Open-source News

Open-sourced at the start of the calendar year was Perforator as a continuous profiling tool to find code inefficiencies. Yandex who open-sourced it claimed that it could lead businesses to saving "billions of dollars a year on server infrastructure." It's been a few months since the last feature release but out this weekend is Perforator 0.0.7...

The (Almost) Perfect Linux Marketplace App for Flatpak Lovers  It's FOSS

Steam on Linux use has hit an all-time high! With the Steam Survey results for October 2025 coming out this evening, Steam on Linux has finally cracked the 3% threshold! A few months back Steam on Linux was close to 3% before stumbling a bit but now it's above that elusive threshold. The only time Steam on Linux use was close to the 3% mark was when Steam on Linux initially debuted a decade ago and at that time the overall Steam user-base was much smaller than it is today. Long story short, thanks to the ongoing success of Valve's Steam Deck and other handhelds plus Steam Play (Proton) working out so well, these October numbers are the best yet...

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...