Open-source News

Linux Kernel 6.12 sees optional QR code during kernel panics  Tom's Hardware

Microsoft engineers continue contributing to the open-source Mesa graphics driver code for benefiting Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) usage and other related use atop Windows 11. The latest contribution to Mesa is wiring up direct DPB management for the D3D12 video acceleration code...

While all of the focus recently when it comes to Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver has been around getting Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics ready, there is an important last-minute fix that is also needed for ensuring Arrow Lake graphics support is ready for Linux users...

Important Linux Patch Arriving For Intel Arrow Lake Graphics  Phoronix

Longtime Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem maintainer David Airlie of Red Hat has written an interesting blog post providing an analogy to types of developers compared to road builders and hotels...

Rust Linux Developers Compared To Road Builders & Mapmakers  Phoronix

Bazzite Linux gets keyboard-less installation (good for handhelds) and smaller updates  GamingOnLinux

The Wine project has released VKD3D 1.13 as the newest version of this open-source code for mapping Microsoft's Direct3D 12 API atop the Vulkan API for helping to accelerate Windows games and applications on Linux...

7 things I never do with a new Linux installation (and why)  ZDNet

Best Linux distro for beginners of 2024  TechRadar

Dolphin Emulator appears to be getting official Linux Flatpak releases  GBAtemp.net

Dolphin Emulator appears to be getting official Linux Flatpak releases  GBAtemp.net

How Threat Actors Establish Persistence on Linux Systems - Elastic Security Labs  CybersecurityNews

Linux breaks records of popularity, occupying 4.45% of the market of operating systems  hi-Tech.ua

Daniel Stori’s ‘Linux Top Explained’  Security Boulevard

How to create a bootable Linux USB drive  ZDNet

Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS Is Now Available  How-To Geek

EmuDeck coder pivots to hardware with Linux-based “EmuDeck Machines”  Ars Technica

Even before the Bcachefs file-system driver was accepted into the mainline kernel, Debian for the past five years has offered a "bcachefs-tools" package to provide the user-space programs to this copy-on-write file-system. It was simple at first when it was simple C code but since the Bcachefs tools transitioned to Rust, it's become an unmaintainable mess for stable-minded distribution vendors. As such the bcachefs-tools package has now been orphaned by Debian...

You Can Now Upgrade Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Here’s How  9to5Linux