#foss am 2026-10-15

1. 00:19 <Freeman> LWN.net | [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 15, 2026 corbet · 15m ago Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: 2026 Maintainers Summit; Rust goals; GCC and LLMs; GCC CFI; systemd; C types in Rust; LTTng; Swap showdown; KDE Linux. Briefs: 64-day certificates; Nix and Lix security; Asterinas 0.19.0; LineageOS 24; KDE 6.8; Python 3.15; Quotes;... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and ... Read full story
2. 10:21 <Freeman> Phoronix | Microsoft Releases Microsoft Defender For The Linux Desktop Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read Microsoft's newest software release for Linux is.. Read full story
3. 10:50 <Freeman> Phoronix | GNOME Mutter Improves Damage Tracking For Secondary GPU Copy Buffers Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 3 min read As an early improvement to Mutter to look forward to with GNOME 52, the compositor is now tracking damage for secondary GPU copy buffers Read full story
4. 10:50 <Freeman> Phoronix | Huawei Proposes Enabling CPU Boost By Default For ACPI CPPC Linux Driver Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read For those using the generic ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) CPUFreq driver such as on a number of ARM64 Linux server platforms, if the CPUs support a 'boost' mode it's disabled by default Read full story
5. 11:10 <Tux> Linuxiac | Strata 1.0 Released, a New Linux File Manager Built for Omarchy Bobby Borisov · 14m ago · 2 min read Strata 1.0 is a new Rust-based Linux file manager designed for Omarchy, featuring GTK4, Miller columns, keyboard navigation, and secure previews. Read full story
6. 12:03 <Freeman> Phoronix | Ubuntu 26.10 Released With Linux 7.3 + GNOME 51, Rust Coreutils Migration Complete Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read Ubuntu 26.10 'Stonking Stingray' is now officially available as the newest six-month non-LTS update to Ubuntu Linux. Read full story
7. 12:31 <Freeman> It's FOSS | Epic Games Wants Linux Gamers. It's Rebuilding EAC For Fortnite Sourav Rudra · 1h ago · 4 min read The anti-cheat software is being prepared for the platform, while a native client is already available as a preview. Read full story
8. 13:00 <Tux> Linuxiac | Ubuntu 26.10 Released with GNOME 51, Linux Kernel 7.3, and Rust Coreutils Bobby Borisov · 37m ago · 3 min read Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” is now available, featuring GNOME 51, Linux kernel 7.3, improved App Center, Rust-based coreutils, and nine months of support. Read full story
9. 13:00 <Tux> Linuxiac | Epic Games Confirms Fortnite Is Coming to Linux with New Easy Anti-Cheat Bobby Borisov · 5m ago · 2 min read Epic Games confirms Fortnite is coming to Linux, with a new Easy Anti-Cheat system designed to improve cheat protection on the platform. Read full story
10. 13:02 <Tux> OMG! Ubuntu | Ubuntu 26.10 released – here's what's new Joey Sneddon · 16m ago · 10 min read Ubuntu 26.10 has been released with a faster way to tile windows, passkey sign-in on the login screen and a full set of Rust-based core utilities. The Read full story
11. 13:02 <Freeman> It's FOSS | FOSS Weekly #26.42: AI in Kernel, Ubuntu 26.10 Firefox Business, Mint Release Changes and More Linux Stuff Abhishek Prakash · 4m ago · 6 min read As Linus Torvalds embraces AI, it is time that we also pull our socks up and get on with local AI. Read full story
12. 13:02 <Freeman> LWN.net | Seven stable kernels for Thursday with fix for critical vulnerability jzb · 1m ago · 1 min read Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.11, 6.18.57, 6.12.113, 6.6.159, 6.1.190 [...] Read full story
13. 13:50 <Freeman> LWN.net | Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net] jzb · 40m ago · 4 min read Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (environment-modules, flatpak-builder, kernel, kernel-rt, librabbitmq, libreoffice, libsoup, mod_auth_openidc:2.3, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, OpenEXR, opentelemetry-collector, pki-core:10.6, postgresql:12, python-tornado, python36:3.6, ruby:3.3, tftp, and xorg-x11-server), Debian (buildstream, firefox-esr, mariadb... Read full story
14. 13:50 <Freeman> LWN.net | Ubuntu 26.10 released jzb · 31m ago · 1 min read Canonical has announced the release of Ubuntu 26.10 ('Stonking Stingray'): Ubuntu 26.10 advan [...] Read full story
15. 13:50 <Tux> Linuxiac | Libreboot 26.10 Adds UEFI Support, Expands Hardware Compatibility Bobby Borisov · 2m ago · 2 min read The open-source firmware project Libreboot 26.10 switches to EDK2, adds support for hundreds of Chromebooks, and improves modern OS compatibility. Read full story
16. 13:50 <Freeman> LWN.net | KDE releases documentary jzb · 25m ago · 1 min read As part of KDE's 30th anniversary celebration, the project has released The KDE Documentary &md [...] Read full story
17. 14:21 <Tux> Linuxiac | Noctalia 5.3 Wayland Shell Released with Redesigned App Launcher Bobby Borisov · 6m ago · 2 min read Noctalia 5.3 introduces a redesigned app launcher, expanded bar and dock customization, lock screen improvements, and numerous bug fixes. Read full story
18. 15:23 <Freeman> LWN.net | [$] Vendor hooks in the Android kernel corbet · 14m ago · 1 min read Since Android's inception, the kernels it has used have diverged significantly from the mainline. While many of those differences have been resolved over time, and the move to the generic kernel image has helped to bring Android closer, current devices still carry a lot of out-of-tree changes. The preferred form for such changes is by way of vendor hooks.... Read full story
19. 15:23 <Freeman> Phoronix | Claude Code / AI Shows Potential For Reverse-Engineering Hardware For Linux Support Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read AI/LLMs like Claude Code are beginning to prove capable of helping to reverse engineer hardware for Linux support, especially when it comes to the tedious reverse engineering tasks. Read full story
20. 15:23 <Freeman> Phoronix | 3mdeb Releases Updated Dasharo/Coreboot Firmware For ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read 3mdeb firmware engineers have been quite busy this year working on porting Coreboot and openSIL to an AMD Ryzen AM5 MSI motherboard and similarly getting openSIL and Coreboot up and running on a Gigabyte server motherboard for AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs Read full story
21. 15:55 <Freeman> It's FOSS | Big Tech Funded a €115 Billion Warning Against Europe’s Digital Independence Sourav Rudra · 1h ago · 3 min read Amazon, Google, and Meta funded the study through their lobby group CCIA Europe. The EU Commission's own estimate? €18 billion. Six times less. Read full story
22. 15:55 <Freeman> It's FOSS | Ubuntu 26.10 Has Come Out as a Rust-Packed Interim Release Sourav Rudra · 1h ago · 3 min read It ships with Linux 7.3, GNOME 51, an improved App Center, and many other upgrades. Read full story
23. 18:19 <Freeman> Phoronix | Memtest86+ v9.00 Released With Support For ARM64 Memory Testing Michael Larabel · 4h ago The open-source Memtest86+ program that is popular for RAM testing has expanded beyond the x86/x86_64 (and LoongArch64) world to now support memory testing on ARM64/AArch64 hardware... Read full story
24. 18:51 <Tux> Linuxiac | Forgejo 17.0 Dev Platform Released with Improved Actions, Git LFS Support Bobby Borisov · 26m ago · 2 min read Forgejo 17.0 is out with improved CI/CD workflows, enhanced Git LFS management, donation buttons, and expanded repository migration support. Read full story
25. 19:20 <Freeman> Phoronix | LPDDR5 5467 vs. 6400 vs. 7467 MT/s Memory Performance Benchmarks For Laptops Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read With the recently reviewed Star Labs StarFighter Ultra Linux laptop its BIOS allows for configurable memory speeds unlike many other laptop vendor BIOS implementations these days. Read full story
26. 21:22 <Freeman> Phoronix | Intel Nova Lake S & Nova Lake P To Support SR-IOV With Xe Graphics Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read A patch has been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list by an Intel engineer confirming that Nova Lake S and Nova Lake P processors with integrated graphics will support SR-IOV in conjunction with the Xe kernel graphics driver. Read full story
27. 22:22 <Freeman> Phoronix | Today's Steam Beta Makes The Linux Client A 64-bit App Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read Valve just dropped a new Steam client beta and it's a big one for Linux gamers. Read full story

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