Open-source News

Loongson Linux Display Driver No Longer Orphaned  Phoronix

Open-source developer Derek Clark of Valve's Linux engineering team has been responsible for many improvements for gaming handheld devices. Such as Lenovo Legion improvements for Linux, Ayn gaming handheld improvements, and most recently Linux 7.1 set to introduce the new Lenovo Legion Go HID drivers. With the latest Lenovo Legion driver work wrapped up for Linux 7.1, Derek Clark today posted a set of patches providing a OneXPlayer Configuration HID Driver...

OneXPlayer Configuration HID Driver Posted For Linux By Valve Developer  Phoronix

BenQ’s Display Pilot 2 software now has a Linux version  OMG! Ubuntu

A few days ago Google engineers went public with Sashiko with their agentic AI code review for the Linux kernel. The Google Gemini Pro powered AI code review service is automatically monitoring the Linux kernel mailing list for new patch submissions and has proven useful already. Interest continues to build by upstream Linux kernel stakeholders around Sashiko and the latest addition is now covering the Rust-For-Linux mailing list submissions...

Sashiko Now Providing AI Reviews On Rust Code For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

The MacBook Neo is the Linux desktop killer that no one expected  MakeUseOf

Windows beat Linux by 1.5 times in FPS in the new Monster Hunter Stories 3  GameGPU

antiX 26 Released as Systemd-Free Debian 13 Distro with Five Init Systems  Linuxiac

Keep your browser closed: 5 more tasks that are better in the terminal  How-To Geek

Systemd-Free antiX 26 Linux Distro Is Here Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”  9to5Linux

Linux Driver Being Worked On For Pulsar Gaming Mice  Phoronix

A Linux HID driver is being developed for Pulsar branded gaming mice to expose additional information and capabilities...

LibreOffice 26.8 merged initial support for adding a donation banner to its Start Center. This initial UI when launching LibreOffice aims to make users aware of the community-driven focus of the project and to hopefully solicit additional donations from the community...

I've used Linux KDE Plasma for 10 years—here are 5 advanced features nobody talks about  How-To Geek

Android's sideloading changes, the big Visual Studio Code update, better Linux phones, and more: News roundup  How-To Geek

This is the most underrated Linux desktop environment of all time  How-To Geek

Merged overnight for Linux 7.0 and set to be back-ported to existing Linux stable kernel versions is a fix for aging AMD GCN 1.0 "Hainan" GPU models. This closes a 2021 bug report that was long neglected and ended up being just a small tweak to fix the issue reported of GPU hangs...

Linux 7.0 Lands Fix For Years Old Bug Affecting AMD Hainan GPUs  Phoronix

In addition to releasing Plasma 6.6.3 this week, KDE developers remain quite busy working on new features for the Plasma 6.7 desktop while also already queuing some changes for the next Plasma 6.6.4 point release...