Open-source News

Android 14 Open-Source Project Released  Phoronix

Data Safety and Efficiency with Rdiff-backup  Linux Journal

20th National Cybersecurity Awareness Month kicks off  Network World

Linux tries to dump Windows' notoriously insecure RNDIS protocol  ZDNet

Linux tries to dump Windows' notoriously insecure RNDIS protocol  ZDNet

GNOME developer Christian Hergert recently demonstrated how Linux terminal emulators have the potential of running much faster. At the time it didn't sound like he would pursue the matter further but more recently he's begun working on folding some performance improvements into GNOME's VTE for a faster terminal experience...

GNOME's VTE Seeing Improvements For Faster Terminal Performance  Phoronix

The newest open-source project hosted by the Linux Foundation is OpenPubkey, which is a collaboration with Docker and BastionZero and will be available for Docker container signing with zero-trust passwordless authentication...

Linux Foundation's Latest Open-Source Project: OpenPubkey  Phoronix

Vulkan 1.3.266 was published a few days ago with a handful of fixes and two new extensions. One of those extensions, VK_NV_low_latency2 is quite interesting...

NVIDIA Introduces New Low-Latency Vulkan Extension For Gaming  Phoronix

Severe Glibc Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Impacts Major Linux Distributions  SecurityWeek

Linux Foundation, BastionZero and Docker Announce the Launch of ...  PR Newswire

Cyber Security Today, Oct. 4, 2023 – Critical vulnerabilities found in Linux and TorchServe  IT World Canada

Mint freshens up its Linux garden for Ubuntu and Debian fans  The Register

Two new Linux Mint versions appear • The Register  The Register

Linux Gaming's Next Big Secret Weapon: Bottles Next-Gen Upgrade  It's FOSS News

When it comes to the BSD operating systems, DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 is one of the most interesting innovations. HAMMER2 supports online deduplication, clustering, multiple mountable file-system roots, snapshots, compression, encryption, extensive checksumming, and other features. Over the past decade it's evolved quite nicely and in recent days has seen further enhancements...

DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 File-System Seeing New Improvements ...  Phoronix

Currently when hibernating a Linux system LZO compression is used for preserving the memory contents while a new patch series posted today by Qualcomm allow for changing out the compression API used and makes LZ4 a new option during Linux hibernation...