Open-source News

Red Hat partners with Nutanix to deliver open hybrid multicloud solutions  Help Net Security

7 Tips to Customize the Look of Your Linux Terminal  MUO - MakeUseOf

Which Linux Desktop Should You Use? KDE vs. GNOME  MUO - MakeUseOf

LemonDuck Shows Malware Evolution, Endangering Linux and Microsoft  Illinoisnewstoday.com

At the end of 2019 a rework to the Linux kernel's pipe code saw some of its logic reworked to only wake up readers if needed and avoid a possible thundering herd problem. But it turns out some Android libraries abused the functionality and this has led to broken Android applications when moving to recent kernels. While the user-space software is in the wrong, the kernel is sticking to its policy of not breaking user-space and as such Linus Torvalds has changed the code's behavior for Linux 5.14 and to be back-ported to prior stable kernels...

Linux Changes Pipe Behavior After Breaking Problematic Android Apps On Recent Kernels  Phoronix

Instructions: Cut videos with Kdenlive on Linux and Windows  Market Research Telecast

It's looking like the new NTFS file-system kernel driver developed by Paragon Software and over the past year revised more than two dozen times could be ready for mainlining in the kernel in about one month's time when the Linux 5.15 merge window opens. Everything is finally aligning and looking like the code is in good enough shape for its initial merging though not necessarily replacing the existing NTFS driver at this point...

The New NTFS Driver Looks Like It Will Finally Be Ready With Linux 5.15  Phoronix

As a weekend blast from the past, the Linux 5.14 kernel saw some Alpha CPU architecture updates -- including various fixes and the removal of an Alpha-specific binary loader for running a decades dated x86 software emulator...

Linux 5.14 Drops Old DEC Alpha-Specific Binary Loader Used For x86 Binary Emulation  Phoronix

The 10 Best Websites to Run Linux in a Web Browser  MUO - MakeUseOf

Betanews : Linux Mint 20.3 coming Christmas 2021  BetaNews

First mentions of AMD RDNA1 "Cyan Skillfish" iGPU for future Ryzen APUs appear in Linux code  Notebookcheck.net

@ All who volunteer their time and and assistance to our members . . . - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

For those looking to purchase a high-end Linux-friendly web camera for your home office or other environment, there are a few more options now compatible with Linux's fwupd if interested in having the capability of updating the camera firmware under Linux...

Microsoft just made it even easier to install Windows Subsystem for Linux in Windows 11 (and 10)  BetaNews

The real-time (RT) patches for the Linux kernel still appear a ways off from mainline but at least there is movement on this important patch series for embedded and other use-cases needing real-time support...

Linspire-based Linux distro Freespire embraces cloud apps with 'an entirely new direction'  BetaNews

While KDE on Wayland has generally enjoyed good HiDPI support, it's now taken until 2021 for KDE's X11 HiDPI support to be in a position of greater usability after evolving over the years...