Open-source News

The OpenMandriva project put out a statement today concerning an attempted distribution sabotage effort. Part of the OpenMandriva GitHub repository was deleted and there was an empty package push made to OpenMandriva's Cooker repository in trying to obsolete all GNOME and COSMIC packages...

OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt  Phoronix

Miggo Security Adds Abiliy to Detect Linux Privilege Escalation Vulnerability  Security Boulevard

Good news for Linux Mint fans: Full Wayland support is coming to Cinnamon  Neowin

Valve's magical play-Windows-games-on-Linux tech is rebased, updated, and ready to play Resident Evil  PC Gamer

Given today's pricing environment around system memory, a Phoronix Premium supporter recently requested some benchmarks to quantify the performance difference from single to dual channel memory. In considering a new computer build, he is contemplating whether to go for a single stick of DDR5 memory until memory prices hopefully subside in the future. For those in a similar boat, here are some benchmarks of single versus dual channel memory on an Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus "Arrow Lake" desktop.

Single vs. Dual Channel Memory Performance With The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus  Phoronix

Single vs. Dual Channel Memory Performance With The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus  Phoronix

ORICO 88 Series 4-Bay USB4 NVMe SSD Enclosure Review: Fast Storage That Works Natively on Linux  It's FOSS

Linux Fu: The Local Phonebook  Hackaday

Linux Fu: The Local Phonebook  Hackaday

Bad Epoll Zero-Day Vulnerability Enables Local Privilege Escalation on Linux Systems  Security Boulevard

Linux Now Runs on the Atari Jaguar, a 1993 Console With Just 2 MB of RAM  Linuxiac

Intel has formally archived some more of their now-unmaintained open-source projects this week...

Intel Sunsets Quantum Intrinsics & Other Open-Source Projects This Week  Phoronix

AMD ZenDNN 6.0 released today as a significant update to this open-source deep neural network library for helping to accelerate inferencing on AMD Zen processors from Ryzen to EPYC...

AMD ZenDNN 6.0 Brings Many Improvements For Accelerating Inference On Ryzen/EPYC CPUs  Phoronix

I tried going back to Windows, but these Linux features keep me from returning  XDA

Linux Mint’s Next Release Will Fully Support Wayland in Cinnamon  Linuxiac

Proton 11 resurrects Dino Crisis and Resident Evil on Linux  Korben