Open-source News

Intel's AI Flame Graphs software is now open-source. This is a project that started for Intel's Tiber AI Cloud to provide more insight into AI accelerator/GPU usage and hardware profilining of the full software stack. After being an internal/customer-only software project for some months, AI Flame Graphs is now open-source...

Proton 10 Beta Brings More Steam Games to Linux  How-To Geek

openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Public Beta Testing with Agama Installer, Linux 6.12 LTS  9to5Linux

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Memory Pool Support For Some Massive Performance Gains  Phoronix

Merged a few minutes ago to the Mesa 25.2-devel graphics driver code for the open-source Intel "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver is proper memory pool support. In turn this can deliver some magnificent performance improvements on the likes of Lunar Lake and other newer Intel graphics processors...

Download digiKam (free) for Windows, macOS and Linux  Gizmodo

OpenSUSE announced the beta release today of openSUSE Leap 16.0, their next-generation Linux distribution from from SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 (SLE 16) and its new base of SUSE Linux Framework One that was previously known as the Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP)...

openSUSE Leap 16 Available For Beta Testing - Built From SUSE Linux Enterprise 16  Phoronix

LibreSSL 4.1 released today as the newest version of this SSL/TLS library project forked a decade ago by OpenBSD from OpenSSL...

Bytedance engineers are exploring faster inter-process communication (IPC) on Linux via a new approach they call Run Process As Library (RPAL). Their initial benchmarks of RPAL are very promising for faster Linux IPC performance...

Bytedance Proposes Faster Linux Inter-Process Communication With "Run Process As Library"  Phoronix

BTW Windows Subsystem for Linux officially uses Arch now  theregister.com

Ultramarine Linux: An Anime-Inspired Fedora-Based Distro With Serious Features  How-To Geek

AdGuard for Linux released with command line support  gHacks Technology News

If your Windows support is ending, it's time to learn Linux. Here's the best distro for beginners  ZDNET

NVIDIA Posts 60 Patches For Open-Source Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support On Nouveau  Phoronix

Ben Skeggs formerly of Red Hat who had been the maintainer of the Nouveau Linux kernel driver for reverse-engineered open-source NVIDIA driver support had joined NVIDIA last year and continued his engagements with the open-source Linux community. For ending out April there's a big surprise... The NVIDIA engineer posted a set of 60 patches enabling support for NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs atop the open-source Nouveau kernel driver...

Firefox 138 was released yesterday and wasn't particularly exciting besides enhanced profile management and Tab Groups support... Aside from that it was a pretty basic release. In turn Firefox 139 is now in beta and that release does bring some items worth mentioning like faster HTTP/3 upload performance...

Can a Linux laptop replace my MacBook? Only if it looks like this and has these specs  ZDNET

AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 was released today as the first update to this official open-source AMD Vulkan driver since the previous release in mid-March. AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 brings new hardware support, new Vulkan API extensions, and other new features...