Open-source News

Canonical today shipped Mir 2.18 as the latest version of this set of open-source libraries for assembly Wayland-based shells. Mir 2.18 brings a number of new features including Wayland server-side decorations...

Ahead of the Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" laptops beginning to ship starting next week, the Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.8 is now available as the latest software update for embracing the Intel NPU for AI offloading...

Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.8 Released Ahead Of Lunar Lake  Phoronix

Windows Users Can Get a Taste of Linux With These 5 Distros  MUO - MakeUseOf

SDesk 2024.09.16 launches with new drivers while shifting from Calamares to the GNOME first-run wizard  Notebookcheck.net

These Linux distributions are best for developers - here's why  ZDNet

Jakub Kicinski submitted the networking subsystem updates over the weekend for the Linux 6.12 merge window. Most notable this cycle is Device Memory TCP for zero-copy receive of TCP payloads to DMA-BUF regions...

Wind River Unveils Game-Changing Enterprise Linux Offering for AI and Critical Workloads  Business Wire

Best Linux training provider and online course of 2024  TechRadar

Linux Foundation Launches Decentralized Trust with Hedera and 100+ Members, Introducing Key Projects Hiero and Lockness  Bybit Learn

Linux Foundation Launches Decentralized Trust with Hedera and 100+ Members, Introducing Key Projects Hiero and Lockness  Bybit Learn

The FreeBSD camp today released FreeBSD 13.4 as the newest point release to the FreeBSD 13 stable series for those that haven't yet migrated to the FreeBSD 14 series...

Red Hat engineer Paolo Bonzini submitted the initial batch of KVM changes targeting the Linux 6.12 kernel. This is just the first batch and notably lacking all of the KVM x86 Intel/AMD changes for the cycle. But in the non-x86 space there is a fair amount of activity for this next kernel version for those making use of KVM as part of the open-source virtualization stack...

Device Memory TCP Included With The Networking Changes For Linux 6.12  Phoronix

ARM / RISC-V / LoongArch KVM Updates Submitted For Linux 6.12  Phoronix

free5GC Joins Linux Foundation to Strengthen Open Source 5G Network Development  The Fast Mode

AMD today made public their RDNA 3.5 instruction set architecture (ISA) programming guide for these updated RDNA3 graphics found within new Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" APUs thus far...

Lilbits: Furi FLX1 Linux smartphone, Tile’s new Bluetooth trackers, and Haiki OS R1 Beta 5  Liliputing

Initial Raspberry Pi 5 Support & More Snapdragon X1 Laptops Submitted For Linux 6.12  Phoronix

All of the ARM SoC and platform updates have been sent out for the Linux 6.12 merge window. Exciting this cycle is finally having initial support for the Raspberry Pi 5 plus supporting several more Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops...