Open-source News

Wayfire 0.10 was released this week and its integration with the underlying wlroots rendering code has been overhauled. In turn this opens up Wayfire to having experimental support for rendering using the Vulkan API...

The FreeBSD project on Friday published their quarterly status report to highlight all of the interesting changes for Q2'2025. Among the recent FreeBSD efforts have been on "bsd-user-4-linux" to allow FreeBSD binaries to run unmodified on Linux systems. FreeBSD is also coming up with a policy around AI/LLM usage for contributing to the project. Additionally, Sylve is taking shape as a new web-based unified system management platform for FreeBSD systems...

bsd-user-4-linux Lets FreeBSD Binaries Run Unmodified On Linux  Phoronix

Wine 10.14 released with library upgrades, network improvements, and bug fixes  BetaNews

20-year-old ATI Radeon GPUs are still getting driver updates and extensions — old ATI Radeon R300 GPUs receive Linux updates from the community  Tom's Hardware

DSpi: Dual touchscreen Linux handheld powered by a Raspberry Pi  Notebookcheck

4 Reasons I Keep Linux In a Docker Container Instead of Dual-Booting  How-To Geek

I've Daily Driven Garuda Linux for 4 Years. Here’s Why It’s My Favorite Linux Distro  How-To Geek

How to transfer and share files over a network without a USB flash drive — and with just one line of code  Tom's Hardware

New 'Sindoor Dropper' Malware Targets Linux Systems with Weaponized .desktop Files  CyberSecurityNews

Philip Rebohle working for Valve just released DXVK 2.7.1 as the newest version of this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan API translation layer. DXVK 2.7.1 enables yet more games to correctly render now with DXVK on Linux...

DXVK 2.7.1 Delivers Improved Performance For Some Direct3D 9 Titles  Phoronix

GTK 4.20 released on Friday as the newest version of this open-source toolkit aligned with the GNOME project. GTK 4.20 brings improved support for Wayland on Linux along with platform enhancements for macOS, Android, and Windows too...

KDE developers remained very busy as they closed out the month of August. In fact, this week saw a 22 year old KDE feature request finally being addressed...

From Consumer to Contributor: How Linux Foundation India is Shaping the Future of Open Source  It's FOSS News

Wine 10.14 is out to end August as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...

That upcoming dual-screen Android gaming handheld now somehow sounds even more appealing  Android Authority

Josef Bacik who is a long-time Btrfs developer and active co-maintainer alongside David Sterba is leaving Meta. Additionally, he's also stepping back from Linux kernel development as his primary job...

Btrfs Developer Josef Bacik Leaving Meta & Stepping Back From Kernel Development  Phoronix

It was barely four months ago that the GNOME Foundation announced its new Executive Director, Steven Deobald, who was taking over afterHolly Million stepped down after less than one year. Today Deobald announced he is stepping down as the Executive Director...