It's FOSS reports: Asahi Linux is the reason you can run Linux on an Apple Silicon Mac today

Fixes are arriving faster than new bug reports for one major Linux project

Linux developers are preparing to make Intels ancient MultiMedia eXtensions irrelevant, with the last MMX code now set to be removed from the kernel.

Lproven (Slashdot reader #6,030) shares his article about a new OS in the BSD family "combining NetBSD's kernel and libc with a port of the Alpine Linux userland" and promising it won't use AI-generated code: AlpineBSD is so new that it barely exists yet

"AlmaLinux OS charted a new path in 2023 when Red Hat restricted source code access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux," remembers Linux Magazine

OpenAI says its new GPT-6 Cyber model helped an automated system identify 1,724 security flaws in the Linux kernel and exploit 948 of them to gain administrator-level access during testing, including at least 10 previously unknown techniques

New and revived desktops promise Cupertino polish, but our quick tests found a few seams showing

A newly disclosed OpenSSH flaw dubbed "*sshole" can allow attackers to log in to password-disabled accounts on certain musl-based Linux systems simply by submitting a password longer than 256 bytes

Sadly, it's still not looking good for older Snapdragon-based hardware.

Decade-old vulnerability in OpenSSH is now fixed, so get a-patchin'

Combined OpenSSH and musl-libc flaws let anyone into Alpine Linux and other distros by typing anything over 256 characters as a password

The company is likely gearing up to announce a new cyber model.

A major upgrade is live, with more Pixel support on the horizon.

For multitasking, it comes in very handy. [...] Let's say I'm writing a paper on Linux and need to read a particular article for background information

Your industrial IoT gateway isn't exposed to the internet, right? RIGHT?!

From the blog It's FOSS Gregory Kurtzer is no stranger to the Linux world

Yet machine-made patches often get rewritten

SystemD creator Lennart Poettering left Red Hat for Microsoft in 2022, but 10 months ago left to co-found Amutable a company that aims to build cryptographically verified Linux systems that stay trusted over time

"On a Git commit basis, the Linux 7.4 merge window has been the busiest on record," writes Phoronix," with 19,671 commits since Linux 7.3: As of this morning in Linux Git ahead of v7.4-rc1, the kernel source tree is up to 41,605,120 lines

Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland

Well, another modder has submitted a new configuration that allows modders to install Bazzites SteamOS-like software directly onto the console. The project, developed by VivaLaVent, allows supported […] The post The PS5 Can Now SteamOS Via Bazzite Linux appeared first on Lowyat.NET .

What's even better than Rust in the Linux kernel? Rust in systemd!

The computer will use a Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC. I did not see any information about the OS, but I'm assuming that, given the type of processor, this will be Linux-based? "Other companies might design their computers in the U.S., Anduril makes them here, the Anduril founder Palmer Luckey said in a YouTube video

Classic Platinum or lickable Mavericks-era Aqua it's your choice

The hypervisor bug that allowed PS5 users to install Linux on their consoles was patched before the launch of GTA VI, meaning they have to choose between experimenting with Linux and running the game.

'This is the kind of stuff that pushed me to Linux': Microsoft has abandoned a trick to promote Bing that many Windows 11 users hated.

Daemonarchy is unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions

Don't forget to keep code up to date

[T]he ban on AI is simple; as the subreddit's moderators explain, "AI, as it exists today, is incongruent to this Open Source community." Unsurprisingly, this is the part that's upset the majority of the users in the thread.... [T]he moderator who posted the new guidelines stated in a separate comment that the overwhelmingly negative response is due to "some guy on twitter claiming to be alternative news" who posted an "opinionated editorial pointing hundreds of people to the thread." Given the timing of when the thread was posted, alongside the fact that the X post in question mentions "the Linux kernel," they are presumably referring to this post by The Lunduke Journal

Linux kernel modules lift Nvidias half-rate AI tensor limit on GeForce RTX 20, 30, and 40-series GPUs.

Bazzite, the custom open-source Linux OS that was designed to offer SteamOS-like functionality, is now extending its functionality out to gaming handhelds, the first being the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20

"59% of maintainers report growing contribution volume since the rise of GenAI," according to a new study published by Linux Foundation Research

NordVPN 6.0.0 for Linux brings NordWhisper-powered obfuscation, kernel-level OpenVPN acceleration, P2P on every server, and a CLI cleanup that could affect your scripts.

Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative appears to have accidentally disclosed several unpatched Linux kernel vulnerabilities on the public LKML instead of the private security list, including two CVSS 9.0 flaws that could enable remote code execution through SMB Direct and KSMBD

The modern Atari VCS is being officially retired with the firms decision to shut down the Linux-based AMD APU-powered machine's software store early next year.

AMD has published Linux kernel patches for an official Ryzen overclocking driver that allows users to adjust CPU power and current limits through a firmware interface exposed via sysfs

New driver enablement work from AMD brings full platform-level tuning control to Ryzen systems running Linux, finally.

OpenBSD 8.0 has been released with major virtualization and hardware upgrades, including support for up to 64 vCPUs per VM, Intel Arc graphics, ARM64 hibernation, and expanded RISC-V support. Linuxiac points out that it marks the "61st release of the security-focused Unix-like operating system." From the report: Several fixes improve compatibility with 32-bit Linux guests, while changes to virtual machine ownership management and interrupt emulation make the virtualization infrastructure more capable

CentOS roots give way to homegrown containers, AI tools, and a workstation edition we took for a spin

Party like its CVE-2026-99999 a 9.3-rated nasty called PwnEscape

Linux maintainers "have ruled that people no longer have to declare their LLM usage," reports XDA Developers, "as Torvalds himself calls a ban on AI 'utterly stupid.'" The first part of this story comes via a message sent to the Linux mailing list

Now Dahl and 12 of his Deno colleagues "will work to build out Cloudflare's Workers platform," explains The Register, "expanding it for potential open-source use. He feels this approach is the way to go." "Right now, every other server is really operating at the Linux VM layer

Valve has released a new Steam Client beta that finally moves the Linux client to 64-bit architecture, while also placing it inside a containerized Steam Runtime environment

Epic wants to work with developers and maintainers to find the best solution to making anti-cheat work seamlessly on Linux.

The year of Corporate Compliance on the Linux desktop is here

Linus Torvalds posts his first LLM-assisted patch to the Linux kernel after issuing clear pro-AI directives, the bossman makes use of AI tooling himself

prisoninmate shares a report from 9to5Linux: Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) has been released today, and it is now available for download for those eager to update their Ubuntu systems to a newer release

"Starting today, Linux desktops are now officially supported by Microsoft Defender," reports Neowin

"The updated client also lets players aggregate external PC game libraries, toggle between grid or list views, and monitor storage write rates alongside download queues," reports Neowin. Epic Games says Fortnite will finally come to Linux through this new client once Easy Anti-Cheat is rebuilt and kernel-level security agreements are established with major Linux distros

Torvalds says contributors must understand their code, whatever tools they use

DDR4 makes a comeback as component costs rise, while Linux offers an escape from forced upgrades

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: The Netherlands' Tax and Customs Administration has abandoned its planned Microsoft 365 public-cloud rollout. Why? The reasons were clear at the Open Source Summit Europe conference, where the Linux Foundation (LF) released the 2026 State of Open Source in Europe

GNOME merupakan persekitaran desktop yang tidak asing lagi bagi kebanyakkan pengguna sistem operasi berasaskan Linux, dan digunakan meluas oleh pelbagai variasi sistem operasi, termasuk Ubuntu dan Fedora

The latest example is System76 banning AI-generated content from its COSMIC desktop. At Open Source Summit Europe, Linux creator Linus Torvalds offered a different take: "I actually really like using AI," Torvald told Dirk Hohndel, his good friend and head of Ericsson Software Technology, in their latest discussion

Googlebook is becoming a more capable development machine.

Convert images, video, audio, and PDFs offline on Mac, Windows, or Linux with a Morphjet lifetime subscription for $40

You'll have to wait a little longer if you want an Android phone that can also run Windows 11.

Now it looks like the distro's OpenPGP implementation is next, with Sequoia PGP coming preinstalled in Ubuntu 26.10. Canonical wants it to eventually replace GnuPG [the dominant Linux implementation of PGP, written in C] as the default toolchain, though that switch has not happened yet..

Phoronix reports on a presentation this week by Meta engineer Gregory Price at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague: With today's memory shortages, high prices, and ever increasing memory capacity needs, Meta engineers have been working on Compressed RAM ("CRAM") for Linux