Open-source News

Difference Between Linux and Windows Operating Systems  TechiExpert.com

Windblown is the next game from the Dead Cells team  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat engineers have been developing Initoverlayfs as a scalable initial file-system. The code is currently in early form and the developers are still looking for feedback from the community as well as figuring out whether it properly belongs in kernel or user-space...

Red Hat Looks For Feedback On Its New Initoverlayfs File-System Proposal  Phoronix

Linux Mint 21.3 and Zorin 17 are beta buddies  The Register

Get 'Linux All-In-One For Dummies, 7th Edition' (worth $24) for FREE  BetaNews

Following Canonical pulling on control of LXD and maintainership being limited to Canonical employees, LXD 5.20 was released today where they have also decided to change its license moving forward to AGPLv3 by default...

LXD 5.20 Released With Canonical Changing It To AGPLv3 Licensing  Phoronix

ONNX in collaboration with AMD have announced TurnkeyML as a new open-source machine learning toolchain focused on agile model development and deployment...

How to Use Port Knocking on Linux (and Why You Shouldn't)  How-To Geek

New Windows/Linux Firmware Attack  Security Boulevard

With Linux 6.7 there's now support for enabling/disabling 32-bit program support at boot-time. The "ia32_emulation=" argument can be used for enabling/disabling 32-bit user-space program support and the ability to support 32-bit system calls. Right now when forcing off the x86 32-bit support it can be confusing if the user is unaware as no warning is currently provided, but that is about to change...

Linux 6.8 Will Make It More Clear When x86 32-bit Support Is Disabled  Phoronix

The long-in-development work for a fully-functional multi-threaded FFmpeg command line has been merged! The FFmpeg CLI with multi-threaded transcoding pipelines is now merged to FFmpeg Git ahead of FFmpeg 7.0 releasing early next year. FFmpeg is widely-used throughout many industries for video transcoding and in today's many-core world this is a terrific improvement for this key open-source project...

Lynx Software Technologies Announces Acquisition of Timesys Corporation  Business Wire

Energy Industry Veteran Alex Thornton Joins Linux Foundation Energy as Executive Director to Drive Next Phase of ...  PR Newswire

Linux 6.6 brought an initial Intel Visual Sensing Controller "IVSC" driver. The Intel IVSC drivers have long been out-of-tree for use with Alder Lake laptops and newer. Linux 6.7 brought the La Jolla Cove Adadpter driver code as part of the IVSC controller. With Linux 6.8 there's yet more work landing on the IVSC front...

Intel Visual Sensing Controller Enablement Work Continues For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Calamares 3.3 Released as the Next Generation Graphical Installer for Linux  9to5Linux

Cling 1.0 was released this week for this open-source interactive C++ interpreter that builds atop LLVM/Clang. Cling is implemented as an extension to LLVM/Clang to serve as an interpeter leveraging the read-eval-print loop (REPL) concept and relies on just-in-time (JIT) compilation...