Thursday December 4, 2025

Linux Users of Central Illinois

The Linux Users Group of Springfield, Illinois and the surrounding area.

Some other users groups in the area:
Chicagoland Linux Users Group

Unix Hobbyists', Administrators' & Coders' Club

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Meeting Info:

Meetings of the Linux Users of Central Illinois are the 4^th Tuesday of every month from 7 PM to 9 PM at the Springfield MakerSpace in Springfield, IL. (The Springfield MakerSpace is located at 1227 S. Pasfield Street. Follow the link for a map and driving directions.)

The next LUCI meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, December 23, 2025.

In addition to the regular meeting, there is also a special Newbie Night, intended for new Linux users, on the second Tuesday of every month at the same time and location as the regular meetings.

The next Newbie Night is scheduled for Tuesday, December 9, 2025.

News from around the web:

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* Russian Astronaut Kicked Out of the US For Stealing Proprietary SpaceX Designs
* Valve Reveals Its the Architect Behind a Push To Bring Windows Games To Arm
* AT&T and Verizon Are Fighting Back Against T-Mobile's Easy Switch Tool
* OpenAI Loses Fight To Keep ChatGPT Logs Secret In Copyright Case
* White House Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards
* The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library
* After AI Push, Trump Administration Is Now Looking To Robots
* After Nearly 30 Years, Crucial Will Stop Selling RAM To Consumers
* HBO Max Botches Mad Men's 4K Debut After Streaming Wrong File Showing Visible Crewmembers
* YouTube Releases Its First-Ever Recap of Videos You've Watched
* India Pulls Its Preinstalled iPhone App Demand
* Windows 11 Growth Slows As Millions Stick With Windows 10
* Microsoft Lowers AI Software Sales Quota As Customers Resist New Products

* Linux 6.19 Fixes A Thundering Herd Problem For Big NUMA Servers
* Zlib-rs 0.5.3 Expands AVX-512 Usage For Faster Performance
* Linux 6.19 Will Allow Enforcing IPE Security Checks On Indirectly Executed Scripts
* Mesa 25.3.1 Released With Initial Set Of Fixes, Mesa 25.2 Comes To An End
* EXT4 Optimizes Online Defragmentation, Improves Performance & Larger Block Sizes
* ReactOS Lands Improvements For Its USB Stack - Fixing Various Blue Screens of Death
* Linux 6.19 Goes Ahead And Enables Microsoft C Extensions Support
* Sched_EXT With Linux 6.19 Improves Recovering For Misbehaving eBPF Schedulers
* Alpine Linux 3.23 Released With APK Tools v3 For Package Management
* Intel's Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Delivered Significant Improvements In 2025
* Fedora 44 Cleared To Replace Kernel Console With User-Space KMSCON
* Linux 6.18 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel
* Microsoft ACPI Fan Extensions & Configurable Hibernation Threads For Linux 6.19
* LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha 1 Released For Testing
* Sound Open Firmware 2.14 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake & Nova Lake Support
* Scoped User Access In Linux 6.19 To Reduce Speculation Barriers & Its Performance Hit
* AES-GCM Optimizations Land In Linux 6.19 - Benefiting AMD Zen 3, AVX-512 CPUs Too
* X.Org Server's xkbcomp Updated For Four Security Issues Dating Back Years
* Intel LASS, SGX EUPDATESVN & Microcode Staging Features Land In Linux 6.19
* AMD Zen 6 RAS Preparation, AMD SDCI Features Merged For Linux 6.19
* 3mdeb Ports Their Dasharo Firmware To A Recent ASRock Rack Motherboard
* Important Performance Work: Overhaul Of RSEQ & CID Management Merged For Linux 6.19
* Linux 6.19 Merges "klp-build" As New Livepatch Module Generation Solution
* TornadoVM 2.0 Released For Java On NVIDIA PTX, OpenCL & SPIR-V Devices
* Linux 6.19 To Allow File-Systems To Increase The Writeback Chunk Size
* NVIDIA 590.44.01 Beta Linux Driver Released With Wayland Improvements
* Canonical Now Offering Ubuntu Pro For WSL
* openSUSE Begins Rolling Out Intel NPU Support
* Optimized NUMA Distances For Intel GNR & CWF, Other Scheduler Improvements In Linux 6.19
* Kernel Credential Guards Merged For Linux 6.19
* Steam On Linux Use Easily Hits An All-Time High In November
* Open-Source Nouveau+NVK vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Gaming/Graphics & Compute Driver Performance

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