Open-source News

Queued into the platform-drivers-x86 "for-next" Git branch ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window is introducing the handling for the "Rapid Charge" USB-C charging mode to the Lenovo IdeaPad laptop driver...

Lenovo IdeaPad Linux Driver Adding Support For Rapid Charge Mode  Phoronix

For anyone dealing with Minix file-systems still for this nearly 40 year old creation, the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel is expected to bring some fixes to the Minix driver for better handling corrupted file-system images...

AMD continues preparing more kernel driver code for Linux 6.19. This week another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver updates were submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the early December merge window...

For what began as an Intel open-source project focused on delivering a modern VMM for cloud workloads and written in Rust is seeing increasingly more exposure on AArch64 and Microsoft Windows platforms. In fact, Intel remains largely inactive now with Cloud Hypervisor after their lead maintainer left the company last year and has now been one year since seeing any significant contributions from Intel to this open-source project...

My handheld gaming console is also my portable Linux workstation  XDA

Missing Link: How Linux would continue without Linus Torvalds  heise online

7 Privacy Wins You Can Get This Weekend (Linux-First)  It's FOSS

For those dealing with SquashFS compressed, read-only file-systems, a new version of the user-space tools were released this week...

After 5 years, I’m finally leaving Ubuntu for this Linux distro  MakeUseOf

I used this app to optimize Ubuntu and make it run smoother  XDA

Merged today ahead of the Linux 6.18-rc5 kernel due out on Sunday is a partial fix for a performance regression observed on IBM POWER hardware...

Linux 6.18-rc5 To Cut Down Performance Regression Observed On IBM POWER CPUs  Phoronix

This is Not a PlayStation 5, Just One of the Coolest Linux Gaming PCs Yet  TechEBlog -

I'm finally jumping on the CachyOS bandwagon this weekend  How-To Geek

5 reasons I’ve never used Arch Linux as a daily driver and never will  XDA

Mesa 25.3-rc4 Unleashed: Intel’s Game-Changing Fixes Boost Linux Graphics  WebProNews

Good news for Linux users: This long-requested feature is finally coming to KDE Plasma  Neowin

MKVToolNix 96.0 Released with New CLI Parameter and Improved AV1/IVF Support  9to5Linux

Ryzen AI Software 1.6.1 Advertises Linux Support  Phoronix