Open-source News

With LLVM 21.1 having been released last week as the newest half-year feature update to this open-source compiler stack, I have begun benchmarking Clang 21 on a variety of systems for getting a feel for the performance over Clang 20. Eventually it will be extended as well to looking at the Clang 21 performance against GCC and vendor compilers. For some initial Clang 21 benchmarking, here is a look at how the Clang 21 C/C++ compiler is performing on 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" Zen 5 processors compared to the prior release.

I dual booted Fedora KDE and I forgot Windows was installed  xda-developers.com

ICYMI Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: Python: The Documentary, Linux is 34, New CircuitPython Beta and More! #CircuitPython #Python #micropython @Raspberry_Pi  Adafruit

Arch Linux Installer’s LVM (Logical Volume Manager) Support Is Out of Beta  9to5Linux

Linux Kernel Eyes Phasing Out 32-Bit Support for Security Gains  WebProNews

Arch Linux's convenient text-based OS installer "archinstall" is out with a new release today that promotes Logical Volume Manager (LVM) based installs no longer as "beta" quality...

Arch Linux's Archinstall No Longer Treating LVM-Based Installs As "Beta"  Phoronix

I finally found an Arch-based Linux distro even newbies can run  ZDNET

Minimal distro Linux From Scratch 12.4 launches with 49 package updates and the 6.16.1 kernel  Notebookcheck

Linux almost turned my Gamescom trip into a catastrophic disaster, but a Windows USB came to my rescue  Yahoo! Tech

Linux almost turned my Gamescom trip into a catastrophic disaster, but a Windows USB came to my rescue  PC Gamer

Earlier this year Canonical announced plans for using sudo-rs as the Rust-written sudo implementation by default for Ubuntu 25.10 along with Rust Coreutils and other Rust system components. The sudo-rs goal has been achieved with the newest Ubuntu 25.10 daily ISOs now using this sudo implementation by default...

The Linux Foundation Expands Agentic AI Push With Third Major Project  LinuxInsider

What if modern PC gaming were just a little more Nintendo? Kazeta, a Linux-based OS, aims to find out with plug 'n' play SD 'carts' and by going all in on retro simplicity  PC Gamer

Separate from yesterday's upstream new GIMP 3.2 development release, open-source developer Josh Ellithorpe announced the creation of a new GIMP plug-in dubbed "Dream Prompter" for bringing the power of Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview model to this open-source photo/image editing software...

Windows Server vs Linux: Expert 2025 Comparison  Cybernews

WinBoat is a new Linux app to run Windows apps with "seamless integration"  GamingOnLinux

Now that FFmpeg 8.0 has shipped for this widely-used multimedia library, development is back on of major feature work toward the next major release. Landing on Monday was the initial code for a major rewrite to the swscale code in providing a new framework that is faster and more maintainable/extensible moving forward...

Crusader Kings III celebrates 5 years with some interesting stats  GamingOnLinux

Last month Intel posted new Linux patches for a "SoC power slider" feature premiering with upcoming Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptops. That SoC Power Slider support for the Intel int340x is now expected to be upstreamed with the Linux 6.18 kernel later this year...