Open-source News

For those wondering what the buzz was about earlier this month when there was word of a high quality GPU compression codec going open-source, details on that have now been revealed...

Well known open-source AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver developer Marek Olšák has been focusing recently on improvements to glthread for OpenGL threading that is generally able to offer better performance...

Linux Mint Released LMDE 4 Called “Debbie”, Based on Debian OS  TechDator

Debian is the latest Linux distribution flipping on WireGuard within their kernel builds...

Debian Testing Is Enabling WireGuard Within Their Linux Kernel Build  Phoronix

Debian Testing Is Enabling WireGuard Within Their Linux Kernel Build  Phoronix

Even Apple is on the bandwagon of transitioning select C code-bases of theirs over to Rust as well as expanding the code they are writing in Rust...

Even Apple Is Interested In Migrating Their C Code To Rust  Phoronix

As another update to their Wine-based Proton 5.0 series for powering Steam Play, Valve has been readying their next update for enhancing the experience of running Windows games on Linux under Steam...

ESET Releases Latest Version of ESET Endpoint Antivirus for Linux  IT News Online

Community building is table stakes in the success of any open source project. Even outside of open source, community is considered a competitive advantage for businesses in many industries—from retail, to gaming, to fitness. (For a deeper dive, see "When community becomes your competitive advantage" in the Harvard Business Review.)

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TrueNAS 12.0 CORE, which up until the new TrueNAS / FreeNAS branding unification would have been called FreeNAS, will in its next release support ZFS async copy-on-write functionality...

Tips for Remote Troubleshooting Mac, Windows, and Linux Systems  Security Boulevard

Disclosed last week was the Load Value Injection attack affecting Intel CPUs and requiring new mitigations. While the GNU Assembler mitigation options were quickly added, on the LLVM toolchain side the developers there continue evaluating the proposed LVI mitigation along with another option that looks to mitigate more than just LVI. The "SESES" proposal looks more broadly at mitigating CPU side-channel vulnerabilities but with shattering performance hits...

Intel's open-source team responsible for their Rust-based cloud hypervisor today issued a big feature update...

Compact, rugged Whiskey Lake module supports Linux  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux Mint Officially Releases Debian Edition LMDE 4 "Debbie"  Fossbytes

Zorin OS Core Makes GNOME More Comfortable  LinuxInsider.com

Linux Fu: Mapping Files  Hackaday

DXVK 1.6 is out in time for weekend gamers wishing to enjoy recent Windows games on Linux...