Open-source News

Wayland Enjoyed Many Successes In 2023  Phoronix

Installing Icecast on Linux for Your Own Streaming Radio  How-To Geek

AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers At ~70%, AMD openSIL, & AMD Laptops Topped 2023  Phoronix

As part of the various end-of-year Phoronix articles, here's a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source news stories and reviews of 2023...

While the Linux 6.8 merge window isn't opening for another week, the Memory Technology Device (MTD) subsystem updates have already been mailed in to Linus Torvalds for this next merge window...

SPI-NOR Multi-Due Erase Support Ready For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Focusrite Scarlett 4i4 & Other Scarlett Audio Mixers To Be Supported By Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Picked up this week by the Linux sound subsystem's "next" development branch is a number of additions to the Scarlett USB audio mixer driver for supporting this audio hardware under Linux...

Over the course of 2023 on Phoronix were more than 2,780 original news articles and more than 180 Linux hardware reviews / benchmark articles. In the month of December alone were 211 original news articles and 20 featured articles/reviews. Here's a look back at what excited our Linux/open-source crowd over the final month of 2023...

Archcraft: A Customized Lightweight Linux Distro Experience  It's FOSS News

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 31st, 2023 – Happy New Year!  9to5Linux

For this New Year's Eve the decision was made to release Linux 6.7-rc8 to allow for an extra week of testing -- and pushing back the Linux 6.8 merge window further past the holidays -- rather than releasing Linux 6.7 stable today. As such, Linux 6.7-rc8 is out for a final week of testing this new kernel...

Linux 6.7-rc8 Released: A Light Holiday Release With A Couple Fixes  Phoronix

Gentoo Linux Officially Offers Binary Packages  WebProNews

Xorg  Hackaday

Welcome To The Year Of The Diagonal Linux Desktop  Hackaday

OpenCV 4.9 released on Friday as the newest version of this widely-used, open-source computer vision (CV) library...

How to Use Terminal on a Mac: A Beginner's Guide  MUO - MakeUseOf

9 Interesting Distros That You May Have Missed in 2023  It's FOSS News

The GNU Boot project has been in the works as a Coreboot/Libreboot fork focused on "freedom respecting boot firmware" that is free from closed-source and proprietary components. But in working towards its inaugural v0.1 release, they discovered that they had inadvertently been shipping some non-free software around AMD CPU microcode updates and some motherboard ports with non-open-source code...