Open-source News

Canonical adds instance tweaking to Multipass, Confidential VMs to Azure  The Register

APT vs. DNF vs. YUM: Linux Package Managers Compared  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux Mint 21 "Vanessa" now available for download  Notebookcheck.net

How to Secure Your Linux Servers With SELinux  Make Tech Easier

Padloc: An Intuitive Open-Source Password Manager  It's FOSS

KIOXIA Introduces Sample PCIe NVMe Technology-Based Flash Hardware for the Linux Foundation's Software-Enabled Flash Community Project  Business Wire

Among the early pull requests for the now-open Linux 6.0 merge window (nee Linux 5.20) are a few AMD additions worth mentioning...

Linux 6.0 Has Temperature Monitoring For Upcoming AMD CPUs, MWAIT For HPC Customers  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds says he's been waiting a 'loong time' for this Linux laptop option  ZDNet

Steam gets support for Nintendo Online classic controllers  GamingOnLinux

Merged in early July to Mesa 22.2 was the rewritten R600g NIR back-end for improving older AMD Radeon HD 5000/6000 series graphics cards on Linux with this open-source OpenGL driver. That NIR code was limited to "newer" Radeon GPUs supported by the R600g driver while now it's been extended for supporting pre-Evergreen GPUs too...

Understanding Linux Containers Before Changing the World  hackernoon.com

Released on Sunday was Unvanquished 0.53 Beta as the latest in a long string of betas for this one of the most promising open-source first person shooter (FPS) games...

In addition to being busy leading WireGuard, Jason Donenfeld continues working heavily on the Linux kernel's random number generator (RNG) code. For Linux 6.0, a number of RNG improvements are ready...

Linux gaming overlay MangoHud version 0.6.8 out now  GamingOnLinux

Following yesterday's release of Linux 5.19 stable the FSFLA folks maintaining the GNU Linux-libre kernel released their downstream version that strips out support for loading proprietary kernel modules as well as stripping out drivers/support that requires non-free/closed-source microcode/firmware files...

OpenRazer new release adding support for more Razer hardware on Linux  GamingOnLinux

In case you missed it in yesterday's Linux 5.19 announcement and to avoid reader questions/confusion in the days ahead, just making it loud and clear here: what was referred to as the Linux 5.20 kernel in development will most likely be called Linux 6.0...

July was another exciting month for Linux and open-source software fans from being the first to report on the news of systemd creator Lennart Poettering joining Microsoft, Linux 5.19 getting wrapped up, popularity of the Rust programming language continues to climb, lots of open-source graphics driver news, and much more...

Systemd Creator At Microsoft, Retbleed, Rust's Continued Growth & Other July Highlights  Phoronix