Open-source News

Blood On The Thames is a Victorian London murder mystery now available for Linux  GamingOnLinux

OpenZFS 2.3 continues working its way toward release as a big step forward for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

OpenZFS 2.3-rc3 Adds JSON Output For Commonly Used Commands  Phoronix

A patch is working its way to the mainline Linux kernel for addressing an annoyance affecting new Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" laptops...

Linux Fix Pending For Annoying Intel Lunar Lake Laptop Problems  Phoronix

KDE Frameworks 6.8 Adds Breeze Icons for Typst Files and Fixes Many Bugs  9to5Linux

Last week Google announced the general availability of their C4A instances powered by their in-house Axion processors. I delivered launch-day benchmarks looking at the Google Axion CPU performance with the C4A instances compared to other Google Cloud instance types powered by Ampere Altra and Intel Xeon. In this article is a look at how the Google Axion processor performance compares to the competing Amazon/AWS Graviton4 processor.

Linux DAW is a one-stop catalog of free and proprietary plug-ins for Linux  Create Digital Music

Intel engineer's Linux patch would alert users of outdated microcode — Flagging the system as vulnerable  Tom's Hardware

6 Best Flatpak Apps for Fedora Linux Users  info-mods.com

Fedora KDE gets approval to be upgraded to sit alongside Fedora Workstation  GamingOnLinux

5 Little Known Features of systemd Timers  How-To Geek

Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 Rolls Out with Wireless Display Improvements, Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

Earlier this year was a Fedora change proposal seeking to make KDE Plasma the default over GNOME for Fedora 42. A compromise of sorts has now been settled on with the Fedora Desktop Spin being promoted to an "Edition" status that will put it on the same level as the GNOME-based Fedora Workstation Edition...

Intel's Linux kernel test robot has reported a 3888.9% performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel as of this past week...

Intel Spots A 3888.9% Performance Improvement In The Linux Kernel From One Line Of Code  Phoronix

Mesa 24.3 feature development is now over and Mesa 25.0 has entered development with Mesa Git...

As the latest on the compiler enablement front for Intel's next-gen Xeon "Diamond Rapids processors, LLVM Git has merged support for the AMX-AVX512 instructions for next spring's Clang 20 compiler release...

AMX-AVX512 Support Merged For LLVM Clang 20 Compiler  Phoronix

New CRON#TRAP Malware Infects Windows by Hiding in Linux VM to Evade Antivirus  The Hacker News