Open-source News

Linux 6.19 Revives Old AMD GPUs with 30% More Performance  eTeknix

Sidero Labs Extends Talos Linux Directly to Broadcom VMs  The New Stack

As a wonderful gift to open-source Linux virtualization users this Christmas Eve is the release of the QEMU 10.2 emulator...

QEMU 10.2 Released With IO_uring Support For Helping Allow For Greater Performance  Phoronix

Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Performance On Linux Ends 2025 Disappointing  Phoronix

As part of my various end-of-year benchmarking comparison articles for looking at the performance evolution of Linux is a fresh look at the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptop experience when using Ubuntu 25.10 with the latest X1E Concept packages, which includes taking the X1 Elite optimized kernel to the latest Linux 6.18 stable series. Unfortunately, there are significant performance regressions observed compared to a few months ago that just make AMD Ryzen AI and Intel Core Ultra laptops a better choice for Linux laptop users.

Alternative NAS operating system OpenMediaVault got a big Christmas Eve update  How-To Geek

Ubuntu's new opt-in, open-source telemetry is a win-win for Linux users - here's why  ZDNET

Want real privacy? Ditch big-tech OSes and go Linux  How-To Geek

One of the interesting open-source projects to come about this year was Wayback as an X11 compatibility layer using Wayland. Wayback could be used by default on Alpine Linux next year among other distributions. For ending out 2025 development, Wayback 0.3 is now available...

As part of our various "year end" articles, here is a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source news and hardware reviews of 2025...

Linux-Powered Enterprise Smartphones  Trend Hunter

The next kernel cycle that will be known as either Linux 6.20 or Linux 7.0 depending upon how Linus Torvalds handles the versioning for this next x.20 milestone. More than likely it will be Linux 7.0 given his historical versioning scheme, but whatever the case, ahead of this next kernel cycle some initialization changes for the CXL subsystem are building up...

I run my favorite Windows apps on Linux, and this free tool makes it effortless  MakeUseOf

In LLVM Git yesterday for next year's LLVM 22 release the Qualcomm Xqci RISC-V vendor extension is no longer deemed experimental...

One of the features being worked on for a while with the read-only EROFS file-system is page cache sharing. Besides EROFS being popular on some mobile/embedded devices, this open-source read-only file-system has been quite popular for container usage and there this page cache sharing functionality can provide some significant reductions in RAM usage...

Page Cache Sharing Looks To Be Very Beneficial For EROFS Containers  Phoronix

My 5 favorite distros of Linux past - and why I'm still thinking about them  ZDNet

We Have Another New Linux Phone Before 2025 Ends...And It's Not For You (or Me)  It's FOSS

Linux postmarketOS 25.12 Adds More Devices and UI Updates  gHacks Technology News