Open-source News

3 Linux wars that shaped the OS you use today  How-To Geek

After all these years, IEEE-488 gets a stable Linux driver  Adafruit

Hyprland 0.53 was released today as the last feature update to this Wayland compositor for 2025...

Linux Kernel 7.0 Upgrades IO_uring IOPOLL to Hash Tables for Efficiency Gains  WebProNews

The USB-C of AI: Anthropic Donates Model Context Protocol to Linux Foundation to Standardize the Agentic Web  FinancialContent

Linux May Be Unstoppable in 2026 — But One Open-Source Legend Might Not Survive  vocal.media

Kontron and congatec partner on secure embedded Linux platforms ...  eeNews Europe

Gaming on Linux? I found a distro that makes it pain-free  ZDNet

I repurposed my old Chromebook as a Linux server, here's how it went  How-To Geek

How to install ExpressVPN on Linux: Add end-to-end encryption to your PC  GB News

How to Control Hidden Background Apps in Linux  Make Tech Easier

Fedora Linux 2025: Key Features in Versions 42 and 43  WebProNews

Intel Xe Driver Surpasses i915 on Arc Alchemist GPUs in Linux 6.19 Tests  WebProNews

D7VK 1.1 Adds Experimental Direct3D 6 Support for Vulkan on Linux  WebProNews

X11 is going away on Linux. Here's how to prepare for Wayland  How-To Geek

Linus Torvalds Releases Linux 6.19-rc3 with ARM64 Fixes and GPU Boosts  WebProNews

The Performance Of Arch Linux Powered CachyOS On AMD EPYC Servers  Phoronix

One of the more interesting announcements over the holiday period thus far is that moving into 2026, CachyOS is looking to develop a server edition for their Arch Linux based operating system. CachyOS has garnered quite a following among Linux enthusiasts and gamers for its competitive out-of-the-box performance, employing some of the optimizations by Intel's now defunct Clear Linux distribution, and pulling in all of the goodness from upstream Arch Linux. It will be very interesting to see how CachyOS Server Edition takes shape and whether it will develop a foothold in any prominent enterprise environments. While CachyOS Server Edition isn't yet released and still in its early stages, over the holidays I decided to see how CachyOS in its current form currently looks for AMD EPYC servers.

One of the unexpected Linux kernel surprises of 2025 was NTFSPLUS being announced as a new driver for Microsoft's NTFS file-system with better performance and more features compared to the classic read-only NTFS driver or the "NTFS3" kernel driver that Paragon Software submitted upstream. That NTFSPLUS driver has continued expanding its feature set and robustness and sent out today was the third iteration of the patches. Now this driver is simply being called "NTFS" with no longer going by the NTFSPLUS name...

Linux will be unstoppable in 2026 - but one open-source legend may not survive  ZDNet