Open-source News

Tow-Boot Sees New Release As User-Friendly U-Boot Distribution  Phoronix

Version 7.6 of the digiKam open-source photo management software is now available with a number of enhancements...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) just announced US$ 21 million to fund open source development through a new program: Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (PEOSE).

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Here's how I brought a 2010 MacBook Pro back to life  Tom's Guide

How to Install and Use FileZilla on Ubuntu Linux  It's FOSS

8 Reasons to Switch From Linux to Windows (Hear Us Out)  MUO - MakeUseOf

Bottles: Run Windows Software on Linux Easily  D1SoftballNews.com

How To Change File or Directory Permissions in Linux  Tom's Hardware

How To Change File or Directory Permissions in Linux  Tom's Hardware

Beyond all their timely Linux kernel contributions surrounding their processors and graphics hardware, Intel continues well with ensuring network adapters, Bluetooth, and other ASICs are generally well supported on Linux ahead of launch. With Linux 5.18 there is now support for "Madison peak" as another yet-to-be-announced Bluetooth chip...

Going back to the original Razer Copperhead mouse in 2005, I've tested many different Razer mice over the years and have exclusively used Razer mice on my main production system for basically as long. This week the scrollwheel physically broke on a Razer DeathAdder mouse I've used the past few years so quickly ordered a replacement, which sadly turned out to be the worst Razer mouse I've personally ever used, and replaced it a day later...

In development recently has been sdl12-compat as a compatibility layer that implements the SDL 1.2 interfaces atop SDL 2.0. This effort allows many older Linux games not seeing updates for SDL2 to in turn make use of the newer version by way of this compatibility layer...

Just under one month ago was the ROCm 5.0 release with formal RDNA2 support and on Friday night marked the latest point release for that open-source AMD Radeon Open eCosystem compute stack update...

Unfortunately this week the KDE project saw "overall activity was lower than usual" that in part at least seems to be fallout from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Sadly some Ukranian KDE contributors have been impacted by the ongoing situation and some KDE Russia contributors have also been impacted by their Internet restrictions...

KDE Activity Lower This Week As Impact From The Russia-Ukraine War  Phoronix

Unfixable Blue Screen Of Death - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

New Linux Kernel Cgroups Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Escape Container  The Hacker News

I’ve recently explored some of the differences between Java and Groovy when creating and initializing lists and building lists at runtime. I observed the simple facilities provided by Groovy for these purposes in comparison to the complexity required in Java.

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I Tested The New Maui Shell On My Linux Phone. Here’s What I Found!  It's FOSS News

Linux can get your tired old computer up and running again  The Star Online