Open-source News

Linux Ready With Fix For Old Intel Pentium 4 CPUs Following Copy & Paste Fail  Phoronix

Rusticl lead developer Karol Herbst of Red Hat has merged a set of patches for this Rust-written open-source OpenCL driver to reduce the amount of memory allocations that happen and in turn helping reduce CPU overhead...

IceWM Is out this weekend as the newest feature release to this X11 window manager known for its speedy and simplicity...

Sindoor Dropper: The Malware Using the India-Pakistan Clash to Infect Linux  Red Hot Cyber

ZOTAC Zone Pro to feature Ryzen HX 370, 7″ OLED screen, 32GB RAM and Manjaro Linux  VideoCardz.com

RG40XX H Handheld Game Console, 4" IPS Screen Linux System 3200mAh Battery With RGB Colorful Joystick Lighting, Built In 128G TF Card & 10000 Games, Support WiFi Bluetooth (64G+128G, Black  The Michigan Review

This week's round of HID subsystem "fixes" for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel include adding a number of new device IDs and other alterations for supporting new hardware...

Linux 6.17 Adds Support For Logitech G PRO 2 LIGHTSPEED, Wacom Art Pen 2 & More  Phoronix

This Free and Open-Source App for Linux Helps Keep My Important Documents Safe  How-To Geek

Genode OS 25.08: Fair Scheduler, Linux 6.12 Drivers, and seL4 Upgrades  WebProNews

Fwupd 2.0.14 Boosts Linux Firmware with New Device Support and Fixes  WebProNews

Btrfs Maintainer Josef Bacik Leaves Meta, Steps Back from Linux Dev  WebProNews

Linus Torvalds Reclassifies Bcachefs as Externally Maintained in Linux Kernel  WebProNews

After switching to Linux, I finally stopped believing the myth that intimidated me  xda-developers.com

6 Open-Source Apps for Linux Gamers  How-To Geek

Wayfire 0.10 was released this week and its integration with the underlying wlroots rendering code has been overhauled. In turn this opens up Wayfire to having experimental support for rendering using the Vulkan API...

The FreeBSD project on Friday published their quarterly status report to highlight all of the interesting changes for Q2'2025. Among the recent FreeBSD efforts have been on "bsd-user-4-linux" to allow FreeBSD binaries to run unmodified on Linux systems. FreeBSD is also coming up with a policy around AI/LLM usage for contributing to the project. Additionally, Sylve is taking shape as a new web-based unified system management platform for FreeBSD systems...

bsd-user-4-linux Lets FreeBSD Binaries Run Unmodified On Linux  Phoronix

Wine 10.14 released with library upgrades, network improvements, and bug fixes  BetaNews

20-year-old ATI Radeon GPUs are still getting driver updates and extensions — old ATI Radeon R300 GPUs receive Linux updates from the community  Tom's Hardware