Linux NewsNetBSD 11.0 Released With RISC-V Support, Enhanced Linux System Call Compatibility
NetBSD 11.0 officially shipped today as the nineteenth major release of this popular BSD operating system...
BeOS was the most innovative OS of the '90s—here is how it lives on today
One of the greatest "what could have beens" in computing.
KDE Plasma 6.8 Adds Resizable Virtual Screens and Larger Emojis
KDE Plasma 6.8 will deliver faster external GPU performance, resizable virtual display resolutions, scalable emojis, and pixel-precise monitor positioning.
MPEG-4 Patent Expiration, RADV On Windows, Open-Source AI & Other July Highlights
Last month on Phoronix there were 257 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 20 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Following the recent 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com, this puts the overall tally at nearly 51k original news articles and more than 5,600 Linux hardware reviews. Here is a look back at what readers found most exciting during the course of July...
Incus 7.3 Released with Shared GPU Acceleration and 13 Security Fixes
Incus 7.3 introduces shared 3D GPU acceleration for Linux virtual machines, easier port forwarding, UEFI NVRAM management, and fixes for 13 security vulnerabilities.
Komodo 2.3 Build and Deploy Tool Released with Faster Container Search
Komodo 2.3 introduces paginated resource and container lists, improved search, server-side sorting, and better UI responsiveness.
Prominent Arch Linux Developer Resigns After 10 Year Run
Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud "Foxboron" announced today he is resigning from the project...
Linux 7.2-rc6 Working Around Several Buggy Western Digital SATA Drives
Merged ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel test release are several ATA fixes that include a number of device-specific workarounds for some Western Digital SATA drives that have been failing to work on recent versions of the Linux kernel...
GNOME Working To Establish An RFC Process, Battling Sloppy AI-Generated Extensions
GNOME developers were quite busy in closing out the month of July from continued work on establishing a formal Request For Comments (RFC) process for the project to battling the continued flood of AI-generated GNOME Shell extensions...
KDE Plasma 6.8 To Enjoy Huge Performance Gains For Multi-GPU/eGPU Performance
It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma 6.8 development space particularly thanks to performance work on bettering KWin's multi-GPU / external GPU handling...
Picolibc 1.8.12 Brings Latest Improvements To This Embedded-Focused C Library
If the recent release of the GNU C Library glibc 2.44 is too big for your embedded use-cases, Keith Packard continues hacking on Picolibc as his embedded-focused C library. Released overnight was Picolibc 1.8.12 with a variety of improvements for this embedded libc...
4MLinux 52.0 Released with Better Support for Legacy GPUs, Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS
4MLinux 52.0 distribution is now available for download with improved support for legacy graphics cards, simplified Wi-Fi configuration, and other changes.
New Attack Puts Arch’s AUR Into Lockdown… Again
Arch Linux’s AUR faces a fresh security scare, prompting another round of lockdown measures from the project’s DevOps team. The post New Attack Puts Arch’s AUR Into Lockdown… Again appeared first on FOSS Force.
AerynOS Gets Linux Kernel 7.1.5, COSMIC 1.5, and Mesa 26.1.6
AerynOS rolls out a new unstable update featuring Linux kernel 7.1.5, COSMIC Desktop 1.5, Mesa 26.1.6, systemd 260.4, and more.
AMD Begins Posting Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" Linux Patches For RDNA5 GPUs
AMD closed out the month of July by posting some new AMDGPU Display Core "DC" patches. Most notable with this weekly patch ritual is several patches beginning to establish the foundation for Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" as their next-generation display IP. The patches tie DCN6 to the AMD GFX13 graphics engine, which is anticipated to be for the next-generation RDNA5 graphics processors...