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Not the default file system, but in the installer if you want it AlmaLinux is to support the Btrfs file system in version 10.1 of its eponymous RHELative operating system.…

The Fedora Council has finally come to a decision on allowing AI-assisted contributions to the project. The agreed upon guidelines are fairly straight-forward and will permit AI-assisted contributions if it's properly disclosed and transparent...

Researchers say 'Proto-X' fine-tunes databases automatically, delivering multifold performance boosts Automated database systems based on vector embedding algorithms could improve the performance of default settings on common PostgreSQL database services by a factor of two to ten, according to a database researcher.…

Theo de Raadt released OpenBSD 7.8 today as the newest feature release to this popular BSD operating system...

The Fedora-based Ultramarine Linux 42 lands with WSL GPU support, while the Terra repo gets faster builds and improved performance.

For those that have been considering the ASUS ROG STRIX X870E-H GAMING WIFI7 motherboard for a high-end AMD Ryzen 9000 series desktop, sensor monitoring support will soon be working under Linux...

Another phone Linux? The Reg attempts to disentangle the options The latest version of Mobian, an edition of Debian aimed at mobile devices, is here, based on Debian 13 "Trixie".…

Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency (nee Sovereign Tech Fund) is out with their latest newsletter where they outlined some new investments in various key open-source projects...

Synaptics has unveiled the Astra SL2600, a family of multimodal processors designed for edge computing across consumer, enterprise, and industrial IoT applications. The lineup debuts with the SL2610 product line, targeting low-power and high-performance designs used in smart home, automation, robotics, and retail systems. The Astra SL2600 family is built around the new Synaptics Torq […]

Valkey as the popular, Linux Foundation backed fork of the Redis key-value database is out today with its big v9.0 release...

A new NTFSPlus driver has been proposed to replace NTFS3, aiming for faster, cleaner, and more stable NTFS support in Linux.

Last year following the launch of the Intel Xeon 6900P Granite Rapids processors I ran some benchmarks looking at the SNC3 vs. HEX clustering mode performance. With having an Intel Xeon 6980P server back up and running on a Giga Computing R284-A92-AAL server after my AvenueCity reference server failed nearly one year ago, I revisited the SNC3 vs. HEX clustering performance for those curious how it's looking on a modern software stack and with new/updated benchmarks.

KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop is out now, adds automatic light-dark theme switching, rounded window corners, pinned clipboard items with permanent access, and more.

Going public today is CVE-2025-62518, or better known by the name given by the security researchers involved: TARmageddon. The TARmageddon vulnerability affects the popular async-tar Rust library and its various forks like tokio-tar. In turn TARmageddon impacts the uv Python package manager and other users of this library...

Oracle released today VirtualBox 7.2.4 as the second maintenance update to the latest VirtualBox 7.2 series for this open-source, free, and cross-platform virtualization solution from Oracle.

Following the recent Xe3P graphics enablement for Nova Lake as well as Nova Lake compiler target enablement and other early hardware enablement for Intel's Nova Lake processors, today has brought initial enablement for Nova Lake's NPU...

24,500 devs polled, two blog posts, one confusion JetBrains has released its State of the Developer Ecosystem survey, with more than 24,500 responses, revealing AI's impact on developer tools and programming language trends - including the claim that PHP and Ruby are in "long term decline."…

Earlier today the AlmaLinux project announced their plans for supporting the Btrfs file-system contrary to the stance by Red Hat with upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They have capped off the day now by releasing the AlmaLinux 10.1 beta complete with this new Btrfs support...

Clonezilla Live developer Steven Shiau released Clonezilla Live 3.3.0-33 as a new version of this Debian-based, free, and open-source bootable live system for cloning disk drives and partitions.

The upcoming AlmaLinux 10.1 will introduce native Btrfs support, bringing snapshotting, compression, and advanced data protection features.