Open-source News

End nearby for i486 support in the Linux kernel  Techzine Global

Linux Kernel 7.1 Moves to Drop i486 Support for the First Time Since 2012  ghacks.net

PyTorch Foundation Welcomes Helion as a Foundation-Hosted Project to Standardize Open, Portable, and Accessible AI Kernel Authoring  PR Newswire

Opera GX on Linux is for Gamers Who Put Stickers on Their Laptop  It's FOSS

Linux developers are beginning to end support for the 37-year-old Intel 486 processor.  GIGAZINE

28 years after the final Intel 486 desktop CPUs rolled off assembly lines, Linux is finally dropping support for it  PC Gamer

The Laptop That Refuses To Die: Inside Framework's Mission To Fix Tech  Forbes

AI agents found vulns in this popular Linux and Unix print server  theregister.com

Building on prior Mesa contributor guidelines and discussions among upstream Mesa developers, there are two generative AI "GenAI" policies that have now been decided upon for Mesa development moving forward...

Rust Coreutils 0.8 was released today as the newest major release to this alternative to GNU Coreutils...

Linux Will Require More RAM Than Windows For The First Time | Source Code #11 [3ae65e]  Fathom Journal

How to rescue an old laptop by installing Linux on it  Popular Science

Linux Users Surpass 5% Representation on Steam  extremetech.com

Red Hat rolls out 14-year RHEL life cycle subscription  SDxCentral

PacHub finally lets you manage pacman and the AUR on Arch without touching the terminal  XDA

Over the past year the FreeBSD project has been making much progress on making it more viable to run this BSD operating system on laptop hardware. They have worked on better graphics driver support, improved power management / suspend, making sure audio is working, and even rolling out a KDE desktop option from the FreeBSD OS installer to ease the deployment on desktops. While that engineering work continues, they are also working now to make it easier to summarize laptop hardware working or not on FreeBSD...

A small but convenient feature is coming with the Linux 7.1 that will be useful in debugging AMD Zen system problems and information reporting/transparency purposes...

A Small But Useful Debugging Addition For AMD Zen Systems With Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Ventoy celebrates its 6th birthday by fixing a nasty immutable Linux bug  XDA

Even in 2026, Linux Is Still Adding Support for Sega Dreamcast’s GD-ROM from the '90s  itsfoss.com