Open-source News

It's been another busy week with the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver stack with continued preparations around enabling support for next-generation RDNA4 graphics (as well as continued RDNA3+ / RDNA 3.5 tuning)...

OIN Expands Patent Protection With Larger 'Linux System'  ITPro Today

First Arch Linux ISO Release Powered by Linux 6.9 Is Now Available for Download  9to5Linux

As some more exciting news for upcoming Xe2 graphics with Lunar Lake integrated graphics and Battlemage discrete GPUs, the latest open-source driver activity for Linux has confirmed Xe2 supporting native 64-bit integer arithmetic...

Intel Xe2 Brings Native 64-bit Integer Arithmetic  Phoronix

While the Gentoo Linux project recently established an AI policy to forbid contributions to the project made using any AI tools/assistance and NetBSD also came out with a similar policy against AI-generated code, the Debian project for now has no project-wide policy regarding AI...

May 2024 is now in the books with 285 original news articles written by your's truly last month along with another 14 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. It was an interesting month with some fun new hardware launches, the Linux 6.10 merge window taking place, and other open-source software progress...

It's not too common for Intel to publish new CPU microcode updates outside of their "Patch Tuesday" regiment but that happened yesterday with a Friday night release of new CPU microcode although this time is limited to the Celeron and Pentium Silver families...

Microsoft: Linux is a threat to Windows  ITPro Today

Say goodbye to Microsoft Windows 11 and hello to Ubuntu-based Linux Lite 7.0  BetaNews

Expressed last week was a "major issue" from the GNOME Foundation side with regard to the Sovereign Tech Fund partnership for funding a number of useful improvements to the GNOME software stack just as Germany's STF has been doing to a number of other prominent open-source projects. While there still aren't many clear public details on this "major issue", a Friday night update from the GNOME side seems to indicate all is well and they are also embarking on additional development funding initiatives...

Linux Lite 7.0 “Galena” Officially Released with Xfce 4.18, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  9to5Linux

Vulkan 1.3.286 was released today with a handful of corrections/clarifications as well as one new extension...

Wine 9.10 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to enjoy Windows games/applications on Linux and other operating systems...

CISA warns of actively exploited Linux privilege elevation flaw  BleepingComputer

Windows Subsystem for Linux gets enterprise friendly and plans a settings interface  The Register

Federal agency warns critical Linux vulnerability being actively exploited  Ars Technica

Kernel 6.8 marked for end of life by Linux, with new upgrade ready to go  PC Guide - For The Latest PC Hardware & Tech News

Windows Subsystem for Linux finally gets its big memory update  XDA Developers

NetworkManager 1.48 Improves Detection of 6 GHz Band Capability for Wi-Fi Devices  9to5Linux