Linux NewsLinux 6.18 Adding New Option For More Detailed Bug Reporting But Cost Of Greater Memory
Among the big flow of pull requests today for this first day of the Linux 6.19 merge window are some core kernel bug handling improvements...
Fwupd 2.0.18 Enables Linux Firmware Updating For More Hardware
Fresh off Framework Computer becoming a new corporate sponsor of the LVFS / Fwupd, there is a new Fwpd 2.0.18 update for this solution that enables convenient and easy system and device/peripheral firmware updating under Linux...
GNU Linux-libre 6.18 Neuters More Functionality Due To Blobs With Intel Xe, NVIDIA Nova
Following yesterday's Linux 6.18 kernel release, GNU Linux-libre 6.18-gnu is out today as the latest release of this free software purist kernel that will drop/block drivers from loading microcode/firmware considered non-free-software and other restrictions in the name of not pushing binary blobs even when needed for hardware support/functionality on otherwise open-source drivers...
ObsidianOS Review: A New, Innovative Linux Distro Built Around A/B Partitioning
The idea to rollback via two root partitions is interesting. This is certainly not your regular rethemed Arch distro.
New Rockchip RKCIF & RKVDEC HEVC Media Drivers For Linux 6.19
The media subsystem updates were sent out this morning for the now-open Linux 6.19 merge window. There are some new Rockchip drivers and other media drivers that are new for Linux 6.19...
Raspberry Pi Announces Price Hikes Due To RAM Demand, 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 Launched
Due to the ongoing RAM shortages in the industry amid ongoing massive demand for AI servers,Raspberry Pi announced today they are having to raise prices on the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single board computers. They have also launched a 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 version too for those not needing much memory and wanting to keep pricing to a minimum...
Apple HFS/HFS+ File-System Drivers Receive Corruption Fixes & More For Linux 6.19
It was just earlier this year that Linux developers considered dropping the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the mainline Linux kernel for being unmaintained. But then some new developers stepped up to maintain the drivers and there has been new HFS/HFS+ file-system patches each kernel cycle since. With the now in-development Linux 6.19 kernel there are some nice year-end clean-ups to these file-system drivers...
Steam Machine, Continued Open-Source Rust Usage & Linux Kernel Happenings In November
It was an eventful past month with Valve announcing the new Steam Machine, a lot of new Linux kernel activity, the continued increase of Rust programming language adoption by open-source projects, a lot of fun hardware benchmarks, and more. There were 283 original news articles on Phoronix the past month about Linux/open-source software and hardware plus another 18 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Here is a look back at the most popular content over the past month...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 30th, 2025
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for November 30th, 2025, brings news about Linux kernel 6.18, GNOME 49.2, CachyOS November 2025 release, EndeavourOS Ganymede, Solus 4.8, 4MLinux 50.0, AV Linux 25, Ultramarine 43, Rocky Linux 10.1, AlmaLinux OS 10.1, new Raspberry Pi OS release, NixOS 25.11, Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0, KeePassXC 2.7.11, Archinstall 3.0.14, Armbian 25.11, KaOS 2025.11, and more.
Linux Kernel 6.18 Released, This Is What’s New
Linux kernel 6.18 brings expanded architecture support, BPF updates, new namespace file-handle features, and wide-ranging hardware enablement across CPUs, GPUs, and sensors.
The 6.18 kernel has been released
Linus has released the 6.18 kernel, as expected. So I'll have to admit that I'd have been happier with slightly less bugfixing noise in this last week of the release, but while there's a few more fixes than I would hope for, there was nothing that made me feel like this needs more time to cook. So 6.18 is tagged and pushed out. Headline changes in this release include the ability to manage namespaces with file handles, support for the AccECN congestion-control protocol, initial support for signing of BPF programs, improved memory management with sheaves, the Rust binder driver, better control over transparent huge pages, and a lot more. This release also saw the removal of the bcachefs filesystem. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 6.18 page for more information.
How to Make Your Linux System Flatpak Ready
Flatpaks can give your Linux desktop access to newer apps, but only if your system is set up to use them. Here's a straightforward guide to getting any distro Flatpak‑ready. The post How to Make Your Linux System Flatpak Ready appeared first on FOSS Force.
Linux 6.18 Released with Speed Boosts, Gaming Fixes and Bcachefs Removal
Linux kernel 6.18 is released with sizeable performance boosts, new laptop drivers, and a controversial filesystem removal – plus more! Key changes inside.
Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 48 (Nov 24 – 30, 2025)
Catch up on the latest Linux news: EndeavourOS Ganymede, Solus 4.8, CachyOS, Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0, Wine 10.20, Tmux 3.6, Redis 8.4, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS roadmap, KDE Plasma 6.8 will go fully Wayland, and more.
Linux Kernel 6.18 Officially Released, Could Be the Next LTS Kernel Series
Linux kernel 6.18 is now available for download with new features, enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, improvements to filesystems and networking, and much more. Here’s what’s new!