Open-source News

The modern Agama OS installer for SUSE/openSUSE is out with its first new release since November. With the time since the prior release, SUSE engineers have been making key improvements to Agama and enhancing its architecture to more align with their original vision for it...

For any holdouts still running SysV Init instead of systemd or other alternatives like OpenRC, SysV Init 3.16 is out as the first release in a half-year and bringing a few refinements...

Qualcomm shuts door on Snapdragon X DSP headers open-sourcing, Linux support hopes fade  VideoCardz.com

AMD Expands GFX12.1 Support for Linux 7.1  GameGPU

Cambalache 1.0 released today after more than five years in development as a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) application for creating and editing user interfaces for both GTK3 and GTK4...

OpenShot 3.5 hit the web today for this open-source non-linear video editor that describes the new version as one of their "biggest releases" ever in its 18+ year history...

Wine 11.5 Improves Linux Compatibility with New Build System Changes  Linuxiac

OpenShot 3.5 Open-Source Video Editor Released with New Default Timeline  9to5Linux

Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 1.01 Is Out with More Accessibility Improvements  9to5Linux

Linux Foundation Announces $12.5M in Grant Funding to Advance Open Source Security  HPCwire

Wine 11.5 is out today as the latest bi-weekly development release for this software to run Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Most exciting with Wine 11.5 is the introduction of the Syscall User Dispatch feature on Linux...

Linux users swear by simple tools, and now I finally understand why  XDA

WSL, WINE updates speed cross-OS app performance  theregister.com

Mageia 10 Beta Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 and KDE Plasma 6.5  Linuxiac

OpenClaw Is Just as Important as HTML, Linux, and ChatGPT: Jensen Huang Bets That Agentic AI Will Transform NVDA Stock  Barchart

Mageia 10 Enters Public Beta Testing with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS and Mesa 26.0  9to5Linux

These 5 settings are making your Linux PC less secure  How-To Geek

When it comes to using Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops on Linux, one of the big challenges have involved the need to extract the necessary firmware from the Windows 11 partition due to most vendors not providing the firmware in an easily redistributable and public form. The one exception has been the Lenovo ThinkPad with X1 Elite having upstream firmware in linux-firmware.git while now the Dell XPS model has joined the party too...

Dell Upstreams Firmware For The XPS Snapdragon X Elite Laptop  Phoronix

Tiagolr Sirial: a free, open-source rhythmic delay plugin (mac, Linux, Win)  synth anatomy