Open-source News

OpenVPN DCO Driver Queued In Net-Next Ahead Of Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Just a few days ago there was talk of potentially removing the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the Linux kernel considering they had been orphaned for a decade and beginning to cause a maintenance burden. After briefly being marked for deprecation, it now looks like the drivers may be maintained with new maintainers alleging to step-up to the role...

Parallels Desktop 20.3 Brings Linux VM Fixes to Mac Users  OMG! Ubuntu

Why I Dual-Boot But Choose Linux Over Windows Almost Every Time  How-To Geek

The Intel Integrated Sensor Hub "ISH" allows for offloading sensor polling and other tasks to a low-power co-processor to help reduce overall system power consumption for extending battery life with tablets, embedded devices, and 2-in1 laptops...

Intel Simplifies Its Firmware License For The Integrated Sensor Hub "ISH"  Phoronix

While the FFmpeg multimedia library merged Vulkan Video encode support last year, it was initially limited to H.264 and H.265 formats. With a new patch posted for review this week, AV1 encode support using the Vulkan Video API is now underway...

Rogue npm Packages Mimic Telegram Bot API to Plant SSH Backdoors on Linux Systems  The Hacker News

Nitrux, a Debian-Based Linux Distro With Modern Apps  The New Stack

Android 16 lets the Linux Terminal use your phone's entire storage  Android Authority

GNU/Hurd has long struggled with hardware support and is still working on its x86_64 support while having a host of various hardware limitations but it also appears they are eager to explore Hurd on RISC-V platforms...

Engineers from Google are proposing that distributed ThinLTO build support be introduced for LLVM/Clang when compiling the Linux kernel. The distributed ThinLTO mode for link-time optimizations can lead to quicker build times than the current in-process ThinLTO mode while also being more convenient and work with kernel live-patching solutions...

KDE developers continue to be very busy working toward the Plasma 6.4 desktop release and making other enhancements throughout this open-source desktop...

Google removes memory usage limits for Linux Terminal in Android 16  Mezha.Media

Merged today ahead of the Linux 6.15-rc3 kernel test release on Sunday were the set of "x86 fixes" for the week. Of these x86 fixes are two notable changes in particular...

Linux 6.15-rc3 To Bring AMD Zen 5 Microcode Protection, Intel Bartlett Lake ID Addition  Phoronix

In recent kernel releases there have been performance enhancements to the AES implementations and other cryptographic subsystem code for speeding up the performance on modern Intel and AMD processors. With Linux 6.16 there will be at least some additional small gains to find with Intel and AMD processors bearing AVX-512 when employing AES-XTS...

Slightly Faster AES-XTS Performance For AVX-512 CPUs Expected With Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Linus On Git  i-programmer.info

Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop  GamingOnLinux