Open-source News

With last month's GNOME 49 release, the 32-bit Compatibility extension for the GNOME Flatpak Runtime is no more. This is part of the broader effort of phasing out 32-bit support...

As part of Blender continuing to build out the Vulkan API capabilities for this open-source 3D modeling software, a proof of concept merge request was opened for beginning to make use of Vulkan ray queries...

Ghostty 1.2 Adds Quick Terminal on Linux, Command Palette + More  OMG! Ubuntu

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 12th, 2025  9to5Linux

Ubuntu 25.10 Launch Hit by Flatpak Glitch from AppArmor Security  WebProNews

Solus Linux Sets 2025 Epoch Bump to Reset Repos and Cut Tech Debt  WebProNews

Linux 6.18-rc1 is now available for testing with the Linux 6.18 merge window closed. Linux 6.18 will be out in December and is anticipated to become this year's Linux LTS kernel version...

Linux 6.18-rc1 Released With New Tyr & Rocket Drivers, Haptic Touchpads & DM-PCACHE  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.18 Release Candidate  9to5Linux

Intel Simplifies Linux P-State for Hybrid CPUs, Boosts Lunar Lake Efficiency  WebProNews

Linux Kernel Disables Default TPM Bus Encryption for Performance Gains  WebProNews

Zorin OS 18 is Here to Replace Windows 10  Thurrott.com

Say goodbye to Linux audio headaches: how PipeWire simplifies everything  XDA

Linux 6.18 Kernel: Intel Hybrid Optimizations Boost Performance  WebProNews

Linux Kernel 6.16 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.17  9to5Linux

Well, here is a weekend surprise... Red Hat engineer and Rusticl lead developer Karol Herbst has opened a Mesa merge request for "CLUDA" as a compute-only driver that implements the Gallium3D API atop the NVIDIA CUDA driver API. Wow...

Intel engineers continue working on SR-IOV support for the Xe open-source kernel driver as part of Project Battlematrix for ensuring good virtualization support for the latest Intel GPUs on Linux...

Patches were posted this week for implementing Microsoft's extensions around the ACPI fan device for allowing the operating system to set fan speed trip points. In turn this should help some HP systems and likely other OEMs too in getting fan information working under Linux...

Git developers have been talking in recent weeks around release plans for Git 3.0. If all goes well we could potentially see Git 3.0 released before the end of 2026...

The first beta release of the FreeBSD 15 operating system is now available for testing...