Open-source News

The Servo open-source and Rust-based web browser engine made a lot of progress during the month of October. The project has issued its monthly status report to outline all of the exciting new features made on the engine itself as well as its "servoshell" example web browser application...

KDE Plasma 6.6 continues seeing a lot of development activity while the Plasma 6.5 series is calming down after its first few point releases. Plasma 6.6 landed many more features and improvements this week...

Linux’s Lifeline for Teams: The Unofficial Client Bridging Microsoft’s Gap  WebProNews

Mesa 25.3 is out tonight as the newest quarterly feature release to this set of (predominantly) OpenGL and Vulkan drivers widely used across Linux systems. Mesa 25.3 features numerous Vulkan extensions added to the different open-source drivers, continued enhancements to the OpenGL drivers, and various other changes...

Red Hat Linux bolsters AI assistance  InfoWorld

Ahead of the Wine 11.0 code freeze beginning in early December, Wine 10.19 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for running Windows games and applications on Linux...

Canonical Extends Ubuntu Linux Support for up to 15 Years  The New Stack

Sent out today is likely the last batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver feature updates ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window getting underway around the start of December. And it's an exciting one too from adding a new SMART POWER OLED feature to switching from the Radeon to AMDGPU drivers by default for aging GCN 1.0 Southern Islands and GCN 1.1 Sea Islands GPUs...

AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs Will Default To AMDGPU Driver In Linux 6.19, SMART POWER OLED Added  Phoronix

I used Linux to clean up Windows — and it worked better than expected  MakeUseOf

ollama 0.12.11 released this week as the newest feature update to this easy-to-run method of deploying OpenAI GPT-OSS, DeepSeek-R1, Gemma 3, and other large language models. Exciting with ollama 0.12.11 is that it's now supporting the Vulkan API...

Canonical pushes Ubuntu LTS support even further - if you pay  theregister.com

Guess who’s back? Kaspersky launches new Linux antivirus for $59.99  TechRadar

Vulkan 1.4.333 is out with a handful of fixes plus two new extensions...

Proton 10 update fixes many games on Linux and Steam Deck  How-To Geek

Assetto Corsa Rally has arrived in Early Access - should work well on Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

The Windows president wants it to turn into an 'agentic OS' for some reason  PC Gamer

Valve hopes the Steam Machine will make devs pay more attention to Linux anti-cheat support  PC Guide

AMD's GAIA open-source project as a reminder is their "Generrative AI Is Awesome" quick-setup solution for demonstrating generative AI use on AMD hardware platforms with Ryzen CPUs, Radeon GPUs, and/or Ryzen AI NPUs. GAIA is predominantly Microsoft Windows focused but recently they did introduce limited support for Linux that is currently bound to Vulkan-accelerated GPU support. Out today is AMD GAIA 0.13 as another step forward for this AI demonstrator...

Linux Laptop Pioneer Defects to Qualcomm, Shaking x86’s Open-Source Foundations  WebProNews