Open-source News

KDE Plasma 6.6 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

LockBit Ransomware Unleashes Devastating 5.0 Version Targeting Windows, Linux, and ESXi  Cyber Press

REMnux v8 brings AI integration to the Linux malware analysis toolkit  Help Net Security

Gentoo begins its exodus from GitHub as it settles into Codeberg  XDA

The Gentoo Linux project last year announced plans to move their code hosting to Codeberg rather than GitHub. Gentoo's desire to move away from GitHub was motivated by Microsoft's Copilot training on GitHub repositories. Those plans are turning into action now with the main Gentoo project up on Codeberg and honoring pull requests...

Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot  Phoronix

Linux 7.0 CXL Enables AMD Zen 5 Address Translation Feature  Phoronix

A long-in-development feature for AMD EPYC Zen 5 server platforms now merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel is ACPI PRMT-based address translation for the Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem...

Lutris 0.5.20 Game Manager Adds Support for Importing Commodore 64 ROMs  9to5Linux

DRM Panic is the Linux kernel infrastructure now supported by most of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display drivers for being able to render a QR code kernel error message or similar when a kernel panic occurs to provide a cleaner interface should your system run into serious problems. An idea has been raised now within the Fedora Linux camp to provide an improved experience around this feature akin to Windows' "Blue Screen of Death" functionality...

Idea Raised For Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration On Fedora Linux  Phoronix

For fans of Lutris as the open-source desktop client for installing and playing many games on Linux, Lutris 0.5.20 is out today with new features that further enhance the integration with different emulators and compatibility layers...

Lutris 0.5.20 Linux Game Manager Brings New Features, Wine Wayland Option  Phoronix

The RISC-V architecture updates have been merged for Linux 7.0 with a few items to note...

Merged a few days ago for the Linux 7.0 kernel were all of the driver core enhancements. As has been the common theme in recent kernel releases, a lot of the driver core code churn revolves around additions for allowing more Rust kernel driver usage...

Linux 7.0 Driver Core Changes Bring More Enhancements For Rust Kernel Drivers  Phoronix

SELinux And AppArmor Adoption Statistics 2026  commandlinux.com

Linux 6.19.1 was released earlier today while it's since been replaced by Linux 6.19.2 to address fallout from that first point release with some systems not booting. This also resulted in new LTS kernel releases too due to the problematic code being picked up there too...

This month I have been doing a lot of Panther Lake benchmarking under Linux with the Core Ultra X7 358H. One of the areas of much interest has been the Arc B390 Xe3 graphics that have been working nicely out-of-the-box with the Intel open-source driver stack on Linux although there still are some gaps to fill against Windows. Those Intel Arc B390 Linux benchmarks so far have been focused on OpenGL and Vulkan graphics, but what about OpenCL and GPU compute with the open-source Intel Compute Runtime? Today's article is looking at the performance of the Xe3 Panther Lake graphics on the newest Compute Runtime release compared to prior Intel graphics generations and the AMD Ryzen AI competition.

Arc B390 Graphics With Panther Lake Performing Great On Open-Source Intel Compute Runtime  Phoronix