Open-source News

One year ago we covered Micron working on FamFS as a new file-system for fabric-attached memory with an emphasis on Compute Express Link (CXL) devices. That started off as a conventional kernel driver while now the newest patches posted this weekend are morphing it into a user-space driver via FUSE...

RISC-V getrandom vDSO Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.16 With Exciting Performance  Phoronix

Merged last year in Linux 6.11 was getrandom() support in the vDSO for x86/x86_64 and then in Linux 6.12 was extended to LoongArch and ARM64. With the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle, this support for faster while still secure RNG for user-space is set to come to RISC-V...

Linux 6.15-rc3 Released With Key Kernel Bug Fixes  GBHackers News

Underwater PvP shooter Tidal Shock 1.0 out now with Linux / Steam Deck support - it's also now free to play  GamingOnLinux

Wine 10.6 released with improvements to Bcrypt, Command Processor and WindowsCodecs  GamingOnLinux

Ahead of its 10 year Steam anniversary, Black Mesa has a new beta with improved Linux support and many fixes  GamingOnLinux

Oracle releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8 (UEK 8)  Help Net Security

After missing its bi-weekly development release regiment this past Friday, Wine 10.6 was tagged on Sunday as the newest routine update to this open-source software that enables Windows applications and games to run on Linux and other platforms...

TrueNAS 25.04 ‘Fangtooth’ debuts with Linux foundation and unified SCALE and CORE codebase  BetaNews

# Linux bug fix recovers 30% performance, critical for cars using kernel-based infotainment (what Tesla competitors need to know)  Journée Mondiale

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 20th, 2025  9to5Linux

Easter doesn't get in the way of Linus Torvalds' weekly kernel release regiment: Linux 6.15-rc3 is now available for testing the latest kernel fixes ahead of the stable Linux 6.15 kernel release coming around the end of May...

Linux 6.15-rc3 Released With GCC 15 Build Fixes, Intel Bartlett Lake & Zen 5 Check  Phoronix

Connected Car News: Panasonic, Linux Foundation, Zubie, Bosch & Toshiba  AUTO Connected Car News

Merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel were the very early boilerplate code around the NOVA driver as a new, open-source and Rust-written NVIDIA Linux kernel graphics/display driver. This successor to the Nouveau kernel driver is going to leverage the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) to make it easier to develop and maintain this open-source driver. But depending upon the GSP also means the NOVA driver will only work with RTX 20 class GPUs and newer. This driver is going to be built up gradually within the mainline Linux kernel and coming out this Easter were a new set of 16 patches for further laying the NOVA groundwork...

NVIDIA Engineer Posts New NOVA Driver Patches - Still Far From Doing Anything Useful  Phoronix

Linux Kernel 6.13 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.14  9to5Linux

Sway 1.11-rc1 is out today as a test release ahead of this next Wayland compositor feature release. Sway 1.11 is bringing a number of new features for this i3-inspired Wayland compositor while also building off the new features laid out in the recent wlroots 0.19-rc1 library...

The FreeType library for rendering text onto bitmaps that is widely used by a variety of applications has landed a set of three patches today providing an important performance improvement to address a significant inefficiency within the existing FreeType codebase...