Open-source News

AMD has sent out their initial pull request of "new stuff" for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver of feature additions they want to make for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel. Most notable from this week's submission to DRM-Next is preparing a lot of new GPU hardware support...

OneXPlayer produces a line of handheld gaming consoles powered by AMD or Intel SoCs. These devices ship with Windows out-of-the-box but given they are x86_64 software have worked alright with Linux and there's been a OneXPlayer Linux driver for supporting sensor readings and other device-specific information from these handhelds. In a big patch series this weekend, that OneXPlayer Linux driver is catching up to its official Windows counterpart...

OneXPlayer Linux Driver Catching Up To The Windows Monitoring Driver  Phoronix

SVT-AV1 as the open-source, CPU-based AV1 encoder that was started by Intel software engineers and now led by the Alliance for Open Media is out this week with the big SVT-AV1 3.0 release. Here's some details on SVT-AV1 3.0 as well as some initial performance benchmarks for this speedy AV1 encoder, especially on modern Intel and AMD processors...

The Mesa Venus driver code for use with VirtIO-GPU for exposing accelerated Vulkan API support within virtualized environments (VMs) now is advertising Vulkan 1.4 API support...

Following Friday's release of Wine 10.2, Wine Staging 10.2 is out for testing as this more experimental/leading-edge version of Wine that is shipping with 300+ extra patches for testing...

A Beginner's Guide to Basic Ubuntu System Security  How-To Geek

5 reasons I can’t go back to Windows after trying Linux  MSN

Back in 2017 was the initial open-source DirectX Shader Compiler milestone and since then Microsoft has continued iterating on it with better Linux support, new features, and ironing out other gaps in this "DirectXShaderCompiler" project. On Friday they released the newest version of this DirectX Shader Compiler that features another newly open-sourced component...

Makulu Linux Brings an AI Toolbox to Its Desktop Distribution  The New Stack

PeaZip 10.3 Archive Manager Improves Integration with GNOME and KDE Plasma  9to5Linux

5 Mini PCs You Can Buy With Linux Preinstalled  Review Geek

5 Mini PCs You Can Buy With Linux Preinstalled  How-To Geek

Alyssa Rosenzweig has carried out a fresh sync of the Asahi Linux AGX Gallium3D and Honeykrisp Vulkan driver changes of the work that was being carried by the Asahi Linux development tree and now upstreamed to Mesa proper...

Asahi Linux's Honeykrisp Vulkan Driver Gains Sparse Support In Mesa 25.1  Phoronix

Proton Hotfix updated to fix Marvel Rivals and Indiana Jones on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Bluesky Free and Open Source Software Resources  Daily Kos

I'm a Distro-Hopper, But Here's Why I Come Back to Ubuntu Every Time  How-To Geek

I'm a Distro-Hopper, But Here's Why I Come Back to Ubuntu Every Time  Review Geek

The SystemV file-system that implements Xenix FS, SystemV/386 FS, and Coherent FS is set to be removed from the Linux kernel. The SystemV file-system was orphaned back in 2023 while now is set to be removed entirely after developers realized the code was fundamentally broken...