Open-source News

This Overlooked Linux Distro Will Give Your Old Laptop a New Life  How-To Geek

Linux, MLK, and the Great Moon Hoax: August 25-August 31 Week in History  Signals AZ

Microsoft investigates a patch breaking dual-boot PCs  The Register

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday borks dual-boot Linux-Windows PCs  The Register

Microsoft security update breaks dual-boot Linux systems using Secure Boot  TechSpot

Microsoft's Latest Security Update Causes Problems On Dual-boot Windows, Linux Systems  Nasdaq

Linux Scores A Surprising Gaming Victory Against Windows 11  Forbes

Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux  GamingOnLinux

5 Linux terminal apps that are better than your default (and why)  ZDNet

Proton VPN Now Supports WireGuard on Linux  How-To Geek

How open source is steering AI down the high road  ZDNet

Intel's uncore Linux platform driver is preparing for a new feature found on newer SoCs: ELC, or Efficiency Latency Control. This ELC feature for the Intel uncore handling allows fine tuning efficiency versus latency characteristics...

Microsoft’s Latest Update Bricks Linux Dual-Boot Systems: How to Fix the Issue  Techopedia

Fwupd 1.9.24 Firmware Updater Adds Support for Capsule-on-Disk for Dell Systems  9to5Linux

As part of Intel's Scalable Video Technology (SVT) initiative they had been developing SVT-HEVC as a BSD-licensed high performance H.265/HEVC video encoder optimized for Xeon Scalable and Xeon D processors. But recently they've changed course and the project has been officially discontinued...

Intel-optimized Clear Linux distro boosts AMD Ryzen 9 9950X performance by up to 16% over already decent Ubuntu gains  Notebookcheck.net

NVIDIA stable driver 560.35.03 released for Linux with Wayland fixes  GamingOnLinux

Microsoft update knocks out Linux computers  Computerworld

This week marks nine years since the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) was started by Richard Hughes of Red Hat to ease the firmware updating/distribution process with the open-source Fwupd firmware updating utility...

Over 9 Years LVFS Has Served Over 110 Million Firmware Files To Linux Systems  Phoronix