Open-source News

First Look: Garuda Linux Introduces New COSMIC Edition  9to5Linux

CIQ Delivers Technical Preview of Security Hardened Enterprise Linux  HPCwire

Conky is the Rainmeter alternative for Linux I didn't know I needed  XDA Developers

Wheatstone To Unveil Linux Audio Driver At 2025 NAB Show  TV Technology

CrossOver 25 makes gaming on macOS and Linux even better — could it help gamers ditch Windows 11?  BetaNews

As a sign of the times for both the NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa and the generic Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan code, with next quarter's Mesa 25.1 release when using a NVIDIA Turing GPU or newer with the Nouveau driver stack it will now default to using Zink atop NVK for OpenGL rather than the existing NVC0 Gallium3D driver...

Mesa 25.1 to Replace Nouveau Driver with Zink/NVK by Default for NVIDIA GPUs  9to5Linux

CrossOver 25 Brings Even More Windows Software to Linux & Mac  How-To Geek

How to easily run Windows apps on Linux with Wine  ZDNet

Mesa 25.1 will default to Zink+NVK instead of the old Nouveau OpenGL driver for NVIDIA on Linux  GamingOnLinux

CIQ Delivers Technical Preview of Security Hardened Enterprise Linux  PR Newswire

CodeWeavers that continues to be the largest patron to the development of the open-source Wine software announced today CrossOver 25.0 as the newest version of their commercial downstream...

CrossOver 25.0 Announced - Built Atop Wine 10.0 For Linux & macOS  Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6.3.3 Implements Battery Charge Threshold Support for More Devices  9to5Linux

IPFire Hardened Linux Firewall Distro Is Now Powered by Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS  9to5Linux

Will you use Android's native Linux Terminal app?  Android Police

SUSE CEO: Enterprise Linux where ‘choice happens'  ComputerWeekly.com

Completely ridiculous online 1v1 shooter STRAFTAT added a Linux version  GamingOnLinux

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Delivers Excellent Performance For Linux Developers, Creators & Technical Computing  Phoronix

Ahead of tomorrow's availability of the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPUs in retail channels, today the embargo lifts on being able to deliver Ryzen 9 9950X3D reviews and performance benchmarks. Simply put, for Linux creators, developers, enthusiasts, and others running technical computing workloads and other similar tasks on their desktop, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D with its 16 cores / 32 threads and 144MB total cache makes for an excellent desktop CPU. In this review are around 400 Linux benchmarks looking at the captivating performance and competitive power efficiency of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D.