Open-source News

Linux Foundation and Google Announce Intent to Launch Open Health Stack Software Foundation  HIT Consultant

Azure Linux 4.0 Released: Microsoft Expands Its Enterprise Linux Platform Beyond the Cloud  Linux Journal

Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Launch Open Health Stack Software Foundation to Advance Open Source Digital Health Innovation  PR Newswire

The best Linux distro for Windows escapees will fully support Wayland  XDA

GStreamer 1.28.5 Multimedia Framework Adds Support for H.266/VVC Decoding  9to5Linux

Proton 11 Stable Fixes EA Desktop Regression and Brings 18 New Linux Games  Tech Times

Linux KVM Guest-to-Host Escape Hits Both Intel and AMD: Two CVEs Required  Tech Times

You’ve been asked to adopt AI tools with a promise they will accelerate your time to production and improve the quality of your code. Along the way, you’ve noticed a huge increase in the number of changes submitted to code and you’ve also likely felt the pain of your systems and processes not being able to keep up. The inner loop of development is moving at lightning speed, while the outer loop struggles to keep up. In many CI/CD workflows, a pipeline failure, which is often caused by a security vulnerability or a configuration error, can leave a developer with the manual, time-consuming

You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went  OSnews

'I'm not a programmer' anymore: Linus Torvalds on the only two tools he uses now  ZDNET

This Linux distro treats your PC like source code—and it almost works  How-To Geek

High-severity guest VM escape is 1 of 2 Linux vulnerabilities to surface this week  Ars Technica

The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS platform had a very eventful June with many new features implemented and more software ported over to run on this from-scratch operating system...

Public Exploit Turns 15-Year Linux Kernel Flaw Into 5-Second Root Attack  Tech Times

The Document Foundation today announced the first beta release of the LibreOffice 26.8 open-source office suite set for its stable debut in August...

Linux Mint’s Wayland support is ‘no longer experimental’  OMG! Ubuntu

The OpenMandriva project put out a statement today concerning an attempted distribution sabotage effort. Part of the OpenMandriva GitHub repository was deleted and there was an empty package push made to OpenMandriva's Cooker repository in trying to obsolete all GNOME and COSMIC packages...

OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt  Phoronix

Miggo Security Adds Abiliy to Detect Linux Privilege Escalation Vulnerability  Security Boulevard

Good news for Linux Mint fans: Full Wayland support is coming to Cinnamon  Neowin