Open-source News

Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'  The Register

Linux Mint isn't the best Windows replacement anymore  How-To Geek

Linux developer Armin Wolf sent out a set of patches today for enabling AArch64 support for the ACPI Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) driver to work on AArch64 in no longer being bound to x86/x86_64. This is a step toward the long goal of being able to support modern Windows on ARM laptops via ACPI on Linux...

Linux WMI Driver Gets Ready To Support ACPI-Based ARM64 Laptops  Phoronix

I tried this Linux distro that looks like Windows, is made by a Microsoft engineer, and is based on Ubuntu  XDA

Logcat.AI Raises $2.55M to Automate Operating System Engineering for Device Makers  citybiz

A new open-source Linux driver announced today by Arm is the Arm Core Local Accelerator "CLA" driver as a CPU-local interface for programming attached accelerators. This is an agnostic interface for attached accelerators with the initial target focusing on an attached compute engine...

Arm Core Local Accelerator Driver Posted For Linux As Agnostic Interface For Accelerators  Phoronix

These 5 Linux distros finally got DNS privacy right—most others don't  How-To Geek

Linus Torvalds Spent Years Dismissing AI, Only to Vouch for It  It's FOSS

Linus Torvalds tells AI critics in the Linux kernel community to fork off  the-decoder.com

$10K Bounty Targets Linux on PlayStation 5 Hardware  The Tech Buzz

Wayland 1.26 Is Now Available for Download with New Features and Improvements  9to5Linux

15 O'Reilly Linux eBooks for Under $30: A Bundle That Goes From Command Line Basics to Kubernetes  It's FOSS

Since earlier this month AMD has begun staging graphics driver changes for Linux 7.3 ahead of the merge window opening in late July. That's brought some interesting changes so far while there still are a few weeks to land any additional features in DRM-Next. This week another batch of AMDGPU graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver feature code was sent out for this next kernel version...

Torvalds to AI opponents in Linux: fork the kernel, or get out  Korben

Torvalds to AI opponents in Linux: fork the kernel, or get out  Korben

Mozilla AI developers have released a new version of Llamafile, their solution for easy-to-use LLMs as a single file that work across hardware and operating systems. With Llamafile 0.10.4 is now Transcribefile, as a new piece built off their recently announced Transcribe.cpp project...

OpenBLAS 0.3.34 released on Thursday as this popular, open-source BLAS library providing optimized support for a variety of CPUs/architectures. OpenBLAS 0.3.34 continues working on squeezing more performance out of today's processors as well as delivering other new features...

Linus Torvalds says Linux is not an anti-AI project, and if you don't like that, then "fork it or just walk away"  PC Guide