The Haiku open-source operating project known for letting the BeOS spirit live on is out with their newest monthly progress report.

The OpenZFS project has merged DirectIO (O_DIRECT) support for the ZFS file-system to bypass the ARC for reads and writes.

After seven months under review, Google's Gfxstream code has been upstreamed into Mesa 24.3 as a Vulkan virtualization solution.

Most Linux distributions have been defaulting to MariaDB as the default MySQL server for years

The HID subsystem updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel

When it comes to the question of the fastest x86_64 Linux distribution the answer is very easy with Intel's Clear Linux.

For months there has been talk and speculations around Raspberry Pi working to release a Compute Module 5 (CM5) in putting the power of last year's Raspberry Pi 5 into the small form factor for various embedded/industrial applications

The beta release of Ubuntu 24.10 'Oracular Oriole' was released in time for some weekend testing.

Wine 9.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software that enables running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms.

Following the AMD ROCm 6.2 release from early August, ROCm 6.2.1 was released on Friday evening as the first point release to that series for this AMD GPU compute stack for Linux systems. ROCm 6.2.1 rolls out rocAL 2.0 with many new features, support for…

Oracle has shifted their Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel to a Linux 6.10 base with UEK-next.

KDE developers have been busy preparing for Plasma 6.2 with lots of bug fixing and polishing while also beginning to land some features for Plasma 6.3.

The SDL abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games now prefers using Vulkan on Windows as its ideal graphics API

Linux 6.12 yesterday merged the real-time 'PREEMPT_RT' patches that had been in development for two decades

While not as exciting as some of the shiny new features for Linux 6.12 like real-time going mainline and Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics by default, the Firewire (IEEE-1394) subsystem has seen some significant alterations this cycle

While there sadly the previously-annual Phoronix meet-up at Oktoberfest in Munich remains defunct, in honor of Oktoberfest 2024 kicking off this weekend in Munich, it's time for the annual Phoronix Premium special

Linux 6.12 is shaping up to be a heck of a kernel update! Following real-time 'PREEMPT_RT' going mainline after twenty years and many other kernel features merged this week, Linus Torvalds just pulled in the much anticipated sched_ext code!

The kernel patches collected by Andrew Morton were upstreamed today for the Linux 6.12 kernel