Following yesterday's Linux 6.18 kernel release, GNU Linux-libre 6.18-gnu is out today as the latest release of this free software purist kernel that will drop/block drivers from loading microcode/firmware considered non-free-software and other restrictions in the name of not pushing binary blobs even when needed for hardware support/functionality on otherwise open-source drivers...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.17.10, 6.12.60, and 6.6.118 stable kernels. As usual, each contains a number of important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.

20 days from now the days will start getting longer again

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now based on Fedora 43

Proxmox VE 9.1 debuts OCI-based LXC containers, Linux kernel 6.17

half a dozen howtos

The media subsystem updates were sent out this morning for the now-open Linux 6.19 merge window. There are some new Rockchip drivers and other media drivers that are new for Linux 6.19...

Due to the ongoing RAM shortages in the industry amid ongoing massive demand for AI servers,Raspberry Pi announced today they are having to raise prices on the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single board computers. They have also launched a 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 version too for those not needing much memory and wanting to keep pricing to a minimum...

It was just earlier this year that Linux developers considered dropping the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the mainline Linux kernel for being unmaintained. But then some new developers stepped up to maintain the drivers and there has been new HFS/HFS+ file-system patches each kernel cycle since. With the now in-development Linux 6.19 kernel there are some nice year-end clean-ups to these file-system drivers...

The release notes for Kodi v21 as well

I find it curious that the other chose December 17, my husband's birthday, as the date in the draft

It was an eventful past month with Valve announcing the new Steam Machine, a lot of new Linux kernel activity, the continued increase of Rust programming language adoption by open-source projects, a lot of fun hardware benchmarks, and more. There were 283 original news articles on Phoronix the past month about Linux/open-source software and hardware plus another 18 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Here is a look back at the most popular content over the past month...

The development team behind the Solus distribution announced today the release and general availability of Solus 4.8 as the latest ISO snapshot of this independent rolling-release distro featuring Budgie, GNOME, KDE Plasma, and Xfce editions.

Today, 4MLinux developer Zbigniew Konojacki announced the release and general availability of 4MLinux 50.0 as the latest stable version of this minimalist and independent Linux distro featuring the lightweight JWM window manager.

The developers of the independent distro NixOS, whose set of packages can be used on other GNU/Linux distributions, released NixOS 25.11 today, a major update that introduces support for recent technologies and other changes.