Open-source News

Vulkan 1.4.317 was made public on Friday with a number of exciting new extensions, including VP9 video decoding for Vulkan Video, 8-bit floating-point data type support, and other additions...

For those making use of GNOME Papers as the increasingly popular document viewer app for the GNOME desktop, a major rework was merged to enhance the annotations experience...

8 things you must try with the Linux Terminal app on your Android phone  Android Authority

June 7 tech news roundup: Windows 11 will stop prompting EU users to use Edge, YouTube Premium Lite will show more ads, KDE is inviting Windows 10 users to switch to Linux  FileHippo

These Are My Favorite 15 Ubuntu Linux Keyboard Shortcuts  How-To Geek

Intel's Clear Linux distribution has made some packaging improvements to help better suit the needs of its users...

Intel's Clear Linux Rolls Out Software Packaging Bundle Improvements  Phoronix

Linux 6.16 Lands Support For EcoNet MIPS Platforms  Phoronix

While there isn't much new MIPS activity taking place due to other CPU architectures like RISC-V and LoongArch taking the interest away, the MIPS code within the Linux kernel does continue seeing enhancements as well as upstreaming of hardware that has long been relegated to downstream kernels...

I've used virtually every Linux distro, but this one has a fresh perspective  ZDNET

Merged on Friday to the Linux 6.16 kernel by way of the USB/Thunderbolt branch was the massive set of patches (12k+ lines of code) for USB offload support for audio devices...

KDE developers are on the final stretch of fixes and polishing ahead of the Plasma 6.4 release next Thursday. Plus there has been plenty of early work building toward Plasma 6.5...

Posted as a request for comments this week were the initial Linux kernel patches for the Hierarchical Constant Bandwidth Server (HCBS)...

Acronis Threat Research Unit Finds New Chaos RAT Variants Targeting Linux, Windows  SMEStreet

Create a Bootable USB Drive for Linux Installations  The New Stack

New AMD code merged today to the mainline Linux 6.16 kernel that's in-development is the introduction of the AMD-SBI driver/subsystem for primarily benefiting EPYC server platforms. AMD-SBI is for their Side-Band Interface also known as the Advanced Platform Management Link (APML)...

Linux Foundation tries to play peacemaker in ongoing WordPress scuffle  theregister.com

New AMD-SBI Code Merged For Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Merged today to Mesa 25.2 is an adjustment for the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver to help with Direct3D games running under Linux with Valve's Steam Play via Proton + VKD3D...

Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Improvement For Helping Direct3D Games Under Steam Play  Phoronix