Linux NewsLinux Creator Linus Torvalds Just Used AI to Fix a Kernel Bug
The creator of Linux needed 18 boots to find a one-line fix. The AI helped him get there.
Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Steps Down
There is a changing of the guard with Linux 7.3 as the maintainer of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) / SMB3 code within the Linux kernel. Longtime maintainer, principal Linux CIFS author, and current Microsoft employee Steve French has stepped down due to health reasons...
KDE Plasma 6.8 to Make Auto-Hide Panels 10x Faster
KDE developers continue shaping Plasma 6.8 with smarter automatic brightness, faster panels, improved lock screen authentication, and performance gains.
Proton Mail Wants to Organize Your Emails Automatically
The feature sorts mail into six categories using metadata alone, and full-content search is coming to mobile next.
OpenZFS 2.4.4 Adds Linux Kernel 7.2 Support, New MMP Recovery Tool
OpenZFS 2.4.4 is out with Linux 7.2 compatibility, a new zhack mmp reclaim command, DDT fixes, and numerous reliability improvements.
Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 Driver
A reported security vulnerability for the NTFS3 driver has gone unaddressed since being reported earlier this summer. The vulnerability allows a pre-crafted NTFS image on a USB flash drive or similar to allow the user to gain root access to the running Linux system...
AMD RDNA 4m Firmware Published For Linux Ahead Of Launch
In addition to AMD's Friday afternoon big code drop of all the UALink enablement patches for the Linux kernel and the AMDGPU driver, there was another big drop from AMD to end out the week... Upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository is all the firmware binaries needed by the open-source driver stack for initializing their forthcoming RDNA 4m "GFX 11.7" graphics...
Apprise 1.13 Notification Tool Released as Final 1.x Version Ahead of 2.0
Apprise 1.13 is out with new notification services, Telegram rich messages, Bark encryption, bug fixes, and a warning about breaking changes in 2.x.
NVK Vulkan Video Merged For Mesa 26.3
The newest major feature to land in Mesa's open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver is support for Vulkan Video!..
Sched_ext's Sub-Scheduler Support Now "Feature Complete" With Linux 7.3
The extensible scheduler framework "sched_ext" that allows for custom schedulers as BPF programs has been working on sub-scheduler support in recent kernel cycles. With Linux 7.3, sub-scheduler support is now deemed feature complete...
Red Hat's Tuned 2.28 To Improve Out-Of-The-Box WiFi Power Savings On Fedora
Tuned 2.28 released this Saturday as the newest version of Red Hat's tuning profile delivery mechanism for Linux. Tuned is used notably out-of-the-box on Fedora Linux for monitoring and adaptively tuning systems...
Open-Source Etnaviv Driver Now Able To Run YOLOX
The open-source, reverse-engineered Etnaviv driver stack that began for providing accelerated graphics support on Vivante GPU IP and since expanded to handle Vivante NPUs as well is now able to handle YOLOX object detection...
Linux 7.3 x86/mm Lands Patches To Greatly Improve Latency-Sensitive Workloads
The highlight of this week's x86/mm pull request of changes for the Linux 7.3 kernel are fixes that reduce the time that the TLB flushing code has interrupts disabled. This helps significantly with latency-sensitive workloads but Intel engineer Dave Hansen noted in the pull request that "it's certainly something to keep an eye on" in looking out for any regressions...
Postcard is a new email client for GNOME, built with AI
Postcard is a new email client for GNOME that has echoes of Geary. The app is the work of a solo developer, gxanshu on GitHub, who is upfront about using AI coding tools to bring his “modern mail client” to life. Postcard is built in Python with GTK4/libadwait. It uses imaplib and smtplib for networking, a local SQLite index for searching, WebKitGTK for rendering HTML and libsecret for keeping passwords safe. Postcard will look familiar to fans of Geary, another GTK email client, as it uses a similar multi-column design with folder in a (resizable) sidebar on the left, a message list […]
PocketBeagle 2: Setup, Imaging, and Internet Access
The device we will cover in this article is a newer version of the PocketBeagle, which is covered here. We can go over the newer specs and use the PocketBeagle 2. If you look back at the original Pocket Beagle article, you can see pictures of the board next to a quarter. The PocketBeagle is a little larger than a quarter, and the second version of the board is still the same size. PocketBeagle Specs... https://www.linux.org/threads/pocketbeagle-2-setup-imaging-and-internet-access.63047/