Open-source News

New Patches Aim To Optimize Context Switching With Two Improvements  Phoronix

Running Windows Apps in Wine vs. VMs: Which Is Better?  How-To Geek

Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0 Update Pushes Additions For Intel, AMD & Arm  Phoronix

Microsoft overnight released the newest version of their Azure Linux 3.0 in-house Linux distribution that is used by a variety of internal services at the company as well as external customers...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development recap of all the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have landed over the past week...

How to Start, Stop, and Restart Services in Linux  TechRepublic

Installing Kali Linux on Raspberry Pi  It's FOSS

The belated first release candidate of Mesa 24.3 is now available for testing of the upgraded OpenGL and Vulkan open-source drivers commonly used on Linux systems and elsewhere...

Following a one week delay, Wine 9.21 has been released as the latest development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems. We are also closing in on the approaching Wine 10.0 stable release...

Fedora KDE Plasma Spin Gains Equal Footing With Gnome Edition  WebProNews

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Intel engineer's Linux patch would alert users of outdated microcode — Flagging the system as vulnerable  Tom's Hardware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