Back in March the GNOME Foundation announced a fellowship program . The GNOME fellowship program will help with the long-term sustainability of the GNOME desktop and looked to fund independent/community contributors over a twelve month period. Today the first recipients of the fellowship program have been announced.

The GNOME Foundation shared that Peter Eisenmann and Sophie Herold are the first GNOME Fellows and will formally begin their work in July. These existing longtime GNOME contributors will spend the next year on:

"Both Fellows will spend time working to enhance the long

One of the new network drivers destined for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window is for supporting the Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY.

The Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY is found on some boards such as the Mediatek Genio 720-EVK development kit. Louis-Alexis Eyraud and AngeloGioacchino Del Regno, both of Collabora, took to developing the "air_an8801" PHY driver for supporting this chip. This driver is based on a downstream

ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game Half-Life running on this open-source platform.

ReactOS has been in development for 28 years now and today its developers are noting on X the ability to run the Windows version of Half-Life. Some years ago were reports of the Half-Life game at least initializing under ReactOS while given today's X coverage, it seems to

Framework Computer began informing those that pre-ordered the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro that it will begin shipping in July rather than their original June target. The setback is coming to address two issues that came up in their testing process that delayed the start of mass production.

Back in April the Framework Laptop 13 Pro was announced as a ground-up redesign to their wildly popular Framework Laptop 13. This new version has a larger battery, LPCAMM2 memory and powered by Intel Core Series 3 Ultra Panther Lake

Just a week after the release of Intel XPU Manager 1.3.7 , Intel today released XPU Manager 2.0 as a major overhaul for this software for monitoring and management of their data center GPUs on Microsoft Windows and Linux.

Intel XPU Manager is designed to support the system monitoring and management of their data center GPUs on Windows and Linux via a command-line interface with xpu-smi and then also RESTful APIs for integrating with fleet/system management and more within the DC. While the Intel XPU Manager

An important one-liner is set to come for Linux 7.2 to enable ESWIN SoC support by default for RISC-V kernel builds. This change will allow default RISC-V kernel builds in turn to boot on the likes of SiFive's HiFive Premier P550 developer board.

Anirudh Srinivasan of Tenstorrent authored the simple Kconfig patch to add CONFIG_ARCH_ESWIN=y to the RISC-V default configuration (defconfig) file. The expressed motivation for getting ESWIN SoC support in the RISC-

Lemonade, the local AI server solution developed by AMD that is designed to work across their CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, is out with a new version today that also adds NVIDIA CUDA support.

THe Lemonade SDK provides local AI server capabilities in an API-compliant manner with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama APIs. Lemonade builds off FastFlowLM, vLLM, Llama.cpp, and other components for a rich, open-source local AI experience. Beyond supporting their own wares of AMD Ryzen AI NPUs, Radeon/Instinct

The Linux Foundation continues working to get more involved in new AI initiatives. Today the Linux Foundation announced the OpenSharing Project with an effort to standardize AI asset and data exchange.

OpenSharing aims to be an open, vendor-neutral project for sharing AI assets and data between different organizations as well as different platforms. OpenSharing isn't starting off from scratch but rather Databricks contributed their Delta Sharing protocol to the Linux Foundation. Databricks developed Delta Sharing to focus on data sharing across data, analytics and AI.

Their hope is to