Open-source News

As a follow-up to last month's article around the Debian 13 release processes continuing and desktop artwork voting underway for Debian 13 "Trixie", the winning desktop theme/artwork was announced today...

OpenVPN DCO Looks Like It Might Be Ready For Linux 6.14 To Speed-Up VPN Performance  Phoronix

AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 is out today as the newest official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver release for Linux systems...

This Is the Default Theme of Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie”  9to5Linux

Valve's new branding guidelines hint at Steam Deck's SteamOS for more devices  GamingOnLinux

AWS helps migrate .NET from Windows Server to Linux  TechHQ

I will admit I had a nerdgasm at the portable pilet mini consoles from soulscircuit  GamingOnLinux

Linux Foundation report highlights the true state of open-source libraries in production apps  TechCrunch

Open Source Usage Trends and Security Challenges Revealed in New Study  WV News

Fedora stakeholders are evaluating supporting an Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) software stack with next year's Fedora 42 release...

Fedora 42 Looking To Package Intel SGX Software Stack  Phoronix

Elementary OS 8 'Circe' conjures Wayland magic  The Register

10 Container Security Best Practices for Linux Users  ITPro Today

If This Is You, You Should Consider Switching to Linux  How-To Geek

As we approach 2025, hopefully none of you are still running x86 32-bit kernels / 32-bit OS software on x86_64 processors, but should you still be into that, there are improvements on the way...

New Linux Patches Cleanup Code For Running x86 32-bit Kernels On x86_64 CPUs  Phoronix

The Intel Compute Runtime 24.45.31740.9 is out as the newest monthly-ish update to this open-source GPU compute stack used on Linux and Windows for the OpenCL and Level Zero support. This Compute Runtime 24.45.31740.9 is also the last update ahead of next week's Battlemage availability with the Arc B580 graphics card...

VTE-based terminals on Linux like Ptyxis are now seeing support introduced to better display progress state for long-running processes with a more visually pleasing progress bar. Microsoft's Windows Terminal has already supported this feature while now with systemd beginning to support using these Operating System Command escape sequences, Linux terminal support is on the rise...

Longtime Linux game porter Ryan Gordon has introduced initial asynchronous I/O APIs for the in-development SDL3 library. On Linux these async I/O APIs allow making use of the modern kernel IO_uring functionality...

Merged for Mesa 25.0 yesterday to the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan Linux driver is enabling more storage compression on Tigerlake graphics hardware and newer...