Open-source News

OpenRazer 3.8 is out today as the newest update to this collection of community-developed, open-source drivers for Razer devices on Linux. OpenRazer allows for Razer device customization and support under Linux to make full use of these gaming peripherals outside of Windows / macOS. Paired with the likes of the Polychromatic UI, OpenRazer allows a nice Razer hardware experience on Linux...

OpenRazer 3.8 Brings Support For Newer Razer Devices On Linux  Phoronix

The Linux 6.9-rc4 weekly test release is due out later today and ahead of that this week's "x86/urgent" material has been sent in that includes several patches for various x86 speculation mitigation fixes...

Audirvāna announces a Linux beta program  Alpha Audio

TUXEDO Unveils World's First Linux-Based Laptop To Feature AMD Ryzen 8040 APUs & RDNA 3 dGPU  Wccftech

TUXEDO Unveils World’s First Linux-Based Laptop To Feature AMD Ryzen 8040 APUs & RDNA 3 dGPU  Wccftech

Master WSL 2: A Concise Guide for Windows Subsystem for Linux  Medium

5 of the most underrated Linux distros  MSN

Ubuntu 24.10 and Debian Trixie Are Getting a Refined APT Command-Line Interface  9to5Linux

Ubuntu 24.10 and Debian Trixie Are Getting a Refined APT Command-Line Interface  9to5Linux

The Linux Process Journey — kdmflush (Kernel Device Mapper Flush)  Medium

Linux 6.10 To Account For NUMA Node When Allocating Per-CPU Cpumasks  Phoronix

In addition to a SLUB optimization for extreme scenarios, faster AES-XTS disk/file encryption for modern Intel/AMD CPUs, and other performance optimizations on the way for Linux 6.10, another minor one was queued up this week...

Mike Blumenkrantz with Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team has merged a big optimization / bug fixing effort he's recently been tackling for the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver...

A change proposal has been filed for building the CPython interpreter and the Python standard library using the "-O3" compiler optimization flag rather than Fedora's imposed default of the "-O2" optimization level. This is being sought in the name of greater Python performance on Fedora 41...

KDE developers had a very busy week with a lot of new feature work continuing to land for Plasma 6.1 plus continuing to address bugs and other fallout from the recent Plasma 6 introduction...

Attention Linux users! RADV brings hardware-accelerated H.264/H.265 encoding for AMD GPUs  igorslab.de

APT as the packaging tool built around Debian Linux is embarking on some big upgrades with the APT 2.9 development series to then roll-out as APT 3.0. There's big improvements to the command-line user interface with the new APT and it's certainly looking nice from my initial Friday night encounter...

DaVinci Resolve 19 Public Beta now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux with new AI tools  BetaNews

KDE Frameworks 6.1 Released Ahead of the KDE Plasma 6.1 Desktop Environment  9to5Linux