Open-source News

NVIDIA 565 Linux Graphics Driver Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 565.77 stable driver for Linux released  GamingOnLinux

System76 today released the newest development/testing version of their Rust-based desktop environment designed for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...

COSMIC Alpha 4 Released For System76's Rust-Based Desktop  Phoronix

Prime Gaming December 5th edition for Steam Deck / Linux - a bunch of special extras were added this week  GamingOnLinux

For the past month and a half the NVIDIA R565 Linux driver series has been in public beta with a number of (X)Wayland improvements, DMA-BUF enhancements, VKD3D fixes, and a variety of other enhancements. Today the NVIDIA 565.77 Linux driver was released as the first stable build in the series...

NVIDIA 565.77 Linux Driver Released As First Stable R565 Build  Phoronix

GEEKOM GT1 Mega review with Ubuntu 24.10 – Part 3: Linux on an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H “Meteor Lake” mini PC  CNX Software

Alpine Linux 3.21 is out today as the newest version of this simple, lightweight, and security-minded Linux distribution that is popular for use within containerized environments, embedded systems, and more...

Alpine Linux 3.21 Released With Linux 6.12 & GCC 14, LoongArch CPU Support  Phoronix

Microsoft's WSL 2 looks like it could be getting even stronger with official support from Fedora  Windows Central

With the new Linux kernel patches posted yesterday for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernels on x86_64 CPUs as part of that patch series was introducing new Kconfig build options around the x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels. It turns out though that Torvalds is completely against how the x86_64 feature levels are handled by the compiler toolchain folks and doesn't want to see it invading the kernel...

Linus Torvalds Comes Out Against "Completely Broken" x86_64 Feature Levels  Phoronix

The Linux 6.8 kernel merged the Imagination PowerVR driver as a new open-source driver for supporting the PowerVR "Rogue" graphics architecture and being developed in tandem by Imagination Tech with their upstream Mesa Vulkan driver. Initially this PowerVR driver was catering to ARM SoCs with the Rogue graphics while now the open-source driver is being extended to work on RISC-V too...

Imagination PowerVR Driver Being Extended To Work On RISC-V  Phoronix

3 free Linux distros that look and feel like Windows  PCWorld

Linux Foundation releases ‘Census III’ open source report  Developer News

The "AMDXDNA" accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPU is set to be introduced in the Linux 6.14 kernel next year. Ahead of that debut, a new set of patches from AMD surfaced on Wednesday to provide fixes and code improvements as well as introducing support for newer Ryzen AI "NPU6" IP...

New AMD XDNA Linux Driver Patches Add Ryzen AI NPU6 IP, Other Improvements  Phoronix

Patches from a Bytedance engineer for the Linux kernel allow for overcoming the current 4K page size limitation of RISC-V and introduce a new 64K page size option...