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The November 13-14 event in Beijing will focus on SuperPoD OS, infrastructure for AI agents, and industry deployment experiences. All this under the theme "Building Agentic Infra from the OS Up."
It is a release that has taken a year to develop, with major changes like a Wayland session that is no longer experimental.
openSUSE Tumbleweed is preparing to adopt the modern Agama installer, replacing its traditional YaST-based installation system.
GNU’s long-running typesetting system gains clearer warnings, new formatting controls, and bug fixes in its latest release. The post GNU groff 1.25.0 Arrives With Typesetting Fixes and Refinements appeared first on FOSS Force.
One of the dominant themes of 2026 has been the debate within development projects about the terms under which LLM-written contributions should be accepted — if, indeed, they should be accepted at all. The Git project has not been immune to this trend; the topic was discussed at the recent Git Contributor's Summit. In this case, the path to a resolution may be somewhat circuitous; the project, which has never been governed as a democracy, is considering adopting a voting process as a way of bringing the discussion to an acceptable conclusion.
Linus Torvalds has released the 7.4-rc2 prepatch and it will come as no surprise that it is a large one ("a big -rc2 to go with the largest ever -rc1"). Much of the size was made up of some automated Coccinelle updates that were spread out all over the tree; once those are factored out, the rest looks fairly normal: When masking that noise out from the diffstat, the shape of it changes - not spread out over thousands of files any more. But it does not look unusual: a third is drivers (gpu, networking and sound account for most of it, but there's a bit of everything), another third is networking and bpf, and the final third is "the rest" (mostly filesystems, mm, arch updates). And yes, much of this was driven by various AI fixes. I think I'll stop repeating that, and we can just take it for granted. But this time around Alexei [Starovoitov] claims that on the bpf side at least the fixes are now coming in faster than the new reports, and that sounds lovely if true.
Since the beginning of the year there have been AMDGPU LLVM back-end patches for GFX13 as AMD's next-generation graphics IP. This is most likely for RDNA 5 graphics. Now out today are the GFX13 patches finally surfacing for the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver...
Version 2026.10 of the OpenIndiana operating system has been released. OpenIndiana is based on Illumos, which in turn was based on OpenSolaris after Oracle discontinued it. Notable changes in this release include UEFI framebuffer support for the live image, updates to many applications and development tools, as well as the inclusion of new applications such as TeX Live 2026, the Foliate ebook reader, and more.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cjose, kernel, libreoffice, rsync, ruby3.3, telegram-desktop, vim, and zlib), Fedora (bind, composer, copyparty, dnf5, elixir, fasterxml-oss-parent, gnome-remote-desktop, goose, jackson-annotations, jackson-bom, jackson-core, jackson-databind, jackson-jaxrs-providers, jackson-modules-base, jackson-parent, java-21-openjdk, java-21-openjdk-portable, jupyterlab, kryoptic, luksmeta, mingw-cfitsio, mingw-expat, mingw-freetype, mingw-glib-networking, mingw-harfbuzz, mingw-qt5-qtbase, mingw-qt5-qtdeclarative, mingw-qt5-qtwebkit, mingw-qt6-qtbase, mtools, NetworkManager-l2tp, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-js-challenge, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, nodejs-pnpm12, pcre2, perl-Spreadsheet-XLSX, pie, python-boto3, python-botocore, python-joserfc, python-jupyter-builder, python-jupyterlab-server, python-jupytext, python-nbdime, python-notebook, python-s3transfer, python3.12, rcc
KDE Plasma 6.9 improves desktop widgets, adds customizable OSD positioning, enhances panel behavior, and speeds up Spectacle.
Hyprland 0.57.2 addresses crashes related to real-time scheduling, rendering artifacts, fullscreen behavior, and window management bugs.
Extension Manager 0.7 adds GNOME Shell search integration, bulk extension management, a redesigned details view, and performance improvements.
Slax 2026.11 updates its desktop with taskbar previews, virtual workspaces, and desktop icons, alongside Debian 13 and an AI assistant.
Darling is the software project more than a decade in development that is designed to run macOS binaries on Linux. This macOS compatibility layer for Linux is now gaining more brisk developments as it turns to AI/LLMs to assist in this creation...
The Linux kernel's ChaCha symmetric stream cipher code has long had an AVX-512 optimized code path but it was catering to the early generations of Intel CPUs with AVX-512 (Skylake) that suffered from down-clocking under use. But now slated for arrival with Linux 7.5 is tuning the code to perform better on today's AVX-512 Intel and AMD processors that don't suffer from this limitation. In turn the ChaCha performance is as much as 99% faster with current-generation AMD Zen 5 processors...
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