Open-source News

The Windows Subsystem for Linux Is Now Open Source  The New Stack

Build 2025: Microsoft Open-Sources WSL and Unveils New Developer Tools to Boost Productivity on Windows 11  Petri IT Knowledgebase

Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open-source  The Verge

Microsoft open-sources Windows Subsystem for Linux at Build 2025  BleepingComputer

Microsoft is open sourcing the Windows Subsystem for Linux  Windows Central

Microsoft is open-sourcing the Windows Subsystem for Linux  XDA

LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop  theregister.com

GE-Proton 10-2 brings some essential fixes for Windows games on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

You are the final boss in Noobs Are Coming, an over the top arena roguelike  GamingOnLinux

In addition to announcing the Arc Pro B-Series workstation graphics cards and "Project Battlematrix" Linux software improvements, Intel also used Computex 2025 for announcing that Gaudi 3 accelerators are now available in PCIe card form factors and rack scale systems...

Intel Gaudi 3 PCIe Accelerator Cards Now Available - Still Waiting On Upstream Linux Driver  Phoronix

5 Paid and Donation-Based Linux Distros  Yahoo

All Linux Is Not Free: 5 Distros That Ask for Your Money  How-To Geek

Intel Announces Arc Pro B-Series, "Project Battlematrix" Linux Software Improvements  Phoronix

Intel is using Computex 2025 to showcase their new Arc Pro B-Series graphics cards that will be available in Q3 for professional use-cases as well as focusing on AI inference workstations and edge computing workloads. Plus they are noting some significant improvements coming to their Linux software stack.

Open-Source NVIDIA Blackwell + Hopper Support Slated For Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Coming somewhat as a surprise is the Nouveau driver patches for enabling NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPUs has now been queued to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window. So barring any surprises, this next version of the Linux kernel will feature preliminary open-source mainline kernel driver support for these newer NVIDIA GPUs...

Beyond All Reason, a free and open source RTS gets a big visual overhaul  GamingOnLinux

Google engineers the past few years have been working on Device Memory TCP for the Linux kernel to allow zero-copy receive of TCP payloads to DMA-BUF regions such as device memory attached directly to a GPU or AI accelerator or other device memory accessible with DMA-BUF. For Linux 6.12 that initial Device Memory TCP receive support was merged while slated for the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle is Device Memory TCP TX transfer support...

Device Memory TCP TX Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.16  Phoronix