Open-source News

Linus Torvalds Releases Linux 6.19-rc3 with ARM64 Fixes and GPU Boosts  WebProNews

The Performance Of Arch Linux Powered CachyOS On AMD EPYC Servers  Phoronix

One of the more interesting announcements over the holiday period thus far is that moving into 2026, CachyOS is looking to develop a server edition for their Arch Linux based operating system. CachyOS has garnered quite a following among Linux enthusiasts and gamers for its competitive out-of-the-box performance, employing some of the optimizations by Intel's now defunct Clear Linux distribution, and pulling in all of the goodness from upstream Arch Linux. It will be very interesting to see how CachyOS Server Edition takes shape and whether it will develop a foothold in any prominent enterprise environments. While CachyOS Server Edition isn't yet released and still in its early stages, over the holidays I decided to see how CachyOS in its current form currently looks for AMD EPYC servers.

One of the unexpected Linux kernel surprises of 2025 was NTFSPLUS being announced as a new driver for Microsoft's NTFS file-system with better performance and more features compared to the classic read-only NTFS driver or the "NTFS3" kernel driver that Paragon Software submitted upstream. That NTFSPLUS driver has continued expanding its feature set and robustness and sent out today was the third iteration of the patches. Now this driver is simply being called "NTFS" with no longer going by the NTFSPLUS name...

Linux will be unstoppable in 2026 - but one open-source legend may not survive  ZDNet

3 modern CLI tools that have replaced ps, df, and curl for me  How-To Geek

One of the many interesting Linux kernel innovations I have closely been following this year has been the proposed Cache Aware Scheduling support. I have shown the Cache Aware Scheduling performance on AMD EPYC as well as the Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids performance, but what about desktops? In this article is a quick look at Cache Aware Scheduling with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D...

Linux's Cache Aware Scheduling On AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 3D V-Cache  Phoronix

Open-source developer Derek J. Clark continues leading the efforts on improving the Lenovo Legion Go series hardware support under Linux. Posted today was the second iteration of the HID driver work for the Legion Go and Legion Go S for configuration support with the built-in controller HID interfaces...

Updated Linux Drivers Posted For Legion Go & Legion Go S Configuration  Phoronix

The 5 best macOS-like Linux desktop environments for a polished, modern look  How-To Geek

The next Linux kernel cycle, which will be known as Linux 6.20 or more than likely Linux 7.0, is expected to land some IO_uring improvements for better IOPOLL polling...

Linux 7.0 Expected To Bring IO_uring IOPOLL Polling Improvements  Phoronix

Longtime Linux users likely have fond memories of SuperTux as the open-source jump-n-run game that used to be included on some early Linux live CD/DVDs for this Super Mario Bros inspired game. There hasn't been a new release of SuperTux in over four years but out today is the beta of SuperTux 0.7 as a major overhaul to the free software, family-friendly game title...

SuperTux 0.7 Reaches Beta For Reviving An Open-Source Classic  Phoronix

If You Have an Older NVIDIA GPU on Arch Linux, Your System Might Be Broken  It's FOSS

New Linux 6.19-rc3 kernel candidate adds CPU idle detection for POWER11  Neowin

In addition to today's blog post calling out the need for others to takeover the This Week In Plasma series, KDE developer Nate Graham also published another blog post to highlight the successes of the Plasma desktop over 2025. In particular, the KDE Plasma Wayland transition "nears completion" as it works to become Wayland-only in early 2027...

What exactly makes Linux so bulletproof?  How-To Geek

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.19-rc3 to ship this week's fixes. Linux 6.19-rc3 is coming in light as expected due to the Christmas week with many corporate developers getting paid time off and others taking part in year-end festivities...