Open-source News

I Used macOS for Years. Here's Why I Prefer Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

NVIDIA 550.78 released fixing issues for RTX 4xxx series GPUs notebooks  GamingOnLinux

This terminal app uses AI to help you understand the command line  ZDNet

Vodafone joins Linux edge group in industry push  Mobile World Live

How to create a bootable Linux USB drive  ZDNet

Punting GPU Drivers From The Initramfs Due To Ever Increasing Firmware Bloat  Phoronix

For now Fedora / Red Hat is not making any immediate changes, but the ever increasing sizes of required GPU firmware files is causing Linux distribution vendors to re-think including GPU kernel graphics drivers as part of the initramfs...

Popular terminal tool you could use on Windows and WSL is no more, but there are already some great alternatives  Windows Central

Following last week's release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Canonical has now rolled out Landscape 24.04 LTS as the first long-term support version of this commercial software for managing a fleet of Ubuntu systems from a web-based portal. Landscape is part of the Ubuntu Pro subscription package and from the web-based environment makes it easier to manage Ubuntu systems in the enterprise...

Queued up as part of the DeviceMapper dm-crypt changes for Linux 6.10 is adding a new "high priority" option...

DRM Buddy & AMDGPU Wired Up For Clear Page Tracking In Linux 6.10  Phoronix

Sent in to DRM-Next as part of last week's drm-misc-next changes is implementing support for tracking cleared free memory and is initially wired up for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver...

GEEKOM XT12 Pro review – Part 3: Ubuntu 24.04 on an Intel Core i9-12900H mini PC  CNX Software

April 2024 is now in the books after writing 257 original Linux/open-source-related news articles and another 13 featured articles / Linux hardware reviews. Here's a look back at the most exciting (popular) content from April...

Andy Jassy Envisions Amazon Chatbot 'Q' Helping Developer's Move Away From Microsoft Windows To Linux: 'It's ...  Benzinga

4 tools Steam Deck and Linux gamers need to install  Notebookcheck.net

Back in 2019 Microsoft open-sourced Cascadia Code as a font designed for terminals and code editors. The goals are similar to that of Intel's more recent One Mono as another open-source font for developers. It's been three years since the last update to the Cascadia Code open-source font while today rolled out version 2404.23...

Redox OS as the from-scratch, Rust-written open-source operating system had a successful April with now having USB keyboards and mice now working with their USB HID driver...

Linux Mint 22 Will Include Preinstalled App for Matrix  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Mint 22 Will Include a Matrix App as IRC Ditched  OMG! Ubuntu!