The Debian project is hoping to address challenges of mentoring newcomers to contribute to the Debian Linux distribution as well as making it more known that open-source contributors can do more than just work on Debian packaging but that help is needed for documentation writing, web page creation, sorting out licensing issues, finding project sponsors, and more. Debian is also looking to attain OpenAI sponsorship or open-source funds from other large language model (LLM) / AI providers to help Debian developers for those wanting to use AI to help

The first release candidate of Redis 8.2 is now available for testing of this popular in-memory key-value database. Redis 8.2 is building off the recent Redis 8.0 release that ended up going tri-licensing with the AGPLv3 stemming from developer/community feedback.

Redis 8.2-RC1 is bringing new commands for streams, the query engine has a new SVS-VAMANA vector index type for vector compression optimized for modern Intel CPUs, and a variety of new performance optimizations and

Three years since the Bash 5.2 release and one year since the first alpha release, GNU Bash 5.3 was released overnight as the newest step forward for this popular shell used on Linux and other operating systems.

GNU Bash 5.3 introduces a new form of command substitution that executes the command within the current shell execution context. This allows for reading the command substitution's output or to find the result via the "REPLY" shell variable when the command substitution is complete.

Bash 5.3 also

Perl 5.42 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language that comes one year after the prior Perl 5.40 release.

Perl 5.42 ships with Unicode 16.0 support, new experimental features of the "any" and "all" operators for list processing, a new ":writer" attribute for field variables, more CORE:: subroutines like "chdir", a new "source::encoding" pragma, various performance enhancements, security fixes

A proposal raised for Fedora 43 would end support for allowing UEFI installations on MBR-partitioned disks for x86_64 systems in the Anaconda installer. This would enforce a requirement on using GPT partition tables for all UEFI-based Fedora installations in the x86 world.

Most users running on a modern UEFI system should already be using GPT partition tables but for some exotic system configurations, Fedora Linux is looking to remove that ability beginning with Fedora 43's release later this year.

The change

A nice improvement was merged today to the X.Org Server for benefiting the GLAMOR 2D acceleration code when using the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver.

GLAMOR provides generic 2D acceleration for the X.Org Server using OpenGL. Zink provides generic OpenGL over Vulkan API support and is part of Mesa. Now with this newly-merged code, DMA-BUF buffer sharing is enabled when using Zink with GLAMOR for more efficient handling.

The merged code is simply white-listing the Zink driver and follows the Intel

Linux 6.17 is expected to clear out some final remnants of the OpenMoko Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRunner smartphone support from that Linux smartphone effort from two decades ago.

Back in 2023 all of the Samsung s3c24xx SoC support was removed from the upstream Linux kernel. This effectively ended the mainline Linux kernel support for the OpenMoko Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRunner devices in the interesting pre-Android era.

But it turns out some other OpenMoko device code has

The Linux support for the Lenovo Legion Go S gaming handheld continues to be improved upon thanks to the option of having Steam OS on this alternative to the Steam Deck.

The Lenovo Legion Go S has seen a lot of Linux work the past several months from controller support in the mainline kernel to new drivers working their way to the upstream kernel. This week the v13 patch series was posted for the Lenovo Gaming Series of hardware with a proper x86 platform driver for supporting functionality exposed via WMI interfaces on Lenovo