Open-source News

Linux Foundation Backs Open Source Agentgateway To Build First AI-Native Data Plane  Open Source For You

Installing Fedora Linux in the Simplest Possible Way  It's FOSS

As another very unfortunate setback for the Asahi Linux project moving forward after Hector Martin left the project as did Asahi Lina pausing work on open-source Apple driver development, Alyssa Rosenzweig announced today that she is stepping away from the project following the successes in bringing up Apple M1 and M2 graphics drivers for Linux...

With Apple M1/M2 Graphics Driver Code Working, Alyssa Rosenzweig Stepping Away From Asahi Linux  Phoronix

AWS, Microsoft and Google unite behind Linux Foundation DocumentDB database to cut enterprise costs and limit vendor lock-in  VentureBeat

These 5 lightweight operating systems can make any slow PC fast  MakeUseOf

APT36 Targets Indian BOSS Linux Using Weaponized .desktop Shortcut Files  GBHackers News

A number of yet-to-be-completed changes/features have been delayed from Fedora 43 to Fedora 44 while permission is granted for a few features to still land late in the Fedora 43 cycle...

I break my Linux install all the time and it’s part of the fun  xda-developers.com

Pro-Islamic State (ISIS) Media Foundation To Release Book On Securing Linux Computer Systems  MEMRI | Middle East Media Research Institute

Microsoft’s open source journey: From 20,000 lines of Linux code to AI at global scale  MarketScreener

CIQ Expands Hardened Rocky Linux to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud  WebProNews

The one-click Linux app I use for instant online anonymity  ZDNET

I switched from GNOME to KDE Plasma on Ubuntu, and here's what to watch out for  xda-developers.com

Earlier this month I ran some benchmarks of Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL driver against AMD ROCm on Strix Halo. Those benchmarks caught many by surprise with how well that Rust-based open-source OpenCL driver was working on AMD GPUs for being a generic OpenCL implementation built atop Mesa's Gallium3D. For those curious about the potential of Rusticl on the Intel graphics side, here are some Battlemage benchmarks for Rusticl up against Intel's official Compute Runtime driver stack.

'Rocky Linux from CIQ - Hardened' Now Available on All Three Major Cloud Marketplaces  PR Newswire

While the Framework 13 was upgraded earlier this year with a motherboard upgrade for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point", the larger Framework 16 has been stuck in the Zen 4 era. But today Framework announced a new upgrade path for this 16-inch modular laptop for the Ryzen AI 300 series as well as NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 discrete graphics...

Linux Foundation extends AI model leadership with new frameworks  SDxCentral

Forget about Windows, macOS, and Linux; these 5 FreeBSD distros are worth checking out  xda-developers.com

LLVM 21.1 is out today as the first stable version of the LLVM 21 compiler stack. This half-year stable release to the open-source LLVM compiler software brings new hardware support, new language features, and a lot of other enhancements throughout this massive and widely-used codebase...