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The GCC compiler and the GNU toolchain ecosystem at large had a great year. From new language front-ends for the likes of Algol 68 and COBOL to maturing support for GCC Rust, new performance optimizations from GCC to Glibc, initial AMD Zen 6 "znver6" support merged for GCC 16, and much more. It's pretty safe to say GCC and the broader GNU ecosystem enjoyed a very successful 2025...

While the Godot Engine receives a lot of attention as a prominent open-source game engine, it's far from the only one in this space. Another open-source game engine capping out 2025 with a new release is the Crown Engine...

Open-Source Crown Game Engine v0.60 Released  Phoronix

OpenCV 4.13 is out this New Year's Eve in providing the latest open-source computer vision (CV) capabilities. OpenCV 4.13 brings a wide variety of enhancements to this widely-used computer vision library...

The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere  theregister.com

These are the Linux Apps I Couldn't Live Without in 2025  It's FOSS

Hyprland Becomes More Attractive with Crash Recovery and Safe Mode Features  It's FOSS

December happens to be a busy month for video editor releases in the open-source world. This month there's been the release of Flowblade 2.24, OpenShot 3.4, Kdenlive 25.12, and now there is Shotcut 25.12 before closing out the month and year...

Intel Boosts Xe Driver with Multi-GPU SVM in Linux Kernel 7.0 for AI  WebProNews

Shotcut 25.12 Adds NVIDIA NVENC Encoder Support to Screen Recording on Linux/X11  9to5Linux

Unexpected Surprise: Windows 11 Outperforming Linux On An Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop  Phoronix

Typically when receiving any review hardware preloaded with Microsoft Windows I tend to run some Windows vs. Linux benchmarks just as a sanity test plus it still seems to generate a fair amount of interest even though the outcome is almost always the same: Linux having a hefty performance advantage over Windows especially in the more demanding creator-type workloads. As an unexpected twist and time consuming puzzle the past two months, when recently testing out the Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 it's faster for numerous workloads now on Microsoft Windows 11 than Ubuntu Linux.

Tim Sweeney highlights satirical Fortnite Linux advocacy  Traders Union

Linux finally getting key performance boost feature that Windows 11/10 has had for years  Neowin

X.Org package wrangler Alan Coopersmith at Oracle announced today the release of imake 1.0.11, the newest version of this utility that 20+ years ago was used extensively as part of the X Window System build process for generating Makefiles from a template. With this first imake point release in two years, imake itself can now be built via Meson and there is now support for RISC-V and LoongArch architectures...

GNU Wget 2.2.1 Released with New Options, Improvements, and Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

Linux Kernel 6.19 Enables Native Optimizations for 5-15% Boost on Intel and AMD  WebProNews

Over the past few years building the Linux kernel with Clang has matured a lot thanks to upstream improvements to both LLVM/Clang and the Linux kernel. As it's been a while since our last comparison for GCC vs. Clang built kernels on the resulting system performance, our latest year-end 2025 benchmarking is providing a fresh look at the Linux 6.19 upstream Git kernel built under the latest stable GCC 15 and LLVM Clang 21 compilers. Plus with the Clang-built kernel is also the option of the Link-Time Optimized (LTO) kernel for even greater performance.

Some Meaningful Performance Benefits For Clang + LTO Built Linux Kernels Review  Phoronix

This simple Linux tool lets you try multiple distros safely on one desktop - for free  ZDNET