Open-source News

You, too, can download the 30-year-old GIMP build that was used to make Tux  XDA

Calibre 9.10 Open-Source E-Book Manager Brings New UI to the Content Server  9to5Linux

Fed up with complex note taking apps? Try Whisp for Linux  OMG! Ubuntu

Coreboot 26.06 is out today as the latest quarterly feature release for this software project providing open-source system firmware support for a growing number of platforms...

Daily ISOs of Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" continue to be published, but for those preferring something a bit more regulated, out today is Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2 as the second monthly ISO image...

Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2 Released For Monthly Testing  Phoronix

The Linux Foundation along with others like Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Red Hat, and others have joined forces to launch Akrites. The Akrites project is aiming to help defend critical open-source software from the brisk pace of new AI/LLM-discovered software bugs and vulnerabilities in ensuring that said issues are effectively addressed before they can be exploited by bad actors...

DXVK 3.0 Released with New Shader Compiler and Vulkan 1.4 Requirement  Linuxiac

Philip Rebohle announced the release today of DXVK 3.0 as the latest major feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for use by Wine and Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...

DXVK 3.0 Released With DXBC-SPIRV For Shader Compilation, Descriptor Heaps By Default  Phoronix

Linux Foundation launches Akrites to fix open source flaws  SecurityBrief New Zealand

DXVK 3.0 Released with Shader Compilation and D3D9 Improvements  9to5Linux

Purism’s Librem 16 Brings Linux Privacy Hardware at a Premium Price  Linuxiac

Linux Foundation and Industry Leaders Launch Akrites to Defend Critical Open Source Software Against AI-Enabled Cyber Threats  PR Newswire

Linux Foundation and Industry Leaders Launch Akrites to Defend Critical Open Source Software Against AI-Enabled Cyber Threats  Linux Foundation

COSMIC's first big update in six months continues stripping GNOME out of the OS  XDA

Flipper One Takes Hardware Hacking Into Uncharted Waters  TechNewsWorld

The Academy Software Foundation that advances open-source efforts for the VFX/cinema industry and more with the likes of OpenVDB, OpenMoonRay, Open Shading Language, and other projects, has announced the formation of a new working group to help with Wayland adoption for artists...

Academy Software Foundation Announces The "Wayland For Artists Working Group"  Phoronix

Purism Announces Librem 16 as World’s Most Private and Secure Linux Laptop  9to5Linux