All of the FUSE updates have been sent in for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel for supporting file-systems in user-space…

From the LibreQoS site comes the sad
news that Dave Täht has passed away. Among many other things, he bears
a lot of credit for our networks functioning as well as they do. “We’re
incredibly grateful to have Dave as our friend, mentor, and as someone who
continuously inspired us – showing us that we could do better for each
other in the world, and leverage technology to make that happen. He will be
dearly missed“.

Searching through LWN’s archives will turn up many references to his work
fixing WiFi, improving queue management, tackling bufferbloat, and more. Farewell,
Dave, we hope the music is good wherever you are.

(Thanks to Jon Masters for the heads-up).

While Fedora 42 isn’t being released until later in the month, already a number of new features for Fedora 43 have been granted approval by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee…

Merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel last week was the big set of hardware monitoring “HWMON” subsystem updates with new hardware support as well as a few new sensor drivers…

The 233rd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on March 30th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Nitrux developer Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 3.9.1 as the latest ISO snapshot of this Debian-based immutable and systemd-free GNU/Linux distribution using a highly customized KDE Plasma desktop environment by default.

WildFly formerly JBoss is a free and open-source application server that helps you build and deploy Java web applications. In this guide, you will learn how to install WildFly or JBoss application runtime on a Debian 12 server.

As the last planned article of the quarter, here is a look back at the most popular Phoronix content from Q1’2025 with 822 original news articles and 40 featured articles / Linux hardware reviews written by your’s truly. There were interesting hardware launches from Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA this quarter along with a never-ending pace of new open-source software innovations and the unfortunate ongoing drama within the free software community…

kew’s recent development has focused on improving the stability of the program, but the program’s latest release has added internet radio and mouse support.

Nitrux Linux 3.9.1 “mk” debuts with major MauiKit, Qt, and kernel updates, improved firmware, Fiery browser, and optimized power management tools.

The virtual memory area (VMA), represented by struct
vm_area_struct, is one of the core abstractions of the kernel’s
memory-management subsystem; a VMA represents a portion of a process’s
address space with the same characteristics. A memory-mapped file will be
represented by (at least) one VMA, as will the process’s stack or a region
of anonymous memory. Efficiently managing VMAs and the logic around them
is crucial for good performance overall. Lorenzo Stoakes focused on one
specific problem area: the merging of anonymous VMAs, during the
memory-management track at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit.

restic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. We feature some useful front-ends for restic.

While the first quarter is coming to an end, there has already been immense progress this year to the Wayland protocols and compositors along with associated Linux desktop software for embracing this alternative to legacy X11/X.Org. From HDR color management seeing much adoption this quarter to Wine Wayland becoming more viable and the large number of Wayland compositors maturing, it was a pretty incredible quarter…

The perf tools changes were merged today for the Linux 6.15 kernel. Most notable this cycle for the wonderful perf tooling is introducing the notion of latency profiling by leveraging kernel scheduler information. This latency data will be further useful for Linux software engineers working to optimize system latency/performance…

To the extent that Open Source Initiative is known, today it is perhaps best known for controversy rather than for its guardianship of open source.

The post Is Open Source Initiative Staring Into the Face of Irrelevancy? appeared first on FOSS Force.

In the Linux world, your choice of shell can significantly enhance your command-line experience. While Bash is the default shell on most Linux distributions including Debian and Ubuntu, the Z shell (Zsh) with the Oh My Zsh framework offers a more visually appealing and feature-rich alternative that can boost your productivity and make terminal work more enjoyable.

The wlroots library used by the Sway compositor and other Wayland compositors has merged support for the color-management-v1 protocol that is notable for enabling High Dynamic Range (HDR) display use under Linux…

Mozilla published today the final build of the Firefox 137 open-source web browser for all supported platforms ahead of the April 1st, 2025, official release date, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and changes.

The consulting firm 3mdeb’s Dasharo open-source firmware distribution derived from Coreboot could soon feature improved integration under Linux thanks to a pending ACPI platform driver…

It’s been just over one year since the Linux Foundation and partners announced Valkey as a fork of Redis. Following the release of Redis 8.0 in September for this in-memory key-value database, Valkey 8.1 is out today…