Open-source News

Stop swapping keyboards: This free app stitches your Linux and Windows PCs together  How-To Geek

Garuda Linux Publishes First ISO Refresh of 2026 With NVIDIA 590 Drivers  Linuxiac

"Windows is bad software" – GOG to increase its reliance on Linux  Notebookcheck

CD Projekt Criticizes Windows as Linux Support Considered  filmogaz.com

Sent out today was the latest DRM-Misc-Next pull request of new material ahead of the next kernel cycle either Linux 6.20 or 7.0 depending upon what Linus Torvalds decides to call it...

Imagination Driver To Support The TI AM62P SoC In Linux 6.20~7.0  Phoronix

I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows  The Verge

'It's such poor-quality software… I can't believe it!': Owner of big gaming platform is surprised at how bad Windows 11 has got  TechRadar

Whisper.cpp as the open-source high performance inference project built around OpenAI's Whisper and from the same developers as Llama.cpp / GGML is out with a big new release. Whisper.cpp 1.8.3 is capable of delivering a 12x performance boost for systems with integrated AMD and Intel graphics...

Even more AMD ray tracing performance improvements heading to Mesa on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Started last year was D7VK as a project bringing Direct3D 7 implemented over the Vulkan API for enjoying better performance and support for legacy Windows games on Linux, akin to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton for newer versions of Direct3D over Vulkan that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton). Back in December D7VK added a Direct3D 6 front-end for allowing even older game titles to be accelerated using the modern Vulkan API. Today D7VK 1.2 is out for furthering the D3D6 support...

D7VK 1.2 Released For Improving Direct3D 6 Front-End  Phoronix

Tails 7.4 Anonymous Linux OS Released with Persistent Language and Formats  9to5Linux

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever  theregister.com

The head of GOG wants to focus on Linux and slams Windows  Instant Gaming News

Gaming on Linux just got a bump with new Wine 11 improvements that'll make for a better Proton on SteamOS, too  PC Gamer

‘It’s such poor quality software’: GOG owner criticises Windows, says it will support Linux better in the future  Video Games Chronicle

Libvirt 12.0 released today as this open-source virtualization API for management across different virtualization technologies/hypervisors. With libvirt 12.0, improving Bhyve as the FreeBSD hypervisor was a big focus...

DeviceTree patches worked on recently allow for the mainline Linux kernel to run on the ASUS "Kommando" IPMI Expansion Card. This is interesting for opening up new possibilities for this external IPMI/BMC expansion card but too bad that less than three years after launching it's difficult to find...

Linux Patches Bring Mainline Kernel Support For The ASUS IPMI Expansion Card  Phoronix