Open-source News

EndeavourOS Ganymede Rolls Out with KDE Plasma 6.5 and Linux Kernel 6.17  9to5Linux

I tested 5 lightweight Linux tools and they all earned a permanent spot  MakeUseOf

KDE developers have been busy ending out the month of November with a number of new features and fixes queued up for next year's Plasma 6.6 desktop release...

Niri 25.11 is now available as the latest feature release for this Rust-written, scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor...

Mission Center vs. Resources: The Ultimate Linux System Monitor Showdown  It's FOSS

SMHUB Nano Mg24 compact Linux-based Zigbee/Thread Smart Hub combines SG2000 RISC-V SoC with MG24 wireless MCU  CNX Software

Space Is Red Launched Today on Steam for PC, Mac, and Linux  COGconnected

Wine 10.20 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software enabling Windows applications and games to run on Linux. This is also with Wine 11.0 stable quickly approaching...

Wine 10.20 Released With VKD3D 1.18 Upgrade For Direct3D 12  Phoronix

5 reasons people give up on Linux (and why it’s time to come back)  How-To Geek

As some additional enticing Linux kernel patches posted this week for review, an updated patch series is working to optimize code generation during context switching...

How to manage your Linux firewall the easy way - without touching the terminal  ZDNET

6 Linux terminal habits I wish I learned years ago  XDA

How much RAM does your Linux PC need in 2025? Here's my ultimate sweet spot  ZDNET

The Integrity Dilemma: Why Top-Tier Studios Are Rejecting Valve’s Linux Push  WebProNews

Open-Source Nouveau+NVK vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Gaming/Graphics & Compute Driver Performance  Phoronix

This Black Friday is an in-depth look at the current performance of the open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver (the Nova driver not yet being ready for end-users) paired with the latest Mesa NVK driver for open-source Vulkan API support. With that NVK Vulkan driver is also looking at the OpenGL performance using the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver used now for OpenGL on modern NVIDIA GPUs rather than maintaining the Nouveau Gallium3D driver. Plus the Rusticl driver for OpenCL compute atop the NVK driver. This fully open-source and latest NVIDIA Linux driver support was compared to NVIDIA's official 580 series Linux driver. Both RTX 40 Ada and RTX 50 Blackwell graphics cards were tested for this thorough GPU driver comparison.

In addition to the proposed Hierarchical Queued NUMA-aware spinlocks for better performance, another interesting performance-enhancing patch series posted in the past 24 hours for the Linux kernel is for improving the performance of single-threaded tasks running on high core count CPU desktops / workstations / servers...

New Linux Patches Enhance Single-Threaded Performance On Many-Core CPUs  Phoronix

MangoHud performance overlay for Linux v0.8.2 released  GamingOnLinux