Open-source News

The New Virtual OS Museum Packs 600 Operating Systems Into a Linux VM  WinBuzzer

An exciting Intel innovation expected to be added for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is introducing the new USB4STREAM protocol for USB4/Thunderbolt as a "super simple" way to "basically just transfer raw packets from one host to another". This can be useful for quickly backing up a system from one host to another, sharing of web cameras or other peripherals across systems, or other environments where not having networking or wanting to avoid the traditional Linux networking stack...

Intel Introducing USB4STREAM Protocol For Linux - Opening Up Some Nifty Uses For USB4  Phoronix

The safety net Windows users miss: How I switched to Linux without over-committing  How-To Geek

With Linux 7.1 ISDN, ham radio, and other old network code was removed in lightening the kernel source tree by around 138 thousand lines of code. Some additional Linux networking code cleaning is expected for Linux 7.2 with the ISA and PCMCIA hardware around ARCnet set to be removed...

Linux To Drop ARCnet Support For Old ISA & PCMCIA Hardware  Phoronix

Valve just let me turn my Android handheld into an unofficial Steam Deck  Android Authority

Redis 8.8 reached GA today for the Redis open-source project providing a high performance, in-memory data store...

MX Linux 25.2 Released with Linux 7.0 AHS Kernel  Linuxiac

While not as good as repealing AB 1043 outright for requiring operating system providers to ask for a user's age or birth date at device setup, open-source Linux distributions and other open-source OSes may end up seeing some reprieve before this law goes into effect at the start of 2027...

PS3 Emulation Tested on PS5 under Linux with RPCS3 – Does it work?  OC3D

MKVToolNix 99.0 MKV Manipulation Tool Improves the MKVToolNix GUI, mkvmerge  9to5Linux

OptiScaler Client recently added Linux support to make managing upscalers easier  GamingOnLinux

AMD Pulls a Bait-and-Switch on Linux Users with Vivado Licensing Changes  It's FOSS

Linux Mint gets file manager improvements, a new screenshot tool and more  GamingOnLinux

Digital Foundry turns PS5 into PS3 emulation console through Linux and RPCS3  VideoCardz.com

Unreal Engine 6 revealed with a major Rocket League upgrade - the teaser concerns me  GamingOnLinux

Linux 7.2 is cutting support for a 35-year-old card's driver because people aren't using it anymore  XDA

Linus Torvalds loses patience with AI-generated code fixes bloating the Linux kernel  Neowin

Cinnamon desktop is getting its own, native screenshot tool  OMG! Ubuntu