QEMU May Relax Its Ban on AI-Generated Contributions
QEMU is considering limited acceptance of AI-assisted patches, covering tests, documentation, mechanical changes, and small bug fixes.
Linux Foundation Destroys the Identity and History of Linux
An associate who participated in Groklaw says the trouble - however subtle - began when the LF kicked out the community representatives. Then Microsoft quickly took over the Foundation and promoted Windows as "Linux" (WSL). The LF would then attack the GPL, too. It was meant to guard the licence of Linux (GPL). It would instead attack GPL defenders and protect violators.
Fedora 45 Considering Use Of PURL Metadata For Uniquely Identifying Software Packages
One of the Fedora 45 change proposals under consideration at the moment is making adding PURL "Package-URL" to Fedora's package metadata for simplifying the mapping between upstream projects and Fedora packages...
Installing Fedora Linux Across Two Disks
Here's how to set up partitions on a second disk so you can make the most out of your storage.
AI Found 3,900 Critical Open Source Bugs. IBM Is Paying $5 Billion to Fix Them
40,000 CVEs published in 2024. 59,000 projected by 2026. IBM and Red Hat think they have a $5 billion answer to the open source security crisis. Here is what they are actually building.
CIFSwitch Vulnerability Exposes Some Linux Distros to Local Root Access
The flaw affects the boundary between the Linux CIFS client and cifs-utils, allowing local root access on some systems.
Linux 7.2's Open-Source Nouveau Driver To Finally Support The NVIDIA GA100
Sent out today was the last drm-misc-next pull request ahead of the Linux 7.2 merge window getting underway in June. As part of this last batch of small Direct Rendering Manager graphics/accelerator driver changes is finally enabling the NVIDIA GA100 within the Nouveau driver...
Linux’s exFAT Progs 1.4 Released with Partition Table Creation Support
Exfatprogs (exFAT Progs) 1.4 exFAT filesystem userspace utilities for Linux has been released today with improvements and new features for the mkfs.exfat, fsck.exfat, and exfatprogs programs.
Intel Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 Linux Gaming Performance
In recent weeks we have been exploring different areas of the Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics performance on Linux from various OpenCL and Vulkan to Level Zero compute benchmarks, scaling up to four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards, comparing to NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell, and other relevant tests. While not intended for gaming, many Phoronix readers keep raising requests for seeing the Arc Pro B70 performance for Linux gaming given the lack of any consumer BMG-G31 GPU. So for those curious, here is a look at the Linux gaming performance with the Arc Pro B70 graphics card.
Arm Announces Metis: Agentic AI Security Framework
Arm today announced the open-sourcing of Metis, an agentic AI security framework that delivers context AI-powered security analysis in looking out for software vulnerabilities...
QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions
The QEMU processor emulator that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack had a policy that forbid any contributions including or derived from AI-generated content. But there are now second thoughts with a proposed patch that will permit AI/LLM contributions in non-critical areas...
Rust 1.96 Introduces New Copy-Friendly Range Types
Rust 1.96 lands with new core range types, stabilized assert matching macros, WebAssembly linker changes, and Cargo security fixes.
Rocky Linux 9.8 Is Now Available for Download
Rocky Linux 9.8 is now available with OpenSSH 9.9, GnuTLS 3.8.10, GCC Toolset 15, LLVM 21.1.8, and updated images.
California Almost Killed Linux, Then Someone Actually Read the Code
California almost forced every OS to track user ages. Then someone realized that would kill Linux servers. Here’s how open-source might escape the surveillance state
Calibre 9.9 E-Book Manager Updates and Improves the WolneLektury Store
Kovid Goyal released Calibre 9.9 today as the latest stable version of this open-source and free e-book management software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.
Intel Arc G-Series Processors Announced For Handheld Gaming Devices
Ahead of Computex, Intel today announced the introduction of the Arc G-Series. While taking on the "Arc" branding, this isn't a new graphics card from Intel but rather their new processors with integrated graphics for handheld gaming devices...
IBM and Red Hat Launch $5B Open Source Security Project
IBM and Red Hat announce Project Lightwell, a $5 billion effort to secure open-source software supply chains with AI-assisted engineering.
California's Age Verification Law May End Up Exempting Most Linux Distributions
While not as good as repealing AB 1043 outright for requiring operating system providers to ask for a user's age or birth date at device setup, open-source Linux distributions and other open-source OSes may end up seeing some reprieve before this law goes into effect at the start of 2027...
Sway 1.12 Wayland Compositor Released with HDR10 Support via Vulkan Renderer
Sway 1.12 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source i3-compatible Wayland compositor for Linux-based operating systems that introduces several new features and improvements.
Ubuntu Gets Workshop for Reproducible Development Environment
Canonical’s Workshop lets developers define Ubuntu dev environments in YAML and reproduce them across machines with a single command.
Cache Aware Scheduling Shows Nice Wins For AMD Zen 5 On PostgreSQL, Valkey, Network Performance
The long-in-development work on Cache Aware Scheduling looks like it will come to a head soon with it looking like Cache Aware Scheduling will land for Linux 7.2. Ahead of the upcoming merge window I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at different areas where this feature is shining.
Latest Steam Client Update Improves Steam Controller Support on Linux
Valve released today a new stable Steam Client update that introduces more improvements for the new Steam Controller, especially for Linux users, as well as various other improvements and the usual bug fixes.
Mesa 26.0.8 Released To End Out The Series
Eric Engestrom announced the release of Mesa 26.0.8 today as the latest stable point release of that Q1'2026 driver series and the last planned update for that stable series...
Krita 6.0.2 Released as Qt 6 Build, 5.3.2 Remains Production Choice
Krita 6.0.2 digital painting app arrives with Qt 6 changes, while Krita 5.3.2 remains the recommended build for production work.
Ubuntu 26.10 Planning To Ship With The Linux 7.2 Kernel
Canonical's kernel team confirmed today their intention of shipping the Ubuntu 26.10 release with what will be the Linux 7.2 kernel...
The Quiet Clause That May Save Linux From Age-Verification Laws
As Colorado and California move age verification to the OS layer, exemptions for open source determine whether Linux desktops stay free of mandatory age-gating.
NVIDIA CUDA 13.3 Rolls Out CUDA Python 1.0, CUDA Tile For C++
NVIDIA on Tuesday released CUDA 13.3 as another significant advancement for their unified GPU programming stack for NVIDIA hardware...
LibreOffice Outlines New Web and Mobile Strategy
The Document Foundation details its plan for LibreOffice on the web and mobile, with WebAssembly, mobile GUI work, and collaboration tests.
Linux Driver To Expose Voltage Inputs For Raspberry Pi SBCs
The Raspberry Pi hardware monitoring driver "RASPBERRYPI-HWMON" is being extended to allow exposing voltage measurements on these ARM single board computers...
PeerTube 8.2 Video Platform Adds Channel Ownership Transfers
PeerTube 8.2 introduces channel ownership transfers, live stream catch-up support, Studio editing improvements, and admin updates.
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