Open-source News

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has granted approval of the change proposal for shipping Fedora Linux WSL images to enhance the user experience for those wanting to run this Linux distribution within the confines of Microsoft's Windows 11 WSL2 environment...

Fedora 42 Cleared To Ship WSL Images For Easy Windows Subsystem For Linux Use  Phoronix

OpenZFS 2.3 Is Out with Linux 6.12 Support, RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup, and More  9to5Linux

Linux Foundation Announces Initiative to Support Chromium Ecosystem  TechRepublic

Parallels Can Now Run x86 Windows and Linux on Apple Silicon Mac  How-To Geek

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 45: Free as in Beer  GamingOnLinux

Last month with the launch of Intel Battlemage with the Arc B580 graphics card, there was fairly nice open-source GPU compute performance but with some outliers... Today it's a pleasure to report that with the newest open-source GPU compute stack as of this past week, there are some nixe Xe2 / Battlemage improvements for enhancing the performance of some OpenCL workloads and also correcting the performance of some workloads that were in poor standing on launch day.

Parallels 20.2 trials x86 VMs on Apple Silicon, bringing Linux & Windows 11 support  AppleInsider

openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Offers Wayland Support for the LXQt Desktop  9to5Linux

Rootkit Malware Exploiting Multiple Vunlerability to Control Linux Systems Remotely  CybersecurityNews

This new Linux handheld PC could be a tinkerer's dream come true  ZDNet

Oracle today announced the Oracle Linux Enhanced Diagnostics (OLED) as their newest project that aims to enhance the debugability of the Linux kernel...

Microsoft pulls a Windows as it breaks Linux on Intel CPUs and angers AMD in the process  Neowin

This portable, lightweight Linux distro has an old-school feel  ZDNet

How to create system restore points on Linux with Timeshift - and why you should  ZDNet

The "48.alpha" releases of GNOME Shell and Mutter were tagged on Sunday for this week's release of the GNOME 48 Alpha in leading up to the GNOME 48.0 stable release in mid-March...

DXVK v2.5.3 released with more improvements for Windows games on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Philip Rebohle working for Valve has just released DXVK 2.5.3 as the newest update to this Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 implementation over the Vulkan API that is used for enjoying older Windows games on Linux...

Say goodbye to Windows 11 and switch to MX Linux 23.5 for a faster PC  BetaNews

Last year an AMD engineer proposed the notion of "Attack Vector Controls" for the Linux kernel to re-think how the CPU security mitigation handling is done and making it easier for system administrators/users to toggle the mitigations they are concerned about or not...