Open-source News

A Windows Update is Breaking Dual-booting PCs  How-To Geek

Facepalm: Microsoft's August Security Update Breaks Dual Booting Windows And Linux PCs  Hot Hardware

Dual booters, beware: the latest Windows update can make a mess of your setup  XDA Developers

A Great Linux Feature Is Coming to ChromeOS Flex  How-To Geek

The Linux security team issues 60 CVEs a week, but don't stress. Do this instead  ZDNet

With the exception of critical security issues/bugs, Canonical will be skipping over shipping stable release updates for the Linux kernel in Ubuntu until early October...

Ubuntu Will Be Skipping Non-Critical Linux Kernel Updates For September  Phoronix

Proton VPN brings WireGuard to Linux apps  Tom's Guide

The Mozilla Ocho group leads "innovation and experiments" at Mozilla. Following all of their work on Llamafile for easily distributing large language models as a single file that can be easily executed across different hardware/software, their newest effort is Whisperfile for easy audio-to-text translations...

Proton 9.0-3 now in testing to bring more game compatibility to Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Oh, no! Windows Security Update Breaks Dual-Boot Linux Systems  It's FOSS News

KDE Gear 24.08 Open-Source Software Suite Released with Many Improvements  9to5Linux

Intel software engineers are responsible for many of the great x86_64-related optimizations to the GNU C Library "glibc" over the years. While they've extensively tuned many Glibc functions for achieving peak performance on their modern CPUs, it's a never-ending quest. Merged this week was another optimization to strnlen(), the function for determining the number of bytes in a fixed-size string...

While celebrating the 9th birthday of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service, LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes has released a new version of the Fwupd firmware updating utility...

Fwupd 1.9.24 Adds Support For More Mediatek & Parade Tech Devices  Phoronix

Cybersecurity News: Japanese auto security, Feds tap encrypted messages, Microsoft breaks Linux dual-booting  CISO Series

LibreOffice 24.8 is officially out today as the latest major feature update to this open-source office suite that's the leading free software alternative to Microsoft Office. With LibreOffice 24.8 comes many new features throughout its various components...

Critical SLUBStick Exploitation Technique Threatens Linux Security  Security Boulevard

PipeWire 1.2.3 Implements Freewheeling Support in the FFADO Driver  9to5Linux

How to install a tiling window manager on Linux (and why you'd want to)  ZDNet