Open-source News

With the first-half of the year amazingly already in the books, here is a look back at what's captivated Linux/open-source fans the most from all the content on Phoronix. So far this year I have personally written 1,407 original news articles on software/hardware topics and another 74 original Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles...

What's Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts & Linux Users The Most So ...  Phoronix

While OpenZFS 3.0 has been talked about for a few years with macOS support, it doesn't appear to be on the immediate horizon and the OpenZFS 2.2 release is being worked on currently for providing a few new features to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation on Linux and FreeBSD systems...

OpenZFS 2.2-rc1 Brings Linux Container Support, BLAKE3 ...  Phoronix

8 Things You Need to Know Before Switching From Windows to ...  MUO - MakeUseOf

Following the path of SLOB, Linux's SLAB memory allocator is now officially deprecated beginning with the Linux 6.5 kernel series...

If Meteor Lake CPUs Are Cancelled On The Desktop Someone Needs To Tell Intel  HotHardware

Linux's SLAB Allocator Is Officially Deprecated  Phoronix

Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback, explained  Ars Technica

How to Use the ex Line Editor on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

How Linux 6.4 Kernel improves Wi-Fi 7 and IPv6 networking  SDxCentral

Four years of life added to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 via ELS  Neowin

The Linux 6.5 networking subsystem changes include more preparations around the ongoing WiFi 7 wireless standard as well as bringing up support for a number of newer network adapters...

Linux 6.5 Continues Making Preparations For WiFi 7, Enabling New ...  Phoronix

This 32-bit computer made in Terraria can play Pong and run Linux  Video Gamer

New MakuluLinux Release Brings AI to the Max  LinuxInsider.com

Ubuntu Linux-maker Canonical unveils a significant Snapcraft.io ...  BetaNews

Sound Open Firmware 2.6 was released on Thursday for this Intel-started open-source software project for having a fully open audio DSP firmware stack and related development tooling. While initially limited to Intel hardware support, SOF has since grown and seen support from the likes of Mediatek, Realtek, NXP, and even recent AMD SoCs...

Mission Linux: How the open source software is now a lucrative target for hackers  CSO Online

China's Loongson continues preparing the software support for their upcoming 3A6000 processors that will feature several new capabilities over their inaugural LoongArch-based 3A5000 series...