Open-source News

How much would you spend on building an anti-MacBook?  Android Police

In addition to Friday's very exciting GNOME 48 release candidate with some last minute features, there have also been some other GNOME-related changes this week to call out...

Mesa's Venus driver that allows for 3D graphics acceleration within virtual machines is now able to make use of the Vulkan ray-tracing extensions when using Mesa 25.1-devel along with updated Venus Protocol and Virglrenderer code...

Building off yesterday's release of Wine 10.3 is now Wine-Staging 10.3 for this more experimental version of Wine that is presently shipping 347 experimental/testing patches atop the upstream state...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting KDE Plasma improvements merged for the week...

PoC Exploit Released for Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Out-Of-Bounds Write Vulnerability  CybersecurityNews

From OpenBSD to Linux: How Pledge can Enhance Linux Security  It's FOSS

NVIDIA Releases Linux Display Driver v570  info-mods.com

Linux Kernel Development: Behind the Scenes with an IBM Innovator  IBM

Good News! Google Starts Rolling Out Native Linux Terminal to Android Devices  It's FOSS News

Wine 10.3 was just released as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to run Windows applications and games under Linux and other platforms...

The GNOME 48 release candidate "48.rc" is out this evening as we approach the stable release of the GNOME 48 desktop in two weeks...

Your Android phone will run Debian Linux soon (like some Pixels already can)  ZDNet

At the Vulkanised 2025 conference a few weeks back in Cambridge (UK) there were a few presentations concerning Vulkan Video for this cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode/decode interface...

Google adds Linux Terminal app to Pixel smartphones  Mezha.Media

Handy FOSS tools to tame macOS  The Register

Essential FOSS tools to make macOS suck less  The Register

ExpressVPN Overhauls Linux App, Includes GUI  WebProNews

Ubuntu To Revert "-O3" Optimizations, Continues Quest For Easier ARM64 Installations  Phoronix

Canonical engineer Matthieu Clemenceau has posted a status update on the behalf of the Ubuntu Foundations engineers now half-way through the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle. A number of notable package updates have landed as well as continued work on better ARM64 support and coming to a decision over "-O3" optimized packages...