Open-source News

New Ubuntu Snapdragon X1E Concept ISO Published - Switches To Linux 6.17 Kernel  Phoronix

Linux Still Isn’t Ready To Give Up On 20-Year-Old ATI Radeon GPUs, As Open-Source Developers Push Out a New Update  Wccftech

Why I Won’t Use a Linux Distro Without Flatpak Support  How-To Geek

The Krita digital painting and graphics editing application aligned with KDE/Qt could soon have color management support working on Wayland Linux desktops for enjoying a better creative experience on HDR (High Dynamic Range) displays...

Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS  The New Stack

Can Arch Linux Be Your Main PC OS? It's Mine and Here's How  How-To Geek

This morning's "x86/urgent" pull request ahead of Linux 6.17-rc4 being released later today has a fix for old Intel Pentium 4 processors as well as an Attack Vector Controls update for handling the Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) mitigation...

Linux Ready With Fix For Old Intel Pentium 4 CPUs Following Copy & Paste Fail  Phoronix

Rusticl lead developer Karol Herbst of Red Hat has merged a set of patches for this Rust-written open-source OpenCL driver to reduce the amount of memory allocations that happen and in turn helping reduce CPU overhead...

IceWM Is out this weekend as the newest feature release to this X11 window manager known for its speedy and simplicity...

Sindoor Dropper: The Malware Using the India-Pakistan Clash to Infect Linux  Red Hot Cyber

ZOTAC Zone Pro to feature Ryzen HX 370, 7″ OLED screen, 32GB RAM and Manjaro Linux  VideoCardz.com

RG40XX H Handheld Game Console, 4" IPS Screen Linux System 3200mAh Battery With RGB Colorful Joystick Lighting, Built In 128G TF Card & 10000 Games, Support WiFi Bluetooth (64G+128G, Black  The Michigan Review

This week's round of HID subsystem "fixes" for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel include adding a number of new device IDs and other alterations for supporting new hardware...

Linux 6.17 Adds Support For Logitech G PRO 2 LIGHTSPEED, Wacom Art Pen 2 & More  Phoronix

This Free and Open-Source App for Linux Helps Keep My Important Documents Safe  How-To Geek

Genode OS 25.08: Fair Scheduler, Linux 6.12 Drivers, and seL4 Upgrades  WebProNews

Fwupd 2.0.14 Boosts Linux Firmware with New Device Support and Fixes  WebProNews

Btrfs Maintainer Josef Bacik Leaves Meta, Steps Back from Linux Dev  WebProNews

Linus Torvalds Reclassifies Bcachefs as Externally Maintained in Linux Kernel  WebProNews