Open-source News

Linux Foundation Overture Maps the Globe with Open Data  The New Stack

CIQ Launches Support for Upstream Kernels in Rocky Linux - High-Performance Computing News Analysis  insideHPC

Linux Foundation launches new industry push to develop better generative AI for enterprises  Yahoo! Voices

Linux Foundation launches new industry push to develop better generative AI for enterprises  TechRadar

Wayland Protocols 1.35 is out today as the newest update to this collection of Wayland protocol specifications...

Getting a "sudo: command not found" Error on Linux? Here's an Easy Fix  How-To Geek

Sinevibes now supports Linux with all Plugins  gearnews.com

AlmaLinux 9.4 beta prepares to tread where RHEL dares not  The Register

CIQ Launches Support for Upstream Kernels in Rocky Linux, Uniting Stability, Compatibility, Security and Performance  Telecom Reseller

CIQ Launches Support for Upstream Kernels in Rocky Linux, Uniting Stability, Compatibility, Security and Performance  PR Web

Cerber Linux Ransomware Exploits Atlassian Servers to Take Full Control  GBHackers

Yaskawa Electric's Next-Generation Industrial Robot with AI and Autonomy Uses Wind River Linux  Business Wire

LXQt 2.0 is now available for this lightweight desktop environment that has now been ported to the Qt 6.6+ toolkit. Additionally, much of the LXQt components are ready to be used under Wayland compositors...

Critical Atlassian Flaw Exploited to Deploy Linux Variant of Cerber Ransomware  The Hacker News

Following last year Nouveau receiving support for running with the NVIDIA GSP firmware and initial GeForce RTX 40 series accelerated support, Ben Skeggs of Red Hat unexpectedly resigned as the Nouveau kernel driver maintainer. It turns out this longtime open-source Nouveau driver developer is now employed by NVIDIA Corp and continuing to work on the open-source Linux graphics driver...

Linux desktop environment KDE Plasma 6 receives bugfix update 6.0.4  Notebookcheck.net

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved RPM 4.20 to land for the Fedora 41 cycle that will debut in H2'2024. RPM 4.20 is a significant update for this widely-used packaging format...

Queued as part of the ARM64 patches in the various "-next" branches ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window is a script for being able to build Flat Image Trees (FITs). A Flat Image Tree is the compiled Linux kernel paired with the associated DeviceTree content that is compressed and easily then distributed and executed by capable bootloaders...

Linux 6.10 To Add Script For Building ARM64 Flat Image Trees  Phoronix

Merged on Tuesday into GNOME Mutter is NVIDIA secondary GPU copy acceleration support that allows for much better performance of hybrid laptops featuring integrated graphics paired with a discrete NVIDIA GPU...