Open-source News

I'm about to dive headfirst into Emacs... and I'm a bit frightened by it  XDA Developers

Firefox for Linux switches to .tar.xz packaging for smaller downloads and faster installation  BetaNews

The first UEFI bootkit malware for Linux has been detected, so users beware  TechRadar

Mozilla Announce Smaller, Faster Browser Downloads For Linux  OMG! Ubuntu!

In mid-October was the release of a developer preview for Ubuntu 24.10 on Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops. Yesterday an updated Ubuntu 24.10 release was made available catering to these popular, current-generation ARM-powered laptops that typically ship with Windows 11 for ARM...

Ubuntu-based elementary OS 8 launches with new dock, refined security, and more  Notebookcheck.net

There are a few Network File System (NFS) enhancements worth pointing out with the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel...

Just Like Windows: Linux Targeted by First-Ever Bootkit  BankInfoSecurity.com

Windows 11 needs to change, or it will lose PC gaming to Linux forever  PCGamesN

Open-source developer Rui Ueyama who is the lead developer of the Mold high performance linker and previously on the LLVM lld linker has written a detailed mailing list post that highlights some observed performance bottlenecks within the Linux kernel...

Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop Environment Released with Revamped Theme, Night Light  9to5Linux

Best virtual machine software of 2024  TechRadar

The Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used by the Intel Compute Runtime for Level Zero and OpenCL GPU compute support as well as being depended upon by the Windows 3D driver stack has now removed platform support up to and including Ice Lake...

Meet Ubuntu Studio, a Linux Distro & Software Toolbox for Creatives  How-To Geek

It's not any shiny new web browser feature but Mozilla announced they are moving from .tar.bz2 packages for their Firefox Linux binaries over to using .tar.xz for a faster and lighter experience...

Mozilla Firefox Switches To .tar.xz For Linux Packaging  Phoronix

Adding to the interesting code building up for next spring's release of the LLVM 20 compiler stack is having the Tenstorrent TT-Ascalon D8 as the newest RISC-V processor target...

Bootkitty: The First UEFI Bootkit Built for Linux Appears!  It's FOSS News

Merged last week back toward the start of the Linux 6.13 merge window were a number of interesting IO_uring enhancements for this first major kernel version of 2025...

IO_uring Enjoys Hybrid IO Polling & Ring Resizing With Linux 6.13  Phoronix