Open-source News

Linux Kernel Patches Enable Rust USB Drivers for Better Safety  WebProNews

Linux Node Release and Upcoming Protocol Upgrades  Pi Network

LF Networking, the networking group within the Linux Foundation, announced from the Open-Source Summit Europe today the release of Essedum 1.0. Essedum 1.0 is for integrating AI into networking environments...

Linux Foundation Networking Releases Essedum 1.0 For AI-Native Network Apps  Phoronix

Linux Foundation Opens the Door to DocumentDB  The New Stack

I tried daily-driving a privacy-focused portable Linux distro on a USB drive, and it worked surprisingly well  xda-developers.com

Last year Intel and AMD formed an x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group "EAG" in collaboration with key partners. The x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group is to collaborate and innovate further around the x86_64 ISA. With AMD and Intel in agreement, FRED (Flexible Return Event Delivery), AVX10, and Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) are some of the early areas where they are finding common ground and interest...

Linux Foundation launches Essedum 1.0 to simplify AI integration in network operations  Network World

With Mesa 25.2.1 recently having been released, the prior quarter's Mesa 25.1 series is now drawing to a close. Excellent Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom released Mesa 25.1.9 as one last point release for Mesa 25.1 before ending this branch...

‘Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened’ Available on Public Cloud Marketplaces  insidehpc.com

Hackers Observed Patching Leveraged Linux Exploit  Security Magazine

WSL made using my Windows 11 PC so much easier, here's how  xda-developers.com

Framework Desktop Power Mode Tuning For Better Performance Or Power Efficiency Review  Phoronix

Continuing on with our Framework Desktop benchmarking powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo", today we are looking at the performance and power impact of power mode tuning for this review sample powered by the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 SoC. A wide variety of benchmarks were done across the power saver / balanced / performance power modes for looking at the impact on performance as well as thermals and power consumption.

These 6 Linux apps could boost your productivity - and you might not have heard of them  ZDNET

5 more ways to share files on Linux that every pro should know  ZDNET

Patches Posted To Allow Writing USB Rust Drivers For Linux  Phoronix

An initial set of Linux kernel patches were posted this week for allowing USB Rust kernel drivers to be developed for Linux...

QEMU 10.1 Released with TDX Support, Many RISC-V and ARM Improvements  9to5Linux

Introduced earlier this month with the Vulkan API 1.4.325 spec update was the introduction of the untyped pointers extension with VK_KHR_shader_untyped_pointers and SPIR-V's underlying SPV_KHR_untyped_pointers for providing an alternative option to strongly-typed pointers. As of yesterday the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now supporting this untyped pointers extension...