Open-source News

A one-line patch to the HP WMI x86 platform driver for Linux was posted for allowing the HP OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-fb1xxx to correctly hit its rated TDP limit for allowing better performance outside of the Microsoft Windows confines...

LibreOffice 26.2 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

Linux input expert Peter Hutterer of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of libinput 1.31, the input handling library used by both modern X.Org Server and Wayland desktop environments...

AMD announced today an expansion of their FPGA prodict line-up with the Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 for "intelligent, high performance systems" for medical, industrial, and other fields...

Linux Veteran Switches to Windows 11, Finds 9 Problems  findarticles.com

After 30 years with Linux, I switched it for Windows 11 - and found 9 serious problems  ZDNET

I'm a Linux power user, and this distro made me rethink what an operating system can be  ZDNET

While there is the Linuxulator as a kernel-level solution on FreeBSD for running unmodified Linux binaries that can even work for gaming on FreeBSD, running BSD applications on Linux isn't talked about as much. But developers have found that for those wanting to run BSD applications in Linux environments, the urunc lightweight container runtime can work out rather well for efficiently handling BSD apps on Linux...

Leveraging urunc For Efficiently Running BSD Applications In Linux Environments  Phoronix

VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files  theregister.com

In May 2025, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL) shipped with the first steps toward post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to protect against attacks by quantum computers, which will make attacks on existing classic cryptographic algorithms such as RSA and elliptic curves feasible. Cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQC) are still not known to exist, but that does not mean the risk is zero. For example, "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks do not need a quantum computer now, one only needs to become available before the stored encrypted data loses its value, and depending on the transferr

Novel ShadowHS malware targets Linux environments  SC Media

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn: Crypto's future may mirror Linux's decline, the cypherpunk vision has largely failed, and user experience is key to mass adoption | Bankless  Crypto Briefing

Arch Linux February ISO Is Out With Kernel, Desktop, and Security Updates  Linuxiac

Sudo's maintainer needs resources to keep utility updated  theregister.com

A few months ago at SIGGRAPH was a demo of Blender with NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) integration. The pull request is now open for landing NVIDIA DLSS support into Blender for better quality upscaling/denoising and performance but concerns persist over the licensing due to NVIDIA DLSS binaries...

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn: Crypto risks mirroring the Linux movement's decline, user experience is crucial for mass adoption, and funding has advanced zero-knowledge proofs | Bankless  Crypto Briefing

GeForce NOW Linux App beta launches with RTX 5080 cloud streaming for Ubuntu 24.04 plus ten new game titles  Technetbook

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" has signed off on the latest batch of Fedora 44 change proposals as they work toward nearing the end of feature work for this spring update to Fedora Linux. Plus some early changes for Fedora 45 have also been granted...

Dank Fedora MiracleWM & Other Fedora 44 Changes Approved  Phoronix