Linux NewsUbuntu Upstreams Patches to Bring Flutter Apps to RISC-V
Canonical's engineers have submitted pull requests to add RISC-V support to Google's Flutter toolkit, which Ubuntu uses to built many of its desktop apps.
Linux Foundation Is Seeking Technical Advisory Board Candidates
This year’s Linux Foundation TAB election is in its nominating phase, with seats open to kernel developers and contributors who meet the commit‑based voting requirements. The post Linux Foundation Is Seeking Technical Advisory Board Candidates appeared first on FOSS Force.
Linux 6.18-rc7 Released With Late Hardware Improvements
Linux 6.18-rc7 just arrived in the Git tree as the newest weekly test build leading up to Linux 6.18 stable hopefully debuting next Sunday, 30 November...
Wayland Protocols 1.46 Released With New Experimental Additions
Wayland Protocols 1.46 released this evening with new experimental protocols for text improvements as well as refinements to the color management protocol for HDR...
Racket 9.0 released
The Racket programming language project has released Racket version 9.0. Racket is a descendant of Scheme, so it is part of the Lisp family of languages. The headline feature in the release is parallel threads, which adds to the concurrency tools in the language: "While Racket has had green threads for some time, and supports parallelism via futures and places, we feel parallel threads is a major addition." Other new features include the black-box wrapper to prevent the compiler from optimizing calculations away, the decompile-linklet function to map linklets back to an s-expression, the addition of Weibull distributions to the math library, and more.
Improving GCC Buffer Overflow Detection for C Flexible Array Members (Oracle)
The Oracle blog has a lengthy article on enhancements to GCC to help detect overflows of flexible array members (FAMs) in C programs. We describe here two new GNU extensions which specify size information for FAMs. These are a new attribute, "counted_by" and a new builtin function, "__builtin_counted_by_ref". Both extensions can be used in GNU C applications to specify size information for FAMs, improving the buffer overflow detection for FAMs in general. This work has been covered on LWN as well.
The 2025 Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election
The call for candidates for the 2025 election for the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board has been posted. The TAB exists to provide advice from the kernel community to the Linux Foundation and holds a seat on the LF's board of directors; it also serves to facilitate interactions both within the community and with outside entities. Over the last year, the TAB has overseen the organization of the Linux Plumbers Conference, advised on the setup of the kernel CVE numbering authority, worked behind the scenes to help resolve a number of contentious community discussions, worked with the Linux Foundation on community conference planning, and more. Nominations close on December 13.
Privacy and Openness Collide as Qualcomm Reshapes Arduino’s Rules
Recent policy updates point to a new direction for Arduino with Qualcomm at the helm. Will Arduino's open-source legacy survive? The post Privacy and Openness Collide as Qualcomm Reshapes Arduino’s Rules appeared first on FOSS Force.
iDescriptor Brings iPhone Management to Linux
iDescriptor brings iPhone management to Linux, enabling app installs, file access, AirPlay, and device controls in a free, open-source application.
MariaDB 12.1 Database Arrives with Faster Aria Engine
The new MariaDB 12.1 update introduces a segmented key cache, MDL scalability gains, and several enhancements across the database engine.
Custom Screen Resolutions in Linux with xrandr (VirtualBox-Friendly Guide)
I came across this issue when using VirtualBox. I know you may be thinking that this is something simple. All you need to do is press the HOST key and 'F' for full screen, but this is a completely different way without losing the windowed screen. Personally, I prefer to leave it with the window so I have access to the minimize, restore and close buttons in the top right corner. It also leaves my menu at the top left, while the hardware information is at the bottom right. Somehow, I just... https://www.linux.org/threads/custo...-with-xrandr-virtualbox-friendly-guide.57437/
NVIDIA Preps 1.6Tb/s Networking For Linux 6.19
NVIDIA has a number of Linux kernel patches on the way to the Linux 6.19 kernel in preparing for 1.6 Tb/s networking on NVIDIA-Mellanox hardware...
Thunderbird Pro Nears Launch With New Website and $9 Early Bird Plan
Thunderbird Pro’s new website goes live as the service nears launch, introducing a $9 Early Bird plan with Thundermail, Send, and Appointment.
Linux Patches Improve Intel Nested VM Memory Performance Up To ~2353x In Synthetic Test
AWS engineers have been working on Linux kernel improvements to KVM's VMX code for enhancing the unamanged guest memory when dealing with nested virtual machines. The improved code addresses some correctness issues as well as delivering wild performance improvements within a synthetic benchmark...
Glibc Math Code Sees 4x Improvement On AMD Zen By Changing FMA Implementation
Merged this week to the GNU C Library "glibc" code is dropping the ldbl-96 FMA implementation from this library as in doing so they found a 4x improvement to throughput and latency on AMD Zen 3 hardware...