Open-source News

Updated Windows NT Sync Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

CodeWeavers' Elizabeth Figura has been working on the NTSYNC driver to implement Windows NT synchronization primitives for the Linux kernel in order to help the performance of various Windows games running on Linux by the likes of Wine / Valve's Proton (Steam Play). The third iteration of that driver was posted overnight as it seeks to go into the mainline Linux kernel...

ZimaBoard Turned My Dream of Owning a Homelab into Reality  It's FOSS

Backdoor in utility commonly used by Linux distros risks SSH compromise  SC Media

New Linux Bug Could Lead to User Password Leaks and Clipboard Hijacking  The Hacker News

Ubuntu hit with long-dormant password-leaking bug  The Stack

AWS, Google, Oracle back Redis fork Valkey  The Stack

Kodi Moves to Flatpak for Linux Installations  How-To Geek

Decade-old Linux 'wall' bug helps make fake SUDO prompts, steal passwords  BleepingComputer

Decade-old Linux ‘wall’ bug helps make fake SUDO prompts, steal passwords  BleepingComputer

Linux Foundation Forks the Open Source Redis as 'Valkey'  The New Stack

Oracle Linux Cloud Developer image kickstarts an all-in-one development environment on OCI  Oracle

The “pure” version of Kodi for Ubuntu Linux is dead  BetaNews

Since the mid-90's with the P6 micro-architecture for the Pentium Pro as the sixth-generation x86 microarchitecture, Intel has relied on the "Family 6" CPU ID. From there Intel has just revved the Model number within Family 6 for each new microarchitecture/core. For example, Meteor Lake is Family 6 Model 170 and Emerald Rapids is Family 6 Model 207. This CPU ID identification is used within the Linux kernel and other operating systems for identifying CPU generations for correct handling, etc. But Intel Linux engineers today disclosed that Family 6 is coming to an end "soon-ish"...

Intel "Family 6" CPU Era Coming To An End Soon: Code Suggests Cooper Forest & Adams Lake  Phoronix

How to enable AMD AVIC and speed up your VMs  Oracle

Linux Foundation Launches Valkey As A Redis Fork  Phoronix

Given the recent change by Redis to adopt dual source-available licensing for all their releases moving forward (Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1), the Linux Foundation announced today their fork of Redis...

Linux Version of DinodasRAT Spotted in Cyber Attacks Across Several Countries  The Hacker News

While the uutils Rust-written Coreutils effort has been chugging along, the upstream GNU Coreutils effort is showing no signs of slowing down. Out today is GNU Coreutils 9.5 with yet more feature work and bug fixes including a security fix for a chmod issue that's been around since the beginning...