Open-source News

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls Open Beta Is Blocked on Linux by Easy Anti-Cheat  OpenCritic

Marvel Tokon fighting souls doesn't work with Linux (EAC)  The Outerhaven

3 Linux distros that run on 2.8GB of RAM when even the 'lightweight' ones choke  MakeUseOf

Debian developers are discussing a general resolution whether to permit AI large language model (LLM) usage within the Debian software project...

One of many interesting takeaways from this week's AMD Advancing AI event in San Francisco was word that ROCm will be on a rigid six week release cycle moving forward...

A few days back I wrote about upstream Linux kernel developers marking the Qualcomm crypto accelerator driver as "broken" and "harmful" due to its slow performance, history of bugs, and other limitations. Now this Qualcomm Crypto Engine "QCE" driver might be removed outright from the Linux kernel source tree after discovering it's even worse than anticipated...

Your first Linux distro shouldn't be a beginner distro—here's what to pick instead  How-To Geek

Imagination PowerVR Driver Marking BXM-4-64 MC1 GPU As Supported In Linux 7.3  Phoronix

Sent out today was the weekly round of drm-misc-next patches of new Direct Rendering Manager feature material ready to be queued in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window...

Dev accidentally commits Copilot binary to FreeBSD ports repo  The Register

Ubuntu Linux has shipped /etc/debian_version that is carried over from upstream Debian and in turn just indicating the Debian Sid development version from which the packages are arrived. Besides it being inaccurate, /etc/os-release has been the long preferred standard for reading the OS release information. Thus finally Ubuntu developers are looking at dropping the /etc/debian_version file...

Midscroll - Windows middle-click autoscroll comes to Linux  Korben

In Other News: Dolphin X AI-Powered Malware, Car Anti-Theft Device Hack, 400 Linux Kernel Flaws  SecurityWeek

Ubuntu Linux Looking To Get Rid Of /etc/debian_version Historical Artifact  Phoronix

Going along with the upstream Linux 7.2 kernel deprecation of AF_ALG and Linux 7.3 to further restrict this interface for letting user-space programs interact directly with the Linux kernel crypto API, Fedora 45 is looking to follow and help support this transition...

At this week's AMD Advancing AI 2026 event, "AI" was mentioned thousands of times in talks and in demos. As expected. Beyond that, the other term likely most heard during the event was "open"... Not particularly new for AMD with their long history of open-source efforts but I'd wager at this year's AMD Advancing AI 2026 event they were more acutely bringing up open-source, open ecosystems, and open standards. Certainly seemed like an uptick in "open" mentions and a ramp that's been building each year at the AMD events...

Lightbits Labs Expands Enterprise Linux Support with Ubuntu Certification  StorageNewsletter

OpenUK calls for a UK version of the Linux Foundation  Computer Weekly

Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Experience Still Lackluster On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS  Phoronix

At the end of last year when checking out the latest Linux experience on the Snapdragon X Elite it was a disappointing affair. The performance had regressed and overall a more headache-inducing experience than just running a modern AMD Ryzen AI or Intel Core Ultra laptop on Linux. Given the recent release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, I've been re-testing the Acer Swift 14 AI laptop with Snapdragon X Elite SoC to see how its performing under Linux now and against the AMD/Intel competition. Unfortunately, it's regressed even further than the last round of testing.