Clonezilla Live’s May update includes an Ubuntu 25.04 base, Linux kernel 6.14, improved USB support, and key bug fixes.

Willy Tarreau and William Lallemand have posted an extensive white
paper examining the landscape of the available SSL implementations.

OpenSSL 3.0 performs significantly worse than alternative SSL
libraries, forcing organizations to provision more hardware just to
maintain existing throughput. This raises important questions about
performance, energy efficiency, and operational costs.

Examining alternatives—BoringSSL, LibreSSL, WolfSSL, and
AWS-LC—reveals a landscape of trade-offs. Each offers different
approaches to API compatibility, performance optimization, and QUIC
support. For developers navigating the modern SSL ecosystem,
understanding these trade-offs is crucial for optimizing
performance, maintaining compatibility, and future-proofing their
infrastructure.

On the 50th anniversary of the USENIX organization, its flagship Annual
Technical Conference (ATC) is coming
to an end.

For the past two decades, as more USENIX conferences have joined
the USENIX calendar by focusing on specific topics that grew out of
ATC itself, attendance at ATC has steadily decreased to the point
where there is no longer a critical mass of researchers and
practitioners joining us. Thus, after many years of experiments to
adapt this conference to the ever-changing tech landscape and
community, the USENIX Board of Directors has made the difficult
decision to sunset USENIX ATC.

Many important technologies first saw the light of day at this event.

From ubiquitous go-to system for early Noughties startups to a legacy like no otherBefore Donald Trump became US president and the UK left the EU – both arguably the result of a new kind of online politics – a rather nervous-looking Mark Zuckerberg shuffled out onto a Harvard University lecture hall floor to offer some insight into the inner workings of a website he had created less than two years earlier.…

The Linux boot process is a sequence of events that initializes a Linux system from a powered-off state to a fully operational state. The knowledge of Linux boot process is essential when it comes to technical interviews, but sometimes it becomes difficult to remember or recall the key steps in the process. This article discusses a quick and easy way to remember it – Best Geeks Know It! Yes, you only need to remember that.Best Geeks Know It -[he]gt[/he] B – G – K – I -[he]gt[/he] BIOS – GRUB – KERNEL – INIT

Today, the KDE Project released KDE Plasma 6.3.5 as the fifth and last maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series to address more bugs, crashes, and other issues reported by users during the five weeks since KDE Plasma 6.3.4.

KDE Plasma 6.3.5 is a bugfix release improving applets, notifications, and core behavior, with over two dozen issues resolved.

Version
1.0.0 of Mission Center, a system-monitoring application, has been
released. Notable changes in this release include the addition of
SMART data for SATA and NVMe devices, display of per-process
network usage, as well as a redesigned Apps Page that provides
more information about applications and processes. Mission Center’s
backend application for obtaining system data has been renamed from
the Gatherer to Magpie, and is
now available as a standalone executable and libraries that can be
used by other applications.

Linux systems can have large filesystems; trying to keep up with the
stream of

fanotify filesystem-monitoring notifications for them can be a struggle.
Fanotify is one of a few ways to monitor accesses to filesystems provided by the kernel.
Song Liu led a discussion
on how to improve in-kernel filtering of fanotify events to a joint
session of the filesystem and BPF tracks at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. He wants to combine the best parts of a few
different approaches to efficiently filter filesystem events.

Last week Valve introduced Proton 10.0 beta as the newest version of their Wine-derived software for Steam Play that enables countless Windows games to run well for Linux gamers on the desktop and with the extremely popular Steam Deck. Out today is another Proton 10.0 beta update with some additional bug and regression fixes over what was shipped last week…

BleachBit 5.0 open-source system cleaning utility is out now with new cleaners, security patches, and better cross-platform performance.

The SpacemiT-X60 RISC-V SoC can enjoy some very healthy performance improvements with scheduler definitions now merged for the LLVM/Clang 21 compiler…

In a combined filesystem and memory-management session at
the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory
Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Joanne Koong led a discussion on
improving the writeback performance for the Filesystem in
Userspace (FUSE) layer. Writeback is how data that is written to the
filesystem is actually flushed to the disk; it is the process of writing
dirty pages from the page cache to storage. The current FUSE
implementation allocates unmovable memory, then copies the dirty data to it
before initiating writeback, which is slow; Koong wanted to change that
behavior. Since the session, she has posted a
patch set that has been applied
by FUSE maintainer Miklos Szeredi.

Microsoft announced today that Fedora Linux is now treated as an official distribution within their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) confines…

Lead LVFS/Fwupd developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat was at the PremDay on-premise computing conference in Paris to talk up this open-source firmware updating solution and being what customers want. The presentation video and slides are now available for those needing additional material in helping sell your organization on the benefits of LVFS/Fwupd…

Ampere Computing last year talked up AmpereOne M for 12-channel DDR5 memory and up to 192 cores up from the 8-channel DDR5 memory found with the initial AmpereOne processors. They said at the time AmpereOne M would be shipping in Q4-2024. Now half way into 2025, it looks like they quietly announced the AmpereOne M processors…

As an alternative to the likes of the Pungi tool, Kurchu is a newer project within the CentOS/Fedora space for assembling content collections or ISO images of Linux distribution builds. Kurchu is already seeing use by the CentOS Hyperscale SIG for assembling their images while additional functionality continues to be worked on for those wanting to craft their own Fedora/CentOS install images…

In this post, I’ll share how Tmux saved my work when SSH kept dropping and why you should use it for unstable SSH connections in Linux.

With the spring Linux distribution/OS updates upon us, in recent weeks I’ve looked at the Ubuntu 25.04 performance gains on AMD EPYC 9005 “Turin” and also the performance of Fedora Server 42. Following that I expanded the scope of the Linux operating systems (distributions) benchmarks on the latest 5th Gen AMD EPYC server hardware. Here is a look at how the performance of the new Ubuntu and Fedora Linux releases compare to AlmaLinux and Intel’s in-house Clear Linux distribution that tends to be at the forefront of open-source performance optimizations.

The PeerTube mobile app has reached version 1, allowing users to easily edit playlists, comment on videos, and switch between accounts.