Open-source News

5 Chromebook Myths You Need To Stop Believing  SlashGear

Open-source developer Armin Wolf has been working most recently on marshalling support for the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) platform code within the Linux kernel. This WMI marshalling support is to better match the behavior of Microsoft Windows' WMI ACPI driver and ultimately to allow for better compatibility with some ACPI firmware and enhancing some WMI drivers...

It's not often getting to talk about hard drives on Phoronix these days, but there's an important fix merged to the Linux 6.19 kernel today ahead of Linux 6.19-rc2. If you happen to be using a Seagate ST2000DM008 Barracuda 2TB HDD, an important fix was merged to avoid it taking down the systems' SATA bus and/or potentially other issues...

Linux 6.19 Lands Fix For Seagate Barracuda HDD Taking Down The SATA Bus  Phoronix

Darktable 5.4 RAW Photography Software Reaches Parity Between X11 & Wayland  Phoronix

Darktable 5.4 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source RAW photography software. Besides improving camera support, UI enhancements, and more the Wayland support has been improved with Darktable. With today's Darktable 5.4 release, the Wayland support should be on par with the X11 support...

Week in review: Exploited zero-day in Cisco email security appliances, Kali Linux 2025.4 released  Help Net Security

Linux Apps Without Distro Lock-In? Explore This Lesser Known Snap and Flatpak Alternative  It's FOSS

jdSystemMonitor: More Than Your Regular System Monitor on Linux  It's FOSS

GotaTun Open-Source Rust WireGuard Implementation Announced By Mullvad  Phoronix

The Swedish VPN service Mullvad announced this week GotaTun, an open-source Rust-based WireGuard implementation that is forked from Cloudflare's BoringTun...

In addition to this week's drm-intel-next pull request to DRM-Next adding Nova Lake display support, a drm-xe-next pull request was also sent out on Friday that prepares a new multi-queue feature for Xe3P_XPC -- initially just the "Crescent Island" AI inference accelerator card. Plus other new features too for this Xe kernel driver in the upcoming Linux 7.0~6.20 kernel version...

Linux Mint 22.3 Beta Released, This is What’s New  OMG! Ubuntu

NDSS 2025 – Too Subtle to Notice: Investigating Executable Stack Issues in Linux Systems  Security Boulevard

With the Arch Linux packages for the NVIDIA official graphics driver moving to the now-stable NVIDIA 590 driver series that drops the GeForce GTX 900 and GTX 1000 series GPU support, Arch Linux users with those old Maxwell and Pascal graphics cards will need to transition to using the NVIDIA legacy driver packages from the Arch Linux AUR. Meanwhile for those on Turing and newer with the NVIDIA 590 driver will enjoy the open-source kernel modules by default being used...

Arch Linux's Main NVIDIA Driver Packages Now Using The Open Kernel Modules  Phoronix

You can force FSR 4 Redstone to work on RDNA 3 GPUs with new workaround for Linux systems — solution requires Proton compatibility to work properly  Tom's Hardware

The GNU Debugger "GDB" 17.1 is out today with a number of new features for enhancing the open-source debugging experience...

Using Linux made me a better Windows user, here's how  How-To Geek

The beta release of Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" is now available for testing ahead of the holidays for this latest incremental update to this desktop OS built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base...