The recently released Linux 6.18 kernel is this year’s Long Term Support version. As such it’s sure to a see a lot of enterprise and hyperscaler uptake in being the annual LTS kernel version. While Linux 6.12 LTS will be maintained at least through the end of next year, upgrading to Linux 6.18 LTS can be very worthwhile from the performance perspective beyond the extended timeline until it will reach end-of-life. Here are benchmarks showing the performance advantages of upgrading from Linux 6.12 LTS to Linux 6.18 LTS for 5th Gen AMD EPYC “Turin” as well as an early look on the same server for the performance direction Linux 6.19 is bringing the kernel into 2026.

For X.Org Server users there is a new release of xorgproto for the holidays. Xorgproto as the set of headers and specifications for the X11 core protocols and extensions is out with its first new release since March 2024…

Linux creator Linus Torvalds previously referred to file-systems in user-space as for toys and misguided people. But FUSE has shown a lot of interesting use-cases over the years and has grown more capable in the decade since Torvalds’ prior comments. Out today is FUSE 3.18 as the latest release for the FUSE library…

Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many.Waterfox, a popular fork of Firefox, is saying nay to AI. Considering how unpopular Mozilla’s plan to botify its browser has become, this could win the alternative some converts.…

As we have been covering over the past year, major investments have been made to better the outlook for running FreeBSD on laptop hardware. From WiFi driver improvements to enhancing suspend/resume, power management, graphics drivers, and other features, it’s been a big undertaking to make FreeBSD work better on laptops. The FreeBSD Foundation calls 2025 as having brought “transformative changes” for the FreeBSD laptop experience…

Canonical confirmed their Linux kernel plans today for the Ubuntu 26.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release due out in April…

Cloud Hypervisor 50.0 is out today for this cloud-minded, security-focused and Rust-based hypervisor. Cloud Hypervsior began as an open-source Intel project while in more recent times has shifted to being largely maintained by Microsoft, Crusoe, Cyberus Tech, Rivos, and others…

The Mageia development team recently met to solidify their plans for releasing Mageia 10 as the next major release of this LInux distribution with its roots that trace back to the days of Mandrake Linux…

After the controversial news shared earlier this week by Mozilla’s new CEO that Firefox will evolve into “a modern AI browser,” the company now revealed it is working on an AI kill switch for the open-source web browser.

Vulkan 1.4.337 released a short time ago as what could be the last Vulkan API spec update of 2025 depending upon how much time the working group takes off or not around the holidays. In any case, it’s a nice holiday treat with the new VK_EXT_texture_compression_astc_3d and VK_EXT_shader_long_vector extensions…

Cryptsetup 2.8.2 released on Thursday for this open-source utility used for setting up disk encryption with dm-crypt on Linux systems, including for LUKS volumes, TrueCrypt, BitLocker, and other formats…

Announced one year ago was KDE Internet of Things “Kiot” with an emphasis on providing nice integration between the KDE Plasma desktop and Home Assistant for handling open-source home automation. Development on Kiot sadly fell through the cracks for most of the year but development on it recently restarted…

The Linux Mint team has published today the ISO images of the beta version of the upcoming Linux Mint 22.3 release, which can be downloaded (for testing purposes) from the official mirrors.

Youyeetoo has unveiled the K1, a compact x86 embedded platform based on Intel’s 12th-generation Alder Lake-N N100 processor. The system pairs an 82 × 71 mm core board with an optional 134 × 92 mm carrier board, targeting edge computing, industrial HMI, digital signage, and network appliance applications running Windows or Linux. The Youyeetoo K1 […]

OpenZFS 2.4 is out as stable in time for the holidays! The big OpenZFS 2.4 feature release is now available for FreeBSD and Linux systems to continue advancing the open-source ZFS file-system support…

In this article, you will learn how to use the ping command with its available options, including the explanation of output and ping flooding.

A guide to the open-source foundations, projects, and use cases that provide network professionals with a map for vendor independence and advanced automation.

The Linux Foundation today published their 2025 Annual Report where they offer a glimpse into the finances of the organization for this year…

The systemd v259 release makes journald persistent by default, drops TPM 1.2 support, and fully transitions networking components to nftables.

Spectre V1 mitigations in the Linux kernel are coming for RISC-V with newer RISC-V core designs being vulnerable to Spectre Variant One style attacks…