Open-source News

Dump and restore: Helpful backup utilities for Linux users  TechTarget

The GNU C Library "glibc" is the latest free software project to adopt a Code of Conduct (CoC) in aiming to encourage welcoming behavior and less controversy among developers and other stakeholders when engaging this key component to the Linux software ecosystem...

Canonical has decided for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS that they will now enable frame pointers by default when building packages. There will still selectively be some packages where they decide to disable frame pointers due to the performance overhead, but the focus on this change is to improve the out-of-the-box debugging and profiling support on the Linux distribution...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Enable Frame Pointers By Default For Better Profiling/Debugging  Phoronix

Linux patch drops support for 17-year-old Intel 'Carillo Ranch' motherboards because they don't seem to exist  Tom's Hardware

How to find a file in Linux  Tom's Guide

How to rename a file in Linux  Tom's Guide

The X.Org Server doesn't see much in the way of feature work these days with Red Hat and others divesting from classic X.Org/X11 sessions. But there continues to be new point releases of the X.Org Server and the XWayland code due to long-standing security issues within the X.Org codebase. New point releases were out last night due to two CVEs for bugs dating back to 2007 and 2009...

X.Org Server & XWayland Updated Due To Two Decade-Old Security Vulnerabilities  Phoronix

LibreOffice 24.2 Beta 1 is available today as the latest test candidate for this cross-platform open-source office suite that is packing many new features while also changing its approach to versioning...

How to remove a directory in Linux  Tom's Guide

FreeRDP 3.0 stable was released today as this open-source implementation of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) for allowing nice remote access support...

Fortnite on Linux / Steam Deck? Not until 'tens of millions of users'  GamingOnLinux

Fortnite on Linux / Steam Deck? Not until 'tens of millions of users'  GamingOnLinux

Geekbench ML Benchmark App Adds Linux Desktop Support  It's FOSS News

DEB Files on Arch? Run Any App on Any Linux Distro With This Tool  How-To Geek

A few months ago I wrote about AMD Linux engineers working on ACPI PHAT support for the Linux kernel. This week new patches around Linux ACPI PHAT handling have been posted with further confirmation of this functionality coming to "future" AMD SoCs...

With Intel's very timely upstream Linux hardware support going back years, they typically start on the upstream hardware enablement well in advance of the product's planned public launch. On a number of occasions this has meant adding support to the Linux kernel for hardware that never ends up being released to consumers. There's been recent cases like the Thunder Bay support that was dropped from the kernel after it became clear that the SoC would never ship to now a more extreme case of a driver being in the mainline kernel for 15 years to support never-released hardware...

Linux To Drop Support For 15 Year Old, Never-Shipped Intel "Carillo Ranch"  Phoronix

Valve upgrades the Steam Workshop, plus various Steam Deck improvements in new Beta  GamingOnLinux