Open-source News

You Can Now Run Fedora Linux on Apple Silicon Macs  OSXDaily

The Wayland ecosystem had a phenomenal year from much better NVIDIA proprietary driver support, Firefox ending out the year shipping with Wayland support enabled by default, KDE Plasma 6.0 will default to Wayland following many improvements on the KDE side, the Wine Wayland driver upstreamed in its initial form, XWayland continuing to be enhanced, and a lot of other software from desktop environments to apps continuing to embrace Wayland...

Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023  Phoronix

Installing Icecast on Linux for Your Own Streaming Radio  How-To Geek

AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers At ~70%, AMD openSIL, & AMD Laptops Topped 2023  Phoronix

As part of the various end-of-year Phoronix articles, here's a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source news stories and reviews of 2023...

While the Linux 6.8 merge window isn't opening for another week, the Memory Technology Device (MTD) subsystem updates have already been mailed in to Linus Torvalds for this next merge window...

SPI-NOR Multi-Due Erase Support Ready For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 & Other Scarlett Audio Mixers To Be Supported By Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Picked up this week by the Linux sound subsystem's "next" development branch is a number of additions to the Scarlett USB audio mixer driver for supporting this audio hardware under Linux...

Over the course of 2023 on Phoronix were more than 2,780 original news articles and more than 180 Linux hardware reviews / benchmark articles. In the month of December alone were 211 original news articles and 20 featured articles/reviews. Here's a look back at what excited our Linux/open-source crowd over the final month of 2023...

Archcraft: A Customized Lightweight Linux Distro Experience  It's FOSS News

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 31st, 2023 – Happy New Year!  9to5Linux

For this New Year's Eve the decision was made to release Linux 6.7-rc8 to allow for an extra week of testing -- and pushing back the Linux 6.8 merge window further past the holidays -- rather than releasing Linux 6.7 stable today. As such, Linux 6.7-rc8 is out for a final week of testing this new kernel...

Linux 6.7-rc8 Released: A Light Holiday Release With A Couple Fixes  Phoronix

Gentoo Linux Officially Offers Binary Packages  WebProNews

Xorg  Hackaday

Welcome To The Year Of The Diagonal Linux Desktop  Hackaday

OpenCV 4.9 released on Friday as the newest version of this widely-used, open-source computer vision (CV) library...

How to Use Terminal on a Mac: A Beginner's Guide  MUO - MakeUseOf