Redis 8.0 Released: Now Tri-Licensed With AGPLv3 Last year Redis made the much criticized move to Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1 (SSPL) licensing. The move was widely panned by the open-source community and led to the Linux Foundation forking it as Valkey and also other forks like Redict coming about. In the months since many Linux distributions have switched from Redis to Valkey. Now Redis Labs announced …

Redis 8.0 Released: Now Tri-Licensed With AGPLv3 - Phoronix

Last year Redis made the much criticized move to Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1 (SSPL) licensing

Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" Opens For Development Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" is now formally open for development...

Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" Opens For Development - Phoronix

Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka' is now formally open for development.

GCC 15 Compiler Demonstrating Measurable Performance Gains For AMD EPYC Turin With the recently released GCC 15 (GCC 15.1) compiler besides adding new language features, enhancements to help developers in debugging build failures, and other refinements, there is the never-ending quest of compiler performance optimizations. Since the recent GCC 15.1 release candidate I've been testing this annual compiler feature release on more hardware, inc…

GCC 15 Compiler Demonstrating Measurable Performance Gains For AMD EPYC Turin - Phoronix

With the recently released GCC 15 (GCC 15.1) compiler besides adding new language features, enhancements to help developers in debugging build fail...

Kcompressd Proposed For Accelerated Memory Compression On Linux Mediatek engineers have proposed Kcompressd as a new addition to the Linux kernel to improve the efficiency of memory reclamation. Mediatek engineers testing these patches on their handheld Linux devices have found huge benefit in alleviating memory pressure and enhancing system responsiveness...

Kcompressd Proposed For Accelerated Memory Compression On Linux - Phoronix

Mediatek engineers have proposed Kcompressd as a new addition to the Linux kernel to improve the efficiency of memory reclamation

OSU Open Source Lab At Risk Of Closure This Year Due To Lack Of Funding For those that have spent any length of time in the open-source world have likely come across osuosl.org when downloading open-source projects that often are mirrored at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSU OSL). The OSU OSL over the past two decades has also provided VMs for various architectures from x86 and AArch64 to POWER for CI and testing purposes to op…

OSU Open Source Lab At Risk Of Closure This Year Due To Lack Of Funding - Phoronix

For those that have spent any length of time in the open-source world have likely come across osuosl.org when downloading open-source projects that...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Memory Pool Support For Some Massive Performance Gains Merged a few minutes ago to the Mesa 25.2-devel graphics driver code for the open-source Intel "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver is proper memory pool support. In turn this can deliver some magnificent performance improvements on the likes of Lunar Lake and other newer Intel graphics processors...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Memory Pool Support For Some Massive Performance Gains - Phoronix

Merged a few minutes ago to the Mesa 25.2-devel graphics driver code for the open-source Intel 'ANV' Vulkan Linux driver is proper memory...

NVIDIA Posts 60 Patches For Open-Source Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support On Nouveau Ben Skeggs formerly of Red Hat who had been the maintainer of the Nouveau Linux kernel driver for reverse-engineered open-source NVIDIA driver support had joined NVIDIA last year and continued his engagements with the open-source Linux community. For ending out April there's a big surprise... The NVIDIA engineer posted a set of 60 patches enabling supp…

NVIDIA Posts 60 Patches For Open-Source Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support On Nouveau - Phoronix

Ben Skeggs formerly of Red Hat who had been the maintainer of the Nouveau Linux kernel driver for reverse-engineered open-source NVIDIA driver supp...

AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 Released With More Vulkan Extensions, Hawk Point 1 & 2 Support AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 was released today as the first update to this official open-source AMD Vulkan driver since the previous release in mid-March. AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 brings new hardware support, new Vulkan API extensions, and other new features...

AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 Released With More Vulkan Extensions, Hawk Point 1 & 2 Support - Phoronix

AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 was released today as the first update to this official open-source AMD Vulkan driver since the previous release in mid-March

Valve's Proton 10.0 Beta Released With More Windows Games Now Playable On Linux Valve and CodeWeavers today announced the much anticipated beta release of Proton 10.0 as the newest version of their downstream version of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

Valve's Proton 10.0 Beta Released With More Windows Games Now Playable On Linux - Phoronix

Valve and CodeWeavers today announced the much anticipated beta release of Proton 10.0 as the newest version of their downstream version of Wine th...

Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2 Introduced last month in the Vulkan 1.4.311 spec was VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for supporting BF16 types within SPIR-V shaders. Merged today for Mesa 25.2 is that BFloat16 support for Intel's open-source Vulkan Linux driver...

Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2 - Phoronix

Introduced last month in the Vulkan 1.4.311 spec was VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for supporting BF16 types within SPIR-V shaders