Open-source News

5 Windows habits that were sabotaging my Linux experience  How-To Geek

Microsoft's new Azure Linux 4.0 is here, and it could replace Windows Server in the enterprise  ZDNET

Android's Linux Terminal is getting some style with the latest Android 17 QPR1 Beta 6  Android Authority

One month ago we reported on YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in Rust with the help of Claude Code. Since then YSERVER has continued to advance in supporting more X11 functionality thanks to the help of Claude Code (AI) and out today is version 1.3 o this display server...

A security disclosure has been made public today for a yet-to-be-patched arbitrary code execution vulnerability with the KDE Plasma desktop...

Android's Linux Terminal no longer restricts you to a single font and window in QPR1 Beta 6  Android Authority

Android 17 QPR1 Beta 6 brings a major power-user upgrade to the Terminal app  Android Authority

Windows 11's predictive text is the hidden typing tool I never knew I needed  How-To Geek

RootBoard aims to stick a portable Linux PC into your pocket  Stuff South Africa

Linux Looking To Retire A Number Of Old ARM Platforms In Early 2027  Phoronix

It's not only old x86 i486 CPU support being removed from the Linux kernel but a number of older ARM platforms and features are on the chopping block too. A proposal has been laid out for deprecating and then removing a number of outdated ARM platforms and features from the Linux kernel in early 2027...

Back in May the FFmpeg project introduced Vulkan-accelerated decoding for the APV video format. The Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec was being handled using Vulkan shaders in a similar way to how FFmpeg implemented Vulkan acceleration for Apple ProRes. Now there is Vulkan-accelerated APV encoding too...

Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst has landed his latest optimization work to Rusticl in Mesa 26.2. The latest effort for this Rust-based OpenCL driver that works across Gallium3D drivers is around better hardware utilization...

A new release of libjxl is now available for this reference implementation of the JPEG-XL image format, including both image encode and decode support...

Erin Catto who has been developing the Box2D 2D physics engine for games announced the release of Box3D. Box3D is now providing a new open-source 3D physics engine that is forked off from the Box2D code...

KDE Gear 26.04.3 Released as the Last Update in the KDE Gear 26.04 Series  9to5Linux

WSL Gets Its Own Linux Container Runtime with Docker-Like Commands  Linuxiac

Steam Survey - June 2026 shows Linux dip to 3.69%  GamingOnLinux

Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 4 ISO Files on GitHub for Local Testing  gHacks

Wait! Instead of Throwing Away That Old PC, Try One of These 20 Fun Projects  PCMag