Open-source News

All of the ARM SoC and platform updates have been sent out for the Linux 6.12 merge window. Exciting this cycle is finally having initial support for the Raspberry Pi 5 plus supporting several more Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops...

The 5 best Linux distributions for students - from middle school to college  ZDNet

Replay Protected Memory Block "RPMB" Subsystem Submitted For Linux 6.12  Phoronix

The MMC updates for the Linux 6.12 kernel include the introduction of a new kernel subsystem for Replay Protected Memory Block (RPMB) drivers...

Linus Torvalds muses about maintainer gray hairs and the next 'King of Linux'  ZDNet

Linux debuts decentralized trust with Hedera and 100+ members  StartupNews.fyi

Tracking user logins on Linux  Network World

Linux debuts decentralized trust with Hedera and 100+ members  Cointelegraph

Linux debuts decentralized trust with Hedera and 100+ members  TradingView

The EROFS read-only open-source file-system has seen initial patches posted today for beginning to re-implement the C code within the Rust programming language for better safety guarantees and the possibility of more performance optimizations...

A Re-Implementation Of The EROFS File-System In Rust Has Started  Phoronix

IGEL App Creator Portal makes it fast and easy to package Linux apps for IGEL OS  PR Newswire

How to set up a Linux NFS server on your home network (and why)  ZDNet

How to Install Software on Linux  Lifehacker

Redox OS is the fastest Linux distro I've tested, and you should try it despite what it's missing  ZDNet

Linux Foundation Adopts Hedera’s Open-Source Hashgraph Tech — Unites 100+ Companies for Decentralized Trust Initiative  CCN.com

Linux Foundation announces several new subgroups during Open Source Summit Day 1  SDTimes.com

Following the weekend news of the AMDGPU kernel driver becoming too large that it's causing the Plymouth boot splash screen on slower Linux systems to time-out, longtime AMD Linux graphics driver engineer Marek Olšák expressed a new idea for helping to reduce some bloat from this AMD kernel graphics driver...

Idea Raised For Reducing The Size Of The AMDGPU Driver With Its Massive Header Files  Phoronix

AWS hands OpenSearch to Linux Foundation – is this why Elasticsearch was made open source again?  DevClass