Thunderbird joins Firefox on the monthly treadmill
: We'll see if messaging client can keep up with sibling browserLiam Proven (The Register)
Redis 8.0 Released: Now Tri-Licensed With AGPLv3
Last year Redis made the much criticized move to Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1 (SSPL) licensing. The move was widely panned by the open-source community and led to the Linux Foundation forking it as Valkey and also other forks like Redict coming about. In the months since many Linux distributions have switched from Redis to Valkey. Now Redis Labs announced …
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Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" Opens For Development
Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" is now formally open for development...
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Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" Opens For Development
Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka' is now formally open for development.www.phoronix.com
openSUSE Leap 16 Beta Launches with Wayland and SELinux by Default
openSUSE Leap 16 Beta is now available, adopting SELinux by default, offering a stable base from SLE 16, kernel 6.12, GNOME 48, KDE 6.3, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
GCC 15 Compiler Demonstrating Measurable Performance Gains For AMD EPYC Turin
With the recently released GCC 15 (GCC 15.1) compiler besides adding new language features, enhancements to help developers in debugging build failures, and other refinements, there is the never-ending quest of compiler performance optimizations. Since the recent GCC 15.1 release candidate I've been testing this annual compiler feature release on more hardware, inc…
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Kcompressd Proposed For Accelerated Memory Compression On Linux
Mediatek engineers have proposed Kcompressd as a new addition to the Linux kernel to improve the efficiency of memory reclamation. Mediatek engineers testing these patches on their handheld Linux devices have found huge benefit in alleviating memory pressure and enhancing system responsiveness...
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LibreOffice Begins Landing Zstd Integration
LibreOffice supports Zip compression for ODT and DOCX files, among other compression uses. There's now work beginning to be merged for supporting Zstandard (Zstd) compression moving forward...
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Patch Posted For Addressing The AMD CPU Performance Regression On Linux 6.15
As a follow-up to the Phoronix article a few days ago entitled A Linux 6.15 Performance Regression Hits Modern AMD CPUs, there continues to be activity to address this issue with the performance impact catching the upstream kernel developers off guard. I've tested a patch now that does address the issue while still carrying the KVM protections desired...
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Patch Posted For Addressing The AMD CPU Performance Regression On Linux 6.15
As a follow-up to the Phoronix article a few days ago entitled A Linux 6.15 Performance Regression Hits Modern AMD CPUs, there continues to be activity to address this issue with the performance impact catching the upstream kernel developers off guar…www.phoronix.com
Framework 13 With Strix Point, Cheap RISC-V & Linux Kernel Happenings Topped April
During the past month on Phoronix were 249 original news articles and another 23 featured Linux hardware reviews and multi-page benchmark articles. There was a lot of interesting topics in April from the launch of the Framework Laptop 13 powered by AMD Strix Point, an interesting and cheap RISC-V board coming about, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 proving …
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Intel Makes "AI Flame Graphs" Open-Source
Intel's AI Flame Graphs software is now open-sourcelxer.com
Sculpt OS 25.04 Released With Support For Intel Meteor Lake
Sculpt OS 25.04 hasbeen released as the newest version of this general purpose OS built atop the Genode OS operating system framework...
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OSU Open Source Lab At Risk Of Closure This Year Due To Lack Of Funding
For those that have spent any length of time in the open-source world have likely come across osuosl.org when downloading open-source projects that often are mirrored at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSU OSL). The OSU OSL over the past two decades has also provided VMs for various architectures from x86 and AArch64 to POWER for CI and testing purposes to op…
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Libreboot 25.04 Open-Source Boot Firmware Released
Libreboot 25.04 "Corny Calamity" open-source boot firmware debuts with a new YY.MM versioning scheme, broad distro support, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Thunderbird 138 Adds New Default Color Override for High Contrast Mode on Linux - 9to5Linux
Thunderbird 138 open-source email client is now available for download with new default color override for High Contrast mode on Linux.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Valve's Proton 10.0 Beta Released With More Windows Games Now Playable On Linux
Valve and CodeWeavers today announced the much anticipated beta release of Proton 10.0 as the newest version of their downstream version of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux.lxer.com
BTW Windows Subsystem for Linux officially uses Arch now
: The tryhard's favorite distro wins an approved home in Microsoft's OSLiam Proven (The Register)
Firefox 139 Beta Delivers Faster HTTP/3 Upload Performance
Firefox 138 was released yesterday and wasn't particularly exciting besides enhanced profile management and Tab Groups support..lxer.com
DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes
For fans of the DragonFlyBSD operating system, DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 has been released after two and a half years to ship various bug fixes for this popular BSD...
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PyXL: Run Python Code Directly In Hardware!
We all know Python. It's one of the most popular programming languages because it's…sk (OSTechNix)
UN Drops Google for CryptPad, an Encrypted Open-Source Office Suite - FOSS Force
The United Nations became the latest large organization to embrace CryptPad when it used it to replace Google Forms.Larry Cafiero (FOSS Force)
LibreOffice 25.2.3 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 68 Bug Fixes - 9to5Linux
LibreOffice 25.2.3 is now available for download as the third point release to the LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series with 68 bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Public Beta Testing with Agama Installer, Linux 6.12 LTS - 9to5Linux
openSUSE Leap 16 is now available for public beta testing with the new Agama installer and based on SUSE's Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP).Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Mesa 25.1-rc3 & Mesa 25.0.5 Deliver More Graphics Driver Fixes
Eric Engestrom with Igalia continues doing a superb job managing the Mesa releases with today bringing the timely Mesa 25.1-rc3 release candidate as well as the new Mesa 25.0.5 stable point release...
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FreeBSD Wants to Know a Few Things - FOSS Force
FreeBSD evidently found last year's Community Survey so useful that they're turning it into an annual event.Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
Intel Makes "AI Flame Graphs" Open-Source
Intel's AI Flame Graphs software is now open-source. This is a project that started for Intel's Tiber AI Cloud to provide more insight into AI accelerator/GPU usage and hardware profilining of the full software stack. After being an internal/customer-only software project for some months, AI Flame Graphs is now open-source...
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Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Memory Pool Support For Some Massive Performance Gains
Merged a few minutes ago to the Mesa 25.2-devel graphics driver code for the open-source Intel "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver is proper memory pool support. In turn this can deliver some magnificent performance improvements on the likes of Lunar Lake and other newer Intel graphics processors...
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Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Memory Pool Support For Some Massive Performance Gains
Merged a few minutes ago to the Mesa 25.2-devel graphics driver code for the open-source Intel 'ANV' Vulkan Linux driver is proper memory pool supportwww.phoronix.com
openSUSE Leap 16 Available For Beta Testing - Built From SUSE Linux Enterprise 16
OpenSUSE announced the beta release today of openSUSE Leap 16.0, their next-generation Linux distribution from from SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 (SLE 16) and its new base of SUSE Linux Framework One that was previously known as the Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP)...
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openSUSE Leap 16 Available For Beta Testing - Built From SUSE Linux Enterprise 16
OpenSUSE announced the beta release today of openSUSE Leap 16.0, their next-generation Linux distribution from from SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 (SLE 16) and its new base of SUSE Linux Framework One that was previously known as the Adaptable Linux Platfo…www.phoronix.com
The State of Open Source in 2025? Honestly, it's a mess but you knew that already
: The good news: everyone's using it. The bad news: have you seen how they're using it?Liam Proven (The Register)
LibreSSL 4.1 Released With Faster SHA-1/SHA-256/SHA-512 On Moderm AMD & Intel CPUs
LibreSSL 4.1 released today as the newest version of this SSL/TLS library project forked a decade ago by OpenBSD from OpenSSL...
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Bytedance Proposes Faster Linux Inter-Process Communication With "Run Process As Library"
Bytedance engineers are exploring faster inter-process communication (IPC) on Linux via a new approach they call Run Process As Library (RPAL). Their initial benchmarks of RPAL are very promising for faster Linux IPC performance...
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Kdenlive 25.04 Video Editor Lands with Local Object Segmentation
Kdenlive 25.04 open-source video editing software is out with object segmentation, enhanced audio waveforms, OpenTimelineIO support, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Mutter Merges Wayland Toplevel Tag Protocol For GNOME 49
In addition to the recent merge to Mutter for improving fullscreen apps with direct scanout enhancements for GNOME 49, another early addition also landed today in Mutter: support for Wayland's toplevel tag protocol.lxer.com
NVIDIA Posts 60 Patches For Open-Source Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support On Nouveau
Ben Skeggs formerly of Red Hat who had been the maintainer of the Nouveau Linux kernel driver for reverse-engineered open-source NVIDIA driver support had joined NVIDIA last year and continued his engagements with the open-source Linux community. For ending out April there's a big surprise... The NVIDIA engineer posted a set of 60 patches enabling supp…
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Firefox 139 Beta Delivers Faster HTTP/3 Upload Performance
Firefox 138 was released yesterday and wasn't particularly exciting besides enhanced profile management and Tab Groups support... Aside from that it was a pretty basic release. In turn Firefox 139 is now in beta and that release does bring some items worth mentioning like faster HTTP/3 upload performance...
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AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 Released With More Vulkan Extensions, Hawk Point 1 & 2 Support
AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 was released today as the first update to this official open-source AMD Vulkan driver since the previous release in mid-March. AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 brings new hardware support, new Vulkan API extensions, and other new features...
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Pixman 0.46 Delivers Faster Performance On RISC-V With V Vector Extension
Pixman as the open-source pixel manipulation library used by the X.Org Server and Cairo graphics library is out today with Pixman 0.46 as the newest feature release...
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