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The controversial change for the GNU Toolchain, critical vulnerabilities in popular Matrix clients, and the significant milestone for the Ingenuity LinuxCopter this week. Sponsored By: Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: Announcing the GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Project — Linux Foundation IT services plans for the GNU Toolchain include Git repositories, mailing lists, issue tracking, web sites, and CI/CD, implemented with strong authentication, attestation, and security posture. Utilizing the experience and infrastructure of the LF IT team that is already used by the Linux kernel community will provide the most effective solution and best experience for the GNU Toolchain developer community. Sourceware.org GNU Toolchain Plans Move To The Linux Foundation’s Infrastructure Two visions for the future of sourceware.org Plasma Mobile Gear Update — The Plasma Mobile team is happy to announce the developments integrated into Plasma Mobile between July-September 2022. The Work-In-Progress Rust-Written Apple DRM Driver Manages To Start Wayland’s Weston — After ing the initial spinning cube milestone this past weekend, Asahi Lina has been working on bringing up more of this reverse-engineered kernel DRM/KMS driver. Asahi Lina on Twitter — 🚀 Weston/Wayland works!!! 🚀 KDE doesn’t start all the way yet, but on X at least it showed the splash screen ^^ Upgrade now to address E2EE vulnerabilities in matrix-js-sdk, matrix-ios-sdk and matrix-android-sdk2 — Two critical severity vulnerabilities in end-to-end encryption were found in the SDKs which power Element, Beeper, Cinny, SchildiChat, Circuli, Synod.im and any other clients based on matrix-js-sdk, matrix-ios-sdk or matrix-android-sdk2. Akamai Turns Linode Up Past 11 Over the weekend, #MarsHelicopter successfully completed Flight 33 — The rotorcraft reached an altitude of 10 meters (33 ft) and traveled 111.24 meters (365 ft) in 55.2 seconds. There will be up to five flights in the 31-day test period. — The NASAPersevere rover will attempt to capture video of those flights. NASA’s Asteroid-Striking DART Mission Team Has JPL — JPL’s navigation section is experienced at getting spacecraft to faraway locations accurately. How JPL’s role in NASA’s DART asteroid impact could save the earth one day – Pasadena Star News DART’s Impact with Asteroid Dimorphos (Official NASA Broadcast)

GNOME 43 highlights, Canonical's new hardware partner, and why we're disappointed in the Framework Chromebook. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linux Action News Links: GNOME 43 Release Notes — After 6 months of hard work, the GNOME project is proud to present version 43. This latest GNOME release comes with improvements across the board, ranging from a new quick settings menu, a redesigned Files app, and hardware security integration. GNOME 43 continues the trend of GNOME apps migrating from GTK 3 to GTK 4, and includes many other smaller enhancements. GNOME 43 Released With More Apps Ported To GTK4, Wayland Enhancements GNOME 43 Notes for Developers System76 Launches Redesigned Thelio Desktop — System76 today is announcing the Thelio, Thelio Mira, and Thelio Major with a full-chassis redesign. system76 Next steps for Rust in the kernel — At the 2022 Linux Kernel Maintainers Summit, Miguel Ojeda updated the group on the status of the project with the goal of reaching a conclusion on when this merge might happen. The answer that came back was clear enough: Rust in the kernel will be happening soon indeed. Rust Porting Begins For Intel’s “e1000” Linux Network Driver — Adding to the growing examples and early drivers being worked on for the Linux kernel to showcase the possibilities of using the Rust programming language within the kernel, an early port of Intel's e1000 wired networking driver has started. Linux kernel’s eBPF feature put to unexpected new uses ASUS & Canonical Partner On The IoT — Adding to the growing examples and early drivers being worked on for the Linux kernel to showcase the possibilities of using the Rust programming language within the kernel, an early port of Intel's e1000 wired networking driver has started. OpenJDK Java 19 Released With RISC-V Linux Port, Foreign Function API — OpenJDK Java 19 in its general availability form while adding a number of new features. Introducing the Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition — Today, we are excited to announce that we have partnered with Google to create the Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition. We’ve taken the best parts of the Framework Laptop and merged those with the powerful simplicity of ChromeOS to create a high-performance, upgradeable, repairable, customizable Chromebook.

The Linux Foundation takes a victory lap, Google kills another community-loved project, and key moments from the Linux Plumbers Conference. Sponsored By: Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: Shikitega - AT&T Alien Labs — New stealthy malware targeting Linux LINUX Unplugged 474: Linux’s Malware Inevitability New Linux malware combines unusual stealth with a full suite of capabilities — "Threat actors continue to search for ways to deliver malware in new ways to stay under the radar and avoid detection," AT&T Alien Labs researcher Ofer Caspi wrote. New Linux malware evades detection using multi-stage deployment Shape-shifting cryptominer savaging Linux endpoints and IoT — The malware was dubbed "Shikitega" for its extensive use of the popular Shikata Ga Nai polymorphic encoder, which allows the malware to "mutate" its code to avoid detection. Shikitega alters its code each time it runs through one of several decoding loops that AT&T said each deliver multiple attacks, beginning with an ELF file that's just 370 bytes. Next-Gen Linux Malware Takes Over Devices With Unique Tool Set OpenWrt 22.03 Released With Updated Firewall, For 180+ New Devices - Phoronix [OpenWrt Wiki] OpenWrt 22.03.0 - First Stable Release - 6 September 2022 Linux Foundation Announces Open Wallet Foundation — The Linux Foundation, a global nonprofit organization enabling innovation through open source, today announced the intention to form the OpenWallet Foundation (OWF), a new collaborative effort to develop open source software to interoperability for a wide range of wallet use cases. Linux Foundation announces the OpenWallet Foundation to develop interoperable digital wallets Welcoming PyTorch to the Linux Foundation Facebook Transfers PyTorch AI Framework to Linux Foundation for Governance — Today we are more than thrilled to welcome PyTorch to the Linux Foundation. Honestly, it’s hard to capture how big a deal this is for us in a single post but I’ll try. PyTorch strengthens its governance by ing the Linux Foundation Google Pixelbook is no more, proving the world wasn’t ready for Chromebooks | TechRadar Linux Plumbers Conference - YouTube LPC 2022: Rust Linux Drivers Capable Of Achieving Performance Comparable To C Code - Phoronix IO_uring Continues To Prove Very Exciting: Promising io_uring_spawn Announced — It also continues to be relentlessly optimized by Jens Axboe and others for maximum performance potential. The latest innovation around IO_uring that was announced this week at Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 in Dublin is io_uring_spawn. An io_uring-based -space block driver A pair of Rust kernel modules Compiling Rust with GCC: an update Mesa’s Rust OpenCL Implementation Merged Adding rusticl (!15439) · Merge requests · Mesa / mesa · GitLab LPC 2022 - Kernel Summit - Lansdowne - YouTube

Linux goes underwater, Microsoft kills the Teams' Linux app, and the nasty GRUB bug some of us could not avoid. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linux Action News Links: Mircosoft Teams desktop client on Linux is being retired — We are updating this message to indicate we will be retiring the Microsoft Teams desktop client on Linux in 90 days Rish Tandon on Twitter — “With this change, we are taking a major step in #MicrosoftTeams Teams architecture. We are moving away from Electron to Edge Webview2. Teams will continue to remain a hybrid app but now it will be powered by #MicrosoftEdge. Also Angular is gone. We are now 100% on reactjs” Teams 2.0 Moves Away from Electron to Embrace Edge WebView2 Full transparency on the Grub issue — After updating to grub 2.06.r322 many s reported that their machines could fail to boot or booted directly into the BIOS or another OS. Problem with booting after last Grub 2.06.r322 Grub bootloader upgrade and configuration incompatibilities - Arch News Latest Grub update - Testing Repo - couldnt boot grub.git - GNU GRUB Possible Fix for those Impacted PipeWire 0.3.57 Released — An AAC decoder was added so that PipeWire can now also function as an A2DP AAC receiver. PipeWire 0.3.57 Adds AAC Decoder, Opus For Bluetooth Nmap 7.93 the 25th anniversary edition has been released — Twenty five years ago, I released the first version of Nmap in a Phrack article named The Art of Port Scanning. SUSE turns 30 — From our start in Nuremberg on September 2, 1992 to our record-breaking IPO in 2021 and continued growth, SUSE has always put community first, including our employee community. Commercial underwater datacenter goes online this year — The company claims that placing its datacenter modules underwater can reduce power consumption and carbon dioxide emissions by 40 percent, as well as lowering latency by allowing the datacenter to be located closer to metropolitan areas, many of which are located near the coast. Subsea Cloud announces three underwater data center projects - DCD Underwater data centres are coming. Can they slash CO2 emissions and make the Internet faster? | Euronews

Debian’s firmware future is up for debate, Pine64 teases a RISC-V SBC, and some of your favorite tools just got new tricks. Sponsored By: Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: New fwupd 1.8.4 starts work on BIOS control — fwupd now reads your system BIOS settings, and has the ability to change them if the desires (and has authorization to do). Fwupd 1.8.4 s More Hardware, Starts Allowing To Make BIOS Changes From Linux Canonical Continues Snap’ing Up Linux Gaming For Ubuntu — Canonical has been indicating they want to improve the Linux gaming experience on Ubuntu (and hiring for it) and ensure its a dominant platform for Linux gaming. Pine’ Star64 RISC-V based Single Board Computer Pine64 reveals the Star64 RISC-V based Single Board Computer — Along the long leading edges you’ll find PCIe on one end and GPIO on the other. At one end of the board you’ll find a digital video output, a double-stacked Gigabit Ethernet port and a 12V barrel plug for power. On the opposite side, you’ll find 3x USB 2.0, 1x USB 3.0, an audio jack as well as a power button. There are also two U.FL ports for antennas – one for bluetooth and the other for WiFi. NetworkManager 1.40 Released With Multi-Path T — Multi-Path T has come together in the kernel over the past two years for this standard, allowing T connections to use multiple paths for greater performance/efficiency and added redundancy. Debian General Resolution To Decide What To Do With Non-Free Firmware — The basic problem is that the use of able firmware in computer systems is on the rise and most of that firmware is not free software. The official Debian installer only incorporates free software (and firmware), which leads to serious problems for many s. Debian Proposes Better Discovery of non-free Firmware Images General Resolution: non-free firmware Office Hours 11 — We launch our new site LIVE!

Details on two new efforts in the Linux kernel, the Pi-like RISC-V board that just hit its funding goal, and a significant milestone for Asahi GPU driver development. Sponsored By: Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: Experimental Kernel Patches — Patches sent out today clean-up the code taken on those architectures for bringing U cores down and allow for parallelism. With these patches and an 80-core Arm server, a Kexec reboot can go from taking around 15 seconds to now just around one second. ByteDance Working To Make It Faster Kexec Booting The Linux Kernel [RFC 00/10] arm64/riscv: Introduce fast kexec reboot - Pingfan Liu [PATCH 0/4] faster kexec reboot - Albert Huang VisionFive 2 — Kickstarter — High-performance quad-core RISC-V single board computer (SBC) with an integrated 3D GPU, 2G/4G/8G LPDDR. Linux Foundation TAB election: call for nominees — The 2022 election for of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) will be held during the Linux Plumbers Conference, September 12 to 14. Webmin 2.0 Released — Webmin is a web-based system istration tool for Unix-like servers and services with over 1,000,000 installations worldwide. Flatpak 1.14.0 Released — Flatpak 1.14 brings a variety of mostly small and lower-level improvements to this Linux app sandboxing tech Flatpak 1.14 Released With Improvements For Sandboxed Linux Apps Firefox 104.0 — The Firefox UI itself will now be throttled for performance and battery usage when minimized or occluded, in the same way background tabs are. Rosenzweig – Clip control on the Apple GPU — After a year in development, the open source “Asahi” driver for the Apple GPU is running real games. Asahi Linux May Have OpenGL 2.1 For Apple M1/M2 By Year’s End — " I’m optimistic that we’ll have native OpenGL 2.1 in Asahi Linux by the end of the year."

A Linux jailbreak that's a win for Right to Repair, our favorite things in Android 13, and the major features that just missed the Linux 6.0 window. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linux Action News Links: Android 13 is in AOSP — Today we’re pushing the Android 13 source to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and officially releasing the newest version of Android. Android 13 Sources Released To AOSP Glibc 2.36 Dropping DT_HASH Has Been Breaking Easy Anti Cheat Games — The breakage stems from the DT_HASH section being dropped in GNU C Library but EAC being among the few software still expecting that section rather than DT_GNU_HASH. Pierre-Loup Griffais on Twitter — Unfortunate that upstream glibc discussion on DT_HASH isn't coming out strongly in favor of prioritizing compatibility with pre-existing applications. Every such instance contributes to damaging the idea of desktop Linux as a viable target for third-party developers. Carlos O’Donell on Twitter — How far should Linux ELF follow the generic ELF standard (gABI)? We recently let distributions drop DT_HASH from glibc builds (mandatory under the gABI). This broke EPIC's Easy Anti-Cheat. We *should* ask the gABI for DT_HASH to be optional. GLIBC update broke EAC for most games that use it — Issue #6051 · ValveSoftware/Proton Should we make DT_HASH dynamic section for glibc? gapi discussion: Making DT_HASH optional? Linux 6.0 debuts, missing some Rusty bits — Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds has released the first release candidate for Linux 6.0, but doesn't mind what you call it. Linux 6.0 arrives with performance improvements and more Rust coming Linux 6.0-rc1 Released With Exciting Performance Optimizations Real-Time “PREEMPT_RT” Not in 6.0-rc1 — Of the 50 patches, it's not too bad either as there are five patches for example that are rather trivial for just enabling real-time (RT) in the Kconfig files for ARM / ARM64 / POWER / x86 / x86_64. There are also a handful of patches each specific to POWER and the i915 graphics driver code. Debian turns 29! — Today is Debian's 29th anniversary. We recently wrote about some ideas to celebrate DebianDay, and several events have been planned in more than 14 locations. LocalGroups - Debian Wiki A New Jailbreak for John Deere Tractors Rides the Right-to-Repair Wave — An exploit that provides root access to two popular models of the company’s farm equipment. mu on Twitter — Sick Codes has jailbroken a John Deere, and this is just the beginning. Turns out our entire food system is built on outdated, unpatched Linux and Windows CE hardware with LTE modems. How a version of Doom running on a John Deere tractor champions the right-to-repair movement — Sick Codes achieved this by working with different tractor control touchscreen consoles, narrowing it down to a select few models, and finding a way to exploit these devices. Right to repair movement goes Deere hunting The debate over right to repair in 2022 | Successful Farming Deere Hit with Class Action Lawsuit Over Right to Repair Late Night Linux – Episode 190

GitHub steps in it this week, Microsoft's Linux distribution now runs on bare metal, FFmpeg gets IPFS , and the odd thing going on with the kernel. Sponsored By: Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: Microsoft Continues Improving Its Internal Linux Distro With Another Update — Microsoft has kept up with issuing one or more CBL-Mariner updates per month. This summer they rolled out CBL-Mariner 2.0 with many changes over its former 1.0 state, which continues to be maintained too. CBL-Mariner relies upon RPM SPEC files and other assets from Fedora, Photon OS, Openmamba, and Linux From Scratch. This week marked the release of CBL-Mariner 2.0 July 2022 Update 2. CBL-Mariner GitHub GitHub Moves to Guard Open Source Against Supply Chain Attacks — The popular Microsoft-owned code repository plans to roll out code g, which will help beef up the security of open source projects. GitHub courts controversy by suspending Tornado Cash — GitHub over the past week has tested the trust of its s by enacting policies that call into question its commitment to free speech and privacy. ‘It Doesn’t Change Anything’ Says Tornado Cash After Code Disappears From GitHub Projects impacted by Tornando cash ban — TIL the creator address of the Eth2.0 Deposit contract was funded with Tornado cash, created the contract and donated the rest to Wikileaks Samuel JJ Gosling on Twitter — “@TornadoCash For those looking to host the frontend locally, I’ve ed the source code to @IPFS as I suspected this happening. Disclaimer: I’m a contributor to tornado but you should still the source code. Lucas Garron on Twitter Privacy Statement Updates September 2022 by olholder IPFS ed In FFmpeg 5.1, IPFS Devs Envision In More Open-Source Projects — July's release of FFmpeg 5.1 introduced native IPFS for this distributed peer-to-peer protocol. IPFS.io Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS Delayed Due To An OEM Install Issue Leading To Broken Snaps — Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS had been due for release today but has now been pushed back by one week after discovering an installer issue that led to Snaps like the default Mozilla Firefox browser failing to launch once installed. Linux 5.20 Likely To Be Called Linux 6.0 — With Linus Torvalds' modern versioning after 19~20 point releases has been when he bumps to the next major version number... Linux 4.0 succeeded Linux 3.19 while Linux 5.0 came after Linux 4.20. An io_uring-based -space block driver [LWN.net] — The ublk driver starts by creating a special device called /dev/ublk-control. The -space server (or servers, there can be more than one) starts by opening that device and setting up an io_uring ring to communicate with it. Linus' kernel source tree

The real story behind the "Massive GitHub Malware attack," significant updates for the Steam Deck, and the inside scoop on Lenovo's big Linux ambitions. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linux Action News Links: Massive GitHub Malware Attack? — It was revealed by Stephen Lacy in his tweet, he shared his findings of a large-scale campaign targeting random GitHub repositories with project clones containing credential stealing malware and remote shell execution on top of the original code. Stephen Lacy on Twitter — “I am uncovering what seems to be a massive widespread malware attack on @github. - Currently over 35k repositories are infected - So far found in projects including: crypto, golang, python, js, bash, docker, k8s - It is added to npm scripts, docker images and install docs” Checkmarx on Twitter — “A recent tweet uncovered a widespread malware attack on @github. This turned out to be a false alarm of sorts, as the infected repositories are simply forks and clones of the original ones - which were mostly deleted by Github by now. Stay safe!" No, Linus Torvalds is not Bitcoin’s legendary creator Satoshi Nakamoto Steam Deck Client Update and SteamOS 3.3 — We have just shipped SteamOS 3.3 and an updated Steam Client to the Stable channel. This update includes all the changes and improvements that have been undergoing testing in the Beta and Preview channels. SteamOS 3.3 Now Available With Many Improvements For The Steam Deck Steam For Linux In July Shows A 1.23% Marketshare — AMD Us Now More Common Than Intel On Linux DXVK 1.10.3 Released With Shared Fences Chris’ Steam Deck Review LINUX Unplugged 467 Lenovo Expects 30+ Platforms With Linux This Year, Both AMD & Intel Systems — Lenovo's Mark Pearson provided an update on Linux for their laptops/PCs, including 30+ platforms for 2022 with Linux . Lenovo Linux 2022 - DebConf 22 Fedora Pi Gets Real — The work around Raspberry Pi 4 has been on going for a number of years, but we've never officially ed it due to lack of accelerated graphics and other key features. With Fedora 37, Raspberry Pi 4 is now officially ed, including accelerated graphics using the V3D GPU. Fedora 37 To Offer Official On Raspberry Pi 4 Devices Linux 5.19 Released Some 5.19 development statistics Linux Kernel 5.19 Released with Major Networking Tweaks Rust Code For The Linux Kernel Updated With More Features Asahi Linux Confirms M2 MBA on Twitter — Linus is using an M2 MacBook Air, running ARM64 Fedora. He does his own kernel builds, of course, with our Asahi kernel branch merged in, and he's been building and testing kernels on it. Asahi Alternative Distros docs

Red Hat hints at its future direction, why realtime might finally come to Linux after all these years, and our reaction to Google's ambitious new programing language. Sponsored By: Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: Red Hat’s next steps, according to its new CEO — "We expect to see an 800% increase in edge applications built by 2024. We want those applications to be part of the open hybrid cloud. We think we have a unique position to connect end devices back to the assets that you have in your data centers and cloud that you use to run your company today." PREEMPT_RT Might Be Ready To Finally Land In Linux 5.20 — The Linux real-time patch series has been getting smaller with time and quite close to crossing the finish line with just around 50 patches to be merged. Google Engineers Go Big on Carbon - A Hopeful Successor To C++ — The Carbon programming language hopes to be the gradual successor to C++ and makes for an easy transition path moving forward. ByteDance Working To Make Kernel Booting Faster — This patch series touching around 100 lines of Linux kernel code is what they are now hoping to upstreamed. Happy Birthday This Week in GNOME — I am pleased to announce that TWIG is having its first anniversary! This Week in GNOME This Week in KDE #53 GUADEC 2022 · This Week in GNOME Btrfs Native Encryption Being Worked On — My goal in sending out this RFC is to get on whether these are going in a reasonable direction; while there are a couple of additional parts, they're fundamentally minor compared to this.

Microsoft makes a hard about-face, a significant fix for Ubuntu 22.04 is in the works, and the recent breakthrough by the Asahi Linux project. Sponsored By: Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: Microsoft changes its mind about open source monetization — Microsoft was trying to do the right thing, but it turns out doing nothing is better. Giorgio Sardo on Twitter — To clarify our intent, we removed the previous mention to open source pricing. We're committed to building an open Store and enabling dev choice and flexibility. If there are intellectual property concerns about an app, please report it. An Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Fix Is Coming For A Very Annoying & Serious APT Problem — "installing the package libudev1 results in a large number of critical packages being removed and rendering the system essentially unusable."

Why Google says we should all go rolling, Red Hat's got a new boss, Microsoft gets called out, and why it might be the year of Linux hardware. Sponsored By: Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops — Today, the life of a gLinux team member looks very different. We have reduced the amount of engineering time and energy required for releases to one on-duty release engineer that rotates among team . We no longer have a big push to upgrade our entire fleet. No more need for multi stage alpha, betas and GAs for new LTS releases while simultaneously chasing down older machines that still were running Ubuntu Precise or Lucid. Red Hat names new CEO — In a move many will find surprising, Red Hat announced that Paul Cormier, the company's CEO and president since 2020, is stepping over to become chairman of the board. Matt Hicks, a Red Hat veteran and the company's head of products and technologies, will replace Cormier as president and CEO. KDE Announces Powerful Slimbook 4 Linux Laptop — The laptops are powered by AMD Ryzen 7 5700U processor with eight cores. They use USB-C for charging and power, like many other modern laptops. There are two USB 3.0 ports, one USB 2.0 port, an HDMI port, and a wired Ethernet jack. System76 Launch Lite Teaser — Launch, but Lite. Launch Lite is the everyperson's keeb — comfortable, portable, and configurable. System76 Teases the Launch Lite Open-Source Configurable Keyboard, Coming July 14th AMD Is Hiring To Improve Its Linux Graphics Driver Installation Experience — In addition to their recent hiring for a open-source Linux GPU driver developer with multimedia experience, this week they have posted a new role looking for Linux build engineer(s) to focus on their graphics driver. Linux Build Engineer — Our team works on open-source GPU drivers for Linux. We are leading contributors to the Radeon Mesa graphics and multimedia drivers included in popular Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, and Debian. Our software is used in exciting products such as the Tesla Model S and the Steam Deck. Matthew Garrett: Responsible stewardship of the UEFI secure boot ecosystem — So, to have Microsoft, the self-appointed steward of the UEFI Secure Boot ecosystem, turn round and say that a bunch of binaries that have been reviewed through processes developed in negotiation with Microsoft, implementing technologies designed to make management of revocation easier for Microsoft, and incorporating fixes for vulnerabilities discovered by the developers of those binaries who notified Microsoft of these issues despite having no obligation to do so, and which have then been signed by Microsoft are now considered by Microsoft to be insecure is, uh, kind of impolite? X.Org Server Hit By New Local Privilege Escalation, Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities — CVE-2022-2319 and CVE-2022-2320 were made public this morning and both deal with the X.Org Server's Xkb keyboard extension not properly validating input that could lead to out-of-bounds memory writes. Hopefully though in 2022 you aren't relying on your xorg-server running as root. Many Old X.Org Components Saw New Releases This Weekend - Phoronix Boycott Wayland. It breaks everything! — tl;dr: Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet, and maybe never will. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better of not using Wayland at this point. X.Org Security Advisory: July 12, 2022

The new movement to leave GitHub, an Ubuntu bug biting 22.04 s, the hardware platform Fedora might start taking seriously, and a major desktop dev departs Red Hat. Sponsored By: Kolide: -centered, cross-platform endpoint security for teams that Slack. Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come! — Today, we take a stronger stance. We are ending all our own uses of GitHub, and announcing a long-term plan to assist FOSS projects to migrate away from GitHub. Roma, one of the first RISC-V laptops, may ship in September — As for the specs, the Roma laptop will, we're told, come with a quad-core RISC-V processor, an Arm security enclave core, a GPU/NPU accelerator for video and AI workloads, up to 16GB of LPDDR4 or LPDDR4X memory, and up to 256GB of storage. System76 Announces New Alder Lake Laptop With Coreboot Firmware — System76 has announced a new Lemur Pro laptop model that is now offering 12th Gen "Alder Lake" Intel processors while continuing to feature Coreboot firmware. System76.com Fedora May Finally Provide Official For The Raspberry Pi 4 — The hope with this change proposal is to provide more "official" for Fedora Linux on the Raspberry Pi 4B / 400 / CM4 hardware. Changes/RaspberryPi4 - Fedora Project Wiki Fedora 37 Proposing To Allow Unrestricted Access To Flathub Fedora 37 Looks To Better Manage Its 175MB+ Of Linux Firmware Blobs Fedora 37 Gets A Batch Of New Features Approved New Ubuntu MATE Release — Improved compositor and video playback performance, zswap (lz4) by default & optimised image sizes Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft — The prominent open-source developer responsible for several prominent projects ed Microsoft and is continuing his focus on systemd development. Lennart Poettering - systemd + PulseAudio Creator - Departed Red Hat Linode Now s Kali Linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Has A Change On The Way For Systemd-OOMD Being Kill-Happy With Apps ManagedOOMSwap docs Discussion: systemd-oomd issues on desktop 249.11-0ubuntu3.4 : systemd package : Ubuntu

Fedora gets serious about its server editions, our thoughts on Valve's increased Steam Deck production, and the surprising results of booting Linux on the Apple M2 SoC. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: Fedora 37 Gets A Batch Of New Features Approved — Fedora 37 is working its way toward release before the end of October. The Performance Cost To A Proposed Fedora 37 CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS Change Fedora CoreOS Hopes To Become An Official Edition With Fedora 37 Fedora 37 Looks To Ship With Stratis Storage 3.1 Fedora 37 Proposing To Allow Unrestricted Access To Flathub Fedora Magazine: Accessibility in Fedora Workstation — I am very happy to announce that Red Hat has just hired Lukas Tyrychtr, who is a blind software engineer, to lead our effort in making sure Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Workstation has excellent accessibility ! Firefox 102 Available With Transform Streams, Geoclue On Linux — Firefox 102.0 isn't the most exciting end- update but does have some developer additions like Transform Streams and for Geoclue with Firefox Linux builds for geolocation. Thunderbird 102 Released With Big Improvements To This Leading Open-Source Mail Client — Thunderbird 102 introduces a new address book implementation, a new spaces toolbar, a new import/export wizard, a redesigned message header, and other "quality of life" updates. There are also some extras with Thunderbird 102 like adding Matrix chat . Matrix.org Security release: Synapse 1.61.1 — Today we're exceptionally releasing Synapse 1.61.1, which comes as a security release. Server s are encouraged to update as soon as possible. Synapse Release v1.61.1 Synapse Advisory — URL previews of unusual or maliciously-crafted pages can crash Synapse media repositories or Synapse monoliths. Valve More Than Doubles Steam Deck Production, Q3 Reservations Starting Soon — Valve just tweeted out some great news for SteamDeck fans, saying it has more than doubled the number of Steam Decks being produced every week. The company also says it just sent out the last batch of Q2 reservation emails and is prepared to start kicking off Q3 reservations on June 30th 2022. Check Your Steam Deck Order Status Vim 9.0 — The main goal of Vim9 script is to drastically improve performance. This is accomplished by compiling commands into instructions that can be efficiently executed. An increase in execution speed of 10 to 100 times can be expected. Vim 9.0 Released With New Vim9 Script For 10~100x Execution Speed Linode Security Digest — June 20-26, 2022 Apple M2 Enablement For Linux Begins With Good Progress — Hector Martin on Monday began his Linux M2 bring-up effort, including with a livestream of this reverse engineering / debugging / kernel hacking effort. Hector confirmed NVMe, USB, and SMC functionality are working for the M2 on the first day of the effort. M2 Asahi Linux bring-up YouTube Stream

Some highlights from Linus' recent fireside chat, Qt gets a new leader and a Linux botnet we should probably take seriously. Linux Action News Links: Akamai Warns Of “Panchan” Linux Botnet — The botnet introduces a unique (and possibly novel) approach to lateral movement by harvesting of SSH keys. Instead of just using brute force or dictionary attacks on randomized IP addresses like most botnets do, the malware also reads the id_rsa and known_hosts files to harvest existing credentials and use them to move laterally across the network. Canonical Continues Working On Ubuntu’s Firefox Snap Performance — On the Ubuntu blog is a new post by Canonical's Oliver Smith about their latest efforts to improve the Firefox Snap performance and other outstanding issues with this sandboxed version of the Mozilla web browser. Lars Knoll Announces His Successor For Qt Chief Maintainer — The voting period for the new Chief Maintainer has ended yesterday. This means Volker Hilsheimer will be our new Chief Maintainer. Congratulations! New Chief Maintainer for the Qt Project Talisman: Debut of X — I've spent the last couple weeks writing a window system for the VS100. I stole a fair amount of code from W, surrounded it with an asynchronous rather than a synchronous interface, and called it X. Overall performance appears to be about twice that of W. X Window System Turns 38 Years Old — It was on 19 June 1984 that Bob Scheifler announced the initial X window system release "X1" at MIT. X Windows System Design Principles, a lecture by James Gettys A Political History of X - Keith Packard (LCA 2020) Linus Torvalds: Rust For The Kernel Could Possibly Be Merged For Linux 5.20 — Torvalds commented that real soon they expect to have the Rust infrastructure merged within the kernel, possibly even for the next release -- meaning Linux 5.20. Open Source Summit North America 2022: Keynote: Linus Torvalds How are we improving Firefox Snap performance? Part 2

We get the details behind Thunderbird acquiring K-9 Mail, share the best new features of Plasma 5.25, check-in on Ubuntu's RISC-V development status, and discuss Photoshop coming to Linux via the web. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Jupiter Network hip: the entire network, and get access to every member's special feed for every show on the network. Promo Code: thesignal Linux Action News Links: K9 mail to become Thunderbird on Android — Ultimately, K-9 Mail will transform into Thunderbird on Android. K-9 Mail – Open Source Email App for Android K-9 Mail s the Thunderbird family Frequently Asked Questions: Thunderbird Mobile and K-9 Mail Ubuntu Working To Provide Good For The VisionFive Low-Cost RISC-V Board — The Starfive VisionFive is a currently $179 USD RISC-V board that is intended to run full-blown RISC-V Linux distributions. Fedora 37 Looks To Boost Its Cloud Posture As An Official Edition — Approved by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee this week is returning Fedora Cloud base to be listed as an official Fedora edition. Plasma 5.25 - Released — Plasma 5.25 brings new features and concepts to the desktop environment. 5 Neat New Features in KDE Plasma 5.25, Released Today Ventoy 1.0.76 — Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. Super UEFIinSecureBoot Disk: Boot any OS or .efi file without disabling UEFI Secure Boot Adobe Plans To Make Photoshop on the Web Free To Everyone — The company is now testing the free version in Canada, where s are able to access Photoshop on the web through a free Adobe . Adobe describes the service as “freemium” and eventually plans to gate off some features that will be exclusive to paying subscribers. Enough tools will be freely available to perform what Adobe considers to be Photoshop’s core functions. Photopea | Online Photo Editor

SUSE Enterprise is already switching to the new NVIDIA open kernel driver, a Matrix-powered Walkie-Talkie, and the details on Apple's Rosetta for Linux. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Jupiter Network hip: the entire network, and get access to every member's special feed for every show on the network. Promo Code: thesignal Linux Action News Links: SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 Released - Switches To NVIDIA’s Open Kernel Driver — Notable with SLE 15 SP4, SUSE is already switching to using NVIDIA's open-source GPU kernel-mode driver that NVIDIA open-sourced last month openSUSE Leap 15.4 Released Element Call Beta 2 includes lots of exciting new updates! — In a walkie-talkie call, videos are disabled, and everyone is muted by default. To speak, press the ‘push-to-talk’ (PTT) button, either by pressing it on the screen or by holding the spacebar. The catch is that, just like a walkie-talkie or two-way radio, only one person can speak at a time. When someone else is speaking, your PTT button will be disabled, and if you try to push it you’ll hear a warning beep. Fedora and Ubuntu EOL announcements — If you are running Fedora 34, the time has come to move on; that distribution will reach the end of its life on June 7. s of Ubuntu 21.10 have a little longer, but that release loses on July 14 and s should update to 22.04. Fedora 34 is going EOL in one week Ubuntu 21.10 reaches End of Life on July 14 2022 HP Dev One Now Shipping — Unplug and work from any location. At 3.24 lbs, with up to 12 hours of battery life and an ultra-bright display, HP Dev One was made to perform on the go. Managed PostgreSQL and MongoDB are Here | Linode Apple will allow Linux VMs to run Intel apps with Rosetta in macOS Ventura — You can even use Rosetta with non-Apple Arm Us, though you probably shouldn't. Running Intel Binaries in Linux VMs with Rosetta Hector Martin on Twitter — “Huh, so Rosetta is now a Linux app. Without Linux kernel patches this can’t use any special M1 features, so if this runs significantly better than FOSS offerings that should help dispel the myth that “the M1 has magic make-Rosetta-fast features”. Longhorn on Twitter — Well. Rosetta 2 needs a quite recent U (post v8.2) to work because of the instructions used. Does it work on non-Apple arm64 Us? 🤔 Yes. (allows to settle the argument once and for all that this needs anything Apple specific outside of TSO *. Answer is a no.)

Our thoughts on NixOS' new GUI installer, winning hearts and minds one firmware update at a time, the performance bug that hit Linux 5.18, and preparation begins for the open-source NVIDIA driver. 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 . Linux Action News Links: LVFS Has Served More Than 52 Million Firmware Files To Linux s — LVFS has served up 52.1 million firmware files to end-s over its lifetime. There has also been over a 99% success rate on the firmware being deployed correctly to s. Fwupd 1.8.1 Released With Firmware Updating For More HP, Corsair, PixArt, Lenovo Devices A Fix Is On The Way For A Previously-Reported Linux 5.18 Performance Regression — Back during the Linux 5.18 merge window in March I wrote about a big NUMA benchmark performance regression I noticed and bisected. Nouveau Begins Shifting Around Code For Use By New Driver — "This just moves the codegen build into a separate library, this is just prep work for a future where another drivers wants to reuse this code. this isn't perfect for plugging into a vulkan driver, but doing that requires more in depth surgery." NVIDIA 515.48.07 Linux Driver Released As Stable With Open Kernel Driver Option Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix! — We just wanted to take a moment to welcome Rocket.Chat to Matrix, given the recent announcement that they are switching to using Matrix for standards-based interoperable federation! Rocket.Chat Leverages The Matrix Protocol for Decentralized and Interoperable Communications AlmaLinux 9.0 Released — AlmaLinux OS 9.0 is based on upstream kernel version 5.14 and contains enhancements around cloud and container development and improvements to the web console. AlmaLinux 9 Now Available! - AlmaLinux OS Blog GPU Price-Performance Benchmarking Report NixOS 22.05 Released With New Graphical Installer — NixOS 22.05 builds atop the Nix 2.8 package manager, which brings better performance, general improvements, the experimental nix fmt command that applies a formatter defined by the flake output to the Nix expressions in a flake, and other additions. NixOS GUI Configuration Editor — A simple NixOS configuration editor application built with libadwaita, GTK4, and Relm4. The goal of this project is to provide a simple graphical tool for modifying and managing desktop NixOS configurations. NixOS - Blog → Announcements Calamares Installer — Calamares aims to be easy, usable, beautiful, pragmatic, inclusive and distribution-agnostic NixOS Calamares PR: fix calamares modules, add nixos modules, and add new iso by vlinkz NixOS/calamares-nixos-extensions: NixOS Calamares Extensions

The controversial Intel code now shipping in Linux, why F-Droid is getting more attractive for developers, and the rumor that could change the industry. Sponsored By: Ting: Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Linux Action News Links: Linux 5.18 Released With Intel SDSi, New U & GPU Features — Linux 5.18 brings the controversial Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) functionality. Thoughts on software-defined silicon — Its purpose is to disable access to specific processor capabilities in the absence of a certificate from Intel saying otherwise. Statistics from the 5.18 development cycle Btrfs Gets Some Buttery Good Improvements With Linux 5.19 — David Sterba of SUSE has submitted the ~4k lines of code worth of feature changes for the Btrfs file-system driver in the Linux 5.19 kernel. Our build and release infrastructure, and updates — This work will be incrementally deployed as each bit is finished. So be patient, and you will notice releases happening faster and faster! Google Summer of Code (GSOC 2022) Highlights of FOSS Projects — Google announced the GSoC 2022 projects, and the list includes some exciting improvements to the mainstream foss projects such as GNOME, Xfce, LibreOffice, etc. Ubuntu 22.10 Makes PipeWire Default for Audio — “That’s right, as of today the Kinetic ISO (pending, not yet current since the changes were just made) has been updated to run only PipeWire and not PulseAudio […] you can look forward to this for Kinetic” Broadcom-VMware Deal Said to Be Ready as Soon as This Week — Broadcom Inc. could announce an agreement to acquire cloud-computing company VMware Inc. as soon as this week Broadcom’s Potential VMware Acquisition: 5 Things About Dell, Stock Prices And Hock Tan To Know Broadcom in Talks to Pay About $60 Billion for VMware Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Has Mixed Feelings on a Broadcom-VMware Deal

Why Google's new open-source security effort might fall a bit short, the Arch snag this week, a big win for Right to Repair, and why you might soon have a new favorite filesystem. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new . Ting: Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Action News Links: New from Google Cloud: Assured Open Source Software service — Assured OSS enables enterprise and public sector s of open source software to easily incorporate the same OSS packages that Google uses into their own developer workflows. OSS-Fuzz — continuous fuzzing for open source software. Google will start distributing a security-vetted collection of open-source software libraries Shared success in building a safer open source community White House s OpenSSF and the Linux Foundation in securing open-source software Software Freedom Conservancy right-to-repair lawsuit against California TV manufacturer Vizio, Inc. remanded to California State Court - Software Freedom Conservancy — "The ruling is a watershed moment in the history of copyleft licensing. This ruling shows that the GPL agreements function both as copyright licenses and as contractual agreements" says Karen M. Sandler, executive director of Software Freedom Conservancy. Arch Linux Temporarily Steps Back From WirePlumber After Snafu — With the recent attempt to switch to WirePlumber, that modern session manager was unconditionally taking over audio responsibilities even if the had configured their system to use PulseAudio or ALSA directly. Arch Linux News — Undone replacement of pipewire-media-session with wireplumber. Bringing bcachefs to the mainline — Bcachefs is a longstanding out-of-tree filesystem that grew out of the bcache caching layer that has been in the kernel for nearly ten years. Based on a session led by Kent Overstreet at the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM), though, it would seem that bcachefs is likely to be heading upstream soon. He intends to start the process toward mainline inclusion over the next six months or so. bcachefs Principles of Operation