Open-source News

After Months of Debate, Linus Finally Decides: Linux Officially "Legislates" for AI Code - AI Use Allowed, Humans to Take the Blame  36 Kr

X.Org Server 21.1.22 is out today and driven by five new security vulnerabilities being disclosed for the aging codebase. In turn these vulnerabilities also impact XWayland too and thus necessitating the XWayland 24.1.10 release...

Sunshine v2026.413.143228 released this week as a new feature release for this self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight, an open-source game streaming client that is an implementation of the NVIDIA GameStream protocol. Notable with this Sunshine release is Vulkan Video encode support as an alternative to using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) for game streaming...

These 9 Linux terminal shortcuts will save you hours of typing  How-To Geek

OpenSSL 4.0 was just released as a big update for this widely-used SSL/TLS and crypto library...

Proton Experimental fixes Capcom classics on Steam Deck and Linux  games.gg

OpenSSL 4.0 Released with Support for Encrypted Client Hello, SNMP KDF, and More  9to5Linux

Merged yesterday for the Linux 7.1 kernel is overhauling the T10 PI code for generating and verifying data integrity information. In turn the new code is cleaner while also allowing for better read storage performance...

As a big helper for Valve's Steam Play with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton, the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged its initial support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap Vulkan extension...

Latest Raspberry Pi OS Release Disables Passwordless sudo by Default  9to5Linux

New Linux Kernel Rules Put The Onus On Humans For AI Tool Usage  Hackaday

PocketTerm35 – A Raspberry Pi 4/5-based handheld Linux terminal with 3.5-inch touch display and built-in keyboard  CNX Software

A request made a KDE user all the way back in June 2005 on KDE 3.3.2 is finally resolved. After being sought after for 21 years, the latest KWin code now has support for per-screen virtual desktops...

AMD Ready With CPPC Performance Priority & Dynamic/Raw EPP In Linux 7.1  Phoronix

All of the power management subsystem feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel...

Over the course of March there was much progress made on the ARM64 port of Haiku OS, the open-source operating system serving as the spiritual successor to BeOS...

Merged yesterday were all the CRC code updates for the Linux 7.1 kernel. Most notable with that pull is an ARM64-optimized CRC64-NVMe implementation that can deliver multiple times faster performance...

Sentinel is an achievement watcher for non-Steam games on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Linux Open Source Greenlights AI Code With Human Liability Rules  Open Source For You

SteamVR Beta 2.16.3 brings Linux fixes for VRLink  GamingOnLinux