📰 New "Thames" Linux Accelerator Driver Posted Along With Companion Gallium3D Driver

Tomeu Vizoso as the open-source developer behind the "Rocket" driver for reverse-engineered Rockchip NPU support, Teflon as a Mesa framework for TensorFlow Lite and NPU uses, and various Etnaviv driver work, has announced his newest creation: Thames...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Thames-Accelerator-Driver

📰 ZLUDA Boasts Full Llama.cpp Support, Better Windows Handling For CUDA On Non-NVIDIA GPUs

The open-source ZLUDA project for bringing CUDA to non-NVIDIA hardware that can run unmodified is out with a new progress report. ZLUDA had a productive fourth quarter with now enjoying better Microsoft Windows support, full support for running Llama.cpp atop ZLUDA, AMD ROCm 7 support, and other enhancements...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ZLUDA-Q4-2025-Report

📰 Hangover 11.0 Released: Wine + FEX/Box64 Pairing For Windows x86 Apps On ARM64 Linux

Building off today's release of Wine 11.0 for enabling countless Windows applications and games to run well under Linux and being the basis of Valve's Proton for Steam Play, Hangover 11.0 is now available. Hangover is the open-source project that pairs Wine with either the FEX-Emu or Box64 emulators for enabling x86 32-bit and 64-bit Windows games/apps to run on native ARM64 Linux systems...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hangover-11.0-Released

📰 New VoidLink malware framework targets Linux cloud servers

A newly discovered advanced cloud-native Linux malware framework named VoidLink focuses on cloud environments, providing attackers with custom loaders, implants, rootkits, and plugins designed for modern infrastructures.

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-voidlink-malware-framework-targets-linux-cloud-servers/

📰 Thunderbird 147 Adds “Show Full Path” Folder Pane Option for Compact View Modes

Mozilla Thunderbird 147 open-source email client is now available for download with new options, improvements, and bug fixes. Here's what's new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/thunderbird-147-adds-show-full-path-folder-pane-option-for-compact-view-modes

📰 MINISFORUM BD395i MAX is a mini ITX motherboard with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395

The MINISFORUM BD395i MAX is a mini ITX motherboard with a PCIe x16 slot, two M.2 slots for solid state storage, and a set of ports that includes 10 Gigabit and 2.5 Gigabit LAN ports and two USB4 ports with support for data transfer speeds up to 40 Gbps. It’s also unusual in that it’s .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/minisforum-bd395i-max-is-a-mini-itx-motherboard-with-amd-ryzen-ai-max-395/

📰 Critical Node.js Vulnerability Can Cause Server Crashes via async_hooks Stack Overflow

Node.js has released updates to fix what it described as a critical security issue impacting "virtually every production Node.js app" that, if successfully exploited, could trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition."Node.js/V8 makes a best-effort attempt to recover from stack space exhaustion with a catchable error, which frameworks have come to rely on for service availability," Node.js's.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/critical-nodejs-vulnerability-can-cause.html

📰 GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026

With Linux gaming clearly showing it's becoming more popular, and with GOG under new ownership, there's hope yet that GOG will improve their Linux support..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/gog-plan-to-look-a-bit-closer-at-linux-through-2026/

📰 $99 BeaglePlay Board Achieves "100% Open-Source" Upstream PowerVR Graphics

Going back many years Imagination PowerVR graphics were widely despised by open-source enthusiasts and Linux desktop users for their lack of an open-source GPU driver. But over the past few years the Imagination PowerVR driver focused on their Rogue graphics IP has matured nicely within the Linux kernel and the PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa taking shape too.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/BeaglePlay-PowerVR-Success

📰 GNOME Mutter 50 Alpha Released With X11 Backend Removed

In preparing for the GNOME 50 Alpha release, the "50.alpha" tags just occurred for the Mutter compositor and GNOME Shell. Most notable with GNOME Mutter 50 Alpha is the X11 back-end indeed being removed to focus exclusively on the Wayland session...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Shell-50-Alpha

DietPi 10.0 Enters Open Beta With Major Platform and Software Changes
https://linuxiac.com/dietpi-10-0-enters-open-beta-with-platform-and-software-changes/

📰 An Early Run With Ubuntu 26.04 On AMD EPYC Turin - The Current Performance Gains Over Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

There still are several months to go until the official Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release -- including one month until the feature freeze and the future Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel is expected to land too before the latter kernel freeze in early April. But for those curious how Ubuntu 26.04 is looking so far for servers, here are some very early benchmarks of it on AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" in its present development state.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-jan-amd-epyc

📰 Wireshark 4.6.3 Released with Updated Protocol and Capture File Support

Wireshark 4.6.3 open-source network protocol analyzer is now available to download with various bug fixes and updated protocol and capture file support.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/wireshark-4-6-3-released-with-updated-protocol-and-capture-file-support

📰 GRUB 2.14 Bootloader Released With EROFS Support, Shim Loader Protocol

More than two years after the release of GRUB 2.12, GRUB 2.14 shipped today as the newest feature release of this widely-used bootloader on Linux systems and elsewhere...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GRUB-2.14-Released

📰 Orion Browser Releases Its First Linux Alpha

An alpha release of Orion for Linux, a new Webkit-based web browser from paid search engine Kagi, is out for testing – and early impressions are positive.You're reading Orion Browser Releases Its First Linux Alpha, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/orion-browser-for-linux-alpha

📰 Another RADV Ray-Tracing Merge Lands Some Additional Gains For Mesa 26.0

Separate from the Mesa merge request talked about earlier today for new RADV code that can deliver 10x faster ray-tracing pipeline compilation for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver, another merge request landed today in Mesa 26.0 that was also carried out by Valve contractor Natalie Vock. That second merge request now in Mesa 26.0 delivers some additional gains for at least some ray-tracing games on RDNA3 and RDNA4 GPUs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-RT-RDNA3-RDNA4-Wave32

📰 Debian Plans to Remove GTK2 Before Debian 14

Debian maintainers argue that shipping dead upstream software, such as GTK2, is a growing security and stability liability.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/debian-plans-to-remove-gtk2-before-debian-14/

📰 You Can Now Use ONLYOFFICE on Raspberry Pi Like ARM Devices

Native ARM support expands the open source office suite's reach.

🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/news/onlyoffice-desktop-editors-arm-support/

📰 oVirt 4.5.7 Released After Two Years With New OS & CPU Support

The oVirt 4.5.7 open-source virtualization management platform released this week after not seeing any new releases in two years. While Red Hat had started the oVirt open-source project for which their Red Hat Virtualization platform is based, since they shifted that to maintenance mode to focus on the Red Hat OpenShift platform and stopped contributing to oVirt, it's been up to the open-source community to keep it going...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/oVirt-4.5.7

📰 Tails 7.4 Released With Persistent Language and Keyboard Settings

Tails 7.4, a privacy-focused Linux distro, introduces persistent language and keyboard settings, along with Tor Browser 15.0.4.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/tails-7-4-released-with-persistent-language-and-keyboard-settings/

📰 Raspberry Pi 5 gets LLM smarts with AI HAT+ 2

40 TOPS of inference grunt, 8 GB onboard memory, and the nagging question: who exactly needs this? Raspberry Pi has launched the AI HAT+ 2 with 8 GB of onboard RAM and the Hailo-10H neural network accelerator aimed at local AI computing.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/01/15/pi_5_ai_hat_2/