Open-source News

New tool could offer the unthinkable - an easy, in-place upgrade to Linux for a Windows 10 PC, if it can't run Windows 11  TechRadar

Longtime Linux developer Sasha Levin of NVIDIA (and formerly of Google and Microsoft) as well as being the Linux LTS kernel co-maintainer today proposed a Linux kernel AI coding assistant configuration and documentation/rules for contributing to the Linux kernel with patches that are (co)authored by AI coding utilities...

While there have been various elements of the Apple M1 and M2 SoC support in the mainline Linux kernel along with support for various Macs, different features have been missing from the upstream kernel such as the Apple GPU kernel graphics driver as one big example. On a more fundamental level, the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is going to cross off another low-level expectation for Apple Silicon Macs on the mainline kernel: the ability to reboot the system...

Linux and Raspberry Pi Save a Printer! @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi  Adafruit

Ditch cd: 3 Powerful Linux Tools to Navigate Directories at Warp Speed  How-To Geek

Another hit to the open-source Intel software ecosystem this year was the company formally archiving/discontinuing work on the PlaidML deep learning software. PlaidML was the deep learning framework that Intel acquired back in 2018 as part of their acquisition of Vertex.AI. PlaidML had a goal of "deep learning for every platform" but unfortunately those ambitions didn't materialize...

Intel Quietly Sunset Its PlaidML Open-Source Deep Learning Software  Phoronix

Android's Linux Terminal Is Getting a New Feature  Yahoo! Tech

Android's Linux Terminal Is Getting a New Feature  How-To Geek

The Linux 6.16 kernel is expected to be released as stable this coming Sunday, 27 July, barring any last minute issues that cause Linus Torvalds to have reservations over issuing v6.16 stable and to instead do a v6.16-rc8 test release. With Linux 6.16 imminent, here's a reminder about some of the most interesting features in this next Linux kernel version...

FreeBSD 15 installer to offer minimal KDE desktop  theregister.com

Ahead of the Linux 6.16 stable kernel expected to be released on Sunday, some last minute Bcachefs file-system fixes join various other kernel regression/bug fixes landing today in Git...

Bcachefs Lands Last Minute Fixes For Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Fight or Kite: I MMO on a Linux PC and you can too  Massively Overpowered

Beware of Fake Error Pages Deploying Platform-Specific Malware on Linux and Windows Systems  gbhackers.com

THE FINALS devs confirm (again) continued compatibility for Linux / Steam Deck with Proton  GamingOnLinux

A bizarre new Linux malware can be found hiding in cute animal photos  TechRadar

Why I'm Hopping Linux Distros to openSUSE This Weekend  How-To Geek

Heroic Games Launcher 2.18 adds GE-Proton prioritisation, improved UI navigation and new analytics  GamingOnLinux

Last week Friday the unfortunate news came down that Intel was discontinuing their Clear Linux project effective immediately. For the past ten years Intel software engineers have been crafting Clear Linux as a high performance distribution that is extensively optimized for x86_64 processors via aggressive compiler tuning, various patches to the Linux kernel and other packages, and a variety of other optimizations throughout the operating system. For years Clear Linux has led Linux x86_64 performance not only on Intel desktop/mobile/server hardware but on AMD systems too. Here is a final look at the Clear Linux performance on the Intel side compared to the performance of the latest Ubuntu 25.04 release.