Open-source News

Google Cloud Donates A2A Protocol to Linux Foundation Enables Secure, Intelligent Communication  CyberSecurityNews

X11's dying days mean you'll be forced to switch to Wayland  ZDNet

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Performing Well, Achieving Faster Results On AMD EPYC 9005 Series  Phoronix

It has been one month since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 was officially announced and it's proving to be a nice upgrade for enterprise Linux use. Jiving with what I had seen out of RHEL 10 beta performance and general expectations considering the plethora of software upgrades from RHEL 9 to RHEL 10, the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 release is helping tap additional performance out of modern servers.

OpenELA launches verification tool for Enterprise Linux  Techzine Global

Xlibre forks to the rescue – but Kubuntu gives X11 the boot  theregister.com

New OpenELA compatibility toolset helps Enterprise Linux distributors reduce testing costs and resource commitments  Oracle

Stress-testing toolkit OCCT arrives on Steam with Linux and Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

Building off this morning's release of the Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 is now the updated Intel Compute Runtime 25.22.33944.8 as their June 2025 feature release...

Intel Compute Runtime 25.22.33944.8 Continues Baking Panther Lake, More Optimizations  Phoronix

Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages - potentially bad news for Steam gamers  GamingOnLinux

New Linux Flaws Grant Root Access Across Major Distributions  The420.in

Microsoft’s big lie: Your computer is fine (and you don’t need to buy a new one)  Technical.ly

Google Cloud Donates A2A Protocol to Linux Foundation for Smarter, Secure Communication  GBHackers News

How new tools can fix legacy Linux systems that threaten critical infrastructure  SC Media

Bill Gates just met the creator of Linux for the first time ever — "No major kernel decisions were made" at Azure CTO's dinner  Windows Central

Fedora Linux for a while already stopped building i686 kernel releases and dropped their dedicated i686 repositories while now for the Fedora 44 release there is a proposal to take things further: finish gutting the i686 support. The new change proposal seeks to no longer include packages built for the i686 architecture and thereby dropping multi-lib support for 32-bit packages on 64-bit hosts. There wouldn't be any packages built any longer for i686 under this F44 proposal...

Fedora 44 Looks To Drop i686 Support: No More Multi-Lib / x86 32-bit Packages  Phoronix

Cryptsetup 2.8 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used utility used to setup disk encryption under Linux around the DM-CRYPT kernel functionality for LUKS volumes and more...

Adding to the many graphics driver features to look forward to with next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release is now Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...