Open-source News

JumpCloud joins the patch management crowd, starting with Windows and Mac updates  The Register

A few years ago Mozilla started Firefox Reality as a browser focused on AR/VR mixed reality. Like Mozilla's other failed projects, Firefox Reality is being tossed into the scrap bin next to the likes of Firefox OS and Firefox Send. But thanks to the nature of open-source, the work is being continued on independently by Igalia with the new Wolvic project...

Linux Lite Gets Updated to Version 5.8  Tom's Hardware

Flutter 2.10 arrives with stable support for building Windows apps  XDA Developers

Zorin OS 16 Education is a Linux Distro That Makes Learning More Accessible  It's FOSS News

System76 Linux workstation looks ready for gaming, too  Ars Technica

System76 Linux laptop unites AMD, Nvidia for up to $3,442  Ars Technica

OpenStack-to-the-edge darling StarlingX hits 6.0, makes useful config tweaks  The Register

OpenStack-to-the-edge darling StarlingX hits 6.0, makes useful config tweaks  The Register

PipeWire 0.3.45 is out today as the newest update to this audio/video stream server that is becoming increasingly common on the Linux desktop...

FINOS, the Fintech Open Source Foundation and Financial Sector Project of The Linux Foundation, Announces Name Change and 2022 Dates for Open Source in Finance Forum  PRNewswire

How to Play Your Music Collection From the Linux Command Line  How-To Geek

Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS Reaches End of Life After Six Years of Support  9to5Linux

How to install Oracle Java 8 64-bit Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04 LTS  Linux Shout

Squeezing More Performance Out Of An Intel Celeron "Alder Lake" CPU With A Faster Linux OS  Phoronix

Recently I tested the Intel Celeron G6900 Alder Lake processor as a $40~60 CPU and the lowest-end SKU as part of the latest-generation Intel desktop CPU line-up. Those tests were carried out on Ubuntu Linux (as usual) for that dual-core processor and was an interesting little processor for the price and for the lack of any AMD Zen 3 competition currently at that low price point. If needing to make daily use of such an Intel Celeron system, switching out your Linux distribution can help. In this article are benchmarks of the Celeron G6900 across Arch-based Manjaro, Intel's Clear Linux, Fedora Workstation 35, Ubuntu 22.04 daily, and openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Turn tabs into spaces on Linux and vice versa  Network World

Not only is Microsoft after having OpenGL and OpenCL layered atop Direct3D 12 for usage by Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) or where the host has no native GL/CL drivers available, but they are also after Vulkan support on top of D3D12. It's looking like Mesa may be close to merging the "Dozen" driver that provides this preliminary Vulkan on Direct3D 12 support...

It took them until 2022, but Arch Linux now provides debug packages for easing the process of debugging software packages rather than having to recompile the software yourself with debug symbols included...

Version 2.35 of the GNU C Library (Glibc) is now available with a variety of changes to this crucial low-level library for Linux systems...