Open-source News

Like clockwork with the start of the new month comes the updated Steam Survey results from Valve to reflect the latest Linux gaming hardware and software trends...

Valve Releases Steam Survey Results For April 2025  Phoronix

Ditch Microsoft Windows for ALT Workstation 11: A Russian Linux distro with a modern GNOME desktop  BetaNews

6 Ways to View or Open a File in the Linux Terminal  How-To Geek

KDE Plasma open-source developers were meeting the past week in Graz, Austria to plot out fundamental changes and improvements moving forward for this great desktop. Among the changes decided on were ending their practice of Plasma LTS releases, enhancing the telemetry capabilities to be more useful, and more...

Linux Security Software Turned Against Users  The New Stack

How to Build Custom Distributions from Scratch  Linux Journal

Your Favorite Open-Source Project Might Be in Trouble  How-To Geek

Redis 8.0 Released: Now Tri-Licensed With AGPLv3  Phoronix

Last year Redis made the much criticized move to Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1 (SSPL) licensing. The move was widely panned by the open-source community and led to the Linux Foundation forking it as Valkey and also other forks like Redict coming about. In the months since many Linux distributions have switched from Redis to Valkey. Now Redis Labs announced today that with the Redis 8.0 release, they are adding AGPLv3 to the licensing mix...

Developer gets Linux running inside Microsoft Excel, 'mostly for fun'  Tom's Hardware

Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" is now formally open for development...

With the recently released GCC 15 (GCC 15.1) compiler besides adding new language features, enhancements to help developers in debugging build failures, and other refinements, there is the never-ending quest of compiler performance optimizations. Since the recent GCC 15.1 release candidate I've been testing this annual compiler feature release on more hardware, including several AMD 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" servers to great success compared to the prior GCC 14 stable series.

Proton Experimental updates to Proton 10 with fixes for Marvel Rivals, Oblivion Remastered and more for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Kcompressd Proposed For Accelerated Memory Compression On Linux  Phoronix

Mediatek engineers have proposed Kcompressd as a new addition to the Linux kernel to improve the efficiency of memory reclamation. Mediatek engineers testing these patches on their handheld Linux devices have found huge benefit in alleviating memory pressure and enhancing system responsiveness...

As a follow-up to the Phoronix article a few days ago entitled A Linux 6.15 Performance Regression Hits Modern AMD CPUs, there continues to be activity to address this issue with the performance impact catching the upstream kernel developers off guard. I've tested a patch now that does address the issue while still carrying the KVM protections desired...

LibreOffice supports Zip compression for ODT and DOCX files, among other compression uses. There's now work beginning to be merged for supporting Zstandard (Zstd) compression moving forward...

Windows 11's WSL 2 now officially has support from Arch Linux with monthly images promised  Windows Central

Patch Posted For Addressing The AMD CPU Performance Regression On Linux 6.15  Phoronix