Open-source News

Enthusiast Creates Arm64 Linux Kernel Capable of Running Nintendo Switch Games  Tech Times

LZ4 v1.9.4 is out today as the first point release in nearly two years for this BSD-licensed, speedy, lossless compression algorithm...

Is Elementary OS your best first Linux distribution?  ZDNet

What are Flatpak and Snap and why are they so important to Linux?  ZDNet

Linux & Azure Support Engineer - R2035 at Mediro ICT  IT-Online

After Qualcomm announced their Cloud AI 100 Accelerator back in 2019, in 2020 during the early days of the pandemic they posted a Linux driver for this accelerator. That driver didn't get picked up for the mainline Linux kernel and two years later there still is little fanfare around the Qualcomm AI Cloud Accelerator hardware. However, now they have posted a new Linux driver that goes the DRM driver route...

Qualcomm Posts "QAIC" DRM Accelerator Driver For Linux  Phoronix

Alder Lake Laptop Webcam Support in Linux is Super Shaky  Tom's Hardware

How to play Call to Arms on Linux  AddictiveTips

Using the watch command on Linux  Network World

Google announced today that the Android 13 sources have been published to the Android Open-Source Project as part of officially releasing this newest version of Android...

The beta of GNOME 43 is now available for testing ahead of the stable release next month...

How to Back Up and Restore Your GPG Keys on Linux  How-To Geek

Luckymouse Uses Compromised MiMi Chat App to Target Windows and Linux Systems  Infosecurity Magazine

New Linux Build Runs Nintendo Switch Games on Arm64 Devices  Tom's Hardware

[Fixed] "apt-key is deprecated. Manage keyring files in trusted.gpg.d"  It's FOSS

Yesterday marked the release of Linux 6.0-rc1 and as such the merge window is no over and no more feature work is set to land in this kernel version. Here is my write-up of all the interesting new features and changes/improvements coming for Linux 6.0.

Google Ups Its Linux Security Awards – The New Stack  thenewstack.io

PyPI package installs cryptominer on Linux systems  Developer News

Greg Kroah-Hartman as the Linux kernel's stable maintainer and effectively Linus Torvalds' second-in-command has suggested avoiding Intel Alder Lake laptops. While much of the Alder Lake laptop support for Linux is in good shape, the exception is around web cameras. These newer laptops with Intel's latest web-camera tech are not currently supported by the mainline kernel and require proprietary software for use. Some platforms like Ubuntu and ChromeOS are picking up these blobs for now while a proper open-source, upstream solution is likely months -- or likely about one year -- away...