Open-source News

4 Reasons Doom Emacs Should Be Your Next Programming Project  How-To Geek

A few days back we reported on a Meta engineer uncovering an architectural issue with RDSEED usage on AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" CPUs. It ended up being found to affect more CPU models than originally anticipated and a new patch posted to the Linux kernel mailing list would disable RDSEED usage across all AMD Zen 5 processors...

Updated Linux Patch Would Disable RDSEED For All AMD Zen 5 CPUs  Phoronix

Building off yesterday's release of Wine 10.17 is now wine-Staging 10.17 that is carrying 295 extra patches atop the upstream Wine codebase for testing at the leading edge of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux...

LACT 0.8.2 is out this weekend as the newest feature release to this Linux GPU control application. This Rust-based software provides a GUI for controlling AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel GPUs under Linux with various monitoring metrics, information reporting, power configuration, thermals configuration, and overclocking with supported hardware...

LACT 0.8.2 Released For Multi-Vendor Linux GPU Control GUI  Phoronix

With plans to release next Tuesday (21 October), KDE developers this week have been putting the finishing touches on this next open-source desktop update. Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham says he thinks it's going to be "a pretty darn good release" when it officially debuts...

Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"  Neowin

VMware Workstation Pro 25H2 Released with New Features  OMG! Ubuntu

Following the release of Wine 10.16 with initial NTSYNC support from two weeks ago, Wine 10.17 is now available as the latest development release in working toward Wine 11.0 stable in early 2026...

Calibre 8.13 Open-Source E-Book Manager Improves Library Export on Linux  9to5Linux

For those interested in scanning files for malware and other threat detection under Linux and using the GNOME desktop, Lenspect is a new GNOME-aligned application that is a GUI powered by VirusTotal for being a Linux-native security threat scanner...

GNOME Has A New Security Threat Scanner Powered By VirusTotal  Phoronix

I thought WSL was great, but this free tool is even better for running Linux apps on Windows  XDA

Free Steam playtest for upcoming extraction shooter kicks off with a bang — runs on Linux despite Easy Anti-Cheat  Notebookcheck

An interesting technical collaboration between AMD and Intel as well as other industry players like Google, Bytedance, Microsoft, MiTAC, HPE, and others is openSFI. The new openSFI "Open Silicon Firmware Interface" project is aiming to work toward vendor-neutral low-level firmware interfaces for more interoperable firmware solutions across vendors...

Daily Deal: Linux/UNIX Certification Training Bundle  Techdirt.

Talos Linux: Bringing Immutability and Security to Kubernetes Operations  infoq.com

I Gave The Linux cd Command Superpowers, Here's How  How-To Geek

Due to Intel CPU microcode sizes continuing to get larger and late-loading new CPU microcode onto a running system can lead to (brief) disruptions/downtime while the update is applied, future Intel CPUs are introducing a microcode "staging" feature to reduce that microcode updating downtime. The Linux 6.19 kernel in the new year is set to support the Intel microcode staging feature with capable processors...