Open-source News

Linux Lite 7.0 “Galena” Officially Released with Xfce 4.18, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  9to5Linux

Vulkan 1.3.286 was released today with a handful of corrections/clarifications as well as one new extension...

Wine 9.10 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to enjoy Windows games/applications on Linux and other operating systems...

CISA warns of actively exploited Linux privilege elevation flaw  BleepingComputer

Windows Subsystem for Linux gets enterprise friendly and plans a settings interface  The Register

Federal agency warns critical Linux vulnerability being actively exploited  Ars Technica

Kernel 6.8 marked for end of life by Linux, with new upgrade ready to go  PC Guide - For The Latest PC Hardware & Tech News

Windows Subsystem for Linux finally gets its big memory update  XDA Developers

NetworkManager 1.48 Improves Detection of 6 GHz Band Capability for Wi-Fi Devices  9to5Linux

CISA Alert on Linux Kernel Flaw  Spiceworks News and Insights

The open-source Godot game engine has worked its way up to the Godot 4.3 Beta 1 milestone with some exciting achievements...

Godot 4.3 Beta 1 Released With Native Wayland Support  Phoronix

Jean-Baptiste Kempf released Dav1d 1.4.2 as the newest version of this speedy CPU-based AV1 video decoder. With this new dav1d 1.4.2 update are yet more performance optimizations for modern systems...

Intel engineer Noah Goldstein has landed another nice performance optimization in the GNU C Library "glibc" for benefiting newer Intel processors...

Switch from Microsoft Windows 11 to Nitrux Linux 3.5.0  BetaNews

Microsoft Announces 'Significant Updates' to Windows Subsystem for Linux  WebProNews

How to Open ePub Books in Ubuntu Linux  It's FOSS

CISA Warns of Exploited Linux Kernel Vulnerability  SecurityWeek

Systemd-Free and Immutable Distro Nitrux 3.5 Is Here with Mesa 24.1, NVIDIA 555  9to5Linux

Right now when dealing with quirky/buggy touchscreens a C file needs to be manually manipulated and the Linux kernel recompiled. With a new "i2c_touchscreen_props" kernel command line option on its way to the mainline kernel, the process of overriding touchscreen properties is dramatically easier for those dealing with Linux on touchscreen-enabled devices...