Open-source News

Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.9 Released with Linux Kernel 6.13, Docker Support  9to5Linux

Nexus Mods app makes improvements to Collections, fixes Baldur's Gate 3 Script Extender on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Server Operating System Market Hits New High | Major Giants FreeBSD, OpenBSD, ClearOS, Rocky Linux  openPR

FreeBSD is working on S0ix standby power state support for better handling modern Intel and AMD laptops running this popular BSD operating system...

Mozilla Firefox 135 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Fwupd 2.0.5 Firmware Updater Adds Support for More ELAN Fingerprint Readers  9to5Linux

Fwupd 2.0.5 is out today as the newest update to this open-source solution for system and peripheral/device firmware updating under Linux...

Fwupd 2.0.5 Brings Support For More ELAN Fingerprint Readers & Fixes  Phoronix

FuriPhone FLX1: A Debian-powered brick that puts GNOME in your back pocket  The Register

Linux Mint vs MX Linux: Which popular distro should you choose?  Android Authority

Sound Open Firmware 2.12 is now available to succeed the SOF 2.11 release from last September. Sound Open Firmware as a reminder is an open-source audio DSP firmware solution and related SDK/tooling. SOF started out as an open-source Intel project and has successfully evolved into an excellent multi-vendor initiative and platform agnostic...

Void 20250202 comes with Apple Silicon, Lenovo Thinkpad X13s, and Pinebook Pro support  Notebookcheck.net

Intel on Friday released an updated user-space driver for their Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found with Core Ultra SoCs. This user-space driver code works with the IVPU accelerator kernel driver for opening up the Intel NPU for helping speed-up AI workloads on Linux...

Intel NPU Driver 1.13 Released For Core Ultra Linux Systems  Phoronix

Linux 6.14 Released – What’s New  GBHackers

Red Hat engineers have released Tuned 2.25 as the newest version of their alternative to power-profiles-daemon and similar for adaptive performance tuning and monitoring. Tuned ships with various profiles and different capabilities for tuning Linux systems from laptops on battery life up through HPC servers and enterprise storage...

Yesterday just prior to the Linux 6.14-rc1 release were some last minute changes to the Turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree...

Turbostat Preps For Intel Clearwater Forest & Panther Lake  Phoronix

1997 classic adventure The Space Bar upgraded with ScummVM and Linux support  GamingOnLinux

PS2 Emulator emulator PCSX2 should get Wayland support "in the coming months"  GamingOnLinux