Open-source News

Linux Foundation Research Releases New Report: "The State of Open Source Japan 2025: Accelerating Business Value through Strategic Open Source Engagement"  PR Newswire

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 7th, 2025  9to5Linux

This self-hosted Linux app cut my subscription costs by $300  How-To Geek

Stop using Ubuntu—here's why you need to switch to an immutable distro instead  How-To Geek

These amazing Windows apps actually started on Linux , and they’re all free  How-To Geek

Merged to the mainline Linux kernel last year was GPIB drivers in the kernel's "staging" area. GPIB is the General Purpose Interface Bus launched by HP back in 1972 for lab equipment and more. After a year of cleaning up the code in the kernel's staging area, for Linux 6.19 the GPIB drivers have been promoted out of the staging area and into the Linux kernel proper. The Linux kernel now has stable driver support for this 8 Mbyte/s parallel bus that was introduced 53 years ago...

One of the most exciting merges this weekend to the Linux 6.19 kernel is establishing the infrastructure for supporting PCI Express link encryption and device authentication. Multiple vendors are working on PCIe link encryption for their hardware while this initial pull begins laying the foundation of AMD SEV-TIO Trusted I/O support for the mainline kernel...

6 retro Unix platforms that shaped the Linux we know today  How-To Geek

Tiny Core Linux 16.2 still fits a proper Linux desktop into a 23MB download — but it has grown 1MB since the last time we looked at it  Tom's Hardware

New computing platform is ‘Made for Making’ — Caligra c100 Developer Terminal targets creators with distraction-free ‘computer for experts’  Tom's Hardware

Reasons To Love Linux Mint  The New Stack

Linux 6.19 Delivers Working USB3 Support For Apple Silicon Devices  Phoronix

Merged last night for the Linux 6.19 kernel merge window were all of the USB and Thunderbolt driver changes. Standing out this cycle is Apple Silicon devices like the M1 Macs now having working USB3 support on the mainline Linux kernel...

In addition to NVIDIA improving peer-to-peer (P2P) DMA for block devices in Linux 6.19, NVIDIA also led an effort providing DMA-BUF support for VFIO PCI devices for opening up some interesting new cases moving forward. As part of the VFIO pull request this new functionality has landed for Linux 6.19...

A week ago I wrote about AI being used to help modernize Ubuntu's Error Tracker. Microsoft GitHub Copilot was tasked to help adapt its Cassandra database usage to modern standards. It's worked in some areas but even for a rather straight forward task, some of the generated functions ended up being "plain wrong" according to the developer involved...

On top of the Rust driver core changes and other Rust code for Linux 6.19, the modules infrastructure for this new kernel version is also bringing some new code. Surprisingly, it's taken until now for Rust kernel modules/drivers to support module parameters as is common practice for passing different options when booting the kernel or manually loading kernel drivers with extra non-default options...

Rust Drivers In Linux 6.19 Will Now Support... Module Parameters  Phoronix

Sent in for the Linux 6.19 merge window when it comes to the frame-buffer device "FBDEV" subsystem are just a set of "fixes" for FBDEV drivers and code clean-ups. But it does also include a new console font option for better supporting modern laptops with high density displays...

Linux 6.19 Adds New Console Font To Better Handle Modern Laptops With HiDPI Displays  Phoronix

hell freezes over  Thurrott.com