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SPDX SBOM Generation Tool Proposed For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 01/19/2026 - 18:48
For those organizations on the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) bandwagon for increasing transparency around software components with license compliance, vulnerability management, and securing the software supply chain, proposed patches to the Linux kernel would introduce an SPDX SBOM Generation Tool...

Linux 6.19-rc6 Released With More Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 01/19/2026 - 08:08
Linus Torvalds just tagged the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel in working toward the stable Linux 6.19 kernel release likely on 8 February...

ReactOS For "Open-Source Windows" Achieves Massive Networking Performance Boost

Phoronix - Mon, 01/19/2026 - 04:09
ReactOS as the long-in-development "open-source Windows" project has been on quite a roll recently. Beyond a big Windows NT 6 compatibility improvement and fixing a very annoying usability issue, for this third week of the year there is another big change landing: a significant improvement in networking performance on ReactOS...

Linux 6.19 Landing Fixes For USB2/USB3 Issues With Apple M1/M2 Macs

Phoronix - Mon, 01/19/2026 - 01:40
Ahead of the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel release due out later today are two USB fixes for Apple M1 / M2 Macs running the mainline kernel. These Apple USB fixes are also marked for back-porting to the stable Linux kernel series...

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