Open-source News

If Linux is going to thrive, some distros have to die  How-To Geek

Sent out today as a request for comments is a new patch series for Dynamic Housekeeping and Enhanced Isolation (DHEI). DHEI aims to provide run-time adjustments to kernel behavior around CPU isolation for helping with latency-sensitive tasks. The expressed goal is for helping cloud-native orchestrators and high frequency trading platforms dynamically re-partition CPU resources without downtime...

As of this week Oracle's latest VirtualBox development code begins to work with Linux's native KVM back-end. Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in conjunction with VirtualBox has long been sought and it's finally becoming a reality...

Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend  Phoronix

GTK toolkit developers met in Brussels once again for their annual hackfest during FOSDEM week...

Steam Beta fixes games from large libraries on Linux / SteamOS showing as not valid on current platform  GamingOnLinux

One of the headaches right now when dealing with the Snapdragon X Elite on Linux is that for a majority of the devices you need to fetch firmware files from the Windows 11 on ARM partition as the necessary firmware bits for Linux use aren't upstreamed to linux-firmware.git. That has gradually improved over time from the qcom-firmware-extract making the process easier to more firmware bits eventually being added to linux-firmware.git...

Nvidia launches native GeForce NOW app for Linux in beta  Notebookcheck

$199+ M5Stack AI Pyramid Computing Box Linux AI mini PC is based on Axera AX8850 SoC  CNX Software

FreeBSD Finally Wins Over A Linux Veteran  findarticles.com

Elementary OS Crowned My Favorite Linux Distro  findarticles.com

After decades on Linux, FreeBSD finally gave me a reason to switch operating systems  ZDNET

As of 2026, this is my favorite Linux distro of all time - and I've tested them all  ZDNET

Engineers Michał Żygowski and Piotr Król of open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb presented at FOSDEM in Brussels on open-source for confidential compute infrastructure. With Intel not making strides to fully open-up their FSP package, the talk was centered around the modern AMD open-source firmware efforts led by their openSIL initiative for open-source CPU silicon initialization to replace AGESA in the Zen 6 timeframe...

Linux updates don't scare me anymore thanks to this immutable distro (and it's easy to use)  ZDNET

Ardour 9.0 Open-Source DAW Brings Pianoroll Windows, Cue Recording, and More  9to5Linux

The GNU Nettle cryptographic library is out with a major new update that introduces support for SLH-DSA, the post-quantum signature scheme selected by NIST for the FIPS 205 standard...

2026 will be the year of gaming on Linux  XDA

Wardogs: New 100-Player Tactical FPS Gets Trailer and Steam Page  TechPowerUp

Ardour 9.0 Audio Workstation Released With Multi-Touch GUI, Many New Features  Phoronix