Open-source News

How to download and play Minecraft on a Chromebook  Android Authority

Weekly Blog Wrap-Up (February 5 th- February 8th, 2023)  Security Boulevard

High-Performance Handheld Gamer Consoles  Trend Hunter

I Switched to Fedora From Ubuntu: Going Back Again!  It's FOSS News

Best Linux Distributions for ARM Architecture: A Comprehensive Guide  Medium

While we are still waiting to get our hands on AmpereOne hardware for Ampere Computing's in-house design Arm cores with up to 192 cores, Friday night Git activity to LLVM has revealed an "Ampere1B" core...

LLVM Adds Support For New "Ampere1B" Third-Gen Cores From Ampere Computing  Phoronix

The Hacker News: Critical Boot Loader Vulnerability in Shim Impacts Nearly All Linux DistrosThe Hacker News:  Security Boulevard

The macOS-inspired, FreeBSD-based helloSystem open-source operating system has published a new experimental build based on the fresh FreeBSD 14.0...

Wine 9.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of this software for enjoying Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms...

SPEC has effectively invalidated more than two thousand SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark submissions after it was discovered the Intel oneAPI DPC++ compiler was effectively "cheating" per their standards with a targeted optimization...

Linux goes nuclear: Fedora Atomic Desktops are here to nuke Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS into oblivion  BetaNews

In an era of Internet streaming digital video recorders (DVR) / personal video recorder (PVR) software isn't nearly as popular as it was in the past, but the long-used open-source MythTV software is out with its first major update in one year...

Shim vulnerability exposes most Linux systems to attack  ZDNet

Five Snap Applications Poised to Revolutionize Productivity on Linux  BNN Breaking

5 Linux productivity apps I depend on every day, and how to install them from Snap  ZDNet

5 Linux productivity apps I depend on every day, and how to install them from Snap  ZDNet

While the Linux kernel has seen increased activity around dropping old/unused hardware drivers and other support, for old hardware that is still proven to be used on upstream Linux kernel releases does stick around and even will see the occasional fix... The latest example of that is a fix on the way for restoring Linux kernel support for the Transmeta Crusoe, the x86-compatible processor released back in 2000...

How to play Windows games on Linux using Proton  XDA Developers

Webcamera support on recent generations of Intel laptops have tended to be a mess due to the Intel IPU6 requiring an out-of-tree kernel driver and a proprietary user-space component. But fortunately thanks to the work of Linar and Red Hat on a "SoftISP" implementation within libcamera, it's becoming possible to leverage these recent MIPI-based webcameras on an open-source software stack...