Linux and Open Source news headlines
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Sun, 09/14/2025 - 22:20
The Rust-based open-source operating system project Redox OS published a blog post today outlining their development priorities for the remainder of 2025 and then onward to 2026...
Sun, 09/14/2025 - 22:20
So here too we can ask, who except Garrett and the Serial Strangler from Microsoft funds the abuse against us (abuse of process) and why? Garrett has already admitted out in the open that there is a third party.
Sun, 09/14/2025 - 22:20
Luckfox has introduced the PicoKVM, a compact IP KVM tool for remote control of PCs, servers, and development boards. It uses HDMI and USB for out-of-band management without requiring software on the target device, offering isolated operation independent of the host system. The device is powered by a Rockchip RV1106G3 processor featuring a single ARM […]
Sun, 09/14/2025 - 22:20
Wine 10.15 adds Unicode 17, Zip64 support, and fixes 16 bugs, including issues with Steam, Sims 2, CapCut, and Visual Studio 2005.
Sat, 09/13/2025 - 22:20
Linux hardware vendor Slimbook announced that it has refreshed its Linux-powered laptop fleet with more powerful components and cutting-edge technologies.
Sat, 09/13/2025 - 22:20
Learn how to quickly install RQuickShare on major Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora, Arch, and more.
Sat, 09/13/2025 - 22:20
Linux Mint leader Clement Lefebvre revealed today in the project’s monthly newsletter that the team is working on the LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 7 operating system.
Sat, 09/13/2025 - 22:20
Stuck between a rock and a hard place, ASF ditches the feather, but keeps the Apache name: not enough for the left, too ‘woke’ for the right? Welcome to modern America…
Sat, 09/13/2025 - 22:20
The Q4OS project announced today the release and general availability of Q4OS 6.1 as the newest stable (and LTS) version of this lightweight, KDE-oriented distribution featuring the latest KDE Plasma and Trinity desktop environments.
Sat, 09/13/2025 - 22:20
Since the launch of the AMD EPYC 9005 series nearly one year ago, I have performed hundreds of different benchmarks on these EPYC "Turin" processors across a wide range of workloads/disciplines to really terrific performance, power efficiency, and value. AMD EPYC 9005 performs exceptionally well compared to the competition from Intel and ARM CPU vendors. One area though I hadn't explored to this point was how well the AMD EPYC 9005 series performs for serving as the host CPU for GPU/AI servers. That changed as I recently wrapped up some benchmarks exploring that area using the AMD EPYC 9575F and it managed to accelerate past the available competition in proving capable of being the superior host processor for AI servers.
Sat, 09/13/2025 - 22:20
The KDE team releases Frameworks 6.18 with updates for Breeze Icons, KIO, KTextEditor, and more, ensuring smoother development.
Sat, 09/13/2025 - 22:20
VirtualBox 7.2.2 is out as the first maintenance release of the latest VirtualBox 7.2 series for this open-source, free, and cross-platform virtualization solution from Oracle.
Sat, 09/13/2025 - 22:20
Many inappropriate behaviours against us (for merely talking about UEFI 'secure boot') are being reported and relayed to the British authorities (including as recently as 5 hours ago) and we shall continue writing about the subject, no matter how many threats we receive. Or how many get sent to my wife, too. While she's on holiday and mourning death in her family.
Sat, 09/13/2025 - 22:20
Samba 4.23 is out today as the newest version of this SMB protocol re-implementation for file and print services interoperability with the Microsoft Windows world...
Sat, 09/13/2025 - 22:20
PNY has opened preorders for the Nvidia DGX Spark, a compact desktop AI system powered by the Grace Blackwell GB10 Superchip. It combines Arm Cortex-X925 and Cortex-A725 CPU cores with a Blackwell GPU, delivering up to 1,000 AI TOPS, or 1 petaFLOP of FP4 performance, for local model inference and fine-tuning. According to the product […]
Sat, 09/13/2025 - 22:20
Fish 4.0.6 is out as the newest update to this shell that with Fish 4.0 was rewritten in Rust from C++...
Sat, 09/13/2025 - 22:20
Fwupd 2.0.16 introduces a new search feature and fixes FreeBSD update issues, improving firmware update reliability.
Sat, 09/13/2025 - 22:20
This week's round of power management fixes for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel are on the more notable side with fixes for both AMD and Intel P-State drivers plus addressing a system hibernation issue that could lead to "serious breakage" and stems from a Linux 6.16 regression...
Sat, 09/13/2025 - 22:20
Complex systems are bound to have holes and in Microsoft's case bug/back doors are the actual objective. Screwing around with GNU/Linux (while pretending to "love Linux") is another objective.
Sat, 09/13/2025 - 22:20
Bcachefs is shifting to an external DKMS module in Linux kernel 6.18 after becoming externally maintained. Here's the upcoming Bcachefs changes.