Linux Magazine May 2026

Dear Reader, We are all accustomed to rapid evolution of the high-tech space, and I’m one of many journalists who have made a career out of talking about it. Computers were an important accessory when I first started doing this, then they became a necessary accessory, and then, for many industries, the server room became the centerpiece for everything – everything else was an accessory as long as the servers kept churning. That was a while ago. Over the past several years, corporations have been dusting out those old server rooms, committing the space to other purposes, and sending their data to the cloud. One important factor in the rapid growth of the cloud has been cost savings. Save the space; save the staff; slash the electric bill – let…

In a post on LinkedIn, the United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology said, “The portal connects projects, people, and resources, enabling agencies to share best practices while engaging with the global open source community. By promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing, it supports innovation and stronger digital solutions for global challenges.” The leading page of Open Source Portal (https://opensource.un.org/en) makes it clear that the goal is to “coordinate and scale open source efforts across the United Nations system.” The goals of the portal are threefold: Support collaboration between all agencies, share open source tools to reduce duplication, and align with open standards and best practices. You can also view the repository for all groups currently associated with the Open Source Portal (https://opensource.unicc.org/explore/groups). Currently, there is only one project lined…

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, isn’t exactly happy that there are so many changes coming to a single release candidate (RC) of the open source kernel. The problem is that, generally speaking, RC releases don’t tend to receive new features, but that’s not the case here. Torvalds believes this current release cycle is “busier than he’d like.” On that, he said in a kernel.org post (http://kernel.org/), “admittedly one reason I don’t worry too much is that a rather big portion of rc3 is selftests (almost a fifth of the patch), and nothing in the rest really looks particularly scary. Many of the commits in here are trivial – small cleanups or adding hardware IDs or quirks, etc.” Torvalds adds, “There’s just more commits than is the norm at this…

Uri Herrera, the developer of Nitrux, announced (https://nxos.org/changelog/release-announcement-nitrux-6-0-0/) that version 6.0 has been released for general availability. This latest iteration includes a number of important updates that should encourage users to update and non-users to get curious. Of this release, Herrera said, “Nitrux 6.0.0 continues our uncompromising vision of a Linux workstation. We do not design software to coddle legacy habits or emulate other operating systems.” Herrera continues, “We engineer for the enthusiast who demands complete leverage over their hardware and understands that true stability comes from a rigidly defined, immutable core.” The first change is the kernel, which is now at version 6.19. The Nitrux kernel happens to include the CachyOS patches, which include performance optimizations, CPU enhancements, filesystem and memory improvements, and wide-ranging hardware support. Not to…

In a recently released report (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/contribution-roi), the Linux Foundation polled over 500 IT leaders and discovered that businesses working with open source software saw an ROI of up to 5x, whereas passive consumers were facing substantial hidden costs up to $3.5 million. According to the report, “Findings show that organizations spend hundreds of thousands of dollars maintaining private forks or developing internal workarounds, while those who choose to contribute upstream experience faster responses to security issues, increased development speeds, and easier talent retention.” It continues, “Reported benefit-to-cost ratios from OSS [open source software] contributions are 2-5x on average, and the model estimates that contributing organizations yield a 6x ROI from their investments.” The most important points in the report include that organizations see a 2-5x ROI on investments, including code…

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