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In the past few weeks on Phoronix we have explored a fresh look at the open-source Nouveau/NVK performance compared to the NVIDIA 580 packaged Linux driver as well as a multi-generation Nouveau vs. NVIDIA comparison from the GeForce GTX 980 to RTX 5080 since the forthcoming NVIDIA R590 driver series is ending the GTX 900/1000 series support. Today's article provides another round of fresh open-source NVIDIA Linuc graphics performance data using the upstream open-source Nouveau and Mesa NVK/Zink drivers compared not only to the current NVIDIA packaged driver but also competitively for how the GeForce RTX 50 line-up compares to the current AMD Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards.

AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series vs. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Open-Source Linux Performance For 2025  Phoronix

I ran the one command in Linux you should never run. Here's what happened  How-To Geek

Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” Beta Is Available for Download with Cinnamon 6.6  9to5Linux

Beyond the Firefox browser to see more changes under its new CEO, the Thunderbird mail client is also expected to see some big changes in the new year...

Qt 6.11 Beta 1 is out on-schedule with the code having entered its feature freeze and code branching earlier this month. This toolkit is working toward the stable Qt 6.11 stable debut in March...

Linux Kernel 6.17 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS  9to5Linux

Linux Kernel 6.17 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS  9to5Linux

Intel ISPC 1.29 released on Wednesday as the newest feature update to this Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as a C variant able to target Intel hardware from their CPUs to GPUs for SIMD programming...

LibreOffice 25.8.4 Is Now Available for Download with More Than 70 Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

ExpressVPN releases redesigned app on Linux, but Windows 11 and Mac owners face a much longer wait  GB News

Linux Container & Kubernetes Adoption Statistics  commandlinux.com

AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" is beautifully awesome. Probably my favorite hardware of 2025 whether it's in desktop form with the likes of the Framework Desktop or for very powerful laptops between the Zen 5 CPU cores and very capable Radeon 8060S Graphics within devices like the HP ZBook Ultra G1a. If you are interested by Strix Halo too and looking for a way to obtain one without the high price, AMD is running a holiday special of those contributing PyTorch and vLLM ROCm bug fixes for Strix Halo laptops...

Linux On Chromebook  commandlinux.com

Server Operating System Market | Global Market Analysis Report - 2036  Fact.MR

Announced one year ago was KDE Internet of Things "Kiot" with an emphasis on providing nice integration between the KDE Plasma desktop and Home Assistant for handling open-source home automation. Development on Kiot sadly fell through the cracks for most of the year but development on it recently restarted...

Linux Desktop is Fragmented (And That's NOT a Bad Thing)  It's FOSS

FOSS Weekly #25.51: Pop OS 24.04 Release, Fresh Editor, eBPF Tools, Cinnamon 6.6, NTFSPlus and More Linux Stuff  It's FOSS

Kubuntu vs. Fedora: Which Linux distro is right for your KDE Plasma desktop?  ZDNET

Intel's Video Processing Library "libvpl" is out with a new version ahead of the holidays. The only major change with libvpl 2.16 is adding experimental APIs for AI-assisted video encode functionality...