New story! Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.2 Released with Security Fixes, VoLTE Improvements

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.2 and 24.04-1.6 are out with certificate security fixes, VoLTE improvements, and AppArmor updates.

New story! Rockchip RK3668 Targets Edge AI with 44 TOPS NPU and PCIe 5.0

Rockchip’s upcoming RK3668 is a 6nm octa-core processor featuring six Arm Cortex-A725 cores, two Cortex-A520 cores, and a Mali-G2 Pro MC4 GPU. The SoC integrates a 44 TOPS NPU, LPDDR6 memory support, and high-speed interfaces including PCIe 5.0, SATA 3.1, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, targeting edge AI, networking, industrial automation, and multimedia systems. According to […]

New story! 539 MM Patches Merged For Linux 7.4 From Optimizations To More DAMON

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Oct 25, 2026 6:58 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Andrew Morton sent out the big set of memory management "MM" related patches for the Linux 7.4 merge window. This cycle it topped out at 539 total patches and a reviewed rate of 76%...

New story! systemd Officially Adds Rust Support for New Components

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 25, 2026 5:26 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
systemd introduces optional Rust support for new components, using Meson instead of Cargo while keeping its existing C architecture intact.

New story! SteamOS 3.9.5 Released With Linux 7.2 Kernel, KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop & Other Updates

On Friday Valve released SteamOS 3.9.5 as their first stable release in the SteamOS 3.9 series. This brings all the great improvements previously available in preview form with many package updates and other enhancements...

New story! WireGuard Easy 15.5 Adds AmneziaWG 3.1 Support, Security Fixes

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 25, 2026 2:23 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
WireGuard Easy 15.5 adds AmneziaWG 3.1 support, security fixes, configurable WireGuard interfaces, and improved proxy handling.

New story! GNU Linux-Libre 7.3 Kernel Released for Those Seeking 100% Freedom for Their PCs

The GNU Linux-libre project announced today the release and general availability of the GNU Linux-libre 7.3 kernel for those who seek 100% freedom for their GNU/Linux computers and software freedom lovers.

New story! Linux 7.4 Block Updates Range From Floppy Disk Driver Fixes To Apple M4 NVMe Support

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Oct 24, 2026 11:20 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
The Linux 7.4 block/storage and IO_uring updates were merged today for the ongoing merge window. With the breadth of Linux hardware support, the pull request varies from fixes to Linux's floppy driver to enabling support for NVMe storage on Apple M4 devices...

New story! Firefox 158.0.1 Is Out to Block Compromised eMudhra Intermediate Certificates

Mozilla released Firefox 158.0.1 today as an emergency update to the latest Firefox 158 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform web browser to address several issues.

New story! Meet Linksy, a KDE Connect Alternative with More Features

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 24, 2026 6:57 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Meet Linksy, an open-source KDE Connect alternative offering file sharing, clipboard sync, remote desktop access, and more for Linux and Android.

New story! systemd Merges Support For Rust Programs

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Oct 24, 2026 5:26 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
As of today in systemd Git it's now possible for the systemd programs to be written in the Rust programming language as an alternative to C...

New story! Fwupd 2.1.9 Linux Firmware Updater Released with New Features

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Oct 24, 2026 3:54 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
fwupd 2.1.9 has been released today as a new stable update in the fwupd 2.1 series of this open-source project for updating and managing the firmware of various hardware on your Linux distribution.

New story! Contour 0.8 Terminal Emulator Adds Command Blocks, Faster Rendering

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 24, 2026 2:23 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Contour 0.8 terminal emulator adds command history navigation, output folding, faster rendering, and improved shell integration.

New story! Linux's Early Boot-Time Physical Memory Allocator Sees Big Speed-Up: ~268s To ~50ms

Sent out today for the Linux 7.4 kernel were a set of memblock improvements. Most notable is a performance optimization within mm/memblock.c that implements the kernel's early boot-time physical memory allocator that is used prior to the bring-up of the full page allocator...

New story! OBS Studio 33.0 Released with Updated Browser Engine, Plugin Changes

OBS Studio 33.0 upgrades Chromium Embedded Framework, overhauls plugin loading, improves source snapping, and fixes Linux issues.

New story! How to Install and Use DevToys on Ubuntu 26.04 & Ubuntu 25.04

Learn how to install DevToys on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Kali Linux, and other Debian-based distributions using the distribution package.

New story! KDE Plasma 6.9 Stabilizes KWin's Wayland Picture-In-Picture Support

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Oct 24, 2026 8:15 AM EDT)
  • Groups: KDE; Story Type: News Story
With the wonderful KDE Plasma 6.8 having shipped just more than one week ago, KDE developers are beginning to go heavy on new features for Plasma 6.9...

New story! Tails 7.15.1 Privacy-Focused Linux Distro Released as Emergency Security Update

Tails 7.15.1 addresses compromised CA certificates that could allow attackers to impersonate HTTPS websites through malicious Tor exit nodes.

New story! Convertion F45 Server to Thin XFS LVM Provisioning with Libvirt-Hooks based on BTRFS-XFS Setup

Converting a server (such as a high-density virtualization platform) to Thin XFS LVM Provisioning with Libvirt-Hooks solves the fundamental performance bottlenecks and management complexities inherent in running virtual machines on top of a native or hybrid Btrfs storage architecture. This post was assisted by Google AI .

New story! HPFS Is The Latest File-System Slated For Removal On Linux

HPFS is the latest file-system driver for the Linux kernel facing removal. The High Performance File-System (HPFS) was developed by IBM and Microsoft for OS/2...

New story! Transmission 4.1.4 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Released with Various Fixes

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Oct 24, 2026 2:09 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Transmission 4.1.4 has been released today as the fourth maintenance update to the latest Transmission 4.1 series for this popular open-source BitTorrent client, a bugfix release that fixes various issues.

New story! Linux 7.4 Merges Slab Updates With A Nice Performance Improvement

The slab pull request was just merged for Linux 7.4. For end users nothing too incredibly exciting but there is one change that does yield a 24% throughput improvement in a benchmark exercising the kernel's memory management subsystem...

New story! How to Install Zsh (with Oh-My-Zsh) in Linux (Ultimate Guide)

The ZSH (or Z shell) can be said to be an extended version of the standard Bash shell interpreter, written by Paul Falstad in 1990 while studying at Princeton University.

New story! AI Helping To Improve Linux's AMD Zen CPU Microarchitecture Detection

A request for comments (RFC) was sent out last night on the Linux kernel mailing list in seeking to clean-up the AMD Zen microarchitecture detection within the kernel. This is for enhancing the kernel where there are code paths specific to a certain generation of AMD Zen processors or select generations such as Zen 3 through Zen 5 CPUs. AI was leveraged in helping to clean-up this AMD Zen code in the Linux kernel...

New story! Panther Lake Linux-ready SBC delivers 180 TOPS AI and 64GB RAM

LattePanda has announced the Sigma 2, an x86 single-board computer based on Intel’s Core Ultra X7 358H Panther Lake processor. The compact system combines up to 180 TOPS of AI performance with 64GB of LPDDR5X memory, dual 10GbE networking, and multiple expansion interfaces for local AI inference, robotics, and embedded computing applications. According to the […]

New story! Latest Steam Client Update Improves Support for Vulkan Games on Linux

Valve released a new stable Steam Client update today for all supported platforms with a few important changes and updates to improve the Vulkan game experience on Linux systems.

New story! Fedora 45 Hits A Second NO-GO: Not Releasing Until November

Fedora 45 wasn't released this week as its ideal early release target due to not having a release candidate build in time for last week's Go/No-Go meeting. At today's Go/No-Go meeting, Fedora 45 was delayed by at least one more week due to open blocker bugs...

New story! DietPi 10.8 Released with New Tool to Manage WireGuard Servers and Clients

DietPi 10.8 has been released today as a new stable version of this Linux distribution for single-board computers, adding support for new devices, new tools, and updates to DietPi-Software, DietPi-Network, and DietPi-Config.

New story! Best Linux App Launchers in 2026: 10 Tools Compared

  • LinuxStans.com; By Linux Stans (Posted by Feenta on Oct 22, 2026 8:52 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups
Your default Linux menu is slower than it needs to be. Compare Rofi, Ulauncher, Albert, KRunner, Vicinae and more, with pros, cons and a quick table.

New story! Snapdragon X2 Performance On Linux Exceeding Expectations In Initial Benchmarks

For your viewing pleasure today are the first Linux benchmarks of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme on Linux using the new Ubuntu 26.10 X1E Concept ISO for Snapdragon X laptop support on Linux. The Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme flagship SoC is tested within the ASUS Zenbook A16 UX3607OA laptop.

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