(more Linux and FOSS news in previous posts of thread)

OpenProject 17.6 brings XWiki integration and new agile planning features for backlogs:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/7/…

Zed Editor Ships v1.10.0 With llama.cpp, Local AI, and Format-on-Save Turned Off:
linuxcompatible.org/story/zed-…

OpenClaw mobile updated with iOS redesign and Hugging Face support:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/7/…

Rust 1.97 brings symbol mangling enabled by default and Cargo support for denying warnings:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/7/…

TypeScript 7.0 launches with Go-based compiler and up to 12x faster performance:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/7/…

OpenSSH 10.4 released with critical SFTP fixes and experimental post-quantum signatures:
linuxcompatible.org/story/open…

LineageOS introduces web flashing tools, revamped stats page, Android 17 plans, and more:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/7/…

CalyxOS is back with version 7.2.2, bringing SHIFTphone 8 support and HSM-based signing:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/7/…

LibrePhone progress report: Ensuring freedom, one blob at a time:
fsf.org/bulletin/2026/summer/e…

Redox OS Gets GTK3 Backend For Orbital Desktop, Fractional Scaling & USB Gamepads:
phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-Jun…

ReactOS implements first Windows NT6 system call for Vista compatibility:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/7/…

This E-Paper PDA Wants You to Ditch Your Smartphone for a Keyboard and Two Tiny Screens:
feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17…

Another German State Just Kicked Out Microsoft... Kind Of:
feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17…

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #OpenSourceNews #FOSS #News #OpenProject #Zed #OpenClaw #Rust #TypeScript #OpenSSH #LineageOS #CalyxOS #LibrePhone #RedoxOS #ReactOS #PocketMage #PDA #Dev #Development #Programming #OS #OperatingSystem #CustomRom #FosseryTech

(more Linux and FOSS news in previous posts of thread)

Intel's Open Image Denoise 2.5 Delivers Solid Performance Improvements For GPUs:
phoronix.com/news/Open-Image-D…

VideoLAN Announces dav2d as an Open-Source and Super Fast AV2 Decoder:
9to5linux.com/videolan-announc…

GrapheneOS user reported to authorities by age verification company Yoti for using this OS:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/6/…
(And of course they are playing the innocent, they think they can fool us to believe it was just a "mistake". An age verification company reporting the users of an OS which openly refused to implement any age attestation/verification measures. That must be an accident, right? RIGHT?)

Haiku OS Now Enables AVX-512 Support, Other Hardware Improvements:
phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-May…

ReactOS Runs Windows Half-Life In-Game on Real Hardware—NT Kernel Driver Win32 Progress:
windowsforum.com/threads/react…

This Month in Redox - May 2026 - XFCE and COSMIC Monitor ported, new package file browser, terminal font customization, etc.:
redox-os.org/news/this-month-2…

Asterinas 0.18 Released For Rust-Written, Memory Safe Linux Alternative OS:
phoronix.com/news/Asterinas-0.…

Open-Source RISC-V GPU Vortex 3.0 Adds Full 3D Pipeline, Vulkan, ASIC Flows:
techtimes.com/articles/318156/…

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #FOSS #OpenSourceNews #News #Intel #Denoise #OpenImageDenoise #Dav2d #AV2 #Decoder #GrapheneOS #Haiku #HaikuOS #OS #OperatingSystem #ReactOS #Redox #RedoxOS #Asterinas #Vortex #RISCV #Multimedia #FosseryTech

(more Linux and FOSS news in previous posts of thread)

Node.js 26 enables Temporal API by default, upgrades V8 and Undici:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/5/…

Qt Creator 20 Beta released:
qt.io/blog/qt-creator-20-beta-…

Zed for Business launches with advanced admin controls and flexible AI billing:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/5/…

Notepad++ original creator calls out recently released macOS fork as an unauthorized fake:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/5/…

FosseryWeb progress report:
I searched for some form creation services which allows file uploads (for the cheatsheet submission form coming in the next big update), found Formstr, which is a decentralized form creation tool, using the Nostr protocol:
formstr.app/dashboard
I also recreated last year's User Survey, with some minor modifications:
formstr.app/f/naddr1qvzqqqr4mq…
(Unfortunately it doesn't work without JavaScript though, similar to all the other privacy-respecting options I looked at, but if you know any other service which works without JS, let me know, I'll take a look at it)
I also migrated the sites from the old Codeberg Pages server to the new git-pages. The domains didn't change, you should still be able to access the sites as usual. In fact, they seems to load much faster now. But let me know if you have any issues accessing them.

Raspberry Pi Imager Now Supports Raspberry Pi Connect for Organizations:
9to5linux.com/raspberry-pi-ima…

FreeBSD 15.1-BETA2 Now Available:
lists.freebsd.org/archives/fre…

ReactOS Gets Unified Installer Image And A New Storage Stack:
hackaday.com/2026/05/03/reacto…

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #OpenSourceNews #FOSS #News #NodeJS #QtCreator #Zed #NotepadPlusPlus #FosseryWeb #FosseryWebMin #Mesa #RaspberryPIImager #FreeBSD #ReactOS #Programming #Coding #Development #Dev #IDE #OS #OperatingSystem #BSD #FosseryTech

ReactOS introduces a new ATA driver and a new Live CD

The ReactOS project, which is an “open-source Windows” operating system that focuses on being binary-compatible with Windows, has seen interesting events that happened during this week.

In order to extend support to more computers, the new ATA storage driver has been introduced to ReactOS for the first time. According to a merged pull request that has been made since 2024, a new PnP-aware ATA storage stack for PATA and AHCI devices has been implemented to support a wider range of systems that can now boot ReactOS.
Source: cbialorucki
This change is going to make ReactOS reachable to more people by making it bootable on more computers that use SATA, AHCI, PATA, and ATAPI devices, while also preserving the original UniATA driver in case there are problems with the new driver. Moreover, this introduces the below new components:

• pciide.sys: This file is responsible for maintaining backwards compatibility with NT v5.x and is a loader to the pciidex.sys.
• pciidex.sys: This driver is responsible for providing a low-level interface to the ATA bus.
• atapi.sys: An ATA port driver that translates SCSI commands to appropriate ATA commands and handles ATA-specific errors.
• storprop.dll: Responsible for displaying information about ATA devices to the user.
• legide.sys: A system driver that is responsible for handling non-PnP PATA controllers in the system after the enumeration of PCI buses.

The boot CD has also seen a massive improvement that changes how users will be able to try out ReactOS on their computers before installation. This is actually a merger project that fuses both the live CD and the text-based installation disks, which means that only one ISO file that contains both the live system and the textual installation phase is produced.

So, when you download ReactOS, you’ll now be presented with two options: to try out a live ReactOS system, or to install it to your computer. This means that you’ll be able to test-drive ReactOS on your computer without any friction. With support of the new ATA driver, more computers should be able to boot to ReactOS hopefully without any issues. This merger also reduces confusion when people try to download ReactOS, ensuring a more streamlined user experience.

Via: Phoronix
#news #ReactOS #Tech #Technology #update

(more Linux and FOSS news in previous posts of thread)

Ollama launches experimental local image generation on macOS with Z-Image Turbo and FLUX.2:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/…

Penpot 2.13 update: box shadow tokens, improved i18n, and enhanced file management:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/…

Radicle 1.6.0 Amaryllis released: major updates and Windows build support:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/…
(Never heard of this Git platform before, but I find the concept of peer-to-peer based code sharing platform pretty interesting, never seen such thing before, so I thought I include it here.)

Rust 1.93 brings musl 1.2.5, allocator improvements, and cfg attributes on asm! lines:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/…

jQuery 4.0 trims legacy code, drops deprecated APIs, migrates to ES modules, and more:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/…

Scala 3.8 requires JDK 17, standard library now built with Scala 3:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/…

Swift cross platform framework, Skip, is now free and open source with licensing removed:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/…

PyTorch 2.10 Released With More Improvements For AMD ROCm & Intel GPUs:
phoronix.com/news/PyTorch-2.10…

GNU C Library 2.43 Released With More C23 Features, mseal & openat2 Functions:
phoronix.com/news/GNU-C-Librar…

AMD Ryzen AI Software 1.7 Released For Improved Performance On NPUs, New Model Support:
phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-AI…

ReactOS Celebrates 30 Years In Striving To Be An Open-Source Windows Implementation:
phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-30-Y…

ReactOS For "Open-Source Windows" Achieves Massive Networking Performance Boost:
phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Asyn…

DragonFlyBSD Now Allows Optional AMD GCN 1.1 Support In AMDGPU Driver:
phoronix.com/news/AMD-CIK-AMDG…

ChaosBSD Is A New BSD For "Broken Drivers, Half-Working Hardware, Vendor Trash" Test Bed:
phoronix.com/news/ChaosBSD
(Interesting concept, never seen such a system before, not even on Linux land with its few thousand distros lol)

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #FOSS #AI #Ollama #Penpot #Radicle #Rust #jQuery #Scala #Swift #PyTorch #GNUCLibrary #AMDRyzenAI #ReactOS #DragonflyBSD #BSD #ChaosBSD #Dev #FosseryTech

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FOSS NEWS

F-Droid upgrades core server, doubles app update frequency:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/…

Shotcut 25.12 adds 10-bit video CPU pipeline, linear color processing, and UI upgrades:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/…

LibreOffice Viewer launched for Meta Quest VR on Horizon OS:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/12…
(Viewing documents in virtual reality? How does it supposed to look like? Walking between letters to read them, and climbing on top of them for better view? lol)

SuperTux v0.7.0 beta released with revamped worlds, new music and major gameplay additions:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/12…

Upscayl 2.15 brings redesigned interface, multi-language support, new AI model:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/…

Zig 0.6.0 adds LLVM 10, RISC-V, new binaries, and Windows improvements:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/…

Ncurses 6.6 Released With Improved Windows Terminal Support, Other Enhancements:
phoronix.com/news/Ncurses-6.6

OpenCV 4.13 Brings More AVX-512 Usage, CUDA 13 Support, Many Other New Features:
phoronix.com/news/OpenCV-4.13-…

LLVM 22 Lands NVIDIA Olympus CPU Scheduling Model:
phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Olymp…

Rust-Based Fjall 3.0 Released For Key-Value Storage Engine Akin To RocksDB:
phoronix.com/news/Fjall-3.0-Re…
("...but with the benefit of being written in Rust." Here we go again. Rust considered a feature while it's just a programming language.)

/e/OS 3.3 brings improved Murena Workspace integration and tracking notification removal:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/12…

ReactOS Starts 2026 With Another "Major Step" Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility:
phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Star…

ReactOS syncs MSVCRT with Wine 10.0, cuts API test failures by 30%:
alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/…

NVIDIA Graphics On Haiku OS Make Progress With NVIDIA Open Kernel Modules + NVK/Zink:
phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Haiku…

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #FOSS #FDroid #Shotcut #LibreOffice #MetaQuest #HorizonOS #VR #SuperTux #Upscayl #Zig #Ncurses #OpenCV #LLVM #Fjall #eOS #ReactOS #Haiku #OfficeSuite #VideoEditor #VideoEditing #FOSSGame #OpenSourceGame #KeyValueStore #Database #OS #Coding #FosseryTech

(more Linux and FOSS news in previous posts of thread)

Code editor Zed adds long-awaited rainbow brackets for improved nested code readability:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/12…

Django 6.0 released with template partials, backround tasks and more:
djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/…

AMD GPU Managed Memory Support Merged For The GCC 16 Compiler:
phoronix.com/news/AMD-GCC-Mana…

WordPress 6.9 adds block-level Notes, dashboard-wide Command Palette, and Abilities API:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/12…

Anthropic acquires Bun to accelerate its development and integration into Claude Code:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/12…

Wireshark 4.6.2 Is Out to Update Protocol/Capture File Support and Fix More Bugs:
9to5linux.com/wireshark-4-6-2-…

Let's Encrypt will decrease SSL certificate validity from 90 to 45 Days by 2028:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/12…

FreeBSD 15.0 Now Officially Available With Many Software Updates, Reproducible Builds:
phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0…

ReactOS Lands Improvements For Its USB Stack - Fixing Various Blue Screens of Death:
phoronix.com/news/Better-USB-F…

Genode OS Framework 25.11 Adds Intel Alder Lake Graphics Support:
phoronix.com/news/Genode-OS-25…

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #OpenSourceNews #FOSS #Zed #Django #WordPress #Bun #Wireshark #LetsEncrypt #GCC #GCC16 #FreeBSD #SelfHosting #Networking #NetworkingTech #WebDev #WebDevelopment #Python #JavaScript #BSD #ReactOS #GenodeOS #OS #OperatingSystem #ProgrammingLanguage #Development #Programming #Coding #FosseryTech

(Linux news in original post)

FOSS NEWS

Mozilla discontinues Fakespot Deep Fake Detector:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/mozill…

Organic Maps gets option to save planned routes and other improvements:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/…

CoMaps 2025.06.10 is now available on F-Droid with new UI and updated maps:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/…

Proton Mail and Calendar gets option for adding notes when replying to event invitations:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/…

ONLYOFFICE 9.0 released with new themes, redesigned start screen, new Diagram Viewer tool, new supported formats (Markdown, OpenDocument Graphics, Excel binary workbook files) etc.:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/onlyof…

Immich 1.135 released with iOS home screen widgets, Google Cast support and album descriptions in mobile apps, opt-in Google Cast integration and new onboarding flow on web, etc.:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/…

ReactOS gets better support for fullscreen programs:
phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Full…

Calibre 8.5 released with improved Kobo driver, new button in the Manage Data Files dialog to cancel remaining e-books when managing multiple ones, etc.:
9to5linux.com/calibre-8-5-open…

Zed gets new multi-language debugger tool, supporting Rust, Go, Python, JavaScript and C/C++:
news.itsfoss.com/zed-debugger-…

Git 2.50 released with multi-pack reachability, improved multiple cruft packs, ORT merge engine, etc.:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/…

Servo gets animated GIF support, support for SVG images via HTML "img" tag, input type="color" support, better layout and CSS support, etc.:
phoronix.com/news/Servo-May-20…

Zen Browser 1.13b released with spaces for tabs instead of workspaces, updated Firefox base, Google Safe Browsing support:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/6/…

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #OpenSourceNews #FOSS #Mozilla #Fakespot #OrganicMaps #CoMaps #Proton #ProtonMail #ProtonCalendar #ONLYOFFICE #Immich #ReactOS #Calibre #Zed #Git #Servo #ZenBrowser #WebBrowser #Browser #Development #Dev #Programming #Coding #OfficeSuite #Maps #OperatingSystem #OS #EbookReader #CodeEditor #WebEngine #BrowserEngine #VersionControl #Ebook #FosseryTech

FOSS NEWS

Proton Drive and Docs get support for collaboration with users without Proton account:
proton.me/blog/improve-product…

Organic Maps migrates repos to their own Forgejo instance, because they got blocked by GitHub, because a dev was temporarily geolocated in a US-sanctioned region:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/…
(Why does GitHub have to know the geolocation of their users in the first place? But at least the Organic Maps project has the capacity to self-host, they successfully took control into their own hands.)

ReactOS 0.4.15 released with kernel improvements, improved hardware support, support for additional audio formats, multiple output channels etc:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/…

MPV 0.40 released with native HDR support on Linux, Wayland color management protocol support, new script for video alignment and zooming, new selection menu when right-clicking common buttons etc:
9to5linux.com/mpv-0-40-open-so…

Shotcut 25.03 released with ‘Text style’ preset to the ‘Generate Text on Timeline’ function in Subtitles, ‘Copy Current’ and ‘Copy All’ options to Filters, vertical and horizontal parameters to the No Sync video filter, a ‘Toggle Filter Overlay’ option to the Player menu etc:
9to5linux.com/shotcut-25-03-op…

Ente Photos v1 released with encrypted data stored in three separate clouds, in three different locations; on-device search capabilities for people and objects in photos, ability to automatically highlight past special moments and important people, with a widget option to relive these memories directly from the home screen etc:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/…

XZ Utils 5.8 released with performance boost for the liblzma compression library; new --no-sync option; xz, xzdec, and lzmainfo components updated to replace non-printable characters with question marks when printing messages (to prevent malicious filenames from sending escape sequences to a terminal) etc:
9to5linux.com/xz-utils-5-8-int…

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#WeeklyNews #FOSS #OpenSource #OpenSourceNews #FOSSNews #ProtonDrive #OrganicMaps #ReactOS #Shotcut #MPV #FosseryTech

Some folks think I am some sort of #Linux worship fiend.

Nothing further from the truth; I simply admire that, in an age of near absolute #enshittification of most commercial software, the whole #FOSS thing seems to prove itself, time and time again, as a process (community created, refined and supported) that generates Things That Work. Because their objective IS to make it work, not generate "value for shareholders" and help CEOs buy their fifth yacht.

I have oodles and buckets of things to pick at, regarding Linux. Monolithic kernel?? Really?? What is this, 1960s? You manage memory HOW? Oh. The list goes on and on, don't get me started.

I was a serious enthusiast of the myriad of alternative OSes, in the Cambrian-like explosion of diversity of the 90s. So much diverse, curious, ingenious, brilliant solutions and notions! #BeOS, #OS2 #QNX (ok, 1980s), #Plan9OS, #ReactOS, to name a few out of so, so many other great Alt OSs of the time...

Compared to those, Linux seemed to actually freeze and stall evolution, sticking to the limitations of the vision by Torvalds (sorry, man, it's true, plenty of admiration for the guy, but dropped the ball on that kernel) at the time of its inception.

However, being the mainstay of FOSS, I use it, champion it, and defend it against ANYTHING commercial.

Until someone truly resurrects BeOS (eeeeh #Haiku ... eh....) lol

There.

/rant