Linux NewsCloudflare Is Building a Free Public CA to Rival Let’s Encrypt
Cloudflare is building a free, public Certificate Authority with ACME support to add more choice and resilience to the TLS ecosystem.
AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform OS Updated With ROCm 10.0, Linux 7.2
With the AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PC that launched this summer that focused on local AI, one of the biggest surprises for me when reviewing the unit was finding that the Linux preload wasn't just a stock Ubuntu/Debian OS but rather a customized AMD Linux distribution known as AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform. Yesterday the newest version of AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform was released with some nice software updates...
aerynOS Could Soon Welcome Budgie Desktop
Joshua Strobl has opened a pull request to bring Budgie Desktop 10.10.3, related apps, and required dependencies into aerynOS.
systemd-appd Out For Review To Centralize Tracking Of User's Apps
The newest systemd component being worked on and drafted for an initial pull request is systemd-appd as a new mechanism to centralizing the tracking of user's apps...
ASO Business Computer College : Training IT Infrastructure Professionals Through Hands-On Education and Linux Certification
Overview As demand for skilled IT infrastructure professionals continues to grow, vocational education plays an increasingly important role in preparing students for careers in cloud computing, servers, networking, and other technology fields. ASO Business Computer College Fukuoka, one of Kyushu’s ... Read more The post ASO Business Computer College : Training IT Infrastructure Professionals Through Hands-On Education and Linux Certification appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Imagination Talks Up Their Open-Source Vulkan Driver, Volcanic Architecture Plans
Imagination Tech was at XDC 2026 Toronto this week to talk up their ongoing work around their PowerVR Mesa Vulkan driver (and PVR upstream DRM kernel driver) with this driver continuing to improve, plans for supporting their new Volcanic GPU architecture, and other improvements...
Latest Debian 13 “Trixie” Kernel Security Update Patches More Than 1300 CVEs
The latest Linux kernel security update for Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” fixes no less than 1313 vulnerabilities that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.
Intel Iris Open-Source Driver Now Supports Efficient 64-bit Addressing Mode
As a follow-up to the news one month ago of Intel Nova Lake P's graphics introducing a new 64-bit GPU mode, the latest driver-side enablement has now landed for Intel's Iris Gallium3D OpenGL driver for supporting efficient 64-bit addressing...
Ubuntu's Next Rust Effort May See OpenPGP Replaced By Sequoia PGP
Canonical engineer Richard Scott McNew published a status update surrounding the Rust programming language efforts in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release. Sequoia PGP is being rolled out to Ubuntu Linux and in a future release may end up replacing OpenPGP...
Apex Compute Developing Open-Source Mesa Vulkan Driver For Their Hardware
Apex Compute is the company started in California in 2024 that aims to produce high-efficiency AI accelerators for real-time edge AI inferencing. So far they have an FPGA prototype for licensing and deployment and carries the bold claim of being "20x faster than the NVIDIA Jetson" and at under 10W and one fifth the cost. Making Apex Compute much more interesting to us now is that they are developing an open-source, Mesa-based Vulkan driver for their hardware...
Coreboot 26.09 Released With Framework Laptop 12 Support, AI Review Comment Policy
Coreboot 26.09 released yesterday as the latest quarterly feature release to this open-source software for replacing proprietary BIOS and system firmware on a growing selection of devices...
KDE Nearing Decision Point On BuildStream-Based KDE Linux
KDE Linux developers have been experimenting with a build of their Linux distribution based on BuildStream to ship as an OS image rather than a set of Arch Linux packages. They are nearing a point soon where they will decide if they will officially ship this BuildStream-based KDE Linux image...
Mozilla Thunderbird Is Finally Coming to iPhone and iPad
After years without an official iOS client, Mozilla Thunderbird is now building a native app for iPhone and iPad with testing planned ahead.
Linux App Release Roundup (September 2026)
Autumnal vibes may be blowing in (for the top-half of the globe, at least) but Linux app developers aren’t minded to hunker down. Aa varied set of Linux app updates were released in September 2026. Big releases to merit a full write up included the redesigned Audacity 4.0 and gThumb 4.0 releases (the former overdue, the latter looking like a new app entirely). I also covered Calibre’s wave of (peculiar) AI feature integrations, if reading books isn’t what you want to do. A pair of (count ’em) Firefox updates arrived, though it was the rollout of the Nova theme in […]
New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Can Leak Linux Kernel Memory
Researchers reveal Branch Target Reuse, a new Spectre-v2 attack that exploits stale branch predictions to leak arbitrary Linux kernel memory.