Open-source News

4 reasons why Qubes OS is the coolest Linux distro out there  XDA

Which OS Is Best: Windows, macOS, Linux, or ChromeOS?  PCMag

AI Comes to Open Source eBook Reader Calibre  It's FOSS News

5 Reasons You Should Move To Linux Instead Of Windows 11  SlashGear

NVIDIA, Disney & Google Contribute Open-Source Newton Engine To The Linux Foundation  Phoronix

Earlier this year NVIDIA announced Newton as an open-source physics engine focused on robotic simulations. This physics engine was developed by NVIDIA in cooperation with Google DeepMind and Disney Research. Today it's been contributed to the Linux Foundation...

Linux Kernel 3.17 Released With Better Support for Intel Graphics  How-To Geek

Linux Foundation Announces Contribution of Newton by Disney Research, Google DeepMind and NVIDIA to Accelerate Open Robot Learning  PR Newswire

Linux Foundation Announces Contribution of Newton by Disney Research, Google DeepMind and NVIDIA to Accelerate Open Robot Learning  WV News

Linux Foundation Announces Contribution of Newton by Disney Research, Google DeepMind and NVIDIA to Accelerate Open Robot Learning  Morningstar

Back in August Intel released LLM-Scaler 1.0 as part of Project Battlematrix for help getting generative AI "GenAI" workloads running on Arc (Pro) B-Series graphics cards. Out today are two new LLM Scaler beta releases for further enhancing the AI capabilities on Intel Battlemage GPUs...

GNU Linux-Libre 6.17 Kernel Is Now Available for Software Freedom Lovers  9to5Linux

Peridio delivers operating system for embedded products from prototyping to manufacturing  New Electronics

Blender 5.0 is working its way toward an official release in mid-November and is soon transitioning from its alpha to beta stage. Among the key changes with Blender 5.0 are its Vulkan renderer being in good shape overall, HDR support when using Vulkan and Wayland on Linux, and other enhancements. Today some brief details were shared around the current state of the Vulkan support for Blender 5.0...

Blender 5.0 Vulkan Render Tests Passing On AMD & NVIDIA But Failing For Intel  Phoronix

LockBit 5.0 Ransomware Poses Major Cross-Platform Threat  Petri IT Knowledgebase

Back during the Linux 6.17 merge window the RISC-V changes were rejected as "garbage" for being submitted too late in the merge window and with some code choices that upset Linus Torvalds. With lessons learned, the RISC-V changes for Linux 6.18 were submitted today during the first official day of this new kernel cycle...

RISC-V With Linux 6.18 Brings Support For MIPS Vendor Extensions  Phoronix

Building off yesterday's release of Linux 6.17, the GNU Linux-libre 6.17-gnu kernel is now available for this downstream kernel variant that strips away support for loading non-free microcode and other elements not aligned with the Free Software Foundation principles. This ultimately ends up limiting the hardware support available with most of today's modern hardware requiring microcode/firmware but alas here is the latest release with a fresh round of de-blobbing...

Cronos: The New Dawn gets performance improvements and a Linux HDR fix  GamingOnLinux