Open-source News

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 21st, 2025  9to5Linux

The second weekly release candidate of Linux 6.19 is now available for testing in leading up to the stable release in early February...

Linux 6.19-rc2 Released Following A Quiet Week  Phoronix

Quilter’s AI designs dual-PCB system in record time  TechRadar

GnuCash 5.14 Open-Source Accounting Software Adds Support for US Bonds  9to5Linux

MPV 0.41 is out today as the newest feature release for this MPlayer/mplayer2-derived open-source video player. With MPV 0.41 there is a big focus on improving Wayland support as well as now preferring Vulkan Video acceleration over alternative video decode APIs...

5 hidden terminal surprises you can try on Ubuntu right now  How-To Geek

MPV 0.41 Open-Source Video Player Released with Improved Wayland Support  9to5Linux

One of the features that sadly didn't make it into the recent Linux 6.19 merge window was the long-awaited AMD ISP4 driver for supporting the web camera found with the high-end HP ZBook Ultra G1a and also expected to be used by future flagship AMD Ryzen laptops...

AMD ISP4 Linux Driver Patches Update Again For HP ZBook Ultra G1a, Future Ryzen Laptops  Phoronix

ObsidianOS, a Challenging but Reliable Linux Distribution  The New Stack

5 reasons dual booting is better than choosing between Windows and Linux  Yahoo! Tech

Stop choosing between Windows and Linux—here are 5 reasons dual booting is better  How-To Geek

Since Linux 6.16 the Intel APX support has been ready for the kernel infrastructure and goes along with the compiler toolchain support for Advanced Performance Extensions with the likes of GCC and LLVM/Clang. The latest element being worked on for APX enablement in the open-source/Linux world is for allowing KVM guest virtual machines (VMs) to make use of APX...

Hiero Open Source  Hedera

Most notable with the input subsystem updates sent out today ahead of the Linux 6.19-rc2 release is some new hardware support. New this week is adding support for CRKD Guitars for those into musical gaming/apps...

Linux 6.19-rc2 Adding Support For CRKD Guitar Controllers  Phoronix

5 Chromebook Myths You Need To Stop Believing  SlashGear

Open-source developer Armin Wolf has been working most recently on marshalling support for the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) platform code within the Linux kernel. This WMI marshalling support is to better match the behavior of Microsoft Windows' WMI ACPI driver and ultimately to allow for better compatibility with some ACPI firmware and enhancing some WMI drivers...

It's not often getting to talk about hard drives on Phoronix these days, but there's an important fix merged to the Linux 6.19 kernel today ahead of Linux 6.19-rc2. If you happen to be using a Seagate ST2000DM008 Barracuda 2TB HDD, an important fix was merged to avoid it taking down the systems' SATA bus and/or potentially other issues...