QEMU 9.2 is out today for this processor emulator that plays an important role within the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project is out with a new monthly status update to detail their latest efforts...

mostly from GamingOnLinux

These are the best smartwatches for Android [December 2024]

Integrating Firefox and Thunderbird with GNOME components on top of the Window Maker window manager and a Debian core

ALPM, Arch Linux's packaging ecosystem, received €562K funding to modernize package creation

Linux Mint climbs to the number one spot on DistroWatch, unseating MX Linux after five years of dominance in the popular ranking

What's next for Linux in all its facets in the coming year

I've used Linux on and off for years. Most of that time I've used GNOME

This is free and open source software

Development on COSMIC, a new open-source desktop environment created by developers a Linux-based hardware company System76

Some of the latest articles

Complementing yesterday's fresh Linux gaming benchmarks of mid-range Intel Arc Graphics "Alchemist" vs. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 vs. AMD Radeon RX 7000 series cards ahead of the upcoming Battlemage availability, today's article is providing a fresh look at the latest Intel Compute Runtime performance for Level Zero / OpenCL on current-gen Intel discrete graphics compared to mid-range AMD Radeon GPUs on ROCm 6.3 and similar NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Ada graphics cards on the R565 driver.

Systemd 257 has been released. As usual, the list of changes is long; it includes support for multipath TCP in socket units, the ability to run processes as init in their own PID namespace, a new tool for signing EFI binaries for secure boot, and a superhero emoji in the run0 shell prompt, among many other things. Also, support for version-1 control groups has been disabled and requires an elaborate dance to re-enable; it will be removed entirely in the next release, along with support for System V service scripts.

Some news, buzz (hype), and more

several more good and bad pieces

some hardware picks

Please do keep testing, and then we can all take it a bit easier over the holidays

Coincidentally coming one day after the GNU Shepherd 1.0 service manager release, the systemd 257 release is now shipping as the newest feature release for this widely-used service manager / init system to Linux systems. Systemd 257 brings a number of new features and improvements for powering late 2024 and early 2025 Linux distributions...

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