Open-source News

4 Linux skills I simply refuse to learn - but you should  XDA

Two patches queued into the Linux kernel's build system development tree, kbuild-next, would enable the -fms-extensions compiler argument everywhere for allowing GCC and LLVM/Clang to use the Microsoft C Extensions when compiling the Linux kernel. Being in kbuild-next these patches will likely be submitted for the Linux 6.19 kernel merge window next month but remains to be seen if there will be any last minute objections to this change...

Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.5 Released with Support for Debian Trixie  9to5Linux

3 mistakes I made when I first started using Docker  How-To Geek

Unix: OpenSolaris Lives on in This OpenIndiana Fork  The New Stack

I can finally forget about Photoshop on Linux, and it's thanks to this app  XDA

3 games you can play in the Linux terminal  How-To Geek

Queued into the platform-drivers-x86 "for-next" Git branch ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window is introducing the handling for the "Rapid Charge" USB-C charging mode to the Lenovo IdeaPad laptop driver...

Lenovo IdeaPad Linux Driver Adding Support For Rapid Charge Mode  Phoronix

For anyone dealing with Minix file-systems still for this nearly 40 year old creation, the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel is expected to bring some fixes to the Minix driver for better handling corrupted file-system images...

AMD continues preparing more kernel driver code for Linux 6.19. This week another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver updates were submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the early December merge window...

For what began as an Intel open-source project focused on delivering a modern VMM for cloud workloads and written in Rust is seeing increasingly more exposure on AArch64 and Microsoft Windows platforms. In fact, Intel remains largely inactive now with Cloud Hypervisor after their lead maintainer left the company last year and has now been one year since seeing any significant contributions from Intel to this open-source project...

My handheld gaming console is also my portable Linux workstation  XDA

Missing Link: How Linux would continue without Linus Torvalds  heise online

7 Privacy Wins You Can Get This Weekend (Linux-First)  It's FOSS

For those dealing with SquashFS compressed, read-only file-systems, a new version of the user-space tools were released this week...

After 5 years, I’m finally leaving Ubuntu for this Linux distro  MakeUseOf

I used this app to optimize Ubuntu and make it run smoother  XDA

Merged today ahead of the Linux 6.18-rc5 kernel due out on Sunday is a partial fix for a performance regression observed on IBM POWER hardware...

Linux 6.18-rc5 To Cut Down Performance Regression Observed On IBM POWER CPUs  Phoronix