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Foss Force

SUSE Boosts EU Data Sovereignty Portfolio With Evroc Sovereign Cloud Deal

As US legal reach over cloud data keeps spooking EU regulators and customers, SUSE is betting that pairing its software with up‑and‑coming European providers like Evroc will give it an edge over US‑based rivals. The post SUSE Boosts EU Data Sovereignty Portfolio With Evroc Sovereign Cloud Deal appeared first on FOSS Force.

Linux Journal

Linux Kernel 5.4 Reaches End-of-Life: Time to Retire a Workhorse

by George Whittaker One of the most widely deployed Linux kernels has officially reached the end of its lifecycle. The maintainers of the Linux kernel have confirmed that Linux 5.4, once a cornerstone of countless servers, desktops, and embedded devices, is now end-of-life (EOL). After years of long-term support, the branch has been retired and will no longer receive upstream fixes or security updates. A Kernel Release That Defined a Generation of Linux Systems When Linux 5.4 debuted, it made headlines for bringing native exFAT support, broader hardware compatibility, and performance improvements that many distributions quickly embraced. It became the foundation for major OS releases, including Ubuntu LTS, certain ChromeOS versions, Android kernels, and numerous appliance and IoT devices. Its long support window made it a favorite for organizations seeking stability over bleeding-edge features. What End-of-Life Actually Means With the EOL announcement, the upstream kernel maintainers a

LPI

We Will Need All Those Data Centers (Part 2)

The previous article in this two-part series reviewed tech history to show that some investments make sense for society, even when companies move too fast and show “irrational exuberance.” These investors and companies may suffer and even cause a recession, ... Read more The post We Will Need All Those Data Centers (Part 2) appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).

LWN.net

[$] Bazzite: a gem for Linux gamers

One of the things that has historically stood between Linux and the fabled "year of the Linux desktop" is its lack of support for video games. Many users who would have happily abandoned Windows have, reluctantly, stayed for the video games or had to deal with dual booting. In the past few years, though, Linux support for games—including those that only have Windows versions—has improved dramatically, if one is willing to put the pieces together. Bazzite, an image-based Fedora derivative, is a project that aims to let users play games and use the Linux desktop with almost no assembly required.

LWN.net

Firefox 146 released

Version 146.0 of the Firefox web browser has been released. One feature of particular interest to Linux users is that Firefox now natively supports fractional scaled displays on Wayland. Firefox Labs has also been made available to all users even if they opt out of telemetry or participating in studies. "This means more experimental features are now available to more people." This release also adds support for Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM) for WebRTC. ML-KEM is "believed to be secure against attackers with large quantum computers". See the release notes for all changes.

LWN.net

Security updates for Tuesday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, and webkit2gtk3), Fedora (abrt and mingw-libpng), Mageia (apache and libpng), Oracle (abrt, go-toolset:rhel8, kernel, sssd, and webkit2gtk3), Red Hat (kernel and kernel-rt), SUSE (gimp, gnutls, kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-container, virt-exportproxy-container, virt-exportserver-container, virt-handler-container, virt-launcher-container, virt-libguestfs-t, and postgresql13), and Ubuntu (gnupg2, python-apt, radare2, and webkit2gtk).

Phoronix

Canonical To Distribute AMD ROCm Libraries With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

AMD previously talked of simplifying the in-box Linux support for ROCm during the second half of 2025. So far we haven't seen any groundbreaking changes from that initiative besides AMD working on various package archives/repositories to make it easier to install the latest ROCm on different Linux distributions. But today a big announcement is now public that Canonical with next year's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release will provide official ROCm packages along with other libraries...