Open-source News

Wim Taymans of Red Hat today released PipeWire 1.4 as the newest major update for this leading open-source software to replace PulseAudio, JACK, and other solutions on the modern Linux desktop for managing audio and video streams in a very excellent way...

With the release of Blender 4.3 last November an experimental Vulkan back-end was added and it continues to be improved upon for modernizing this 3D creation suite for digital artists and serving a variety of other purposes. The upcoming Blender 4.4 release will further refine the Vulkan support while later in the year it should be reaching production readiness...

The FreeBSD Foundation paired with resources committed by AMD, Dell, and Framework are working to improve FreeBSD laptop support. In recent months there have been FreeBSD development efforts to improve the power management support with modern laptops as well as a strong focus on enhancing the WiFi driver support. A status update was issued yesterday for highlighting the latest FreeBSD laptops efforts...

FEX 2503 is out as the newest monthly update to this open-source emulator that enables the ability to run Linux x86_64 binaries on Linux ARM64 (AArch64) hosts...

Rui Ueyama released Mold 2.37 today as the newest feature update to this high performance linker as an alternative to GNU Gold and LLVM LLD...

Path of Exile 2 gets a fix for Linux / Steam Deck being detected as cheating  GamingOnLinux

MangoHud performance overlay v0.8.1 reworks FPS metrics, adds FEX stats, fixes bugs  GamingOnLinux

Mesa 25.0.1 released with fixes for Avowed and Total War Warhammer III  GamingOnLinux

Upcoming Huawei PCs could pre-install Linux instead of HarmonyOS  HC Newsroom

7 Malicious Go Packages Target Linux & macOS to Deploy Stealthy Malware Loader  GBHackers

Exploring the Hybrid Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Distribution  Linux Journal

Typosquatted Go Packages Distribute Malware Loader Targeting Linux And MacOS  Information Security Buzz

Another announcement at AMD today beyond the open-source Linux driver fun for the Radeon RX 9070 series is announcing the open-sourcing of Instella as their new fully open 3B parameter language models...

Typosquatting campaign targets financial sector Linux, macOS systems  SC Media

The 4 Best Reasons To Quit Windows And Try Linux In 2025  Forbes

Why the Starship prompt is better than your default on Linux and MacOS  ZDNet

Seeking the latest in Linux? There's a right way and a wrong way to use Distrowatch  ZDNet

Intel Engineers To Return To Working On Habana Labs Linux Driver, Gaudi 3 Expected  Phoronix

After a few Habana Labs driver maintainers left Intel last year and the upstream open-source Habana Labs driver going on rather a hiatus, it looks like Intel software engineers will be returning to work on this upstream Linux kernel driver for supporting the Gaudi AI accelerators...

5 reasons you should swap from Windows to Linux  XDA Developers