Open-source News

Along with the GraalVM 24 update today, Oracle has formally released OpenJDK Java 24. JDK 24 is now out under general availability status with many new features and changes...

The beta of Fedora Linux 42 is out this morning with countless improvements over the prior release. There is the near-final GNOME 48 desktop packages and a whole host of other software updates for living on the leading-edge of open-source software as well as boasting a number of new innovations that were made by Red Hat engineers...

Fedora Linux 42 Enters Public Beta Testing with Linux Kernel 6.14 and GNOME 48  9to5Linux

Interop Labs Joins Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust  Business Wire

GIMP 3.0 Image Editor Released For Linux, macOS, Unix, and Windows  CybersecurityNews

Windows 10 gamers, I'm ready to gamble on this underdog alternative to Windows 11, are you?  Laptop Mag

Hopefully leading to more timely updates to the Zstd compression code within the Linux kernel is a decision to add on a co-maintainer of the in-kernel Zstandard code...

Stardew Valley modding on Linux / Steam Deck takes a step with the Nexus Mods app  GamingOnLinux

Ahead of the OpenJDK Java 24 release expected in the coming hours today, Oracle already released "GraalVM for JDK 24 Community 24.0" edition...

Linux Foundation Research Reports Reveal Wide Spectrum for Cyber Resilience Act Readiness and Compliance  Yahoo Finance

Surprisingly, Valve rated Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced and Rainbow Six Siege as Steam Deck Playable  GamingOnLinux

Finally, a Linux distro for power users with a refreshing approach to OS design  ZDNet

ARM64 SMT Run-Time Controls Staged Ahead Of Linux 6.15  Phoronix

If you happen to have a rare ARM64 platform with Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) support, with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel there is set to finally be run-time SMT controls similar to the functionality long available on x86/x86_64 processors...

Theora is Xiph.Org's first released video codec designed for use with Ogg. Theora started out based on the VP3 codec. It's been over 16 years since the release of the libtheora 1.0 reference software implementation and tagged this week was libtheora 1.2 beta...

The ollama open-source software that makes it easy to run Llama 3, DeepSeek-R1, Gemma 3, and other large language models is out with its newest release. The ollama software makes it easy to leverage the llama.cpp back-end for running a variety of LLMs and enjoying convenient integration with other desktop software...

Windows vs. macOS vs. Linux vs. ChromeOS: Which OS Rules?  Analytics Insight

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 47: Before I Was Born  GamingOnLinux

Google Reveals the Real Purpose of Android’s New Terminal App  Beebom

PoC Exploit Released for Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerability  GBHackers