Open-source News

New Cicada3301 virus attacks Windows and Linux  gagadget.com

New Patches Bring Rust Linux Kernel Support To MIPS  Phoronix

When it comes to the Rust programming language support within the Linux kernel one of the limitations is that the CPU architecture support isn't as widespread. Currently Rust for Linux supports x86_64, AArch64 (ARM64) little-endian, LoongArch, and RISC-V. While those cover the main targets, POWER is notably missing and many other niche CPU architectures supported by the Linux kernel especially for aging platforms. Patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list would extend the Rust support to MIPS...

Windows and Linux vulnerable to oddly familiar Cicada3301 ransomware  Notebookcheck.net

Rockchip 3566  Hackaday

A Clean Linux Installation For An Android TV Box  Hackaday

A Clean Linux Installation For An Android TV Box  Hackaday

Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense”  Ars Technica

Google announced today that the Android 15 source code has been released to the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP)...

Rust for Linux Maintainer Calls It Quits Over Project Drama  WebProNews

While there are more than 74k packages available within Debian's package management system for x86_64 systems, not all of the packages are well maintained and a portion of them haven't seen any maintenance/updates in ages. Debian developers have recently begun discussing how to begin removing more of those long unmaintained packages from the archive...

Audacity 3.6.2 Audio Editor Adds Legacy Effects Section, Fixes Multiple Bugs  9to5Linux

Intel formally announced their Core Ultra 200V series "Lunar Lake" laptop processors today in Berlin...

Intel Launches Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" While Linux Support Settling  Phoronix

7 things I never do after I install Linux (and why you shouldn't either)  ZDNet

Merged today for the GCC 15 compiler in development and potentially for back-porting to the next GCC 14 point release is a second round of AMD Zen 5 "znver5" tuning...

Now that Linux 6.12 will enable Intel Battlemage and Lunar Lake graphics by default for the out-of-the-box kernel graphics driver support, the user-space Intel Mesa drivers with Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV Vulkan are moving ahead to enable their support out-of-the-box too. This has been merged for Mesa 24.3-devel to have Battlemage discrete GPUs enjoying OpenGL and Vulkan support while it's also marked for back-porting to the Mesa 24.2 stable series...

Intel Battlemage OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Support Enabled By Default For Linux  Phoronix

Brace for glitches and GRUB grumbles as Ubuntu 24.04.1 lands  The Register

Samba 4.21 is out as the newest version of this SMB networking protocol implementation commonly used on Linux systems for file and print services interaction with Windows systems...