Open-source News

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly blog post summarizing all of the interesting KDE Plasma developments for the past week. Notable this week was the debut of Plasma 6.4 stable and from early user feedback appears to be in good shape...

If Your Kernel Development Is A Little Rusty  Hackaday

Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen10 ships with Linux but pricing may deter many buyers  TechRadar

Prometei Botnet Targets Linux Servers for Cryptocurrency Mining Operations  GBHackers News

A number of AMD firmware/microcode updates were upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository, including introducing the AMD Instinct MI350 series files that are necessary for the open-source Linux compute driver stack to function for those newly-announced Instinct accelerators...

AMD Instinct MI350X Series Microcode Upstreamed - Other AMD GPUs See Updates Too  Phoronix

Going back to January of 2023 there were the initial Intel patches for the Linux kernel introducing Linear Address Space Separation (LASS). Two and a half years later, these Intel LASS patches remain in-development with today the sixth iteration of these patches having been posted...

Intel Continues Working On Linear Address Space Separation "LASS" For Linux  Phoronix

I found a file-transferring app that works between Android and Linux - and it's free to use  ZDNET

Over the past week a number of Apple device support additions have been queued up into the HID subsystem's "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel cycle...

Apple x86 Touch Bar Input & Apple Magic Keyboard USB-C Support In Linux 6.17  Phoronix

Prometei Botnet Attacking Linux Servers to Mine Cryptocurrency  CyberSecurityNews

IDC Business Value Study: A 306% ROI within 3 years using Ubuntu Linux on Azure  Microsoft Azure

Just one week after Vulkan 1.4.318 was introduced with a new Valve extension, Vulkan 1.4.319 released this morning with another new extension...

Ready to ditch Windows? 'End of 10' makes converting your PC to Linux easier than ever  ZDNet

Linux Delivering Driver Fix For 30 Year Old Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA Sound Card  Phoronix

Thirty-one years after Creative Technology introduced the Sound Blaster AWE32 ISA-based sound card, the open-source driver support within the Linux kernel continues to be worked on... Submitted today for Linux 6.16 is fixing support for this once mighty ISA sound card from the mid 90's...

Intel open-source software developers this week released OpenVINO 2025.2 as the latest update to this prominent free software AI toolkit...

Broadband Forum, Linux Foundation unite to slash broadband equipment procurement costs  SDxCentral

There is some tension on the Linux kernel mailing list with some late Bcachefs feature work sent in as part of "fixes" for the ongoing Linux 6.16 kernel cycle. Established rules aim for only new feature code to be introduced during the kernel merge windows, which ended nearly two weeks ago for Linux 6.16, but Bcachefs wanting to be exempt to continue to allow new feature code to still land for the cycle in the name of data safety...