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Final Benchmarks Of AMDVLK vs. RADV AMD Radeon Vulkan Drivers  Phoronix

The Linux 6.19 kernel has been a bit bumpy in the scheduler department but at least one fix is on the way for addressing fallout...

For X11/X.Org fans there is a new Christmas surprise: Phoenix as an in-development X Server written from scratch using the Zig programming language...

Ho to run Linux GUI apps natively on Windows 10/11 with WSL, No VM Required  Yahoo! Tech

Linux-VServer.org Celebrates 25 Years of Innovation with  openPR.com

My favorite way to run Linux apps on Windows without a virtual machine  How-To Geek

Skip these 3 popular distros (and use these instead)  How-To Geek

When it came to the most viewed AMD Linux/open-source news of 2025 there were a lot of accomplishments for the company this year both on the CPU and graphics side of the house and from consumer to server hardware. Today is a look back at the most popular Intel open-source/Linux news of the year, which unfortunately, their layoffs and other cuts to their software engineering were attracting a lot of interest...

Google's Propeller is a profile-guided, reflinking optimizer for large codebases. Propeller is built atop LLVM and can allow for whole-program optimizations. Google compiler engineers are now hoping to bring the Propeller tool into the upstream LLVM codebase...

The mainline Linux kernel already supports several different Mobileye SoCs for that company focused on self-driving tech and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Consulting firm Bootlin has been working on bringing their latest SoC, the Mobileye Eyeq6Lplus, to the mainline Linux kernel...

The past several years we have seen new releases of the Ruby programming language implementation for Christmas (25 December). This year is no different with Ruby 4.0 having been released this morning...

QEMU 10.2 Officially Released with Live Update Support and Improvements  9to5Linux

FOSS Weekly #25.52: Free eBook, Linux in 2026, New Distros of 2025 and a Lot More Before the Year Ends  It's FOSS

Libreboot as the Coreboot downstream focused on free, open-source boot firmware is out with a new test release for Christmas...

Linux 6.19 Revives Old AMD GPUs with 30% More Performance  eTeknix

Sidero Labs Extends Talos Linux Directly to Broadcom VMs  The New Stack

As a wonderful gift to open-source Linux virtualization users this Christmas Eve is the release of the QEMU 10.2 emulator...

QEMU 10.2 Released With IO_uring Support For Helping Allow For Greater Performance  Phoronix

As part of my various end-of-year benchmarking comparison articles for looking at the performance evolution of Linux is a fresh look at the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptop experience when using Ubuntu 25.10 with the latest X1E Concept packages, which includes taking the X1 Elite optimized kernel to the latest Linux 6.18 stable series. Unfortunately, there are significant performance regressions observed compared to a few months ago that just make AMD Ryzen AI and Intel Core Ultra laptops a better choice for Linux laptop users.

Alternative NAS operating system OpenMediaVault got a big Christmas Eve update  How-To Geek