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FOSS Weekly #25.42: Hyprland Controversy, German State with Open Source, New Flatpak App Center and a Lot More Linux Stuff  It's FOSS

Mesa Gallium3D Driver Merged For Arm Ethos NPUs  Phoronix

Arm has been working on an open-source Linux kernel accelerator "accel" driver for their Ethos NPUs. That kernel driver continues being revised and under review for inclusion into a future mainline Linux kernel release. Already though a Gallium3D driver for Mesa has been merged for leveraging the Ethos NPU...

The ollama 0.12.6-rc0 software released this evening and with it comes experimental Vulkan API support...

Valve's Steam Deck sleep mode needs to come to Windows, Linux, and every other device  XDA

Valve Developer Contributes Open-Source Driver Fixes For 12 Year Old Hawaii GPUs  Phoronix

Valve's open-source Linux graphics team continues carrying out great feats from getting NVIDIA DLSS working on the open-source NVK driver to enhancing Linux GPU driver support for hardware long forgotten about by the hardware vendors. The latest improvement from Valve's stellar group of open-source contributors are some fixes that benefit old Radeon Rx 200 series graphics cards that are more than one decade old...

5 reasons why Linux beginners should be using Flatpak  XDA

PyTorch 2.9 is out today ahead of the PyTorch Conference happening next week in San Francisco. Notable with PyTorch 2.9 is better AMD ROCm and Intel XPU installation support via expanded wheel variant support...

Mesa 25.2.5 Released With Very Important Intel Driver Fix  Phoronix

Mesa 25.2.5 is out today as the newest bi-weekly point release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Particularly if you are on Intel graphics of Battlemage or Lunar Lake and potentially older, Mesa 25.2.5 contains a very important bug fix for various rendering issues and potential game hangs/crashes...

It's been four years now since the Open 3D Engine was born out of Amazon's Lumberyard project and hosted by the Linux Foundation. Today marks the release of the Open 3D Engine "O3DE" 25.10 release with the newest features and fixes for this cross-platform game/graphics engine...

Open 3D Engine O3DE 25.10 Brings Build Improvements, Vulkan & Linux Fixes  Phoronix

In preparation for Panther Lake laptops shipping in early 2026, after Intel appears to have largely wrapped up work on the Linux driver enablement they are now ensuring the necessary firmware bits are out in time...

Intel ISH Firmware Upstreamed Ahead Of Intel Panther Lake Laptops  Phoronix

Heading to Linux now Windows 10 is no more? Commodore's distro has 'no nags' and 'no tracking'  TweakTown

Intel begins laying the groundwork for Xe3P GPUs on Linux  KitGuru

Cisco SNMP Vulnerability Exploited to Install Linux Rootkits  Cyber Press

'Systems that have a secure boot process, in reality, do not': Major backdoors have been discovered in Framework Linux machines and it might just be the tip of the iceberg  PC Gamer

I abandoned Google for a search tool that doesn't track me or push AI - and it gets better  ZDNET