Open-source News

Why My Kids' First PC Will Run Linux  How-To Geek

Hear me out – a GUI distribution isn’t all that bad for an entry-level home server  XDA

DXVK 2.7 released today as a major feature update for this translation layer for enabling Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 based games and applications to run atop the Vulkan API. DXVK is a critical piece of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) software stack for enabling Windows games on Linux...

DXVK 2.7 Released With Many Improvements & Better Support On Newer Intel GPUs  Phoronix

Hidden flaw in Linux (Ubuntu and Fedora) laptops allows full system compromise  Notebookcheck

SUSE's Agama Installer Switches From X.Org To Wayland For Installation GUI  Phoronix

SUSE developers working on their new operating system installer "Agama" have been making steady progress and on Friday debuted Agama 16. With Agama 16 they have moved from X.Org to Wayland for powering their installer UI along with a number of other changes...

It shouldn't be particularly surprising as Fedora Linux has always been known for shipping with a leading-edge compiler toolchain, but the formalities have now been submitted for Fedora 43 to ship with the latest GNU and LLVM toolchain components...

Fedora 43 GNU & LLVM 21 Toolchain Updates Planned  Phoronix

Closed Zero-Day Market Offers Targeted Exploits for WhatsApp, Android, iOS, macOS, and Linux  StreetInsider

5 Signs You're Ready to Make the Leap to Arch Linux  How-To Geek

Ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc5 kernel expected to be released tomorrow, a round of x86 platform driver updates were merged this week with several fixes as well as some new device additions...

Intel Wildcat Lake HID Support & Dell + ASUS Additions Ahead Of Linux 6.16-rc5  Phoronix

It was another exciting week in the GNOME space to kick off July...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly summary to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop developments for the past week...

Phishing Attack : Deploying Malware on Indian Defense BOSS Linux  cyfirma

Building off Coreboot 25.03 is now the availability of Coreboot 25.06 for further enhancing this open-source system firmware project that continues to see new hardware improvements -- predominantly for Google Chromebook devices but also more Intel platforms and other hardware -- as well as new capabilities to further rival proprietary BIOS solutions...

The Vulkan working group is celebrating the US Independence Day with graphics API independence in today publishing Vulkan 1.4.321 that comes with several new extensions...

Critical Sudo bugs expose major Linux distros to local Root exploits  Security Affairs

Critical Sudo bugs expose major Linux distros to local Root exploits  Security Affairs