Open-source News

Linux promises freedom from Windows, but it demands something harder in return  How-To Geek

Why MakuluLinux AI-OS Became My New Daily Driver  LinuxInsider

GOG working on GOG Galaxy support on Linux  Niche Gamer

Tengu botnet reboots Linux devices to survive removal  Help Net Security

I tested a premium Linux laptop that's as light as it is powerful - here's why I love it  ZDNET

Intel today sent out their latest batch of kernel graphics driver updates that are ready for staging ahead of next month's Linux 7.3 merge window...

Intel Graphics Driver Support For Xe3 "Peak Bandwidth Threshold" Feature In Linux 7.3  Phoronix

I tried COSMIC expecting a half-finished beta, and now I don't want to go back to KDE or GNOME  XDA

Good News Gamers! GOG is Officially Coming to Linux  It's FOSS

These 3 Linux distros are criminally underrated on DistroWatch  How-To Geek

I tried ArchEZ to see if it really makes Arch Linux easy for beginners - and it delivered  ZDNET

Linux Foundation’s OPI Project Releases 1st DPU/IPU Abstraction Framework  HPCwire

Linux developer introduces feature that can boost Steam Deck's 1% low fps by 31%  PC Gamer

GOG is still working on its Galaxy Launcher for Linux with new "specialist on board" - but no release date yet  PC Guide

Valve has been sponsoring Collabora engineers with early phase, exploratory work for trying to bring the open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver to Microsoft Windows...

Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows  Phoronix

A new software creation that debuted this summer was YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in Rust largely by AI via Claude Code. This YSERVER implementation has continued implementing more X11 protocol and other functionality to get more desktop environments and apps working surprisingly okay on this vibe coded X11 server. YSERVER 1.4 is now available as the latest in this quest...

A few weeks ago there was excitement in the FreeBSD camp with FreeBSD 16 set to retire the last of its GPL code from the base system. While the retiring of the dialog code proclaimed that it was the last remaining piece of GPL software in the base system for FreeBSD, it turns out now that there is some GPL code within the FreeBSD kernel...

FreeBSD's Kernel Still Has A Bit Of GPL Code While Its Base User-Space Is GPL-Free  Phoronix

The GCC Steering Committee announced today that they have accepted the recommended policy of the GCC AI Policy Working Group, which means no "legally significant" code contributions made via AI/LLM agents will be accepted into this open-source compiler...