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Fedora Linux 45 distribution is now available for public beta testing powered by Linux kernel 7.2 and featuring the GNOME 51 desktop environment. Here’s what to expect from the final release.
The scheduling of block I/O requests has long been a challenge for operating-system kernels. For many years, the performance characteristics of rotating drives meant that putting considerable resources into request ordering was worthwhile. In a world with fast, solid-state drives, scheduling is more concerned with enforcing fairness between competing users while being fast enough to keep up with drives that can perform millions of I/O operations per second. The blk-iocost I/O controller was designed for the solid-state world and generally performs well, but there is always a desire to do better. This patch series from Tao Cui aims to make blk-iocost more flexible by enabling the loading of a BPF program to make cost decisions.
We are happy to announce the availability of Fedora Linux Asahi Remix 45 Beta. This pre-release will bring the freshly announced Fedora Linux 45 Beta to Apple Silicon Macs. We expect to announce general availability of Fedora Linux Asahi Remix 45 in about a month. This will coincide with the overall Fedora Linux 45 release. […]
Fedora Linux 45 Beta is here! On Tuesday, 15 September 2026 you can download or upgrade your systems from your usual spots to start enjoying what F45 has to offer early. How to get the beta release You can download F45 Beta, or our pre-release edition versions, from any of the following places: You can […]
VirtualBox 7.2.18 adds Linux kernel 7.3 and RHEL 10.3 support, while fixing 3D crashes, VDI corruption, and Windows 11 ARM issues.
PostgreSQL contributor Tomas Vondra has published a blog post looking at development activity in the project, with data from the late 1990s to today. We're doing ~50 commits per week, give or take. In ~2010 we were doing maybe 25/week, and the trend seems to be a slow and consistent growth. The monthly average makes the trend a bit easier to spot. Which is good, although there's a lot of other important details (size of commits, are they new features or fixes, ...). It however nicely aligns with the number of active committers, which also grew ~2x between 2010 and today. So maybe that's working as expected.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (network-manager-l2tp and urwid), Fedora (perl-Dancer2, perl-Data-Entropy, perl-DBI, perl-Protocol-HTTP2, podman-tui, rust-lru, and rust-lru0.16), Mageia (bzip2, cups-filters, libcupsfilters, libssh2, perl-Authen-SASL, perl-HTML-FormFu, tar, unzip, and zip), Red Hat (grafana and image-builder), SUSE (389-ds, acl, attr, apache2-mod_auth_openidc, apr-util, aws-nitro-enclaves-cli, bzip2, c-ares, clamav, cpio, curl, dhcpcd, dovecot23, dovecot24, dracut, emacs, fuse-overlayfs, go1.25-openssl, go1.26-openssl, google-cloud-sap-agent, google-osconfig-agent, govulncheck-vulndb, gstreamer-devtools, gzip, helm, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, java-25-openjdk, jq, libBasicUsageEnvironment2, libgpg-error, libidn, librest, libusb-1_0, libvirt, LibVNCServer, libzypp, zypper, lkl, mcphost, MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss, rust-cbindgen, MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss, mozilla-nspr, rust-cbindgen, MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE, mozilla-
More than 100 Void Linux packages are now orphaned after a contributor stepped away following a dispute over AI-generated content.
The SDL3 library commonly used for games and applications for cross-platform hardware and software abstractions now has upstream support for Huawei's HarmonyOS and OpenHarmony...
Raspberry Pi OS 2026-09-15 is now available for download with dock support, new screenshot tool, updated Labwc Wayland compositor, and many other enhancements.
While Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is working fine out-of-the-box on new Intel Core 3 "Wildcat Lake" laptops like the CHUWI UniBook, next month's release of Ubuntu 26.10 will help deliver better performance out of these low-cost laptop options.
The beta release of Fedora 45 is out today and right on schedule for this wonderful Linux distribution...
Firefox 157 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with a brand-new design, proper support for displaying HDR videos encoded in 8-bit color formats as HDR and other changes.
Raspberry Pi OS September 2026 update adds a new dock, revamped desktop controls, a new screenshot tool, and Linux kernel 6.18.50 LTS.
Oracle christened Java 27 today with the OpenJDK 27 release reaching general availability (GA) status...
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