Linux NewsLinux is getting a tool that crashes your system on purpose
But don't worry, crashing your own computer is all part of the Linux experience.
Wine 11.22 Adds AVX Support on ARM64, Fixes 34 Bugs
Wine 11.22 adds AVX support for x86 emulation on ARM64, introduces address space randomization, and fixes 34 bugs affecting games and apps.
Slax Linux Makes a Comeback
Slax now runs on Debian 13 with a built-in AI assistant, and it can boot with Secure Boot on compatible PCs.
Developer's $300 Embroidery Machine Required a Subscription, So They Built This Open Source Tool
ZigZag turns SVG art into stitches, exports five file formats, and can send designs over Bluetooth to an app-controlled Brother embroidery machine.
I stopped distro hopping after changing one simple habit in Linux
You can still explore the Linux world without committing to one flavor.
KDE Frameworks 6.32 Released with Safer File Transfers, Search Improvements
KDE Frameworks 6.32 adds safer file operations on removable drives, improved Baloo search, and fixes across KDE components.
[$] 25 years of Buildroot
Buildroot maintainer Peter Korsgaard gave a presentation about the long history of the build tool for embedded Linux systems at the 2026 Embedded Linux Conference Europe. In it, he covered more than just the past 25 years, looking at the current status of the project as well as what to expect in Buildroot's future. It was an interesting view inside this long-running project that has been a mainstay of the embedded-Linux world throughout almost all of this century.
KDE Frameworks 6.32 Is Out Now to Fix 15-Year-Old Data Integrity Bug
KDE Frameworks 6.32 open-source software suite is out now to fix a major data integrity bug and make transfers faster over network shares.
Cloudflare Open Sources Kitesurf: Their Web Browser For AI Agents
Earlier this year Cloudflare announced Kitesurf as a stateless web browser for AI agents. After building out its features, they have now made good on their word to open-source it...
Beyond AI Applications: How openEuler Is Rethinking the Agentic Infra OS
From secure execution and intelligent caching to persistent memory and elastic data services, openEuler is building an infrastructure foundation for large-scale, production-ready AI agents.
Announcing XRAID: declustered parity RAID for zoned XFS
Christoph Hellwig has announced the initial public release of XRAID—declustered parity RAID that is integrated into XFS. The two primary aims of XRAID are to support parity RAID on zoned devices like SMR hard drives, and to provide a fast RAID implementation without inherent data integrity problems. XRAID, just like zoned XFS also works on conventional hard drives and SSDs. Optimizing for SSD performance has not been a focus, but even without that, writes are up to 20 times faster than mdraid. [...] Work on XRAID has been ongoing for a year and a half, and while we aren't anywhere near ready for an upstream submission, we are interested in feedback and testing from a wider audience now. The current implementation supports zero to 2 parities. We did experiments with the SnapRAID parity library to support 3 and more parities, and while that is not included in the current version, support for more parities is planned and the code is prepared for it. The xfsprogs branch includes mkfs suppo
Does Linux really run faster than Windows? I tested both to find out
Spoiler alert: Tux has wings
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, firefox, gcc, grafana, grafana-pcp, gstreamer1, gstreamer1-plugins-base, java-1.8.0-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt, libimobiledevice, mingw-libpng, nginx:1.24, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, perl-CGI, perl-DBI, qt5-qtbase, tigervnc, vim, and xorg-x11-server), Debian (apache2, c-ares, linux-6.12, node-shell-quote, nova, parted, postgresql-17, python-django, sympa, and tomcat10), Fedora (cockpit, erlang-ssl_verify_fun, httpd, ignition, jackson-bom, jackson-core, jackson-databind, jackson-modules-base, libvirt, mod_http2, mongo-c-driver, poppler, prometheus, pylint, python-discovery, python-loguru, python-PyMuPDF, rabbitmq-server, rust-crypto-bigint, rust-ctutils, rust-elliptic-curve, rust-num-bigint, rust-num-bigint0.4, rust-num-modular, rust-num-modular0.6, rust-num-prime, rust-routinator, rust-zmij, strongswan, xen, xorg-x11-server, and zvbi), Mageia (amule, peazip, and python-pytest), Red Hat (buildah, fence-agents, go-
Manjaro Linux Moves Toward Independent Community Governance
Manjaro developers establish a German nonprofit association following months of governance disputes and concerns over project leadership.
AMD openSIL Achieves Its Production Goal With 6th Gen EPYC "Venice"
Since 2023 I and many open-source advocates have been very eager for AMD's openSIL project for delivering open-source CPU silicon initialization as a replacement to the traditional AGESA code. With Zen 5 there was proof-of-concept support that we have enjoyed with Coreboot on an MSI Ryzen motherboard and a Gigabyte EPYC server motherboard thanks to the Coreboot-based Dasharo ports by 3mdeb. The goal for production readiness was for Zen 6, but with this week's EPYC 9006 SP7 announcement the openSIL topic wasn't touched on. So I asked around...
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