Open-source News

Why I run a headless Linux VM just to track my smart devices’ bad behavior  XDA

Since Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite last month, Linux patches for the X2 Elite "Glymur" platform have begun flowing. Among the recent Linux patches for the Snapdragon X2 is this past week seeing initial display support...

Linux Display Driver Patches Posted For The Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite  Phoronix

OK153-S: New single-board computer with Linux features both ARM and RISC-V processors  Notebookcheck

For those evaluating new options for high performance, cross-platform graphics and/or compute for simulations and other purposes, Tellusim Technologies has made their Tellusim Core SDK publicly available via GitHub...

4 Reasons Doom Emacs Should Be Your Next Programming Project  How-To Geek

A few days back we reported on a Meta engineer uncovering an architectural issue with RDSEED usage on AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" CPUs. It ended up being found to affect more CPU models than originally anticipated and a new patch posted to the Linux kernel mailing list would disable RDSEED usage across all AMD Zen 5 processors...

Updated Linux Patch Would Disable RDSEED For All AMD Zen 5 CPUs  Phoronix

Building off yesterday's release of Wine 10.17 is now wine-Staging 10.17 that is carrying 295 extra patches atop the upstream Wine codebase for testing at the leading edge of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux...

LACT 0.8.2 is out this weekend as the newest feature release to this Linux GPU control application. This Rust-based software provides a GUI for controlling AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel GPUs under Linux with various monitoring metrics, information reporting, power configuration, thermals configuration, and overclocking with supported hardware...

LACT 0.8.2 Released For Multi-Vendor Linux GPU Control GUI  Phoronix

With plans to release next Tuesday (21 October), KDE developers this week have been putting the finishing touches on this next open-source desktop update. Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham says he thinks it's going to be "a pretty darn good release" when it officially debuts...

Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"  Neowin

VMware Workstation Pro 25H2 Released with New Features  OMG! Ubuntu

Following the release of Wine 10.16 with initial NTSYNC support from two weeks ago, Wine 10.17 is now available as the latest development release in working toward Wine 11.0 stable in early 2026...

Calibre 8.13 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Library Export on Linux  9to5Linux

For those interested in scanning files for malware and other threat detection under Linux and using the GNOME desktop, Lenspect is a new GNOME-aligned application that is a GUI powered by VirusTotal for being a Linux-native security threat scanner...

GNOME Has A New Security Threat Scanner Powered By VirusTotal  Phoronix

I thought WSL was great, but this free tool is even better for running Linux apps on Windows  XDA

Free Steam playtest for upcoming extraction shooter kicks off with a bang — runs on Linux despite Easy Anti-Cheat  Notebookcheck