Linux NewsPCIe 8.0 Spec Draft 0.5 Released For 1TB/s Bi-Directional x16 Bandwidth
The PCI-SIG today held a briefing around PCIe 8.0 that follows the PCIe 7.0 specification that was released to members last June...
Incus 7.0 LTS Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released
Incus 7.0 LTS arrives with five years of support, updated requirements, security fixes, OCI image support, and storage improvements.
I tried these 5 command line tools on my Samsung phone—here's the ones that are worth using
These apps make your Samsung phone feel like a real computer.
[$] LLM-driven security reports disrupt coordinated disclosure
Predictions that LLM tools would cause a surge in reports of security vulnerabilities have, unquestionably, borne out. As expected, maintainers are having to wade through more security reports than ever before; in addition, LLM tools are disrupting traditional-coordinated disclosure practices as well. The method of Copy Fail's disclosure, in particular, left vendors, projects, and users scrambling. In addition, maintainers are seeing parallel discovery of the same security flaws within the embargo window. Both of these developments mean that coordinated security disclosures may become a thing of the past.
I tried a hardened Linux kernel so you don't have to
An even more locked-down version of the foundation most users never see.
Incus 7.0 LTS released
Version 7.0 of the Incus container and virtual-machine management system has been released. Notable changes in this release include the inclusion of a low-level backup API, the addition of basic S3 operations directly in Incus to replace the now-unmaintained MinIO project, as well as the removal of support for cgroups v1 and xtables (iptables/ip6tables/ebtables). This is a long-term-support (LTS) release, with support through June 2031. The first 2 years will feature bug and security fixes as well as minor usability improvements, delivered through occasional point releases (7.0.x). After that initial two years, Incus 7.0 LTS will move to security only maintenance for the remaining of its 5 years of support. A total of 204 individuals contributed to Incus between the 6.0 LTS and 7.0 LTS releases with 45 contributing between the 6.23 and 7.0 LTS releases.
Node.js 26 Debuts with Temporal API Enabled by Default
Node.js 26 debuts with Temporal enabled by default, V8 14.6, Undici 8, and several deprecated APIs removed.
Linux 7.2 To Integrate The AMDGPU "Power Module" To Better Align With Windows
Sent out today was a batch of "new stuff" for the AMDGPU graphics and AMDKFD compute kernel drivers that are ready for DRM-Next to queue until the Linux 7.2 merge window happens in June. Most notable is the introduction of the AMDGPU DC power module to better align with the Radeon power management behavior under Microsoft Windows...
Distributions quote of the week
2,442 days is a fair amount of time, and that's how long I had been on the openSUSE Board as its chair when I started this note. That journey began on August 19th, 2019, and it ends today as I am stepping down as chair of the openSUSE Board. It's been an intense time for most of it — just a bit calm the last year and a half. A time of joy and frustration, anger occasionally and rewarding more often than that. During those years we have seen SUSE and openSUSE carve out from Micro Focus (escalations on the IT side included); a global pandemic; SUSE go public and return to private; the arrival of Rancher, NeuVector, and Losant; four CIOs and four (and de facto more) General Managers for Linux at SUSE; repeated discussions on the logo and name of our project; the creation of Geeko Foundation; people move on and others step up; seven board elections; board meetings become public; passionate debates and growing pains; web site refreshes; the number of distros and tooling around them grow and
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (corosync, dovecot, image-builder, python-tornado, resource-agents, and systemd), Debian (openjdk-11, openjdk-17, and pyjwt), Fedora (pdns, pyOpenSSL, and squid), Slackware (hunspell), SUSE (alloy, avahi, bubblewrap, cmctl, coredns, curl, dpkg, firefox, golang-github-prometheus-prometheus, grafana, libpng12, PackageKit, sed, and xen), and Ubuntu (docker.io-app, nghttp2, python-django, and python-mako).
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance
When having the HP Z6 G5 A workstation in the lab for benchmarking, one of the curiosity-driven tests was seeing how well the latest open-source and upstream Nouveau driver stack is competing against the latest official NVIDIA R595 driver for workstations. The official NVIDIA Linux driver stack remains the best positioned software solution for RTX (PRO) hardware but Nouveau continues evolving while awaiting the Nova kernel driver to reach the limelight.
Should You Be Worried About Copy Fail Linux Exploitation?
It's been patched, but cloud and container users should update sooner than later.
Stop using bloated apps: These 5 terminal tools are all I need for work
Not every job calls for a complicated app with a clutter interface. Sometimes, simple is best.
Fish Shell 4.7 Brings Completion, History, and UI Fixes
Fish Shell 4.7 improves completions, history handling, prompt behavior, and interactive shell reliability.
Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement
The self-hosted, FOSS-only platform is still in the pilot phase, but government agencies are already signing up.