Open-source News

CachyOS vs Windows 11 gaming test shows Linux leading in Cyberpunk 2077, Space Marine 2 and more  Notebookcheck

French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir sues Ubisoft over The Crew shutdown  GamingOnLinux

OpenVPN 2.7.1 Released with New Features, Improvements, and Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

Sovereign Cloud, Azure Local and Azure Linux  Virtualization Review

I did a minimal Ubuntu install and stripped out every pre-installed app  MakeUseOf

You’re probably ready for Arch Linux. Here’s how to tell  Yahoo Tech

You’re probably ready for Arch Linux. Here’s how to tell  How-To Geek

Sent out yesterday were the DRM Rust feature changes for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window coming in April. The Rust graphics/display driver code for Linux 7.1 includes more programming language abstractions and other Rust infrastructure work to make graphics drivers written in Rust more capable...

A Lot Of Rust Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.1, NVIDIA Nova Driver Additions  Phoronix

I switched to CachyOS, and I’m not sure if I want to go back to vanilla Arch  MakeUseOf

With Q1 wrapping up, here is a look back at the most popular news and reviews for the quarter that excited Linux readers the most. During this quarter on Phoronix were 881 original news articles thus far and 61 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles...

Enduring 15 Years with One Server and 8GB Memory: He Used "Obsolete" Technologies to Let Over 500,000 People Type Their First Linux Command  36 Kr

GNOME 49.5 Is Out to Improve Accessibility of App Folders in GNOME Shell  9to5Linux

One of the latest Linux kernel optimizations being worked on by Meta's large kernel engineering team is making reading of /proc/interrupts less costly. Due to monitoring of their servers frequently reading /proc/interrupts, it's actually become a noticeable cost over time with their massive fleet of systems...

Meta Optimizing /proc/interrupts Reading As It's Too Costly At Scale: 29% Speedup  Phoronix

Servo 0.0.6 is out today to round out the month with many great improvements made in recent weeks to this Rust-based browser engine advancing with its servoshell implementation and many prospects around using it for embedded browser use cases...

Ubuntu beta arrives with GNOME 50, sans Google Drive support  theregister.com

This is the one Windows feature that convinced me I don't need Linux  How-To Geek

These are the 6 worst Linux recommendations I keep hearing—here's why they're wrong  How-To Geek

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is just three weeks out for release with many great features in tow from the GNOME 50 desktop to the very leading-edge Linux 7.0 kernel and many other package updates. One feature that many had been looking forward to is Canonical's plans to ship AMD ROCm directly in the Ubuntu archive for a much cleaner experience for those wanting to make use of AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. As a common question in recent weeks from readers, it remains to be seen if that milestone will be achieved for the Ubuntu 26.04 launch day...