Open-source News

The most ambitious Linux alternative in years isn't Linux at all  MakeUseOf

Video card Radeon RX 9070 XT loses up to 70% performance on Linux  GameGPU

Debian 13.6 is out today as the newest point release of Debian Trixie to ship the latest security fixes and other maintenance updates...

Debian 13.6 Released To Ship All The Latest Security Fixes, Reverts GeoIP Database  Phoronix

5 weird devices that can run Linux (even though they shouldn't)  How-To Geek

After 17 years, a developer has finally revived the dream of Hannah Montana Linux, an open source operating system themed around Hannah Montana  PC Gamer

Debian 13.6 “Trixie” Released with 124 Bug Fixes and 120 Security Updates  9to5Linux

Sent out today was this week's round of x86 (x86_64) fixes ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel test candidate due out on Sunday...

COSMIC just hit version 1.2, and it's quietly doing things GNOME and KDE still make you fight for  XDA

I Mined and Built My Way Through Space Haven  It's FOSS

Linux Desktop Market Share Statistics 2026  About Chromebooks

Security News This Week: AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years  WIRED

Stanford researchers have been developing Lightweight Fault Isolation "LFI" compiler passes and targets for LLVM as a means of efficient, native code sandboxing. The AArch64 LFI target was previously upstreamed while this week the x86/x86_64 LFI target was also upstreamed for this means of in-process sandboxing...

Blizzard fix up Diablo IV crashing on SteamOS / Linux  GamingOnLinux

KDE developers continue to be very busy this summer landing more features for the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop...

DLSS Updater 4.3.0 for Linux has "grown into a full Proton Upscalers panel"  GamingOnLinux

Valve fix up Marvel Rivals on SteamOS / Linux with Proton Hotfix  GamingOnLinux

A change upstreamed to Mesa by an Arm engineer now enables the Panfrost Gallium3D driver for Arm Mali graphics to work with the Rusticl driver by default...

System76 developers have for the past number of weeks been working on developing a "frosted glass" appearance for the COSMIC desktop environment featured on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution. For Pop!_OS users this frosted glass feature is now available and will become more widespread for other Linux distributions once the next COSMIC release is formally tagged...

Wine 11.13 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software enabling support for running Windows games and applications on Linux...