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Steam Frame VR Headset Sees Mainline Support With Linux 7.4

The mainline Linux 7.4 kernel will be capable of running on the Steam Frame VR headset…

Ubuntu firmware HWE will prevent issues on older kernel

Ubuntu is planning a new linux-firmware-hwe package, in an effort to reduce the risk of firmware updates for newer kernels causing problems for users running older ones. On Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) releases, you can stick with the standard (GA) kernel it was released with for the duration of its support period, or you can install the HWE update, which brings newer Linux kernel versions to…

Wine Merges Support For MESA_map_buffer_client_pointer To Improve WoW64 32-bit OpenGL

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on )
  • Story Type: News Story

An initiative led by CodeWeavers this year has come to fruition for improving OpenGL support with WoW64 for bettering Windows 32-bit application/game support while using 64-bit system libraries…

Robinson: Raspberry Pi 5 on Fedora

Peter Robinson has written a blog post about the current state of Fedora support for Raspberry Pi 5 devices. According to Robinson, the upcoming Fedora 45 release will work—with caveats—on all variants of the Raspberry Pi Model 5B; the Compute Module 5 and Pi 500+ are still works in progress. For Fedora 44 release you need to have a temporary…

(Updated) ESP-Mosaico centers dual-core RISC-V ESP32-S31 around a 2.16-inch square AMOLED

  • LinuxGizmos.com; By Giorgio Mendoza (Posted by bob on )
  • Groups: Multimedia; Story Type: News Story

The Espressif ESP-Mosaico is an expandable smart-interaction development kit based on the ESP32-S31 microcontroller. The compact device integrates a 2.16-inch square touch display, audio hardware, motion and magnetic sensors, NAND storage, haptic feedback and dual expansion interfaces for HMI, edge voice and multimedia applications. The ESP32-S31NRV16 at the center of the board provides two…

LXer now speaks Markdown

LXer's forums, story submissions and private mail now use Markdown, the plain-text way of formatting made popular by GitHub and others, complete with tables, footnotes and LaTeX math. Here is how it works on LXer, and how sixty years of text formatters, from RUNOFF to BBCode, led to it.

In a Setback to VMWare, Tesco is Looking to Migrate to Proxmox

  • It's FOSS; By Sourav Rudra (Posted by bob on )
  • Story Type: News Story

Tired of the rising licensing cost of VMWare, Tesco seems to be looking to switch to Proxmox.

Accelerating HTTP Web Servers With In-Kernel eBPF Deliver Up To 4.5x Throughput

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on )
  • Groups: Kernel; Story Type: News Story

An interesting new open-source project born out of university research is Beeper to provide application-layer parsing within the in-kernel eBPF. With an HTTP parser implemented by Beeper in eBPF and providing an in-kernel HTTP cache, the throughput for web servers could be improved by 3x at high rates…

KWin-Type Introduced To Address KDE Wayland Usability Gap For Auto-Typing Text

Open-source developer Jason Donenfeld known for his work on WireGuard announced today the release of kwin-type. KWin-type is a new Wayland-compatible program for auto-typing text from the standard input under the KWin Wayland compositor…

Intel IPU8 Support Upstreamed In Linux 7.4 For Nova Lake Laptops

The media subsystem changes have been merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel. Most notable is Intel IPU8 support being introduced for the next-gen image processing unit in high-end Nova Lake laptops..

BSD Users Can Now Enjoy Omarchy Flavor

  • It's FOSS; By Sourav Rudra (Posted by bob on )
  • Story Type: News Story
Daemonarchy keeps Omarchy’s installer and look, with FreeBSD handling the system underneath.

Navigating Open Source Software Development in the Generative AI Era: Balancing Velocity and Community Health

Over the past three decades, open source communities have absorbed one massive technological shift after another: the emergence of the web, the mobile revolution, and the rise of cloud native infrastructure. Through each transition, our ecosystem adapted, strengthened its collaborative norms, and grew more resilient. Yet generative AI introduces a fundamentally distinct dynamic, directly…

KMSCON 10.1 Released With Support For Per-Monitor Configurations

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on )
  • Groups: Kernel, Linux; Story Type: News Story
KMSCON as the user-space terminal emulator targeting Linux DRM/KMS interfaces as an alternative to the in-kernel VT now is able to individually configure monitors in multi-monitor setups. Plus a variety of other improvements with today's KMSCON 10.1 release…

Linux 7.4 Preps CXL For Very Neat Dynamic Capacity Devices "DCD"

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on )
  • Groups: Kernel, Linux; Story Type: News Story
The Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem changes were merged today for the Linux 7.4 kernel. The fun work this cycle is preparing to support Dynamic Capacity Devices…

FOSS Office DevRoom Call for Papers

We are inviting proposals for talks about “FOSS Office Software and Suites“. Office productivity software is one of the oldest and most interesting FOSS categories packed with developer interest. It is also an area where lots of new solutions are arriving with new desktop, web-based and mobile editors, as well

Systemd Creator’s Startup Opens Signups for Private Preview of its Linux System

  • It's FOSS; By Sourav Rudra (Posted by bob on )
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Amutable Foundations is a read-only, image-based system where every machine produces signed reports of its own state.

A New Framework for Open Source AI

  • The Mozilla Blog (Posted by bob on )
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Mozilla
Open or closed AI isn’t a fringe question anymore; it’s a live policy debate, with real consequences for who gets to build, audit, and compete in the AI ecosystem. But as that debate plays out in Washington, Brussels, and beyond, the harder questions are still very much up for discussion. What does meaningful openness actually […]

openSUSE Board Election 2026 Begins

  • openSUSE News; By openSUSE Election Committee (Posted by bob on )
  • Story Type: News Story
The openSUSE Election Committee has announced the start of the 2026 openSUSE Board Election. Three Board seats are up for election, and all eligible openSUSE members are encouraged to take part. The openSUSE Board asked for the election to be completed by Dec. 1, 2026, as outlined in Board ticket…

PHP2Shell scare sees SuperTuxKart pull its online server

  • OMG! Ubuntu; By Joey Sneddon (Posted by bob on )
  • Groups: PHP, Ubuntu; Story Type: News Story
SuperTuxKart has taken several online services offline, having pulled the server that powers them rather than risk it being exploited by PHP2shell. The open-source karting game is not alone in ‘pitting’ to patch, with Wikimedia, DeviantArt, government websites and many more taking various systems offline to harden against it. While offline, gamers can’t reset their online account passwords, check…

Snapdragon X1 Elite / Acer Swift 14 AI Performance On The Ubuntu 26.10 X1E Concept

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on )
  • Groups: Ubuntu; Story Type: News Story
For those curious about the Snapdragon X1 Elite performance on the recently released Ubuntu 26.10 Concept X1E ISO, here are some benchmarks showing the performance relative to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS X1E state on the same hardware.

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