Open-source News

When KaOS Linux dropped KDE Plasma, I worried - now I'm loving the new default desktop  ZDNET

OpenClaw downloads eclipse Linux's 30-year reach in three weeks, Nvidia CEO flags AI agent surge  digitimes

Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta announced a new proposal for "A Technology Innovation Lifecycle Process for Fedora." With the help of Google's Gemini AI, Spaleta laid out a proposal to help Fedora make greater accommodations for experimental concepts and building more interest around innovative ideas without a firm commitment to integrate them into Fedora proper until they can be assured of sustainability...

Linux distros are quietly abandoning their own desktops for KDE Plasma, and I get why  XDA

Current RISC-V CPUs Being Too Slow Causes Headaches For Fedora: ~5x Slower Builds  Phoronix

The current crop of RISC-V SoCs are still much slower than alternative CPU architectures and lead to much longer build times for Fedora packages as a result. There's hope with next-gen RISC-V processors being faster but for now even compiling Binutils as an example is around five times slower than x86_64 -- and that's with disabling compiler link-time optimizations (LTO) for RISC-V to avoid an even longer build process...

Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details  Adafruit

Calamares Linux Graphical Installer Now Supports KDE’s Plasma Login Manager  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 580.142 released for Linux - the new recommended driver  GamingOnLinux

MSI PRO B850-P WiFi: A Special AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard For Linux / Open-Source Enthusiasts Review  Phoronix

The MSI PRO B850-P WIFI motherboard is a unique AMD Ryzen AM5 motherboard for Linux/open-source enthusiasts that is competitively priced at just $179 USD. It's interesting not because of the doings of MSI but rather 3mdeb with this being the desktop motherboard they are working on porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to for allowing an open-source firmware stack.

NVIDIA 580.142 Production-Ready Linux Graphics Driver Released with Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

I use Linux for local LLMs and everything is easier than Windows  MakeUseOf

TRON Teams Up With Circle in Linux Foundation AI Initiative  MEXC

The first alpha release of OpenSSL 4.0 is now available for testing. With OpenSSL 3.0 they are removing support for SSLv3 that has been deprecated for over one decade while also dropping OpenSSL engines and other removals while also adding in some new features...

Discord rolls out a nice improvement for video calls on Linux  GamingOnLinux

I’ve used dozens of Linux distros—these 3 offer the best nostalgia trip  How-To Geek

Fedora Linux 44 Beta has GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, and installer improvements  How-To Geek

Windows 12 Rumors Spark Shift Toward Linux  findarticles.com

Free Linux Meme Maker Memerist Hits Flathub  findarticles.com