Open-source News

The open-source SVT-VP9 project started by Intel as a high performance VP9 video encoder has seen its first new release in five years...

Reddit Strangers Built an Open Source Linux Handheld, And They Want Your Help  It's FOSS

The Linux kernel's printk code for logging kernel messages has some useful improvements with the Linux 6.19 kernel...

Printk Improvement For Linux 6.19 Can Significantly Speed-Up Boot Times For Some Systems  Phoronix

Linux creator Torvalds thinks Elon Musk is 'too stupid' to be working at a tech company  Neowin

Steam hardware survey shows how Linux is slowly eating into Windows market share  Club386

Nvidia drops Maxwell and Pascal support with new Linux 590 branch drivers  KitGuru

Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS: 16x Faster exFAT, Enhanced Security Until 2027  WebProNews

Fedora 44 Replaces fbcon with KMSCON for Enhanced Security and Modularity  WebProNews

The "timers/core" pull requests for updating Linux kernel timer-related code doesn't tend to be too interesting each kernel cycle, but this time around for Linux 6.19 it is for addressing a problem HPE discovered on big NUMA servers...

Intel Arc B580 GPU Hits 50% Performance Boost via Linux Optimizations in 2025  WebProNews

Alpine Linux 3.23 Released: Linux 6.18 Kernel, APK 3.0, GNOME 49  WebProNews

Linux 6.19 Upgrades sched_ext with eBPF Fault Recovery and 15% Latency Boost  WebProNews

Steam’s November survey highlights Windows 11 and GPU shifts  Windows Central

Linux Kernel 6.19 Adds Microsoft C Extensions for Cleaner Code  WebProNews

Valve brings Android gaming to Linux with new Lepton compatibility layer  livemint.com

The Trifecta Tech Foundation today released zlib-rs 0.5.3 as the newest version of this Zlib implementation written in the Rust programming language for better memory safety. Zlib-rs is advertised as "a safer Zlib" for use by both C and Rust projects while delivering competitive performance to the C-based zlib-ng...

Linux's Integrity Policy Enforcement "IPE" module is gaining a useful addition with the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel...

I found 7 essential Linux apps for students - including a local AI  ZDNET

Mesa 25.3.1 was released overnight as the first point release of the Mesa 25.3 series. The Mesa point releases are typically bi-weekly but this one dragged out to nearly three weeks. In turn this also marks an end to the Mesa 25.2 series...