00:22 <Tux> OMG! Ubuntu | Microsoft Defender for Linux desktops enters public preview Joey Sneddon · 12m ago · 2 min read Microsoft Defender is now available for Linux desktops. Shocked? In 2026, you shouldn't be. Microsoft's down with the penguins these days: there's a Linux Read full story

01:55 <Freeman> Phoronix | Fedora 45 Will Not Be Released Next Week Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read For those eager to run the pristine Fedora 45 media, you will need to wait at least one more week. Read full story

08:46 <Tux> Linuxiac | Shelly 3.1.7 Arch Linux Package Manager Adds New Zig-Based Engine Bobby Borisov · 27m ago · 2 min read Shelly 3.1.7 introduces RLPM, an independent Zig-based package management engine, alongside improvements to AUR builds, Flatpak permissions, and AppImage support. Read full story

08:57 <Freeman> Phoronix | Mesa's Zink Now Offers VA-API Video Acceleration Atop Vulkan Video Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read Merged today to Mesa 26.3 is initial video acceleration support for the generic Zink Gallium3D driver built atop the Vulkan APIs Read full story

09:27 <Freeman> Phoronix | Intel LLM-Scaler-vLLM PV 1.5 Brings Big Improvements Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read Intel software engineers today released the latest version of LLM-Scaler-vLLM PV 1.5, their containerized Docker stack providing a convenient AI/LLM experience atop Intel Arc Graphics hardware and born out of their Project Battlematrix initiative. Read full story

09:27 <Freeman> Phoronix | Linux 7.3 Squeezes Even More Performance Out Of The AMD Threadripper PRO 9995WX Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read With the Linux 7.3 kernel due out for release on Sunday, I've continued running more benchmarks recently of this forthcoming kernel version and it looks great Read full story

10:24 <Freeman> Phoronix | Linux 7.4 To Enable Intel Instruction Timeout For Fending Off TDX VM DoS Attacks Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read Linux 7.4 is enabling support for a new Intel CPU feature for providing safety against possible denial of service attacks using Trust Domain Extensions 'TDX' VMs Read full story

10:55 <Freeman> Phoronix | AI Resurrects AVX-512 Support For Mesa's LLVMpipe Software Driver Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read With pending code for Mesa, the LLVMpipe software-based Gallium3D/OpenGL driver could soon become faster on modern systems that support AVX-512 Read full story

11:16 <Tux> Linuxiac | Linus Torvalds Rejects AI Coding Bans as Linux Rethinks Disclosure Rules Bobby Borisov · 30m ago · 2 min read Linus Torvalds opposes banning AI coding tools while Linux kernel developers propose dropping the Assisted-by disclosure requirement. Read full story

11:46 <Freeman> It's FOSS | Valve’s Steam Client for Linux Goes 64-bit Sourav Rudra · 25m ago · 3 min read They say running Steam in the same kind of container its games use should make the client behave more consistently. Read full story

13:36 <Freeman> Phoronix | Fedora 46 Looking At Moving To RPM v6 Package Format Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read The RPM v4 packaging format has been used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora and its derivatives for more than two decades Read full story

13:36 <Freeman> Phoronix | AI-Generated Starling Desktop Environment Rolls Out Its Own Office Suite Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read Starling, the open-source desktop environment written in Swift and with its own Wayland compositor too and written largely via Claude Code, has now rolled out its own AI-generated office suite. Read full story

13:37 <Freeman> LWN.net | Security updates for Friday [LWN.net] jzb · 20m ago · 2 min read Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (ghostscript, grafana, hplip, libsoup3, lrzsz, rpcbind, and wireshark), Debian (chromium, cifs-utils, expat, gst-plugins-bad1.0, gst-plugins-good1.0, jpeg-xl, mutt, and spip), Mageia (gpsd, libx11, and roundcubemail), Oracle (389-ds-base, compat-libtiff3, environment-modules, ghostscript, grafana, gstreamer1-... Read full story

14:36 <Freeman> Phoronix | Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids Performance On Linux Over The Past Year Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read It's been nearly one year since receiving the Gigabyte R284-A92-AAL1 2U Granite Rapids server platform for continuing my testing of the flagship Xeon 6980P processors. Read full story

14:37 <Freeman> LWN.net | Results from the 2026 TAB election corbet · 27m ago The results from the 2026 election for members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board [...] Read full story

14:37 <Freeman> LWN.net | [$] Recent and future changes to the Linux NFS server corbet · 10m ago The NFS network filesystem protocol has a long history on Unix-like operating systems (and beyond). NFS is still evolving, though, and implementations need to keep up. At the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference, NFS developer Jeff Layton gave an overview of recent enhancements to the Linux implementation, along with some hints for what will be coming in the ne... Read full story

15:38 <Tux> Linuxiac | KDE Plasma 6.6.7 Arrives as the First Update in the New LTS Series Bobby Borisov · 20m ago · 2 min read Originally expected to end with version 6.6.6, KDE Plasma 6.6 now continues as an LTS branch, with version 6.6.7 delivering important bug fixes. Read full story

16:05 <Freeman> Phoronix | After 23 Years, Longtime Linux Developer To "Step Back For A While" Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read Longtime Linux kernel engineer Darrick Wong who stepped down as the XFS file-system maintainer in 2023 is now taking a step back from his other Linux kernel development roles after working on the kernel the past 23 years. Read full story

17:36 <Tux> OMG! Ubuntu | What’s new in the Ubuntu 26.10 flavours? Joey Sneddon · 29m ago · 4 min read Alongside the main edition, Ubuntu 26.10 brought new releases of community flavours, including Kubuntu, Xubuntu and a welcome return of Ubuntu MATE. All Read full story

18:34 <Freeman> Phoronix | The Best Features Of Linux 7.3: Performance Improvements, Lots From Valve Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read The Linux 7.3 kernel is slated to be officially released on Sunday, 18 October, barring any last minute issues from coming about Read full story

18:36 <Freeman> LWN.net | [$] Safe self-referential data structures in kernel Rust daroc · 6m ago · 1 min read Self-referential structures that can be used without unsafe code have posed a problem for Rust for years. There are many cases where a self-referential data structure is the elegant algorithmic choice, but implementing it in accordance with Rust's lifetime rules is all but impossible. At Kangrejos 2026, Gary Guo presented a clever solution to the problem ... Read full story

19:05 <Freeman> Phoronix | GNOME OS Preview Announced In Road Toward A Stable Release Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read The GNOME OS Linux distribution to date has just been in GNOME OS Nightly form for tracking the latest nightly packages of GNOME in their current development form Read full story

19:07 <Freeman> LWN.net | Introducing GNOME OS Preview jzb · 1m ago · 1 min read The GNOME Project has provided GNOME OS for some time; until now, the project only provided a ' [...] Read full story

19:36 <Freeman> Phoronix | 17 More Security Vulnerabilities Made Public For X.Org Libraries Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read Just shy of two weeks since a dozen vulnerabilities were published for the X.Org Server and XWayland, more than one dozen vulnerabilities were made public today affecting multiple X.Org client libraries... Read full story

20:08 <Tux> Linuxiac | Wine 11.20 Fixes 24 Bugs, Improves ARM64EC Support Bobby Borisov · 38m ago · 2 min read Wine 11.20 adds ARM64EC relay debugging, improves XML validation, moves CD-ROM handling to Mount Manager, and fixes 24 bugs. Read full story

20:08 <Tux> Linuxiac | Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 Released with More Devices, Updated Morph Browser Bobby Borisov · 27m ago · 2 min read Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.1 adds support for eight more devices, updates Morph Browser, improves notifications, and fixes a security vulnerability. Read full story

22:35 <Tux> Linux Journal | KDE Plasma 6.8 Marks 30 Years With a Major Shift to Wayland and a More Powerful Linux Desktop George Whittaker · 1d ago · 20 min read by George Whittaker The KDE Project has officially released KDE Plasma 6.8, introducing a substantial collection of desktop improvements while celebrating three decades of open-source software development. Released on October 14, 2026, exactly 30 years after Matthias Ettrich announced the original KDE project, this anniversary edition brings significant c... Read full story

23:40 <Tux> Linuxiac | OpenRGB 1.1 Released with CLI Fixes, Improved Device Hotplug Support Bobby Borisov · 13m ago · 1 min read OpenRGB 1.1 fixes command-line and SDK server issues, improves device hotplug handling, and introduces a new hidapi-hotplug dependency on Linux. Read full story

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