Wine 10.9 fell slightly off its bi-weekly Friday release rhythm with only debuting today, but in any event it’s now available for testing with the latest features for enjoying Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms…

Merged today for the Linux 6.16 kernel were all of the Watchdog subsystem updates for monitoring system health and taking action such as rebooting if the system state goes bad. With the Linux 6.16 is the introduction of the Intel Overclocking Watchdog “OC WDT” driver…

PorteuX 2.1 has been released today as a new update to this portable Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux and inspired by both Slax and Porteus distros, designed to be small, fast, portable, modular, and immutable.

The Linux 6.15 kernel that shipped as stable last week mistakenly shipped with a nasty CPU power regression for some systems. The issue is now fixed in Linux 6.16 Git and will be fixed shortly in the Linux 6.15 point releases…

The Linux kernel had not enabled support for Arm Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) due to bugs, but with the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel those issues have been resolved and so SME can now be enabled for the rare SoCs having said hardware support…

The Linux 6.16 merge window this weekend suffered an unexpected twist this weekend when Linus Torvalds noticed some unusual Git activity by a longtime Linux kernel developer. The issue is still being sorted through but it would appear that the possible malicious activity came down to some scripting issues around Git…

The release candidate of FreeBSD 14.3 is now available for testing ahead of the official operating system release this month…

Arch-based CachyOS’s May 2025 update improves NVIDIA support, deprecates its browser, and updates Proton features.

Alpine Linux 3.22 drops Plasma X11 (Wayland is now the default KDE session), deprecates LXD, and introduces kernel 6.12.

Olimex has recently highlighted a new open-source hardware and software project aimed at creating a €20 smart home server. The initiative was introduced during a lightning talk at TuxCon 2025, a community-driven open-source conference held earlier this month in Bulgaria. The project aims to deliver a compact, easy-to-use smart home server that prioritizes local control, […]

May was another busy month when it comes to Linux hardware and software milestones albeit depressing when looking at the ongoing state of the web/ad industry. In any event there were 25 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles and another 268 original Linux-related news articles all written by your’s truly for the month. Here is a look back at what excited Phoronix readers the most during May…

Following below is a kind of comment on the posts of Zen@yandex.com authors who write with enthusiasm about investments in cloud deployments due to the execution of virtual machines in the Cloud as cloud’s major advantage according to the authors. Openstack’s Cloud Fault Tolerance advantage vs traditional Client Server Unix/Lnux architecture seems to be completely ignored in writings mentioned above.

OpenBMC 2.18 released on Friday as the newest version of this Linux Foundation project providing an open-source baseboard management controller (BMC) firmware stack implementation. In recent years OpenBMC has been enjoying increasing success in deploying to server platforms from the mega hyperscalers to the more prominent OEM/ODM vendors seeing increasing customer demand for open-source BMC as part of broader open-source firmware interest from the industry…

WireGuard Easy 15.0, a web-based WireGuard admin, lands with a full rewrite, introducing a sleek UI, IPv6 support, 2FA, CLI, and more.

To compile the Linux x86/x86_64 kernel has already enforced a minimum compiler version of GCC 8 while now with Linux 6.16 this requirement is in place for all other architectures. The GCC 8 and GNU Binutils 2.30 baseline for all Linux kernel architectures now allows removing a number of old workarounds from the codebase…

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the June 2025 issue.

In this article, we dive into 10 underrated Linux tools that can help you streamline your workflow, improve productivity, and unlock new levels of system mastery. Whether you’re a developer, sysadmin, or Linux hobbyist, these tools deserve a place in your arsenal.

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All of the big SoC and DeviceTree board updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.16 kernel including support for a number of new Arm SoCs as well as a RISC-V server SoC. Plus many new board additions, including continued work on bettering the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite/Plus laptop support under Linux…

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