Open-source News

It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma space with the start of a big new feature landing for the Plasma 6.4 desktop...

In the past few days there has been an uptick in patches merged for the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite around "Qt Weld" that has been seeing an increasing number of patches over the past few months for enhancing the Qt toolkit integration...

One of many Linux kernel patch series that NVIDIA has been working on recently to upstream to the mainline Linux kernel are the adjustments needed for Linux running on their newest Smart Switch networking products for the data center...

NVIDIA Upstreaming Work For Linux On Their Smart Switch SN4280, SN5610, SN5640  Phoronix

HelloKitty Ransomware Returns, Launching Attacks on Windows, Linux, and ESXi Environments  GBHackers News

Ubuntu Vs. Debian: A Look At Beginner Friendly Linux Distribution  Simplilearn.com

ELFDICOM: PoC Malware Polyglot Exploiting Linux-Based Medical Devices  Security Boulevard

GNOME 48 made Decibels the desktop's official audio player and in doing so also became the first GNOME core application written in the TypeScript porting language. There's now a second core app for GNOME written in TypeScript...

After several ROCm 6.3 point releases, AMD today rolled out ROCm 6.4 as the next update to their open-source GPU/accelerator compute stack and ahead of their big Advancing AI event in June where they will talk about future ROCm work...

Running Linux 6.15 vs. 6.14 Performance With The AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360  Phoronix

So far my testing this week of the Linux 6.15 kernel in its early, post-RC1 state has been going well. No major upsets, yet to uncover any significant performance regressions, and overall has been going smoothly with the many new features/changes in Linux 6.15...

10 Things You Should Do Right After Installing Fedora Linux  How-To Geek

10 Things You Should Do Right After Installing Fedora Linux  How-To Geek

The latest Marvel Rivals update is causing problems on Linux - here's a quick workaround  GamingOnLinux

Intel Preps VRR Refactoring For Linux 6.16, More Xe3 Panther Lake Display Enablement  Phoronix

Intel graphics driver engineers today sent out their first batch of feature updates to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of the next Linux 6.16 kernel cycle...

ParticleOS: Systemd's Very Own Linux Distro in Making  It's FOSS News

The most important experimental distro you've never heard of gets new project lead  theregister.com

Ubuntu 25.04 vs. Fedora Workstation 42 Performance On AMD Strix Point  Phoronix

With both Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 releasing this month you may be curious how these two Linux distributions are competing for performance. Well, it's a very tight race for common Intel/AMD x86_64 hardware. In this article are some benchmarks looking at clean installs of Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42 on AMD Strix Point.