Open-source News

How to Bulk-Convert Audio Files in the Linux Terminal  Yahoo! Voices

Ahead of the Linux 6.12 kernel release expected today there is a last minute "x86/urgent" pull request. Notable with this last minute x86 urgent fixes for Linux 6.12 -- and also to be back-ported to prior kernel versions -- is working around an issue with AMD Ryzen Zen 4 client processors such as the Ryzen 7000/8000 series processors when making use of virtualization that could lead to the host randomly being rebooted...

Linux Fixes Hosts Randomly Rebooting During Virtualization With Ryzen 7000/8000 CPUs  Phoronix

Missing MS Paint on Linux? Here's 5 Alternatives to Try  How-To Geek

Does Gaming on Linux Have a Cheating Problem?  Yahoo! Voices

Does Gaming on Linux Have a Cheating Problem?  How-To Geek

Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface  9to5Linux

Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface  9to5Linux

As part of the SLAB (SLUB) allocator updates pending for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle is a new "slab_strict_numa" option that is reported to further help ARM Linux performance such as for Ampere Computing servers...

Archinstall is the convenient text/CLI-based installer for Arch Linux that allows getting the Linux distribution easily installed in a matter of minutes. Released today is Archinstall 3.0 that overhauls the Arch Linux installer with now using the curses library for rendering of the text interface...

Archinstall 3.0 Overhauls The Text-Based Arch Linux Installer  Phoronix

Rust Coreutils 0.0.28 "uutils" has been released for this implementation of the GNU Coreutils utilities within the Rust programming language for better memory safety and greater robustness. With the Rust Coreutils 0.0.28 there is increased GNU compatibility as well as better performance...

6 Linux Distros for Visually Impaired People  It's FOSS

SimRacing on Linux: A New Reality  BoxThisLap

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...