Open-source News

The open-source ZLUDA project for bringing CUDA to non-NVIDIA hardware that can run unmodified is out with a new progress report. ZLUDA had a productive fourth quarter with now enjoying better Microsoft Windows support, full support for running Llama.cpp atop ZLUDA, AMD ROCm 7 support, and other enhancements...

Building off today's release of Wine 11.0 for enabling countless Windows applications and games to run well under Linux and being the basis of Valve's Proton for Steam Play, Hangover 11.0 is now available. Hangover is the open-source project that pairs Wine with either the FEX-Emu or Box64 emulators for enabling x86 32-bit and 64-bit Windows games/apps to run on native ARM64 Linux systems...

New VoidLink malware framework targets Linux cloud servers  BleepingComputer

Linux Mint 22.3 is built for users who value stability over surprises  BetaNews

Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical”  Ars Technica

I don’t pay for storage upgrades—this is what I do when Linux is running out of space  MakeUseOf

Wine 11 finally fixes one of the biggest problems with running old Windows apps  BetaNews

Using a modern fork of this 90s Linux desktop was a nostalgic nightmare  XDA

An absolute madman has recreated the Windows 8 UI—for Linux  PC Gamer

Panther Robotics and WICS host Intro to Linux workshop for FIU students  PantherNOW

GYSEME: New Minimalist GNOME Fork Targets Lean, Customizable Linux Desktops  WebProNews

Linux 6.19 Kernel Adds Spectre Mitigations for RISC-V CPUs  WebProNews

To the frustration of many developers and end-users, back in 2022 Google deprecated JPEG-XL support in Chrome/Chromium and proceeded to remove the support. That decision was widely slammed and ultimately Google said they may end up reconsidering it. In November there was renewed activity and interest in restoring JPEG-XL within Google's image web browser and as of yesterday the code was merged...

Linutronix Pivots to Product Focus on Real-Time Linux After Intel Buy  WebProNews

Windows XP home users should upgrade to Linux -- not Windows 8.1  BetaNews

Linux 6.19-rc5: Driver Fixes Boost Stability for AI and Enterprise  WebProNews

ReactOS began 2026 with another "major step" towards Windows NT 6 compatibility with updating its MSVCRT implementation from Wine for the Microsoft C Runtime DLL library. That improved support for a number of Windows applications running on this open-source OS. ReactOS is taking another step-forward now with addressing a very annoying usability issue where up until now you may need to refresh the file manager for seeing folder changes...

Wine 11.0 Brings Fully Supported WoW64 Mode and Linux Kernel NTSync Support  Linuxiac

Linux Mint 22.3 Released, This is What’s New  OMG! Ubuntu

Wine 11 is here with big improvements for Windows apps on Linux  How-To Geek