Open-source News

Microsoft wants to make Windows 'the best place to game' but, personally, I'm all in on SteamOS and Linux  PC Gamer

I brought my Linux desktop back to Christmas 1993  Yahoo! Tech

I brought my Linux desktop back to Christmas 1993  How-To Geek

Linux kernel's 'd_genocide' function removed to align with inclusive language guidelines  Neowin

Microsoft promises to make Windows "the best place" for gaming in 2026, in the face of Linux growth  PC Guide

PeerBlight Linux Malware Abuses React2Shell for Proxy Tunneling  GBHackers News

Turbostat is the Linux command-line utility for reporting CPU frequency / power / C-states and related performance / power management items namely for modern AMD and Intel processors. This CLI utility lives within the Linux kernel source tree and for Linux 6.19 has picked up a few new features...

Turbostat Introduces New Cache Statistics, Nova Lake + Wildcat Lake Support  Phoronix

In addition to approving Fedora Cloud switching /boot to a Btrfs subvolume, another change approved this week by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) is for shipping the Budgie 10.10 desktop packages in Fedora 44...

The past several months Intel software engineers have been quite busy with LLM-Scaler as part of Project Battlematrix. LLM-Scaler is a Docker-based solution for AI workloads on Intel graphics hardware to ship an optimized vLLM stack and other AI frameworks. Out today is a new LLM-Scaler-Omni release to help enhance ComfyUI performance on Intel hardware...

Major AI Players Unite With Linux Foundation to Prevent Agent Technology Fragmentation  Technology Org

A performance fix has been submitted to the Linux kernel for dealing with a regression in the Slab memory allocation code...

React2Shell Flaw Abused as PeerBlight Malware Turns Linux Hosts into Covert Proxy Nodes  Cyber Press

Linux Foundation Launches Agentic AI Foundation with Industry-Wide Support  It's FOSS

OpenAI, Anthropic donate OS projects to new foundation  The Stack

Linux 6.19 Gets Rid Of The Kernel's "Genocide" Function  Phoronix

While the Linux kernel has inclusive terminology guidelines for the past five years to replace phrases like master/slave and blacklist/whitelist, there has surprisingly been a "genocide" function within the kernel that was questioned when it was first submitted for inclusion but now removed in Linux 6.19...

Linux Foundation Launches Agentic AI Foundation to Standardize Open Agent Ecosystems  AI Insider

OpenAI, Anthropic, Block launch Agentic AI Foundation under Linux  YourStory.com

Anthropic, OpenAI, Block Move Agentic AI Infrastructure to Open Source Governance Under Linux Foundation  Open Source For You