Open-source News

LLVM/Clang 22 feature development ended overnight with the code now being branched and working toward a stable release likely by the end of February...

Announced today on the Wayland mailing list is wl-proxy as a Rust crate for proxying Wayland connections and intercepting/manipulating Wayland messages...

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project just published a new status report to detail how they ended out the year...

New VoidLink Cloud-Native Malware Attacking Linux Systems with Self-deletion Capabilities  Cyber Security News

Even Linus Torvalds ,The Creator of Linux, Is Vibe Coding (Why It Signals a Major Shift)  ucstrategies.com

Over a million Windows 11 & 10 users have already downloaded and installed this Linux distro  Neowin

AI EdgeLabs Adds Advanced Risk and Compliance Center with Linux Audit Capabilities to Its AI Runtime Platform  Yahoo Finance Singapore

VoidLink: The Cloud-Native Malware Framework  Check Point Software

VoidLink: The Cloud-Native Malware Framework Weaponizing Linux Infrastructure  Check Point Blog

MX Linux 25.1 Beta Brings Back Dual-Init Support, Based on Debian 13.3  9to5Linux

Ubuntu’s New ARM Steam Snap is Available for Testing  OMG! Ubuntu

GCC 16 as this year's major feature release of the GNU Compiler Collection should be out in the typical March~April timeframe if all goes well. Today the GCC 16 compiler transitioned to its final stage "stage 4" of development with a focus exclusively on documentation and regression fixing...

The technology landscape is shifting rapidly, and at the heart of this change is a vibrant, interconnected ecosystem of partners. Today, we are excited to introduce Kevin Kennedy as vice president of the Global Partner Ecosystem at Red Hat.Kennedy steps into this role during a pivotal era for hybrid cloud and AI, bringing a unique perspective forged from sitting at every side of the technology table – from direct sales at IBM and Xerox to a decade in leadership within distribution at Arrow, EMC and Tech Data, and most recently, leading Red Hat’s partner ecosystem in North America and Latin

Zorin OS 18 Hits 2 Million Downloads as Windows Users Drive Growth  Linuxiac

GoBruteforcer Botnet Targets 50K-plus Linux Servers  Dark Reading

Microsoft’s LLMinus AI Targets Linux Kernel Merge Conflict Automation  WebProNews

Distributions  Hackaday

The Distroless Linux Future May Be Coming  Hackaday

Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard relayed on the mailing list today that the plan is to release Wine 11.0 stable tomorrow, 13 January...

Don't Toss That Old Hard Drive - You Can Still Use It  bgr.com