The Linux 6.19 kernel has been a bit bumpy in the scheduler department but at least one fix is on the way for addressing fallout...

Arch-based CachyOS is working on a new Server Edition aimed at NAS, workstations, and hosting providers, featuring hardened defaults and optimized packages.

As a wonderful Christmas gift to open-source fans, NVIDIA dropped their proprietary license on the CUDA Tile intermediate representation and has now made the IR open-source software...

QEMU 10.2 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source machine emulator and virtualization software, a release that brings new features and improvements for next-generation emulation.

One of the pleasant surprises this year was AMD ending the AMDVLK driver development with AMD dropping their proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan driver components on Linux at long last for their Radeon Software for Linux packages. This was arguably long overdue with enthusiasts and Linux gamers long preferring the RadeonSI+RADV Mesa drivers and those drivers even doing very well in recent years for workstation graphics workloads. One of the areas where AMDVLK formerly delivered better performance than RADV was with Vulkan ray-tracing. But RADV ray-tracing improved a lot in 2025 as shown in recent benchmarks. So for this Christmas 2025 benchmarking is a final look at how RADV is going up against the now-defunct AMDVLK driver.

Ruby 4.0 is now available, introducing the experimental Ruby Box isolation feature, the new ZJIT compiler, and performance and concurrency improvements.

For X11/X.Org fans there is a new Christmas surprise: Phoenix as an in-development X Server written from scratch using the Zig programming language...

GStreamer 1.26.10 multimedia framework resolves multichannel FLAC and Opus issues and improves Matroska demuxing for 4K uncompressed video streams.

Wayback 0.3, a X11 compatibility layer that allows running X11 desktop environments using Wayland, is now available in Fedora 42/43 and Alpine Linux stable repositories.

As part of my various end-of-year benchmarking comparison articles for looking at the performance evolution of Linux is a fresh look at the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptop experience when using Ubuntu 25.10 with the latest X1E Concept packages, which includes taking the X1 Elite optimized kernel to the latest Linux 6.18 stable series. Unfortunately, there are significant performance regressions observed compared to a few months ago that just make AMD Ryzen AI and Intel Core Ultra laptops a better choice for Linux laptop users.

Practical steps to make an aging operating system usable into 2026 Part 1 You can switch to running mostly FOSS without switching to Linux. First, though, give your OS a bit of TLC. We'll come back to what to do next in part two.…

One of the interesting open-source projects to come about this year was Wayback as an X11 compatibility layer using Wayland. Wayback could be used by default on Alpine Linux next year among other distributions. For ending out 2025 development, Wayback 0.3 is now available...

OpenMediaVault 8.0 is now available, upgrading the NAS platform to Debian 13 and officially dropping support for legacy CPU architectures.

The developers behind the Debian-based ParrotOS ethical hacking and penetration testing distribution announced today the general availability of Parrot 7.0 (codename Echo) as a major update with a new base and new features.

Learn how to enhance system security by compelling users to change their passwords regularly. Explore step-by-step methods using the passwd and chage commands.

As the old year is replaced by the new, here’s Jack Wallen’s wish list for Linux and open source in 2026 — from the desktop to the developers who keep it alive.

Kitty 0.45 GPU-accelerated terminal introduces a new keyboard-first file selector kitten with fast navigation and rich previews for text, images, videos, and e-books.

As part of our various "year end" articles, here is a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source news and hardware reviews of 2025...

FreshRSS 1.28 self-hosted RSS feed aggregator introduces advanced search, new sorting by user date and article length, UI improvements, and more.

Libreboot as the Coreboot downstream focused on free, open-source boot firmware is out with a new test release for Christmas...

In this quick tutorial, you will learn how to kick out SSH-connected users from the target system from your end as a sysadmin.

For those currently owning an ASUS ROG MAXIMUS X HERO or ASUS Pro WS TRX50-SAGE WIFI A motherboard, Linux sensor monitoring support will be in place for the next kernel release...

Parrot OS 7.0 is now available, introducing KDE Plasma 6, Wayland by default, a Debian 13 base, and a fully rewritten system architecture.

The next kernel cycle that will be known as either Linux 6.20 or Linux 7.0 depending upon how Linus Torvalds handles the versioning for this next x.20 milestone. More than likely it will be Linux 7.0 given his historical versioning scheme, but whatever the case, ahead of this next kernel cycle some initialization changes for the CXL subsystem are building up...

Even with the latest Gparted Live, it's not easy to dual boot – but it's worth the hassle Hands On It's been a long time coming but version 1.0 of the first ground-up Rust-based desktop is here… and it is shaping up very well.…

An unfortunate Linux kernel bug coming to light just ahead of Christmas may cause frustration for some server administrators, particularly public cloud providers... It turns out with the Linux kernel releases since 2022, KVM guest virtual machines making use of Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) is possible to cause the host to experience a kernel panic...

Fabrice Bellard, founder of QEMU and FFmpeg, has published Micro QuickJS, a minimal JavaScript engine targeting embedded and low-memory environments.

Ahead of Intel Panther Lake laptops expected to debut next month at CES in Las Vegas, the Linux driver support for the next-gen "50xx" NPU of Panther Lake is now complete. The last piece of the driver support puzzle is now in place with the NPU firmware binaries having been upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository...

Java is one of the most widely used programming languages worldwide. When considering installing Java 25 on Ubuntu 24.04, developers will find an object-oriented, platform-independent language used to build a range of applications, including web and mobile applications, big data solutions, and even software for cars and planes.

Sched_ext as the extensible scheduler code for the Linux kernel that allows loading schedulers from user-space via eBPF code has shown a lot of interesting possibilities. Andrea Righi of NVIDIA who has been heavily involved in sched_ext development shared some of the future plans being looked at as we move into 2026...