Open-source News

Box64 v0.2.6 Brings Support For More CPU Extensions, Better Syscall Emulation  Phoronix

KDE developers remain very busy working toward the release of the Plasma 6 desktop in late February...

How to shut down Linux from the terminal  XDA Developers

Vivaldi 6.5 Releases With Future-Ready Features  It's FOSS News

Tutorial: Use Linux cpio to back up and restore files  TechTarget

As I wrote about last week that Intel's modern Xe kernel graphics driver was nearing submission for the mainline kernel and today it's indeed been submitted to DRM-Next. The Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is the modern alternative to the long-used i915 DRM kernel driver and is fitted to support Tigerlake graphics and newer -- both integrated graphics hardware as well as discrete GPUs/accelerators...

Intel's New "Xe" Kernel Graphics Driver Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Pop!_OS 22.04 Welcomes PipeWire 1.0.0, COSMIC Desktop Evolves  Linuxiac

Manjaro Linux 23.1.0 'Vulcan' now available to download — choose from GNOME, Plasma, and XFCE editions  BetaNews

Wine 9.0-rc2 is now available as the latest weekly release candidate on the road to the stable Wine 9.0 release in early 2024...

Earlier this month at AMD's AI event in San Francisco they announced ROCm 6.0 while launching the MI300X and MI300A accelerators. While announced back on the 6th, today marks the actual availability of ROCm 6.0 with the source code and binaries now publicly available...

AMD ROCm 6.0 Now Available To Download With MI300 Support, PyTorch FP8 & More AI  Phoronix

A few months back GNOME developer Christian Hergert noted that Linux terminal emulators could be much faster following his experiments but then concluded at the time he didn't want to develop a new terminal becase "creating your own terminal is like 20 lines of code these days." Well, he ended up shifting stance a bit and has now announced Prompt, a new container-focused terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop...

GNOME Gets A New Terminal Choice: Prompt  Phoronix

Manjaro 23.1 “Vulcan” Is Available for Download with GNOME 45, Linux 6.6 LTS  9to5Linux

Amazon Linux announces support for KVM and VMWare images with AL2023.3  AWS Blog

GNOME 44.7 Optimizes Shell Application Search and Improves Performance  9to5Linux

GNOME 44.7 Optimizes Shell Application Search and Improves Performance  9to5Linux

Complex 'NKAbuse' Malware Uses Blockchain to Hide on Linux, IoT Machines - Complex 'NKAbuse' Malware Uses ...  Dark Reading

ONF merges networking projects portfolio into Linux Foundation  Silverlinings