Open-source News

I Ran Linux on My Smartphone, It's Still Held Back By Hardware  How-To Geek

I Finally Bought a Linux Laptop, Here's What I Chose and Why  How-To Geek

Linux 6.11 as often is the case each kernel cycle brings a lot of new improvements for recent/upcoming Intel and AMD platforms. There are big step forwards for AMD confidential computing, initial RDNA4 graphics support, new AMD P-State driver features, and much more on the AMD side. On the Intel side there is ongoing work around Xe2 graphics for Lunar Lake and Battlemage but not yet stable. Intel also has initial Panther Lake audio support, more NPU driver enhancements, and a range of other kernel additions to benefit their platforms.

Linux 6.11 Kernel Features Deliver A Lot For New/Upcoming Intel & AMD Hardware Review  Phoronix

The Linux 6.11-rc5 kernel is already out as stable today, roughly a half-day ahead of time due to travels by Linus Torvalds...

Linux 6.11-rc5 Released With Slimmed Down Set Of Bcachefs Fixes  Phoronix

Codon is an open-source project that leverages the LLVM compiler infrastructure and aims for super fast Python code with as much as 10~100x speedups. Released this week was Codon 0.17 as the newest step forward for this alternative Python implementation...

Just one week after the Archinstall 2.8.2 update, another release of this command-line driven Arch Linux installer is now available for quick and easy Arch deployments...

Archinstall 2.8.3 Arch Linux Installer Adds COSMIC Desktop Option  Phoronix

I Finally Bought a Linux Laptop, Here's What I Chose and Why  Yahoo! Voices

New Linux Malware 'sedexp' Hides Credit Card Skimmers Using Udev Rules  The Hacker News

As the first new release in more than one year, GNU DDD 3.4.1 is now available as a GUI front-end to the GNU Debugger (GDB)...

AlmaLinux: Your Enterprise Linux Ticket to Freedom  The New Stack

How to Set Up a Kodi Media Center on Linux  How-To Geek

5 Reasons Why I Stopped Using Ubuntu  How-To Geek

Stealthy 'sedexp' Linux malware evaded detection for two years  BleepingComputer

Mesa's PanVK driver that provides open-source Vulkan API support for Arm Mali graphics is preparing to support newer "Valhall" hardware...

NVIDIA driver with Linux kernel 6.10 causing kernel oops  GamingOnLinux

There's been some Friday night kernel drama on the Linux kernel mailing list... Linus Torvalds has expressed regrets for merging the Bcachefs file-system and an ensuing back-and-forth between the file-system maintainer...

FreeBSD 13.4-RC1 has been released ahead of its planned official release in early September. While the FreeBSD 14 series delivers the latest and greatest, FreeBSD 13.4 is a nice incremental update for those still depending upon a FreeBSD 13 base...