Open-source News

Alpine Linux 3.23 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS, GNOME 49, KDE Plasma 6.5  9to5Linux

Alpine Linux 3.23 is out today as the newest feature release for this lightweight Linux distribution built around musl libc and BusyBox that has become quite popular for containers and embedded uses...

This modular Linux device is an open source handheld with a 4.1 inch display  Liliputing

Valve is developing an Android-Linux bridge for Steam called "Lepton"  TechSpot

Nvidia Linux driver 590, ends support for the GT series, all hail our RTX overloards!  [H]ard|Forum

Nvidia Linux driver 590, ends support for the GT series, all hail our RTX overloards!  [H]ard|Forum

Linux Systems Under Attack from BPFDoor and Symbiote Rootkits Exploiting eBPF Filters  Cyber Press

Intel's Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Delivered Significant Improvements In 2025  Phoronix

Last week I provided a look at how Intel's GPU compute performance on Battlemage evolved in 2025. In today's article is a similar Intel Arc A-Series "Alchemist" and B-Series "Battlemage" look at how the OpenGL and Vulkan graphics performance has evolved over the past year. Simply put, the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver stack has evolved immensely this year... Not just for Vulkan but even the OpenGL support continues moving in the right direction too.

Percona Extends MongoDB Server Support to Rocky Linux 8 and 9  WebProNews

Linux Gaming Hits Record 3.2% on Steam as Windows 10 Dies  The Tech Buzz

Oracle AI Database 26ai coming soon for Linux x86-64 on-premises platforms  Oracle Blogs

The response to s&box from Facepunch going open source has been "overwhelmingly positive"  GamingOnLinux

A proposal was raised a month ago for Fedora Linux 44 to replace the kernel's frame-buffer console "FBCON" with KMSCON in user-space. The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has now granted approval for making this change in Fedora 44 as part of a larger foal to eventually deprecate FBCON/FBDEV emulation in the kernel...

Linux usage on Steam hits a record high for the second month in a row  The Verge

GeForce 590 driver branch is the first without feature support for GTX 9- and 10-series GPUs — Linux release marks the end of the line for graphics cards that defined an era  Tom's Hardware

Not exactly a big surprise but the recently released Linux 6.18 kernel is now officially promoted to being this year's Long Term Support "LTS" kernel...

Linux 6.18 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel  Phoronix

Linux 6.19 Boosts Btrfs and XFS I/O with Custom Writeback Chunk Sizes  WebProNews

Canonical Launches Ubuntu Pro for WSL with Enterprise Security  WebProNews