Open-source News

Debian 13.4 “Trixie” Released with 111 Bug Fixes and 67 Security Updates  9to5Linux

OpenRazer 3.12 Expands Linux Support for Razer Devices  Linuxiac

I switched to Wayland and immediately found the rough edges  MakeUseOf

OpenRazer 3.12 was just released today as the newest update to these independently-maintained, open-source drivers for Razer devices on Linux. Paired with the likes of the Polychromatic GUI, OpenRazer allows for a pleasant experience for the Razer gaming peripherals under Linux...

OpenRazer 3.12 Released With Support For Newer Razer Products On Linux  Phoronix

Sidero Labs Advances Talos Linux for Secure Edge and Air-Gapped Kubernetes Deployments  TipRanks

Google Chrome Is Finally Coming to ARM64 Linux  Linuxiac

Linux Finally Catches Up to Windows with a Game-Changing Performance Feature  Iowa Park Leader

This week I tried out the current Ubuntu 26.04 development state on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite with the Acer Swift 14 AI laptop I have been using for my X Elite benchmarks over the past year. Unfortunately, it wasn't a smooth experience with new issues encountered for this Windows On ARM laptop...

Trying Out Snapdragon X Elite With The Acer Swift 14 AI Laptop On Ubuntu 26.04  Phoronix

This week's round of drm-misc-next patches bring a few improvements to the AMDXDNA accelerator driver used for supporting the Ryzen AI NPUs. Plus some new panel additions and various other minor Direct Rendering Manager driver changes...

Linux 7.1 Will Bring Power Estimate Reporting For AMD Ryzen AI NPUs  Phoronix

Google's Android LLVM toolchain team shared publicly this week that they have begun making use of AutoFDO for automatic feedback directed optimizations of their Linux kernel build used by Android...

Google Now Using AutoFDO To Enhance Android's Linux Kernel Performance  Phoronix

KDE developers continue being very busy working on Plasma 6.7 feature development as well as continuing to drive new fixes and refinements to the current Plasma 6.6 stable series...

Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has landed support for mesh shaders within Mesa's LLVMpipe software driver...

GNOME OS as the Linux-based OSTree-using distribution that serves as the leading-edge, reference platform of GNOME desktop development is now using KMSCON by default...

GNOME OS Switches To KMSCON Enabled By Default  Phoronix

Announced today was debaudit, a new set of tools and services designed to verify the integrity and reproducibility of Debian source packages...

Google Chrome Is Finally Getting Native ARM64 Support On Linux  HotHardware