Open-source News

The Ongoing BcacheFS Filesystem Stability Controversy  Hackaday

F5 Networks (FFIV) Secures Sensitive Data and Streamlines Compliance with New FIPS Offering on Red Hat Enterprise Linux  StreetInsider

F5 Secures Sensitive Data and Streamlines Compliance with New FIPS Offering on Red Hat Enterprise Linux  Yahoo Finance

F5 Unveils Critical FIPS Security Solution on AWS: New Red Hat Integration Transforms Federal Compliance  Stock Titan

The Ongoing BcacheFS Filesystem Stability Controversy  Hackaday

The Evolution of Linux Binaries in Targeted Cloud Operations  Unit 42

How to create a Linux bash script - and what you can do with it  ZDNET

In aligning with upstream GNOME 49 expected to ship with X11 support disabled by default, Canonical announced today that the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release will also ship without support for running the GNOME desktop on X11...

Raspberry Pi RP1 PCI Device Support On Path For Linux 6.17 Upstreaming  Phoronix

Going back to last year there have been patches worked on by SUSE for upstreaming Raspberry Pi's RP1 PCI device support. It looks like for the Linux 6.17 kernel later this year that work will finally be upstreamed...

How to Optimize the apt Package Manager on Debian-Based Linux Distributions  TechRepublic

June 10, 2025  Hackaday

An ongoing area of work for AMD's Linux client team is on enhancing the power management and overall power savings/efficiency support for Ryzen platforms on Linux. An updated patch series was posted on Monday for making the system S5 power state handling more ideal when powering off the system...

Fedora 41’s Immutable Future: The Rise of Fedora Atomic Desktops  Linux Journal

Last year there was some ideas raised around potentially making use of the Linux kernel's IO_uring functionality for graphics drivers to help with better performance and synchronization. It turns out Qualcomm engineers have recently been exploring IO_uring use for the DRM accelerator drivers with very promising results on their Cloud AI hardware in seeing around 50% speed-ups in ioctl execution time...

Apple tries to contain itself with lightweight Linux VMs for macOS  theregister.com

Following the release of Vulkan 1.4.317 back on Friday that brought the long-awaited VK_KHR_video_decode_vp9 extension for VP9 codec support for Vulkan Video, the Mesa RADV driver is now the first prominent open-source Vulkan driver merging support for VP9 decode...

As a nice stepping stone until FreeBSD 15 is ready to ship later in the calendar year, FreeBSD 14.3 stable is out today as the newest point release for this leading BSD operating system...

Going on since last year has been an effort to improve FreeBSD laptop support with backing by Dell, AMD, Framework Computer, Netflix, and others. This has focused on better WiFi driver support, enhancing power management, and other improvements for modern laptops. That work has been continuing on all fronts for improving the FreeBSD laptop user experience...

I tried multiple Linux distros on WSL - these are the best 5  XDA