Open-source News

Posted this week is a draft copy of the Fedora Conflict of Interest policy being worked on for dealing with identifying, disclosing, and managing any actual, actual, or perceived conflicts of interest within the Fedora Project...

How Valve's desperation to escape Windows 8 turned it into a Linux powerhouse  XDA

World Machine ‘Dragontail Peak’ now runs on macOS and Linux  CG Channel

Meet Shadowfetch Linux, a New Debian-Based Distro Built Around Local AI  Linuxiac

Kiwi Menu as the macOS-inspired quick menu option for the GNOME Shell desktop is continuing to enhance its macOS-esque experience on GNOME...

GNU developers today released GNU C Library "glibc" 2.44 as the newest feature release for this critical library to modern Linux systems and other platforms...

KDE developers have been working on kscreenctl as a utility replacement to kscreen-doctor. Plasma and related code has also seen a number of bug/crash fixes coming about this week too...

GE-Proton 11-3 brings better OptiScaler integration, AMD FSR4 improvements and lots of game fixes  GamingOnLinux

As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code  XDA

Wine 11.14 was tagged today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

Wine 11.14 Brings WoW64 Mode To FreeBSD, Icon Support In Start Menu  Phoronix

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls Open Beta Is Blocked on Linux by Easy Anti-Cheat  OpenCritic

Marvel Tokon fighting souls doesn't work with Linux (EAC)  The Outerhaven

3 Linux distros that run on 2.8GB of RAM when even the 'lightweight' ones choke  MakeUseOf

Debian developers are discussing a general resolution whether to permit AI large language model (LLM) usage within the Debian software project...

One of many interesting takeaways from this week's AMD Advancing AI event in San Francisco was word that ROCm will be on a rigid six week release cycle moving forward...

A few days back I wrote about upstream Linux kernel developers marking the Qualcomm crypto accelerator driver as "broken" and "harmful" due to its slow performance, history of bugs, and other limitations. Now this Qualcomm Crypto Engine "QCE" driver might be removed outright from the Linux kernel source tree after discovering it's even worse than anticipated...

Your first Linux distro shouldn't be a beginner distro—here's what to pick instead  How-To Geek

Imagination PowerVR Driver Marking BXM-4-64 MC1 GPU As Supported In Linux 7.3  Phoronix

Sent out today was the weekly round of drm-misc-next patches of new Direct Rendering Manager feature material ready to be queued in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window...