Open-source News

Going back to January of 2023 there were the initial Intel patches for the Linux kernel introducing Linear Address Space Separation (LASS). Two and a half years later, these Intel LASS patches remain in-development with today the sixth iteration of these patches having been posted...

Intel Continues Working On Linear Address Space Separation "LASS" For Linux  Phoronix

I found a file-transferring app that works between Android and Linux - and it's free to use  ZDNET

Over the past week a number of Apple device support additions have been queued up into the HID subsystem's "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel cycle...

Apple x86 Touch Bar Input & Apple Magic Keyboard USB-C Support In Linux 6.17  Phoronix

Prometei Botnet Attacking Linux Servers to Mine Cryptocurrency  CyberSecurityNews

IDC Business Value Study: A 306% ROI within 3 years using Ubuntu Linux on Azure  Microsoft Azure

Just one week after Vulkan 1.4.318 was introduced with a new Valve extension, Vulkan 1.4.319 released this morning with another new extension...

Ready to ditch Windows? 'End of 10' makes converting your PC to Linux easier than ever  ZDNet

Linux Delivering Driver Fix For 30 Year Old Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA Sound Card  Phoronix

Thirty-one years after Creative Technology introduced the Sound Blaster AWE32 ISA-based sound card, the open-source driver support within the Linux kernel continues to be worked on... Submitted today for Linux 6.16 is fixing support for this once mighty ISA sound card from the mid 90's...

Intel open-source software developers this week released OpenVINO 2025.2 as the latest update to this prominent free software AI toolkit...

Broadband Forum, Linux Foundation unite to slash broadband equipment procurement costs  SDxCentral

There is some tension on the Linux kernel mailing list with some late Bcachefs feature work sent in as part of "fixes" for the ongoing Linux 6.16 kernel cycle. Established rules aim for only new feature code to be introduced during the kernel merge windows, which ended nearly two weeks ago for Linux 6.16, but Bcachefs wanting to be exempt to continue to allow new feature code to still land for the cycle in the name of data safety...

Microsoft announced back in May at their Build developer conference that WSL would be going open-source. Today Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.6 was released as their first new release now being an open-source project...

Microsoft Releases WSL 2.6 As The First Open-Source Release  Phoronix

AMD originally released a ROCm 7.0 preview build back in May as it works to align their HIP API more closely with NVIDIA's CUDA. Last month was the big ROCm 7.0 preview announcement form AMD's Advancing AI Day in San Jose while this week is another new 7.0 preview build focused on further testing of the ROCm 7.0 HIP changes...

Linux flaws chain allows Root access across major distributions  Security Affairs

Amazon Linux 2023 achieves FIPS 140-3 validation  Help Net Security

Andrew Burns Enhances Linux Server Security and Access Management  We are Tech