Linux NewsNew Steam Client Update Adds Support for the Razer Raiju V3 Pro Controller
Valve released a new Steam Client stable update with support for the Razer Raiju V3 Pro PS5/PC wireless controller and other changes.
FOSS and Digital Sovereignty: Capital Series ‘25
On October 23, the halls of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget) hosted a gathering that felt both timely and quietly urgent. The Capital Series Copenhagen, organized by OpenForum Europe, brought together a diverse group of policymakers and digital strategists to discuss ... Read more The post FOSS and Digital Sovereignty: Capital Series ‘25 appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Skip Makes Its Mobile Development Tools Free and Open Source
Skip has dropped paid subscriptions and open-sourced its mobile development stack for native iOS and Android apps.
Open Source Project LLVM Says Yes to AI-Generated Code, But Not Without Conditions
The new "human in the loop" policy holds contributors accountable for reviewing and understanding all AI-assisted submissions.
Intel Xeon 67980E "Sierra Forest" Linux Performance ~14% Faster Since Launch
As part of my end-of-year 2025 benchmarking I looked at how the Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids performance evolved in the year since launch and seeing some nice open-source/Linux optimizations during that time. On the other side of the table were also benchmarks of how AMD EPYC 8004 Sienna evolved in its two years, the AMD EPYC Milan-X in its four years since launch, and also a look at the performance evolution lower down the stack with the likes of sub-$500 laptop hardware. Out today is a fresh look at how the Intel Xeon 6780E Sierra Forest has evolved in its one and a half years since its launch.
FOSS Weekly #26.04: Mint 22.3 Released, Stallman is Back, Ubuntu's Snap Store Under Attack and More
Much awaited Linux Mint 22.3 is here but what's going on with Ubuntu?
AMD Announces Ryzen 7 9850X3D Pricing Of $499 USD
Back at CES AMD announced the Ryen 7 9850X3D as a faster sibling to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Today they have announced the suggested price for this 3D V-Cache desktop processor and confirmation of its availability starting on 29 January...
KDE Plasma Login Manager Won’t Support Systemd-Free Linux or BSD Systems
KDE's new Plasma Login Manager is tightly bound to systemd, making it unusable on systemd-free Linux distributions and BSD systems.
Updated Intel Panther Lake IPU Firmware Published With New Features & Bug Fixes
Ahead of the first Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake laptops expected to hit retail channels next week, Intel has published updated IPU7 (IPU 7.5) firmware for the image processing unit used by the web cameras on the higher-end Panther Lake laptops...
Rust 1.93 Brings Improvement For Inline Assembly Handling
Rust 1.93 is out today as the first feature release for this programming lanugage of 2026...
AMD AOMP 22.0-2 Released With Flang Fortran Improvements
Yesterday along with releasing ROCm 7.2 there was also the release of AOMP 22.0-2 as the newest version of their open-source downstream of LLVM/Clang/Flang that is focused on offering the best OpenMP/OpenACC offloading support to Instinct/Radeon hardware...
Steam Client Update Delivers Controller and Steam Input Improvements
Valve’s latest Steam client update fixes crashes, DRM-related game exits, and long-standing controller issues across Windows and Linux systems.
Prominent Intel Compiler Engineer Heads Off To AMD
James Brodman worked for the last 15 years at Intel on their ISPC SIMD compiler and then in more recent years on the Intel DPC++ compiler and SYCL support as part of Intel's oneAPI initiative. Rather interestingly, this compiler expert has now joined AMD...
ReactOS Celebrates 30 Years In Striving To Be An Open-Source Windows Implementation
The ReactOS project is celebrating today that it marks 30 years since their first code commit in the ReactOS source tree. During the past 30 years now the project has seen more than 88k commits from more than 300 developers as it seeks to be a robust open-source Windows implementation. In their 30 year birthday blog post they also provide a look ahead at what they're working on...
14 Years Later than Planned the NexPhone Goes Up for PreOrder
The NexPhone is finally available for pre-order, some 14 years after it was first announced (but “available” is be a tad generous since manufacturing is yet to begin). Created by Nex Computer, the company behind the NexDock laptop shells (think a premium version of the terrific CrowView Note devices), the NexPhone aims to deliver what Canonical’s Ubuntu Phone ultimately didn’t: convergence. The tech scene has changed dramatically since the NexPhone’s 2012 crowdfunder pitch. Back then, this phone was aiming to run Ubuntu Phone as its primary OS. As that didn’t last long, the 2026 NexPhone runs Android, Debian and Windows […]