ConnexionGPD WIN 5 highlights support for running Bazzite Linux
The upcoming pricey and strangely designed GPD WIN 5 is coming later this year, and it's now confirmed to have support for Bazzite Linux.
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Fedora Workstation 43 Beta Is Running Well On AMD Strix Halo / Framework Desktop
Fedora 43 Beta is releasing today as we work toward the official release in either late October or early November. I have been testing out the Fedora Workstation 43 Beta candidate to great success on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" powered Framework Desktop. Here are some benchmarks of Fedora Workstation 42 compared to the Fedora Workstation 43 Beta.
The Crew from Ubisoft gets revived thanks to the The Crew Unlimited project
The Crew can now live on thanks to the community, after Ubisoft completely shut it down the The Crew Unlimited project has released to keep it alive.
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Godot 4.5 released with lots of big new features
Godot Engine 4.5 has been officially released further enhancing this free and open source cross-platform game engine.
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Intel USBIO USB IO Expander Drivers Expected To Be Merged For Linux 6.18
Queued up in the past few days to the USB subsystem's "usb-next" Git branch are the Intel USBIO drivers for Linux 6.18. These drivers are needed to support the web cameras on various newer Intel laptop models...
Revue de presse de l’April pour la semaine 37 de l’année 2025
Cette revue de presse sur Internet fait partie du travail de veille mené par l’April dans le cadre de son action de défense et de promotion du logiciel libre. Les positions exposées dans les articles sont celles de leurs auteurs et ne rejoignent pas forcément celles de l’April.
- [Le Monde.fr] Le Conseil constitutionnel valide la taxe GAFA (€)
- [cio-online.com] L'Open Source pour rééquilibrer les relations transatlantiques dans le numérique?
- [Le Temps] D'Apertus à Llama 3, les modèles de langage open source ont un degré d'ouverture très variable (€)
- [Journal du Net] Quand un modèle vertueux dérape: la guerre économique autour de l'open source
- [cio-online.com] Jean-Marie Séguret, DSI de Lyon: «se soustraire de Microsoft impose un travail de fond»
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[Le Monde.fr] Le Conseil constitutionnel valide la taxe GAFA (€)
✍ Denis Cosnard, Alexandre Piquard, le vendredi 12 septembre 2025.
Dans une décision rendue vendredi 12 septembre à la demande du groupe de médias allemand Axel Springer, l’institution confirme la constitutionnalité de la taxe sur les services numériques instaurée en 2019.
[cio-online.com] L'Open Source pour rééquilibrer les relations transatlantiques dans le numérique?
✍ Reynald Fléchaux, le jeudi 11 septembre 2025.
La Linux Foundation Europe souligne les atouts de l’Open Source pour un continent cherchant à gagner en indépendance par rapport à la technologie américaine. A condition toutefois d’investir pour ne plus seulement être des consommateurs passifs de logiciels libres.
[Le Temps] D'Apertus à Llama 3, les modèles de langage open source ont un degré d'ouverture très variable (€)
✍ Grégoire Barbey, le mercredi 10 septembre 2025.
L’événement LibreABC à Genève, consacré aux logiciels libres, s’est penché sur la question de l’intelligence artificielle ouverte. Actuellement, la plupart des modèles qui se disent open source ne le sont que très partiellement
[Journal du Net] Quand un modèle vertueux dérape: la guerre économique autour de l'open source
✍ Benjamin Tierny, le mercredi 10 septembre 2025.
L’histoire récente montre que l’open source est devenu un champ de bataille économique où se jouent des rapports de force brutaux.
[cio-online.com] Jean-Marie Séguret, DSI de Lyon: «se soustraire de Microsoft impose un travail de fond»
✍ Reynald Fléchaux, le lundi 8 septembre 2025.
La DSI de la ville de Lyon déploie une stratégie visant à renforcer son indépendance. Avec un projet phare: remplacer MS Office sur 80% des postes.
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Firefox 143 Released with Copilot Chatbot, Web App Creation + More
Mozilla Firefox 143 brings new features and improvements, including access to Microsoft's AI chatbot, date info in the address bar, and web app support.
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Linux Patches Posted For Enabling The Tenstorrent Blackhole SoC
Patches were posted this past weekend for enabling the mainline Linux kernel to run on the Tenstorrent Blackwhole SoC of A0 silicon on the Blackhole P100 and P150 PCIe accelerator cards...
GNOME’s Tetris Clone Quadrapassel Drops a Huge Update
Quadrapassel 49 modernises GNOME’s Tetris clone on Linux with GTK4, adds touch support, and improves scoring and gameplay for casual gamers.
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Ultimate 2025.09.14
Ultimate Edition, first released in December 2006, was a fork of Ubuntu and Linux Mint though recent versions (starting in 2024) have been based on Arch Linux. The goal of the project is to create a complete, seamlessly integrated, visually stimulating, and easy-to-install operating system. Single-button upgrade is one of several special characteristics of this distribution. Other main features include custom desktop and theme with 3D effects, support for a wide range of networking options, including WiFi and Bluetooth, and integration of many extra applications and package repositories. Mauna 25
Mauna Linux is a Brazilian desktop Linux distribution based on Debian's "stable" branch. The project offers a set of live images with four desktop environments - Cinnamon, LXQt, MATE and Xfce, plus a separate "Christian Edition" which includes the Bible and various applications meant for use in churches. Some of the distribution's main features include the Calamares system installer, a software store with hundreds of applications maintained by Debian and Mauna Linux, a software manager and updater, and an out-of-the box support for the Portuguese language. The goal of Mauna Linux is to develop a distribution that is easy to use, practical and robust, and which would complement the existing Linux user communities in Brazil and abroad. Godot 4.5 Open-Source Game Engine Released With A Multitude Of Improvements
Godot 4.5 is out today as the latest update to this leading open-source and cross platform game engine...
AMD ABMC Expected To Go Upstream For Linux 6.18
After being in the works for the past two years and going through 18+ rounds of code review, AMD ABMC looks poised to be mainlined for the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel...
Canonical Make It Easier to Install NVIDIA CUDA on Ubuntu
Canonical will package and distribute NVIDIA CUDA in the Ubuntu repositories, making it easier for developers to install with a single, simple APT command.
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AOMedia To Release AV2 Video Codec At Year's End
The Alliance for Open Media announced today that they will be launching the next-generation AV2 video codec at the end of 2025...
AMD Officially Confirms The End Of The AMDVLK Driver
To no real surprise given the happenings (or there the lack of) the past few months, AMD formally announced publicly today that their open-source AMDVLK driver has been discontinued in favor of the Mesa RADV driver for Vulkan needs on Linux...
AMDVLK has been discontinued as AMD are throwing their "full support" behind RADV
AMD have announced the end of AMDVLK, their official open-source Vulkan driver and will instead now be focusing on the much more popular RADV.
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Gentoo 20250914
Gentoo Linux is a versatile and fast, completely free Linux distribution geared towards developers and network professionals. Unlike other distros, Gentoo Linux has an advanced package management system called Portage. Portage is a true ports system in the tradition of BSD ports, but is Python-based and sports a number of advanced features including dependencies, fine-grained package management, "fake" (OpenBSD-style) installs, safe unmerging, system profiles, virtual packages, config file management, and more. libxml2 Maintainer Stepping Down - "More Or Less Unmaintained For Now"
The maintainer of the libxml2 project announced he is stepping down from this widely-used open-source library without any replacement maintainer yet determined...
Canonical Announces Plans To Support NVIDIA CUDA, Easy Installation On Ubuntu
Canonical announced today that they will formally support the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit and also make it available via the Ubuntu repositories...
The cute co-op game LEGO Voyagers has released and it's Steam Deck Verified
LEGO Voyagers is the cutest looking co-op game and it's available today, along with it getting Steam Deck Verified for the release.
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The Performance Cost To Ubuntu WSL2 On Windows 11 25H2
It's been a while since delivering any benchmarks on Phoronix of Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) for running Linux applications and other software under the confines of Windows 11. When recently carrying out the Windows 11 25H2 vs. Linux benchmarks I also took the opportunity for seeing how WSL is performing on that leading-edge Windows release compared to running a bare metal Ubuntu Linux installation.
Casilda 1.0 Released As Wayland Compositor Widget For GTK4
Casilda 1.0 is out today as the Wayland compositor widget for the GTK4 toolkit...
Car combat game FUMES improves support for controllers and Steam Deck
FUMES really is awesome and it has an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam which it gained quickly after release, and the developer keeps improving it.
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