Open-source News

Given the recent release of FreeBSD 15, I started off my testing in looking at how FreeBSD 15.0 improves performance versus FreeBSD 14.3. Now it's onto the next important question: how is FreeBSD 15.0 performing relative to Linux on servers? Here are some benchmarks exploring that topic today.

AMD FSR SDK 2.1 is now available that includes their "FSR Redstone" machine learning based upscaling tech for gaming..

Linux Foundation Partners With New Group to Standardize AI Agents  Windows Report

Turbostat is the Linux command-line utility for reporting CPU frequency / power / C-states and related performance / power management items namely for modern AMD and Intel processors. This CLI utility lives within the Linux kernel source tree and for Linux 6.19 has picked up a few new features...

In addition to approving Fedora Cloud switching /boot to a Btrfs subvolume, another change approved this week by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) is for shipping the Budgie 10.10 desktop packages in Fedora 44...

The past several months Intel software engineers have been quite busy with LLM-Scaler as part of Project Battlematrix. LLM-Scaler is a Docker-based solution for AI workloads on Intel graphics hardware to ship an optimized vLLM stack and other AI frameworks. Out today is a new LLM-Scaler-Omni release to help enhance ComfyUI performance on Intel hardware...

A performance fix has been submitted to the Linux kernel for dealing with a regression in the Slab memory allocation code...

While the Linux kernel has inclusive terminology guidelines for the past five years to replace phrases like master/slave and blacklist/whitelist, there has surprisingly been a "genocide" function within the kernel that was questioned when it was first submitted for inclusion but now removed in Linux 6.19...

OpenAI, Anthropic, Block launch Agentic AI Foundation under Linux  YourStory.com

Anthropic, OpenAI, Block Move Agentic AI Infrastructure to Open Source Governance Under Linux Foundation  Open Source For You

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" today signed off on a new feature for Fedora Cloud 44 to switch /boot to being as a Btrfs sub-volume rather than a separate partition...

The RISC-V CPU architecture changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel...

The Quiet War Over AI’s Plumbing: Why Tech Giants Just Handed the Pipes to Linux  CTOL Digital Solutions

AerynOS 2025.12 is available today as the latest installment of this from-scratch Linux distribution originally known as Serpent OS...

AerynOS 2025.12 Brings Many Package Updates  Phoronix

AerynOS 2025.12 Released with GNOME 49.2, Mesa 25.3, and KDE Plasma 6.5.4  9to5Linux

Overwatch 2 with Season 20 has some very annoying crash-bugs on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Join Linux Agent Initiative  findarticles.com

Revolutionary Alliance: OpenAI, Anthropic and Block Unite Under Linux Foundation to Standardize AI Agents  CryptoRank

OpenAI, Anthropic and Block Set up Agentic AI Foundation Under Linux Foundation  Analytics India Magazine