New story! Three More X.Org Server & XWayland Security Vulnerabilities Made Public

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Oct 29, 2025 1:18 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative has uncovered three more security vulnerabilities affecting the X.Org Server and the derived XWayland source code...

New story! What's New in Fedora Workstation 43

Below are a few noteworthy changes in the latest release of Fedora Workstation that we think you will love. Upgrade today from the official website, or upgrade your existing install using GNOME Software or through the terminal with dnf system-upgrade. GNOME 49 Fedora Linux 43 Workstation also ships with the brand-new GNOME 49 release, bringing […]

New story! Tor Browser 15.0 Arrives Based on Firefox ESR 140

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 28, 2025 10:15 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Tor Browser 15.0 introduces vertical tabs, tab groups, and improved privacy tools based on the new Firefox ESR 140.

New story! Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20251021 Pulls In AppArmor & Other Updates

Microsoft today released Azure Linux 3.0.20251021 as the latest update to their in-house Linux distribution...

New story! Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Oct 28, 2025 7:12 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Oracle; Story Type: News Story
100,000 Blackwell GPUs and 2,200 exaFLOPs make for a big system The US Department of Energy is partnering with Nvidia and Oracle to build seven new AI supercomputers to accelerate scientific research and develop agentic AI for discovery. Two of these systems, located at Argonne National Laboratory, will together form the DOE's largest AI supercomputing infrastructure.…

New story! How To Upgrade To Fedora 43 From Fedora 42 Step-by-Step Guide

Fedora 43 is released today! If you already using Fedora 42, you can safely upgrade your Fedora 42 system to the Fedora 43 version using the DNF system upgrade plugin.

New story! Fedora 43 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Fedora Linux 43 lands with Wayland-only GNOME, RPM 6.0, Python 3.14, DNF5-powered installer, and an upgraded GNU Toolchain with GCC 15.2 and glibc 2.42.

New story! What is Root Account in Linux

The root account, or root user, has the highest privilege over the system, having complete control over it.

New story! Fedora Linux 43 is here!

I’m excited to announce my very first Fedora Linux release as the new Fedora Project Leader. Fedora Linux 43 is here! 43 releases! Wow that’s a lot. I was thinking about proposing special tetracontakaitrigon stickers to celebrate this release, but I’m not sure anyone would notice they weren’t circles. Thank you and congrats to everyone […]

New story! What's new in Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 43

Fedora has released Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition 43 to the public. The Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition is well suited for many needs.  It combines the reliable and trusted Fedora Linux base with the KDE Plasma Desktop environment.  It provides a selection of KDE applications that are simple by default, but powerful when needed. […]

New story! Solseek Brings a Fast, TUI-Based Package Manager to Solus Linux

The freshly released Solseek app gives Solus Linux users a fast, fzf-powered TUI for managing eopkg, Flatpak, and Snap.

New story! AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 Linux Performance For Single & Dual GPU Benchmarks

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Oct 28, 2025 10:04 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Today the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 is officially shipping as the company's new RDNA4-based offering designed for AI workloads and priced at $1299+ USD. The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 offers 32GB of GDDR6 video memory and features 128 AI accelerators and rated for 96 TFLOPs peak half-precision compute, up to 1531 TOPS INT4 sparse, and has a 300 Watt TDP. Here are the initial benchmarks of the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 under Linux with ROCm 7.0 and testing both in single and dual R9700 graphics card configurations.

New story! Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects government grant with strings attached

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Oct 28, 2025 8:32 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Python; Story Type: News Story
Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helped The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has walked away from a $1.5 million government grant and you can blame the Trump administration's war on woke for effectively weakening some open source security. …

New story! Ubuntu Unity In Need Of More Developers To Survive

The Ubuntu Unity community flavor of Ubuntu Linux built around the Unity desktop is in a difficult position and at risk for its survival given the lack of developers involved. A call-out has been made in seeking more community developers to contribute to Ubuntu Unity...

New story! How to Open Linux Terminal

Learn how to open and navigate Linux terminals effortlessly, including keyboard shortcuts and bonus tips for efficient command-line usage, in this comprehensive guide.

New story! OpenRazer 3.11 Released With Linux Driver Support For Newer Razer Devices

OpenRazer 3.11 is out as the newest version of these out-of-tree but open-source and community-maintained drivers for Razer devices on Linux. Plus OpenRazer also provides a user-space daemon for controlling Razer RGB lighting and other features. Paired with the likes of the Polychromatic app, OpenRazer makes for a pleasant Razer device experience for gamers and enthusiasts under Linux...

New story! Fast and Lightweight Linux Distros You Can Install In Virtual Machines

For the best Linux performance, check out these fastest and most lightweight Linux distributions you can run inside a virtual machine.

New story! You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training

Nations previously exempt from scraping now in the firing line If you thought living in Europe, Canada, or Hong Kong meant you were protected from having LinkedIn scrape your posts to train its AI, think again. You have a week to opt out before the Microsoft subsidiary assumes you're fine with it.…

New story! FreeBSD Celebrates The Milestone Of Reproducible Builds & No Root Needed

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Oct 27, 2025 11:23 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
A big focus for the FreeBSD 15.0 development was on supporting reproducible builds as has been a growing trend in the open-source ecosystem in recent years. One month out from the official FreeBSD 15.0 release, the FreeBSD project is today celebrating having crossed the milestone of being able to be built reproducibly and as well now building FreeBSD without requiring root privileges...

New story! nEMU 3.4 Ncurses-Based QEMU Frontend Released with VM Preview Feature

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 27, 2025 9:52 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
nEMU 3.4 arrives a year and a half after the previous release, introducing a VM preview feature, new config options, and improved QEMU integration.

New story! Python Software Foundation Withdraws $1.5M U.S. Government Grant Over DEI Restrictions

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 27, 2025 8:20 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Python’s governing body drops a $1.5 M U.S. grant, saying the anti-DEI clause violates its mission and community spirit.

New story! Why KDE Linux Chose to Bet on Immutability Instead of Native Packages

KDE’s Nate Graham explains why KDE Linux bets on immutability for stability and simplicity, moving away from traditional package systems.

New story! AMD EPYC 9965 "Turin" 2P Performance Seeing Some Gains On Linux 6.18

Beyond packing many exciting new features and changes, Linux 6.18 is expected to become this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version. Assuming the Linux 6.18 LTS designation, this next kernel version will see lots of use in enterprise environments and thus recently carried out some AMD EPYC 9965 2P "Turin" benchmarks between Linux 6.17 stable and the Linux 6.18 development kernel state...

New story! Ubuntu Unity Project Faces Uncertain Future

Ubuntu Unity faces manpower shortages as lead dev Rudra has no time to maintain it, sparking a public call for help.

New story! OpenIndiana 2025.10 ISOs Available For Download

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Oct 27, 2025 2:14 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
OpenIndiana 2025.10 ISOs were published on Sunday as the newest half-year update to this Illumos (OpenSolaris) derived platform...

New story! AI Powers a Browser Renaissance — But Not for Open Source

Big names are pushing AI browsing as the future of the web, yet open source options are rare, leaving users to either weigh features against control and privacy… or fight back.

New story! Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 43 (Oct 20 – 26, 2025)

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 27, 2025 8:39 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Catch up on the latest Linux news: KDE Plasma 6.5, VirtualBox 7.2.4, Jellyfin 10.11, Uptime Kuma 2.0, Valkey 9.0, Canonical Academy, new NTFS Linux driver, Alma 10.1 adds Btrfs support, and more.

New story! MX Linux 25 Release Candidate Arrives with Various Improvements and Changes

The MX Linux team announced today the general availability of the Release Candidate (RC1) version of the upcoming MX Linux 25 distribution based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series.

New story! Debian Establishes Archive Operations Team, Licensing & New Packages Team

Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille announced today that their "FTP Master" team is being disbanded and instead establishing the Debian Archive Operations Team "Archive Team" and DFSG, Licensing & New Packages Team "DFSG Team" in its place...

New story! Arch Linux AUR Hit by Another DDoS Attack, Port 22 Access Disrupted

Ongoing DDoS attacks push Arch Linux to activate AUR protection, which currently disrupts SSH on port 22.

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