Open-source News

Best Practices for Safely Stopping Linux Threads  WebProNews

Open Source Streaming Server Jellyfin Just Dropped a Big Update  How-To Geek

Carburetor for Linux Helps You to Stay Invisible Online  Make Tech Easier

New InstallAware Application Porting Toolkit Effortlessly Bridges Windows Applications to GNU/Linux and macOS.  The AI Journal

Is this Linux mini PC a viable alternative to Windows? Here's why it worked out for me  ZDNET

XZ Utils Backdoor: Jia Tan’s SSH Threat to Linux Systems Exposed  WebProNews

New InstallAware Application Porting Toolkit Effortlessly Bridges Windows Applications to GNU/Linux and macOS.  PR Newswire

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X vs. 9950X3D On Windows 11 & Ubuntu Linux  Phoronix

For those wondering how the AMD 3D V-Cache performance with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D is looking on Linux relative to Microsoft Windows, a few weeks back I carried out some comparison benchmarks of Windows 11 25H2 against Ubuntu Linux both the Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS release and an Ubuntu 25.10 development build using both the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9950X3D processors.

GIMP Developers Take Control of Official Snap Package for Linux  WebProNews

⚡ Weekly Recap: F5 Breached, Linux Rootkits, Pixnapping Attack, EtherHiding & More  The Hacker News

It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel could land initial Tenstorrent vendor support and provide initial support for the Blackhole SoC with the initial Blackhole P100/P150 PCIe accelerator cards...

Initial Tenstorrent Blackhole Support Aiming For Linux 6.19  Phoronix

Windows 10's demise could be Linux's gain if the flood of defectors is anything to go by  inkl

Is Linux doing well off the back of Windows 10's demise? One distro is as Zorin OS boasts about a flood of new recruits  TechRadar

These Are My Favorite Portable Linux Apps to Keep on a Flash Drive  Currently.com

These Are My Favorite Portable Linux Apps to Keep on a Flash Drive  How-To Geek

As Windows 10 Support Ends, Majority Of Users Are Migrating To Linux  Tech4Gamers

PoC Released for Linux-PAM Vulnerability Enabling Local Root Privilege Escalation  GBHackers News

Well this wasn't on my bingo card for 2025... There is now yet another NTFS file-system driver for Linux. There's long been the read-only NTFS driver in the Linux kernel, the more capable NTFS FUSE driver in user-space, and then in recent years the NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed to the Linux kernel by Paragon Software. NTFS3 offers read/write support and other improvements over the prior kernel driver. Now there is "NTFSPLUS" as a new driver with read/write support and claiming to offer better performance and features than NTFS3...