Red Hat might be the company making money off of Enterprise Linux, but the now discontinued Linux distribution CentOS Linux has many times more installs.

Merged back in Linux 6.9 was AMD Preferred Core support for Linux for the concept of "preferred cores" with newer Zen processors that are communicated via ACPI CPPC for select cores able to reach a higher maximum frequency or should otherwise be preferred over other cores on the system in the name of maximizing performance. That was a nice step forward for better handling newer Ryzen processors on Linux and matching functionality that had already been working under Microsoft Windows. Of focus more recently has been working on enabling more dynamic Preferred Core support for where the priority of the preferred cores may change at run-time...

The 1990s called – they're impressedThe FreeDOS Project has released version 1.4 of its fully open source DOS-compatible OS – but you'll need a BIOS for bare metal.…

Proxmox VE 8.4 is out now, featuring live VM migration with NVIDIA vGPU, API for backups, virtiofs, and updated open-source tech.

Fwupd 2.0.8 is out today as the eighth maintenance update to the latest fwupd 2.0 release of this open-source Linux firmware update utility with support for more devices, new features, and bug fixes.

The Ubuntu 25.04 release shipping this month will now feature JPEG-XL image format support out-of-the-box...

openSUSE's new Agama installer v13 is here, bringing hostname configuration, LVM support, and more.

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is a type of software that enables individuals to design electronic systems. We pick the best open source tools for Linux.

Linux Mint project leader Clement Lefebvre published today a new edition of their monthly newsletter talking about some of the new features and improvements coming to Liinux Mint, LMDE 7, and related components.

AMD announced today they will be hosting a virtual "Advancing AI 2025" event in mid-June where they will talk about their next-gen AMD Instinct accelerators while of much interest to many Phoronix readers is an update on the ROCm open-source software...

Cisco Jabber is a communication tool that allows users to send instant messages, make phone calls, join meetings, and manage contacts. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

OpenSSH 10 is out now, featuring stronger cryptographic defaults, new post-quantum key exchange, and key security improvements across the board.

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 193 has been released today for this powerful, open-source, and secure Linux-based firewall distribution designed to protect networks against evolving cyber threats introducing post-quantum cryptography.

The Topaz Tz170 J484 Development Kit is a compact platform for evaluating and prototyping with the Efinix Tz170 FPGA. It integrates onboard memory, configurable I/O, and a preloaded reference design, providing a practical setup for testing and demonstration across a range of FPGA applications. The development kit is built around the Tz170 FPGA, which uses […]

On March 28, 2025, we brought Fedora to Murang’a University of Technology in Kenya. The event introduced students to open source, Fedora Linux, and the many ways they can participate in the global Fedora community. This wasn’t just another tech talk. It was an open conversation about freedom, community, and innovation—core pillars of both Fedora […]

FreeDOS 1.4 open-source MS DOS-compatible OS released with updated core utilities, better reliability, and improved package organization.

The release of the GNU C Library 2.41 at the end of January ended up inadvertently breaking some Steam games, Discord, Julia, MATLAB, and other select user-space software. A workaround was merged today for Glibc to workaround the problem...

Following IBM engineers doing a lot of open-source compiler work around a new "arch15" that we suspected to be IBM z17 with Telum II processors, this morning IBM officially announced their next-generation mainframe hardware...

Canonical announced today they have released Ubuntu developer images for the Orange Pi RV2, a new RISC-V single board computer that is low-cost with the SBC featuring 8GB of RAM costing just $64 USD...

OpenSSL 3.5 introduces major crypto updates, including PQC support, server-side QUIC, and new TLS defaults.