Open-source News

The APT command has hidden powers, here are 5 of them  How-To Geek

Overwatch has returned with new heroes and a new UI  GamingOnLinux

Two useful bits of ROCm news today for those interested in AMD's open-source GPU compute stack...

Linux Mint January 2026 Report Highlights Record Donations  Linuxiac

The Linux Mint developers have been hard at work continuing to develop new features following their recent Mint 22.3 release. There is continued enhancements around keyboard support, a new administration tool for users, and there are also considerations being made around moving to a longer development cycle between Linux Mint releases...

Linux Mint Developing New Wayland-Compatible Screensaver  Phoronix

This Operating System Quietly Powers AI — and Many of Tomorrow’s Jobs  ucstrategies.com

I automated my most annoying daily Linux tasks and saved hours every week  MakeUseOf

The x86/cpu changes have been merged for Linux 7.0 and include finally setting the default Intel TSX mode to "auto" rather than being off by default...

Linux 7.0 Now Defaults To Intel TSX Auto Mode For Performance Benefits On Newer CPUs  Phoronix

Wireless VR streaming levels up on Linux with the latest WiVRn release  GamingOnLinux

OpenVPN 2.7 Released with Support for DCO Linux Kernel Module, mbedTLS 4  9to5Linux

OpenVPN 2.7 Released With Multi-Socket Server & DCO Linux Kernel Driver Support  Phoronix

For those using the open-source OpenVPN for your virtual private networking (VPN) needs, OpenVPN 2.7 is out today with some notable improvements...

KiCad Aims to Ease Linux Installation, Moves to Self-Contained AppImage Distribution  Hackster.io

Intel today released a new version of their Compute Runtime stack and IGC graphics compiler for Level Zero and OpenCL usage with their integrated and discrete graphics. Separately they also upstreamed more SYCL code this week into mainline LLVM...

IPFire DBL Launches as a Community-Powered Domain Blocking for Everyone  9to5Linux

This new Linux-powered ereader could tempt me away from the Kindle Scribe and reMarkable Paper Pro  TechRadar

Parrot 7.1 Ethical Hacking Distro Released with Enlightenment Spin, Updated Tools  9to5Linux

Parrot OS 7.1 Released with Linux kernel 6.17  Linuxiac