Open-source News

Is A Chromebook Good Enough For Programming  About Chromebooks

NVIDIA engineers continue working a lot on the in-development and in-tree open-source Nova kernel driver for their GPUs. Sent out on Friday night were the Turing enablement patches for this Rust-written Nova-Core driver code...

NVIDIA Sends Out Initial Turing GPU Support For Open-Source Nova Driver  Phoronix

Stemming from AMD's recently acknowledged Zen 5 issue with the RDSEED instruction and AMD releasing Zen 5 CPU microcode updates to address it, this week brought some additional microcode updates...

AMD Releases Additional Zen 5 CPU Microcode For RDSEED Issue  Phoronix

I’ve reinstalled Linux countless times — these 5 tweaks are non-negotiable  MakeUseOf

The Servo open-source and Rust-based web browser engine made a lot of progress during the month of October. The project has issued its monthly status report to outline all of the exciting new features made on the engine itself as well as its "servoshell" example web browser application...

KDE Plasma 6.6 continues seeing a lot of development activity while the Plasma 6.5 series is calming down after its first few point releases. Plasma 6.6 landed many more features and improvements this week...

Linux’s Lifeline for Teams: The Unofficial Client Bridging Microsoft’s Gap  WebProNews

Mesa 25.3 is out tonight as the newest quarterly feature release to this set of (predominantly) OpenGL and Vulkan drivers widely used across Linux systems. Mesa 25.3 features numerous Vulkan extensions added to the different open-source drivers, continued enhancements to the OpenGL drivers, and various other changes...

Red Hat Linux bolsters AI assistance  InfoWorld

Ahead of the Wine 11.0 code freeze beginning in early December, Wine 10.19 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for running Windows games and applications on Linux...

Canonical Extends Ubuntu Linux Support for up to 15 Years  The New Stack

Sent out today is likely the last batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver feature updates ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window getting underway around the start of December. And it's an exciting one too from adding a new SMART POWER OLED feature to switching from the Radeon to AMDGPU drivers by default for aging GCN 1.0 Southern Islands and GCN 1.1 Sea Islands GPUs...

AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs Will Default To AMDGPU Driver In Linux 6.19, SMART POWER OLED Added  Phoronix

I used Linux to clean up Windows — and it worked better than expected  MakeUseOf

ollama 0.12.11 released this week as the newest feature update to this easy-to-run method of deploying OpenAI GPT-OSS, DeepSeek-R1, Gemma 3, and other large language models. Exciting with ollama 0.12.11 is that it's now supporting the Vulkan API...

Canonical pushes Ubuntu LTS support even further - if you pay  theregister.com

Guess who’s back? Kaspersky launches new Linux antivirus for $59.99  TechRadar

Vulkan 1.4.333 is out with a handful of fixes plus two new extensions...