Open-source News

Steam On Linux Gaming Finally Cracks 3% For October 2025  Phoronix

The fourth and final beta of FreeBSD 15 is out today for testing with the official release continuing to align for an early December debut...

Debian developer Julian Andres Klode sent out a message on Halloween that may give some Debian Linux users and developers a spook: the APT packaging tool next year will begin requiring a Rust compiler. This will place a hard requirement by Debian Linux on Rust support for all architectures. Debian CPU architectures with ports currently but lacking Rust support will either need to see support worked on or be sunset...

4 hard Linux lessons I learned early - and I was better off for it  XDA

3 good reasons to replace Bash with Zsh  How-To Geek

Best Linux Distros for Development  The New Stack

Open-source developer Joel Severin today announced his work on porting the Linux kernel to WebAssembly and has successffully gotten the kernel up and running within WASM-capable web browsers...

Linux Kernel Ported To WebAssembly - Demo Lets You Run It In Your Web Browser  Phoronix

The new Fedora Linux, Chrome's big changes, and more: News roundup  How-To Geek

Arch Linux’s November 2025 ISO and Archinstall 3.0.12 Installer Are Out Now  9to5Linux

Kicking off November for Arch Linux users happen to be the releases of Pacman 7.1 as well as Archinstall 3.0.12...

Archinstall 3.0.12 & Pacman 7.1 Released For Arch Linux Users  Phoronix

Restructuring to the Linux kernel's PCI Resizable BAR "ReBAR" support is set to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle...

This Linux app makes mouse gestures so powerful, you’ll forget about your keyboard  How-To Geek

Terminal Geeks Rejoice! Proton VPN's Long-Awaited Linux CLI is Finally Here  It's FOSS News

During the month of October on Phoronix were 305 original news articles around Linux/open-source and another 21 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. There was an exciting mix of software and hardware happenings over the past month. Here is a look back at what excited readers the most...

In mid-October a Meta engineer uncovered an RDSEED architectural issue with AMD Zen 5 CPUs. A patch in turn was sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list to disable RDSEED usage on affected Zen 5 processors. AMD this week issued a security bulletin to acknowledge the issue and report that a microcode fix is coming...

AMD Acknowledges RDSEED Failure On AMD Zen 5 With Software Fix Coming  Phoronix

KDE Plasma developers continue to be busy landing more fixes for the recently introduced Plasma 6.5 while also lining up more new features for Plasma 6.6...

CISA Issues Warning: Hackers Exploit Linux Vulnerability to Spread Ransomware  Cyber Press