ConnexionLinux Foundation's Newest Endeavor: The Agentic AI Foundation
The Linux Foundation today announced it's formed another foundation under its growing umbrella that extends well beyond the traditional "Linux" landscape: the Agentic AI Foundation...
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Firefox 147 Beta Released With XDG Base Directory Support
With Firefox 146 released, which is exciting for delivering fractional scaling on Wayland, Firefox 147 Beta is now available and it's also quite exciting to Linux users for another reason...
Scheduler Woes: Bisecting Early Performance Regressions Found In Linux 6.19
Yesterday I noted some early performance regressions I've found on the Linux 6.19 kernel compared to Linux 6.18 LTS stable. Those initial benchmarks were on an AMD EPYC server. Since then I've seen many of the same workloads regressing similarly on an AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation between Linux 6.18 and Linux 6.19 Git. Given the significant impact and AMD Threadripper processors always helping out to speed-up Linux kernel build times to make for a quicker and more manageable kernel bisecting experience, here is a look at some of the results for the Linux 6.19 performance regressions.
Univention 5.2-4
Univention Corporate Server is an enterprise-class distribution based on Debian. It features an integrated management system for central administration of servers, Microsoft Active Directory-compatible domain services, and functions for parallel operation of virtualised server and desktop operating systems. UCS offers such features as a single sign-on portal and an app centre. One key component of UCS is the Identity and Access Management (IAM) utility which acts as a central solution for managing identities, roles, and groups. The integrated portal with Single Sign-On and self-service functions provides access to all IT services and applications and can work across blended Linux, Windows, and macOS networks. Total War: MEDIEVAL III announced by Creative Assembly
Creative Assembly recently held their 25th Anniversary Showcase for the Total War series, with Total War: MEDIEVAL III being announced.
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AMD EPYC Embedded 2005 Series Announced For BGA Zen 5 CPUs
AMD today announced their newest member of their expansive EPYC family: the EPYC Embedded 2005 series. The new AMD EPYC Embedded 2005 Series are intended primarily for networking, storage, and industrial devices while these BGA processors will likely see other interesting thin-server uses as well.
Microsoft Has Many Hyper-V Virtualization Improvements For Linux 6.19
For benefiting their Azure cloud and other users of Hyper-V virtualization at large, Microsoft has rolled out a number of feature additions and improvements for their Hyper-V kernel code in Linux 6.19...
War Thunder is getting infantry combat
Oh no, it's going to pull me back in isn't it? War Thunder is finally adding infantry combat to its roster of war games in a future update.
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Classic roguelike top-down shooter Nuclear Throne major update 100 out now
A lovely blast from the past of 2015, Nuclear Throne from the revived Vlambeer has update #100 out now with some major additions and improvements.
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Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
The developer team at Discord released a new engineering blog post yesterday (December 8th) detailing lots of fixes, along with some Linux improvements.
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Bug-Catching "Smatch" Static Analysis On The Linux Kernel Under Threat Due To Funding Gap
For the past 15 years the Smatch static analysis tool has been routinely run for uncovering countless bugs within the Linux kernel. Dan Carpenter who authored Smatch and has been routinely analyzing the Linux kernel with it has authored more than 5,568 patches over the years to become one of the top bug fixers for the kernel. But his funding at Linaro has been cut and the project's future now in question...
Hytale will run on Linux PCs via Flatpak but Steam Deck will require more work
With the first release of Hytale finally approaching, the developers are still working through getting it running on Linux and macOS.
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Linux 6.19 Enables Per-CPU BIO Caching By Default For Helping Performance
Last week saw the main set of block and IO_uring feature patches for the Linux 6.19 merge window but some additional block subsystem material was merged on Monday. There are various NVMe updates now merged plus enabling per-CPU BIO caching by default to help with file-system performance...
F2FS Brings More Performance Optimizations To Linux 6.19
The Flash-Friendly File-System "F2FS" is enjoying more performance optimizations and other improvements for the Linux 6.19 kernel cycle...
Team Fortress 2 Classic becomes Team Fortress 2 Classified and arrives January 30
Developer team EMINOMA have officially rebranded Team Fortress 2 Classic into Team Fortress 2 Classified, and they've set a release date for January 30th.
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Framework greatly expand their open source event and Linux distribution sponsorships
Framework Computer BV have announced a nice big expansion of their sponsorship program with many open source events and Linux distributions benefiting from it.
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POSTAL: Bullet Paradise gets cancelled over generative AI with Goonswarm Games shutting down
Oh dear. Goonswarm Games are shutting down after Running With Scissors cancelled POSTAL: Bullet Paradise due to the use of generative AI.
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Netflix want to acquire Warner Bros. but they have to fight off Paramount
While I was off running around the woods for the weekend, Netflix announced their intention to acquire Warner Bros. but now Paramount want to fight.
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GE-Proton 10-26 released with FEX included, improvements for DLSS and game fixes
The Windows compatibility layer GE-Proton 10-26 has released with a bunch of technical improvements, along with various game fixes too.
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Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 gets a first Release Candidate
We're on the road to the release of Wine 11 early next year with the first Release Candidate now available for the Windows compatibility layer.
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Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 49: One More to Go!
Candy Cruncher stands as an interesting piece of Linux gaming convergence, with it pulling on almost all of the major threads that defined the industry.
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Revue de presse de l’April pour la semaine 49 de l’année 2025
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
- [Goodtech] Logiciels de caisse: le Parlement veut rétablir l'auto-attestation et sauver l'open source
- [Génération NT] L'ascension de Linux: le géant Windows est-il vraiment en danger?
- [ZDNET] Le nouveau modèle open source de DeepSeek est-il le dernier coup de pelle porté à l'IA propriétaire?
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- lien nᵒ 3 : Revue de presse de la semaine précédente
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[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
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
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...