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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.…

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.

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...

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.

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...

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.…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.…

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.…

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...

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...

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.

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