Open-source News

Raspberry Pi OS Updated With More Wayland Work, Likely The Last Based On Debian 12  Phoronix

OpenSearch 3.0 hits: First major release under Linux Foundation as it battles ElasticSearch for mindshare  devclass

Last month was a fresh look at the Intel Lunar Lake graphics performance between Windows and Linux while this article is Microsoft Windows 11 Pro vs. Ubuntu 25.04 again but looking at the CPU performance between these competing operating systems. For additional reference, some of the recently completed AMD Strix Point Windows vs. Linux benchmarks were also included for additional insight.

AMD Strix Point & Intel Lunar Lake: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 25.04 Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

Dangerous Linux wiper malware hidden within Go modules on GitHub  Yahoo

Dangerous Linux wiper malware hidden within Go modules on GitHub  TechRadar

Cockroach Labs Brings Distributed SQL to IBM LinuxONE and Linux on IBM Z  WV News

Cockroach Labs Brings Distributed SQL to IBM LinuxONE and Linux on IBM Z  PR Newswire

Currently when building the Linux kernel for LoongArch processors there is a maximum limit of 256 CPU cores supported but with a pending patch that limit would be upped to 2,048 CPU cores...

Advance Your IT Career With a Cybersecurity Training Bundle for $49.99  Yahoo

Fedora 42 is the latest official Linux release for Windows 11's WSL  Windows Central

Linux block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe has queued up a set of patches being worked on the past number of months around block write streams for making use of NVMe SSDs supporting the NVMe Flexible Data Placement (FDP) specification...

Linux 6.16 To Introduce Block Write Streams For NVMe Flexible Data Placement "FDP"  Phoronix

Slimbook Launches Kymera Black Linux Desktop Computer for Gamers and Creators  9to5Linux

Intel has readied a new "qat_6xxx" driver for the Linux kernel for supporting QAT GEN6 devices with QuickAssist Technology. QAT GEN6 will presumably be found with upcoming Xeon 6 Clearwater Forest and Diamond Rapids processors while the Linux kernel driver should be introduced for Linux 6.16...

Intel Introducing QAT "GEN6" Driver To The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Going back to last year there have been patches for adapting the Intel P-State Linux driver with support for Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) as what began as an Arm big.LITTLE feature but since being explored for use by the Intel P-State driver for hybrid CPUs without SMT which for the moment means Lunar Lake SoCs. A new version of the patches were posted on Tuesday and likely to be the last refinement to this patch series...

Intel P-State Energy Aware Scheduling May Be Ready For Lunar Lake  Phoronix

Fedora Linux now an officially supported WSL distribution  techzine.eu

Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support  theregister.com