Open-source News

Today is the day! Say goodbye to Microsoft Windows 11 -- Nitrux Linux 3.8.0 is the OS you've been waiting for!  BetaNews

Minecraft Java 1.21.4 'The Garden Awakens' update is out now  GamingOnLinux

Rapsberry Pi 5 & 4 Could Get A Free Speed Boost  Review Geek

RustDesk 1.3.3 Introduces Mobile Clipboard Support  info-mods.com

Nitrux 3.8 Released with Linux Kernel 6.12, Better Support for NVIDIA Users  9to5Linux

Linux devices are being hit by LogoFAIL vulnerability, Bootkitty installed  TechRadar

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Intel Announces Arc B-Series "Battlemage" Discrete Graphics With Linux Support  Phoronix

Succeeding the Intel Arc Graphics discrete graphics cards that launched two years ago as the DG2/Alchemist series, the next-gen Battlemage graphics cards are being announced today. The embargo lifts today on the new Intel Arc B-Series graphics cards with initial availability next week. Like the prior generation Intel graphics and as discussed already in many Phoronix articles, Battlemage is still treated to fully open-source graphics driver support on Linux.

Hammerspace Advances the Linux Kernel with Innovations for Enterprise and HPC/AI Storage  HPCwire

After an exciting day yesterday of Vulkan 1.4 driver support arriving in Mesa 25.0 drivers, there is more exciting code that was merged today for Mesa 25.0: the AMDGPU code now allows for user queue support on the latest Linux kernels for submitting rendering work directly to the GPU hardware...

AMD User Queue Mesa Support Merged For Linux - Submitting Work Directly To The GPU  Phoronix

Hammerspace Advances the Linux Kernel With Innovations for Enterprise and HPC/AI Storage  Business Wire

Nitrux 3.8.0 Is Among The Last Distro Releases In 2024  It's FOSS News

With the AMDXDNA kernel driver for Ryzen AI NPU support on Linux now ready for merging and is queued in drm-misc-next for the Linux 6.14 kernel early next year, the AMD NPU firmware binaries have also now been upstreamed to linux-firmware.git for having the necessary firmware support in place...

AMD NPU Firmware Upstreamed For The Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Coming In Linux 6.14  Phoronix

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Boosts Linux Driver Support Ahead of Launch of Versal2 Evaluation Kits for AI-Driven Embedded Systems  Yahoo Finance

The Rustls project as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language and an alternative to the likes of the widely-used OpenSSL and Google's BoringSSL has published some new performance figures. When looking at the multi-threaded server performance of Rustls, its performance is typically outperforming BoringSSL by a significant margin and downright dominating over OpenSSL...

The best Linux distribution for gaming in 2025  GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA's RTX Remix software for remastering DirectX 8 and DirectX 9 era games is out with the newest version of the RTX-Remix runtime that is powered in part by DXVK for Direct3D to Vulkan mapping...