Open-source News

Proton Experimental adds fixes for various games not running on CPUs with high core counts  GamingOnLinux

BCacheFS Is Now A DKMS Module After Exile From The Linux Kernel  Hackaday

Zorin OS 18 Beta is Now Available  Thurrott.com

Linux Patch Optimizes Networking, Cuts Latency by 20% in Data Centers  WebProNews

3 Fedora KDE Plasma features that stop me going back to Windows  XDA

I tried cutting Windows out of my life with WinBoat, but I just can't recommend it  XDA

With Windows 10 support ending soon, Zorin OS 18 Beta arrives as a the ultimate alternative to Windows 11  BetaNews

4 reasons you should be using rootless Docker on Linux  xda-developers.com

Zorin OS 18 Beta Released with Refreshed Look, Advanced Window Tiling, and More  9to5Linux

Tor-based Tails Linux 7.0 Has Arrived: Here's What's New  How-To Geek

Ubuntu 25.10 beta comes with the Linux 6.17 kernel and more  Notebookcheck

I've been using Linux for a quarter of a century, so why do I keep coming back to Ubuntu?  Tom's Hardware

PureVPN on Linux Leaks IPv6 Traffic and Tampers with Firewalls  CyberInsider

Linux 6.17 File-System Benchmarks, Including OpenZFS & Bcachefs  Phoronix

Linux 6.17 is an interesting time to carry out fresh file-system benchmarks given that EXT4 has seen some scalability improvements while Bcachefs in the mainline kernel is now in a frozen state. Linux 6.17 is also what's powering Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 out-of-the-box to make such a comparison even more interesting. Today's article is looking at the out-of-the-box performance of EXT4, Btrfs, F2FS, XFS, Bcachefs and then OpenZFS too.

3 Fun and Cool Linux Apps to Install This Weekend (September 19 - 21)  How-To Geek

Intel Battlemage BMG-G31 Spotted In Linux Boot Log; Features 16 GB VRAM Capacity, Hinting At Arc B770  Wccftech

Ubuntu Questing Quokka Beta is Out  Daily Kos

Merged to Mesa Git are new contributor guidelines added to the documentation. This can help new users in submitting patches to Mesa. It also lays out a policy of allowing AI-generated/assisted code but the author submitting the code must be able to understand the code in question and take responsibility for it...

2025 year of Linux? Data suggests unsupported Windows 11 users overwhelmingly choosing one  Neowin