Open-source News

Enterprise security firm Edera today is announcing OpenPaX that they promoted in their advance press notice as a "new open-source alternative to GrSecurity." GrSecurity being the firm focused on providing out-of-tree Linux kernel patches focused in the name of security enhancements. With OpenPaX they are open-source and publicly available kernel patch for mitigating common memory safety errors and other system hardening...

10 Common Mistakes Beginners Make With the Linux Command Line (and How to Avoid Them)  How-To Geek

Intel rolls out Linux kernel microcode fix for affected 13th/14th Generation processors  Tom's Hardware

Why geopolitics risks global open source collaborations  ComputerWeekly.com

Snapdragon 8 Elite arrives with Linux support, potentially unlocking PC gaming on phones and tablets  TechSpot

Bazzite updated to Fedora 41 with expanded PC gaming handheld support  GamingOnLinux

TUXEDO OS 4 Launches with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Base and Linux Kernel 6.11  9to5Linux

DRM_Panic is the functionality first added in Linux 6.10 for "Blue Screen of Death" type functionality when a kernel panic occurs or similar for displaying a nice graphical error message. Since the initial introduction it's been extended to handle QR code error messages, monochrome logos, and other customization options. The AMDGPU driver has new patches available for expanding the DRM_Panic support to all DCE/DCN-based graphics cards...

DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Support Being Extended To All Recent AMD GPUs  Phoronix

The RadeonSI Gallium3D driver used by all modern AMD Radeon graphics hardware has landed support in Mesa 24.3 for async VCE/UVD video operations to enhance the performance with the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library...

Support for making use of Vulkan with VirtIO-GPU while using QEMU could very soon be upstream...

Cybersecurity News: Five Eyes program, Chinese activity, Russian Linux  CISO Series

How to use a PPA in Linux to install applications safely  ZDNet

Wasmer 5.0 is now available as the latest major update to this WebAssembly (WASM) runtime focused on being able to allow developers to write "universal apps" that will run anywhere thanks to the power and versatility of WebAssembly...

Shotcut 24.10 is now available as the latest feature release to this open-source, cross-platform video editor built atop the MLT framework, Qt6, FFmpeg, SDL, and other software components...

Fedora 41 is Here: 9 Sweet Features That You Get With The Upgrade  It's FOSS News

TUXEDO OS 4 Launches with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Base and Linux Kernel 6.11  info-mods.com

Linux creator Linus Torvalds: AI is useless: it's '90% marketing' while he ignores AI for now  TweakTown

Linux creator Linus Torvalds: AI is useless: it's '90% marketing' while he ignores AI for now  TweakTown

Intel off their typical second Tuesday of the month patch regiment today posted new CPU microcode just for 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" and 14th Gen "Raptor Lake Refresh" processors for Linux systems. Notable with the updated Raptor Lake CPU microcode is the internal voltage handling fix for that well known problem plaguing many Raptor Lake owners plus two other fixes...