Open-source News

With Q2 quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and other Linux/open-source news for the quarter...

Week in review: Backdoor found in SOHO devices running Linux, high-risk WinRAR RCE flaw patched  Help Net Security

Every Windows user should keep a live version of Linux handy — here's why  XDA

5 reasons I prefer this distro over Ubuntu as a Windows-to-Linux convert  XDA

I'd give everything for a pre-configured Android gaming handheld  Android Authority

Linux Desktop: What Makes KDE Plasma So Appealing?  The New Stack

Linux Phones, the New HDMI, and More: Weekly Roundup  How-To Geek

The past number of months has seen work by AMD Linux driver engineers in enabling cleaner shader functionality for various generations of GPUs to help ensure user/application isolation. Being merged overnight as part of the AMDGPU "fixes" for Linux 6.16 is cleaner shader support for more AMD GFX9 / CDNA hardware, notably to benefit various Instinct accelerators with this security feature...

Linux 6.16 Extends Cleaner Shader Support To More AMD CDNA/GFX9 GPUs  Phoronix

The RADV Vulkan driver's ray-tracing performance has improved a lot over time such as shown within yesterday's RADV vs. AMDVLK performance comparison on Strix Point. Coincidentally, merged today is yet another ray-tracing optimization to benefit RDNA3 (GFX11) and newer AMD graphics processors...

Threat Actors Exploit Windows and Linux Server Vulnerabilities to Deploy Web Shells  GBHackers News

While a number of Linux desktop users have expressed disappointment over Intel and AMD not providing any GUI for their GPU driver settings and similar functionality like they do under Windows, there are a number of third-party open-source GUI programs for managing graphics driver settings. One of the most capable solutions is LACT for GPU configuration and monitoring. Out today is LACT 0.8 with more features now in place...

KDE developers this week have been busy with a mix of polishing the recent Plasma 6.4 release as well as taking on more feature development work for Plasma 6.5 coming later in the year...

Canonical’s Revenue Soars to $300M in 2024  WebProNews

"Tyr" Announced As New Rust-Written Linux Kernel Graphics Driver  Phoronix

An unexpected announcement this Friday evening is an introduction to Tyr, a new Linux kernel DRM graphics driver written in the Rust programming language. As is sadly becoming more common among Linux GPU kernel drivers is the increasing obscure driver names. Tyr?!?..

GEEKDeck Is A SteamDeck For Your Living Room  Hackaday

Wine 10.11 is out for testing today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for running Microsoft Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

4 things Linux still gets wrong for the average user  XDA

This week in AI dev tools: A2A donated to Linux Foundation, OpenAI adds Deep Research to API, and more (June 27, 2025)  SD Times