Open-source News

The 6 best Linux distros for students - from elementary to college  ZDNet

The controversial proposal to replace the upstream X.Org X11 server packages on Fedora Linux with XLibre is not going to happen... At least not for now. The change proposal has been withdrawn prior to being voted on by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo)...

Proposal To Ship XLibre As X11 Server Packages On Fedora Linux Is Withdrawn  Phoronix

Cosmoe: New C++ toolkit for building native Wayland apps  theregister.com

One of the interesting projects engaged in by Mozilla that directly wasn't related to their web browser efforts was DeepSpeech, an embedded/offline speech-to-text engine. To not much surprise given the lack of activity in recent years, last week they finally and formally discontinued the open-source project...

Firefox 141 Promises to Use Less Memory on Linux Systems, Beta Out Now  9to5Linux

3 things Linux needs to have before I can make the swap  XDA

Before Windows 10 goes EOL, I'm testing three alternative Linux distros to save my 6-year-old laptop from the landfill  Tom's Hardware

The AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado"" processors launched by AMD in May for entry-level servers offer downright amazing value, performance, and power efficiency over the Intel Xeon 6300 / Xeon E-2400 series competition. Intel's top-of-stack Xeon 6300 (Xeon 6369P) / Xeon E processors fail to compete with even the mid-tier EPYC 4005 series processors in either performance, power, or cost effectiveness. Among the many advantages to these budget-friendly EPYC processors is having AVX-512 support with a full 512-bit data path compared to the Xeon 6300 series only having AVX2. For providing more insight into the AVX-512 performance impact with the AMD EPYC 4005 series, here are some enabled/disabled comparison benchmarks and how they are positioned relative to the Xeon 6369P server processor.

Linux Foundation Appoints Jonathan Bryce to Lead CNCF  The New Stack

The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged support for the VK_NV_cooperative_matrix2 NVIDIA Vulkan extension but it's hidden by default and only partially supported with a focus on helping FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 and VKD3D-Proton...

Intel Preps Linux PTC "Throttling Control Interface" To Run Hotter For Better Performance  Phoronix

With the Linux 6.16 kernel Intel enabled the new Platform Temperature Control (PTC) interface as part of their int340x thermal driver. Now ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel Intel PTC is being extended to support a Throttling Control Interface for those that may prefer running their system(s) hotter in order to enjoy better performance...

XLibre Promises to Revitalize X11  WebProNews

Google, Linux Foundation push open standard for AI agents  SDxCentral

Broken Arrow devs confirm their anti-cheat will not block Linux, SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) quietly released an official image for WSL — but most of us won't be able to use it  Windows Central

Dutch electronics company Fairphone today announced their Fairphone Gen 6 smartphone as the successor to the Fairphone 5. Fairphone 6 continues to be repair-friendly and was just announced this morning while already the Linux support patches have hit the Linux kernel mailing list...

Fairphone 6 Announced With Same-Day Linux Support Patches  Phoronix

Intel open-source software projects are beginning to relay notices that they may have been developed with support from Intel-operated generative AI solutions...