Open-source News

The systemd 261 release brings a software TPM, new OS installer  Help Net Security

NVIDIA Prepares For Next-Gen GPU Architectures As “Blackwell-Next” Spotted In Linux 7.2 Kernel Patch  Wccftech

As a follow-up to last week's article around Firefox leveraging zlib-rs and some nice upstream improvements to this Rust-based Zlib implementation, the zlib-rs 0.6.4 release is now available to ship all of these latest enhancements...

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 53: The Rabbit's Foot  GamingOnLinux

postmarketOS 26.06 Brings Fresh Linux Phone Updates  Linuxiac

NVIDIA Blackwell-Next name spotted in Linux kernel patch  VideoCardz.com

Darktable 5.6 Open-Source RAW Image Editor Released with New AI Features  9to5Linux

postmarketOS 26.06 "Alpen Avocado" Released with GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.6  9to5Linux

Last month Qualcomm engineers posted patches bringing up the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 Snapdragon X2 laptop on Linux. Sent out this weekend were a new set of patches from Qualcomm for bringing up the HP EliteBook X G2q laptop model powered by the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoC...

Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For HP EliteBook X G2q X2 Elite Laptop  Phoronix

Mesa's Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code now has support for present timing support "VK_EXT_present_timing" with X11 and XWayland...

Mesa 26.2 Merges Vulkan Present Timing Support For X11/XWayland  Phoronix

5 pioneering Linux distros that quietly faded into history  How-To Geek

Your Steam Deck Is Secretly a Linux PC. Here Are 10 Ways to Unlock Its Full Potential  PCMag

These 6 Linux tools make the classics feel ancient—I use them on every machine  How-To Geek

Google Antigravity with the Gemini 3.5 Flash model helped a Linux user sort out a situation where his laptop was taking around 36 seconds to boot the kernel, which shouldn't be the case for the high-end laptop with AMD Ryzen 9 processor and 32GB of RAM. It ended up being yet another case of device firmware issues, but now a Linux kernel patch is pending for working around the issue on the ASUS ROG Strix G16 G614 laptop while discussions are ongoing in getting the vendor to provide a proper firmware fix...

Google's Gemini Partially Figures Out A Lengthy Linux Boot Time On Modern ASUS Laptop  Phoronix

Linux 7.2 Converts exFAT to IOmap: USB and SD Card Transfers Get Faster  Tech Times

Linux 7.2 Closes Memory Bug Class With strncpy Removal After Six Years  Tech Times

After 6 years on Ubuntu, a performance-obsessed Arch distro finally pulled me away  MakeUseOf