Open-source News

Over a decade later, AMD Radeon HD 7000 GPUs still receive Linux updates from one Valve developer  VideoCardz.com

Tor: The Easiest Way to Securely Browse the Web on Linux  The New Stack

Cybersecurity Newsletter Weekly – Chrome 0-Day, 22.2 Tbps DDOS Attack, Kali Linux Release, Cisco IOS 0-Day...  Cyber Security News

Linux 6.18 To Deliver Many Notable Features For AMD CPUs  Phoronix

There is a lot coming for AMD processors with the Linux 6.18 kernel. Of the early pull requests submitted in advance of the planned Linux 6.17 kernel release later today, there are a number of changes already lined up with some exciting AMD CPU feature additions for the next kernel version. These AMD changes for Linux 6.18 are all the more important with that kernel expected to become this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version...

6 Text Filtering Uses for the Linux awk Command  How-To Geek

Adding to the list of pull requests submitted early in advance of the Linux 6.18 merge window opening are several cryptography-related improvements. In particular, some nice performance optimizations once again for the Linux kernel...

Cryptography Performance Improvements Coming For Linux 6.18  Phoronix

Introduced two years ago was the Intel/Codeplay oneAPI Construction Kit for helping to bring SYCL support to new hardware. As part of that the oneAPI Construction Kit was brought to RISC-V and other platforms. Out this week is now oneAPI Construction Kit 5.0 and sadly it drops Vulkan API support...

Independent Distro KaOS Linux 2025.09 Arrives with Linux 6.16, KDE Gear 25.08  9to5Linux

Following the release earlier this year of the Fish 4.0 shell that was ported from C++ to Rust, Fish 4.1 was released this weekend as the next major feature release...

The Linux kernel's audit subsystem/framework for greater insight into system activity for security purposes will now be able to properly cope with multiple Linux Security Modules (LSMs)...

3 Terminal Tricks You'll Wish You Knew Earlier  How-To Geek

All of the ARM64 feature changes intended for the Linux 6.18 merge window have been submitted in advance. There are a few new features worth calling out for 64-bit ARM Linux users...

FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 4 is out today as the newest weekly test release in working toward the FreeBSD 15 stable release in early December...

Linux 6.18 Kernel Patches Fix Systemd-VFS Lockups for Enterprise Stability  WebProNews

When it comes to open-source games, Unvanquished remains one of the most promising and interesting open-source FPS games from a technical perspective. With its next release, Unvanquished has been ported to the SDL3 library and is working well natively on Wayland...

Unvanquished Game Ported To SDL3, Working Natively On Wayland  Phoronix

5 Linux Distros That Play Nice With Brand-New Hardware  How-To Geek

I set up a remote Linux VM on Proxmox I can use from Windows, and it's almost as good as native  XDA