New story! The State of Open Source in 2025? Honestly, it's a mess but you knew that already

  • The Register; By Liam Proven (Posted by bob on Apr 30, 2025 7:42 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Community
The good news: everyone's using it. The bad news: have you seen how they're using it? OpenLogic's 2025 State of Open Source Report offers a slightly different perspective on modern corporate adoption of FOSS – and it's not a reassuring one.…

New story! Kdenlive 25.04 Video Editor Lands with Local Object Segmentation

Kdenlive 25.04 open-source video editing software is out with object segmentation, enhanced audio waveforms, OpenTimelineIO support, and more.

New story! Mutter Merges Wayland Toplevel Tag Protocol For GNOME 49

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on Apr 30, 2025 4:39 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: GNOME
In addition to the recent merge to Mutter for improving fullscreen apps with direct scanout enhancements for GNOME 49, another early addition also landed today in Mutter: support for Wayland's toplevel tag protocol...

New story! Is Free/Open Source Software Sustainable?

The co-founder of the open-source company Nextcloud reminds us that the free software philosophy that’s the foundation of open source is much more than a software development model.

New story! DRM Code For Linux 6.16 Hides The "Disgusting Turds" & Adds TI AM68 GPU Support

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on Apr 30, 2025 1:36 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Kernel, Linux
Sent out today was a batch of drm-misc-next patches for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window. There are a few notable changes here as part of the Direct Rendering Manager updates for the core code and smaller kernel drivers...

New story! OpenBSD 7.7 released with updated hardware support, 9Front ships second update of 2025

  • The Register; By Liam Proven (Posted by bob on Apr 30, 2025 12:04 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Community
The OS refresh brings Ryzen AI and Arrow Lake compatibility. Fresh from their respective bunkers, OpenBSD 7.7 and a new version of Plan 9 fork 9Front have dropped, bringing hardened security, obscure charm, and, oddly enough, artwork from the same designer.…

New story! How To Display Undo And Redo Timestamps In Vim Status Bar Using vim-airline

This detailed tutorial explains how to display real-time undo and redo timestamps directly in your Vim status bar using vim-airline plugin.

New story! Ubuntu 25.04 & Fedora 42 Hit A Long Sought Milestone With HDR Support Working Well On The Linux Desktop

It's almost majestic: HDR display support working on the Linux desktop. If you asked me at the start of the calendar year if I'd expect to see modern Linux distributions shipping with working HDR display support in H1'2025, I would have been doubtful. But after a lot of miraculous work that landed across numerous upstream repositories over the past two months or so, everything has come together just in time for the likes of Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42.

New story! Mozilla Thunderbird 138 Released, Here’s What’s New

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Apr 29, 2025 7:30 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Mozilla
Mozilla Thunderbird 138 open-source email client brings customizable new mail alerts, dark mode refinements, folder management fixes, and more.

New story! Firefox 139 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect

With Firefox 138 promoted to the stable channel today, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 139, to the beta channel for public testing, so it’s time to take a look at what to expect.

New story! Watch out for any Linux malware sneakily evading syscall-watching antivirus

Google dumped io_uring after $1M in bug bounties. A proof-of-concept program has been released to demonstrate a so-called monitoring "blind spot" in how some Linux antivirus and other endpoint protection tools use the kernel's io_uring interface.…

New story! Intels Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on Apr 29, 2025 2:55 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Intel, Linux
Introduced last month in the Vulkan 1.4.311 spec was VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for supporting BF16 types within SPIR-V shaders. Merged today for Mesa 25.2 is that BFloat16 support for Intel's open-source Vulkan Linux driver...

New story! AMD Linux Network Driver Prepares For "Crater" Ethernet Device

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Apr 29, 2025 7:31 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
The AMD-XGBE Linux network driver has seen a set of patches published for it in enabling the "new" AMD Ethernet Device codenamed Crater...

New story! Steam Client Update Fixes DLC Recognition

Steam releases a new client update that fixes DLC recognition and window startup issues, improving stability across Windows and macOS.

New story! Meson 1.8 Build System Released - Wayland Module Declared Stable

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Apr 29, 2025 1:23 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Meson 1.8 was released this afternoon as the newest update to this popular, cross-platform and open-source build system / build automation tool...

New story! 4MLinux 48.0 Is Now Available for Download, Powered by Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS

4MLinux developer Zbigniew Konojacki announced today the release and general availability of 4MLinux 48.0 as the latest stable version of this mini Linux distribution featuring the lightweight JWM window manager.

New story! From PlayStation to routers, you've probably been using FreeBSD without knowing it

  • The Register; By Liam Proven (Posted by bob on Apr 28, 2025 10:20 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Community
The OS came first, the foundation later – so what does it do? Interview Many FOSS projects are backed by nonprofit foundations. One such example is the FreeBSD Foundation, started by Meta software engineer Justin T Gibbs. He spoke with The Register about the project's copyright philosophy, what the foundation does, and why it matters.…

New story! Trinity Desktop R14.1.4 Continues With The KDE 3.5 Codebase

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on Apr 28, 2025 8:49 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
The Trinity Desktop Environment as a long ago fork of the KDE 3.5 desktop released TDE R14.1.4 on Sunday as the newest maintenance release with various bug fixes and minor feature improvements...

New story! Kdenlive 25.04 Video Editor Delivers New Features

Kdenlive 25.04 is out today as the newest feature release to this KDE/Qt-aligned non-linear, open-source video editing application...

New story! Urgent Update: Kali Linux Users Must Manually Install New Repository Key

Kali Linux users must manually install a new archive signing key after the previous one was lost, impacting system updates until resolved.

New story! CNCF tells main NATS contributor Synadia that it's free to fork off

But what it can't do is 'unilaterally claw back a community project and its infrastructure, assets, and branding'. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has filed a petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office to prevent Synadia from using the logo and domain for NATS, the open source messaging system.…

New story! A Linux 6.15 Performance Regression Hits Modern AMD CPUs

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on Apr 28, 2025 2:43 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Separate from last week in uncovering a big performance regression on Linux 6.15 affecting workloads like Nginx and that regression getting fixed, I unfortunately discovered another heavy-hitting regression on Linux 6.15. This latest performance regression has been bisected and a possible fix is being thought through by the relevant party, but for the moment has yet to be fixed upstream and affects modern AMD processors.

New story! qBittorrent 5.1 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Released as a Major Update

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Apr 28, 2025 12:43 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
qBittorrent 5.1 has been released as a major update to this open-source, cross-platform, and free BitTorrent client that introduces several new features and other enhancements.

New story! Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.4 Released with Support for Ubuntu 25.04

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Apr 28, 2025 11:11 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE, Linux
Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) R14.1.4 desktop environment has been released for nostalgic KDE 3.5 users with various new features and enhancements.

New story! What the EU Can Learn From India About Digital Policies

For the last several decades, India has been quietly developing its economic independence muscles as it morphs into an IT leader with global prowess.

New story! Wayland Protocols 1.44 Released With Color-Representation

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Apr 28, 2025 8:08 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Wayland Protocols 1.44 released on Sunday and with it comes one new protocol addition...

New story! Mozilla Firefox 138 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Mozilla published today the final build of the Firefox 138 open-source web browser for all supported platforms ahead of the April 29th, 2025, official release, so it’s time to take a look at what’s new.

New story! Linux 6.15-rc4 Released With Performance Regression Fix, Corrected Bcachefs Case Folding

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Apr 28, 2025 4:18 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Linux 6.15-rc4 is now available after a rather eventful week and about one month to go until the stable Linux 6.15...

New story! 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 27th, 2025

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Apr 28, 2025 2:47 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
The 237th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on April 27th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

New story! A Simple Way to Install Talos Linux on Any Machine, with Any Provider

  • Linux.com (Posted by bob on Apr 28, 2025 1:15 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Talos Linux is a specialized operating system designed for running Kubernetes. First and foremost it handles full lifecycle management for Kubernetes control-plane components. On the other hand, Talos Linux focuses on security, minimizing the user’s ability to influence the system. A distinctive feature of this OS is the near-complete absence of executables, including the absence […] The post A Simple Way to Install Talos Linux on Any Machine, with Any Provider appeared first on Linux.com.

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