Open-source News

After 6 Years, One of Wayland’s Most Annoying Problems is Finally Getting Fixed  It's FOSS

It's fairly rare for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver to hit OpenGL rendering game bugs these days as besides more games going opting for Vulkan API use, RadeonSI is rather robust and very mature at this stage. Recently though a Linux gamer that upgraded to a Radeon RX 9070 XT RDNA4 graphics card noticed that the open-source EDuke32 Duke Nukem 3D build and its derivatives were failing to render properly with the RadeonSI driver...

RadeonSI Driver Lands Fixes For EDuke32 For Those Wanting To Enjoy Duke Nukem 3D In 2026  Phoronix

Wayland is getting a 6-year-long fix for its most annoying quirk, and KDE and GNOME are already implementing it  XDA

KaOS begins tearing systemd apart after dropping KDE Plasma last month  XDA

MX Linux Takes Clear Stance Against Age Verification Requirements  Linuxiac

KaOS Linux 2026.03 Is Out with Linux 6.19, More systemd Components Removed  9to5Linux

Fedora 44 will automatically make your Windows games run faster, no tweaks required  XDA

GIMP 3.2.2 Released with Various Improvements and UI/UX Updates  9to5Linux

It was just two weeks ago that GIMP 3.2 released, one year after the big GIMP 3.0 debut. Out today is GIMP 3.2.2 with various bug fixes, plug-in / file format handling updates, and some minor UI/UX work...

SystemRescue 13 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS, GParted 1.8.1, and More  9to5Linux

AMD's GAIA AI agent framework (that previously stood for "Generative AI Is Awesome" albeit they seemed to have dropped promoting it as that name) for Ryzen AI hardware is out with a new version. AMD GAIA 0.17 introduces Agent UI as a new privacy-first web application for local AI agents...

AMD Introduces GAIA Agent UI For Privacy-First Web App For Local AI Agents  Phoronix

SystemRescue 13 Released With Linux Kernel 6.18 and GParted 1.8.1  Linuxiac

Fedora Linux ships with an ultra-powerful tool most people never even open  How-To Geek

The $0 Windows "Swiss Army Knife" every developer should install today  How-To Geek

Fedora quietly solved Linux's update problem  How-To Geek

The Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due for release tomorrow has a lot of audio fixes/quirks to correct a wide variety of different hardware issues, mostly different problematic laptops for their speakers and/or microphone behavior under Linux...

This one Linux shell character made me feel like a hacker  Yahoo Tech

Last year LLVM began landing their Distributed ThinLTO "DTLTO" support as an enhancement to their ThinLTO approach for link-time optimizations. An improvement merged this week to LLVM addresses a performance bottleneck discovered when adding files to the link...