Open-source News

Last month Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund announced they would be opening a fellowship program for open-source maintainers. The Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has been providing great investments into open-source projects while this fellowship is around investing in open-source maintainers that may be working on multiple open-source projects. The application process is now open for those interested open-source maintainers...

For those continuing to make use of the open-source Redis in-memory, key-value database rather than some of the new open-source forks such as Valkey, the first milestone release of Redis 8.0 Community Edition is now available for testing...

Merged yesterday into the code for Mesa 24.3 is initial support within the PanVK Vulkan driver for Arm Mali v10 graphics hardware. The v10 architecture is for second-gen Valhall GPUs and goes along with the ongoing Linux kernel driver work for the Panthor CSF-based driver support...

Kali Linux 2024.3 comes with 11 new tools and support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon SDM845 SoC  Notebookcheck.net

Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard has recently been devoting some time to enhancing their GitLab deployment with new features and also in welcoming the Mono project to their GitLab instance. In case you missed it, Microsoft recently shifted stewardship of Mono over to Wine...

Pop!_OS 24.04 and new COSMIC desktop reach alpha  The Register

Kali Linux 2024.3: 11 New Tools and Enhanced ARM Support  The Cyber Express

Kali Linux 2024.3 Released with 11 New Hacking Tools  CybersecurityNews

While Gentoo Linux recently ended their support for Itanium (IA-64) hardware, this popular source-based Linux distribution continues to support other aging platforms... Today they sent out an announcement highlighting their improved support for MIPS and Alpha based hardware...

Gentoo Linux Touts Better MIPS & Alpha Platform Support  Phoronix

Juno Tab 3 Linux Tablet — Nice, But Overpriced?  OMG! Ubuntu!

Parallels Desktop 20 for Mac Released with Ubuntu 24.04 VM Support  OMG! Ubuntu!

How to check CPU and memory utilization in Linux  XDA Developers

VirtualBox 7.1 Has a Fresh New Look  How-To Geek

Oracle today released version 7.1 of their VirtualBox virtualization software with an improved GUI, Wayland clipboard sharing support, OCI integration improvements, and other enhancements...

Kali Linux 2024.3 released: 11 new tools, Qualcomm Snapdragon SDM845 SoC support  Help Net Security

Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9 Released with Qt 6 Port, AppImage Support, and More  9to5Linux

Why I Use NixOS (And Why You Should Too)  How-To Geek

Juno's New Linux Tablet Is an Easy Escape from Windows and Android  How-To Geek

Early in the year we enjoyed seeing AMD Zen 5 "znver5" support upstreamed for the GCC 14 compiler in making it into that annual GNU Compiler Collection feature release. It was great seeing AMD Zen 5 support make it into this open-source compiler well ahead of any Zen 5 products being announced. Since then the GCC support for the new Znver5 target has continued to be improve upon meanwhile we've been waiting to see similar treatment for the LLVM/Clang compiler stack. Finally this week that AMD Zen 5 (znver5) support has been submitted for review in upstreaming it for LLVM...