Open-source News

Nitrux 5.1 Drops Virtual Machine Support and Shifts Fully to Bare Metal  Linuxiac

Immutable Distro Nitrux 5.1 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS, New Tools  9to5Linux

AMD highlights ROCm 7.2.2 at CES 2026 with Ryzen AI 400 support and a single Windows plus Linux release  VideoCardz.com

The Linux kernel's "new mount API" that has been in the kernel since 2019 and recently made rounds for taking 6+ years to land the man page documentation on it will soon be the the only mount API internally within the kernel. Removing the "old" Linux kernel mount API internals is a candidate for the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel cycle...

Linux's Old Mount API Code On The Chopping Block For The 7.0 Kernel  Phoronix

The Gentoo Linux project published their 2025 retrospective this week with their many accomplishments, including the recruitment of four more developers and now being up to 31,663 ebuilds and a total of 89GB worth of x86_64 binary packages on mirrors...

2026 could be the year of the (KDE) Linux desktop  How-To Geek

Nvidia Expands GeForce Now to Linux and Fire TV at CES 2026  WebProNews

Nvidia’s GeForce Now Lands On Fire TV Sticks And Linux  findarticles.com

Qualcomm, Linaro Submit Linux Patches for Snapdragon X1 Elite Acer Laptop  WebProNews

Jellyfin Marks 7 Years With Major Desktop App Changes  Linuxiac

Apple SMC Power Driver Submitted to Linux Kernel for Silicon MacBooks  WebProNews

First Look at Devuan GNU+Linux 6 “Excalibur” on Raspberry Pi 5  9to5Linux

2025 Mesa Drivers Surge: Valve, AMD Boost Linux Gaming  WebProNews

Linux Developers Debate Disabling Middle-Click Paste in GNOME, Firefox for Wayland  WebProNews

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved a Fedora 44 change for switching all KDE variants away from using the SDDM display manager to instead use the newer Plasma Login Manager...

All Fedora 44 KDE Variants To Use Plasma Login Manager Rather Than SDDM  Phoronix

Red Hat Expands Collaboration with NVIDIA to Pair Enterprise Open Source with Rack-Scale AI for Faster, Production-Ready Innovation  WebWire

OpenSnitch: Open-Source Linux Firewall for Network Security  WebProNews

KDE Plasma finally fixed a bug that's been annoying me for over a year  How-To Geek