Linux NewsSomeone Turned a PS5 Into a Linux Gaming PC, and It Actually Works
It runs Linux, plays Steam games, and only time will tell how long before Sony DMCAs it.
Fedora 44 Brings GNOME 50, KDE 6.6, and Better Gaming (With Screenshots)
We take Fedora’s newest weekly‑distro pick for a spin to see how it handles real‑world browsing, office work, media… with a bit of gaming on the side. The post Fedora 44 Brings GNOME 50, KDE 6.6, and Better Gaming (With Screenshots) appeared first on FOSS Force.
Wireshark 4.6.5 Packet Analyzer Fixes Dozens of Vulnerabilities
Wireshark 4.6.5 network protocol analyzer fixes dozens of vulnerabilities, including crashes, infinite loops, and memory issues.
GCC 16.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, Algol 68 & Many C/C++ Improvements
GCC 16.1 is now available as the first stable release of GCC 16 as this year's major open-source GNU compiler feature release...
3mdeb Gets More Bits Of AMD openSIL & Coreboot Working On Ryzen AM5 Motherboard
There are two exciting initiatives taking place simultaneously by the 3mdeb consulting firm: the open-source developers are working on an open-source firmware stack for a Gigabyte EPYC server motherboard and they are also working on a similar Coreboot + AMD openSIL port to a Ryzen AM5 consumer motherboard, the MSI PRO B850-P WiFi. While not yet ready for end-users, 3mdeb published their latest blog post to highlight their latest milestone achieved with the openSIL + Coreboot bring-up on the MSI PRO B850-P motherboard...
AMD Posts Newest Linux Patches To Accelerate Page Migration For More Performance
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was the newest revision of a patch series originally started in early 2025 by a NVIDIA engineer for accelerating page migration. Now being worked on by AMD engineers, this accelerated page migration via batch copies and hardware offloading continues to show promising results...
Servo Browser Engine Seeing Progress On FreeBSD Support
Following the recent Servo 0.1 release, the Servo project has published their latest monthly status report to highlight recent development efforts around this modern open-source browser engine...
CPPC v4 Support Being Worked On NVIDIA For The Linux ACPI Driver
Last year with the ACPI 6.6 specification release came revised Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) support for enhancing the capabilities around this standard for OS management of the performance of CPU cores using an abstract performance scale. That CPPC v4 support is now being worked on for the acpi_cppc Linux driver by NVIDIA engineers...
Wireshark 4.6.5 Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities and Updates Protocol Support
Wireshark 4.6.5 open-source network protocol analyzer is now available for download with updated protocol and capture file support, multiple security vulnerabilities, and various bug fixes.
You can run Ubuntu on your PS5 (and play Steam games)
Someone has hacked their PlayStation 5 to run Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and used it to play GTA V Enhanced on Steam at a smooth 60fps at 1440p – and now you can too. The feat was pulled off by security engineer Andy Nguyen, who announced a public release of his ps5-linux project this week to more people can turn their “…PS5 Phat console on 3.xx and 4.xx [Firmware] into a fully functional Linux PC gaming device”. Obviously, this is all unofficial. The project exploits a patched hypervisor vulnerability to give Linux direct access to the PS5’s hardware – which with its […]
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 30, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Famfs; Python packaging council; Zig concurrency; pages and folios; Strawberry music manager; 7.1 merge window. Briefs: GnuPG 2.5.19; Copy Fail; Plasma security; Fedora 44; Ubuntu 26.04; Niri 26.04; pip 26.1; RIP Seth Nickell; RIP Tomáš Kalibera; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
A security bug in AEAD sockets
Security analysis firm Xint has disclosed a security bug in the Linux kernel that allows for arbitrary 4-byte writes to the page cache, and which has been present since 2017. The vulnerability has been fixed in mainline kernels. A proof-of-concept script demonstrates how to use the flaw to corrupt a setuid binary, which works on multiple distributions, by requesting an AEAD-encrypted socket from user space and splicing a particular payload into it. A supplemental blog post gives more details about the discovery and remediation. A core primitive underlying this bug is splice(): it transfers data between file descriptors and pipes without copying, passing page cache pages by reference. When a user splices a file into a pipe and then into an AF_ALG socket, the socket's input scatterlist holds direct references to the kernel's cached pages of that file. The pages are not duplicated; the scatterlist entries point at the same physical pages that back every read(), mmap(), and execve() of tha
Enabling Ubuntu Pro in Security Center is a Cinch
Canonical made it easier to opt-in to additional security coverage in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, by adding Ubuntu Pro settings to its desktop Security Center application – and it works great. The range of options is the same as in Software & Updates > Ubuntu Pro tab – that app is no longer preinstalled in 26.04 – but the presentation and layout is less cramped. More room is available for concise explanations of the settings and switches. Click to enable Ubuntu Pro and use the ‘enable with Ubuntu One account’ option to authenticate via your web browser. If you have an […]
Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 Released with S3 Object Storage Support
Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 adds official S3-compatible object storage support, Debian 13.4, Linux kernel 7.0, and ZFS 2.4.
Sovereign Tech Agency Opens Paid Standards Program for Open Source Maintainers
The chosen maintainers could get up to €5,200 a month for IETF, W3C, and ISO standards work.
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