Open-source News

Immutable Linux desktops finally cured my upgrade anxiety  XDA

You Can Now Run Debian GNU/Linux on the OpenWrt One Open-Source Router  9to5Linux

The upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle will provide expanded GPU temperature reporting capabilities for Intel graphics cards. Additional temperature sensors will now be exposed under Linux with the Intel Xe driver using the hardware monitoring (HWMON) interface for easy consumption by different Linux user-space software...

Linux 7.0 To Expand Temperature Reporting For Intel Graphics Cards  Phoronix

A significant update to Burn was released today, the MIT and Apache 2.0 licensed tensor library and deep learning framework written in the Rust programming language. Burn 0.20 brings some low-level changes as it continues to strive to deliver high performance AI across the diverse hardware ecosystem...

Zorin OS 18 Hits 2 Million Downloads as Windows Users Migrate to Linux  WebProNews

A Year on Linux Erased My Longing for Windows  filmogaz.com

Opera GX Gaming Browser Confirms Native Linux Version  Linuxiac

Stop swapping keyboards: This free app stitches your Linux and Windows PCs together  How-To Geek

Garuda Linux Publishes First ISO Refresh of 2026 With NVIDIA 590 Drivers  Linuxiac

"Windows is bad software" – GOG to increase its reliance on Linux  Notebookcheck

CD Projekt Criticizes Windows as Linux Support Considered  filmogaz.com

Sent out today was the latest DRM-Misc-Next pull request of new material ahead of the next kernel cycle either Linux 6.20 or 7.0 depending upon what Linus Torvalds decides to call it...

Imagination Driver To Support The TI AM62P SoC In Linux 6.20~7.0  Phoronix

I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows  The Verge

'It's such poor-quality software… I can't believe it!': Owner of big gaming platform is surprised at how bad Windows 11 has got  TechRadar

Whisper.cpp as the open-source high performance inference project built around OpenAI's Whisper and from the same developers as Llama.cpp / GGML is out with a big new release. Whisper.cpp 1.8.3 is capable of delivering a 12x performance boost for systems with integrated AMD and Intel graphics...

Even more AMD ray tracing performance improvements heading to Mesa on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Started last year was D7VK as a project bringing Direct3D 7 implemented over the Vulkan API for enjoying better performance and support for legacy Windows games on Linux, akin to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton for newer versions of Direct3D over Vulkan that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton). Back in December D7VK added a Direct3D 6 front-end for allowing even older game titles to be accelerated using the modern Vulkan API. Today D7VK 1.2 is out for furthering the D3D6 support...

D7VK 1.2 Released For Improving Direct3D 6 Front-End  Phoronix