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While Linux 5.18 had been trending on the lighter/calmer side, Linux 5.18-rc5 was just released and it comes in "a very tiny bit larger" than usual...

Open source 'Package Analysis' tool finds malicious npm, PyPI packages  BleepingComputer

How to Save Disk Space in Raspberry Pi OS and Purge Bloat  Tom's Hardware

Linus Torvalds talks about Linux, Rust and the open source community after 30 years  BollyInside

Linus Torvalds talks about Linux, Rust and the open source community after 30 years  BollyInside

There are two ways to install Mysql Workbench on Debian 11 Bullseye Linux  BollyInside

Being added to the Linux kernel's driver core code is sysfs support for reporting a physical location of a device on the connected system/server. In particular for large systems and servers with many connected devices and where there may be multiple devices of the same type/model, this physical relative location reporting to user-space should make it easier to distinguish...

Linux 5.19 To Help With Reporting A Connected Device's Physical Location  Phoronix

Hands-On with Arch Linux’s New Menu-Based Installer  9to5Linux

Python for Beginners: How to Use JSON in Python  thenewstack.io

It was an exciting April in the open-source world from AMD continuing work on bringing up next-gen GPU and Zen 4 CPU support under Linux, some portions of NVIDIA kernel driver code being published on the Tegra side, Intel continuing DG2/Alchemist Arc Graphics preparations, Mesa 22.1 nearing release, the release of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and much more...

Linux NTFS, Ryzen 7 5800X3D, Mesa 22.1 & Other April Open-Source Excitement  Phoronix

The Google Hangouts Meet Speakermic is a device manufactured by ASUS that allows for 360 degree sound input/output designed for Google Hangout usage and allows daisy-chaining up to five of these speakermics together for use in large conference rooms. A Linux driver is on the way for the device just to address a mute button issue...

With GCC 12.1 due for release in roughly the next week or so, Red Hat's Marek Polacek penned a new blog post this week outlining many of the C++ language improvements to be found in this major GNU Compiler Collection update...

Building off the recent release of Genode OS 22.02 as the open-source operating system framework, Sculpt OS 22.04 was released this week as the project's effort around producing a general purpose operating system...

Install p7Zip GUI on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Linux  Linux Shout

ARM + uboot + linux kernel debugging using debuggers (JTAG)  All About Circuits

Sent in as a "fix" this week for the Linux 5.18 kernel and to be found in tomorrow's 5.18-rc5 release is supporting sensor readings with the Gigabyte-WMI driver for the Gigabyte B660 GAMING X DDR4 motherboard...

Best Open Source Lightweight Web Browsers for Linux  BollyInside

Unity 7.6 Released for Public Testing as the First Major Update to Unity7 in 6 Years  9to5Linux