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Serpent OS is the original Linux distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus Linux fame and has been pursuing its own package management system and new innovations in the Linux distribution landscape. While there has been recent success and new development builds coming out, feature development on Serpent OS is expected to slowdown now due to a lack of project funding...

Serpent OS Development Slowing Down Amid Lack Of Funding  Phoronix

Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new web hosting  Ars Technica

Linux Foundation warns of US OFAC sanctions  InfoWorld

In addition to the FreeBSD Foundation funding work on s0ix sleep state support as part of their initiative to improve FreeBSD's support for modern laptops, they have also been funding work on a number of other objectives, including better WiFi driver coverage. A milestone now being achieved for 2025 is getting a proof-of-concept Intel 802.11 a/b/g WiFi driver support working for this BSD operating system...

Semgrep non-drama, Facebook hates Linux – Vulns in Cars, Cell Towers, M365, and more – ESW #392  SC Media

Red Hat's Kpatch, Oracle's Ksplice, and SUSE's kGraft are the most well known solutions currently for Linux kernel live-patching primarily for applying security patches to running Linux servers. It wasn't on my bingo card for insurance giant GEICO working baking their own Linux kernel live-patching solution, but they announced it this weekend and it will soon be open-source...

GEICO Insurance Company Developing TuxTape - A New Linux Kernel Livepatching Solution  Phoronix

Cloud Hypervisor 44 is now available as the newest version of this security and cloud minded Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) that operates atop Linux's KVM and the Microsoft MSHV Hypervisor...

Linux Foundation’s L3AF brings zero-downtime updates to eBPF network management  Network World

MAME Update Brings Speed Boost and More Retro Games  How-To Geek

MAME Update Brings Speed Boost and More Retro Games  Review Geek

Three New Intel Battlemage Device IDs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver  Phoronix

Three more PCI device IDs were added today to the Intel open-source Mesa 3D graphics driver code for Battlemage that could be for future higher-end products or along the lines of Data Center GPU Flex Series or other products...

Linux 6.14: Rust milestone, AMD and Intel updates, and more  Developer News

The Linux tool you forgot about: How Synaptic makes software installation a breeze  ZDNet

'Tiny' Linux 6.14-rc1 released: What's new in 500,000 lines of modified code  ZDNet

Alpine Linux In An Infrastructure Crisis With Equinix Metal Sunsetting  Phoronix

Last week I wrote about the crisis plaguing X.Org / FreeDesktop.org with losing out on their cloud/server infrastructure due to losing out on their free server resources provided by Equinix at the end of April. It's not only FreeDesktop.org and all those hosted projects now rushing to find hosting alternatives and sponsorships to cover new costs, but it turns out the Alpine Linux project is also in a similar position...

Ardour 8.11 Open-Source DAW Is Out to Fix a Critical Workflow-Blocking Bug on Linux  9to5Linux