Open-source News

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS published their latest monthly report to outline progress made over the past month...

Haiku OS Restores EXT4 Compatibility, RISC-V Once Again Booting  Phoronix

The 5 Easiest Arch Linux Distros to Get Started With  How-To Geek

While KDE Plasma 6.4 is set for release next week, there are already exciting feature improvements brewing for Plasma 6.5...

Kali Linux 2025.2 delivers Bloodhound CE, CARsenal, 13 new tools  Help Net Security

As RHEL clones hit version 10, Rocky and Alma chart diverging paths  theregister.com

Wine 10.10 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

Bcachefs Is Now Able To Auto-Fix A Few More Fsck Errors  Phoronix

6 free software tools I love on my Raspberry Pi  XDA

Another round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted and merged this week for the ongoing Linux 6.16 cycle, including the ability to auto-fix more file-system check "fsck" errors...

Chromebook Reaching End-of-Life? Here's What You Should Do  How-To Geek

Linux is slowly taking over my life as a PC gamer  XDA

Nitrux Linux Drops Its KDE Plasma-Based NX Desktop for Hyprland  9to5Linux

It's time we got over the whole "Linux is hard to use" misconception  XDA

In addition to Intel recently upstreaming Linux support for new QAT "Gen 6" hardware as their next-generation QuickAssist Technology IP, Intel today began posting Linux kernel driver patches for a new version of their Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA). It looks like upcoming Xeon processors will be rolling out a lot of new accelerator IP...

Intel Begins Preparing Linux For Next-Gen DSA 3.0 Accelerators  Phoronix

Denmark’s Government Ditches Microsoft for Open Source  OMG! Ubuntu

LibreOffice 25.8 beta is now available for this popular open-source office suite. LibreOffice 25.8 has been baking many improvements for this popular Microsoft Office alternative and leading office suite option for the Linux desktop...

Back in April at Google Cloud Next was the introduction of the new C4D family of VMs powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. Back on launch day I looked at the C3D vs. C4D performance at some of the smaller, more common VM sizes. In today's article is a look at the top-end performance of the C4D family with 384 vCPUs. For those wondering about the compute potential of the c4d-standard-384, here are some benchmarks of this 192-core / 384-thread EPYC Turin configuration compared to the prior C3D AMD EPYC Genoa based instance that topped out at 360 vCPUs.

Just one week past the notable Vulkan 1.4.317 release, Vulkan 1.4.318 is out with some documentation clarifications plus two new extensions...