Open-source News

This is how I'd learn Linux if I had to start all over again  How-To Geek

Windows Terminal's best features are hiding in these Linux-inspired customizations  How-To Geek

Beginner-friendly Linux Lite 8.0 sports a new installer and kernels, much more  Notebookcheck

Steam on Android handhelds just got a lot better thanks to this updated Linux distro  Android Authority

Along with some GCC compiler tuning for Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids to deal with some new APX capabilities not proving beneficial for performance, new patch activity today is preparing GCC for function multi-versioning (FMV) for the AVX10.2 and APX instruction set extensions...

Giada 1.4.2 Open-Source Loop Machine Makes Working with Scenes Smoother  9to5Linux

Linux Foundation Announces the Intent to Launch the Tokenomics Foundation to Establish Open Standards for AI Cost Management  PR Newswire

Organizations Warned of Exploited Linux Kernel Vulnerability  SecurityWeek

Organizations Warned of Exploited Linux Kernel Vulnerability  SecurityWeek

T2 Linux 26.6 Brings Linux 7.0, Refined KDE Plasma Desktop with Flatpak Support  9to5Linux

As noted back in April, with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS it's now possible to simply "apt install rocm" on Ubuntu Linux for installing AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. But as prominently noted there, what's shipped right now in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is already months out of date compared to upstream ROCm. Fortunately, Canonical shared today that moving forward they plan to ship newer ROCm versions as stable release updates (SRUs)...

Ubuntu To Ship Newer AMD ROCm Updates Via SRUs  Phoronix

While the upstream, open-source Nouveau driver already supports NVIDIA's Hopper and Blackwell graphics processors with the GPU System Processor (GSP) code path, the bring-up of the Rust-written Nova driver remains ongoing. Out this week is the 12th iteration of the Hopper and Blackwell enablement for this future open-source NVIDIA Linux driver...

NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support Moves Closer For Open-Source Nova Driver  Phoronix

Intel this week rolled out new versions of their open-source XPU Manager and Linux NPU driver software...

Intel XPU Manager Adds Support For Arc Pro B65 + Arc Pro B70  Phoronix

As another interesting takeaway from this week's Microsoft Build 2026 conference beyond their open-source Intelligent Terminal project is Coreutils for Windows. Microsoft is maintaining a fork of Rust Coreutils for Windows to ease the developer experience across Windows / WSL / macOS / Linux...

Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils  Phoronix

As a follow-up to the article last week about KRAID as a new compiler for modern Arm Mali graphics, that initial code has now been merged to Mesa 26.2 for benefiting the Panfrost and PanVK open-source drivers...

RSA Expands Passwordless Authentication To Linux  Bernama