Open-source News

VyOS Networks Joins Linux Foundation and OPI Project to Advance Open Networking  The Fast Mode

Just a few weeks after the ROCm 6.3.2 update, ROCm 6.3.3 is out this evening with a few more incremental improvements to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack...

FLOSS Weekly Episode 821: Rocky Linux  Hackaday

The Fedora Project is rolling out expanded coverage of RISC-V hardware moving forward and making it easier for those with RISC-V developer boards to run Fedora Linux...

Fedora Rolling Out More RISC-V Infrastructure & Ready-To-Boot Images  Phoronix

Mesa 25.0 Linux Graphics Stack Brings Vulkan 1.4 Support on RADV, ANV, and NVK  9to5Linux

The Femtofox Pro Is an Ubuntu-Running Single-Board Computer Built with Meshtastic in Mind  Hackster.io

How To Open EXE Files On Chromebook?  About Chromebooks

Mesa 25.0 was officially released today as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan, and video acceleration drivers used on Linux systems by multiple hardware vendors...

BlackLock Ransomware Targets Windows, VMware ESXi, & Linux Environments  GBHackers

Which Was the Best Version of macOS?  How-To Geek

A set of patches were posted today for review by the upstream Linux kernel developers in providing driver support for the Apple web camera and image signal processing (ISP) for Apple M-Series devices. This is enough to get the web camera support working on recent MacBooks while this code is now undergoing review for hopefully being mainlined in the Linux kernel...

Linux Driver Posted For Enabling Apple Web Camera Support For M-Series Macs  Phoronix

I Installed Windows on My Steam Deck, and I'll Never Do It Again  How-To Geek

ReKernel: Linux on a 386, again  Adafruit Blog

Rust Integration in Linux Kernel Faces Challenges but Shows Progress  The New Stack

VKD3D 1.15 is out today as the newest version of this upstream Wine project for implementing the Microsoft Direct3D 12 APIs atop the Vulkan API for better Windows gaming on Linux and other D3D12 workloads on Linux or macOS when paired with MoltenVK...

Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust  Phoronix

Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust  Phoronix

The debate over the Linux kernel's Rust programming language policy continues... While some kernel maintainers are against it, Linus Torvalds has reportedly said he would override maintainers that may be against honoring Rust code. Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman has also been a big proponent of Rust kernel code. He's crafted another Linux kernel mailing list post today outlining the benefits of Rust and encouraging new kernel code/drivers to be in Rust rather than C...