Open-source News

systemd Lands Experimental Support For musl libc  Phoronix

Intel engineers continue working on the Nova Lake next-gen processor enablement for the Linux kernel. In addition to the Intel Xe3P graphics and other early Nova Lake enablement work already queued in "-next" Git branches ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window, the initial power management code is also ready for this next kernel cycle...

openSUSE Releases Agama 18 Installer with Cleaner and More Intuitive Storage UI  9to5Linux

Valve's new Steam Machine will make 2026 a massive year for Linux  ZDNET

I tried out this unknown Linux distro for gaming, and it's better than Bazzite  XDA

For the Steam Machine to change PC gaming, Valve must solve Linux's anti-cheat problem  Engadget

HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 3.25.8 Adds Support for New Printers  9to5Linux

The Wild linker is a very speedy linker written in the Rust programming language that has become quite competitive with the likes of Mold. A patch sent out this weekend adds Wild support for use with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...

Following prominent Linux x86 platform enabler Hans de Goede leaving Red Hat (as recently noted, he recently joined Qualcomm), there is another prominent Linux kernel engineer that will be departing from Red Hat...

Red Hat Losing Another Longtime & Prominent Linux Kernel Engineer  Phoronix

This Linux distro looks more beautiful than anything Microsoft or Apple ever made  XDA

Karol Herbst at Red Hat who has been a longtime open-source NVIDIA driver contributor as well as Rusticl developer presented at XDC2025 on the NVK Vulkan driver's cooperatrive matrix extension support. It turns out this Vulkan extension for machine learning / AI is proving fairly competitive with the open-source NVK driver compared to NVIDIA's official driver stack...

Year of the (Clandestine) Linux Desktop, topic, and the news – Rob Allen – ESW #433  SC Media

Monitor Your Linux Laptop Battery Health with Wattage  OMG! Ubuntu

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.2. This release includes the general availability of Istio’s ambient mode—a new way of deploying service mesh without sidecars that significantly lowers the resource costs of using service mesh. This provides a low overhead solution for zero trust networking with lightweight pod-to-pod mTLS encryption and authorization policies based on workload identities, with the ability to add more advanced features as required.Based on the Istio, Envoy, and Kiali projects, this release updates the version of Istio

From remote offices to factory floors, organizations are extending their virtualization capabilities to where data is generated and consumed, unlocking new opportunities for innovation and efficiency. This shift to the edge brings a unique set of challenges, particularly for running virtualized workloads. How can you ensure the same level of resilience, performance, and simplicity for your virtual machine (VM) at the edge as you do in your core datacenters? The answer lies in a powerful combination of technologies: Red Hat’s new two-node OpenShift with arbiter architecture and Arctera's Info

In a modern cluster, the hardest problem isn’t running workloads—it's sharing resources fairly. Red Hat OpenShift clusters are seeing a surge of AI-accelerated workloads, from GPU-intensive training jobs to large batches of inference requests. At the same time, other tenants still need consistent throughput for their everyday CI/CD pipelines and data processing tasks. The result is a constant battle for resources, where some jobs wait too long, others consume more than their fair share, and administrators are left fighting bottlenecks.This is exactly the challenge that Kueue, a Kubernetes-

Long‑lasting transformers and short‑lifecycle IT are not a natural pairing. Utilities run process installations designed to last for decades, while the control software ages far faster. Deferring replacement isn’t an option, because operations must stay online with up‑to‑date security. So how do you resolve this? How can you procure operational technology (OT) – the technology that runs the power grid – today with confidence it will still run reliably by 2035? Alliander found a way.Dutch energy infrastructure was built to last for decades, with assets such as power transformers a

Linus Torvalds is out today with the eighth weekly test release of the Linux 6.18 kernel in working toward the stable release at the end of the month...

Linux 6.18-rc6 Released With Fix For ARM64 "Catastrophic Performance Issue"  Phoronix