Open-source News

Apache ActiveMQ Vulnerability Exploited by Kinsing to Attack Linux Servers  CybersecurityNews

How To Install and Use the Cockpit Linux Management Console  ITPro Today

Of the many new features in Linux 6.7, one of the items exciting Phoronix readers the most is the merging of the long-in-development Bcachefs file-system...

Linux gets a Blue Screen of Death - NotebookCheck.net News  Notebookcheck.net

KDE Gear 23.08.4 Released as the Last Update in the Series  9to5Linux

How to change DNS servers on a GNOME-based Linux distribution (and why you should)  ZDNet

How to change DNS servers on a GNOME-based Linux distribution (and why you should)  ZDNet

2024 and the Linux Desktop: Cosmic, KDE Plasma 6, and Linux Mint News  WebProNews

AWS CloudShell has migrated to Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023)  AWS Blog

DUSK HD + SDK & Steam Workshop out now - needs Proton on Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Ampere Altra Max Continues To Deliver Competitive Power Efficiency To AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon  Phoronix

While it's been three years now since Ampere Altra Q80 was first introduced and two years since first testing the 128-core Ampere Altra Max, this ARM server platform has aged rather well with more robust hardware platforms coming to market with better firmware, the AArch64 Linux/open-source software ecosystem as a whole improving a lot during this time and more open-source projects receiving ARM optimizations, and other improvements made. While we're eagerly awaiting to see AmpereOne hardware, here is a look at how Ampere Altra Max M128-30 is standing up against current AMD EPYC Genoa(X) and Bergamo server CPUs along with Intel Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids processors in raw performance and power efficiency.

Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Addressed in EOL Ubuntu Systems  Security Boulevard

A patch merged this weekend for Mesa 24.0-devel is helping the performance of the open-source NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs but the performance remains well short still of the proprietary NVIDIA Linux graphics driver stack...

One Line Patch Doubles Mesa NVK Performance For Talos Principle... To 18 FPS  Phoronix

This could be the best Linux distro of the year (and it's not even close)  ZDNet

A whole new kind of Linux malware has been found in the wild  TechRadar

How to Use the Linux cut Command  How-To Geek

WayVNC v0.8 is working its way toward release as a VNC server for wlroots-based Wayland compositors like Sway. WayVNC continues to make it quite easy to have VNC support for Wayland desktops employing wlroots and this next release brings even more features...

Storage company Kioxia that was spun off from Toshiba several years ago has donated a software development kit (SDK) to the Linux Foundation for establishing the Software-Enabled Flash SDK. This is for opening new doors and innovative uses around flash memory...