Open-source News

Download YouTube Videos in Linux Command Line Using youtube-dl  It's FOSS

Adélie Linux is an Intriguing Independent Distribution  It's FOSS News

Wine 9.11 is now available as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms. With Wine 9.11 we are now roughly at the half-way point before Wine's typical feature freeze and release candidate start that typically begins around early December and this cycle will lead up to the Wine 10.0 stable release in early 2025...

Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham has been working with various KDE designers and developers to establish a new set of Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)...

LibreOffice 24.8 is now available in beta form for those wanting to test this open-source, cross-platform office suite alternative to the likes of Microsoft Office...

Ubuntu’s App Center Now Finally Supports Installation of Local DEB Packages  9to5Linux

Ubuntu's App Center Now Finally Supports Installation of Local DEB Packages  9to5Linux

These Linux Tools Increased My Command-Line Productivity: Here's How  How-To Geek

DeepComputing built the first RISC-V laptop designed to run Ubuntu Linux  TechSpot

Linux 6.11 Bringing "Hardware Replay" Feature For Intel Graphics Debugging  Phoronix

The main set of drm-intel-gt-next patches aiming for the Linux 6.11 kernel were submitted this week to DRM-Next. Most notable with this feature update for the next kernel version is enabling a new hardware replay feature for better reproducing GPU hangs...

cuDNN Download: A Guide  Built In

Make your own USB storage device using embedded Linux  Adafruit Blog

Last month some of the Ubuntu 24.10 desktop plans were laid out such as NVIDIA Wayland by default, a new welcome wizard, and more. Canonical's Oliver Smith has posted an update today around some of the ongoing Ubuntu 24.10 desktop enhancements...

Intel's open-source Vulkan Linux driver "ANV" has reduced the driver start-up time by about half...

Intel Vulkan Driver Halves The Time Required For Startup  Phoronix

AudioThing Wurly, a hybrid vintage electric piano for mac, linux, win, and iOS  Synth Anatomy

VMware Desktop Hypervisors for Windows, Linux, and Mac  VMware

Kernel developer and consultant Johan Hovold spent the last two years working on improving ARM Linux laptop support with a particular focus on the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s powered Qualcomm SoC. Arm funded this Linaro effort and as a result the ThinkPad X13s enjoys pleasant upstream kernel support now. This Arm Linux laptop project has now concluded but sets a nice base for further ARM Linux laptop improvements moving forward...

The Two Year Journey Funded By Arm/Qualcomm For Improving ARM Linux Laptop Support  Phoronix