Open-source News

Wi-Fi Not Working on Ubuntu? Here’s How to Fix It  How-To Geek

Unlocking the Full Potential of Blockchain with the Power of Linux: An In-Depth Look at Cartesi  Binance

New "Faux Bus" API Merged For Linux 6.14 - Including Both Rust & C Bindings  Phoronix

A few weeks back the Linux kernel "Faux Bus" was proposed by Greg Kroah-Hartman as a "fake" bus solution for simple devices. Today ahead of the Linux 6.14-rc3 tagging, the faux bus code was merged and comes at the same time both with C and Rust language bindings...

5 Linux Distos Built for Creative Work  How-To Geek

Why There Are So Many Linux Terminal Emulators: 5 Reasons  How-To Geek

How to write Windows to a USB device using Linux  Neowin

Blocking Linux and Steam Deck users reduced cheaters in Apex Legends... apparently  XDA Developers

For four years there has been an open bug report for Mozilla Firefox requesting the browser's GTK widget support be updated for GTK4. An independent user/developer has taken it into his own hands and has managed to get Firefox using the GTK4 toolkit up and running on Linux...

Why Linux Mint Is My Main Distro  How-To Geek

The Doom-in-a-PDF dev is back – this time with Linux  The Register

The GNOME 48 Beta release was officially announced this morning as the latest stepping stone toward the official GNOME 48 desktop release due out in mid-March...

Intel Killer E5000 Ethernet Support For Linux 6.15  Phoronix

The upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle will be adding support for Intel Killer E5000 Ethernet...

Btrfs-Progs 6.13 was released this weekend as the newest routine update to the user-space utilities for the Btrfs file-system...

Btrfs-Progs 6.13 Released With "mkfs.btrfs --compress" Support  Phoronix

While it's an old language, in recent months there's been a renewed effort over a COBOL language front-end for the GCC compiler. There's been out-of-tree COBOL support for GCC that is working to get into the mainline GNU Compiler Collection codebase. This weekend saw the latest iteration of those patches amounting to 134k lines of new code...

Project leader of 'Asahi Linux,' which aims to port Linux to Macs with Apple silicon, resigns, explaining the circumstances so far  GIGAZINE（ギガジン）

Open source maintainers are really feeling the squeeze  The Register

Following last week's FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 1 release to kick off this next FreeBSD 13 point release that will also end the series, FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 2 is out this weekend for testing...