Open-source News

Proton Drive just got 3x faster, and Linux users will finally get what they've been asking for  XDA

Linux DRM Ioctl Developed By AMD Being Disabled Following Ongoing Security Issue  Phoronix

It's unfortunately another busy week in the Linux 7.1 kernel space with not everything slowing down so well, late in the cycle and leading to the upcoming 7.1 stable release. This week's DRM pull request of kernel graphics/accelerator drivers is again heavy on fixes and also ends up disabling an ioctl interface given ongoing security concerns from that code merged last year...

Proton Drive is Now a Lot Faster and it’s Coming Soon to Linux  Thurrott.com

I found the Linux app store nobody mentions and it has more packages than Flathub  MakeUseOf

Amazon Linux 2 Expires in 2026: Red Hat Urges Migration Planning  igor´sLAB

Jean Baptiste Lallement of the Canonical Desktop Team today posted a roadmap of many development items they are hoping to tackle for Ubuntu 26.10 due out in October. Some of these desktop plans are more ambitious and will take multiple release cycles to fully realize, but it goes to show their continued investment into the Ubuntu desktop...

New Gafgyt Variant Targets Multiple Linux Architectures With Modular Propagation  CyberSecurityNews

New Gafgyt Variant Targets Multiple Linux Architectures With Modular Propagation  Cryptika Cybersecurity

This Linux distro looks so much like Windows 11 that it's unsettling  MakeUseOf

Hyprland on Nvidia isn't as broken as everyone says  MakeUseOf

Windows 10 Support Ended: 5 Options for Older PCs  TechRepublic

Azure Linux 4.0 Preview Opens for Azure VM Customers  WinBuzzer

Last month CUDA-Oxide was introduced as an experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler. From pure Rust programming language code, one can write CUDA GPU kernels in a "safe(ish)" manner with the CUDA-Oxide compiler emitting NVIDIA PTX output directly. Out today is the second update to CUDA-Oxide...

Ardour 9.7 Open-Source DAW Improves MIDI Editing, Adds New Vertical Summary  9to5Linux

Linux Falls Hard on Steam After Record 5% Milestone  Linuxiac

Ubuntu 26.10 Promises a Simplified Installation and New Onboarding Experience  9to5Linux

These 5 Linux terminal commands save me hours every week  MakeUseOf

GNOME 50.2 Adds Rate Control to the VA-API H.264 Screencast Pipelines  9to5Linux

KVM virtual machine software review  TechRadar