Open-source News

I put Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's filled a niche role for me  ZDNet

Wine 10.12 has been uncorked as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software running Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems...

Lenovo readies WMI driver for gaming handhelds with Linux 6.17  Notebookcheck

The AMD engineering led work on Attack Vector Controls for the Linux kernel could be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel with the remaining patches now being queued within a TIP branch...

Attack Vector Controls Could Be Ready For Linux 6.17 Introduction  Phoronix

TIL the PlayStation 2 Can Run Linux—Here's How It Works  How-To Geek

Sudo Vulnerability Discovered, May Exposes Linux Systems  Security Magazine

Unable to set your monitor as the primary display in Linux? Here's how to fix that  gHacks Technology News

AMD Radeon RX 9070 Ray-Tracing Performance Improving With Mesa 25.2  Phoronix

With the feature freeze and code branching for Mesa 25.2 expected to take place next week and kick off the release process for this quarterly Mesa 3D version to debut as stable in August, I've begun running more benchmarks of this latest code on popular GPUs. As it pertains to the newest AMD Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4 graphics processors, the most exciting area with Mesa 25.2 are the Vulkan ray-tracing improvements. Here is a look at some of what to expect with the upcoming Mesa 25.2 performance for the AMD Radeon RX 9070 graphics card on Linux.

Linux Foundation CKA, CKAD 30% Discount 2025  Programming Insider

Going back several months have been patches out of Google to optimize AMD cache flushing for KVM-based Linux guest virtual machines when making use of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). As anticipated, that AMD SEV cache flushing optimization work looks like it will be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle...

Smarter Cache Flushing For AMD SEV KVM Guest VMs Expected For Linux 6.17  Phoronix

How to install Linux on an external SSD  gHacks Technology News

Sent out on Thursday along with Intel's huge Xe driver pull request with new features was the drm-misc-next material for the week. Notable with the drm-misc-next code were actually a set of AMDGPU driver patches to enhance the debugging with the information exposed via the DebugFS interface...

Improved Debugging Support For AMDGPU Driver Expected For Linux 6.17  Phoronix

Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation for Linux gets upgraded to the latest v3.1  GamingOnLinux

OpenGL doesn't receive nearly as much love these days as the Vulkan API, but over the past several months there's been at least one notable new extension in the works: cross-vendor mesh shader support with the pending GL_EXT_mesh_shader extension. Beginning today the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D upstreaming process has begun for introducing mesh shader support for this Radeon OpenGL driver...

How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft  GamingOnLinux

QuestDB 9.0 debuted today as the latest major update to this high performance, time-series database that is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license. QuestDB continues to be built using a combination of Java, C++, and Rust for being an interesting time-series database...