Open-source News

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Support is Coming To An End  How-To Geek

It's looking like IO_uring zero-copy receive support should be ready for the Linux 6.15 kernel cycle this spring...

IO_uring Zero-Copy Receive Support Ready For Linux 6.15 Networking  Phoronix

Hexnode expands OS support to Linux, ChromeOS and Apple visionOS, streamlining enterprise device management  CXOToday.com

FOSDEM 2025: Rust Runs Riot in Linux Despite Backlash  The New Stack

Last week when RADV lead developer Samuel Pitoiset with Valve was commenting on the AMD RDNA4 state with the Mesa RADV driver it was noted that Vulkan cooperative matrix support, Vulkan Video encode/decode, and DCC support were still missing. But in the past week one of the items is now crossed off the list and another is continuing to see new patch activity...

Windows, Mac And Linux Users Given New LinkedIn Security Warning  Forbes

With the GCC 15 compiler having progressed to its final stage of development prior to the GCC 15.1 stable release in the likely March~April time frame, I've begun testing the updated GNU Compiler Collection on some test systems. Overall GCC 15 is looking nice and on AMD Zen 5 "znver5" in particular seeing some solid gains over GCC 14. Here are some initial performance benchmarks of the GCC 15 compiler.

GCC 15 Compiler Showing Off Nice Performance Improvements On AMD Zen 5  Phoronix

Minimal Linux OS runs in a 6MB PDF document in Chrome — LinuxPDF leverages RISC-V emulator  Tom's Hardware

Following arguments on the Linux kernel mailing list the past few days over some Linux kernel maintainers being against the notion of Rust code in the mainline Linux kernel and trying to avoid it and very passionate views over the Linux kernel development process, Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin has removed himself from being an upstream maintainer of the ARM Apple code...

Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer  Phoronix

Sorry Steam Deck owners, Respawn is happy with its Apex Legends Linux ban  PCGamesN

Windows 12 won’t pull me away from Linux unless Microsoft fixes these 5 things  BetaNews

What's the Best Ubuntu Keyboard Shortcut?  How-To Geek

How To Identify and Remove Linux Malware Infections  ITPro Today

How This Classic Video Game Helped Spread Linux  How-To Geek

Serpent OS Working Toward Second Alpha, More Immutable OS Features  Phoronix

Despite Serpent OS development said to be slowing down to a lack of funding, they are hoping for the best and aiming to push forward with this original, from-scratch Linux distribution...

With the Linux 6.14 kernel Bcachefs has its last big planned on-disk format upgrade before removing the "experimental" tag on this copy-on-write file-system. Well, that's the hope at least. In addition to some early fixes last week, some additional Bcachefs fixes are now pending for merging to the mainline kernel while continuing to track down some other bugs...