Open-source News

Top Linux Distros for Beginners  GeekSided

The Rust-based, open-source Servo web engine had a very eventful month as the developers involved continue advancing this browser engine as well as their example/reference web browser...

AMD Preferred Core Fix Lands Ahead Of Linux 6.11-rc6  Phoronix

This week's batch of power management fixes for the Linux 6.11 kernel are just a set of three patches for AMD processors...

Why I've Gone All In on Fedora Silverblue  How-To Geek

I've tested dozens of operating systems. Fedora 40 beta is the fastest I've tried  ZDNet

A new AVX2 code path for FFmpeg's VVC decoding "vvcdec" is helping provide significant speed-ups for CPU-based H.266 decoding...

Jonas Ådahl released Wayland-Protocols 1.37 as the newest update to this defined set of Wayland protocols. With the new release there are three new protocols added plus various other maintenance items addressed within the Wayland-Protocols repository...

Plasma 6.2 this week entered its soft feature freeze ahead of the Plasma 6.2 stable release in October. The focus now is on bug-fixing for Plasma 6.2 and at the moment they are at 301 bug reports, which is their lowest amount going back to 2015. The KDE developers hope over the next month to drop that to less than 200 bug reports...

Using RISC-V cores on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 board and RP2350 MCU - From blinking an LED to building Linux  CNX Software

Using RISC-V cores on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 board and RP2350 MCU – From blinking an LED to building Linux  CNX Software

I am a complete acolyte of the Great...Richard Stallman !!! - Linux - Thailand News, Travel & Forum  ASEAN NOW

AI+OS, Famous Linux Distribution deepin 23 Officially Released  openPR

The Ultimate Fire Island Survival Guide (According to Linux)  Papermag

How LinkedIn migrated from Red Hat to Azure Linux  Techzine Europe

Following the pull request from earlier this week that enables Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics by default for Linux 6.12, a final set of feature updates for the Intel kernel graphics driver have been submitted ahead of this next kernel cycle...

Intel Battlemage Battles More Linux 6.12 Kernel Graphics Driver Changes  Phoronix

Intel To Push Out Xe2 Graphics Enablement At Linux By Default In Upcoming 6.12 Kernel  Wccftech

Following last week's Vulkan 1.3.294 with pipeline binary extension, Vulkan 1.3.295 is out today and it too introduces a prominent new extension...

Linux Kernel 6.12 sees optional QR code during kernel panics  Tom's Hardware