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Intels 2025-Q1 Linux Excitement With Battlemage, AVX10 & Other Kernel Improvements
With the first quarter quickly drawing to a close, here's a look back at the most popular Intel Linux news of the quarter. There's been excitement with the Battlemage discrete graphics cards with their open-source driver, early work on Xe3 graphics, AVX10.2 dropping the optional 512-bit features to make it mandatory now (thankfully!), and a lot of exciting upstream Linux kernel improvements...
Firefox 137 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Firefox 137 open-source web browser adds PDF hyperlink detection, HEVC playback on Linux, and a new built-in calculator directly in the address bar.
Redis-Forked Valkey 8.1 Released - Turns To AVX2 For Better Performance
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...
Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid
From smartphones to surveillance cameras to security snafus, there's no escape. Opinion I was going to write a story about how Amazon is no longer even pretending to respect your privacy. But, really, why bother?…
Is Open Source Initiative Staring Into the Face of Irrelevancy?
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.
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 30th, 2025
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.
Linux 6.15 exFAT Can Delete Files Much Faster: 4+ Minutes To 1.6 Second Optimization
For those dealing with exFAT formatted storage devices under Linux, the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel has a big optimization for yielding much faster delete performance when making use of the "discard" mount option...
Immutable Distro Nitrux 3.9.1 Brings New Convergent Web Browser, Linux 6.13
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.
How to Install WildFly Application Server with Nginx Reverse Proxy on Debian 12
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.
Intel-Started Cloud Hypervisor Project Adds Experimental RISC-V Support
Cloud Hypervisor began as an open-source Intel software project more than a half-decade ago with an emphasis on security and cloud deployments while leveraging the Rust programming language. With time its scope has broadened a lot as has its industry adoption. With time it added ARM64 support and recruited AMD, Ampere Computing, Microsoft, and others as its supporters while being folded into the Linux Foundation. The latest expansion for the project is introducing experimental RISC-V 64-bit support...
kew adds internet radio support
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.