Open-source News

4 ways to make any Linux distro feel more like Windows  XDA

Devuan 6 ‘Excalibur’ Linux lands  theregister.com

In mid-2024, Bavarian PC vendor TUXEDO Computers began teasing a Snapdragon X Elite powered Linux laptop with hopes of having it available by Christmas 2024. As we approach Christmas 2025, there still are no immediate signs of this new ARM-based TUXEDO laptop soon shipping but there are signs of life still with new Linux kernel patches posted for enabling this Snapdragon X Elite laptop...

Linux Patches Updated For Snapdragon X Elite Powered TUXEDO Elite 14 Gen1 Laptop  Phoronix

Fwupd 2.0.17 Released with Support for Lexar and Maxio NVMe SSDs  9to5Linux

Days after the Linux Vendor Firmware Service celebrated 135 million firmware downloads, a new version of the Fwupd utility is now available for firmware updating systems and peripherals under Linux...

The first 8 Linux commands every new user should learn  ZDNET

Sent out today to DRM-Next was the latest weekly batch of drm-misc-next patches for enhancing the various smaller Direct Rendering Manager drivers within the kernel. Included with this week's update is supporting some additional Mali and Vivante hardware as well as continuing to enhance the in-kernel accelerator "accel" drivers...

7 Linux commands I can't live without after 20 years in the terminal  ZDNET

Russian hackers hit Windows machines via Linux VMs with new custom malware  TechRadar

The merge to GNOME Mutter has finally happened that "completely drops" the X11 back-end to make GNOME strictly focused on Wayland-based environments...

LXQt 2.3 is out today as the newest release of this lightwight, Qt-based desktop environment...

LXQt 2.3 Desktop Environment Released with New Features and Enhancements  9to5Linux

Sonic Rumble has arrived on Steam and works on Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Linux Gaming Is On The Rise – Should Microsoft Be Worried?  GamesHub

Over the past few months the open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb has been porting Coreboot and AMD's new openSIL silicon initialization library to the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1. The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 is a broadly available motherboard that supports the latest-generation AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" server processors. 3mdeb has been fairly successful in their quest and an early demonstrator for openSIL...

Given this week's release of Flatpak 1.17 for app sandboxing, open-source developer Sebastian Wick published a blog post on Tuesday around the latest Flatpak developments and a look ahead at some of the feature development planned. Arguably most significant of that is the plans for systemd-appd...

Russian hackers’ sneaky innovation: run malware on a virtual machine in parallel to Windows  Cybernews

Pro-Russian hackers hide in Windows with Linux VMs  Techzine Global

Amazon WorkSpaces for Linux Vulnerability Exposes Valid Auth Tokens to Attackers  GBHackers News