Open-source News

Linux Attackers Take Advantage of Unpatched Vulnerabilities  Security Boulevard

Linux celebrates its 30th anniversary - Computer - .Geeks  SHSU Houstonian Online

Jolla hits profitability ahead of turning ten, eyes growth beyond mobile  TechCrunch

Going back to June of last year there has been work on Intel bringing up Advanced Matrix Extension (AMX) that will debut with next-gen Xeon "Sapphire Rapids" processors as a new programming paradigm. Over the past year they have published patches for the Linux kernel and open-source toolchains with GCC and LLVM Clang. One year later, the AMX kernel patches are up to their tenth revision but will miss out on the imminent Linux 5.15 merge window...

It was just last month that the Linux kernel saw a pipe code change to address a user-space regression due to the kernel's policy about not breaking the user-space even if that non-kernel code is in the wrong. A similar kernel regression fix was merged today...

You can request money to improve the security of Linux and open source software - Linux News  BollyInside

The work I initially wrote about last week for AMD optimizing their C3 entry handling to avoid an unnecessary cache flush will now be picked up for the upcoming Linux 5.15 kernel cycle...

OpenShot 2.6 has been released as the newest version of this non-linear open-source video editing system for Linux...

Gaming Time? Top 3 VR Games Available on Linux  Linux Journal

Linux turns 30: ​Linus Torvalds on his "just a hobby" operating system  ZDNet

Install Chromium browser Debian 11 Bullseye - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Crypto Mining Has Roused Cybercriminal Interest in Breaking Linux: Trend Micro Report  Toolbox

Take advantage of eBPF's monitoring capabilities on Linux  TechTarget

Choose a Linux shell and tweak it  BollyInside

Hackers are targeting outdated versions of Linux in the cloud  BollyInside

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

Earlier this month the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G and Ryzen 7 5700G desktop APUs officially launched for retail availability. Unfortunately we were not seeded with any review sample for being able to conduct Linux testing on these Zen 3 APUs with Vega graphics, but ended up purchasing one afterwards due to the number of readers inquiring about the Linux support. Here are some preliminary benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G.

Today marks the 30th birthday of Linux since it was announced by Linus Torvalds. Meanwhile in just a few days the Linux 5.14 kernel is expected to be released as stable. Here is a look back at the most prominent features coming for this kernel release...

In the wild, there have been 13 million malware infections on Linux  BollyInside

Ulauncher is a very useful application launcher for Linux  BollyInside