Open-source News

5 reasons I’ve never used Arch Linux as a daily driver and never will  XDA

Mesa 25.3-rc4 Unleashed: Intel’s Game-Changing Fixes Boost Linux Graphics  WebProNews

MKVToolNix 96.0 Released with New CLI Parameter and Improved AV1/IVF Support  9to5Linux

Ryzen AI Software 1.6.1 Advertises Linux Support  Phoronix

Ryzen AI Software as AMD's collection of tools and libraries for AI inferencing on AMD Ryzen AI class PCs has Linux support with its newest point release. Though this "early access" Linux support is restricted to registered AMD customers...

This PS5-based AMD BC250 board was turned into a $120 Linux gaming PC that runs GTA V at 65 FPS  Notebookcheck

New DirectX7 emulation tool brings more games to Steam Deck, SteamOS, and other Linux distros through Vulkan, with caveats  Tom's Hardware

AMD has begun their open-source compiler enablement upstreaming effort for Zen 6 processors! The first "Znver6" patch was sent out on Friday in preparing for new instructions to be found with these next-generation AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors...

Released one Friday was the newest version of oneDNN as this library started off by Intel and now officially under the UXL Foundation umbrella for serving as building blocks for deep learning software...

The Qt toolkit has merged support for Wayland's color-management-v1 protocol to replace the former xx-color-management-v4 protocol shipped by this open-source toolkit. The change was merged for Qt 6.11 development but also back-ported for the Qt 6.10 series...

Linux Kernel Patches & Device Tree Additions For PCIe M.2 Connectors  Phoronix

On ACPI-enabled systems Linux users can enjoy PCIe M.2 connected peripherals that "just work" without any extra fuss. But for those relying on Device Tree (DT) handling by the kernel, new patches from Qualcomm are working on representing PCIe M.2 connectors within DT files...

Tuxedo InfinityBook Max 15 Linux laptop offers desktop-grade power  BetaNews

KDE developers were off to a busy start for the month of November. A lot of feature activity continues happening for Plasma 6.6 while a lot of bug fixing is still going on for Plasma 6.5 and related KDE components...

FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 had been expected this weekend but instead a fifth beta release of FreeBSD 15.0 was deemed warranted...

Linux surpasses 3% on Steam: one small step for gamers, one leap for the penguin.  Red Hot Cyber

Linux PPA Ransomware Scare Lacking Evidence  OMG! Ubuntu

In addition to GNOME's Mutter compositor removing its X11 back-end support to focus exclusively on Wayland while keeping around XWayland client support, another notable GNOME change this week was the GTK toolkit adding a "reduced motion" accessibility option...

It's been a while since having anything major to talk about with the NILFS2 file-system but it looks like that could be changing. NILFS2 as a reminder is a log-structured file-system with continuous snapshotting with its NILFS predecessor having been in the mainline kernel for two decades since the mid Linux 2.6 days...

This is the Linux distro I moved my non-tech family members to  XDA