Open-source News

AdGuard brings full-system ad blocking to Linux with new standalone app  BetaNews

The GNU C Library's tanh and other hyperbolic functions are now as much as 14~17% faster on modern Intel and AMD CPUs with the FMA instruction support for fused multiply-add operations...

Microsoft delivers gut punch to PC charities with end of Windows 10  Tom's Hardware

Consortium Driving OpenStack to Become Arm of The Linux Foundation  DevOps.com

SUSE Displays Enhanced Enterprise Linux at SUSECON  The New Stack

Landing in Mesa 25.1 today for the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI OpenGL drivers is Radeon GPU Profiler "RGP" integration for RDNA4/GFX12 GPUs with the newly-launched Radeon RX 9070 series...

5 reasons why Linux Mint is the best distro for Windows converts  XDA Developers

Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, March 14th edition for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

While ReactOS is widely known as the open-source operating system working on maintaining software and driver compatibility with Microsoft Windows, there's another new one in the field and it's Free95. The Free95 project is working to become an open-source, Windows-compatible operating system. Version 0.2 Alpha of Free95 was released today for testing...

As Epic Games continue ignoring Linux / Steam Deck for Fortnite they're putting it on Windows Arm  GamingOnLinux

IGT GPU Tools began as a set of tools by Intel for working on their Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver but with time has been broadened by the open-source community to support non-Intel drivers/hardware. IGT GPU Tools 2.0 was released on Thursday with new enhancements for these tests and other tools incorporated into the project...

IGT GPU Tools 2.0 Released For Helping To Develop DRM Drivers  Phoronix

Former Blue Systems devs form Techpaladin Software to work on KDE with Valve as their first client  GamingOnLinux

Decrypting Linux/ESXi Akira Ransomware Files Without Paying Ransomware  CybersecurityNews

Decrypting Akira Ransomware on Linux/ESXi Without Paying Hackers  GBHackers

The Zstandard (Zstd) compression code sadly hasn't been regularly synced with the latest upstream Linux kernel sources but a patch posted this evening goes ahead and syncs the in-kernel Zstd code against the Zstd 1.5.7 state...

Linux Patch Posted For Syncing The Kernel Code With Zstd 1.5.7  Phoronix

Bodhi Linux Shows Off New Theme, Revived Modules  OMG! Ubuntu!

Bodhi Linux Shows Off New Theme, Revived Modules  OMG! Ubuntu!

Shotcut 25.03 Beta is out today as the newest test release for this open-source video editing solution...