Open-source News

As the last planned article on Phoronix of Q2, here is a look back at what excited readers the most in the second quarter. There were 872 original news articles this quarter as well as 54 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. Here is what excited readers the most over these past three months...

Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) Now Supports Oracle Linux 9  Oracle Blogs

CachyOS June 2026 ISO Released with Hyprland Noctalia, Faster Performance, and Smarter System Tools  Linux Journal

Linux for Sega Genesis  Boing Boing

Just a week after the COSMIC Epoch 1.1 release with its slick new system monitor, COSMIC Epoch 1.2 is now available for this Rust-based desktop developed by System76...

AMD Backs Up PS6 Portable Rumors With "Zen 6 LP" Core Support in Linux  TechPowerUp

Bottles is how you should actually run Windows apps on Linux  XDA

VirtualBox 7.2.12 Fixes Linux Host Kernel Panic  Linuxiac

COSMIC 1.2 Desktop Enables AVIF Support, Improves Support for Newer Intel GPUs  9to5Linux

GraalVM, the advanced JDK focused on ahead-of-time (AOT) Native Image compilation and since last year began shifting focus to more non-Java languages like Python and JavaScript, is out with its newest community feature release. GraalVM Community Edition 25.1.3 is now available with some interesting changes in tow...

Kali Linux Gets A Second Update, And Boy Does It Need It This Year!  PC Perspective

PS5 Linux adds PlayStation 5 Slim support on firmware 7.61  VideoCardz.com

Fedora 45 Looks To Finally Offer Install Support For Stratis Storage  Phoronix

Ever since RHEL deprecated their short-lived Btrfs plans, Red Hat engineers over the past decade have been developing Stratis Storage as their storage management solution leveraging XFS, LUKS, DM, and their Rust-based daemon. While Stratis Storage has been available in Fedora Linux going all the way back to Fedora 28, until now there hasn't been the option of using it for the root file-system on new Fedora installations. Finally with Fedora 45 that may change...

Claude Desktop - The official app finally lands on Linux  Korben

AMD confirms low-power CPU cores in Linux kernel patch — Zen 6 chips could follow in Intel's footsteps with new core type for background tasks  Tom's Hardware

Anthropic releases Claude Desktop app beta for Linux users  Crypto Briefing

Linux 7.2 Features: Cache Aware Scheduling, USB4STREAM, AMD ISP4, AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL  Phoronix

Linux 7.2 is working toward release in August with its more than 43 million lines in the codebase. With Linux 7.2 there are many new changes in tow as summed up in today's feature overview.

New Linux Support for Zen 6 "Low Power" Cores Lines Up with Previous PS6 Handheld Rumour  Digital Foundry