Open-source News

5 reasons Windows can be a viable operating system for a NAS  XDA Developers

Need a Windows 10 alternative or still miss XP? This Linux distro is for you - and it's free  ZDNet

Armbian 25.2 Released with Support for New Boards, Linux 6.12 LTS, and More  9to5Linux

Canonical's Contributor License Agreement (CLA) used for various projects they develop around Ubuntu Linux isn't changing itself, but the process for signing the CLA is being improved upon...

Steam Next Fest - February 2025 is live with tons of demos  GamingOnLinux

Intel Linux Driver Preparing VRSR Support For Battlemage GPUs  Phoronix

To help with idle/suspend scenarios use for Intel Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics processors, a set of patches were posted today for the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver for enabling VRAM Self Refresh "VRSR" support...

Gigabyte RX 9070 XT Gaming OC reportedly boost up to 3.24 GHz during Linux benchmark  VideoCardz.com

Sadly the RoadCraft demo is currently broken on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

The HaPlay GO Zero Upcycles an Old Smartphone with postmarketOS and a Slick Pocket Cyberdeck Case  Hackster.io

Jolla Releases Sailfish OS 5.0 With WireGuard VPN, Updated Android Compatibility  Phoronix

For those intrigued by Jolla's Linux-based Sailfish OS mobile phone operating system, Sailfish OS 5.0 is officially out today as the latest iteration of this software stack...

Need a Windows 10 alternative? Still miss XP? This Linux distro is for you - and it's free  ZDNet

After launching the Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors last September, today Intel is expanding the family with the launch of the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P server processors.

In addition to announcing the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P processors along with the Xeon 6 SoC (Granite Rapids D), the Xeon 6300 series are also making a quiet debut today. The Xeon 6300 series is in effect the continuation of the Xeon E series but with little change over the existing Xeon E-2400 processors...

How To Play League Of Legends On A Chromebook?  About Chromebooks

In addition to AMD beginning to queue graphics driver improvements for Linux 6.15, Intel open-source engineers are doing the same and this morning sent out their initial feature pull request to DRM-Next of the i915/Xe kernel graphics/display driver improvements they have been working on for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel...

Intel Preps New Performance Optimizations & Features For Linux 6.15 Graphics Driver  Phoronix

Anti-cheat stops Mecha BREAK running on Desktop Linux but works on Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

GitHub Actions Adds Linux ARM64 Hosted Runners in Public Preview  InfoQ.com