Open-source News

New Intel Linux Driver Workaround Halves Initial Game Load Time For MHW  Phoronix

GOG adds Linux focus to GOG GALAXY engineering role, "Linux is next major frontier"  VideoCardz.com

GStreamer 1.28 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used, open-source multimedia framework...

GNU C Library "glibc" developers have decided to move ahead with plans of migrating their core services from Sourcware.org infrastructure over to the Core Toolchain Infrastructure "CTI" project hosted by the Linux Foundation...

Penguin in your pocket: Nexphone dual boots into Linux, Windows 11  theregister.com

GA of Oracle AI Database 26ai for Linux x86-64 on-premises platforms  Oracle Blogs

Following the KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta from two weeks ago, a second beta of the upcoming Plasma 6.6 desktop is now available for testing. KDE Plasma 6.6 stable remains on-track for a mid-February release...

Back in 2024 Google rolled out their Axion in-house ARM processors with the Google Cloud C4A instance type. Today they are expanding their Axion offerings in Google Cloud with the N4A instances now out of preview. The Google Cloud N4A instances are designed for scale-out web servers and microservices, containerized applications, back-end application services, databases, data analytics, and cost-effective development/staging/testing environments.

Valve's Proton compatibility layer brings 19 more games to Linux  How-To Geek

I tried COSMIC Desktop as a KDE Plasma fanboy, and one thing stopped me from switching  XDA

Systemd founder and lead developer Lennart Poettering announced the creation of a new company called Amutable. The Amutable company being led by Chris Kühl (CEO), Christian Brauner (CTO) and Lennart Poettering (Chief Engineer) will be focused on delivering determinism and verifiable integrity to Linux systems...

3 reasons KDE Plasma is still my go-to Linux desktop  How-To Geek

TigerVNC 1.16 Released with Support for Sharing Wayland Desktops  9to5Linux

Heroic Games Launcher for Linux just got a big update  How-To Geek

I switched to Linux and I can't imagine going back to Windows in 2026  XDA

Why desktop Linux matters, even if (almost) no one uses it  Yahoo! Tech

Why desktop Linux matters, even if (almost) no one uses it  How-To Geek

Linux has been launched on Macs with the M3 chip, but the project is in its early stages and has many problem  Mezha

TigerVNC 1.16 is out today for this high performance, multi-platform VNC server and client implementation. Most notable with TigerVNC 1.16 is "w0vncserver" as a new server for sharing Wayland desktops...

I ditched Windows for a Linux and macOS combo, and I'll never go back  MakeUseOf