Open-source News

I Installed Gentoo So You Don’t Havtoo  Hackaday

I Installed Gentoo So You Don’t Havtoo  Hackaday

Russia is Looking to Build its Own Linux Community After Expulsion Of Maintainers  It's FOSS News

Transform Linux into Windows 95 with Chicago95 3.0 — bringing old-school cool to modern machines  BetaNews

Manjaro Linux Working On "Manjaro Data Donor" As New Data Collection Tool  Phoronix

Arch-based Manjaro Linux is working on Manjaro Data Donor "MDD" as a new data collection tool of its users. This is intended to succeed their former ping-based solution for user counting plus incorporate hardware/software data collection on users. Once deployed, this will be opt-out handling for the data collection...

Fujitsu has upstreamed support for their next-gen "Monaka" Armv9 processor into the GNU Compiler Collection codebase in time for the GCC 15 release coming out early next year...

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 3rd, 2024  info-mods.com

Techrights — GNU/Linux Users Are Not Cheaters  LXer

The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is adding a device aliasing file feature that could appear in the upcoming Linux v6.13 merge window...

Respawn blocks Linux users from Apex Legends  PC Games Insider

Select newer Dell/Alienware laptops with a "WMAX" thermal interface will see ACPI Platform Profile support now exposed with the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle...

AMD Linux engineer Borislav Petkov kicked off the new week by volleying a patch for adjusting the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO, a.k.a. "Inception") vulnerability mitigation handling for capabilities to be found with affected processors running on newer CPU microcode...

Check out Proton-Sarek if you have an older GPU for Windows games on Linux  GamingOnLinux

CachyOS continues to be a fascinating Arch Linux based distribution that pushes the boundaries of out-of-the-box performance with a variety of patches, optimization techniques, specialized package builds, and more. One of the latest areas they are exploring is making use of AutoFDO for their kernel builds...

CachyOS Explores Optimizing Its Kernel With AutoFDO  Phoronix

Linux Mint partners up with Framework, also working on Night Light for Cinnamon desktop  GamingOnLinux

Nine years after the Raspberry Pi Touch Display was announced as a 800 x 480 pixel LCD panel catering to the Raspberry Pi, today the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 was announced...

Linux Mint working to bake Night Light directly into Cinnamon  Neowin

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 3rd, 2024  9to5Linux