Open-source News

Mageia 9 Alpha Linux-based operating system ready for testing  BetaNews

Backing up to network shares: Win+NTFS? Linux+exFAt/ext4?  MacRumors

GIMP 2.99.14 is out this weekend as the latest development release on the way toward the elusive GIMP 3.0...

Add Object Storage to Rocky Linux with MinIO  thenewstack.io

Crysis 2 & 3 Remastered finally land on Steam, work great on Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

System76 upgrades the Thelio Major desktop with a removable I/O shield  GamingOnLinux

Total War: WARHAMMER III for Linux updated to v2.2.0, Immortal Empires beta available  GamingOnLinux

Linux 6.2 Will No Longer Treat Intel Arc Graphics As Experimental  Phoronix

A final batch of drm-intel-next feature patches were submitted on Friday to complement the drm-intel-gt-next patches. Most exciting with this last minute PR for Linux 6.2 is the DG2/Alchemist discrete GPU support no longer being treated as experimental...

Micron Releases HSE 3.0 Open-Source Storage Engine  Phoronix

In early 2020 the software engineers at Micron announced an open-source storage engine designed for SSDs and persistent memory. The storage engine prided itself on being a speedy key-value store database and there was also a MongoDB-based implementation. Last year HSE 2.0 debuted and the updated storage engine no longer relied on modifications to the Linux kernel and now strictly a user-space based solution. This week the Micron engineers are celebrating HSE 3.0 as their latest work on this open-source storage engine...

Being queued up via the x86 platform driver's "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.2 cycle is the dell-wmi-ddv driver, which is for exposing the WMI interface of the Dell Data Vault (DDV)...

Dell Data Vault WMI Driver On Deck For Linux 6.2  Phoronix

Back during the summer was news that Ikey Doherty was going to work full-time on Serpent OS, a new Linux distribution he started. Ikey Doherty as a reminder previously created the Solus Linux distribution, worked for Intel on Clear Linux, and has other software accomplishments to his name. It's been a quiet few months for Serpent OS but it turns out they've been busy establishing their build infrastructure and tooling...

Serpent OS Infrastructure & Tooling Almost Completed  Phoronix

The 5 Best New Features in Peppermint OS's Latest Debian Release  MUO - MakeUseOf

As KDE developers approach the holidays they have more bug fixes and features in store for their users of this open-source desktop environment...

KDE Adds NVIDIA GPU Power Reporting, Plasma Wayland Crash Fix  Phoronix

How to Install Google Chrome on Ubuntu  Beebom

How to Access Your Linux Devices From Anywhere With NordVPN Meshnet  MUO - MakeUseOf