Open-source News

How the latest Netrunner distro delivers a Linux productivity powerhouse  ZDNET

Fake Linux Foundation leader using Slack to phish devs  theregister.com

On this first day of the Linux 7.1 merge window, among the early pull requests merged were beginning to land the various VFS pull requests submitted by Christian Brauner. Among that code merged is enabling support for user.* extended attributes on sockets...

7 Linux features I miss every time I boot into Windows 11  How-To Geek

I switched my Linux desktop environment from GNOME, and it’s so much better  MakeUseOf

This Linux distro offers an easy DNS switcher - but there's more to it that I like  ZDNET

Linux 7.0 released with self-healing XFS and expanded support for AMD, Intel, and ARM64 hardware  TechSpot

Switcher 2026: Some Thoughts About France, Linux, and Digital Sovereignty ⭐️  Thurrott.com

Budgie Desktop does one thing that GNOME refuses to: get out of your way  MakeUseOf

It has just gotten easier to run games on Linux machines with less VRAM  PC Gamer

Linux kernel hits version 7 and comes with lots of little improvements  PC Gamer

A Valve engineer’s Linux patch makes 8GB AMD GPUs better at gaming  PCWorld

The Spack package manager is quite popular in the HPC / supercomputer space for scientific software. Even with the more selective niche than a typical general purpose OS package manager, large language models (LLMs) have already proven capable of being useful in generating new Spack packages. But there have also been some headaches involved too for Spack developers...

Linux Kernel Will Accommodate AI-Assisted Code, But Humans Are Still Liable  extremetech.com

Linux tinkerer makes lock screens mimicking Minecraft, Genshin Impact, and more  PC Gamer

Last year NVIDIA announced the new CUDA Tile programming model as one of the biggest updates ever to the CUDA platform. CUDA Tile brings a virtual ISA for tile-based parallel programming and they subsequently open-sourced the CUDA Tile IR as an intermediate representation built atop LLVM's MLIR. Now they are looking to hire additional LLVM compiler engineers to help foster their CUDA Tile initiatives...

Linux rules on using AI-generated code - Copilot is OK, but humans must take 'full responsibility for the contribution'  TechRadar

I tested Artix Linux: An enjoyable systemd-free distro for experienced users (and ChromeOS speeds)  ZDNET

Linux 7.0 Is Here, and AI Might Be Changing How Kernels Are Released  The FPS Review

Valve engineer develops Linux VRAM fix that boosts gaming on 8GB GPUs  TechSpot