Open-source News

Rhino Linux developers are moving away from XFCE - and I'm all for it  ZDNet

Now that the Linux 6.16 kernel merge window closed this weekend, here is a convenient recap of all the interesting features coming in this next kernel release due out as stable around the end of July.

Linux Mint 20 EOL is a Good Reason to Switch to Linux Mint 22  It's FOSS News

5 Reasons I Use Neovim for Text Editing on Linux  How-To Geek

Automate common and boring tasks with Bash Scripts in Linux  Yahoo

While a point release, Mold 2.40.1 is another notable step forward for this high-speed linker alternative to GNU LD/Gold and LLVM LLD. Mold 2.40.1 brings yet more performance improvements...

When it comes to the Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops on Linux it's been primarily focused on the Snapdragon X Elite support with the X Plus SoC support not being as well off yet. But recently there has been more patches surfacing around the Snapdragon X Plus support, including the Adreno X1-45 GPU used by that lower-tier SoC...

Open-Source Linux Driver Preps For Qualcomm Adreno X1-45 GPU Support  Phoronix

The open-source, unofficial VA-API driver implementation for NVIDIA GPUs is out with a new release. The NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver project continues to build VA-API support atop NVIDIA's NVDEC interface to allow the NVIDIA proprietary driver stack to work with VA-API-only applications like the Mozilla Firefox web browser on Linux...

NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.14 Improves Compatibility & Fixes Various Issues  Phoronix

Sway 1.11 Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds Support for Explicit Synchronization  9to5Linux

WordPress and Linux veterans aim to restore trust with FAIR project  Silicon Republic

Sorry Docker: macOS 26 adds native support for Linux containers  AppleInsider

Linux's Turbostat Updated For Intel Diamond Rapids & Bartlett Lake  Phoronix

The turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics along with other CPU information saw some last minute updates during the Linux 6.16 merge window...

Kali GPT-Revolutionizing Penetration Testing with AI on Kali Linux  GBHackers News

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 8th, 2025  9to5Linux

Simon Ser announced the release of Sway 1.11 on Sunday as the newest feature update to this popular i3-inspired Wayland compositor from which the wlroots library was originally born...

Linux 6.16-rc1 is out: What's new and what does it mean for your system?  Neowin

Gradia is a Slick New Screenshot Annotation Tool for Linux  OMG! Ubuntu