Open-source News

What Version of RHEL am I Using?  Linux Journal

Red Hat Announces General Availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5  HPCwire

14 security vulnerabilities reported in BusyBox Linux utility  HackRead

Sick of Windows? How to test-drive Linux  TechRepublic

Windows Subsystem for Linux now supports USB devices  TechRadar

The annual OpenZFS Developer Summit wrapped up yesterday with interesting talks on this open-source, cross-platform ZFS file-system implementation...

For fans of Jolla's Linux-based smartphone platform, Sailfish OS 4.3 "Suomenlinna" is out today...

As System76 starts work on its own Linux desktop world, GNOME guy opens blog, engages flame mode  The Register

Seagate engineers yesterday used the Open Compute Project Global Summit for the first public demonstration of a native NVMe hard drive. The hope is moving forward both HDDs and SSDs in the data center will consolidate to using the NVMe interface...

Posted last year for introduction in the GCC 11 stable compiler released earlier this year was the initial Alder Lake "alderlake" target. Now that Intel 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake" processors are officially out, Intel engineers have updated their Alder Lake tuning for the GNU Compiler Collection to yield more efficient performance with GCC 12 due out in Q2'2022...

How to completely remove a Linux distro from WSL  Windows Central

Guide: Install BackBox Linux distribution as a virtual machine  BollyInside

How to Mount Bitlocker Encrypted Windows Partition on Linux  It's FOSS

Running the past two days was the annual OpenZFS Developer Summit. One of the most interesting presentations from this virtual event was on the status of DirectIO (O_DIRECT) support for the OpenZFS file-system and the performance boost it can offer in relevant areas...

While there is already LLVMpipe Gallium3D for software acceleration of OpenGL on CPUs within Mesa, if wanting to increase the layers of abstraction you could also use Zink for OpenGL over Vulkan and by way of Lavapipe have that software accelerated on the CPU. With Mesa 22.0-devel, that route of Zink on CPUs is now faster...

Microsoft goes after Chromebooks with Windows 11 SE and the $249 Surface Laptop SE - comments  GSMArena.com

Merged last week into the Linux 5.16 kernel is improved Retpoline "return trampoline" code...

Keep calm and learn Rust: We'll be seeing a lot more of the language in Linux very soon  The Register

Keep calm and learn Rust: We'll be seeing a lot more of the language in Linux very soon  The Register

14 New Security Flaws Found in BusyBox Linux Utility for Embedded Devices  Internet