Open-source News

Linux Foundation launches Appia for standardization in the AI value chain  SDxCentral

Heroic Games Launcher [2026]: Epic & GOG Free on Linux  tech-insider.org

FOSS Weekly #26.25: AUR Supply Chain Attack, Commodore Phones, SonicDE, Y Server, Kernel 7.1 and More  It's FOSS

Sludgineers is an oddly satisfying active incremental game about cleaning up pollution  GamingOnLinux

A bug in the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver leading to some laptop displays freezing after periods of use may finally be close to being resolved. Given the length and quantity of bug reports and one of the problematic commits being tracked back to 2017, it's a heavy hitting issue for some Linux users. With the help of Claude Code, it looks like a fix is on the way to the Linux kernel...

10ZiG Expands Strategic Partnership with ThinPrint to Advance Printing Flexibility Across 10ZiG Linux OS  PRWeb

Linux users face a Microsoft Secure Boot headache - here's the painkiller  ZDNET

The cryptographic subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window...

Canonical reveal Myna, a speech to text system for Ubuntu Linux  GamingOnLinux

After the AUR Malware Flood, Yay v13 Lets You Script Your Own Safety Net  It's FOSS

Canonical and the Ubuntu Release Team have implemented an important policy change for Ubuntu flavors moving forward. If they are to have an official release, they must now successfully submit a beta release...

Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status  Phoronix

5 things that are surprisingly easier on Linux than Windows  How-To Geek

SteamOS 3.8 arrives with updated Linux kernel, Steam Machine support and more  Mezha

Commodore 8020  Hackaday

Commodore Unveils Linux Powered Flip Phone  Hackaday

With the ongoing work around the AMD GFX1250 (and GFX1251) in the open-source AMD Linux driver stack, it's led to a lot of speculation about these parts in the GFX12 series associated with RDNA4. RDNA4 refresh? Or a lot of signals have pointed to GFX125x being possible AI/HPC accelerators such as for the upcoming Instinct MI400 series. Adding to the intrigue is GFX1251 being an APU. The latest LLVM compiler activity is further pointing to GFX1250/GFX1251 being for enterprise hardware...

Latest LLVM Patch Further Points To AMD GFX1250/GFX1251 Being Instinct Hardware  Phoronix

These 4 alien Linux concepts confused me when I switched from Windows  How-To Geek

The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) drivers, such as for dealing with ECC memory error reporting, are heavy on the Intel side with Linux 7.2 in preparing for upcoming hardware...