Open-source News

Clonezilla Live 3.3.1 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS, Improved BitLocker Support  9to5Linux

D7VK is the open-source project that began implementing the Direct3D 7 APIs atop Vulkan and with time the scope expanded to include Direct3D 6 support as well as Direct3D 5 support. Out today is D7VK 1.4 for continuing to enhance the support for these older D3D versions on Vulkan under Linux...

D7VK 1.4 Released With More Improvements For Old Direct3D On Vulkan Under Linux  Phoronix

'We have a new major number purely because I'm easily confused and not good with big numbers' says Linus Torvalds about Linux 7.0 rc1  PC Gamer

Manjaro-Based Mabox Linux 26.02 Released with New Audio Menu  Linuxiac

PyTorch Foundation Announces New Members as Agentic AI Demand Grows  PR Newswire

Google Renews Platinum Membership with the Linux Foundation, Continuing its Ongoing Support for the Open Source Community  PR Newswire

Google Renews Platinum Membership with the Linux Foundation, Continuing its Ongoing Support for the Open Source Community  Yahoo Finance Singapore

Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the React Foundation  Yahoo Finance

Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the React Foundation  PR Newswire

Google Renews Platinum Membership with the Linux Foundation, Continuing its Ongoing Support for the Open Source Community  Morningstar

New Linux Foundation Report Shows Active Open Source Contribution Delivers 2-5x ROI, While Passive Consumption Increases Costly Technical Debt  PR Newswire

Linux Foundation Announces the Election of Panasonic Automotive Systems' Shojiro Nakao and Toshiba Corporation's Yoshitake Kobayashi to the Board of Directors  PR Newswire

Open source participation beats mere consumption by a factor of five  Techzine Global

NVIDIA job listings mention Vulkan and Proton performance work on Linux  VideoCardz.com

Ubuntu-based Winux 11.26.03 arrives with multiple package updates  Notebookcheck

GhostBSD to ditch Xorg for XLibre as Red Hat's Wayland crusade leaves X11 fans out in the cold  theregister.com

Elektrobit and Mobileye partner on safety Linux for L4 autonomy  Just Auto

6 commands to clean up your Ubuntu system from the terminal  How-To Geek

Google Cloud recently launched their N4A series powered by their in-house Axion ARM64 processors. In that launch-day benchmarking last month was looking at how the N4A with Axion compared to their prior-generation ARM64 VMs powered by Ampere Altra. There were dramatic generational gains, but how does the N4A stand up to the AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon instances? Here are some follow-up benchmarks I had done to explore the N4A performance against the Intel Xeon N4 and AMD EPYC N4D series.