#foss on 2026-10-06

1. 00:55 <Freeman> Phoronix | TrueNAS 27 RC.1 Released: Linux 6.18 LTS + OpenZFS 2.4 Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read TrueNAS 27 RC.1 released today in working toward the next major release of this Linux-based storage/NAS operating system from iXsystems. Read full story
2. 04:29 <Tux> OMG! Ubuntu | Firefox GNOME theme updated to work with Nova Joey Sneddon · 2m ago · 1 min read The unofficial GNOME theme for Firefox has been updated to work with the Firefox 157 release and its newer, rounder Nova theme. It is not a traditional Read full story
3. 08:57 <Tux> Linuxiac | LibreSSL 4.3.3 Released with OCSP Authorization Bypass Fix Bobby Borisov · 8m ago · 1 min read LibreSSL 4.3.3 addresses an OCSP responder authorization bypass, several DTLS issues, and improves portability across macOS and Windows. Read full story
4. 09:26 <Tux> Linuxiac | Raspberry Pi OS October 2026 Update Gets Better Dock Handling and Many Fixes Bobby Borisov · 15m ago · 2 min read Raspberry Pi OS receives a broad desktop-focused update with Linux 6.18.50, Control Centre improvements, refreshed icons, and numerous stability fixes. Read full story
5. 09:56 <Freeman> Phoronix | YSERVER 1.7 Rust X11 Server Narrows Memory Usage Difference With X.Org Server Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read YSERVER continues seeing a lot of activity for this vibe coded X11 server written in the Rust programming language Read full story
6. 10:27 <Freeman> Phoronix | Intel Compiler Engineer Shares Latest Project Gains For APX Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read Last week at the GNU Tools Cauldron 2026 conference in Prague there was an x86 BOF with presentations both by AMD and Intel compiler engineers Read full story
7. 10:27 <Freeman> Phoronix | Windows Subsystem For Linux Can Now Run On Very Large Servers, Experimental Sparse VHD Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read Microsoft yesterday released WSL 3.0.2 as their latest WSL update since last week's WSL3 release with 'WSLC' for promoting Linux containers on Windows to general availability Read full story
8. 10:27 <Freeman> Phoronix | Meta Developing Compressed RAM "CRAM" For Linux: Better Than ZRAM & Zswap Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read With today's memory shortages, high prices, and ever increasing memory capacity needs, Meta engineers have been working on Compressed RAM 'CRAM' for Linux Read full story
9. 11:29 <Tux> Linuxiac | aerynOS Adds Budgie 10.10.3 for Testing, Updates COSMIC to 1.9 Bobby Borisov · 25m ago · 1 min read The aerynOS October update brings Budgie 10.10.3, COSMIC 1.9.0, Linux kernel 7.2.8, Qt 6.12, OpenSSL 4.0.3, and new system tools. Read full story
10. 12:25 <Freeman> Phoronix | Blender 6.0 May End Up Removing OpenGL Support Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read With Blender 5.0 having nice Vulkan API support that's now grown mature, Blender developers are contemplating on potentially removing OpenGL support in Blender 6.0. Read full story
11. 13:21 <Freeman> LWN.net | Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net] jzb · 9m ago · 8 min read Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gd, gimp, kernel, kernel-rt, libpcap, librabbitmq, mariadb-connector-c, osbuild-composer, ruby:2.5, and sudo), Debian (libmodule-cpants-analyse-perl, libpng1.6, libreoffice, roundcube, ruby-oauth2, and sabnzbdplus), Fedora (0install, alt-ergo, apron, brltty, chromium, coccinelle, cri-o1.36, emacs-common-tuar... Read full story
12. 13:27 <Freeman> Phoronix | The Importance Of Intel's LPMD For Linux Gaming Performance & Power Efficiency Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read Intel's LPMD project as the Low Power Mode Daemon for modern Intel Core Ultra desktops and laptops is quite important for achieving peak performance and optimal power efficiency Read full story
13. 13:51 <Freeman> LWN.net | OpenSSH 10.6 released jzb · 8m ago · 1 min read Version 10.6 of OpenSSH has been released. The announcement notes that the OpenSSH team has bee [...] Read full story
14. 13:51 <Freeman> LWN.net | [$] Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package jzb · 6m ago · 1 min read Chromium, the open-source upstream project for Google's Chrome web browser, is the browser of choice for many Linux users. It has also gained a reputation as being difficult for Linux distributions to package and build: Chromium has a complex build system, the project bundles many of its dependencies, and it has frequent releases. All of that, plus user c... Read full story
15. 13:58 <Freeman> Phoronix | IBM & Red Hat Find More Than 400 New Vulnerabilities In Popular Java Code Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read IBM and Red Hat announced today they have identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities across popular Java libraries. Read full story
16. 14:30 <Freeman> Phoronix | Vulkan API Improvements Coming For The AMD Polaris GPUs With Mesa RADV Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team has done an incredible job improving older AMD GPU support under Linux with migrating GCN 1.0/1.1 era hardware to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver and an assortment of other improvements for various older Radeon GPUs Read full story
17. 15:33 <Freeman> LWN.net | [$] Python's two modules for random numbers jake · 31m ago · 1 min read Python's random and secrets modules both include utilities for obtaining random values, but only one of them is suitable for generating passwords and security tokens. For much of Python's history, random was used for passwords and tokens anyway, despite documentation that called it unsuitable for cryptography. In 2015, Python's core team debated whether t... Read full story
18. 15:34 <Tux> OMG! Ubuntu | Scrcpy now supports hardware decoding Joey Sneddon · 10m ago · 1 min read Scrcpy, the open-source tool for viewing your Android phone on your desktop, has gained support for zero-copy hardware decoding in its latest release. The Read full story
19. 15:35 <Tux> Linuxiac | OpenSSH 10.6 Released with Security Hardening, Post-Quantum Support Bobby Borisov · 14m ago · 1 min read OpenSSH 10.6 is out with security fixes, the new hybrid post-quantum ssh-mldsa44-ed25519 algorithm, and several new SSH and SFTP features. Read full story
20. 16:34 <Freeman> Phoronix | NVIDIA Vera HPC Performance Benchmarks Take On AMD EPYC, Intel Xeon Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read While most everyone understandably likes to talk about AI these days, one of the areas of NVIDIA's Vera CPU I have been most eager to test has been for conventional high performance computing (HPC) workloads. Read full story
21. 16:37 <Tux> Linuxiac | Ubuntu 26.10 Will Bring Rust Coreutils, OpenSSL 4.0, and a Slimmer GRUB Bobby Borisov · 18m ago · 3 min read Ubuntu 26.10, due on October 15, is set to bring Rust-based coreutils, OpenSSL 4.0, post-quantum cryptography, slimmer GRUB, and Linux 7.3. Read full story
22. 18:58 <Freeman> It's FOSS | Red Hat's Lightwell Doesn't Wait for Upstream Maintainers to Act Sourav Rudra · 2h ago · 3 min read A status update shows it clearing 400 vulnerabilities from Java libraries and a key service now being generally available. Read full story
23. 18:59 <Freeman> Phoronix | Meta Engineer's Linux Patches For Boosting AMD P-State / Steam Deck Gaming Performance Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read Back in July I wrote about AMD P-State driver patches boosting 1%-low frame rates for gaming by as much as 31% Read full story
24. 21:14 <Freeman> Phoronix | Canonical Reaffirms Plans For Ubuntu 27.04 To Use ntpd-rs By Default Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read Back in March Canonical announced switching to ntpd-rs was its next target as part of transitioning more Ubuntu Linux system components to Rust-based implementations Read full story
25. 22:41 <Tux> Linuxiac | RTIPC Brings Near-Zero-Overhead Inter-Process Communication to Linux Bobby Borisov · 15m ago · 2 min read RTIPC is a new Linux IPC library combining shared memory with wait-free queues for deterministic, near-zero-overhead communication in hard real-time workloads. Read full story

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