Open-source News

I break my Linux install all the time and it’s part of the fun  xda-developers.com

Pro-Islamic State (ISIS) Media Foundation To Release Book On Securing Linux Computer Systems  MEMRI | Middle East Media Research Institute

Microsoft’s open source journey: From 20,000 lines of Linux code to AI at global scale  MarketScreener

CIQ Expands Hardened Rocky Linux to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud  WebProNews

The one-click Linux app I use for instant online anonymity  ZDNET

I switched from GNOME to KDE Plasma on Ubuntu, and here's what to watch out for  xda-developers.com

Earlier this month I ran some benchmarks of Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL driver against AMD ROCm on Strix Halo. Those benchmarks caught many by surprise with how well that Rust-based open-source OpenCL driver was working on AMD GPUs for being a generic OpenCL implementation built atop Mesa's Gallium3D. For those curious about the potential of Rusticl on the Intel graphics side, here are some Battlemage benchmarks for Rusticl up against Intel's official Compute Runtime driver stack.

'Rocky Linux from CIQ - Hardened' Now Available on All Three Major Cloud Marketplaces  PR Newswire

While the Framework 13 was upgraded earlier this year with a motherboard upgrade for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point", the larger Framework 16 has been stuck in the Zen 4 era. But today Framework announced a new upgrade path for this 16-inch modular laptop for the Ryzen AI 300 series as well as NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 discrete graphics...

Linux Foundation extends AI model leadership with new frameworks  SDxCentral

Forget about Windows, macOS, and Linux; these 5 FreeBSD distros are worth checking out  xda-developers.com

LLVM 21.1 is out today as the first stable version of the LLVM 21 compiler stack. This half-year stable release to the open-source LLVM compiler software brings new hardware support, new language features, and a lot of other enhancements throughout this massive and widely-used codebase...

Indian BOSS Linux Under Siege – APT36 Exploits Malicious .desktop Shortcuts  Cyber Press

While the ATI Radeon 9000 / X300 / X500 / X600 series "R300" GPU support has long been unmaintained on the Microsoft Windows driver side, thanks to the open-source community the Linux driver support keeps going for the old ATI R300 GPUs with that driver also supporting the X700 / X800 "R400" and X1000 "R500" series graphics cards too. Two more OpenGL extensions are now wired up for the old R300 Gallium3D driver within Mesa...

Open-Source R300 Driver Adds New OpenGL Extensions For Two Decade Old Radeon GPUs  Phoronix

APT36 Hackers Attacking Indian BOSS Linux Systems With Weaponized .desktop Shortcut Files  CyberSecurityNews

Valve celebrates the 7th anniversary of Proton, its tool that revolutionized gaming on Linux  Instant Gaming News

TuxCare’s In-Memory CVE Scanner Enhances Linux Security With Radar  LinuxInsider

3 Reasons Why Linux Made Me a Better Developer  How-To Geek

Mir 2.22 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical project providing libraries for building Wayland-based shells/compositors. Mir 2.22 brings some notable improvements around NVIDIA GPU/driver support as well as initial preparations for Rust programming language support...