Open-source News

4 Ways to Pinpoint Inevitable Network Outages on Linux  How-To Geek

NordVPN Makes Linux App GUI Open Source, Reverses Meshnet Shutdown Decision  It's FOSS News

NordVPN Open-Sources Linux GUI App on GitHub Amid 70% User Surge  WebProNews

Apple today announced the M5 SoC as the newest in the Apple Silicon family and with claims of 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI of the M4...

Uncle Lee’s Cookbook will bring five episodes of point and click adventuring while you save the universe  GamingOnLinux

Raspberry Pi OS, LMDE, and Peppermint OS move to Debian 13  theregister.com

Merged today to the Tinygrad deep learning framework is a Mesa NIR back-end to allow targeting that common intermediate representation used by these open-source Linux GPU drivers. Initially supported with this Tinygrad NIR back-end is the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver "NVK" with its Rust-based NAK compiler as well as the CPU-based LLVMpipe driver...

Commodore Tells Windows 10 Users Shunned By Microsoft To Join Its Linux Sanctuary  HotHardware

LMDE 7 "Gigi" Released: Linux Mint's Debian-Based Alternative Gets Major Upgrade  It's FOSS News

AMD's HIP-RT is used by the Blender 3D modeling software for GPU-accelerated ray-tracing on Radeon GPUs. For Blender 5.0 the AMD HIP-RT support is expected to be declared "stable" but will not be enabled by default until Blender 5.1...

Zorin OS 18 released with advanced window tiling, improved theme, and more  gHacks Technology News

Zorin OS 18 Released Just in Time for Windows 10 EOL  It's FOSS News

I found the easiest way to transfer files to and from my Linux PC - and it's so fast  ZDNET

KDE's 29th anniversary is here and they need your funding  GamingOnLinux

Ready to ditch your Windows PC? I highly recommend this mini PC that's optimized for Linux  ZDNET

Commodore needles Microsoft over end of Windows 10, tries to lure disgruntled users to its Linux-based OS Vision 3.0 — 'Microsoft may be leaving you behind. We Won't.'  Yahoo! Tech

Commodore needles Microsoft over end of Windows 10, tries to lure disgruntled users to its Linux-based OS Vision 3.0 — 'Microsoft may be leaving you behind. We Won't.'  Tom's Hardware

While the open-source GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers saw Panther Lake support added in early 2024, only overnight was support upstreamed to GCC and Clang for the similar Wildcat Lake target...

Intel Wildcat Lake "-march=wildcatlake" Added To GCC & LLVM Clang Compilers  Phoronix

In development for around the past year was the cross-vendor mesh shading extension for OpenGL. Last week GL_EXT_mesh_shader was merged to the OpenGL Registry for this mesh shader support and first new GL extension in a while...