Open-source News

The creator of Linux has firmly put his foot down against anti-AI sentiment  Windows Central

OPAQUE Joins the Linux Foundation's Appia Foundation and Agentic AI Foundations to Advance Open Standards for Verifiable AI  PR Newswire

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

Today the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D goes on sale as the lowest-price AMD 3D V-Cache processor being marketed for gamers. This 8-core / 16-thread processor features a 4.5GHz boost clock and a total of 104MB of cache while being based on the older Zen 4 architecture and coming in at about $329 USD. Here is a look at how the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D is performing on Linux.

Linus Torvalds tells anti-AI devs to 'fork it'  The Tech Buzz

This is quite unexpected and was not on my bingo card for this year or even decade... The Linux driver for the floppy disk controller in Apple's legacy Super Woz Integrated Machine (SWIM) saw a large set of patches today for improving its performance and delivering various fixes...

Linux Floppy Driver For Apple's Super Woz Integrated Machine "SWIM" In Old Macs Improved  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds puts his foot down, tells anti-AI programmers to 'fork it'  ZDNET

Linus Torvalds says Linux is not "anti-AI", tells haters to 'fork it' and 'just walk away'  TechRadar

The Linux Tax is real—and it's holding desktop Linux back  How-To Geek

Linus Torvalds tells AI critics to fork Linux or walk away  TechSpot

GETAC manufactures a line of rugged/semi-rugged laptops for use in the public safety, defense, industrial manufacturing, oil and gas, and other industries. While shipping with Microsoft Windows out-of-the-box, a new driver has been proposed as GETAC MPMD as a minimal ACPI driver for improving support for these GETAC rugged laptops. In particular, the driver will allow the various programmable buttons on these laptops to work under Linux...

New Linux Driver Improving Support For GETAC Rugged Laptops  Phoronix

Jagex Launcher Linux Beta released for Old School Runescape  GamingOnLinux

The Ubuntu Kernel Team issued a statement this morning to proactively warn Ubuntu Linux users on Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS HWE users that the next kernel point release will contain a performance regression for AMD GPUs in compute-heavy workloads with up to a 42x performance hit. The positive news is that due to this being an upstream regression in a Linux 7.0 point release, upstream stakeholders and other Linux distributions that more quickly shipped the problematic code already have a fix coming down the pipe...

Ubuntu Kernel Team Warns Of Temporary AMD GPU Performance Regression Up To 42x  Phoronix

This one tweak made my Linux PC closer to a Steam machine  MakeUseOf

Now in the upstream linux-firmware.git centralized repository is the firmware binary needed for enabling the Imagination Tech PowerVR BXM-4-64 Rogue GPU found with the Alibaba T-Head TH1520 SoC...

Imagination PowerVR BXM-4-64 GPU Firmware Upstreamed For The T-Head TH1520  Phoronix

Remapping the Useless AI Slop Copilot Key in Linux  It's FOSS