Open-source News

libxml2 Maintainer Stepping Down - "More Or Less Unmaintained For Now"

Phoronix - Tue, 09/16/2025 - 00:38
The maintainer of the libxml2 project announced he is stepping down from this widely-used open-source library without any replacement maintainer yet determined...

The Performance Cost To Ubuntu WSL2 On Windows 11 25H2

Phoronix - Mon, 09/15/2025 - 22:50
It's been a while since delivering any benchmarks on Phoronix of Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) for running Linux applications and other software under the confines of Windows 11. When recently carrying out the Windows 11 25H2 vs. Linux benchmarks I also took the opportunity for seeing how WSL is performing on that leading-edge Windows release compared to running a bare metal Ubuntu Linux installation.

Canonical Announces Plans To Support NVIDIA CUDA, Easy Installation On Ubuntu

Phoronix - Mon, 09/15/2025 - 22:45
Canonical announced today that they will formally support the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit and also make it available via the Ubuntu repositories...

Casilda 1.0 Released As Wayland Compositor Widget For GTK4

Phoronix - Mon, 09/15/2025 - 21:58
Casilda 1.0 is out today as the Wayland compositor widget for the GTK4 toolkit...

Jonathan Riddell Leaving KDE Development After 25 Years

Phoronix - Mon, 09/15/2025 - 20:26
Prominent KDE developer Jonathan Riddell who was formerly involved with Kubuntu and then KDE Neon, served for a while on KDE Plasma release management, and other significant contributions over the years announced he's stepping away from the KDE world...

Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings

Phoronix - Mon, 09/15/2025 - 20:00
Ubuntu 25.10's transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils. Fortunately there still are a few weeks to go until Ubuntu 25.10 releases as stable and upstream developers are working to address these performance gaps...

Pages