Linux NewsRaspberry Pi Imager 2.0.7 Released With UI Fixes and Improved Device Support
Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.7 delivers UI fixes, improved device support, better search, and multiple bug fixes across Linux, Windows, and macOS.
Backing up isn’t enough: A modern guide to ZFS on Linux
It's awesome—but it, sadly, has some downfalls.
Open-Source Nouveau Performance With Linux 7.0 + NVK Mesa 26.1-dev vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver
As a few months have passed since our prior round of testing the fully open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver and Mesa NVK Vulkan driver plus Zink, here is a fresh round of benchmarks using Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.1-dev compared to the open-source stack shipped by Ubuntu 25.10 (Linux 6.17 + Mesa 25.2) for showing how far the open-source NVIDIA driver has progressed the past few months. Plus testing against the NVIDIA official Linux graphics driver for putting that Nouveau/NVK performance into perspective.
Troubleshooting "AppImages require FUSE to run" on Linux
AppImage complained of missing libfuse.so.2 even though fuse2 and fuse3 both were installed. Here's what I did to fix the issue.
Afraid of breaking your Linux install? Here’s how to resize partitions safely
Resizing partitions via a command line doesn't have to be complicated.
Ubuntu Will Switch To ntpd-rs As Its Next Rust System Component
Canonical engineers are planning a switch to ntpd-rs as the newest Rust-based system component for Ubuntu Linux for handling time synchronization...
AMD Announces The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2
AMD this morning finally announced the long-rumored Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 flagship processor with 3D V-Cache for both of the CCDs...
Tails 7.6 Introduces Automatic Tor Bridges to Bypass Censorship
Tails 7.6 adds built-in Tor bridge support for restricted networks and switches to GNOME Secrets as the default password manager.
Canonical Plans Controversial GRUB Changes for Ubuntu 26.10 Secure Boot
Canonical plans changes to Secure Boot GRUB in Ubuntu 26.10, removing support for LUKS, LVM, ZFS, and other features.
Intel Xe Driver In Linux 7.1 Enabling THP For Device Pages As A Big SVM Win
Sent out today was a new batch of "drm-xe-next" material of Intel Xe kernel graphics driver improvements ready for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel cycle. Standing out in this pull is enabling Transparent Hugepages (THP) support for drm_pagemap as a big win for those making use of Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) for GPU compute and the like...
Fedora 45 Aims For IPv6-Mostly Support Out-Of-The-Box
One of the early features for Fedora 45 that was approved this week is enabling IPv6-mostly support within NetworkManager for a more modern out-of-the-box network experience...
NXP Neutron NPU Kernel Driver Blocked For Now By A Closed-Source User-Space Blob
Last month NXP posted open-source Linux kernel driver patches for their Neutron NPU accelerator. The NXP Neutron NPU aims to help with edge AI applications and this neural processing unit is found in their different SoCs. Unfortunately, their GitHub repository for the user-space software ends up containing a binary-only blob that will end up delaying plans on getting this driver into the mainline Linux kernel...
An Enticing Optimization For Linux Memory Reclaim On Today's Multi-Core Platforms
A new set of Linux kernel patches for batch TLB flushing for dirty folios within the kernel's vmscan path were recently floated on the Linux kernel mailing list. This batch TLB flushing optimization for dirty folios during memory reclaim can be a significant performance win with today's multi-core hardware...
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 26, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Security collaboration; Manjaro governance; kernel development tools; PHP licensing; kernel direct map patches; sleepable BPF. Briefs: LiteLLM compromise; Tor in Taiwan; b4 v0.15.0; 24-hour sideloading; Agama 19; Firefox 149.0; GNOME 50; Krita 5.3.0 and 6.0.0; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
VitruvianOS 0.3 Debuts as Haiku-Inspired Linux OS Without X11 or Wayland
VitruvianOS 0.3 is the first public release, featuring a Haiku-inspired design and a custom graphics stack built on the Linux kernel, without X11 or Wayland.