Open-source News

Four years ago Oracle announced Solaris CBE as the "Common Build Environment" version of Solaris 11.4. Oracle Solaris CBE is made available as free for open-source developers and other non-production use. Oracle this week released a new version of Solaris CBE for those wanting this free* version of Solaris...

The big NetBSD 11.0 release continues on approach with NetBSD 11.0-RC2 having been released as the latest test candidate...

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project had an eventful February with a number of driver improvements and a variety of other enhancements...

Vulkan 1.4.345 released overnight as the latest routine spec update to this graphics and compute API. There is one new extension besides a handful of different clarifications and corrections to various elements of the spec...

Linux From Scratch 13.0 Released as First Systemd-Only Version  Linuxiac

Linux Mint is getting a new Wayland-compatible screensaver  Neowin

Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next  It's FOSS

Simon Ser announced the release today of Wayland 1.25 RC1 (Wayland v1.24.91) in working toward this next stable release...

I’d Happily Pay for Linux — If It Actually Ran the Software I Need  Make Tech Easier

GNOME 50.rc was christened today as the release candidate for the GNOME 50 desktop...

Handmade by human hands using machines  Digg

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System76 published a statement today regarding the recent laws coming about in California and likely Colorado and New York too around requiring age verification on operating system accounts and ultimately exposing the information (or at least age brackets) to apps and websites. System76's position is interesting given that they sell Linux-loaded desktops, workstations and laptops plus being an operating system vendor with their in-house Pop!_OS distribution and COSMIC desktop environment...

I swapped my daily driver Linux distro again — and this time it’s sticking  MakeUseOf

MWC 2026 | Fibocom Unveils 5G MiFi Solution Based on Linux OS and Qualcomm QMB415 Platform  PR Newswire

Rust 1.94 was rolled out today as the newest routine stable update for the Rust programming language...

Linux Mint finally fixed its Wayland problem and it’s a game changer  MakeUseOf

The layoffs and restructuring at Intel in 2025 caused unfortunate hits to their Linux/open-source engineering including various driver maintainers leaving and even their CPU temperature driver being orphaned for lack of maintainers. Sent out today were a number of additional updates to the MAINTAINERS file for the Linux kernel to reflect other Intel departures in recent months. Plus some of the Altera drivers have also been orphaned now for having no upstream maintainers...

Git Usage Statistics On Linux Vs Other Platforms Statistics 2026  commandlinux.com

Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks With XFS Leading The Way  Phoronix