Open-source News

How to Play Games on Linux: A Beginner’s Guide  Yahoo! Tech

Linux Supports Hundreds of Popular Games. Here's How to Start Playing  How-To Geek

Linux Foundation warns Europe risks falling behind without stronger open source strategy  BetaNews

Stemming from a request by a Phoronix Premium reader wondering about some fresh historical kernel performance comparison numbers, today's benchmarking is looking at the performance of the LTS and latest stable Linux kernel versions going back to Linux 5.15 LTS in 2021. For testing an AMD EPYC Milan-X server was used for compatibility back through Linux 5.15 LTS with some rather impressive results for testing these major Linux kernel releases of the past four years.

Linux 5.15 LTS To 6.17 Benchmarks: Four Years Of Kernel Improvement Net 37% Improvement On AMD EPYC Review  Phoronix

Arch Linux Confirms Week-Long DDoS Attack on Website, Repos, and Forums  Cyber Press

Moonlight Pulse is a metroidvania set inside an immense interstellar organism now with a Linux version  GamingOnLinux

Arch Linux Confirms Week-Long DDoS Attack Disrupted its Website, Repository, and Forums  CyberSecurityNews

KDE Plasma 6.5 gains an OEM ready system setup tool and KDE Linux is progressing  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat Releases TuneD 2.26 For Adaptively Tuning Linux Systems  Phoronix

Red Hat's performance team is now shipping TuneD 2.26 as the latest feature release for this tuning profile delivery mechanism for Linux systems to monitor and adaptively adjust the power/performance characteristics of different system components and more...

Arch Linux Services Hit by Week-Long DDoS Attack  GBHackers News

Retro x86-based machine emulator 86Box v5.0 brings a new integrated machine manager  GamingOnLinux

CachyOS Linux update delivers speed, security and reliability improvements  BetaNews

Meson 1.9 released this weekend as the newest feature update to this build system / build automation tool that works well across different software platforms. With Meson 1.9 there is enhanced Rust support, introducing Swift and C++ code interoperability, and other enhancements to this increasingly used alternative to the likes of CMake and Autotools...

The Open Platform for Enterprise AI "OPEA" that is a sub-project of the Linux Foundation and backed by a wide variety of different organizations to provide open solutions for Generative AI announced today their newest GenAI code examples...

The upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel will begin upstreaming hardware enablement for the ASPEED AST2700 as the next-gen baseboard management controller "BMC" that will likely appear in the majority of future generation servers...

Linux 6.18 Will Begin Preparing For ASPEED AST2700 BMC Support  Phoronix

What Virtualization Software Do You Prefer on Linux?  How-To Geek

The Linux Foundation used Open-Source Summit Europe 2025 happening in Amsterdam to announce the formation of the Developer Relations Foundation "DRF". Separately, they also announced from Amsterdam that DocumentDB has joined the Linux Foundation...