Open-source News

Linux 6.15 exFAT Can Delete Files Much Faster: 4+ Minutes To 1.6 Second Optimization  Phoronix

Flying Carpet 9.0 gives you AirDrop-like functionality across ALL your devices — Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS — for free! Download it now  BetaNews

ProtonUp-Qt v2.12 brings a new Steam Deck theme and support for Proton-CachyOS  GamingOnLinux

Mozilla Firefox 137 Is Now Available with HEVC Playback Support on Linux  9to5Linux

AMD Software Advancements, RDNA4 & Ryzen 9900X3D Series Excited Linux Users In Q1  Phoronix

With Q1 drawing to an end, here is a look back at the most popular Linux/open-source news and Linux hardware reviews around AMD during the quarter on Phoronix. With 109 AMD news articles so far this quarter around their Linux software/hardware efforts and another 20 AMD Linux hardware reviews / featured benchmark articles, they continue firing on all cylinders for pushing both their client and server wares forward outside the confines of Windows...

Over the past number of months there has been an effort underway to improve FreeBSD laptop support with financial backing by Dell, AMD, and Framework among others. This has resulted in power management improvements, increasing the focus on WiFi driver support for FreeBSD, and related areas to make FreeBSD on laptops more appealing and relevant in 2025...

Linus Torvalds admits 'pure incompetence' for missing the new Linux 6.14 kernel deadline but all is forgiven as the update is great news for non-Windows gaming  PC Gamer

Say goodbye to Microsoft Windows 11 and hello to Nitrux Linux 3.9.1  BetaNews

Linux Foundation launches NeoNephos for digital sovereignty in Europe  Techzine Europe

Torvalds calls out ‘random turd files’ in Linux  Computing

Linux Distribution Nitrux3.9.1 Releaed – What’s New  GBHackers News

Linux Distribution Nitrux3.9.1 Releaed – What’s New  GBHackers

The Mozilla Firefox 137 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release set for Tuesday...

Firefox 137 Release Brings VA-API Accelerated H.265 On Linux  Phoronix

Greg Kroah-Hartman on Sunday submitted all of the "char/misc" patches for the Linux 6.15 merge window for this random catch-all area of the kernel with small drivers and other random/obscure hardware support...

Last week PostgreSQL merged support for IO_uring that can provide for "considerably faster" performance of this popular open-source database server. Over the weekend some additional improvements were merged to the asynchronous I/O "AIO" code to PostgreSQL, including introducing a new batch mode that can also provide a performance win...

Linux support for Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour is coming along now it's open source  GamingOnLinux

Cloud Hypervisor began as an open-source Intel software project more than a half-decade ago with an emphasis on security and cloud deployments while leveraging the Rust programming language. With time its scope has broadened a lot as has its industry adoption. With time it added ARM64 support and recruited AMD, Ampere Computing, Microsoft, and others as its supporters while being folded into the Linux Foundation. The latest expansion for the project is introducing experimental RISC-V 64-bit support...

Intel-Started Cloud Hypervisor Project Adds Experimental RISC-V Support  Phoronix