Open-source News

Bcachefs Changes End Up Being Merged Into Linux 6.16, For 6.17: "We'll Be Parting Ways"  Phoronix

Last week was a Bcachefs pull request consisting of fixes and a new "journal_rewind" feature to aide as a disaster recovery tool for the file-system. But with that code being submitted as part of the ongoing Linux 6.16 release candidates, it drew criticism from Linus Torvalds and other kernel developers. However, one week later and that discussion having subsided a few days ago, Linus Torvalds ended up merging all of the code. But there is a concerning warning for the future of Bcachefs in the mainline Linux kernel...

The Debian project announced on Thursday that AMD has got on-board for being a platinum sponsor of their upcoming DebConf25 developer conference happening in July in Brest, France...

Does Rust Belong in the Linux Kernel?  How-To Geek

This city is the latest European government to dump Microsoft for Linux  ZDNET

Blending a comedy visual novel with pachinko, Jump the Track adds Linux and macOS support  GamingOnLinux

Linux Gaming Distro is Looking at its Demise Due to Fedora’s Latest Move!  It's FOSS News

Google transfers AI communication protocol A2A to Linux Foundation, AWS joins support  digitimes

In addition to releasing Oracle Linux 10 today, Oracle also released the second beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 7.2 cross-platform virtualization software...

VirtualBox 7.2 Beta 2 Preps Linux 6.16 Support, More Windows On ARM Enhancements  Phoronix

Linux research shows open source contributing trillions to economy  SiliconANGLE

A decade ago Canonical did around $81 million in revenue (2014) with a head count of around 337 at the company behind Ubuntu Linux while their Linux desktop efforts were still gaining a footing with OEMs/ODMs pre-loads, within enterprise desktop environments, and the lucrative server/cloud space. Canonical recently filed their 2024 annual report and they are now up to almost $300 million USD in revenue and a headcount of more than 1,100...

Last month saw the release of Rust 1.87 that celebrated ten years of the Rust programming language while out today is Rust 1.88 that continues iterating the language with new features...

Rust Drives A Linux USB Device  Hackaday

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Generated Nearly $300M In Revenue Last Year  Phoronix

Fedora 44 May Drop 32-Bit Support, Impacting Gaming Distros  WebProNews

How Questing Quokka (25.10) Ushers a New Era of Rust-Based Tools  Linux Journal

Published last November as part of Vulkan 1.3.302 was the VK_KHR_video_encode_av1 extension for adding AV1 video encoding to the Vulkan Video API. Ahead of next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release, the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged its AV1 encode support...

Mir 2.21 is out today for this Ubuntu/Canonical project to serve as a set of libraries used to simplify the development of Wayland-based shells/environments...

Building off the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10.0) just over one month ago, Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle Linux 10.0...