Open-source News

EXT2 DAX Being Deprecated & For Removal At Year's End  Phoronix

The EXT2 file-system's direct access "DAX" mode is being deprecated and expected for removal at the end of 2025, after this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version...

4 reasons every software enthusiast should try a Linux VM (even if you don't always use it)  XDA

Oracle Releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8  info-mods.com

In addition to Bcachefs working on better self-healing / automatic repair capabilities, this modern copy-on-write file-system is also working on faster snapshot deletion performance. A patch series was posted this week to speed-up the deletion of snapshots though it comes with another bump to the on-disk format of the file-system...

DietPi released a new version 9.12  info-mods.com

As another alternative to the likes of the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V developer board, the Andes Voyager is in the process of seeing patches reviewed for mainline Linux kernel support...

Andes Voyager RISC-V Micro-ATX Board Seeing Patches For Mainline Linux Support  Phoronix

SteamOS isn't the only way to game on Linux - here's 3 other distros to check out  XDA

The QEMU processor emulator that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack has been seeing experimental support for the Rust programming language developing within its codebase. There continues to be good progress being made on this Rust support as more QEMU components get ported over to this programming language for memory safety and other security benefits...

A Look at EXE: The Live Retro-Style Devuan Spin  How-To Geek

Malicious Go Modules Deliver Disk-Wiping Linux Malware in Advanced Supply Chain Attack  The Hacker News

8 Weird Things I’ve Done With Linux Just Because I Could  How-To Geek

Labwc 0.8.4 is out as the newest stable update to this wlroots-based, window-stacking Wayland compositor...

Blueprint is a currently-experimental markup language and compiler for crafting GTK4 user interfaces. Blueprint allows declaratively creating GTK UIs and aims to be a very easy and nice developer experience...

Steam Client Update Brings Game Launch Stability  info-mods.com

NVIDIA CUDA 12.9 is now available as the newest minor feature update to NVIDIA's GPU compute stack. CUDA 12.9 adds compiler targetr support for SM 10.3 and 12.1, compiler support for "family-specific architectures", new NVML counters being exposed, and other minor feature improvements. The NVIDIA CUDA 12.9 documentation is also now more verbose in encouraging anyone still relying on Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta hardware to upgrade...

Autodesk Fusion on Linux: How to Run It  All3DP

The first beta release of FreeBSD 14.3 was released on Friday night for testing. FreeBSD 14.3 will become the newest stable release this summer while later in 2025 we can look forward to the big FreeBSD 15.0 release...

I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing  ZDNET