Linux NewsNetworkManager Adopts Policy For AI Coding Assistants
The latest high profile open-source project to commit to an AI coding policy is NetworkManager, the widely-used software for Linux network configuration...
AMD ROCm Spur: Providing AI-Native, Rust-Based Job Scheduling
The newest ROCm component for AMD's open-source GPU compute stack is Spur as an AI-native, Rust-written job scheduler for scaling up GPU workloads to multi-thousand GPU clusters...
Linux 7.2-rc7 Addresses A "Nasty" Race Condition Leading To Use-After-Free After 8 Years
The Linux kernel Git activity continues being quite heavy this week on fixes. It's looking like the Linux 7.2-rc7 kernel release on Sunday will be another big one with the changes continuing to flow in from both developers and AI bots...
AMD Updates HDMI 2.1 VRR & ALLM Patches But Will Miss Out On Linux 7.3
Complementing the HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support that AMD already upstreamed to the Linux kernel, AMD engineers have been further ironing out their HDMI 2.1 implementation for the open-source AMDGPU Linux kernel driver. The latest quest has been getting HDMI 2.1 variable rate refresh (VRR) support upstreamed along with HDMI Auto Low-Latency Mode (ALLM)...
Vulkan 1.4.359 Expands Cooperative Matrix Capabilities
Vulkan 1.4.359 released today and this one week update to the Vulkan API specification brings a new extension for enhancing the cooperative matrix capabilities...
GCC 16.2 Released With More Than 100 Fixes
Following the GCC 16.1 compiler release from the end of April as the first stable version of GCC 16, GCC 16.2 is now available with dozens of bug fixes collected since then for further stabilizing this year's GNU compiler feature release...
Calibre 9.13 E-Book Manager Improves PDF Output, Content Server, and More
Calibre 9.13 open-source ebook manager is now available for download as a bugfix release that addresses various regressions introduced in the previous release and other issues.
AMD Squeezes In A Few More Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 7.3
AMD today submitted their last planned feature updates ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening later this month...
Zapscape Is The Latest Linux Vulnerability For KVM Guest-To-Host Escape, LPE
Made public earlier today is Zapscape as a guest-to-host escape vulnerability affecting the Linux KVM x86 code for the past six years. This 2020 kernel change to KVM x86 can also be used as a local privilege escalation (LPE) exploit too where /dev/kvm is world-writable on some Linux distributions like RHEL...
IceWM 4.1 Released with New Window Focus Control
The lightweight IceWM window manager reaches version 4.1 with improved focus handling, safer configuration parsing, and updated translations.
Six stable kernels with a security fix
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.1.7, 6.18.43, 6.6.149, 6.1.181, 5.15.214, and 5.10.263 stable kernels. These kernels fix a single security vulnerability (CVE-2026-68480) that could allow data leakage through speculative execution. Users of those kernels are advised to upgrade.
FOSS Weekly #26.32: Kittens, Feed Readers, Free Bash Course, No AI in Kernel Staging and More
RSS feed is one way to escape the clutches of algorithms.
After Nearly a Decade of Distro Hopping, I Realized It Was Never About the Distro
Some lessons are learned the hard way....or in this case, the looong way.
Linux 7.2-rc7 Restoring Btrfs Fixup Worker Infrastructure To Address Silent Data Loss
Back during the Linux 7.2 merge window the Btrfs file-system dropped its COW fixup mechanism, which was used to detect dirty pages without an ordered extent. This code was removed as it was believed the kernel's memory management layer had solved the underlying conditions but in reality it ended up leading to silent data loss. That Btrfs fixup worker infrastructure is now restored in time for Linux 7.2-rc7 this weekend and the stable v7.2 kernel later this month...
New AMD P-State Patch Delivers Major Linux Gaming Performance Boost
by George Whittaker A newly proposed patch for the Linux kernel's AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver is showing impressive gaming performance improvements, potentially delivering a noticeable boost for Ryzen users without requiring new hardware. Early benchmarks indicate that the optimization can significantly improve frame rates in CPU-bound games by allowing processors to respond more quickly to changing workloads. (phoronix.com) Although the patch has not yet been merged into the mainline Linux kernel, the initial results have generated considerable excitement among Linux gamers and kernel developers alike. What Is AMD P-State? AMD P-State is the modern CPU frequency scaling driver for AMD Ryzen processors on Linux. Rather than relying on the older ACPI CPUFreq driver, AMD P-State communicates directly with the processor to adjust clock speeds based on workload demands. Its goals include: Faster frequency scaling Improved power efficiency Better responsiveness Higher performan