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The Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem changes were merged today for the Linux 7.4 kernel. The fun work this cycle is preparing to support Dynamic Capacity Devices…

We are inviting proposals for talks about “FOSS Office Software and Suites“. Office productivity software is one of the oldest and most interesting FOSS categories packed with developer interest. It is also an area where lots of new solutions are arriving with new desktop, web-based and mobile editors, as well

Amutable Foundations is a read-only, image-based system where every machine produces signed reports of its own state.

Open or closed AI isn’t a fringe question anymore; it’s a live policy debate, with real consequences for who gets to build, audit, and compete in the AI ecosystem. But as that debate plays out in Washington, Brussels, and beyond, the harder questions are still very much up for discussion. What does meaningful openness actually […]

The openSUSE Election Committee has announced the start of the 2026 openSUSE Board Election. Three Board seats are up for election, and all eligible openSUSE members are encouraged to take part. The openSUSE Board asked for the election to be completed by Dec. 1, 2026, as outlined in Board ticket…

SuperTuxKart has taken several online services offline, having pulled the server that powers them rather than risk it being exploited by PHP2shell. The open-source karting game is not alone in ‘pitting’ to patch, with Wikimedia, DeviantArt, government websites and many more taking various systems offline to harden against it. While offline, gamers can’t reset their online account passwords, check…

For those curious about the Snapdragon X1 Elite performance on the recently released Ubuntu 26.10 Concept X1E ISO, here are some benchmarks showing the performance relative to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS X1E state on the same hardware.

Christian Brauner has announced that he has merged support for writing leaf components of systemd in Rust. Rust will be used only for new leaf components, existing code is not being ported to Rust and nothing that other components depend on is written in Rust. Brauner said that the project would like to move forward with Rust support in core systemd, "but there are several blockers in Rust's…

Recreate the classic 8-bit computer on Raspberry Pi.

The EXT4 file-system changes were merged Sunday night for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window. The headline feature of EXT4 in this new kernel version is opt-in support for buffered IOmap usage that can lead to "significant" performance improvements for large writes...

When the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities went public on October 21, they put every PHP web application on the internet at risk. Here is what we have done to keep LXer safe for our readers, and the simple steps anyone running PHP on Linux can take today.

Linus Torvalds merged the "char/misc" changes for the Linux 7.4 kernel driver on Saturday. Most notable this cycle for char/misc is what's being removed: Google's C-written Binder driver has left the kernel with the Rust-based modern Binder driver ready to take for the role of being used by all future Android devices...

Powering the BeagleConnect QuadESC motor-control board, the BeagleConnect Torque is an open-source controller module developed by BeagleBoard.org for robotics, industrial control, and connected sensing applications. Based on Texas Instruments’ AM13E23019 microcontroller, it features a 200 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor, CAN FD connectivity, and expansion interfaces for custom embedded systems. Measuring just 25.4 × 38.1 mm […]

The Rust-based open-source operating system Redox OS had a very eventful September as they outlined in a status update published this weekend...

After nearly a decade in the Linux kernel's staging area and being worked on by many different kernel developer newcomers, the Realtek rtl8723bs was deleted from the staging area. This comes as Realtek rtl8723bs was added onto the more mature RTW88 driver in the Linux networking subsystem...

Following all the HID driver updates/additions in Linux 7.4, the input subsystem changes were merged this weekend for this new kernel version...

BeagleBoard.org has introduced the BeagleConnect QuadESC, an open-source four-channel brushless DC motor-control board for robotics, drones, and embedded applications. It integrates four three-phase power stages and the BeagleConnect Torque module, featuring a 200 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor, dedicated math acceleration, and a TinyEngine neural-network accelerator. The BeagleConnect QuadESC measures 60 × 48 mm and integrates […]

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE began the Linux 7.4 sound pull request by noting that "the AI flood continues" with there continuing to be a lot of new patches coming as a result of AI/LLM agents devising patches as well as uncovering new kernel bugs...

Prominent Wayland developer Simon Ser sent out a merge request today for introducing the new ext-transient-output protocol. With ext-transient-output, it's intent is for helping remoting software like VNC servers in a Wayland world...

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 […]