Open-source News

Mesa 26.0: RADV catapults Radeon ray tracing forward on Linux  igor´sLAB

Linux 7.0 may receive a self-repairing feature that automatically fixes your XFS filesystem  XDA

Five Linux Distros Emerge As Ready To Use Picks  findarticles.com

KDE's Plasma 6.6 desktop release is due out next week (17 February) and there's been some last minute fixes to land. Additionally, KDE Plasma developers continue to be quite active in already landing feature work for Plasma 6.7...

One of the latest exciting developments for the open-source Godot game engine is beginning to lay out support for Vulkan ray-tracing...

Godot 4.7 Making Progress On Vulkan Ray-Tracing  Phoronix

My 5 favorite Linux distros that are ready to use out of the box (no setup required)  ZDNET

The GNOME 50 beta release is now available ahead of the official GNOME 50 desktop due out in March...

Linux Mint Signals Slower Release Cadence  findarticles.com

AerynOS is the atomic Linux distro nobody is talking about  XDA

GNOME 50 Desktop Environment Enters Public Beta Testing with More New Features  9to5Linux

Why my favorite Linux distro is slowing down - and I'm thrilled about it  ZDNET

One of the latest NVIDIA open-source contributions this week wasn't for the in-development Nova kernel driver but for enhancing the existing Nouveau kernel driver. The patch posted is for bringing up the NVIDIA GA100 GPU under Nouveau using the GPU System Processor (GSP)...

XFS Could Gain a Self-Healing Feature in Linux Kernel 7.0  Linuxiac

With the Serial Peripheral Interface "SPI" subsystem updates for the Linux 7.0 kernel comes support for multi-lane SPI...

Multi-Lane SPI Support Merged For Linux 7.0  Phoronix

4 systemd tools that make everyday Linux troubleshooting much easier  How-To Geek

Adding to the exciting features for the big Linux 7.0 kernel release is support for the Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm "ML-DSA" quantum-resistant signature algorithm...

AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization with Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) provides memory encryption and integrity protections that can be especially useful in modern cloud computing. Typically a 2~10% performance overhead is reported when engaging AMD SEV-SNP for these hardware-backed security protections. In this article is an extensive look at the current AMD SEV-SNP performance impact for confidential computing on EPYC 9005 "Turin" servers. The current Ubuntu 24.04 LTS was tested as well as an Ubuntu 26.04 development snapshot in evaluating the latest optimizations and what is on the horizon this year for AMD EPYC Linux server performance.

Putting Linux on a tablet? Here's 7 distros to try  How-To Geek