Open-source News

Stress-testing toolkit OCCT arrives on Steam with Linux and Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

Building off this morning's release of the Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 is now the updated Intel Compute Runtime 25.22.33944.8 as their June 2025 feature release...

Intel Compute Runtime 25.22.33944.8 Continues Baking Panther Lake, More Optimizations  Phoronix

Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages - potentially bad news for Steam gamers  GamingOnLinux

New Linux Flaws Grant Root Access Across Major Distributions  The420.in

Microsoft’s big lie: Your computer is fine (and you don’t need to buy a new one)  Technical.ly

Google Cloud Donates A2A Protocol to Linux Foundation for Smarter, Secure Communication  GBHackers News

How new tools can fix legacy Linux systems that threaten critical infrastructure  SC Media

Bill Gates just met the creator of Linux for the first time ever — "No major kernel decisions were made" at Azure CTO's dinner  Windows Central

Fedora Linux for a while already stopped building i686 kernel releases and dropped their dedicated i686 repositories while now for the Fedora 44 release there is a proposal to take things further: finish gutting the i686 support. The new change proposal seeks to no longer include packages built for the i686 architecture and thereby dropping multi-lib support for 32-bit packages on 64-bit hosts. There wouldn't be any packages built any longer for i686 under this F44 proposal...

Fedora 44 Looks To Drop i686 Support: No More Multi-Lib / x86 32-bit Packages  Phoronix

Cryptsetup 2.8 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used utility used to setup disk encryption under Linux around the DM-CRYPT kernel functionality for LUKS volumes and more...

Adding to the many graphics driver features to look forward to with next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release is now Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

What tech titans Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates talked about in their first meeting  ZDNet

The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.12.5 release just occurred as the next feature release to this open-source graphics compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime and also by various graphics APIs under Microsoft Windows with the Intel graphics driver...

Google Hands Over Agent2Agent AI Protocol to the Linux Foundation  Analytics India Magazine

Google’s Agent2Agent project moves to Linux Foundation  InfoWorld

openKylin, China’s ambitious open-source operating system steps into the spotlight  vietnamnews.vn

The RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa supports GFX9/Vega graphics cards but not the later CDNA-based Instinct accelerators. However, some patches merged today for Mesa 25.2-devel did introduce some "random bits and pieces" for CDNA but not a full implementation...

Linux Foundation Report Highlights AI Skills Gap and Open Source Adoption  The Fast Mode