A few days ago there was a batch of 145 patches merged for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release to enhance the Rust “gccrs” front-end. That big set of patches merged the Polonius borrow checker and made other notable improvements. Today another 144 patches for enhancing gccrs were merged ahead of the GCC 15.1 stable release due out in the coming weeks…

/e⁠/⁠OS is a
privacy-centric, open-source mobile operating system that
has primarily been targeted at mobile phones, with only a few
community supported images available for tablet devices. In December,
Murena—a company that sells devices with /⁠e⁠/⁠OS
preinstalled—announced
that /⁠e⁠/⁠OS now officially supports tablets as well, starting with the
Pixel tablet. The user experience is close enough to
mainstream alternatives to make it attractive, but there are some
under-the-hood problems that may give users pause.

A security company called Fenrisk has posted an overview of a pair
of claimed successful supply-chain attacks on the Fedora and openSUSE
distributions.

We successfully identified vulnerabilities in the Pagure, the Git
forge used by Fedora to store their package definitions. We also
compromised Open Build Service, the all-in-one toolchain used and
developed by the openSUSE project for compilation and packaging.

Their exploitation by malicious actors would have led to the
compromise of all the packages of the distributions Fedora and
openSUSE, as well as their downstream distributions, impacting
millions of Linux servers and desktops.

Citrix Wrike is a collaborative work management solution. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

Over the past year Intel has been working to prepare the Linux kernel for the end of the “Family 6” CPU era. There’s been a big rework to the Intel CPU model handling within the Linux kernel given that “Family 6” has been in use since the 1990s and moving forward Intel CPUs will appear in Family 19 like Diamond Rapids along with Family 18 as part of the new CPU identification. Thus a lot of Linux kernel checks need to be reconfigured for the multi-family Intel handling. With Linux 6.15 it looks like most of that will be finally wrapped up…

AMD recently allowed me some time with their AMD Accelerator Cloud (AAC) leveraging multiple Instinct MI300X accelerators. During this brief opportunity to try out their latest software advancements with the Instinct MI300X and the ROCm compute stack, one of the most striking takeaways was their documentation improvements compared to previous forays into ROCm+Instinct compute. In addition, AMD is now offering more robust container options for easier Instinct compute deployments with more software options available and being more regularly updated.

Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems.

Nearly 30 years after its first release, the open source Java programming language is continuing to improve. Today Java 24 becomes generally available, bringing with it substantial improvements across language features, libraries, security, and runtime performance. The latest release contains exactly 24 Java Enhancement Proposals (JEPs), coincidentally matching the version number, along with approximately 3,500 additional fixes and improvements.

Today, the Fedora Project announced the beta version of the upcoming Fedora Linux 42 release for public testing to give us a glimpse of the new features and report potential bugs.

Theora is Xiph.Org’s first released video codec designed for use with Ogg. Theora started out based on the VP3 codec. It’s been over 16 years since the release of the libtheora 1.0 reference software implementation and tagged this week was libtheora 1.2 beta.

Actual Budget is an open-source finance management software focused on privacy and built on top of “Envelope Style Budgeting”. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install the Actual Budgeting System on the Debian 12 server.

Open source AI is accelerating cloud-native innovation, providing scalable infrastructure and model development tools, but enterprises face challenges in governance, cost, and complexity.

SourceHut says it’s getting DDoSed by LLM bots. SourceHut, an open source git-hosting service, says web crawlers for AI companies are slowing down services through their excessive demands for data.

During a keynote address at All Things Open AI, IBM announced that three key AI tools it has developed are being donated to the Linux Foundation.

The post At ATO AI, IBM Announces It’s Handing Three AI Projects to Linux Foundation appeared first on FOSS Force.

This most familiar (and user-friendly) of Linux distros triumphs overall and for Gnome fans in particular.

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Linux 42 Beta! We have lots to share with you about our upcoming release of Fedora Linux 42, and we want to give you a sneak preview of what’s in this release in the beta version that is out now.

It should be noted that the Rust language is being developed by the Mozilla Foundation, which is the same organization that is presently turning Firefox into a spyware monster that sends all data about its users somewhere to train “AI”.

The development team behind the popular GIMP open-source image editing software published today the final build of the highly anticipated GIMP 3.0 release. Let’s take a look at the new features and improvements!

You probably know SUSE best as a Linux powerhouse. You may well also know that, thanks in no small part to its Rancher acquisition, it’s a major cloud player as well. Recently, however, SUSE has also been pushing its way towards being a capable AI partner for its customers as well. This trend was on full display at SUSECON 25.

Arch-based SystemRescue 12, designed for file recovery, backups, and OS repairs, brings kernel 6.12 LTS, bcachefs support, and more.