Open-source News

On Friday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD pull request landing more kernel graphics/compute driver improvements in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.2 merge window happening in mid-June...

AMD Expands Zen 6 Family Support In Linux, Indicating A Wider CPU Lineup  Wccftech

Stop memorizing two sets of commands—these 7 work on Windows and Linux  How-To Geek

The latest open-source/Linux patch activity around AMD's next-gen Zen 6 processors is expanding the range of the CPU models detected by the Linux kernel...

Ahead of the 52nd G7 Summit being held in Evian, France next month, the recently conducted G7 Digital and Technology Ministers’ Meeting came to agreement on shared language around open-source AI and on the importance of open-source in AI...

AMD Expands The Range Of Zen 6 CPUs Detected By The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

DistroSea lets users run 50+ Linux distros without installing  Notebookcheck

GNOME Circle as the initiative for third-party/independent software applications and libraries extending the GNOME desktop ecosystem is taking a stand against AI slop. The GNOME Circle policy has been updated to reject low-effort, vibe coded applications/libraries where the developer is not able to take responsibility for the work...

KDE released Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 this week while the current Plasma 6.6 stable series continues seeing fixes as does Plasma 6.8 for what will be the follow-on feature release to Plasma 6.7...

Bottles 64.0 Adds ntsync Support for Running Windows Apps on Linux  Linuxiac

Genode OS 26.05 is out this week as the latest update for this original open-source operating system framework. With Genode OS 26.05, they have taken various features of their general purpose Sculpt OS operating system and turned them into reusable framework features...

Genode OS 26.05 Released, Finishes Moving From GitHub To Codeberg  Phoronix

Intel reduces graphics power consumption with fixed backgrounds on Linux  Foro3D

The Linux MacBook Pro Valencia Basket Vs Panathinaikos (F2rbGOGmjM)  Mshale

Flathub bans LLM-generated code because its submitters were rude about it  XDA

Valve tonight released their beta version of SteamOS 3.8.6 that contains a number of notable enhancements, including native HDMI Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support in initial form...

SteamOS 3.8.6 Beta Released With Initial Native Support For AMD HDMI VRR  Phoronix

Canonical today released the first monthly snapshot of the Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" release...

Linux Foundation Tool Spotlighted: Furious Developers Accuse 'Sickening' Google Gemini CLI Bait-and-Switch  Tech Times

Wine 11.10 marks the latest bi-weekly development release of Wine for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...