Open-source News

This open-source Linux app got me to ditch the git command  How-To Geek

The media subsystem updates were sent out this morning for the now-open Linux 6.19 merge window. There are some new Rockchip drivers and other media drivers that are new for Linux 6.19...

Due to the ongoing RAM shortages in the industry amid ongoing massive demand for AI servers,Raspberry Pi announced today they are having to raise prices on the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single board computers. They have also launched a 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 version too for those not needing much memory and wanting to keep pricing to a minimum...

It was just earlier this year that Linux developers considered dropping the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the mainline Linux kernel for being unmaintained. But then some new developers stepped up to maintain the drivers and there has been new HFS/HFS+ file-system patches each kernel cycle since. With the now in-development Linux 6.19 kernel there are some nice year-end clean-ups to these file-system drivers...

"Less Bugfixing Noise": Last Kernel Release of 2025 is Here and it Could be an LTS  It's FOSS

Linus Torvalds picks Intel Arc B580 for "Perfect Linux PC"  VideoCardz.com

Upgrade Your DevOps Skills Cheap: Linux Foundation Cyber Week Brings 65% Off Certifications  It's FOSS

NetCube Systems Nagami Allwinner T113-S3 mini PCIe SoM features ESP32 wireless SoC, supports mainline Linux  CNX Software

What if we had a year of Linux on the desktop and no one realised?  Fudzilla.com

Linux 6.18 Released With Enhanced Hardware Support, Updated Drivers and File Systems  CybersecurityNews

It was an eventful past month with Valve announcing the new Steam Machine, a lot of new Linux kernel activity, the continued increase of Rust programming language adoption by open-source projects, a lot of fun hardware benchmarks, and more. There were 283 original news articles on Phoronix the past month about Linux/open-source software and hardware plus another 18 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Here is a look back at the most popular content over the past month...

Linux Kernel 6.18 Released with Potential LTS Status  TechPowerUp

Linux Kernel 6.18 Released With Major System And FS Changes  The Cyber Express

ObsidianOS Review: A New, Innovative Linux Distro Built Around A/B Partitioning  It's FOSS

Linux 6.18 Released With Updated Drivers, Enhanced Hardware Support and File Systems  Cyber Press

Linux 6.18 release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures  CNX Software

Linux 6.18 Rolls Out With Major Hardware Support Upgrades and Driver Enhancements  GBHackers News

The good news is that Intel tonight posted a pull request for open-source Gaudi 3 accelerator support for the mainline Linux kernel! The bad news is that it's coming quite late in the product cycle, much later than the former excellent Habana Labs open-source track record, and their hopes of squeezing this code into the Linux 6.19 kernel may be dashed...

Intel Finally Posts Open-Source Gaudi 3 Driver Code For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Linux 6.18 Release Improves Gaming, Laptops, and Security  OMG! Ubuntu