Open-source News

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...

Ahead of the KDE Plasma 6.2 soft feature freeze happening next week, KDE developers have been preparing some last minut features for the desktop...

AMD's latest Ryzen 9 9950X goes like the clappers on Linux  Fudzilla

Wine 9.16 is out as the newest bi-weekly development snapshot for this open-source software that enables running Windows games and applications on Linux...

What Would Make You Switch to Android?  Review Geek

1. Microsoft shares temp fix for Linux boot issues on dual-boot systems  BleepingComputer
2. Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs  The Verge
3. Windows update breaks Linux dual boot - but there is a fix for some users  ZDNet

Linux Deepin 23: A polished distro from China that Western desktops could learn from  The Register

Google Android engineers have shared a status update on bringing support for 16KB page size handling to Android. In moving from a 4KB to 16KB page size, Google has found a 5~10% performance boost but at the cost of around ~9% additional RAM usage...

The Bochs Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver is in the process of being modernized. The Bochs driver is important in that it's commonly used for virtual VGA output with QEMU for Linux virtualization...

Bochs DRM Linux Driver Being Modernized - Better Performance For QEMU Display  Phoronix