Open-source News

Linux Foundation Announces Launch of LF India to Expand Global Open Source Support and Innovation  CRN.in

Linux 6.12 is the new long term supported kernel  The Register

Linux 6.12 is the new long term supported kernel  The Register

This Linux distro is so Windows-like, it even comes with Microsoft apps  ZDNet

Announcing the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt ARM64 Linux beta  Esri

How to Create Users and Groups in Linux from the Command Line  TechRepublic

Linux Foundation launches LF India to boost open source software collaboration and innovation  Qrius

Linux Foundation launches LF India to boost open source software collaboration and innovation | Mint  Mint

Complementing yesterday's fresh Linux gaming benchmarks of mid-range Intel Arc Graphics "Alchemist" vs. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 vs. AMD Radeon RX 7000 series cards ahead of the upcoming Battlemage availability, today's article is providing a fresh look at the latest Intel Compute Runtime performance for Level Zero / OpenCL on current-gen Intel discrete graphics compared to mid-range AMD Radeon GPUs on ROCm 6.3 and similar NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Ada graphics cards on the R565 driver.

Intel Compute Runtime 24.45 vs. AMD ROCm 6.3 vs. NVIDIA R565 Linux GPU Compute Benchmarks  Phoronix

Global Linux Software Market Set For 17.8% Growth, Reaching $10.69 Billion By 2028  EIN News

Linux Mint Once Again the Most Popular Distro On DistroWatch  WebProNews

Coincidentally coming one day after the GNU Shepherd 1.0 service manager release, the systemd 257 release is now shipping as the newest feature release for this widely-used service manager / init system to Linux systems. Systemd 257 brings a number of new features and improvements for powering late 2024 and early 2025 Linux distributions...

Nokia expands data center SONiC support  Network World

While the Ubuntu desktop has been offered the newer GNOME Console as an alternative to GNOME Terminal, there's been a recent fondness around Ptyxis and apparently is becoming the recommended replacement to GNOME Terminal for the Ubuntu camp...

scrcpy 3.0 adds a virtual Android display to your Windows, Mac or Linux PC  Liliputing

Global Linux Software Market Size, Share and Forecast By Key Players-Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, IBM  openPR

Linux Mint dethrones MX Linux as the most popular distro on DistroWatch  BetaNews

New Linux Patch Establishes "CONFIG_X86_64_NATIVE" For -march=native Kernel Builds  Phoronix

Last week I wrote about Linux patches cleaning up x86 32-bit kernel builds for x86_64 CPUs. The new iteration of those patches were sent out today, including the addition of a patch adding the CONFIG_X86_64_NATIVE Kconfig tunable for enabling "-march=native" kernel builds to cater your optimized kernel compilation for the CPU on which you are building the kernel...