Open-source News

Bcachefs has now joined the party of various kernel components sending in preemptive pull requests ahead of the Linux 6.13 merge window that is expected to open following the expected Linux 6.12 release on Sunday...

5 Ways to Make Linux Commands Work the Way You Want  How-To Geek

Google software engineer Pasha Tatashin has proposed Page Detective as a new kernel debugging tool that is able to provide greater insight around the usage and mapping of physical memory pages...

Google Engineer Proposes "Page Detective" As New Kernel Debugging Tool  Phoronix

How to Batch Edit Photos in the Linux Terminal  How-To Geek

Following the proposed patches this week to adjust the Linux kernel's module loader to treat the TUXEDO Computers drivers as proprietary due to being GPLv3 licensed rather than GPLv2 to jive with the rest of the upstream kernel code, some of the TUXEDO drivers have now been re-licensed...

TUXEDO Computers Relicenses Some Of Their Drivers To GPLv2  Phoronix

First Look at GenBook RK3588, a Modular ARM-Powered Linux Laptop That Can Easily be Upgraded  TechEBlog

Rustls 0.23.17 is out today as the newest version of this modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language and a great alternative to the likes of OpenSSL...

People in the '80s Thought Unix Would Take Over. Here's Why They Were Right  How-To Geek

The GCC 15 compiler on Friday switched its default C language version from the GNU dialect of C17 to the current C23 standard...

Alongside the VFS pull requests on Friday for case insensitive Tmpfs support and atomic writes for EXT4 and XFS, Christian Brauner also submitted a pull request for introducing some new file abstractions for the Rust programming language within the Linux kernel...

While Plasma 6.3 feature development is continuing, KDE developers this week spent more time fixing bugs and polishing up existing code for ensuring a solid foundation to this open-source desktop...

Released last week was systemd 257-rc1 while succeeding that already is systemd 257-rc2 and it comes with a new tool: systemd-keyutil...

In commemorating twenty years since the release of the highly acclaimed Half-Life 2 game, Valve today released the Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary update with various fixes and other refinements. Half-Life 2 is also being made free-to-own through November 18th for those that never experienced this legendary game...

Linux GPU Configuration Tool 'LACT' adds NVIDIA support  GamingOnLinux

In addition to the EXT4 and XFS atomic write support, another interesting pull request sent in today by Microsoft's Christian Brauner is adding case-insensitive file/folder support for the Tmpfs file-system to benefit use-cases like Wine / Steam Play compatibility layers and sandboxing/container facilities like Flatpak...

Prominent Linux developer Christian Brauner with Microsoft has begun sending out various pull requests of VFS feature changes for the imminent Linux 6.13 merge window. One of the interesting early pull requests is the VFS untorn writes series with getting atomic writes support enabled for the EXT4 and XFS file-system...

Hacking the Linux Kernel in Ada - Part 2  Embedded Computing Design

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 gains security, networking upgrades  Network World