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The PyCon team has announced that all PyCon US 2025 recordings are now available on its YouTube channel.

We had an amazing and diverse group of community members join us for PyCon US 2025, attending from 58 different countries! By the numbers, we welcomed a total attendance of 2,225 Pythonistas to the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. We couldn't be more grateful for all who supported the Python ecosystem and helped make PyCon US 2025 a huge success.

See the LWN conference index for coverage of some of the talks from PyCon US 2025.

Portainer 2.33 LTS brings a refreshed brand, Helm overhaul

In July 2024, Let's Encrypt, the nonprofit TLS certificate authority (CA), announced that it would be ending support for the online certificate status protocol (OCSP), which is used to determine when a server's signing certificate has been revoked. This prevents a compromised key from being used to impersonate a web server. The organization cited privacy concerns, and recommended that people rely on certificate revocation lists (CRLs) instead. On August 6, Let's Encrypt followed through and disabled its OCSP service. This poses a problem for Linux systems that must now rely on CRLs because, unlike on other operating systems, there is no standardized way for Linux programs to share a CRL cache.

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Stemming from a request by a Phoronix Premium reader wondering about some fresh historical kernel performance comparison numbers, today's benchmarking is looking at the performance of the LTS and latest stable Linux kernel versions going back to Linux 5.15 LTS in 2021. For testing an AMD EPYC Milan-X server was used for compatibility back through Linux 5.15 LTS with some rather impressive results for testing these major Linux kernel releases of the past four years.

Red Hat's performance team is now shipping TuneD 2.26 as the latest feature release for this tuning profile delivery mechanism for Linux systems to monitor and adaptively adjust the power/performance characteristics of different system components and more...

Meson 1.9 released this weekend as the newest feature update to this build system / build automation tool that works well across different software platforms. With Meson 1.9 there is enhanced Rust support, introducing Swift and C++ code interoperability, and other enhancements to this increasingly used alternative to the likes of CMake and Autotools...

The Open Platform for Enterprise AI "OPEA" that is a sub-project of the Linux Foundation and backed by a wide variety of different organizations to provide open solutions for Generative AI announced today their newest GenAI code examples...

The upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel will begin upstreaming hardware enablement for the ASPEED AST2700 as the next-gen baseboard management controller "BMC" that will likely appear in the majority of future generation servers...

The Linux Foundation used Open-Source Summit Europe 2025 happening in Amsterdam to announce the formation of the Developer Relations Foundation "DRF". Separately, they also announced from Amsterdam that DocumentDB has joined the Linux Foundation...

The Linux Foundation, in cooperation with a couple of other groups, has announced the publication on the intersection of businesses and commercial open-source software (deemed "COSS"). Everything, it seems, is great, and COSS companies make a lot of money for their investors.

Even more encouraging, COSS project communities continue along healthy growth paths after the company receives venture funding. In essence, highly valued COSS companies tend to cultivate more vibrant, diverse, and integral open source ecosystems, reinforcing the idea that business value and community value are tightly coupled in successful COSS models.

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DietPi 9.16 improves SBC support, adds Debian 13 Trixie and Forky testing compatibility

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