Open-source News

GstarCAD 2024 for Linux is available  Digital Engineering 24/7 News

GstarCAD 2024 for Linux is available  Digital Engineering 24/7 News

It was two months ago today that an urgent security alert was issued over XZ being hit by malicious code that turned out to be a backdoor within liblzma added by a bad actor that worked his way into XZ co-maintainership. Longtime XZ developer Lasse Collin is back at the helm and has been auditing the prior XZ commits and today released XZ 5.6.2 with the backdoor completely removed...

A massive uptick in traffic to Fedora's package mirrors is causing problems for the Linux distribution. Some five million additional systems have started putting additional strain on Fedora's mirror resources since March and appear to be coming from Amazon's cloud...

Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors  Phoronix

SteamVR for Linux gets "experimental improvements to async support"  GamingOnLinux

Framework is out today with some exciting announcements from lowering the price of the existing Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 series SoC to announcing a new Framework Laptop 13 powered by Intel Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) and having a new 2.8K display option for this modular/upgradeable laptop shipping this summer...

The supervillains won, so fight back in superhero strategy game Capes - out now  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AlmaLinux 8.10 are out  The Register

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AlmaLinux 8.10 released as end of the RHEL 8 line looms  The Register

Now that the Linux 6.10 merge window has wrapped up, here's a look at all of the exciting features/changes coming to this summer 2024 kernel. Linux 6.10 brings a lot as usual for the latest/upcoming Intel and AMD platforms, never-ending work on file-systems, a new memory sealing "mseal" system call, TPM bus encryption, and dozens of other exciting changes and new hardware support.

Arm today announced the latest products in the Armv9 CPU portfolio: the Cortex-X925 as their "ultimate performance" processor and the Cortex-A725 as their processor option for sustained performance...

Linux 6.10 Features Include TPM Bus Encryption, More AMD Zen 5 & A Prison Letter Merge Request  Phoronix

QuestDB 8.0 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source time-series database. QuestDB continues to cater to high throughput ingestion and fast SQL queries so it can handle use-cases from financial data to IoT sensors. With today's QuestDB 8.0 release, it's even faster...

KDE's Eco group announced today "Opt Green" as a new initiative for sustainable software...

One of the newest open-source projects in-development by Ubuntu maker Canonical is a new C# written program called Flamenco...

The AMD shader compiler "ACO" alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM back-end has seen another batch of changes merged in preparations for next-generation Radeon RDNA4 GPUs...

Fancy climbing the peaks of Alpine Linux? 3.20 is out  The Register

Alpine Linux 3.20 arrives with support for 64-bit RISC-V  The Register

Coming up on my radar today is a commit made to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for adjusting the loop alignment with Intel's generic tuning path. In turn this should address "some random performance penalty in benchmarks" with coping better around cache lines...