Open-source News

An early change made this week to Ubuntu 22.10 in its early development state is replacing the PulseAudio sound server with PipeWire...

The folks from the Polish open-source firmware consulting firmware 3mdeb are hosting another "OSF vPub" where they discuss open-source firmware efforts over beers in this currently-virtual event...

HarfBuzz 4.3 was released on Friday as this open-source library that serves as a text shaping engine used by GNOME/GTK, KDE/Qt, Android, Flutter, Java, all major web browsers, and other software...

Following this week's KDE Plasma 5.25 beta release, KDE developers turned their attention to bug fixing and they accomplished a lot...

Wine 7.9 was released on Friday as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

Microsoft Detects a Significant Growth in Linux XorDDos Malware  Tech Times

HP chooses Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux for its upcoming Dev One laptop — could System76 be an acquisition target?  BetaNews

To date Pop!_OS has been System76's own Ubuntu derivative pre-loaded onto their various laptops and desktops. Rather interestingly, HP is preparing to launch a new laptop that will make use of Pop!_OS...

The 10 Best Linux Apps for Musicians  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux malware is booming, so stay secure, Microsoft warns  TechRadar

Linux malware is booming, so stay secure, Microsoft warns  TechRadar

It's been a fairly smooth week and Linus Torvalds is expected this Sunday to formally release the Linux 5.18 stable kernel. Unless he has any last minute reservations and decides to stretch it out an extra week, Linux 5.18 will be out as stable and with it comes a great deal of new features -- especially for benefiting AMD and Intel products from CPUs to GPUs...

Mirai Malware for Linux Double Down on Stronger Chips  CrowdStrike

New ‘pymafka’ malicious package drops Cobalt Strike on macOS, Windows, Linux  Security Boulevard

How Memory Allocation Works on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Last week the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed switched to the new GCC 12 as the default system compiler and rebuilt its package set under this annual feature upgrade to the GNU Compiler Collection. For those curious here are some benchmarks before and after that GCC 12 transition for openSUSE Tumbleweed.

'Psychonauts 2' is coming to macOS and Linux next week  NME

'Psychonauts 2' is coming to macOS and Linux next week  NME

SDxCentral 2-Minute Weekly Wrap: OpenSSF, Linux Foundation Want to Replace C, C++  SDxCentral

While Mesa's RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver continues seeing a lot of activity on a near daily basis by developers from Valve, Red Hat, Google, and other independent contributors, AMD continues with AMDVLK as their official open-source Vulkan driver derived from their internal, closed-source Vulkan driver for Windows and Linux. Out today is AMDVLK 2022.Q2.2 as the latest open-source snapshot of this Vulkan driver...