Open-source News

Your Linux PC can handle HDMI 2.1 — the law is what's holding it back  MakeUseOf

The new rules for AI-assisted code in the Linux kernel: What every dev needs to know  ZDNET

Valve's VRAM Hack Could Save Millions of 8GB GPU Owners From Stutters  HotHardware

Sorry, Windows and Linux: this is still the better OS for developers  MakeUseOf

Last month we showcased GreenBoost as an open-source means of augmenting NVIDIA GPU vRAM with system RAM and NVMe storage. This memory tiering solution for NVIDIA GPUs was developed by an open-source developer with a focus on CUDA and allowing larger LLMs to be handled on graphics cards with smaller vRAM capacities. There was a setback to the project due to NVIDIA legal but now the project is going in new form and also has introduced GreenBoost-Proton for helping Linux gaming on NVIDIA hardware...

For those that had purchased a StarBook MK VI laptop 3+ years ago over the advertised support for Coreboot, Star Labs has now delivered with a Coreboot build finally available and working for this AMD Ryzen 5000 series powered laptop...

How the latest Netrunner distro delivers a Linux productivity powerhouse  ZDNET

Fake Linux Foundation leader using Slack to phish devs  theregister.com

On this first day of the Linux 7.1 merge window, among the early pull requests merged were beginning to land the various VFS pull requests submitted by Christian Brauner. Among that code merged is enabling support for user.* extended attributes on sockets...

7 Linux features I miss every time I boot into Windows 11  How-To Geek

I switched my Linux desktop environment from GNOME, and it’s so much better  MakeUseOf

This Linux distro offers an easy DNS switcher - but there's more to it that I like  ZDNET

Linux 7.0 released with self-healing XFS and expanded support for AMD, Intel, and ARM64 hardware  TechSpot

Switcher 2026: Some Thoughts About France, Linux, and Digital Sovereignty ⭐️  Thurrott.com

Budgie Desktop does one thing that GNOME refuses to: get out of your way  MakeUseOf

It has just gotten easier to run games on Linux machines with less VRAM  PC Gamer

Linux kernel hits version 7 and comes with lots of little improvements  PC Gamer

A Valve engineer’s Linux patch makes 8GB AMD GPUs better at gaming  PCWorld

The Spack package manager is quite popular in the HPC / supercomputer space for scientific software. Even with the more selective niche than a typical general purpose OS package manager, large language models (LLMs) have already proven capable of being useful in generating new Spack packages. But there have also been some headaches involved too for Spack developers...

Linux Kernel Will Accommodate AI-Assisted Code, But Humans Are Still Liable  extremetech.com