Open-source News

Intel’s LASS Leap: Fortifying Linux Security in Kernel 6.19  WebProNews

VKD3D-Proton Adds FSR4 Support on Linux, Even for Older Radeon GPUs  TechPowerUp

Q4OS Linux brought my old laptop back to life and you mustn't ignore it  XDA

Intel's LASS functionality was queued today into tip/tip.git's "x86/cpu" Git branch. With LASS now making it into a TIP branch, it looks like it will be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.19 merge window barring any last minute issues or objections from Linus Torvalds...

Intel LASS Feature Looks Like It Will Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.19  Phoronix

SUSE’s Agama 18: Revolutionizing Linux Installs with Smarter Storage and Enterprise Edge  WebProNews

Linux is getting this popular game library manager next year  How-To Geek

How Kubernetes Became the New Linux  The New Stack

We're just a few years away from Windows being considered a Linux distro  XDA

Fedora vs. Ubuntu: How to choose your next Linux distro (and which one I use)  ZDNET

It's the Blender 5.0 release day! Blender 5.0 is a big step forward for this open-source 3D modeling software with better Vulkan viewport support across different GPUs/drivers, HDR support when using Vulkan and Wayland on Linux, and other very nice refinements for this popular cross-platform software package...

Blender 5.0 Released With Better Vulkan Support, HDR On Wayland  Phoronix

Playnite may get a Linux version during 2026 as the creator plans a move to Linux  GamingOnLinux

In the past we have seen Llama.cpp with Vulkan outperforming AMD's ROCm compute stack in some of the large language model (LLM) AI benchmarks. Curious if anything has changed given the recent ROCm 7.1 release, I ran some benchmarks of an up-to-date Llama.cpp using the AMD ROCm back-end compared to the Vulkan back-end with the latest RADV driver. For this round of testing the Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card was used.

These 5 Gnome extensions instantly improved my Linux workflow  XDA

Debian Libre Live Images Released for Software Freedom Lovers  9to5Linux

In addition to the RADV driver status update shared recently in Vienna at XDC2025, there was also a presentation on the current status of the NVK driver as the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa that currently targets the Nouveau kernel driver and the Rust-based Nova kernel driver in the future...

Qualcomm upstreamed new Cloud AI 100 "AIC100" firmware today to linux-firmware.git to fix a rather significant power/performance issue for these AI accelerators...

Qualcomm Updates AI Accelerator Firmware To Fix Power / Performance Issue  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds: Vibe coding is fine, but not for production  theregister.com