Open-source News

GNU Linux-libre 6.12-gnu Continues Dealing With More Blobs In The Kernel  Phoronix

Cheap MacBooks vs. Android Laptops: Google's plan to make desktop Linux a reality  ZDNet

New 'Helldown' Ransomware Variant Expands Attacks to VMware and Linux Systems  The Hacker News

AlmaLinux 9.5 released: Security updates, new packages, and more!  Help Net Security

OCSF Joins the Linux Foundation: Accelerating the Standardization of Cybersecurity Data  AWS Blog

Benchmarking Your Linux System: What, Why and How  It's FOSS

Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) Daily Build ISOs Are Now Available for Download  9to5Linux

GNU Linux-Libre 6.12 Kernel Released for Those Seeking 100% Freedom for Their PCs  9to5Linux

GNU Linux-Libre 6.12 Kernel Released for Those Seeking 100% Freedom for Their PCs  9to5Linux

Linux Operating System Market Estimated Growth Curve, Trends, Size, Share, and Analysis Report 2024-2033  openPR

As of today the first handful of commits have landed in LLVM Git ahead of next year's LLVM 20.0 for beginning to enable the AMDGPU compiler back-end for "GFX950", the next iteration of the CDNA family for Instinct accelerators...

Linux 6.13 Quadrupling Workqueue Concurrency Limit  Phoronix

The Linux kernel Workqueue (WQ) is used for handling asynchronous process execution. For the past many years there has been an upper limit on the number of workqueue execution contexts per CPU at 512, but with Linux 6.13 that is being quadrupled to a limit of 2048...

Over the past year we have seen Canonical engineers focus more on optimizing the performance potential of Ubuntu Linux. With Ubuntu 25.04 they are now using the -O3 compiler optimization level by default and there has been other efforts like better performance tooling on Ubuntu and frame pointers by default. Another area they have been exploring is making use of Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) for faster performance in certain scenarios...

Latest Valve Proton Experimental update enables DLSS 3 Frame Generation and fixes performance in dozens of games  Tom's Hardware

Linux kernel 6.12 by no means 3888.9 percent faster according to developers  heise online

My Linux predictions for 2025: It's going to be a good year  ZDNet

Real-time Linux leads kernel v6.12's list of new features  ZDNet

Why I Installed Linux on an Old Laptop Instead of a Raspberry Pi  How-To Geek

All of the block subsystem changes were sent out today for the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel, including a prominent set of NVMe additions...