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Revue de presse de l’April pour la semaine 49 de l’année 2025

Par :echarp
9 décembre 2025 à 07:13

Cette revue de presse sur Internet fait partie du travail de veille mené par l’April dans le cadre de son action de défense et de promotion du logiciel libre. Les positions exposées dans les articles sont celles de leurs auteurs et ne rejoignent pas forcément celles de l’April.

[ZDNET] 'Non à la taxe Windows': 20 organisations appellent à passer au logiciel libre

✍ Thierry Noisette, le dimanche 7 décembre 2025.

20 organisations invitent à passer au Libre et demandent la liberté de choix informatique, dès l’acte d’achat, avec l’affichage des coûts des licences et la possibilité d’acheter un ordinateur sans système d’exploitation imposé.

Et aussi:

[Goodtech] Logiciels de caisse: le Parlement veut rétablir l'auto-attestation et sauver l'open source

Le jeudi 4 décembre 2025.

Victoire en vue pour le logiciel libre en France: après l’Assemblée, le Sénat vote la fin de la certification tierce obligatoire pour les logiciels de caisse, jugée trop coûteuse et inadaptée. L’avis de l’APRIL.

[Génération NT] L'ascension de Linux: le géant Windows est-il vraiment en danger?

✍ Mathieu M., le mercredi 3 décembre 2025.

Longtemps cantonné à une niche d’experts, Linux connaît une croissance spectaculaire sur les PC de bureau. Sa part de marché a triplé en quatre ans, largement alimentée par des utilisateurs fuyant un Windows jugé trop contraignant. Entre la fin du support de Windows 10 et l’essor du gaming, l’OS libre est devenu une alternative crédible pour des millions de personnes.

[ZDNET] Le nouveau modèle open source de DeepSeek est-il le dernier coup de pelle porté à l'IA propriétaire?

✍ Webb Wright, le mercredi 3 décembre 2025.

Avec des résultats impressionnants, la dernière version open-source du modèle d’IA chinois relance la question de savoir si les modèles propriétaires en valent la peine.

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Rust-Based Project Aims To Provide Modern Thumbnails For Audio/Video Files On GNOME

9 décembre 2025 à 02:42
Since Showtime replaced Totem as the default video player of GNOME, the desktop has lacked thumbnail capabilities for audio and video files. But to address that defect, the Rust-based gst-thumbnailers project has been in development to leverage GStreamer and paired with Rust to provide safe thumbnail generation capabilities for audio and video content...

Mesa 26.0 Lands Initial Support For Adreno Gen 8 - Including For The Snapdragon X2

9 décembre 2025 à 02:21
The newest Mesa 26.0-devel code as of today has landed initial support for Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics into the Freedreno Gallium3D driver. The Adreno Gen 8 graphics so far are most notably used by the new Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop SoC with its X2-85 GPU as well as the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 with Adreno 840 graphics...

HackerOS 4.0

8 décembre 2025 à 21:53
HackerOS is a live Linux distribution based on Debian's "Testing" branch and designed for regular users, gamers and cybersecurity enthusiasts. Some of its features include an optimised XanMod Linux kernel for faster boot times and reduced resource usage, out-of-the-box support for NVIDIA graphics cards, and a collection of cybersecurity tools, such as enhanced firewalls and intrusion detection software. The distribution uses the KDE Plasma desktop.

Kicksecure 18.0.8.4

8 décembre 2025 à 20:36
Kicksecure is a security-hardened Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch, with Xfce as the default desktop user interface. It is a hardened operating system designed to be resistant to viruses, malware and attacks, and extensively reconfigured in accordance with an advanced multi-layer defense model, thereby providing in-depth security. Kicksecure provides protection from many types of malware in its default configuration with no customization required.
Reçu hier — 8 décembre 2025 4.1 🐧 Linux

Linux 6.19's Hung Task & System Lockup Detectors Can Provide Greater Insight

8 décembre 2025 à 22:00
Beginning with the Linux 6.19 kernel, the hung task detector and system lock-up detector are now optionally able to provide greater insight into the issues by dumping additional system information. The new lockup_sys_info and hung_task_sys_info sysctl knobs were merged over as part of the pull requests managed by Andrew Morton...

Live Update Orchestrator "LUO" Merged For Linux 6.19

8 décembre 2025 à 21:17
Google engineers for the past number of months have been working on the Live Update Orchestrator as a new way of applying live Linux kernel updates. The Live Update Orchestrator "LUO" builds atop the Kexec Handover "KHO" functionality already within the kernel. Google has since been deplyoing LUO in their production environments for faster security updates to kernels, especially when involving VMs. LUO is now upstream in Linux 6.19...

Manjaro 25-pre1

8 décembre 2025 à 18:17
Manjaro Linux is a fast, user-friendly, desktop-oriented operating system based on Arch Linux. Key features include intuitive installation process, automatic hardware detection, stable rolling-release model, ability to install multiple kernels, special Bash scripts for managing graphics drivers and extensive desktop configurability. Manjaro Linux offers Xfce as the core desktop options, as well as KDE, GNOME and a minimalist Net edition for more advanced users. Community-supported desktop flavours are also available.

Intel Arc B580 vs. AMD Radeon RX 9000 vs. NVIDIA RTX 50 Series For Llama.cpp Vulkan Performance

8 décembre 2025 à 16:50
Recently there were Phoronix benchmarks looking at the Intel Battlemage GPU compute performance since last year when the Arc B580 graphics card launched as well as the OpenGL and Vulkan graphics performance for the B580 on Linux since launch. There was much progress on the open-source Intel Linux graphics drivers at large this year but especially for Battlemage. Following that a Phoronix Premium reader asked about seeing some fresh Llama.cpp AI benchmarks with its Vulkan back-end now for the Arc B580 compared to competing AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards. Here are those benchmarks as requested.

Early Benchmarks Of Linux 6.19 Git Raising Some Concerns

8 décembre 2025 à 15:50
While just half-way through the Linux 6.19 merge window, over the weekend I began running some benchmarks of the current Linux 6.19 Git state compared to Linux 6.18 LTS stable. There are some minor performance improvements to note in a few of the tests on the first system I tested but also some regressions at this very early pre-RC1 state of the Linux 6.19 kernel...

Ventoy 1.1.08

8 décembre 2025 à 13:54
Ventoy LiveCD is a minimalist, single-purpose live CD designed to install the Ventoy application on Windows system. It is based on Porteus Kiosk and uses the Openbox window manager. It can be useful in cases where the standard installation of Ventoy on Windows fails due to Windows-specific restrictions on some low-level operations. Ventoy, an open-source application that facilitates the creation of bootable USB drives from ISO, WIM, IMG, VHD(x) and EFI files, is a useful utility for those who frequently install or test Linux distributions or other open-source operating systems.

Podcast Projets Libres - Les rencontres hivernales du libre : le libre en face des pistes de ski

8 décembre 2025 à 14:29

Les rencontres hivernales du libre (RHL) sont organisées par l'association Swisslinux à Saint-Cergue (VD) en Suisse. La dixième édition aura lieu du 23 au 25 janvier 2026.

Elles se destinent à un public de libristes désirant se rencontrer et parler des leurs sujets communs, ou en découvrir de nouveaux.

Projets Libres reçoit les organisateurs pour parler de l'édition 2026 et retracer l'histoire de l'évènement : Emmanuelle Germond, Sébastien Piguet (Sebseb01) et Sébastien Tauxe (Oïnska).

Nous revenons sur :

  • l'association SwissLinux
  • l'histoire des RLH
  • le public visé
  • l'édition RHL 2026 et son financement
  • les souhaits pour l'avenir

Bonne écoute !

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Linux I3C Gains "HDR" Support For Faster Data Transfers

8 décembre 2025 à 12:27
I2C in Linux 6.19 brought support for Rust-written I2C drivers. The newer I3C "Improved Inter-Integrated Circuit" interface changes have now been merged and the big feature there is HDR support. Not to be confused with the more common High Dynamic Range acronym usage for HDR, HDR in the I3C context is for the "High Data Rate" mode for facilitating faster data transfers...

MakuluLinux 2025-12-05

8 décembre 2025 à 10:30
MakuluLinux is a rolling-release, desktop distribution based either on Ubuntu's LTS (long-term support) release or Debian's "Testing" branch. It includes pre-installed multimedia codecs, device drivers and software for everyday use. MakuluLinux comes in four editions: "LinDoz" - featuring the Cinnamon desktop with the user interface customised to resemble that of Microsoft Windows, "Core" - presenting a highly customised Xfce desktop environment, "Flash" - providing a standard Xfce desktop, and finally "Shift" - delivering a pre-configured GNOME desktop environment.

Gentoo 20251207

8 décembre 2025 à 02:00
Gentoo Linux is a versatile and fast, completely free Linux distribution geared towards developers and network professionals. Unlike other distros, Gentoo Linux has an advanced package management system called Portage. Portage is a true ports system in the tradition of BSD ports, but is Python-based and sports a number of advanced features including dependencies, fine-grained package management, "fake" (OpenBSD-style) installs, safe unmerging, system profiles, virtual packages, config file management, and more.

HardenedBSD 15-build-5

8 décembre 2025 à 01:22
Founded in 2014 by Oliver Pinter and Shawn Webb, HardenedBSD is a security-enhanced fork of FreeBSD. The HardenedBSD Project is implementing many exploit mitigation and security technologies on top of FreeBSD. The project started with Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) as an initial focal point and is now implementing further exploit mitigation techniques.
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