Open-source News

Open Infrastructure Foundation to Join the Linux Foundation, Strengthening Open Source Collaboration  ARC Advisory Group

While there is Kpatch, Ksplice, and other live patching solutions already in use for patching a running Linux kernel for deploying security updates without downtime, Google engineers are developing the Live Update Orchestrator as a new means of transitioning to a new updated kernel with minimal downtime...

Linux developer SeongJae Park has posted a set of patches for the Linux kernel's wonderful DAMON code to provide for self-tuned memory tiering that "just works" and is racking up some nice performance wins...

DAMON Self-Tuned Memory Tiering Shows Nice Improvement For Linux Servers  Phoronix

The Google Chrome web browser is moving away from the FreeType font rendering library and instead pursuing their Skrifa project that is written in Rust for better memory safety around handling fonts on the web...

Miracle-WM 0.5 released on Wednesday as their first update of 2025 for this Mir-based Wayland tiling window manager. With this release comes a number of new features and other enhancements...

Asahi Linux loses another prominent dev as GPU guru calls it quits  The Register

Linux Kernel Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability Let Attackers Escalate Privileges  CybersecurityNews

Kali Linux 2025.1a drops with theme refresh, Kali NetHunter updates  Help Net Security

Linux Kernel Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Escalate Privileges via Out-of-Bounds Write  GBHackers

Kali Linux 2025.1a Released: New Tools and Desktop Environment Upgrades  GBHackers

FOSS Weekly #25.12: GNOME 48 and GIMP 3.0 Released, Switching to IceWM, Ollama Commands and More Linux Stuff  It's FOSS

Kali Linux 2025.1a Released With New Tool & Updates to Desktop Environments  CybersecurityNews

Kali Linux 2025.1a Released With New Tool & Updates to Desktop Environments  CybersecurityNews

7 Criminally-Underrated Linux Apps I Can't Live Without  MSN

SoftBank Group just announced they will be acquiring Ampere Computing, the leader in ARM64 server processors that has come under increasing pressure with more of the public cloud service providers like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon/AWS turning to their own in-house ARM64 server processor designs...

IBM To Donate Three AI-Related Projects to Linux Foundation  The New Stack

Kali Linux 2025.1a released with 1 new tool, annual theme refresh  BleepingComputer

Kali Linux 2025.1 Ethical Hacking Distro Is Here with Xfce 4.20, Refreshed Theme  9to5Linux

GNOME 48 Linux desktop launches with performance boosts but System76’s Cosmic is a rising threat  BetaNews