Open-source News

Here's How I Control My Linux Computer From My iPhone  How-To Geek

The KDE-aligned digiKam photo management software is out today with its version 8.6 release. With digiKam 8.6 the open-source photo manager has been working on better enhancing its artificial intelligence (AI) integration...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekend update to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have been merged over the past week...

Huawei MateBook D 16 Linux is on sale, cheaper than Windows edition  HC Newsroom

AMD almost nailed Linux support with the Radeon RX 90 series — excluding FSR 4  XDA Developers

Intel engineers today released Compute Runtime 25.09.32961.5 as their newest update to this open-source compute stack for Windows and Linux systems providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero GPU compute support. Most notable in this release is rolling out initial "pre-release" support for next-gen Core Ultra "Panther Lake" SoCs with integrated Xe3 graphics...

Building a Mini Pi5 Cyberdeck Running Kali Linux #piday  Adafruit Blog

Additional AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver updates were sent out today for collecting ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window. As we are late in the cycle, most of the new AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver changes are fixes, but there are some minor feature changes particularly for the new RDNA4 GPUs...

Radeon RX 9070 Fan Speed Reporting & Other Last Minute AMD Changes For Linux 6.15  Phoronix

Turning a Raspberry Pi Into a CNC Controller with Linux CNC — and a GPIO-Connected Parallel HAT  Hackster.io

KDE Frameworks 6.12 Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

Git 2.49 is out today as the latest feature update for this widely-used distributed version control system...

Switching From Windows to Linux: A Step-by-Step Migration Guide  How-To Geek

Linux power users: Here's a distro with a refreshing approach to OS design  ZDNet

This Linux distro can be used without installation (and it's totally free)  ZDNet

On top of the big features for the Intel graphics driver code and new AMD hardware support coming for Linux 6.15 along with the initial NOVA driver stub, the smaller Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers have also been lining up their changes for this next kernel version. With the Mediatek DRM driver for Linux 6.15 it's set to add MT8365 SoC support, perhaps better known as the Genio 350...

Mediatek DRM Driver Adding MT8365 "Genio 350" Support In Linux 6.15  Phoronix

SUSE doubles down on AI and Multi-Linux Support to prove it's still in the game  The Register

In addition to the COBOL language front-end being merged this week for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release, another notable change also landed this week... Deprecating ESA/390 architecture support in preparation for its eventual removal...

Arm software engineer Peter Waller has shared some insightful benchmarks of the impact of PGO, Context Sensitive PGO (CSPGO), and BOLT optimizations across various classes of Neoverse processor designs...