Open-source News

I Dug Up the Biggest Files on My Linux PC, Here's What I Found  How-To Geek

The X.Org Server has been seeing a lot of commits this week... to revert bad code...

While the Linux 6.16 merge window just passed one week ago, already there are new feature changes beginning to queue for the Linux 6.17 kernel later in the summer...

Prominent AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák this week landed a number of fixes for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code in working to enable medium precision "mediump" support for this open-source graphics driver...

PeaZip 10.5 Brings Major Performance Boost to the File and Archive Manager  9to5Linux

PeaZip 10.5 Brings Major Performance Boost to the File and Archive Manager  9to5Linux

How to Install and Use Linux Apps on a Chromebook  Yahoo

How to Install and Use Linux Apps on a Chromebook  How-To Geek

Linux 6.15 mistakenly shipped with a nasty power regression for some systems, such as those relying on the "nosmt" option to disable Simultaneous Multi-Threading / Hyper Threading. That idle power regression was fixed for Linux 6.15.2 and Linux 6.16 Git by reverting the troubled patch that introduced the regression. Now merged ahead of Linux 6.16-rc2 is a proper fix for that problematic patch so it could be re-merged without the power fallout...

Linux 6.16 Lands Proper Power Management Fix For Code That Caused Power Regression  Phoronix

Why I Love My New Linux Window Manager  How-To Geek

Sasha Levin just sent out an initial "request for comments" patch series for the Linux kernel in aiming to establish a Kernel API Specification Framework...

Denmark ministry says goodbye to Windows & Office 365!  Windows Central

Introduced with this week's Wayland Protocols 1.45 release is adding the Pointer Warp protocol to staging. The SDL hardware/software abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games was quick to merge support for using the native Pointer Warp protocol on Wayland...

This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue and there being a number of recent controversial changes to the desktop platform...

How to manage Linux network connections via nmcli and the terminal  Tom's Hardware

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS published their latest monthly report to outline progress made over the past month...

Haiku OS Restores EXT4 Compatibility, RISC-V Once Again Booting  Phoronix

The 5 Easiest Arch Linux Distros to Get Started With  How-To Geek

While KDE Plasma 6.4 is set for release next week, there are already exciting feature improvements brewing for Plasma 6.5...