Open-source News

A few days back I wrote about Google's Eric Biggers spearheading an AVX-512 implementation of xor_gen() as the Linux kernel function used for generating and validating parity blocks such as for RAID5/RAID6. That initial implementation was yielding up to 41% better performance while a new implementation has now been posted for scoring some additional victories...

Open-source developer Matthias Klumpp wrote a blog post today outlining his recent work developing pkgcli, a new and modern command-line interface (CLI) around the PackageKit package management abstraction layer...

Microsoft Secure Boot Key Expiration Affects Linux Ecosystem  Linuxiac

Ubuntu Desktop 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" Daily Builds Now Available for Download  9to5Linux

Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" Will Reach End of Life on July 9th, 2026  9to5Linux

Following Friday's exciting release of Wine 11.11 with Wayland driver improvements, Wine-Staging 11.11 is now available for this experimental/testing derivative that continues carrying nearly 300 patches atop the upstream codebase...

First Look at Audacity 4: A Beautiful and Modern Revamp of the Audio Editor  9to5Linux

400+ Arch Linux Packages Hijacked To Install Rootkit-Like Malware  LinkedIn

This Linux command is the only backup tool I'll ever need  MakeUseOf

Shelly 2.3.3 Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves Flatpak/AppImage Support  9to5Linux

Microsoft paid $20 million to protect one letter from Linux  XDA

Intel Ending Development Of BigDL: An Open-Source AI/LLM Effort Getting Axed  Phoronix

Among Intel's ongoing reduction in open-source projects they maintain, their BigDL open-source project focused on running large language models across Intel XPUs from Core Ultra laptops to discrete GPUs to cloud / data center hardware all in a low-latency manner, is being ended...

4 beginner Docker mistakes I made that took my homelab offline — and how I fixed each one  MakeUseOf

Wine 11.11 brings more Wayland improvements  GamingOnLinux

CachyOS Proton Can Now Download DLSS Files To Enable FSR 4 In More Linux Games  Wccftech

Among the changes being considered for the in-development Fedora 45 is a lightened version of the GRUB UEFI bootloader that would focus on being a minimal implementation suitable for confidential computing...

Released on Friday was the newest version of Intel Thermald, the thermal daemon developed by Intel for their processors on Linux for monitoring and helping control temperatures across modern Intel-powered laptops and desktops. Catching me immediately by surprise was Intel Thermald 2.5.12 introducing support for ARM...

Intel Thermald 2.5.12 Released... With Initial Support For ARM  Phoronix

Earlier this month I wrote about Intel working on function multi-versioning support for APX and AVX10.2 with the GCC compiler. This allows developers to write optimized code paths specifically targeting Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) or Advanced Vector Extensions 10.2 capabilities of future processors while being able to otherwise fall-back to generic or other optimized code paths for other ISA target features. This work is now merged for GCC 17...