Open-source News

AMD RDNA 3.5 Cleaner Shader Support Prepped For Linux 6.15  Phoronix

There is some new Wayland protocol support activity this week worth mentioning for both the KDE Plasma and GNOME desktops...

Here's how to access your Android phone's files from the new Linux Terminal  Android Authority

How Linux Took Over the World (Without Anyone Noticing)  How-To Geek

How Linux Took Over the World (Without Anyone Noticing)  Review Geek

11 Ways to Do Math on the Linux Terminal  How-To Geek

Ahead of the Linux v6.14 kernel expected for release tomorrow and in turn the Linux 6.15 merge window, Linux engineer Christian Brauner at Microsoft began sending out his pull requests today of new code he's hoping to see merged for this next cycle. One of those interesting pulls is the work for block devices to allow for block sizes to be greater than the page size...

Code Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15 For Enabling Block Sizes Greater Than Page Size  Phoronix

Haiku OS developer X512 has managed a rather impressive feat: porting NVIDIA's open-source kernel modules to Haiku. Not only did he get NVIDIA's official Linux kernel modules running on Haiku but he also ported the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver to be able to run atop the NVIDIA kernel driver interface...

NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver Ported To Haiku OS, Mesa NVK Adapted To Run On Top  Phoronix

KDE developers continue pushing ahead with new feature development on the Plasma 6.4 desktop to further refine Plasma 6...

Wine 10.4 is out tonight as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

GNOME 48 Released with Major New Features  OMG! Ubuntu!

AMD has been on a software / container / documentation spree recently around ROCm and today are announcing another software addition to the ROCm portfolio: AITER...

Microsoft's newest open-source contribution to the Linux kernel being proposed is... Hornet, a Linux security module (LSM) for providing signature verification of eBPF programs...

Microsoft Proposes "Hornet" Security Module For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

It's been over three years since the last ReactOS open-source operating system release for this platform working on API/ABI compatibility with Microsoft Windows. Today ReactOS 0.4.15 was finally published...

Albabat Ransomware Targets Windows, Linux, and macOS via GitHub Abuse  GBHackers

ProRes Comes to Windows and Linux in DaVinci Resolve’s Latest Update  No Film School

Ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle a few early pull requests have already been sent in to Linus Torvalds in advance of the anticipated v6.14 release on Sunday. Among those early changes for Linux 6.15 are the SLAB allocator updates that include a fix for cache randomization with kvmalloc inadvertently being inadequate due to accidentally using the same randomization seed...