Open-source News

Intel Begins Preparing Linux For Next-Gen DSA 3.0 Accelerators  Phoronix

Denmark’s Government Ditches Microsoft for Open Source  OMG! Ubuntu

LibreOffice 25.8 beta is now available for this popular open-source office suite. LibreOffice 25.8 has been baking many improvements for this popular Microsoft Office alternative and leading office suite option for the Linux desktop...

Back in April at Google Cloud Next was the introduction of the new C4D family of VMs powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. Back on launch day I looked at the C3D vs. C4D performance at some of the smaller, more common VM sizes. In today's article is a look at the top-end performance of the C4D family with 384 vCPUs. For those wondering about the compute potential of the c4d-standard-384, here are some benchmarks of this 192-core / 384-thread EPYC Turin configuration compared to the prior C3D AMD EPYC Genoa based instance that topped out at 360 vCPUs.

Just one week past the notable Vulkan 1.4.317 release, Vulkan 1.4.318 is out with some documentation clarifications plus two new extensions...

Wayland Protocols 1.45 was released today with new staging and experimental protocols for Wayland compositors to begin rolling out...

Kali Linux 2025.2 Released: New Tools, Smartwatch and Car Hacking Added  GBHackers News

Kali Linux 2025.2 Released: Smartwatch Wi-Fi Injection, Android Radio, and Hacking Tools  CybersecurityNews

TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen10 Linux Laptop Unveiled with AMD Ryzen AI 300  9to5Linux

I found a Linux distro that combines the best parts of other operating systems (and it works)  ZDNet

Why I'm leaving Firefox for good - here's the browser I'm using now instead  ZDNet

Introduced last week with Vulkan 1.4.317 was Vulkan Video support for VP9 video decoding. Following that the open-source Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver landed its VK_KHR_video_decode_vp9 support and now similarly the open-source Intel Vulkan driver has too...

Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Initial Support For VP9 Decoding  Phoronix

LibreOffice maker urges Windows 10 users to defect in viral ‘Go Linux, not Windows 11’ campaign  TechRadar

Intel's mythical Big Battlemage GPU pops up in the MESA Linux driver making a launch later this year that little bit more likely  PC Gamer

Why people love Linux  Network World

Is 2025 finally the year of Linux? We asked shoppers at Micro Center  PCWorld

Kali Linux 2025.2 Released with Revamped Kali Menu, 13 New Hacking Tools  9to5Linux

ThinkStation P3 Tiny: Lenovo previews new Gen 2 workstation with Intel Arrow Lake processors, Nvidia RTX GPUs and Linux support  Notebookcheck

Two years ago DreamWorks Animation open-sourced their MoonRay renderer that is an award-winning, state-of-the-art production MCRT renderer used for a number of feature films. Since then they have continued advancing this open-source code as OpenMoonRay and adding more features. The newest feature release of OpenMoonRay is now available with yet more capabilities for this impressive renderer...