Linux NewsFOSS Weekly #26.21: Microsoft's Distro, Bitwarden Drama, Adobe on Linux, New Email Client and More
Fedora no longer trusts on AI ... or so it seems for now.
Rust Could Eliminate 80% of Linux Kernel CVEs!
Linux's stable maintainer is betting on a new Rust type to address a class of bugs C has never been able to fully prevent.
[$] BPF support in GCC 16 and beyond
José Marchesi and the GCC-BPF developers opened the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management, and BPF Summit with a 90-minute summary of what has changed for GCC's BPF support in the past year. This kind of session has become something of a tradition. There were similar updates in 2025 and 2024. This time around, GCC seems to be closing in on feature parity with the LLVM toolchain — as the slides detail.
Firefox Is Getting a New Look Later This Year
Mozilla has announced Project Nova, a forthcoming Firefox redesign that emphasizes speed, privacy, AI controls, and a streamlined desktop interface.
OpenBSD 7.9 released
The OpenBSD 7.9 release is out, right on schedule. There is the usual long list of new features, including improved architecture support, CPU scheduling on heterogeneous systems, the ability to hibernate a suspended system after a configurable delay, socket splicing, a __pledge_open() system call giving special access to the C library, and much more. See the announcement and the full changelog for details.
[$] Support for private memory nodes
Gregory Price started his session in the memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that, in current kernels, if a NUMA node has memory, the assumption is that anybody can make use of it. He is trying to implement the opposite policy — to make some memory off-limits for all processes except those designed specifically to use it. The session was used to present his goals and to discuss how they might be implemented.
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, and libsndfile), Debian (bind9, evince, firefox-esr, openjpeg2, pdns, and rsync), Fedora (erlang-cowlib, evince, expat, firefox, kernel, mingw-expat, mysql8.0, mysql8.4, nss, opencryptoki, pgadmin4, proftpd, python-django5, python-django6, python-dotenv, rsync, rust-nu, rustup, and strongswan), Oracle (nginx, nginx:1.24, ruby, ruby:3.3, and squid), Slackware (bind and rsync), SUSE (buildah, distribution, distribution-registry, docker, firefox-esr, helm, libpainter0, libsdb2_4_2, postgresql-jdbc, runc, and vim), and Ubuntu (gnutls28, gst-plugins-good1.0, jq, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, openvpn, rsync, and unbound).
Morrolinux: Protecting Your Data and Reputation
In today’s digital era, and even more with the rise of AI, the protection of your data and reputation has never been more crucial. As we navigate the vast landscape of information technology, understanding the foundational principles of IT security ... Read more The post Morrolinux: Protecting Your Data and Reputation appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
KMSCON 10.0 Released With Natural Scrolling Option, Libseat VT Support
KMSCON 10.0 is out today as the newest feature release to this terminal emulator for Linux that can serve as an alternative to the in-kernel VT...
Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Adding Expandable Heap Support With Linux 7.2
AMD engineers continue enhancing the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux...
Vivaldi Browser 8.0 Debuts New Unified Design and Layout Presets
Vivaldi 8.0 introduces a Unified desktop design, refreshed themes, and six layout presets for customizing the browser interface.
Nitrux 6.1 Released with Linux Kernel 7.0 and Hyprland 0.55
Nitrux 6.1 brings Linux kernel 7.0 with CachyOS patches, updated KDE components, MauiKit 4.0.3, and Hyprland 0.55.
VKD3D 2.0 Released For Wine's Direct3D 12 Implementation Atop Vulkan
Wine developers have announced the release of VKD3D 2.0, the newest feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop the Vulkan API. VKD3D is what's used by upstream Wine for D3D12 compared to Valve's downstream VKD3D-Proton within Steam Play (Proton)...
AlmaLinux To Unveil Media/Entertainment Linux OS Edition
AlmaLinux shared with us that they will be introducing a new version of their RHEL-derived Linux operating system that is built specifically for media and entertainment use-cases...
More AMDGPU Driver Fixes Prepped For Linux 7.2
AMD is ready with more AMDKFD compute driver and AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window...
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