Open-source News

After a short break over the holidays, KDE developer Nate Graham is back with his "This Week in Plasma" series to highlight the interesting KDE Plasma desktop changes made each week...

How to Disable IPv6 on Linux  TechRepublic

In gearing up for the Wine 10.0 stable release that is likely to take place later in January, Wine 10.0-rc4 is out today as the newest test release to deliver the latest bug fixes...

'Silicon Valley Tea Party' where Linux users distributed Linux installation disks at Microsoft events  GIGAZINE（ギガジン）

Linux filesystems: Ext4, Btrfs, XFS, ZFS and more  Network World

Since Raven/Picasso APUs and Navi GPUs there is Video Core Next (VCN) as the modern unified video encode/decode block for Radeon graphics. But for those with older Radeon GPUs where there are the Unified Video Decode (UVD) and Video Coding Engine (VCE) blocks, a set of Mesa patches is looking to enhance the video acceleration support on Linux systems...

New Linux Patches Enhance AMD Radeon Video Encode/Decode For Older GPUs  Phoronix

These Enhancements Make Flutter Beast At Making Apps For Windows macOS , and Linux.  Medium

Cloudflare Talks Up Multi-Path TCP But Dings Linux's Less Than Ideal Support  Phoronix

The folks at Cloudflare have published another great engineering blog post with this time covering Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP) as a very interesting addition to the TCP spec. But there they acknowledge the less than ideal Linux support especially on the client side...

LibreOffice 25.2 Release Candidate 1 is out for testing today ahead of the stable release of this free software office suite around the start of February...

While systemd has been around for a decade and a half, it's showing no signs of slowing down for driving new innovations to Linux for this system and service manager...

Linux, Microsoft, Google Responsible for 62% of 2024 Vulnerabilities  Entrepreneur

3 reasons Linux is the best alternative to Windows for gamers  XDA Developers

This morning the first test rebuild results of the "Plucky Puffin" for Ubuntu 25.04 were shared on the mailing list... While typically not interesting to outsiders, one interesting bit is that as a "bonus" they rebuilt the main components of Ubuntu 25.04 packages with the LLVM Clang compiler compared to the usual GCC compiler...

The GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 release should be out around the very end of January or start of February. With glibc 2.41 there are many new features coming to this widely-used libc implementation by Linux systems and elsewhere...

While there was the year-end holidays, daily activity on Phoronix doesn't let up and over the course of December there were 256 original news articles around Linux/open-source on the site along with 24 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Here's a look back at what excited Phoronix readers the most as we closed out 2024...

Prime Gaming January 3rd 2025 edition round-up for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Longtime KDE developer David Edmundson has recently been cleaning up some scripts he's been using personally for a few years to enhance the integration between the KDE desktop and Home Assistant for open-source home automation. This work has evolved into the KDE Internet of Things "Kiot" and is currently in a pre-alpha state for enhancing the support between KDE and home automation controls...

ESET recommends installing Linux if your unsupported Windows 11 PC can't update from 10  Neowin