Linux NewsRed Hat Funded a Report That Found a Quarter of Incoming Pull Requests May Be AI Slop
The Linux Foundation Research survey also found that only 35% of projects have a formal policy permitting AI contributions.
Sentry Pledges $1 Million to Open Source Maintainers
Sentry expands its financial support for open source, allocating $1 million to software maintainers, foundations, and critical dependencies.
This Newly Proposed Linux Filesystem Can Fix Corrupted Data
Aimed at hardware exposed to radiation, like satellites, BeamFS can repair data without keeping a second copy.
FOSS Weekly #26.43: Kernel 7.3, Non-Linux OS, de-Googled Phone, DuxOS, Podcasts, De-bloating TVs, KDE Dock and More
A new kernel and a new Ubuntu release are here.
Fedora 45 Hits A Second NO-GO: Not Releasing Until November
Fedora 45 wasn't released this week as its ideal early release target due to not having a release candidate build in time for last week's Go/No-Go meeting. At today's Go/No-Go meeting, Fedora 45 was delayed by at least one more week due to open blocker bugs...
openSUSE Releases Agama 25 Installer with Web-Based Terminal, Exit Option
openSUSE releases the Agama 25 web-based installer for Tumbleweed, Slowroll, and MicroOS with a web-based terminal, enhanced bond port selection, and polishing of the OpenAPI specification.
openSUSE’s Agama 25 Installer Adds Web Terminal, Improves Networking
The Agama 25 Linux installer adds terminal access from the browser, simplifies network setup, and improves installation controls.
PipeWire 1.6.10 Multimedia Framework Released with JACK Crash Fixes
PipeWire 1.6.10 fixes potential JACK crashes, audio playback glitches, Bluetooth issues, and a regression affecting rear-channel audio delays.
[$] The end of __get_user() and __put_user()
Linus Torvalds rarely writes significant amounts kernel code these days, so the merging of a 48-part patch series from him is an unusual event. This series, destined for the 7.4 kernel release, performs some long-delayed kernel cleanup by removing a couple of the primitives used to access user-space memory from the kernel. What was once a best practice has long been superseded, but it can take time for such changes to work their way through a body of code this large.
PipeWire 1.6.10 Is Out to Improve JACK, Bluetooth, Pulse Server, and ALSA Plugin
PipeWire 1.6.10 audio/video server for Linux is now available for download with improvements to JACK, Bluetooth, GStreamer, and ALSA support.
PwnEscape Poses VM Vulnerability
A guest-to-host escape flaw in Linux KVM, named PwnEscape, might be yet another means of attacking Linux.
DietPi 10.8 Released with New Tool to Manage WireGuard Servers and Clients
DietPi 10.8 distribution for single-board computers is now available for download with a new tool to manage WireGuard servers and clients, support for ATAPI/SCSI CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives on Quartz64, and many other changes.
Steam Client Update Fixes Vulkan Game Freezes on Linux
Valve releases a Steam Client update fixing Vulkan game freezes on Linux, updater issues, and bugs affecting Remote Play and macOS.
AI Helping To Improve Linux's AMD Zen CPU Microarchitecture Detection
A request for comments (RFC) was sent out last night on the Linux kernel mailing list in seeking to clean-up the AMD Zen microarchitecture detection within the kernel. This is for enhancing the kernel where there are code paths specific to a certain generation of AMD Zen processors or select generations such as Zen 3 through Zen 5 CPUs. AI was leveraged in helping to clean-up this AMD Zen code in the Linux kernel...
Modular's MAX Source Code Now Fully Opened, Under New MAX License
Back in August Modular's Mojo language was open-sourced following the acquisition of Chris Lattner's company by Qualcomm. The latest achievement now out of the company is their MAX software being fully opened up with the entire source tree available...
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