Open-source News

Phytium D2000 ARMv8 Mini PC runs Linux, supports gaming with Box64 emulator  CNX Software

AWS commits to update its own Linux every other year  The Register

How to Fix “Command Not Found” Error in Linux  BollyInside

Amazon Web Services has made Amazon Linux 2022 now publicly available in preview form as the newest version of their Linux distribution...

Amazon Linux 2022 Released - Based On Fedora With Changes  Phoronix

Libreboot 20211122 has been released as the downstream fork of Coreboot on providing fully free software boot firmware support...

Libreboot 20211122 Rebases Against Newer Coreboot, Drops "Very Bloated" TianoCore  Phoronix

British Linux PC vendor Star Labs now has support for their StarBook Mk V laptop upstreamed into Coreboot, which marks their second product having this achievement...

Linux replaces Windows in one German state's bid for software independence  Windows Central

Last year with Intel "Tiger Lake" was the introduction of Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET) for helping fend off return/jump-oriented attacks and as part of CET is hardware Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) support. There have been patch series working to implement CET's IBT support but after having gone through 30 rounds of review and not being merged, a new take on it was submitted today...

Imunify360 Bug Leaves Linux Web Servers Open to Code Execution, Takeover  Threatpost

Get Windows 11 on your MacBook for less with 20% off Parallels Desktop for Black Friday  TechRadar

ASRock Rack's ROME2D16-2T Makes For A Great EPYC Server Board  Phoronix

For those looking to assemble your own AMD EPYC 7002/7003 series 2P server or workstation, the ASRock Rack ROME2D16-2T we have been testing out for the past quarter and it's been holding up well across our daily benchmarking and other Linux and BSD tasks. The board has been working out very well and is currently available from retailers like NewEgg.

3 Ways to Change Hostname on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa Linux  H2S Media

Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should: Install Linux on NTFS – on the same partition as Windows  The Register

New Golang-based Linux Malware Targeting eCommerce Websites  The Hacker News

New Golang-based Linux Malware Targeting eCommerce Websites  Internet

Microsoft's latest work in the area of open-source graphics drivers with the Mesa stack is for adding Direct3D 12 video acceleration support...

Going back two years already ASpeed developers have been working on prepping AST2600 support for Linux, their seventh generation server management processor / BMC. The latest open-source driver activity points to the AST2600 having DisplayPort support...