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Linux 6.1 gets an eighth release candidate and Linus Torvalds is OK with that  The Register

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OpenSSF Membership Exceeds 100 with Many New Members Dedicated to Securing Open Source Software  PR Newswire

As was expected following an uptick in kernel patches mid-to-late in the cycle, Linus Torvalds today opted to issue Linux 6.1-rc8 rather than going straight to the stable release for Linux 6.1, which is also expected to serve as this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel...

Ahead of the Linux 6.1-rc8 kernel that Linus Torvalds is expected to issue shortly rather than going straight to Linux 6.1 stable, a revert for a small change leading to "huge performance regressions" in select areas has fortunately been caught and reverted...

Linux 6.1 Lands Revert For "Huge Performance Regressions" From Three Lines Of Code  Phoronix

Linux Mint 21.1 Beta is Available to Download  OMG! Ubuntu!

How to Install Ubuntu on VMware Workstation - Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

There isn't too much interest in Solaris these days and the once vibrant open-source (Open)Solaris community is a small fraction of its past, but OpenIndiana Hipster continues pushing forward as the operating system forked from OpenSolaris and now serves as a distribution derived from the Illumos code-base...

OpenIndiana Hipster 2022.10 Released With Updates For This OpenSolaris-Derived OS  Phoronix

A new release of Polychromatic is now available, the open-source GUI front-end for managing Razer devices on Linux by way of the community-managed OpenRazer drivers...

Polychromatc 0.8 Released As GUI Frontend For Managing Razer Devices On Linux  Phoronix

First Look at Linux Mint 21.1 Beta with the Cinnamon 5.6 Desktop Environment  9to5Linux

Thanks to the ongoing work led by Intel's Linux engineers, the upcoming Linux 6.2 kernel will feature more feature work around enabling Compress Express Link (CXL) functionality...

More CXL Work On The Way For Linux 6.2 (Compute Express Link)  Phoronix

Kubernetes 101: Install Kubernetes on Rocky Linux  thenewstack.io

The newest Apache software project hitting the version 1.0 milestone is the Apache IoTDB as a time-series database focused on serving as a database to the Internet of Things (IoT)...

Apache IoTDB 1.0 Released As An "Internet of Things Database"  Phoronix

With SDL 3.0 in development and it taking a more modern focus and doing away with various pieces of old code, one of the latest chunks of code being retired is the OpenGL ES 1.0 2D render path...

SDL 3.0 Drops Its OpenGL ES 1.0 Render Path  Phoronix