Open-source News

That doomsday critical Linux bug: It's CUPS. May lead to remote hijacking of devices  The Register

Doomsday 9.9 RCE bug could hit every Linux system  The Register

FYSA – Critical RCE Flaw in GNU-Linux Systems  Security Intelligence

FYSA – Critical RCE Flaw in GNU-Linux Systems  Security Intelligence

The Shiny New COSMIC Linux Desktop Environment Gets Its First Update  How-To Geek

COSMIC Alpha 2 Released with Bluetooth Settings, Much-Improved File Manager  9to5Linux

PostgreSQL 17 is out today as the newest annual feature release to this widely-used SQL database server. Notable with PostgreSQL 17 is having an AVX-512 optimized bit_count function along with several other heavy hitting performance optimizations...

Rust in Linux now: Progress, pitfalls, and why devs and maintainers need each other  ZDNet

Following the release of the COSMIC Alpha desktop in early August, System76 is closing out September by issuing the second alpha release of their Rust-based open-source desktop environment...

System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha 2 Desktop Packages  Phoronix

How to Use the Terminal to Solve Wi-Fi Problems in Linux  How-To Geek

Linux 6.12 Brings 9p Network USB Gadget Driver To Ease Embedded Device Development  Phoronix

The USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates were submitted today for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window along with the other areas of the kernel overseen by Greg Kroah-Hartman. A new USB driver is the 9p network gadget driver that has been in development for quite a while and aims to help ease embedded Linux device development...

The Tor Project merges with Tails, a Linux-based portable OS focused on privacy  TechCrunch

The RISC-V architecture updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.12 kernel cycle. More RISC-V CPU ISA extensions are being supported along with enabling some additional kernel features for this CPU architecture...

RISC-V Wires Up More Kernel Features With Linux 6.12  Phoronix

DXVK 2.4.1 brings improvements for launchers, more robust D3D8, lots of game fixes for Linux  GamingOnLinux

This Linux App Turns Websites Into Apps Themselves—Here's Why It's Great  How-To Geek

The VirtIO Vsock guest/host communication interface using virtual sockets will see better performance with the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel...

VirtIO Vsock Performance To Improve With Linux 6.12  Phoronix