Open-source News

Wireless VR streaming levels up on Linux with the latest WiVRn release  GamingOnLinux

OpenVPN 2.7 Released with Support for DCO Linux Kernel Module, mbedTLS 4  9to5Linux

OpenVPN 2.7 Released With Multi-Socket Server & DCO Linux Kernel Driver Support  Phoronix

For those using the open-source OpenVPN for your virtual private networking (VPN) needs, OpenVPN 2.7 is out today with some notable improvements...

KiCad Aims to Ease Linux Installation, Moves to Self-Contained AppImage Distribution  Hackster.io

Intel today released a new version of their Compute Runtime stack and IGC graphics compiler for Level Zero and OpenCL usage with their integrated and discrete graphics. Separately they also upstreamed more SYCL code this week into mainline LLVM...

IPFire DBL Launches as a Community-Powered Domain Blocking for Everyone  9to5Linux

This new Linux-powered ereader could tempt me away from the Kindle Scribe and reMarkable Paper Pro  TechRadar

Parrot 7.1 Ethical Hacking Distro Released with Enlightenment Spin, Updated Tools  9to5Linux

Parrot OS 7.1 Released with Linux kernel 6.17  Linuxiac

Arduino vs Raspberry Pi: What's the difference?  TechRadar

The core timer changes to the Linux 7.0 kernel score a rather nice performance improvement in a UDP receive network stress test from inlining a function that compilers haven't been able to tackle with their optimizations...

Linux 7.0 Scores +12% In UDP Network Performance Test From Manually Inlining Function  Phoronix

There were recently patches for getting the Adobe Photoshop 2025 installer to work on Linux under Wine. Those patches were picked up by Wine-Staging and now more traction is coming for getting those patches into the upstream Wine codebase, some of which have now been merged...

Upstream Wine Making Progress On Patches For Satisfying Adobe Photoshop  Phoronix

The locking code changes have been merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel and it introduces support for a new compiler-driven feature being introduced on the compiler side with the upcoming LLVM Clang 22...

APT36 Targets Linux Systems With New Disruption Tools  Cyber Press

SSHStalker botnet targets Linux servers with legacy exploits and SSH scanning  Security Affairs

SSHStalker Botnet Uses IRC C2 to Control Linux Systems via Legacy Kernel Exploits  The Hacker News

Legacy IRC Botnet Leverages Automated SSH Exploit Pipeline to Mass-Enroll Linux Hosts  gbhackers.com