Open-source News

Shelly 2.3.2.2 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Now Improves CachyOS Support  9to5Linux

GNOME Sushi as the file previewer component for the GNOME Files (Nautilus) file manager has now been adapted to make use of GTK4 as well as delivering other enhancements for a nicer file previewing experience on GNOME...

Star Labs Releases Firmware 26.06 with Support for AMD Cezanne-Based Systems  9to5Linux

I ran out of storage on my Linux machine and these 2 tools fixed it fast  How-To Geek

OpenCV 5.0 released today as a major update to this widely-used, open-source computer vision (CV) library...

Daniel Schürmann of Valve's Linux team has posted a new VK_AMD_anti_lag implementation for the RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver...

Ape is a new open-source Vulkan driver written in the Zig programming language and not dependent upon any Mesa code...

KDE developers continue with last minute bug fixes ahead of the Plasma 6.7 desktop release later this month as well as preparing early feature work toward Plasma 6.8 and also landing more fixes for the current Plasma 6.6 stable series...

For those looking for open-source food nutrition software, GNU's GNUtrition has seen its first new release in 14 years...

AI Agent Discovery Gets Open DNS Standard: DNS-AID Launches Under Linux Foundation  Tech Times

This deal unlocks Microsoft’s full-featured IDE for Windows, Linux, and cloud development for a flat $33  PCWorld

Proton Drive just got 3x faster, and Linux users will finally get what they've been asking for  XDA

Craving Hyprland But Don't Want to Configure It? Try Dank Linux  It's FOSS

Linux DRM Ioctl Developed By AMD Being Disabled Following Ongoing Security Issue  Phoronix

It's unfortunately another busy week in the Linux 7.1 kernel space with not everything slowing down so well, late in the cycle and leading to the upcoming 7.1 stable release. This week's DRM pull request of kernel graphics/accelerator drivers is again heavy on fixes and also ends up disabling an ioctl interface given ongoing security concerns from that code merged last year...

Proton Drive is Now a Lot Faster and it’s Coming Soon to Linux  Thurrott.com

I found the Linux app store nobody mentions and it has more packages than Flathub  MakeUseOf

Amazon Linux 2 Expires in 2026: Red Hat Urges Migration Planning  igor´sLAB

Jean Baptiste Lallement of the Canonical Desktop Team today posted a roadmap of many development items they are hoping to tackle for Ubuntu 26.10 due out in October. Some of these desktop plans are more ambitious and will take multiple release cycles to fully realize, but it goes to show their continued investment into the Ubuntu desktop...

Gothic Remake Performance Review: 500+ Benchmarks with 62 CPUs, 40 GPUs and Linux  PCGH