Open-source News

During the last month on Phoronix there were 289 original open-source/Linux-related news articles and another 20 featured articles as in Linux hardware reviews and multi-page benchmark articles. There was a lot of interesting software and hardware happenings the past month but standing out the most was the Linux 7.0 merge window developments and the ramp of Intel Panther Lake Linux testing...

California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup  Tom's Hardware

After hearing last month that GNU Hurd is "almost there" with x86_64 support, it was exciting to kickoff today by seeing a developer headline "The 64-bit Hurd is Here!" GNU Hurd 64-bit support is now said to be ready but SMP support for multiple processor cores and the like remain still in development...

Last July Intel sadly ended their Clear Linux distribution amid cost-cutting measures at the company. Clear Linux for a decade served at the forefront of Linux performance innovations and was consistently the fastest out-of-the-box Linux x86_64 distribution until Intel ended the Linux distribution without any advanced notice for its users. Intel had kept up the ClearLinux.org website online to download the final releases and access other technical content and forum discussions, etc. Sadly, that too was recently taken offline...

Intel's Clear Linux Website No Longer Online  Phoronix

GNU Hurd Finally Runs on x86_64 With New 64-Bit Port  Linuxiac

Linux Foundation Announces OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation to Accelerate Open Source AI-RAN Innovation  PR Newswire

AerynOS 2026.02 Released with GNOME 49.4, KDE Plasma 6.6, and COSMIC 1.0.8  9to5Linux

The atomic Linux distro nobody talks about just got a big update  XDA

Openstack RDO && KVM Hypervisor: Switching location of default libvirt's pool on Debian forky  LXer: Linux News

AerynOS 2026.02 was released for closing out February as the newest alpha release for this Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS. In AerynOS 2026.02 are many package updates plus continued work on the tooling and other innovations around this Linux distribution...

AerynOS 2026.02 Brings More Wayland Compositor Options, Other Improvements  Phoronix

KaOS just ditched KDE Plasma, and the replacement is unlike anything else on Linux  XDA

This Ubuntu-based distro might be the easiest Windows escape route yet  MakeUseOf

6 habits that finally stopped me from breaking Linux  MakeUseOf

I'm Low-key Hyped for This Data Center Sim (Though It Has No Official Linux Support)  It's FOSS

Linux 7.0 lands with Intel, AMD, ARM, and RISC-V upgrades  TechRadar

A set of patches recently posted to the Linux kernel mailing list have now been queued up to a tip/tip.git branch for planned introduction in Linux 7.1. These patches are for enhancing the Linux perf subsystem support for AMD Instruction-Based Sampling (IBS) improvements with next-gen Zen 6 processors...

Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.6 Released with Linux 6.19, TLP Support, and More  9to5Linux

Handmade by human hands using machines  Digg