Open-source News

Debian-based Window Maker Live 12.8 comes with recompiled packages and GUI enhancements  Notebookcheck.net

Optimizing Linux MD Bitmap Code Yields 89% Throughput Boost For Quad SSDs  Phoronix

IBM engineers announced they are deprecating the upstream CXL and CXLFLASH Linux kernel drivers with plans to then remove the drivers from the mainline kernel the following cycle. Before getting too worked up when seeing the "cxl: Deprecate driver" patch, this is about the Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) that predates the Compute Express Link...

The Servo browser engine project is out with their latest monthly status update to outline improvements made to this Rust-based open-source engine...

NVIDIA published EGL-Wayland 1.1.17 on Monday as the newest update to this Wayland EGL external platform library to provide client-side Wayland support to EGL atop the EGLDevice and EGLStream extensions...

Proton Experimental adds initial speech synthesis support, lots of game fixes for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Here's How Linux Mint is Silently Redefining User Experience  It's FOSS News

Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) gets funding from Sovereign Tech Agency  GamingOnLinux

openSUSE Levels Up as a Better Gaming Distro With A New Built-in GPU Tool  It's FOSS News

Naver Cloud releases sustainable free linux distribution  Telecompaper EN

The Rise of Linux. This story is all about the focus and… | by hamza alam | Dec, 2024  Medium

Critical Vulnerability in Python Affected MacOS or Linux Leads to Exploiting The Memory  CybersecurityNews

Smartphone Runs Home Server  Hackaday

South Korean web giant Naver creates its own Linux distro  The Register

Gaming on openSUSE gets a huge boost with built in GPU switching  Notebookcheck.net

Back in May for the Linux 6.10 kernel the initial bits of the NTSYNC driver was upstreamed for helping to emulate the Windows NT synchronization primitives so Windows games running under Wine/Proton (such as Valve's Steam Play) can enjoy a very nice performance boost. That NTSYNC code for Linux 6.10 wasn't yet in functioning shape and now a half-year later the newest NTSYNC patch series has been sent out for review...

Manjaro 24.2 "Yonada" launches with the latest LTS Linux kernel and multiple updated packages  Notebookcheck.net

This Linux distribution surprised me with its minimalistic yet highly-functional operating system  ZDNet

GNU Shepherd as a service manager for both system and user services that is used by Guix and relying on Guile Scheme has finally reached version 1.0. For those not pleased with systemd, GNU Shepherd can be used as an init system and now has finally crossed the version 1.0 milestone after 21 years of development...

GNU Shepherd 1.0 Service Manager Released As "Solid Tool" Alternative To systemd  Phoronix