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Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production. Sponsored By: Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: Status of Embedded Linux — In this talk, Tim will give an overview of issues in the Linux in the embedded space that have come about in the past year The 2023 State of The Embedded Linux Ecosystem LXD Moves to Canonical — While the team behind Linux Containers regrets that decision and will be missing LXD as one of its projects, it does respect Canonical’s decision and is now in the process of moving the project over. Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXD Nearly 40% of Linux gamers on Steam are on Steam Deck — Overall the Steam Deck has kind of taken over Linux gaming and June 2023's statistic are pretty striking. Steam Deck on Twitter — “Hi all, just a quick note to celebrate a big milestone - we’ve just ed 10,000 Verified and Playable titles on Steam Deck! 🎉🥳🎉 A bunch of these titles are on sale (along with Steam Deck itself) at the Steam Summer Sale! ZFS Block Cloning — Block Cloning allows to clone a file (or a subset of its blocks) into another (or the same) file by just creating additional references to the data blocks without copying the data itself. Block Cloning can be described as a fast, manual deduplication

Why everyone is excited about the next Linux kernel, Valve's big hire, and Red Hat's clone war. Sponsored By: Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: Linux 6.4 Released — Released With Early Apple M2 Code, More WiFi 7, AMD Guided Autonomous Mode Linux 6.4 Released, focus on 6.5 — Linus Torvalds on Sunday announced the release without making any comment at all on the state of the kernel, or the efforts that led to the release of this version. Indeed, he had little to say about the progress of version 6.4 Btrfs In Linux 6.5 May Bring A Cumulative Performance Improvement Linux Kernel 6.4 Released with Interesting Mix of Changes Bcachefs File-System Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.5 Early access to the LXD graphical interface — While we don’t yet advise you to use the LXD UI in a production setting, we made it available as an experimental feature and would like to invite you to take it out for a spin and share your . Early look at the LXD web UI - YouTube Google Pixel 8 could debut Desktop Mode — The Pixel 8 series is expected to leverage DisplayPort alternate mode, although specific details are not yet available. Through code analysis, it is possible to speculate on Google’s intentions for this feature. One obvious use would be to transform a Pixel 8 phone into a desktop replacement. Ubuntu Edge Valve Contracts Another Prominent Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Developer — Great to hear and given her vast experience will be exciting to see what open-source improvements she manages to further advance Linux gaming. Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes — Ultimately, we do not find value in a RHEL rebuild and we are not under any obligation to make things easier for rebuilders; this is our call to make. That brings me to CentOS Stream, of which there is immense confusion. I acknowledge that this is a change in a longstanding tradition where we went above and beyond, and change like this can cause some confusion. Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream git.centos.org A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model — We fear that be it through incompetence or malice, many RHEL salespeople and business development professionals may regularly violate GPL and no one knows about it. That said, the business model as described by IBM's Red Hat may well comply with the GPL — it's just so murky that any tweak to the model in any direction seems to definitely violate, in our experience.

What we really like in Debian 12, the big players backing RISC-V, and the improvements in NextCloud Hub 5. Note: Linux Action News will be off next week. Sponsored By: Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: Debian 12 “bookworm” released — This release contains over 11,089 new packages for a total count of 64,419 packages, while over 6,296 packages have been removed as "obsolete". 43,254 packages were updated in this release. The overall disk usage for "bookworm" is 365,016,420 kB (365 GB), and is made up of 1,341,564,204 lines of code. Debian 12 is nearly ready, and reassuringly boring Debian 12 discussion on Hacker News Linux Foundation & RISC-V International Launch RISC-V Fundamentals Course — This course prepares IT professionals to write assembly language code for RISC-V processors and use high-level languages like C to develop applications for RISC-V-based systems. RISC-V Fundamentals Training Course — Learn everything you need to know about RISC-V, the open-source instruction set architecture that is predicted to become ubiquitous as it paves the way for the next 50 years of computing design and innovation. Help Us Test Evolution — If you’re a bit more advanced who would like to help with testing and you use Evolution from Flathub, consider switching to the beta channel. You wouldn’t switch to something broken. Milan doesn’t let low quality releases out. It’s for rather rare bugs that would be great to identify and fix before they hit everyone, or for early when UX changes are being done. Evolution Email App Wants Flatpak Beta Testers Nextcloud Hub 5 — Hub 5 builds on all the improvements we introduced earlier this year, including the Smart Picker and it’s AI integrations, the cool new Nextcloud Tables app and more. Nextcloud on Twitter — Announcing Hub 5: Self-hosted AI-powered digital workspace for everyone!

Ubuntu gets serious about the immutable desktop, red flags from Red Hat, and the little tricks Apple used to patch Wine. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linux Action News Links: Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base — In this blog post we discuss the architecture of immutable operating systems, their benefits and drawbacks, and the role of Ubuntu Core in the immutable Linux landscape. Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement — However, the "tradeoff" to focusing on that is they will be pivoting away from less desktop application work and "cease shipping LibreOffice as part of RHEL starting in a future RHE version. This also limits our ability to maintain it in future versions of Fedora." LibreOffice to be cut out of RHEL installs Asahi: Big Updates — Get your updater ready! OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux Wine comes to macOS: Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit powered by CrossOver source code — We are ecstatic that Apple chose to use CrossOver’s source code as their emulation solution for the Game Porting Toolkit. Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit is Wine Apple Home Brew Repo — Using the game-porting-toolkit formula requires ing the Game Porting Toolkit from developer.apple.com. Game Porting Toolkit — Game Porting Toolkit is Apple's new translation layer which combines Wine with Apple's own D3DMetal which s DirectX 9-12. Games that use anti-cheat or aggressive DRM generally don't work. Games that require AVX Us also do not work e.g. Last of Us.

How the recent XFS bug was squashed, insights into why Microsoft built their own Linux from scratch, and recent attacks on Archive.org. Sponsored By: Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: Those Using The XFS File-System Will Want To Avoid Linux 6.3 For Now XFS Metadata Corruption On Linux 6.3 Tracked Down To One Missing One-Line Patch — This is a bug fix that we thought just fixed a livelock on stripe aligned filesystems. I'm guessing that in certain circumstances instead of livelocking on repeated failed allocations, it results in a broken mapping being returned to the writeback code and hence misdirecting the writeback IO. Linux 6.3.5 Released With XFS Metadata Corruption Fix — Making Linux 6.3.5 a notable point release is that it has back-ported the fix for the XFS metadata corruption bug that was plaguing the Linux 6.3 point releases. Azure Linux - Microsoft revealed why it did not fork Fedora — Why did Microsoft create Azure Linux? “We needed a Linux distribution internally,” Perrin said. “We wanted a consistent platform for ourselves.” Now there is “one vendor to the full AKS stack”. Plasma 6 is Wayland only - No X11 for Plasma 6 — With Fedora KDE and Kinoite being fully Wayland by default from (since F38) to desktop (since F34), it's now time to work toward eliminating our dependency on the Xorg server for Plasma 6.0. Xorg server is deprecated since RHEL 9.0 — The X.org display server is deprecated, and will be removed in a future major RHEL release. The default desktop session is now the Wayland session in most cases. Fedora 36 Changes: Replace the fbdev drivers with simpledrm and the DRM fbdev emulation layer — This change replaces the legacy Linux frame buffer device (fbdev) drivers that are still used in Fedora, with the latest simpledrm driver and the DRM fbdev emulation layer. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS end of standard — Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, codenamed ‘Bionic Beaver,’ is approaching the end of its standard five-year maintenance period on 31 May 2023. Let us serve you, but don’t bring us down — Tens of thousands of requests per second for our public domain OCR files were launched from 64 virtual hosts on amazon’s AWS services. This activity brought archive.org down for all s for about an hour. Internet Archive — Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Microsoft's new Linux server distro, Red Hat Summit 2023 highlights, big changes at CodeWeavers, and Podman catches up to Docker Desktop. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linux Action News Links: Podman Desktop 1.0 Annouced — Podman Desktop offers a -friendly interface for handling containers and integrating with Kubernetes from a local workstation. Podman.io Podman Podman Desktop 1.0: Local container development made easy Podman Desktop 1.0 Released As An Alternative To Docker Desktop Podman Desktop 1.0: Local container development made easy Introducing Azure Linux — This General Availability announcement follows our October preview announcement under the CBL-Mariner project codename. We’d like to thank the customers who provided valuable and insight during our preview. Introduction to the Azure Linux Container Host for AKS | Microsoft Learn CodeWeavers An Employee Ownership Trust — As of April 12th, the the company has a new shareholder - the CodeWeavers Purpose Trust. This Trust will become the primary owner of CodeWeavers. CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust Red Hat Summit 2023 — Highlights — The Red Hat Summit 2023 witnessed the launch of OpenShift AI and Red Hat Ansible software, security cloud services, and Linux management features. The moment for AI Automation and the AI revolution — Generative AI is everywhere. But I cannot overstate how different our approach to all this has been. Red Hat Summit 2023: Adolfo Rodriguez, Advance Auto Parts - YouTube — Adolfo Rodriguez, SVP of Technology Transformation at Advance Auto Parts s theCUBE hosts John Furrier & Rob Strechay for our continuing coverage of Red Hat Summit 2023

Bcachefs hits a major milestone, how the Red Hat cuts impact Fedora, Plasma 6 plans, and the software update bricking EV batteries. Sponsored By: Jupiter Network hip: the entire network, and get access to every member's special feed for every show on the network. Promo Code: thesignal Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linux Action News Links: bcachefs out for review — I'm submitting the bcachefs filesystem for review and inclusion. bcachefs TestServerSetup Bcachefs Submitted For Review - Aims For Mainline Fedora Program Manager Laid Off — On 24 April 2023, Red Hat announced a 4% reduction in global staff. As a member of that 4%, today is my last day at Red Hat. Fedora Program Manager Laid Off As Part Of Red Hat Cuts KDE Developers Planning For Plasma 6.0 — This week my fellow developers and I are in for an in-person Plasma sprint–our first since 2019! KDE Developers In Planning For Plasma 6.0 KDE Plasma 6 to Ship with Floating by Default, Double-Click for Opening Files Tesla sued over battery-busting OTA patch in Model S, X — The named plaintiffs claim that, despite Tesla saying their batteries are supposed to last the life of the vehicle, the Musk-owned automaker "deliberately and significantly interfere[d] with the car's performance through software updates that reduce operating capacity."

We get you up to speed on two serious flaws, Linux's recent gaming loss, Ubuntu doubling down on RISC-V, and news from the Open Source Summit North America. Sponsored By: Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: CVE - CVE-2023-28410 — Improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer in some Intel(R) i915 Graphics drivers for linux before kernel version 6.2.10 may allow an authenticated to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access. INTEL-SA-00886 Intel Security Center New NetFilter flaw gives attackers root privileges — A new Linux NetFilter kernel flaw has been discovered, allowing unprivileged local s to escalate their privileges to root level, allowing complete control over a system. NVD - CVE-2023-32233 Goodbye to Roblox on Linux — I’m sorry to be such a downer about this, but it’s the reality. We have to spend our time porting to and ing the platforms that will grow our community. Proper for the Linux platform - Feature Requests Ubuntu 23.04 Now Works on StarFive’s VisionFive 2 RISC-V SBC — ”This partnership will provide s with a seamless development experience, allowing them to leverage the best of open source software and RISC-V through Ubuntu and VisionFive 2.” Canonical enables Ubuntu on StarFive’s VisionFive 2 RISC-V single board computer Open Source Summit North America — Open Source Summit is a conference umbrella, composed of a collection of events covering the most important technologies, topics, and issues affecting open source today. AWS open-sources snapshot fuzzing and policy authorization tools Schedule - Linux Foundation Events The Linux Foundation on Twitter

The results from the recent HDR Hackfest, Mozilla's new acquisition, and the concerning crack down on free software encryption. Sponsored By: Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: HDR hackfest wrap-up — People from various organizations were on-site: Red Hat, KDE, System76, AMD, Igalia, Collabora, Canonical, etc. Some more people from NVIDIA, Intel and Google ed us remotely (some of them waking up at 2 AM due to their timezone!). Fakespot is acquired by Mozilla — I have exciting news to share, Fakespot has been acquired by Mozilla! We are ing a company that develops one of the most popular browsers in the world in Firefox with a lineage that dates back to the origins of the internet. Apple removes Fakespot from App Store after Amazon complains More Rust Code Readied For Linux 6.4 — New Rust code for Linux 6.4 includes the introduction of the pin-init API, which is for dealing with safe pinned initialization and allows reducing the amount of "unsafe" Rust code within the kernel. Asahi Lina on Twitter: My Rust contributions for Linux 6.4 are finally merged upstream! 🦀🐧 — The next big challenge is going to be the DRM subsystem abstractions! India blocks 14 mobile apps used by terrorists in Pakistan to send information in J-K — As inputs received that these applications are being used to further terror propaganda and incite youths in Jammu and Kashmir, the Central government blocked them under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000. India removes ban on VLC media player after cybersecurity concerns addressed Text of the RESTRICT Act — To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to review and prohibit certain transactions between persons in the United States and foreign adversaries, and for other purposes... Tell Congress: Don’t Outlaw Encrypted Applications

What we know about the Red Hat layoffs, highlights of Linux 6.3, and Canonical's bold claim in Ubuntu 23.04. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linux Action News Links: Red Hat Cutting “Hundreds Of Jobs” — The tech layoffs have now reached Red Hat with "hundreds of jobs" being cut and the initial round of layoffs being announced today. Message to Red Hat associates today IBM announces layoffs at Red Hat — "Our reductions will focus on general and istrative (G&A) and similar roles across all functions and represent a reduction of just under four percent in total," he said. "We will not reduce roles directly selling to customers or building our products." Linux Kernel 6.3 Officially Released — Introduces a new Intel VPU DRM accelerated driver, BIG T for IPv4, and native Steam Deck controller . Btrfs Receives A Very Important Last Minute Fix For Linux 6.3 — Ahead of the Linux 6.3 kernel being potentially released as stable on Sunday, two last-minute patches for the Btrfs file-system driver were submitted Linux 6.3 Released With More Meteor Lake Enablement — Zen 4 Auto IBRS & Much More Linux 6.3 Features Have A Lot For AMD & Intel — Also Steam Deck, ASUS Motherboards & More Intel i219-LM Had Only Been Running At ~60% Of Max The new Flathub Website — Welcome to Flathub, the home of hundreds of apps which can be easily installed on any Linux distribution. Flathub Website Gets a Brand New Look Docker Security Essentials eBook — This guide focuses on securing the Docker platform on Linux. Follow along with the techniques demonstrated in this guide. All you need is a Linux server with Docker installed and running. Ubuntu 23.04 Released — Our focus, as always, has been improving quality, performance and enjoyment for all our s, whether that’s more elegant update handling for snaps, improved UI for installation and quick settings or a more accessible gaming experience. Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) Ubuntu 23.04 with GNOME 44 and a stable Steam Snap — [The] Snap of Steam [is] being promoted to stable. Canonical said over 150,000 people ed the preview version, so there was plenty of interest in it. This Snap bundles a bunch of dependencies needed allowing you to run new and old titles without messing with PPAs. Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster scuttles into public view — Lunar Lobster adds for Microsoft Azure Active Directory — a first for a Linux desktop according to Canonical. The feature will allow s on Microsoft 365 Enterprise plans to authenticate Ubuntu Desktops using a common set of credentials. Ubuntu 23.04 Flavors: What’s New — Arriving alongside the Ubuntu 23.04 release are new versions of official community flavors. Azure AD authentication comes to Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 — Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 is the first and only Linux distribution to enable native authentication with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). aad-auth: Azure AD authentication module for Ubuntu — Azure AD Authentication will be included as part of an Ubuntu Pro subscription in Ubuntu 23.04 before being backported to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and future LTS releases from 2023. microsoft-authentication-library-for-go — The MSAL library for Go is part of the Microsoft identity platform for developers (formerly named Azure AD) v2.0. It enables you to acquire security tokens to call protected APIs. It uses industry-standard OAuth2 and OpenID Connect. Next Ubuntu 23.10 Name — The Ubuntu release that will be delivered in October 2023, designated 23.10.

What we like about Fedora 38, why the Rust foundation is in hot water, and more. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linux Action News Links: Announcing Fedora Linux 38 — The Fedora Linux 38 release is here! With this release, we’re starting a new on-time streak. In fact, we’re ready a week early! What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38 Rust Foundation apologizes for trademark policy confusion — The Rust Foundation on Monday apologized for confusion caused by the organization's proposed trademark policy changes. A note on the Trademark Policy Draft Rust Foundation - Rust Trademark Policy Draft Revision Canonical Livepatch gets even better — Now ing Hardware Enablement Kernels. Proton 8.0-1 Published With More Game — Proton 8.0-1 is the much awaited re-base of Proton against the Wine 8.0 state Pierre-Loup Griffais on Twitter — “Proton 8.0 is now available with many changes. Our biggest rebase to date! Note: it requires a GPU with Vulkan 1.3 . Experimental-8.0 will follow sometime this week. LFNW Call for Papers — We invite you to submit your proposal to speak at LFNW2023! We're seeking both experienced technical presenters, as well as first-timers to present to a hybrid audience. LinuxFest Northwest 2023 In letter to EU, open source bodies say Cyber Resilience Act could have ‘chilling effect’ on software development — Penalties for non-compliance may include fines of up to €15 million, or 2.5% of global turnover. Cyber Resilience Act

A classic gadget gets a Linux-powered new lease on life, the next project getting Rusty, great news for Btrfs s, and more. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linux Action News Links: Linux Tech Sustainability — The mainline Linux 6.4 kernel is set to see a new touchscreen driver for ing the Novatek NVT-ts. Acer Iconia One 7 B1-730 Unlocking the bootloader and disabling dm-verity on Android-X86 devices Here Comes WebGPU — After years of development, the Chrome team ships WebGPU. Chrome 113 To Ship WebGPU By Default Muse on Twitter — Breaking news🚨 Chrome's Web GPU has launched after 6 years of development! 🚀 A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox Plasma 6 Early Builds — I’ve now got a working Plasma 6 dev session on my machine. It’s still rough, but it’s usable. Early KDE Plasma 6 Development State Rust Is Being Worked On For V4L2 — Daniel Almeida of Collabora sent out initial Rust V4L2 patches on Thursday. This provides just enough for working with a prototype VirtIO camera driver written in Rust along with a Rust sample driver. Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions — Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin today sent in the Apple SoC DT updates targeting the Linux 6.4 cycle for queuing into the SoC tree ahead of the merge window opening around the end of the month. Btrfs Improvments — This week a number of patches from SUSE engineer Qu Wenruo were queued into kdave's linux.git for-next branch of the Btrfs file-system driver development code.

A fresh take on open-source funding, Fedora’s plan for better encryption out of the box, and our impressions of the latest Ubuntu Beta. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linux Action News Links: New FOSS Fund to Free and Open Source Projects — To help maintain and sustain this ecosystem, companies and nonprofits alike have experimented with a framework called a FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Contributor Fund. Bloomberg Launches Open-Source Funding Initiative Encrypted Fedora — Owen Taylor of Red Hat laid out a mailing list post and Discourse thread today around the future of encryption with Fedora. Google’s VM Turbo Charger — With this series, a workload running in a VM gets the same task placement and DVFS treatment as it would when running in the host. Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 Ufreq/sched and VM guest workload problems Google Posts KVM-UFreq Driver To Dramatically Boost VM Performance, Power Efficiency KDE Discuss — KDE Discuss is a place for questions, requests, suggestions, banter, and in general interacting closely with the people actively involved in KDE, as well as with fellow s. KDE Discuss is a new discussion service from KDE for everybody who makes and uses KDE software New MSI Laptop Driver — Functions handled by the embedded controller on recent MSI laptops. new msi-ec driver patch Ubuntu 23.04 Beta Hands On Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup — Two meetups in the month of April, us!

What we're liking about GNOME 44, how Microsoft's Linux distro is trying to attract more s, and we bust a CentOS myth. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linux Action News Links: GNOME 44 Released — GNOME 44 is code-named “Kuala Lumpur”, in recognition of the work done by the organizers of GNOME.Asia 2022. GNOME 44 Released With Many Desktop Enhancements GNOME 44 Getting New Background Apps UI Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal Release — This is the first OTA for Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal) with major features, this is an Opt-In and not mandatory update. First Ubuntu Touch OTA Release Based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Is Out Now Ubuntu Cinnamon Flavor Status Announcement — Ubuntu Cinnamon started as a small idea in my head, in 2019. I was ELEVEN. ItzSwirlz (Joshua Peisach) Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix Becomes Official Ubuntu Flavor Microsoft’s CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution Continues Cultivating More Packages — With today's CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230321 they have continued cultivating more packages for the distribution. CBL-Mariner GitHub We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan — After listening to and consulting our community, it’s clear that we made the wrong decision in sunsetting our Free Team plan. Google discloses CentOS Linux kernel vulnerabilities following failure to issue timely fixes — Google Project Zero's security researcher Jann Horn learned that kernel fixes made to stable trees are not backported to many enterprise versions of Linux. Google Security Researchers Accuse CentOS of Failing to Backport Kernel Fixes Project Zero Mailing List Thread on CentOS Kernel Patches CVE-2023-0590 kernel-5.14.0-277.el9 CVE-2023-1249 CVE-2023-1252 Berlin Meet Up #2 - Nextcloud Hackfest & Dev Community Introduction, Fri, Mar 31, 2023 — NOTE: the time detailed on Meetup.com is strictly set to PST, so don't be confused by the interface!

Nextcloud moves to the front of the pack with their new release, a moment to appreciate curl, and Amazon goes all in with Fedora. Special Guest: Brent Gervais. Sponsored By: Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: curl 8.0.0 is Here — This a major version number bump but without any ground-breaking changes or fireworks. We decided it was about time to reset the minor number down to more a manageable level and doing it exactly on curl’s 25th birthday made it extra fun. There is no API nor ABI break in this version. Twenty-five Tears of curl — Taking curl this far and being able to work full time on my hobby project is a dream come real. curl is a huge part of my life. curl 8.0.0 with Daniel Stenberg [YouTube] curl 8.0.1: because I jinxed it Amazon Linux 2023 — When looking for a base to serve as a starting point for Amazon Linux 2023, Fedora was the best choice. We found that Fedora’s core tenets (Freedom, Friends, Features, First) resonate well with our vision for Amazon Linux. Paving the Road to Vulkan on Asahi Linux — Today we’re releasing a big update to our GPU drivers for Asahi Linux, so I wanted to talk to you about what we’ve been working on since then, and what’s next! Asahi Linux Continues Making Progress On Apple Silicon Graphics, Promising OpenGL Speed Canonical s the confidential computing consortium — Confidential computing is here to give you back control over the security guarantees of your workloads. As the consortium explains, confidential computing aims to “protect data in use by performing computation in a hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment. Introduction to Confidential Computing [YouTube] Hub 4 pioneers ethical AI integration for a more productive and collaborative future — Today, we are excited to announce a major step forward with Hub 4 – the very first on-premises collaboration platform to integrate intelligent features across its applications. Develop for Nextcloud — Write new applications, extend Nextcloud or integrate other software. Nextcloud Ethical AI Rating Berlin Meet Up — Friday, March 24, 2023

Docker's open-source crackdown, the Wayland regression solved this week, and why ipmitool's repo has been locked. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linux Action News Links: Kali 2023.1 — Today we are releasing Kali 2023.1 (and on our 10th anniversary)! Get Kali | Kali Linux Kali Linux Introduces “Kali Purple” for Defensive Security Hardening Qubes OS 4.1.2 — We’re pleased to announce the stable release of Qubes 4.1.2! Wayland Crash Survivor — A change merged to Qt this week can allow for Wayland clients to survive compositor restarts, such as when the compositor crashes. OpenMoon Ray Code Goes Live — MoonRay is DreamWorks’ open-source, award-winning, state-of-the-art production MCRT renderer. OpenMoonRay.org ipmitool Repository Archived — Those navigating to ipmitool/ipmitool on GitHub as the official repository for this project will find that it's now in a "public archive" state. Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know Justin Cormack on Twitter — when we remove s we do not free up the namespace so squatting is not possible. Some nuance for paid s GHCR was having some issues this morning it seems Red Hat’s Quay is maybe another option, they might offer free plans? public repos are free anyway José Valimon Twitter Deploy a registry server — This page contains information about hosting your own registry using the open source Docker Registry.

Nextcloud's big new customer, some last-minute surprises in GNOME 44, and Flathub's ambitious plans for 2023. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linux Action News Links: Nextcloud’s Big new Customer — After a silent migration of millions of s, Telekom and Nextcloud are now unveiling the first feature of the new MagentaCloud: a free office. Last Minute GNOME Awesome — GNOME Shell and Mutter 44 have reached their release candidate milestone ahead of the official release in just two weeks, all is going to plan, and to our surprise, there have been several last-minute additions. GNOME 44 Mutter Adds fractional_scale_v1 Wayland GNOME Shell & Mutter Complete Their Migration Away From GTK3 wp-fractional-scale-v1: New protocol for fractional scaling — This protocols allows for communicating preferred fractional scales to surfaces, which in combination with wp_viewport can be used to render surfaces at fractional scales when applicable. Asahi Linux Rust Drivers — This is my first take on the Rust abstractions for the DRM subsystem. Flathub in 2023 — It’s been quite a few months since the most recent updates about Flathub last year. We’ve been busy behind the scenes, so I’d like to share what we’ve been up to at Flathub and why—and what’s coming up from us this year Flathub in 2023 - Flathub Discourse

FFmpeg gets new superpowers, Plasma’s switch to Qt6 gets official; what you need to know. Plus we round up the top features coming to Linux 6.3. Sponsored By: Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: Steam Deck one Year Later — The Steam Deck has been about a year on the market now (it started shipping at the end of February 2022). This first anniversary is a good chance to review what has happened since then. FFmpeg 6.0 Released — 6.0 was released on 2023-02-27. It is the latest stable FFmpeg release from the 6.0 release branch, which was cut from master on 2023-02-19. FFmpeg 6.0 Released With NVIDIA NVENC AV1, VA-API Improvements FOSDEM 2023 - Dual presentation: FFmpeg 6 and VLC.js Plasma Switches to Qt6 — The master branch for Plasma repos will be made Qt6-only tomorrow. Hardware Noise “hwnoise” Tool for Linux 6.3 — hwnoise collects the periodic summary from the osnoise tracer running with *interrupts disabled*. By disabling interrupts, and the scheduling of threads as a consequence, only non-maskable interrupts and hardware-related noise is allowed. More Rust Code Readied For Linux 6.3 — In the pull request Miguel Ojeda commented, "more core additions, getting closer to a point where the first Rust modules can be upstreamed." EXT4 Getting Direct I/O Performance Improvements With 6.3 — Improved performance for ext4 Btrfs Enjoys More Performance With Linux 6.3 - Including Some 3~10x Speedups — Some of the performance work is quite juicy, as outlined in today's pull request. Btrfs updates for 6.3 - David Sterba Linux 6.3 Scheduler Updates Bring Fixes & Minor Optimizations RISC-V With Linux 6.3 Lands Optimized String Functions Via Zbb Extension — RISC-V with Linux 6.3 has improved its extension detection and alternative patching infrastructure for dealing with non spec compliant extensions.

Our favorite features in Linux 6.2, the Hollywood tool getting open-sourced, and a systemd update you need to know about. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linux Action News Links: DreamWorks’ Renderer Used for ‘Puss in Boots’ is Going Open-Source — DreamWork animation company is making its in-house renderer open-source very soon OpenMoonRay.org — MoonRay is DreamWorks’ open-source, award-winning, state-of-the-art production MCRT renderer, which has been used on feature films such as How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Trolls World Tour, The Bad Guys, and Puss In Boots: The Last Wish. MoonRay Documentation Home Systemd 253 — Systemd 253 has been released. As always, the list of changes is extensive. for version-1 control groups and separate /usr systems is going away later this year. There is a new tool for working with unified kernel images, a number of new unit-file options have been added, and much more. systemd 253: The future of enterprise Linux boot processes. Debian Installer Testing Call — Starting with this release, official images include firmware packages from main and non-free-firmware, along with metadata to configure the installed system accordingly. Linux 6.2 — Please do give 6.2 a testing. Maybe it's not a sexy LTS release like 6.1 ended up being, but all those regular pedestrian kernels want some test love too. Linux_6.2 - Linux Kernel Newbies — This release includes faster mitigration of the Retbleed vulnerability and a new FineIBT mitigation feature; Btrfs RAID5/6 and performance improvements, sysfs knobs that allow controlling block device writeback, for T Protective Load Balancing, improved Rust , BPF features like defined objects, the runtime verification tool, and some optional RCU power savings. The Best Linux 6.2 Features From Intel Arc Graphics To Better Performance For Older PCs LUP 500 Micro Brewery Meetup — Sat, Mar 4, 2023, 4:00 PM at 192 Brewing Company in Mount Vernon, WA

Some Git flaws you need to know about, we reflect on 10 years of Steam on Linux, and then dive into the much anticipated Plasma 5.27. Sponsored By: Kolide: Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: The Coder Robe — Celebrate Coder 500! The Robe, the Tumbler, and the Sticker are available for a limited time. Git Vulnerabilities — Today, the Git project released new versions to address a pair of security vulnerabilities, (CVE-2023-22490 and CVE-2023-23946) that affect versions 2.39.1 and older. 10 Years of Steam — Feb 14, 2013–Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the release of its Steam for Linux client. In celebration of the release, over 50 Linux titles are now 50-75% off until Thursday, February 21st at 10 AM PST. Sabayon 9 Review | LAS | s22e08 - YouTube Opening the Valve | LAS | s22e09 - YouTube Ubuntu Gets Real — Canonical today announced the general availability of real-time Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Canonical Promotes Ubuntu’s Real-Time “RT” Kernel To General Availability Here Comes GTK5 — Discussions around the GTK5 tool-kit also happened with some developers eager to begin work on that next major release in order to begin facilitating API breaks and removing deprecated code. Plasma 5.27 — Plasma 5.27 is out and brings massive improvements to the desktop and all its tools. Another work of love from the KDE devs and contributors. KDE Plasma 5.27 Released — Better Wayland , KWin Tiling, Multi-Monitor Overhaul Final Version of KDE Plasma 5 Released – This is What’s New — Notably, this is expected to be the final release in the KDE Plasma 5.x series, with the following stable release set to be KDE Plasma 6.0, due for release towards the end of the year.