Open-source News

Linux 6.9-rc4 Brings More Bcachefs Fixes, Native BHI Mitigation  Phoronix

Lakka 5.0 retro gaming Linux-based operating system now available with updated LibreELEC and RetroArch  BetaNews

Going through my usual scanning of all the "-next" Git subsystem branches of new code set to be introduced for the next Linux kernel merge window, a very notable addition was just queued up... Linux 6.10 is set to merge the NTSYNC driver for emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives within the kernel for allowing better performance with Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and Wine of Windows games and other apps on Linux...

Linux 6.10 To Merge NTSYNC Driver For Emulating Windows NT Synchronization Primitives  Phoronix

AMD on Saturday submitted a big batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel graphics driver feature patches ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel cycle...

The OpenJPH project that provides an open-source implementation of JPEG-2000 Part 15 for High Throughput J2K (HTJ2K) / JPH support is working on extending its abilities to handle low-latency High-Throughput JPEG-2000 images and other capabilities...

Miguel de Icaza who founded GNOME and of Mono / Ximian / Xamarin fame is now talking up the greatness of the Godot game engine and the opportunities that are presented with code proposed for mainlining to introduce "LibGodot" to make it easy to embed Godot scenes into other apps...

OpenRazer 3.8 is out today as the newest update to this collection of community-developed, open-source drivers for Razer devices on Linux. OpenRazer allows for Razer device customization and support under Linux to make full use of these gaming peripherals outside of Windows / macOS. Paired with the likes of the Polychromatic UI, OpenRazer allows a nice Razer hardware experience on Linux...

OpenRazer 3.8 Brings Support For Newer Razer Devices On Linux  Phoronix

The Linux 6.9-rc4 weekly test release is due out later today and ahead of that this week's "x86/urgent" material has been sent in that includes several patches for various x86 speculation mitigation fixes...

Audirvāna announces a Linux beta program  Alpha Audio

TUXEDO Unveils World's First Linux-Based Laptop To Feature AMD Ryzen 8040 APUs & RDNA 3 dGPU  Wccftech

TUXEDO Unveils World’s First Linux-Based Laptop To Feature AMD Ryzen 8040 APUs & RDNA 3 dGPU  Wccftech

Master WSL 2: A Concise Guide for Windows Subsystem for Linux  Medium

5 of the most underrated Linux distros  MSN

Ubuntu 24.10 and Debian Trixie Are Getting a Refined APT Command-Line Interface  9to5Linux

Ubuntu 24.10 and Debian Trixie Are Getting a Refined APT Command-Line Interface  9to5Linux

The Linux Process Journey — kdmflush (Kernel Device Mapper Flush)  Medium

Linux 6.10 To Account For NUMA Node When Allocating Per-CPU Cpumasks  Phoronix

In addition to a SLUB optimization for extreme scenarios, faster AES-XTS disk/file encryption for modern Intel/AMD CPUs, and other performance optimizations on the way for Linux 6.10, another minor one was queued up this week...