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Safe C++ proposal author claims that 'will not ever work'
The C++ standards committee abandoned a detailed proposal to create a rigorously safe subset of the language, according to the proposal's co-author, despite continuing anxiety about memory safety.…
Announcing Fedora Linux 43 Beta
On Tuesday, 16 September 2025, it is our pleasure to announce the availability of Fedora Linux 43 beta! This release comes packed with the latest version upgrades of existing features, plus a few new ones too. As with every beta release, this is your opportunity to test out the upcoming Fedora Linux release and give […]
Fedora Workstation 43 Beta Is Running Well On AMD Strix Halo / Framework Desktop
Fedora 43 Beta is releasing today as we work toward the official release in either late October or early November. I have been testing out the Fedora Workstation 43 Beta candidate to great success on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" powered Framework Desktop. Here are some benchmarks of Fedora Workstation 42 compared to the Fedora Workstation 43 Beta.
Open source Cloud Hypervisor adds (maybe futile) no-AI-code policy
Virtualization tool for hyperscalers now scales to 8,192 vCPUs
The Cloud Hypervisor project has introduced a No AI code policy.…
AOMedia To Release AV2 Video Codec At Year's End
The Alliance for Open Media announced today that they will be launching the next-generation AV2 video codec at the end of 2025...
Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings
Ubuntu 25.10's transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils. Fortunately there still are a few weeks to go until Ubuntu 25.10 releases as stable and upstream developers are working to address these performance gaps...
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'
Student thought she had the hang of this 'Linux' thing and its kooky CLI
Who, Me? It's Monday morning, and a week of possibilities presents itself to IT pros everywhere. Which is why The Register brings you another edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which we remind you what not to do with your day, your week, and your career, by sharing stories of your worst workplace mistakes and the contortions you made to survive them.…
Casilda 1.0 Released As Wayland Compositor Widget For GTK4
Casilda 1.0 is out today as the Wayland compositor widget for the GTK4 toolkit...
The Performance Cost To Ubuntu WSL2 On Windows 11 25H2
It's been a while since delivering any benchmarks on Phoronix of Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) for running Linux applications and other software under the confines of Windows 11. When recently carrying out the Windows 11 25H2 vs. Linux benchmarks I also took the opportunity for seeing how WSL is performing on that leading-edge Windows release compared to running a bare metal Ubuntu Linux installation.
Jonathan Riddell Leaving KDE Development After 25 Years
Prominent KDE developer Jonathan Riddell who was formerly involved with Kubuntu and then KDE Neon, served for a while on KDE Plasma release management, and other significant contributions over the years announced he's stepping away from the KDE world...
Linux 6.18 To Allow Rust And C Code To Use The Same Memory Model
The latest tranche of Rust code ready to go for the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is now ready to go and has been queued into a TIP branch ahead of the merge window...
"Rustmaker" Merged For LibreOffice 26.2 Development As Latest Rust Integration
For fans of open-source projects embracing the Rust programming language, merged for the LibreOffice 26.2 development code for this open-source office suite is "Rustmaker" as a Rust code maker for UNO integration with this open-source office suite...
Select Qualcomm X Elite Laptops Seeing IRIS Video Acceleration On Linux
Adding to the list of feature caveats around the different Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops and the varying Linux state is video acceleration support. But patches were posted this week by a Linaro engineer enabling hardware accelerated video playback for two X Elite laptop models...
FLYDIGI APEX 5 Controller Support Landing In Linux 6.17
The input subsystem fixes for the week were sent out on Saturday ahead of the Linux 6.17-rc6 kernel due out later today. Notable with this batch of "fixes" is enabling support for the high-end FLYDIGI APEX 5 gaming controller...
Linux 6.17-rc6 Released With VMSCAPE Mitigation, FLYDIGI APEX 5 Support & Fixes
The newest weekly test release of Linux 6.17 is now available as we work toward the stable kernel release around the end of September...
Cloud Hypervisor Will Block AI Generated Code, Raises x86_64 VM Limit To 8,192 vCPUs
Cloud Hypervisor 48.0 is now available for this Intel-started, open-source and Rust-based VMM focused on modern cloud workloads. Cloud Hypervisor continues to tailor to Windows and Linux guests while emphasizing security and cloud-native workloads...
Jetway B420UADN1 Compact Box PC with Intel N97, DDR5, and Configurable Security
Jetway has unveiled the B420UADN1, a fanless compact box PC built around Intel’s Alder Lake-N platform. Designed for industrial and embedded use, the system combines silent operation with high-speed networking, modern display interfaces, and broad OS support. The system is equipped with the Intel Processor N97, a quad-core SoC with a 12 W TDP. It […]
Samsung Exynos 7870 Seeing New Open-Source Driver Activity For Linux 6.18
The Samsung Exynos 7870 Octa SoC released back in 2016 on a 14nm process and powered by eight Arm Cortex-53 cores and a Mali T830 GPU. Finally now for late 2025 there is open-source display driver happenings going mainline for this aging SoC...
Intel Loses One Of Its USB4 / Thunderbolt Linux Driver Maintainers
It's unfortunate the number of significant Linux engineering losses at Intel this year. Beyond the staffing reductions throughout the company, seeing the loss of Linux engineering talent and many of their open-source contributors outside of kernel space too has been especially hard hitting to see. Intel for years has been very well regarded for their prolific open-source contributions and typically leading early hardware enablement within the Linux kernel, compiler toolchains, and related components. There's another hit to the Intel Linux team with one of their USB4/Thunderbolt maintainers departing the company...
libadwaita 1.8 Released Ahead Of GNOME 49
Ahead of the GNOME 49 stable release expected on Wednesday, libadwaita 1.8 released this week to incorporate all the enhancements made over the past six months to this GTK4 library that provides GNOME-specific widgets and features...
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