Open-source News

My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes  Tom's Hardware

Intel's Clear Linux Demonstrates Software Optimization Benefits On AMD EPYC 9005 Series  Phoronix

With the spring Linux distribution/OS updates upon us, in recent weeks I've looked at the Ubuntu 25.04 performance gains on AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" and also the performance of Fedora Server 42. Following that I expanded the scope of the Linux operating systems (distributions) benchmarks on the latest 5th Gen AMD EPYC server hardware. Here is a look at how the performance of the new Ubuntu and Fedora Linux releases compare to AlmaLinux and Intel's in-house Clear Linux distribution that tends to be at the forefront of open-source performance optimizations.

Project management apps are my top productivity hack - and these are my favorites on Linux  ZDNET

With Ubuntu 25.10 Canonical is planning to make use of more Rust-written system components and so far most of that talk has been about transitioning to Rust Coreutils "uutils" in place of GNU Coreutils. It's also been firmed up today that Canonical is planning on using sudo-rs by default as a replacement to sudo...

A Linux-backed project shows how to save unsupported Windows 10 PCs by installing Linux  Neowin

PoCL 7.0 is on approach as the newest version of this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that began as a CPU-based OpenCL driver implementation but with time has added support for other back-ends from Intel Level Zero to NVIDIA PTX and AMD HSA...

New ClickFix Attack Mimics Ministry of Defense Website to Attack Windows & Linux Machines  CybersecurityNews

Btrfs "CLEAR_FREE" Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 6.16  Phoronix

The Btrfs file-system looks like its new "CLEAR_FREE" feature will be ready to go for the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle...

Merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel was AMD INVLPGB support for broadcast TLB invalidation on recent Zen cores. AMD INVLPGB use by the Linux kernel can provide for some nice performance gains while now similar support for Intel processors is coming via a kernel patch series working on Intel RAR TLB invalidation support...

Safety assessment confirms Linux-based OS to SIL 3 and ASIL D ...  eeNews Europe

Lead LVFS/Fwupd developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat was at the PremDay on-premise computing conference in Paris to talk up this open-source firmware updating solution and being what customers want. The presentation video and slides are now available for those needing additional material in helping sell your organization on the benefits of LVFS/Fwupd...

LVFS/Fwupd Talked Up For Linux Servers & Being What Customers Want  Phoronix

Intel RAR TLB Invalidation Being Worked On For Linux - Alternative To AMD INVLPGB  Phoronix

Codethink Limited Announces World’s First Baseline Safety Assessment for a Linux-Based OS to SIL 3 / ASIL D  Silicon Canals

Last month IBM announced the z17 mainframe powered by Telum II processors and today they announced the IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 servers...

IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 Announced For Linux Servers Powered By Telum II  Phoronix

First baseline safety assessment for ASIL D Linux ...  eeNews Europe

Commodore OS 3 is the loudest Linux yet  theregister.com