#foss em 2026-10-07

1. 01:11 <Freeman> Phoronix | New Patches For Linux's Zswap Show Major Improvements Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 3 min read Amid multiple ongoing innovations being pursued in the Linux memory management space amid sky high RAM prices, a new patch series posted on Monday aim to enhance the Zswap performance for this compressed RAM cache for swap pages. Read full story
2. 01:39 <Freeman> Phoronix | Another Dozen Vulnerabilities Found In The X.Org Server & XWayland Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read With the assistance of AI, another dozen security vulnerabilities affecting both the conventional X.Org Server as well as XWayland were made public this evening. Read full story
3. 10:11 <Tux> Linuxiac | Debian Opens Artwork Call for Debian 14 “Forky” Bobby Borisov · 2m ago · 2 min read Debian is inviting artists to submit the official artwork for Debian 14 “Forky,” with proposals accepted until November 26, 2026. Read full story
4. 10:13 <Freeman> Phoronix | AMD Engineer Talks Up New IBS Memory Profiler Feature Found On Zen 6 Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read One of the AMD Zen 6 CPU features that hasn't been talked about too widely beyond appearing in a public AMD tech doc is the IBS Memory Profiler Read full story
5. 10:13 <Freeman> Phoronix | Microsoft Updates Its WSL2 Linux Kernel With DXGKRNL Improvement, More Features Enabled Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read Following the Windows Subsystem for Linux 3.0.2 release with support for running WSL2 now on very large servers and also experimental sparse VHD storage support, Microsoft has now released a new version of the WSL2 Linux kernel as their downstream kernel configuration tailored for WSL2 usage. Read full story
6. 10:44 <Freeman> Phoronix | XMFS: Experimental File-System Being Worked On By Huawei For Modern Linux Servers Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read Huawei engineers are experimenting with a new file-system called XMFS Read full story
7. 11:43 <Freeman> Phoronix | Qualcomm Posts QPaCE Linux Driver Code For Faster ZRAM On Newest SoCs Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 'Hawi' SoC features the Qualcomm Page Compression Engine 'QPaCE' hardware accelerator Read full story
8. 13:03 <Freeman> Phoronix | Kage: Google Experimenting With Linux Driver Isolation Using In-Kernel LFI Sandboxes Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read Google engineers are experimenting with Linux kernel device driver isolation using in-kernel sandboxes leveraging LLVM's Lightweight Fault Isolation (LFI) functionality. Read full story
9. 13:04 <Freeman> It's FOSS | Google Has Shut Down Part of its Open Source Bounty Program Sourav Rudra · 2h ago · 3 min read Submitting product vulnerability reports is no longer possible. You can thank AI for that. Read full story
10. 13:31 <Freeman> LWN.net | Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net] jzb · 22m ago · 2 min read Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, dovecot, freerdp, kernel, mariadb-connector-c, mod_auth_openidc, nodejs22, nodejs:22, sudo, and vim), Debian (node-shell-quote, puma, rails, ruby-jwt, and suricata-update), Fedora (chromium, cockpit, flocq, freerdp, gappalib-coq, golang-x-mod, httpd, janus, libical, musescore, python3-docs, python3.14,... Read full story
11. 13:31 <Tux> Linuxiac | NVIDIA 615.78.08 Linux Driver Brings Vulkan Latency, Wayland Fixes Bobby Borisov · 3m ago · 1 min read NVIDIA 615.78.08 is now available for Linux as a New Feature Branch driver, bringing gameplay, suspend, Vulkan latency, and Wayland fixes. Read full story
12. 13:31 <Freeman> LWN.net | A new Raspberry Pi Desktop release is finally available for x86-64 jzb · 5m ago · 1 min read Simon Long has announced a long-awaited release of Raspberry Pi OS, based on Debian 13 ('trixie [...] Read full story
13. 14:07 <Freeman> Phoronix | NVIDIA 615.78.08 Linux Driver Adds VK_NV_low_latency2 r3 For Improved VKD3D-Proton Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 2 min read NVIDIA today released their 615.78.08 Linux driver build with a useful improvement for gamers using Steam Play (Proton) with Direct3D 12 games via VKD3D-Proton along with a variety of other fixes. Read full story
14. 14:36 <Freeman> LWN.net | [$] Evolving the LAVD scheduler from gaming to servers corbet · 1h ago · 1 min read The extensible scheduler class, which enables the creation of custom CPU schedulers with BPF, has led to a burst of innovation in this area; the LAVD scheduler has, perhaps, been one of the most noteworthy schedulers to emerge. Though it was originally designed for gaming applications, the LAVD scheduler has since grown to serve other types of workloads a... Read full story
15. 14:37 <Tux> Linuxiac | OpenVPN 2.7.8 Released with Certificate and Windows Security Fixes Bobby Borisov · 3m ago · 1 min read OpenVPN 2.7.8 is out with fixes for three security vulnerabilities, along with DCO, certificate validation, and server reliability improvements. Read full story
16. 15:37 <Freeman> LWN.net | [$] Analyzing Rust programs with Charon daroc · 17m ago · 1 min read Nadrieril is a long-time Rust contributor, and the maintainer of the rustc pattern-matching infrastructure. During his involvement with Rust, he has noticed a problem with the usability of the language: it is difficult to automatically extract information from a Rust crate for use with other tooling. The Charon project aims to fix that by providing a stab... Read full story
17. 15:39 <Freeman> It's FOSS | Vinix is Not a Linux Distro, But it Can Run Games, Docker, and QEMU Sourav Rudra · 1h ago · 4 min read The project has been around since 2021, runs its own kernel, and is written in V. Read full story
18. 16:36 <Freeman> Phoronix | Star Labs StarFighter Ultra: A Modern High-End Linux Laptop With Coreboot Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 3 min read When it comes to Linux pre-loaded laptops, I have looked at hardware from most of these vendors over the past 22+ years of Phoronix. Read full story
19. 16:36 <Tux> OMG! Ubuntu | Ubuntu 26.10 drops Btrfs, XFS & ZFS /boot support under Secure Boot Joey Sneddon · 20m ago · 2 min read Canonical has made a major change to the way Ubuntu boots on devices with Secure Boot enabled to reduce the attack surface of the boot process. Ubuntu Read full story
20. 18:04 <Tux> Linuxiac | Over Half a Million Credentials Leaked on GitHub Remain Active Bobby Borisov · 1m ago · 3 min read Truffle Security found 543,699 still-valid credentials across more than 224 million public GitHub repositories, including some exposed for over 16 years. Read full story
21. 20:33 <Tux> Linuxiac | IBM and Red Hat’s Lightwell Fixes 400+ Previously Unknown Java Vulnerabilities Bobby Borisov · 12m ago · 2 min read Four months after its launch, IBM and Red Hat’s Lightwell has remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in open-source Java libraries. Read full story
22. 21:33 <Freeman> Phoronix | FEX 2610 Released With Handling For AVX-VNNI, Disk Cache Improvements Michael Larabel · 4h ago · 1 min read FEX 2610 released today as the newest monthly release of this open-source emulator for running x86_64 games/apps on AArch64 for ARM64 Linux systems, including most notably by Valve's Steam Frame headset. Read full story
23. 23:38 <Tux> OMG! Ubuntu | A pair of flashy-looking weather extensions for GNOME Shell Joey Sneddon · 4m ago · 2 min read I revised my list of the best Linux weather apps recently, but many people prefer to use panel applets for gleaning current and future forecast data. Read full story

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