Open-source News

Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 gets OEM support — does that signal the impending death of Ubuntu-based Mint?  BetaNews

Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones  Hackaday

DUCKSIDE from tinyBuild may get BattlEye Anti-Cheat enabled for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Download Apache HTTP Server (free) for Windows and Linux  Gizmodo

IPFire Linux Firewall Gets Post-Quantum Cryptography Support for IPsec Tunnels  9to5Linux

Linux Mint Introducing Regex Searches to Nemo  OMG! Ubuntu

Fwupd 2.0.8 Adds New Plugins to Update the UEFI Signature Database and KEK  9to5Linux

Linux Mint Debian Edition Is Getting Support for OEM Installations with LMDE 7  9to5Linux

AMD announced today they will be hosting a virtual "Advancing AI 2025" event in mid-June where they will talk about their next-gen AMD Instinct accelerators while of much interest to many Phoronix readers is an update on the ROCm open-source software...

OpenSSH 10.0 is now available for this widely-used SSH client/server implementation. There are a number of changes to find with OpenSSH 10.0 including better protections against possible attacks by future quantum computers...

Cute life sim Little Sim World comes to Early Access on May 1  GamingOnLinux

Proton Hotfix updated to fix Monster Hunter Wilds on Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

As part of the announcements coming out today from Google Cloud Next 2025, the embargo has now lifted on the new Google Cloud C4D VMs. Powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors, the new C4D instances deliver incredibly high performance and can scale up to 384 vCPUs with 3TB of RAM. For web servers, databases, CPU-based machine learning, and other workloads, the new Google C4D instances deliver incredible uplift compared to the prior-gen C3D instances. Here are some of the first public, independent benchmarks of Google's new C4D family.

FreeDOS 1.4: Still DOS, still FOSS, more modern than ever  theregister.com

How to Build an HTPC With Linux and a Mini PC  How-To Geek

How to Build an HTPC With Linux and a Mini PC  How-To Geek

The Ubuntu 25.04 release shipping this month will now feature JPEG-XL image format support out-of-the-box...

Ubuntu 25.04 Now Ships With JPEG-XL Support Enabled By Default  Phoronix

Well known open-source AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has landed his most recent conquest: implementing support for 16-bit NIR types within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver along with the LLVM and ACO compiler back-ends...

As a sooner than expected follow-up to the recent news article around Apple M1 / M2 / M3 core support for the GCC compiler, that code has now been successfully merged in time for the upcoming GCC 15 stable compiler release...