Linux NewsFinnix 251 Linux Distro for Sysadmins Introduces Official OCI Container Images
Debian-based Finnix 251 Linux distribution for sysadmins is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.16. Here's what's new!
Git 2.52.0 released
Version 2.52.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released. Changes include a new last-modified command to find the closest ancestor commit that touched one or more paths, a couple of git refs improvements, a new git repo command for obtaining information about the repository itself, and more. See the announcement and this GitHub blog entry for more information.
Ten Reasons (and Five Exceptions) to Choose Open Source Over Freemium
Weighing the tradeoffs between open source and freemium software reveals why free-as-in-freedom tools are almost always the better option. The post Ten Reasons (and Five Exceptions) to Choose Open Source Over Freemium appeared first on FOSS Force.
AlmaLinux 9.7 Lands With Updated Toolchain
AlmaLinux 9.7 arrives with toolchain upgrades and upcoming container, cloud, and live images across all supported architectures.
AlmaLinux OS 9.7 Is Out as a Free Alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7
AlmaLinux OS 9.7 distribution is now available for download as a free alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7. Here’s what’s new!
Git 2.52 Introduces New Command for Grabbing Various Repository Characteristics
Git 2.52 open-source distributed version control system is now available for download with numerous new features and improvements. Here's what's new!
Valve's Proton brings better DirectX 12 support and FSR4 to Linux
Red Dead Redemption 2, Spider-Man Remastered, and other games now work better.
Raspberry Pi OS alternative DietPi just got a big update
There's new optimized software for backyard birding with your SBC.
FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 Brings Build Fixes For Google Cloud & Azure, Base Repository Changes
FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 is available today for testing as this leading BSD operating system works toward the stable release in early December...
VKD3D-Proton 3.0 Released with FSR4 Support, DXBC Shader Backend Rewrite
VKD3D-Proton 3.0 open-source implementation of the full Direct3D 12 API on top of Vulkan is now available for download as a major update. Here's what's new!
[$] Hot-page migration and specific-purpose NUMA nodes
For better or for worse, the NUMA node is the abstraction used by the kernel to keep track of different types of memory. How that abstraction is used, though, is still an active area of development. Two patch sets focused on this problem are currently under review; one addresses the perennial problem of promoting heavily used folios from slower to faster memory, while the other aims to improve the kernel's handling of nodes containing special memory installed for a specific purpose.
NetworkManager 1.54.2 Adds Support for Configuring the HSR Protocol Version
NetworkManager 1.54.2 open-source network connection manager is now available for downlaoad with configuring the HSR protocol version and the HSR interlink port.
Wayland-Only Budgie 10.10 Desktop Preview Released
At the start of the year developers behind the Budgie desktop environment hoped for shipping Budgie 10.10 in Q1-2025. We are now in Q4 without a stable release but at long last a preview version is at least available. Budgie 10.10 is the point at which Budgie is going all-in on Wayland in leaving behind the X11 desktop session support...
systemd 259-rc1 Released With Musl libc Support, New run0 "Empower" Mode
Released a short time ago was systemd 259-rc1 as the first test release toward this next version of this dominant Linux init system and service manager...
Josefsson: Introducing the Debian Libre Live Images
Debian developer Simon Josefsson has announced the Debian Libre Live Images project, to allow installing Debian without any non-free software: Since the 2022 decision on non-free firmware, the official images for bookworm and trixie contains non-free software. The Debian Libre Live Images project provides Live ISO images for Intel/AMD-compatible 64-bit x86 CPUs (amd64) built without any non-free software, suitable for running and installing Debian. The images are similar to the Debian Live Images distributed as Debian live images. He does warn that this is a first public release, so there may be problems. See the current list of known issues before trying the images out.