Open-source News

Debian 13.4 Trixie-based antiX 26 comes with lots of updated packages, tweaks, and fixes  Notebookcheck

BeagleBadge and Zepto: Doom on E-Ink  Elektor Magazine

Longtime Linux desktop users will likely remember the glorious days of the XMMS music player inspired by Winamp. It's been about two decades since the last official release but thanks to AI there is now a modern port of the codebase to GTK4 and GStreamer/PipeWire...

XMMS Codebase Brought Back To Life By AI With GTK4 + GStreamer/PipeWire Port  Phoronix

Linux Fu: UPNP A Port Mapping Odyssey  Hackaday

Linux Fu: UPNP A Port Mapping Odyssey  Hackaday

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive  XDA

Linux Foundation gets funding boost from Big Tech  IT Brew

Windows vs. macOS vs. Linux vs. ChromeOS: The Ultimate Winner Revealed  PCMag

The Ultimate OS Showdown: Windows vs. macOS vs. Linux vs. ChromeOS  PCMag UK

The Ultimate OS Showdown: Windows vs. macOS vs. Linux vs. ChromeOS  PCMag Middle East

Windows vs. macOS vs. Linux vs. ChromeOS: The Ultimate Winner Revealed  PCMag Australia

Avalonia bolts Linux and WebAssembly onto .NET MAUI  theregister.com

Garuda Linux Says No to Age Verification Outside Legal Requirement  Linuxiac

Stop guessing what’s slowing down Linux. Do this instead  How-To Geek

With Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptop SoCs, the Xe3-based Arc B390 graphics and much improved CPU performance capture much of the spotlight. One new capability with Panther Lake that isn't featured as much though is the new FRED capability with Flexible Return and Event Delivery. Today's Intel Panther Lake testing is looking at the very interesting performance impact of FRED on Linux.

Intel FRED Can Yield Greater Performance - FRED Benchmarks On Panther Lake Review  Phoronix

Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support  It's FOSS

openSUSE Releases Agama 19 Installer with Many New Features and Improvements  9to5Linux

Switching to Linux saves you money in more way than one  How-To Geek