Open-source News

KDE makes the "dumb" Copilot key useful on Linux laptops  xda-developers.com

15 Co-Op Games for Linux Steam Gamers in 2025  It's FOSS

Intel Layoffs Orphan Key Linux Kernel Drivers, Exposing Risks  WebProNews

Bcachefs Integration in Linux Kernel 6.18 Hangs in Balance  WebProNews

Debian 13 ‘Trixie’ Released: Linux Kernel 6.12, Boosted Security  WebProNews

Btrfs Has Saved Meta "Billions Of Dollars" In Infrastructure Costs  Phoronix

Amid the ongoing discussion over what will happen too Bcachefs in the mainline Linux kernel, an interesting anecdote around Btrfs was mentioned...

What Is Kodi, and Should You Use It?  How-To Geek

Linux-Based Lenovo Webcams’ Flaw Can Be Remotely Exploited for BadUSB Attacks  The Hacker News

Debian 13 “Trixie” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Debian 13.0 "Trixie" is now officially out as the newest two-year stable release to Debian GNU/Linux...

Debian 13.0 "Trixie" Now Available - Powered By Linux 6.12 LTS  Phoronix

The EFI code updates were merged today for the nearly-over Linux 6.17 kernel with two changes worth mentioning...

Fully working PC fished out from a dumpster and rehabbed — trash-binned system can still run Linux and light games  Tom's Hardware

Vulkan 1.4.325 was released on Friday with one new extension in tow: VK_KHR_shader_untyped_pointers for untyped pointers...

Critical Linux Kernel Vulnerability Allows Attackers Gain Full Kernel-Level Control From Chrome Sandbox  GBHackers News

Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel. The RISC-V updates won't land this cycle and will need to try again for v6.18 later in the year. Linus refers to at least some of the proposed RISC-V code as garbage along with being submitted rather late during the merge window...

GNU/Hurd has made it as an official platform target within SDL that is the open-source library widely-used by cross-platform games and other applications for software/hardware abstractions across operating systems...

GNU/Hurd Now An Official Platform For SDL Cross-Platform Gaming Library  Phoronix

There were a lot of interesting changes that landed in GNOME's Mutter compositor codebase to end out the weekend and ahead of next month's big GNOME 49 release...