Open-source News

Print2Block Joins Linux Foundation’s Decentralised Trust Initiative As Founding Member  BW Disrupt

OpenZFS Merges Support For Direct IO  Phoronix

The OpenZFS project has merged DirectIO (O_DIRECT) support for the ZFS file-system to bypass the ARC for reads and writes...

The Haiku open-source operating project known for letting the BeOS spirit live on is out with their newest monthly progress report...

Haiku OS Working On USB 3 SuperSpeed Plus Support  Phoronix

Following the other recent work around Linux enablement for Snapdragon X1 powered laptops, yesterday patches were posted for getting the X1 Elite powered Dell XPS 9345 working with Linux but not all functionality is currently working...

Dell XPS 9345 With Snapdragon X1 Sees Linux Patches But Not Yet Speakers & Other Features  Phoronix

After many years in the making, it finally was merged overnight... The real-time "PREEMPT_RT" kernel support was merged a few hours ago into Linux Git for this year's Linux 6.12 kernel!..

Real-Time "PREEMPT_RT" Support Merged For Linux 6.12  Phoronix

Last Epoch drops the Native Linux version, devs tell players to use Proton  GamingOnLinux

Google Chrome Says Goodbye To Passwords On Windows, Mac, Linux, Android  Forbes

Proton 9.0-3 released and Proton Experimental upgraded for Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Zorin OS Pro 17.2 expands hyper-customization options  Notebookcheck.net

A Simple Guide to Data Visualization on Ubuntu for Beginners  Linux Journal

SparkyLinux 7.5 arrives with updated kernel and software packages  BetaNews

Well this is a hell of a surprise... Microsoft announced today that DirectX will be adopting SPIR-V as the interchange format of the future. Microsoft's DirectX 12 will accept shaders compiled to SPIR-V, the intermediate representation defined by The Khronos Group and commonly associated with Vulkan / OpenGL / OpenCL drivers...

After several weeks of testing Valve has released Proton 9.0-3 as the newest version of this Wine downstream that powers Steam Play for being able to enjoy Windows games on Linux...

Forget Microsoft Windows 11, Zorin OS 17.2 is the Linux-based operating system you need  BetaNews

Vivaldi Is Now Available as a Snap on Linux  How-To Geek

Oliver Smith as the Interim Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical is out with a new status update on Ubuntu 24.10 development and related ambitions. This also includes more details about bringing the KDE Plasma desktop to Ubuntu Core Desktop in Snap form...