Open-source News

Closed-Source Meets Open-Source: Microsoft’s Founder Bill Gates and Linux’s Creator Linus Torvalds Cross Paths For The First Time in 50 Years  Wccftech

Btop++: Linux System Monitoring Tool That is Definitely Better than Top  It's FOSS

7 Reasons Why Qubes Is Better Than Your Linux Distro  How-To Geek

Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham put out a blog post today reaffirming the KDE Plasma's intent that Wayland is their main focus and X11 support continues to be maintained but eventually it will go away. Nate Graham also noted around 73% of KDE Plasma 6 users are already using the Wayland session...

I Installed KDE Plasma on Ubuntu (And Quickly Regretted It)  How-To Geek

I used North Korea's leaked Linux distribution, and it still has secrets a decade later  XDA

Denmark is switching to Linux  Yahoo

Denmark is switching to Linux  PC Gamer

8 Linux Desktop Distributions to Try  The New Stack

SolydXK: An Impressive Linux Distribution Under the Radar  The New Stack

Ahead of the all-important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cycle, Canonical is looking to raise the required RISC-V ISA baseline for its Ubuntu 25.10 release due out later this year...

This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue that outlines some UI progress made as well as addressing an aging GNOME bug that could result in not all files/directories being properly removed when emptying the Trash from the GNOME desktop...

Yes, I run Android apps on my Raspberry Pi; here’s how  XDA

XLibre 25.0 was just released as the first tagged release of this recent X.Org Server fork...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly blog post summarizing all of the interesting KDE Plasma developments for the past week. Notable this week was the debut of Plasma 6.4 stable and from early user feedback appears to be in good shape...

If Your Kernel Development Is A Little Rusty  Hackaday

Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen10 ships with Linux but pricing may deter many buyers  TechRadar

Prometei Botnet Targets Linux Servers for Cryptocurrency Mining Operations  GBHackers News

A number of AMD firmware/microcode updates were upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository, including introducing the AMD Instinct MI350 series files that are necessary for the open-source Linux compute driver stack to function for those newly-announced Instinct accelerators...

AMD Instinct MI350X Series Microcode Upstreamed - Other AMD GPUs See Updates Too  Phoronix