Open-source News

GNOME 49.4 Released with Improvements for Nautilus, GNOME Shell, and Mutter  9to5Linux

Following Intel recently discontinuing a number of open-source projects, this week they formally discontinued their Quantum Passes open-source project that was intended to provide additional passes for their LLVM-based compiler in the Intel Quantum SDK...

This lightweight Linux distro made my 10-year-old laptop usable again  MakeUseOf

Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows  theregister.com

In addition to this week's GNOME 50 beta release, there were also other exciting developments in the GNOME ecosystem...

Beyond all of the exciting Intel/AMD x86_64 changes and improvements to enjoy with the upcoming Linux 7.0, there is one notable ARM64 feature addition this kernel cycle...

Linux 7.0 Wires Up Arm's 64-byte Single-Copy Atomic Instructions LS64/LS64V  Phoronix

I'm going back to the 2000s this weekend by installing this classic Linux distro  How-To Geek

Linux 7.0 Lands 8D-8D-8D Octal DTR Support In SPI NAND For Better Performance  Phoronix

The Linux Memory Technology Device (MTD) subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel and include introducing Octal DTR "8D-8D-8D" support in SPI NAND for better performance...

For those that may be considering the new ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED (UM3406GA) laptop that has been refreshed for the new AMD Ryzen AI 400 series, Cirrus Logic has now upstreamed the necessary firmware for the cs35l41 audio amplifier for working speaker support...

Firmware Upstreamed For Linux Speaker Support On The ASUS Zenbook 14 UM3406GA  Phoronix

REMnux v8 Linux Toolkit Released With AI-Powered Malware Analysis Capabilities  gbhackers.com

$150 Steam Machine: Mining surplus becomes a Linux console with 60 FPS  igor´sLAB

Mesa 26.0: RADV catapults Radeon ray tracing forward on Linux  igor´sLAB

Linux 7.0 may receive a self-repairing feature that automatically fixes your XFS filesystem  XDA

Five Linux Distros Emerge As Ready To Use Picks  findarticles.com

KDE's Plasma 6.6 desktop release is due out next week (17 February) and there's been some last minute fixes to land. Additionally, KDE Plasma developers continue to be quite active in already landing feature work for Plasma 6.7...

One of the latest exciting developments for the open-source Godot game engine is beginning to lay out support for Vulkan ray-tracing...

Godot 4.7 Making Progress On Vulkan Ray-Tracing  Phoronix