NixOS 26.05 “Yarara” is now available with systemd stage 1 by default, GNOME 50, Plasma 6.6, Linux kernel 6.18, and a major Nixpkgs refresh.

The core hack proposed by Google AI Assistant was Navigating the EFI layer. AI targeted the exact 3-line configuration stub (/boot/efi/EFI/debian/grub.cfg) that overrides the Btrfs default subvolume engine on Debian EFI installations. From my side it was integrating a native .path watcher framework precisely because a heavy, compiled inotifywait binary loses its structural handles during a subvolume swap and focus attention on sed substitutions @rootfs with @root_active in grub.cfg files and /etc/fstab.

Flathub now says apps with AI-generated or AI-assisted code, documentation, or other content are not allowed.

Canonical today released the first monthly snapshot of the Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" release...

Wine 11.10 is out with VKD3D 2.0, rewritten XPath support without libxml2, VBScript improvements, and 17 bug fixes.

Last week's collection of networking subsystem fixes for Linux 7.1 noted craziness continuing with no end in sight with a large pull request of fixes with many of them spurred on by AI/LLM coding agents. This week it's "significantly bigger" than prior kernel cycles for this late stage of kernel development due to this assistance of large language models...

Rocky Linux 10.2 has been released as a free alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 with post-quantum cryptography improvements, updated components, bug fixes, and other changes.

Wine 11.10 marks the latest bi-weekly development release of Wine for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

Canonical has published today the first snapshot ISO images of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 (codename Stonking Stingray) for early adopters, application developers, and general public testing.

Rocky Linux 10.2 is now available, bringing the latest RHEL-compatible enterprise Linux updates to the community, powered by Linux kernel 6.12.

QEMU is considering limited acceptance of AI-assisted patches, covering tests, documentation, mechanical changes, and small bug fixes.

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.

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...

Here's how to set up partitions on a second disk so you can make the most out of your storage.

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.

The flaw affects the boundary between the Linux CIFS client and cifs-utils, allowing local root access on some systems.

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...

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.

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 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...

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 lands with new core range types, stabilized assert matching macros, WebAssembly linker changes, and Cargo security fixes.

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 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

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.

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 announce Project Lightwell, a $5 billion effort to secure open-source software supply chains with AI-assisted engineering.

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 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.

Canonical’s Workshop lets developers define Ubuntu dev environments in YAML and reproduce them across machines with a single command.