Open-source News

Why Linux Mint Is My Main Distro  How-To Geek

The Doom-in-a-PDF dev is back – this time with Linux  The Register

The GNOME 48 Beta release was officially announced this morning as the latest stepping stone toward the official GNOME 48 desktop release due out in mid-March...

Intel Killer E5000 Ethernet Support For Linux 6.15  Phoronix

The upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle will be adding support for Intel Killer E5000 Ethernet...

Btrfs-Progs 6.13 was released this weekend as the newest routine update to the user-space utilities for the Btrfs file-system...

Btrfs-Progs 6.13 Released With "mkfs.btrfs --compress" Support  Phoronix

While it's an old language, in recent months there's been a renewed effort over a COBOL language front-end for the GCC compiler. There's been out-of-tree COBOL support for GCC that is working to get into the mainline GNU Compiler Collection codebase. This weekend saw the latest iteration of those patches amounting to 134k lines of new code...

Project leader of 'Asahi Linux,' which aims to port Linux to Macs with Apple silicon, resigns, explaining the circumstances so far  GIGAZINE（ギガジン）

Open source maintainers are really feeling the squeeze  The Register

Following last week's FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 1 release to kick off this next FreeBSD 13 point release that will also end the series, FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 2 is out this weekend for testing...

Microsoft Windows 11 is a disaster: Should you fix it with Talon or finally switch to Linux with Oreon 10?  BetaNews

What Is Arch Linux, and How Is It Different From Other Versions of Linux?  How-To Geek

What Is Arch Linux, and How Is It Different From Other Versions of Linux?  Review Geek

Help test Fedora on Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) before official release  BetaNews

openSUSE Replaces AppArmor with SELinux on New Tumbleweed Installations  9to5Linux

Developer for Linux on Apple Silicon Macs resigns, citing ‘major failure of leadership’  9to5Mac

How to Use ncdu to Find Disk-Hogging Directories in Linux  Review Geek

How to Use ncdu to Find Disk-Hogging Directories in Linux  How-To Geek

One of the great new features of Linux 6.14 is the NTSYNC driver being completed for better emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives so that software like Wine and Proton (Steam Play) can provide for better performance when running Windows games on Linux. But it turns out an oversight up to now has meant that in practice it's not really too usable out-of-the-box...