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  • Linux Action News 229

    The Linux secret behind the new TrueNAS release, Intel acquires a major Kernel contributor and our thoughts on Podman 4.0.

    Plus why the Simula One VR Linux computer could be worth a serious look.

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    • TrueNAS Scale 22.02 Released and Resetting the NAS Paradigm
    — First off, let us start with what is TrueNAS Scale, and where are we in the process. TrueNAS Scale is based on Linux instead of FreeBSD like TrueNAS. We get all of the storage features we would expect in a modern solution like snapshotting, replication, iSCSI, SMB, NFS, and S3-compatible object storage.
  • TrueCharts.org
  • SCALE 22.02.0
  • Intel Acquires Team behind PREMPT_RT patches
    • — Linutronix is comprised of a team of highly qualified and motivated employees with a wealth of experience and involvement in the ongoing development of Linux. Led by CEO Heinz Egger and CTO Thomas Gleixner, Linutronix is the architect of PREEMPT_RT (Real Time) and the leading technology provider for industrial Linux. Gleixner has been the principal maintainer of x86 architecture in the Linux kernel since 2008.
  • https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=PREEMPT_RT-Lack-Of-Funds
  • Podman 4.0 | Hacker News
  • Release v4.0.0 · containers/podman
  • Neil McGovern Stepping down in 6 Months
    • — Now, nearly 5 years later, I’ve decided the timing is right for me to step back and for GNOME to start looking for its next leader.
  • Linux Action News 182
  • GNOME 42 Beta Released
  • Steam for Chrome OS gets minimum hardware specs
    • — If you follow Chrome Unboxed or Chrome OS development in general, the name ‘Borealis‘ may provoke some feelings of excitement and anticipation.
  • Here’s which Chromebooks should support gaming w/ Steam
  • HP and Lenovo Chromebooks expected to support Steam
  • SimulaVR
  • https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula
  • Show HN: Simula One – Portable Linux VR Computer
  • Hacking on Simula (in Simula): Implementing proper window resizing - YouTube
    • 22 min
  • Linux Action News 228

    Canonical has a big week, why bcachefs looks like it's taking another step forward, and ChromeOS Flex for PCs is released.

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    • Proton 7.0 out with Easy Anti-Cheat improvements
    — Proton 7.0 pulls in Wine 7.0 which it's based upon along with: upgrades to DXVK 1.9.4 for DirectX 9 / 10 / 11, newer VKD3D-Proton for DirectX 12 to Vulkan
  • Pierre-Loup Griffais on Twitter
  • Proton 7.0-1: A Major Milestone for Linux Gaming
  • Canonical Will Begin Certifying Gigabyte Servers For Ubuntu Linux
    • — Moving forward Gigabyte's server platforms are expected to obtain Ubuntu Server certification.
  • GIGABYTE Partners with Canonical to Certify Servers for Ubuntu
  • Canonical at MWC 2022
  • Bcachefs Might Be Ready For Upstreaming In Linux This Year
    • — The Bcachefs file-system that was born out of the Linux kernel's block cache code has over the past few years matured greatly. Now in 2022 the core fundamentals of the file-system are "pretty close to done" and will hopefully be mainlined this calendar year into the Linux kernel.
  • Linux On The Apple M1 Preparing Better Performance With In-Development CPUFreq Driver
    • — Fortunately, a proper CPUFreq driver for the Apple M1 is in development for Linux and is allowing for a combination of enticing performance and good battery life for this community-driven, open-source support around the Apple Silicon.
  • Get Chrome OS Flex for PC or Mac
    • — Chrome OS Flex is a free and sustainable way to modernize devices you already own. It’s easy to deploy across your fleet or simply try it to see what a cloud-first OS has to offer.
  • Google announces Chrome OS Flex for ordinary PCs, Macs • The Register
  • Chrome OS Flex is an ideal off-ramp for millions of PCs that can’t run Windows 11
  • Google’s free Chrome OS Flex could breathe new life into old PCs and Macs
    • 17 min
  • Linux Action News 227

    A last-minute kernel patch for the Steam Deck, why Intel is supporting RISC-V development, and we go hands-on with Plasma 5.24.

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    • $66 billion deal for Nvidia to purchase Arm collapses
    — SoftBank’s $66 billion sale of UK-based chip business Arm to Nvidia collapsed on Monday after regulators in the US, UK, and EU raised serious concerns about its effects on competition in the global semiconductor industry, according to three people with direct knowledge of the transaction.
  • Analysis: Relief and challenges for chipmakers as Nvidia-Arm megadeal collapses
  • What Nvidia Can’t Buy, It Can Still Get Through An Arm Partnership
    • — While a $1.25 billion hit to the Nvidia books after the company terminated its $40 billion deal to acquire chip designer Arm Holdings from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group this week is a big deal
  • The Collapse of the Nvidia Deal Leaves Arm Exposed
  • Steam Deck Platform Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel
    • — This platform driver is for supporting the Steam Deck Specific "VLV0100" device presented by the embedded controller (EC) firmware. This is ultimately used for functionality like CPU/device fan control, access to DDIC registers, battery temperature measurements, display-related settings, and USB Type-C event notifications.
  • Engineer hired back in 2018 to work on kernel projects
  • Open-Source Firmware Foundation Established For Advancing Open Firmware
    • — The Open-Source Firmware Foundation (OSFF) is getting up and running with hopes of expanding open-source firmware usage throughout the industry.
  • Open Source Firmware Foundation on Twitter
  • FreeCAD Also Gets a Foundtation
  • Intel Joins RISC-V International, Will Help With RISC-V Open-Source Software
    • — Intel is joining the RISC-V International organization as a Premier member.
  • Intel Promotes RISC-V, Pledges $1B to Help Chip Startups | Tom’s Hardware
  • RAID-Z Expansion Feature for ZFS In the Home Stretch
    • — While all capabilities of this feature have been implemented and all tests so far have been passed, there are still a few loose ends to tie up.
  • RAIDZ Expansion Feature Pull Request by ahrens
  • ZFS fans, rejoice—RAIDz expansion will be a thing very soon
  • Plasma 5.24 - Released
    • — Plasma 5.24 improves in looks, ease of use and consistency.
  • KDE Plasma 5.24 Released With Wayland Support In Increasingly Great Shape
    • — KDE Plasma 5.24 is out as the newest version of this popular open-source desktop environment that will also be their new Long-Term Support (LTS) release.
  • Try a New Podcast App
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  • Linux Action News 226

    System76 reveals a new tool to make Pop's desktop faster than the rest, and we break down that recent Btrfs defrag infinite loop bug.

    Plus, a batch of essential project updates.

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    • system76-scheduler
    — Auto-configure CFS and process priorities for improved desktop responsiveness
  • System76-Scheduler Is A New Pop!_OS Rust Effort To Improve Desktop Responsiveness
  • Improve desktop application and game performance with system76-scheduler
  • Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit
    • — Over the past year, we’ve been trialling a beta of Raspberry Pi OS in glorious 64-bit. Now it’s time to open it up to a wider audience.
  • Framework’s Series A and the Years Ahead
    • — We’ve just raised an $18M Series A round to pull in the future of consumer electronics, with Spark Capital as our lead investor.
  • Framework Laptop Now Enjoys Open-Source EC Firmware
  • Docker Desktop for Linux (Tech Preview)
    • — Docker Desktop is an easy-to-install application that enables you to build and share containerized applications and microservices
  • Docker makes comeback with over $50M in ARR two years into restructuring
  • SUSE unveils Rancher Desktop 1.0 for Kubernetes on your PC
  • Trio of Rust Core Team members hit the road
    • — This week has kicked off with three of Core Team taking their leave.
  • Mod team resigns back in Nov 2021
  • Redis 7.0 Is Near With “Significant Performance Optimizations”
    • — Redis 7.0-rc1 comes with performance optimizations and more but as well a number of changes that break backwards compatibility support for this popular open-source project.
  • Release 7.0-rc1 · GitHub
  • MariaDB Corporation Ab to Become a Publicly Traded Company
    • — In the transaction, Angel Pond will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Mangomill plc, an Irish public limited company (which will be renamed MariaDB plc), through a domestication merger with a wholly owned subsidiary of MariaDB plc. Immediately following such domestication merger, the current MariaDB will merge with and into MariaDB plc. Angel Pond will then be liquidated.
  • MariaDB announces intent to go public
  • Linux 5.16.5 Released To Fix Up Btrfs’ Botched Up Defragging
    • — Btrfs up to now on Linux 5.16 was consuming high amounts of I/O and causing performance degradation of the
  • Btrfs Extent Tree v2 Work Progressing For Improving The File-System’s On-Disk Format
    • 22 min
  • Linux Action News 225

    The big disruption that looks like a bust, a security issue you need to pay attention to, and some great news for the Steam Deck.

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    • Nvidia is reportedly preparing to abandon its $40 billion takeover of Arm
    — The deal has faced close scrutiny from regulators around the world, who worry it would give Nvidia an unfair advantage in the semiconductor industry.
  • SiFive Shifting Production Focus To Next-Gen HiFive Development Board
    • — "With such great ecosystem adoption, demand has exceeded our already high expectations, and we’re close to selling out our production inventory. Given the challenge of supply chain issues that we overcame for the first run of these boards (issues that we continue to face), we’ve decided to focus on the next generation SiFive HiFive development systems rather than trying to put together another build of the HiFive Unmatched platform in 2022."
  • Linux system service bug gives root on all major distros, exploit released
    • — Qualys has uncovered a truly dangerous memory corruption vulnerability in polkit's pkexec, CVE-2021-4034. Polkit, formerly known as PolicyKit, is a systemd SUID-root program.
  • Major Linux PolicyKit Security Vulnerability Uncovered: Pwnkit
  • KDE-Powering Qt’s New Framework Lets Developers Bring Ads Into Their Apps
    • — Qt, the framework that powers the KDE desktop, is announcing support for ads in client-side applications.
  • Qt Digital Advertising Platform
  • Steam Deck launches February 25, weekly purchase invites planned
    • — Valve has today officially announced their Steam Deck handheld will launch officially on February 25.
  • Steam Dynamic Cloud Sync
    • — Dynamic Cloud Sync is now live on Steam, and it's a first for any gaming platform currently in operation. It appears to be inspired by a specific use case: playing your favorite PC game on the go via the Steam Deck, then resuming that same game later on your home PC.
  • Valve sponsors more work to improve Linux graphics drivers
    • 17 min
  • Linux Action News 224

    We explain SUSE Liberty Linux and contemplate why the community seems to be selecting distributions with newer kernels.

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    • LVFS Activity Going Wild Ahead Of New Security Disclosure Requiring Firmware Update
    — Last summer LVFS shot up with activity and when that huge uptick in LVFS activity occurred it ended up being due to Dell BIOS/UEFI updates due to new security vulnerabilities.
  • Fwupd 1.7.4 Supports More Hardware For Firmware Updating On Linux
    • — The Fwupd 1.7.4 release adds firmware branch support for ModemManager devices, support for firmware engineers to be able to patch files at known offsets, and a variety of bug fixes.
  • GNOME 42 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Testing
    • — The next development release in the GNOME 42 cycle will be the beta version, currently scheduled for release on mid-February. The final release of the GNOME 42 desktop environment is expected on March 23rd, 2022.
  • GNOME 42.alpha released
    • — The gnome-desktop module can be built against GTK 4 now and the internals
    were split in 3 libraries.
  • SUSE Liberty Linux Announced For Mixed Linux Environments
    • — With SUSE Liberty Linux, you get trusted support with optional proven management tools that are optimized for mixed Linux environments, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and as you would expect openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
  • Wine 7.0 Released with Tons of Improvements, Including a New Theme
    • — This release represents a year of development effort and over 9,100 individual changes.
  • The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 7.0
  • Intel’s Former Vulkan Driver Lead Dev Lands Great Role For Improving Linux Graphics
    • — "I’m now free to put my effort wherever it’s needed in the stack without concern for corporate priorities."
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Planning To Stick With Linux 5.15 By Default
    • — In the discussion over Ubuntu 22.04's GNOME plans, it was mentioned by Sebastien Bacher of Canonical that "the plan is to use 5.15 for the LTS but the oem and hwe variants will get 5.17 as some point."
  • oss-security - Linux kernel: Heap buffer overflow in fs_context.c since version 5.1
    • — Exploitation relies on the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability; however, the permission only needs to be granted in the current namespace. An unprivileged user can use unshare(CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_NEWUSER) to enter a namespace with the CAP_SYS_ADMIN permission, and then proceed with exploitation to root the system.
  • CVE-2022-0185- Red Hat Customer Portal
  • CVE-2022-0185 | Ubuntu
  • All Roads Lead to Arch: The Evolution of Linux Distros Used for Gaming Over Time
    • — Not only has Arch Linux gained progressively some share to be solidly at 20% now for several months, but the whole landscape looks a lot like Arch derivatives now. Manjaro is almost as big as Arch (but seems to be stagnating in adoption below 20%) and Garuda Linux and EndeavourOS add 6-7% to the mix. In effect, almost half of the gamers on ProtonDB are running some form of Arch.
  • Linux Mint’s Brand New Edge ISO is Available to Download!
    • — Linux Mint 20.3 now offers a separate Edge ISO for the Cinnamon Edition to help users with latest-gen hardware.
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  • Linux Action News 223

    Fedora and Red Hat users are getting a web-based installer, and a new legal situation for Bitcoin smells like retro SCO FUD.

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    • Red Hat / Fedora Anaconda Installer Shifting To A Web Based UI
    — Anaconda has long been GTK-based but as part of modernizing it they are now looking at rewriting the UI to be a web browser-based UI that makes use of Red Hat's Cockpit project.
  • Anaconda is getting a new suit – Fedora Community Blog
  • GNOME Shell & Mutter Prepare For GNOME 42 Alpha With Exciting Improvements
  • Linux Mint 20.3 released promising security updates until 2025
    • — Linux Mint has released version 20.3, codenamed 'Una,' as a long-term support version that will receive security updates until 2025.
  • Linux Mint 20.3 “Una” Cinnamon released!
  • Linux Mint is reverting Firefox to Mozilla config after partnership signed
  • Jack Dorsey spearheads new fund to defend Bitcoin developers against legal action
    • — In an email addressed to developers, sent early on January 12, Dorsey described the open-source community as “especially susceptible to legal pressure.”
  • [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund
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  • Linux Action News 222

    GnuPG has some great news, Libadwaita 1.0 has arrived and we share our thoughts, plus a big batch of updates from the Matrix project.

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    • Koch: A New Future for GnuPG
    — Longtime GnuPG maintainer Werner Koch has posted an update on the project, mostly focused on the new associated "GnuPG VS-Desktop" business that is, it seems, going quite well.
  • A Short introduction to Fuchsia
    • — FuchsiaOS, by now just Fuchsia, was designed to be an entirely modular system, allowing its libraries and applications to be entirely removed, updated and added on it without the system get affected .
  • fimage
    • — Portable Fuchsia Emulator
  • More Troublesome x86 Android Tablets Being Fixed Up By New Linux Driver
    • — The forthcoming x86-android-tablets driver is focused on the issue of many x86 tablets having invalid entries within their ACPI DSDT tables.
  • Libadwaita 1.0 Released For Kicking Off A New Year Of GNOME App Development
    • — GNOME's libadwaita 1.0 has been released for this library implementing the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) and complementary to the GTK toolkit.
  • The Mega Matrix Holiday Special 2021
    • — Looking back at 2021, it’s unbelievable how much stuff has been going on in the core team.
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  • Linux Action News 221

    We kick off our annual predictions episode with what we got right and wrong this year and then attempt to predict what will happen in 2022.

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    • Previous Predictions: Linux Action News 169
  • Year in Review: How we’re curating the web with you and our top Pocket features
  • Mozilla expects to generate more than $500M in revenue this year
  • Pocket and Slate Podcast Partnership Announcement
  • Asahi Linux
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  • Linux Action News 220

    The nasty Log4Shell vulnerability isn't solved yet, this week saw a new round of attacks and patches.

    Plus how the work to port Linux to the Apple M1 resulted in fixing a bug that impacted all Linux distros.

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    • Log4j 2.15.0 and previously suggested mitigations may not be enough
    — It was discovered that version 2.15.0 would still be vulnerable when the configuration has a pattern layout containing a Context Lookup.
  • Statement from CISA Director Easterly on “Log4j” Vulnerability
  • PipeWire 0.3.41 Offers Improved Flatpak & JACK Compatibility, Apple AirPlay Streaming
    • — PipeWire 0.3.41 also adds a new RAOP module (raop-sink and raop-discover) that can be used for streaming to Apple AirPlay devices.
  • EXT4 Prepared To Switch To Linux’s New Mount API
    • — Linux's new mount API is what came about in recent times as a set of system calls offering more flexibility than the long-standing mount syscall that is a one-shot effort while this new multi-step mounting procedure allows for more options.
  • The End-Of-Year 2021 State Of Linux On Apple’s M1 SoC
    • — The Asahi Linux project has published their October and November status update to provide an overview of where the Apple Silicon / Apple M1 open-source support is now at as we approach the end of 2021.
  • Asahi Linux looks forward to exciting 2022 on Apple silicon
  • Hector Martin on Twitter
    • — Looks like Apple changed the requirements for Mach-O kernel files in 12.1, breaking our existing installation process... and they also added a raw image mode that will never break again and doesn't require Mach-Os.
    And people said they wouldn't help. This is intended for us.
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