Open-source News

KDE Plasma 6's open beta delivers myriad delights - and you can try it now  ZDNet

KDE Plasma 6's open beta delivers myriad delights - and you can try it now  ZDNet

How to Set Environment Variables in Bash on Linux  How-To Geek

Red Hat greases migration to RHEL for CentOS 7 holdouts  The Register

Cloudflare has talked up their success in using the open-source Linux-based OpenBMC software for baseboard management controllers (BMCs) as a replacement to proprietary BMC software stacks...

Cloudflare Talks Up Its Success In Using OpenBMC  Phoronix

Fedora 40 is eyeing the next phase of its unified kernel (UKI) support within the distribution that will include the ability to support booting to unified kernel image files directly without having to go through a traditional bootloader like GRUB or SD-Boot...

Fedora 40 Eyes The Ability To Boot Unified Kernel Images Directly  Phoronix

New Ubuntu Security Fixes for Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities  Security Boulevard

Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack  Ars Technica

While Blender is at the forefront of receiving corporate sponsorships and funding for advancing that open-source 3D modeling software, other free software graphics programs haven't all received the same level of support. As good news for further raising the open-source creative/graphics ecosystem, an Austrian video game studio has become one of the new Krita sponsors...

How to Install the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11  How-To Geek

As noted in late November, AMD has begun enabling new "GFX12" hardware in LLVM for their AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end. GFX12 is the target for next-generation RDNA4 graphics processors and that upstreaming effort has continued with more patches being upstreamed...

More AMD GFX12 Additions Land In LLVM Git For RDNA4 GPUs  Phoronix

What Is an Immutable Linux Distro, and Should You Use One?  How-To Geek

AlmaLinux's ELevate software is a wonderful utility to help ease migration between existing major versions of RHEL derivatives. In particular, it's been very useful for moving past CentOS 7 and/or upgrading from AlmaLinux 8 to 9, along with the ability to even move to other RHEL derivatives...

AlmaLinux's ELevate Begins Handling EPEL Repositories  Phoronix

SQLite as the leading open-source embedded database solution has landed JSONB, a rewrite of the SQLite JSON functions that can be up to "several times faster" than the existing JSON functions...

The openSUSE project has been working on a rebranding to better differentiate between this community open-source project and SUSE itself. There's been work on a logo design contest with just under one week left to vote in this survey...

Kali Linux 2023.4 Released – What’s New!  GBHackers