AVX-512 capabilities for a Ryzen 7 7840U "Phoenix" SoC compared to toggling AVX-512 with prior Intel Tiger Lake and Ice Lake laptops that offer AVX-512.

How to use Threads on desktop in Windows, Mac, Linux, and ...  XDA Developers

Fake PoC for Linux Kernel Vulnerability on GitHub Exposes Researchers to Malware  The Hacker News

After 30 years, Linux surpasses 3% market share  KitGuru

Intel Sends Out Initial Compiler Patches For Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake  Phoronix

Intel's Linux software engineers understand the annual GCC compiler release cadence well and acknowledge the importance of having tuned compiler support available at launch. Intel for years has tended to get their new CPU support and new ISA features upstreamed into GCC as well as LLVM/Clang well ahead of product launch so that by the time their new consumer and server CPUs are shipping, there tends to be support within compilers just not at their stable versions but already found in the likes of Ubuntu. With that said, today Intel engineers posted initial compiler patches for Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake processors...