Open-source News

While Intel has been upstreaming various Panther Lake firmware bits to linux-firmware.git for pairing with their open-source kernel drivers ahead of Core Ultra Series 3 laptops shipping, one piece of the puzzle only published today is the GSC firmware for the Panther Lake graphics...

The Intel Compute Runtime 26.01.36711.4 was published today as their first release of 2026 for this open-source GPU compute stack providing Level Zero and OpenCL support across their range of graphics hardware going back to Tiger Lake. Notable with this new Compute Runtime release is having now production-ready Panther Lake support while also introducing early support for next-generation hardware...

Michel Dänzer of Red Hat has kicked off 2026 xorg-server activity with landing a patch series enhancing the Resize and Rotate (RandR) extension support under XWayland for improving mode handling by X11 clients...

Tomeu Vizoso as the open-source developer behind the "Rocket" driver for reverse-engineered Rockchip NPU support, Teflon as a Mesa framework for TensorFlow Lite and NPU uses, and various Etnaviv driver work, has announced his newest creation: Thames...

New Linux malware framework targets cloud and containers  Techzine Global

New Linux malware detected: admins “may never realize their infrastructure has been quietly taken over”  Cybernews

I'm a creator and my new favorite Linux distro is multimedia perfection - here's why  ZDNET

Linux Systems Face a New Predator: Inside VoidLink’s Sophisticated Attack Arsenal  Technology Org

Linux apps are NOT coming to many still-supported Chromebooks  BetaNews

Wine 11.0 Enhances Windows Games and Apps Performance on Linux  Emegypt

Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" is Officially Available Now! Introduces Two New Apps  It's FOSS

The open-source ZLUDA project for bringing CUDA to non-NVIDIA hardware that can run unmodified is out with a new progress report. ZLUDA had a productive fourth quarter with now enjoying better Microsoft Windows support, full support for running Llama.cpp atop ZLUDA, AMD ROCm 7 support, and other enhancements...

Building off today's release of Wine 11.0 for enabling countless Windows applications and games to run well under Linux and being the basis of Valve's Proton for Steam Play, Hangover 11.0 is now available. Hangover is the open-source project that pairs Wine with either the FEX-Emu or Box64 emulators for enabling x86 32-bit and 64-bit Windows games/apps to run on native ARM64 Linux systems...

New VoidLink malware framework targets Linux cloud servers  BleepingComputer

Linux Mint 22.3 is built for users who value stability over surprises  BetaNews

Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical”  Ars Technica

I don’t pay for storage upgrades—this is what I do when Linux is running out of space  MakeUseOf

Wine 11 finally fixes one of the biggest problems with running old Windows apps  BetaNews

An absolute madman has recreated the Windows 8 UI—for Linux  PC Gamer

Panther Robotics and WICS host Intro to Linux workshop for FIU students  PantherNOW