Open-source News

How to easily run Windows apps on Linux with Wine  ZDNet

Mesa 25.1 will default to Zink+NVK instead of the old Nouveau OpenGL driver for NVIDIA on Linux  GamingOnLinux

CIQ Delivers Technical Preview of Security Hardened Enterprise Linux  PR Newswire

CodeWeavers that continues to be the largest patron to the development of the open-source Wine software announced today CrossOver 25.0 as the newest version of their commercial downstream...

CrossOver 25.0 Announced - Built Atop Wine 10.0 For Linux & macOS  Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6.3.3 Implements Battery Charge Threshold Support for More Devices  9to5Linux

IPFire Hardened Linux Firewall Distro Is Now Powered by Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS  9to5Linux

Will you use Android's native Linux Terminal app?  Android Police

SUSE CEO: Enterprise Linux where ‘choice happens'  ComputerWeekly.com

Completely ridiculous online 1v1 shooter STRAFTAT added a Linux version  GamingOnLinux

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Delivers Excellent Performance For Linux Developers, Creators & Technical Computing  Phoronix

Ahead of tomorrow's availability of the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPUs in retail channels, today the embargo lifts on being able to deliver Ryzen 9 9950X3D reviews and performance benchmarks. Simply put, for Linux creators, developers, enthusiasts, and others running technical computing workloads and other similar tasks on their desktop, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D with its 16 cores / 32 threads and 144MB total cache makes for an excellent desktop CPU. In this review are around 400 Linux benchmarks looking at the captivating performance and competitive power efficiency of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D.

How to Limit Charging Level in Linux (and Prolong Battery Life)  It's FOSS

The GNOME Dash To Panel extension that allows moving the dash into the GNOME main panel has proven popular with GNOME desktop users for an integrated icon taskbar and status panel on GNOME Shell. Unfortunately though one of the main developers to Charles Gagnon is "passing on" development of the extension moving forward...

NVIDIA's Rust-Based NOVA Driver Poised For Linux Kernel Integration  MENAFN.COM

A big albeit late feature landed today for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler... The COBOL programming language front-end has been merged!..

Patches were posted to the Linux Kernel Mailing List this morning for wiring up the ESWIN EIC7700 RISC-V SoC support and the most notable board using this SoC so far, the SiFive HiFive Premier P550...

Linux Kernel Patches Posted For The ESWIN EIC7700 SoC + SiFive HiFive Premier P550  Phoronix

LXQt 2.2 Desktop Promises Many Wayland Improvements, QTerminal Updates  9to5Linux

The Servo open-source web engine is out with its February 2025 status update to highlight work on the engine itself as well as its demo browser and embed API capabilities for using Servo by other applications...