Open-source News

Vanilla OS 2 is the bulletproof Linux distro I recommend to friends  MakeUseOf

Gear News of the Week: Apple’s AI Wearable and a Phone That Can Boot Android, Linux, and Windows  WIRED

A new driver in the Linux 6.19 kernel is the ASUS Armoury driver for supporting additional functionality with the ROG Ally gaming handhelds and other ASUS ROG gaming hardware like their laptops. The ASUS Armoury driver builds off the existing ASUS WMI driver but provides some design improvements to make it better than handling it within the existing driver. There is support for adjusting the APU-allocated memory, Intel core count control for P and E cores, FHD and UHD mode switching for display panels, and other features typically only exposed via the system BIOS...

ASUS Armoury Driver For Linux 6.19 Picks Up Support For More ASUS Laptops  Phoronix

First Steam Machine Accessories Arrive : From Glow Skins to Native 'GeForce NOW' App on Ubuntu  Geeky Gadgets

KDE Plasma 6.6 feature development work continues winding down while Plasma 6.7 has begun seeing more feature work. This week also saw at least nine different crash fixes affecting Plasma/KWin...

Nexus Mods Vortex To Get Linux Support in 2026, Thanks to Steam Hardware  TechPowerUp

Nexus Mods Vortex App Will Get Linux Support in 2026, Thanks to Steam Deck and Steam Machine  TechPowerUp

Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library "glibc" was released on Friday evening as the newest half-year feature update. This is a very feature packed update and even managed to be released ahead of the 1 February release plan...

Accelerated Linux page cache attacks detailed  SC Media

Fake cryptocurrency wallet apps target Linux users with cryptostealers  SC Media

Five Free Linux File Managers Earn Top Recommendation  findarticles.com

Alpine Linux Turns Equinix Metal Exit Into an Infrastructure Upgrade  LXer: Linux News

Raspberry Pi's USB upgrade, Photoshop on Linux, and more: Linux news roundup  How-To Geek

Raspbeery Pi's USB upgrade, Photoshop on Linux, and more: Linux news roundup  How-To Geek

Following the release of Wine 11.0 stable just under two weeks ago, Wine 11.1 is now available as the first of the bi-weekly development snapshots for Wine in leading toward the Wine 12.0 release next January...

Why I recommend these 5 Linux file managers over GUI - and they're all free  ZDNET

Similar to the new Intel IPU 7.5 firmware upstreamed for Panther Lake this week, Cirrus has upstreamed their CS42L45 codec firmware for upcoming Dell and Lenovo laptops making use of this audio codec...

Firmware Upstreamed For Audio Support With Upcoming Dell & Lenovo Panther Lake Laptops  Phoronix

GNU Guix 1.5 Released with KDE Plasma 6.5, GNU Linux-Libre 6.17 Kernel  9to5Linux