Open-source News

As expected, Wine 11.0 stable was officially released today. This is a big step forward for this open-source software to run Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Wine also serves as the basis for Valve's Steam Play (Proton) that has been critical to the recent successes of Linux gaming...

Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Vanilla OS vs. Bazzite: Which immutable Linux distro is right for you?  ZDNET

Linus Torvalds has started vibe coding, just not on Linux  TechSpot

Building off this past weekend's Debian 13.3 release is now Debian Libre Live 13.3 images for this derivative that ships the install/live media without any of the non-free firmware assets to remain a free software blessed image...

Linus Torvalds tries vibe coding, world still intact somehow  theregister.com

NVIDIA 580.126.09 Released to Improve Compatibility with Recent Linux Kernels  9to5Linux

New Chinese-Made Malware Framework Targets Linux-Based Cloud Environments  Infosecurity Magazine

I ditched Windows: Flatpak fixed everything I hated about Linux  Cybernews

NVIDIA recommended driver 580.126.09 release for Linux  GamingOnLinux

FFmpeg developer Lynne has landed a number of Vulkan-related imporvements to this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Over the past year FFmpeg saw Vulkan shader-based decoding for more video formats, AV1 and VP9 extension work, performance improvements, and other work around Vulkan Video. It will be very exciting to see how FFmpeg delivers in 2026 with Vulkan Video and how the software ecosystem as a whole begins taking up this cross-platform, open industry standard for video encode/decode...

New VoidLink Cloud-Native Malware Targets Linux Systems With Self-Deletion Capabilities  Cyber Press

5 ways Zorin OS makes switching from Windows feel effortless  How-To Geek

Analysis of VoidLink: A Cloud-Native Malware Threat Targeting Linux Systems  gbhackers.com

AI EdgeLabs Adds Advanced Risk and Compliance Center with Linux Audit Capabilities to Its AI Runtime Platform  01net

New Advanced Linux VoidLink Malware Targets Cloud and container Environments  The Hacker News

3 Linux Mint power-user features nobody talks about  Yahoo! Tech

I was too advanced for Linux Mint until I discovered these 3 power user features  How-To Geek

Kent Overstreet has shipped the latest version of bcachefs-tools, the user-space code complementing the Bcachefs file-system kernel driver. There are a number of improvements present in this latest version with Overstreet remaining committed to advancing Bcachefs even with its current out-of-tree kernel status...

Crashing 3 Times a Week and Stealing Data Secretly? A Programmer's Linux Migration: "Finally Deleted Windows 11 Completely"  36Kr