Open-source News

Linux brings tired computers up to speed  Tech Gaming Report

KDE Plasma might soon be the best Linux desktop on the market  TechRepublic

How to install Wireshark on Debian 11 Bullseye Linux  Linux Shout

Nasty Linux Kernel Stack Overflow Flaw Found and Patched – The New Stack  thenewstack.io

Intel Alder Lake + Radeon Linux Gaming Performance Holds Steady With 5.17 Kernel  Phoronix

After Linux 5.16 brought performance improvements that helped the latest "Alder Lake" processors, the performance on the in-development Linux 5.17 is looking steady compared to the current kernel. Here is a look at the Linux 5.15 through 5.17 Git performance for an Intel Core i9 12900K with Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics for gaming performance...

Cyber Security Today, Feb. 21, 2022 - Data on Internet Society members exposed, an alert to Linux administrators, Microsoft Teams users get tricked and more  IT World Canada

Internxt is an Open Source Encrypted Cloud Service With Native Linux Client  It's FOSS

FreeDOS 1.2 released back on Christmas 2016 and now a half-decade later has finally been succeeded by FreeDOS 1.3 for advancing this open-source alternative to MS-DOS...

The upcoming Linux 5.18 kernel cycle will bring a number of improvements for Apple keyboards -- both for the Apple Magic Keyboard and the keyboards integrated with their various MacBook computers...

Project Zero finds that Linux developers fix security flaws faster than Apple, Google or Microsoft  BetaNews

AMD engineers on Sunday night sent out a patch series getting x2APIC virtualization "x2AVIC" support for the AMD SVM driver with the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)...

LLVMpipe as the software OpenGL implementation that runs atop the CPU and Lavapipe as the Vulkan equivalent have seen a recent uptick in activity...

Linux Release Roundup #22.8: Slax 11.2, OBS Studio 27.2, Kali Linux 2022.1, and More Releases  It's FOSS News

How to install Linux on your PlayStation 4 and what you can expect  Geeky Gadgets

6 Reasons to Try Nitrux OS  It's FOSS News

Debuting last December was Mold 1.0 as a high performance, modern linker to compete with GNU's Gold and LLVM's LLD. That project was started by Rui Ueyama who originally worked on LLVM's LLD and has been working aggressively on performance optimizations. Sunday night marked the release of Mold 1.1 as the latest major update to this linker...

One of the things that open source prides itself on is choice. You don't have to settle for anything you don't love. You can change your file manager, your text editor, and you even have over 24 desktops to choose from. As with many Linux users, I was pretty flexible about the desktop I used at first. I didn't know what I liked at first, because I hadn't tried everything available to me.

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Whether you're interested in them as part of your job, for future job opportunities, or just out of interest in new technology, containers can seem pretty overwhelming to even an experienced systems administrator. So how do you actually get started with containers? And what's the path from containers to Kubernetes? Also, why is there a path from one to the other at all? As you might expect, the best place to start is the beginning.

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Linux Developers Fix Bugs Faster Than Apple & Google: Report  Fossbytes