#foss on 2026-10-14

1. 01:21 <Freeman> Phoronix | Mesa Expands NPU Capabilities With Support For YOLOX With PyTorch Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read While Mesa is predominantly used for GPU drivers, open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso continues advancing the capabilities of NPUs within the Mesa driver stack. Read full story
2. 05:20 <Freeman> It's FOSS | This Rust File Manager Was Designed for Omarchy, but Arch Users Can Run it Too Sourav Rudra · 1h ago · 3 min read Strata is a new offering that can open folders, preview images, and remember the sort order and icon size from previous sessions. Read full story
3. 08:24 <Tux> Linuxiac | Steam Client Update Improves Proton Support, Fixes Vulkan Issues on Linux Bobby Borisov · 9m ago · 2 min read Valve's latest Steam Client update improves Proton support for non-Steam games, fixes Vulkan issues, and introduces new Big Picture features. Read full story
4. 09:50 <Freeman> Phoronix | KDE Plasma 6.8 Released, Marks 30 Years Of The KDE Project Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read The feature-packed and polished Plasma 6.8 KDE desktop is now available Read full story
5. 10:20 <Freeman> Phoronix | Rustls 0.23.46 Released With Four Security Fixes Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read Rustls as the modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language with an emphasis on memory safety is out today with its v0.23.46 release in order to ship four new security fixes. Read full story
6. 10:20 <Freeman> Phoronix | Cloud Hypervisor 54 Released With Live Migration Improvements Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read Cloud Hypervisor, the Rust-based Virtual Machine Monitor that began as an Intel open-source project and evolved into a multi-vendor Linux Foundation project, is out today with a sizable feature update. Read full story
7. 10:25 <Tux> Linuxiac | KDE Plasma 6.8 Released, Drops X11 Sessions After 30 Years of KDE Bobby Borisov · 24m ago · 4 min read KDE Plasma 6.8 arrives on KDE's 30th anniversary, dropping native X11 sessions and improving Wayland, performance, HDR, and remote desktop. Read full story
8. 10:55 <Tux> Linuxiac | IPFire 2.29 Core Update 204 Fixes VPN DNS Issues, Updates Linux Kernel Bobby Borisov · 24m ago · 1 min read IPFire 2.29 Core Update 204 fixes VPN-related DNS resolution issues, updates the Linux kernel to 6.18.54, and refreshes key packages. Read full story
9. 11:52 <Freeman> Phoronix | BeOS-Inspired Haiku Landed More Hardware Improvements & Other Changes In September Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read Released at the end of August was Haiku R1 Beta 6 and over the course of September, further improvements continued to land for this BeOS-inspired project now in its 25th year of development. Read full story
10. 12:23 <Freeman> Phoronix | Linux Finally Making It Easier To Answer The Question: "Is This RISC-V System RVA23?" Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read The RISC-V RVA23 profile is a big deal for reducing fragmentation in the RISC-V ecosystem and standardizing more of the ISA to make it easier to distribute modern RISC-V binaries and the like Read full story
11. 13:21 <Freeman> LWN.net | Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net] jzb · 19m ago · 3 min read Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind9.18, dovecot, flatpak, gd, jackson-core, jackson-databind, jackson-jaxrs-providers, and jackson-modules-base, kernel, opentelemetry-collector, pcre2, and tftp), Debian (curl and keystone), Fedora (aegisub, arm-none-eabi-binutils-cs, avr-binutils, chromium, curl, firefox, kernel, python-jupytext, and xdg... Read full story
12. 13:21 <Freeman> LWN.net | [$] GCC development with large-language models corbet · 8m ago After much deliberation, the GCC project recently came up with a policy on the use of large language models for development of the compiler suite. It is somewhat restrictive, but still leaves room for LLMs in the development process. At the 2026 GNU Tools Cauldron, Jeff Law and Kyrill Tkachov discussed how these tools have been useful for them. Read full story
13. 13:22 <Freeman> Phoronix | HP EliteBook 6 G1q Powered By Snapdragon X1 Plus Sees Linux Patches Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read Canonical engineer Juerg Haefliger posted a set of Device Tree patches in working to support the mainline Linux kernel on the HP EliteBook 6 G1q laptop that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Plus SoC... Read full story
14. 13:52 <Freeman> LWN.net | KDE Plasma 6.8 released jzb · 11m ago · 1 min read Version 6.8 of the KDE Plasma desktop has been released. The The KDE project has timed the rele [...] Read full story
15. 13:52 <Freeman> LWN.net | Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series corbet · 2m ago · 1 min read At the recently concluded Maintainers Summit, Linus Torvalds said that he had been using a larg [...] Read full story
16. 14:18 <Freeman> It's FOSS | Linux Mint 23 is No More. A New Release Takes its Place Sourav Rudra · 31m ago · 3 min read The new one, Linux Mint 27 "Adrien," is due Christmas with an Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base. Read full story
17. 14:21 <Freeman> LWN.net | [$] Collaborating with out-of-tree tracers jake · 25m ago · 1 min read LTTng creator Mathieu Desnoyers seems a bit trapped in something of a catch-22. At the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC), he led a discussion on the problem he is having in trying to collaborate with other tracing projects (e.g. ftrace, perf ) in the kernel. The feedback he has gotten, both over the years and more recently, does not show a path that wo... Read full story
18. 14:22 <Freeman> Phoronix | Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Packages Provide Some Additional Uplift On AMD EPYC Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read In addition to Ubuntu 26.10 itself delivering some nice performance gains on Ubuntu 26.10 for AMD EPYC servers and other hardware, the optional and currently-unofficial amd64v3 package archive also provides additional performance uplift. Read full story
19. 14:45 <Tux> OMG! Ubuntu | KDE Plasma 6.8 released to celebrate 30 years of project Joey Sneddon · 12m ago · 1 min read KDE Plasma 6.8 has been released, arriving on the 30th anniversary of the free, open-source desktop environment's founding. Changes are, as you'd expect, Read full story
20. 15:50 <Freeman> It's FOSS | Local AI Weekly #5: AI Gets a Desk Job Abhishek Prakash · 49m ago · 5 min read Agents are moving into office suites, and Big Tech wants them in all your work apps. Check out the latest Local AI Weekly newsletter. Read full story
21. 16:21 <Freeman> Phoronix | Epic Games To Improve Easy Anti-Cheat On Linux With Anti-Cheat Systemd Service & eBPF Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read In addition to Epic Games announced a preview of their new Epic Games Launcher, including Linux support, they also announced plans to improve their Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) software on Linux Read full story
22. 17:15 <Tux> Linuxiac | Fastfetch 2.70 System Information Tool Released with Linux and Android Improvements Bobby Borisov · 45m ago · 2 min read Fastfetch 2.70 arrives with better Android support, improved Linux audio detection, fewer dependencies, and bug fixes across platforms. Read full story
23. 17:43 <Freeman> It's FOSS | Mandrake Linux’s Creator Has Built an Office Suite Using AI Sourav Rudra · 31m ago · 5 min read ElixirOffice is a new suite based on Euro-Office components and developed using AI. Read full story
24. 18:33 <Tux> Linux Journal | Building a Reliable Event-Driven Payment Service With XRP Ledger Emma Clapp · 1d ago · 7 min read by Emma Clapp Receiving a transaction notification is only the first step. Production software still has to decide whether that event is safe to turn into application state. A WebSocket callback can arrive in milliseconds. What happens afterward is harder. The XRP Price may be the public-facing metric most people associate with the asset, but developers i... Read full story
25. 19:05 <Freeman> Phoronix | Apple Contributes SSAF Driver To LLVM Clang For Source Code Transformations Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read Apple compiler engineers have contributed to upstream LLVM/Clang today a Scalable Static Analysis Framework (SSAF) driver for whole-program based analysis and source-to-source code transformations. Read full story
26. 19:35 <Freeman> Phoronix | Framework Computers Triples Their Financial Support To CachyOS Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read In addition to providing Framework systems to the CachyOS Linux distribution for optimizing the support, Framework Computers has also been providing monthly donations to the project Read full story
27. 21:05 <Freeman> It's FOSS | A Joint Venture of Open Source Proportions! Open Productivity is Here Sourav Rudra · 53m ago · 3 min read The vendors behind the openDesk office suite have formed a company to take it beyond public administration and into commercial use. Read full story

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