Open-source News

The Linux Foundation Establish an Open Standard for Interoperability among AI Agents  iblnews.org

Steam Survey issues prevented the survey results from being posted on the evening of the 1st as is traditionally done, but the results were just uploaded now to the Steam website. Steam on Linux usage dipped slightly but overall remains healthy with much excitement still around the Steam Deck and SteamOS efforts...

Steam On Linux Usage Dips Slightly For June, AMD Linux CPU Usage Hits 69%  Phoronix

Following last month's release of Debian Installer Trixie RC1 as the installer for the upcoming Debian 13.0 release, a second release candidate was issued today for testing...

The ZLUDA open-source effort that started off a half-decade ago as a drop-in CUDA implementation for Intel GPUs and then for several years was funded by AMD as a CUDA implementation for Radeon GPUs atop ROCm and then open-sourced but then reverted has been continuing to push along a new path since last year. The current take on ZLUDA is a multi-vendor CUDA implementation for non-NVIDIA GPUs for AI workloads and more. More progress was made during Q2 on this effort...

7 GNOME extensions I could never switch to Windows and live without  XDA

Linux+ Certification  CompTIA

FLOSS Weekly Episode 839: I Want To Get Paid Twice  Hackaday

Hackers Actively Attacking Linux SSH Servers to Deploy TinyProxy or Sing-box Proxy Tools  CyberSecurityNews

ProtonPlus makes managing Proton versions on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck simple  GamingOnLinux

AMD Posts Linux Patches For New AI Engine Driver "amd-ai-engine"  Phoronix

Not to be confused with the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for the Ryzen AI NPUs, AMD software engineers today posted patches for review on the "amd-ai-engine" accelerator driver. This new AMD AI Engine driver is for supporting the IP found on their Versal adaptive SoCs...

For those curious about the direction of Mozilla Firefox web browser performance over the past year and a half, here are web browser benchmarks for every Firefox release from Firefox 120 in November 2023 through the newest Firefox 140 stable and Firefox 140 beta releases from a few days ago. Every major Firefox release was benchmarked on the same Ubuntu Linux system with AMD Ryzen 9 9950X for evaluating the performance and memory usage of this open-source web browser.

8 ways every Linux distro could make things a lot easier for newbies  ZDNET

CMPXCHG8B  Hackaday

Why The Latest Linux Kernel Won’t Run On Your 486 And 586 Anymore  Hackaday

These 6 features in Kali Linux help me keep my network security in top shape  XDA

A few days ago Wayback was announced as an X11 compatibility layer for X11 desktops environments leveraging a rootful XWayland server. While currently experimental, the hope is that it will be production-ready next year and Alpine Linux is looking at using it by default for its X11 environment...

Wayback Hopes To Be Ready Next Year With Alpine Linux Planning To Use It By Default  Phoronix

Cybercriminals Exploit Linux SSH Servers to Install TinyProxy and Sing-box Proxies  Cyber Press