Open-source News

Sway 1.12 is out today as the newest feature release of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor powered by the wlroots library...

Ubuntu-based Rhino Linux 2026.1 sports Lomiri support on both desktop and mobile  Notebookcheck

Sway 1.12 Wayland Compositor Released with HDR10 Support via Vulkan Renderer  9to5Linux

Torvalds Tightens Linux Kernel Rules To Reject Deluge Of Low-Value AI Fixes  HotHardware

AppGrid 1.8 Native App Launcher for KDE Plasma 6 Is Out with New Features  9to5Linux

California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law  Yahoo

California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law  Tom's Hardware

⚡ Weekly Recap: Linux Flaws, Defender 0-Days, Router Botnets, and Supply Chain Chaos  The Hacker News

Merged today for what will become Mesa 26.2 next quarter is the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" now supporting the VK_KHR_shader_fma extension...

This criminally underrated Linux distro beats CachyOS in every way that matters  How-To Geek

The New Virtual OS Museum Packs 600 Operating Systems Into a Linux VM  WinBuzzer

An exciting Intel innovation expected to be added for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is introducing the new USB4STREAM protocol for USB4/Thunderbolt as a "super simple" way to "basically just transfer raw packets from one host to another". This can be useful for quickly backing up a system from one host to another, sharing of web cameras or other peripherals across systems, or other environments where not having networking or wanting to avoid the traditional Linux networking stack...

Intel Introducing USB4STREAM Protocol For Linux - Opening Up Some Nifty Uses For USB4  Phoronix

Colorado and California age verification bills exempt open source operating systems  GamingOnLinux

The safety net Windows users miss: How I switched to Linux without over-committing  How-To Geek

With Linux 7.1 ISDN, ham radio, and other old network code was removed in lightening the kernel source tree by around 138 thousand lines of code. Some additional Linux networking code cleaning is expected for Linux 7.2 with the ISA and PCMCIA hardware around ARCnet set to be removed...

Linux To Drop ARCnet Support For Old ISA & PCMCIA Hardware  Phoronix

Valve just let me turn my Android handheld into an unofficial Steam Deck  Android Authority

Redis 8.8 reached GA today for the Redis open-source project providing a high performance, in-memory data store...

MX Linux 25.2 Released with Linux 7.0 AHS Kernel  Linuxiac