The newest Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) display driver that has been in the works for the Linux kernel is “Yhgch” from Inspur…

Following the numerous Intel Linux developer departures last month from the company following layoffs at Intel and others deciding to voluntarily leave, there is another one to report today. One of the Intel IVPU accelerator driver maintainers for the Intel NPUs found in Core Ultra SoCs is departing the company…

For those preferring for the first point release to major new compiler releases before upgrading, LLVM 21.1.1 is out today along with the likes of Clang 21.1.1 for this widely-used open-source compiler stack…

The SpecFive Strike is a handheld Linux workstation with integrated LoRa mesh networking. Built on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and a custom SpecFive carrier board, it targets developers, makers, hackers, and off-grid communicators by combining Linux computing, wireless connectivity, and portability. The device comes in a PETG enclosure featuring a 4.3-inch touchscreen and […]

The long-in-development web-based user interface for the Anaconda installer used by Fedora (and Red Hat Enterprise Linux) continues maturing well and expanding its usage before eventually seeing the Anaconda GTK-based UI deprecated in the future…

After months of work, Valve released today a major Steam Client update that brings goodies for both AMD and NVIDIA Linux gamers, along with new accessibility features, and many other enhancements.

KDE Plasma 6.4.5 lands with bugfixes for KWin, Discover, Plasma Desktop, and more, improving Wayland handling, notifications, and system stability.

The GNOME desktop environment has taken a significant step back from its controversial X11 deprecation with the release of GNOME 49 Release Candidate, which restores default X11 support in the GDM display manager. This major policy reversal addresses widespread community concerns and ensures better hardware compatibility for Linux users who have struggled with Wayland-only sessions.

The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.4.5 as the fifth maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series to address more of those pesky bugs, crashes, and other issues.

PeerTube 7.3, an open-source, decentralized video platform, adds multilingual emails, new admin tools, easier branding, and live stream scheduling.

Including messages sent to users, a potential problem for the privacy-consciousEncrypted messaging app Signal is rolling out a free storage system for its users, with extra space if folks are willing to pay for it.…

Arm this evening lifted the lid on Lumex, their new compute subsystem platform that is purpose-built around AI for next-gen PCs and smartphones…

Back in May was the announcement by Canonical’s kernel team that they were planning to ship Linux 6.17 in Ubuntu 25.10 as what will be the latest upstream kernel version when that Ubuntu release ships in October. But due to the timing of the Linux 6.17 release around late September and the Ubuntu 25.10 kernel freeze around the same time, it’s led to some confusion with committing to a Linux 6.17-rc or potentially some suggesting Ubuntu 25.10 would ship with a Linux 6.16 kernel and then ship v6.17 as a stable release update. Well, the situation is more clear with Linux 6.17 having been merged now as the default kernel of Ubuntu 25.10…

As a followup to his OSS Europe talk on the
future of 32-bit support in the kernel, Arnd Bergmann has put together
a
detailed plan for the eventual removal of high-memory support, which he
calls “one of the least popular features of the Linux kernel“. The
intent is “to gradually phase out highmem over the next 2 years for
mainline kernels“. This plan is posted as a prompt for a discussion to
be held at the Kernel Summit in December, so chances are it will evolve
considerably in the next few months.

It was just a few days ago that Rust Coreutils 0.2 released with “massive” performance gains and production-ready Ubuntu support. Rust Coreutils 0.2.2 is out today and is delivering a few more enhancements — most excitingly is a faster base64 command that can now outperform the GNU Coreutils version…

FEX 2509 is out today as the latest monthly update to this open-source emulator allowing unmodified x86/x86_64 games and applications to run in ARM64 Linux environments…

The 6.16.6,
6.12.46,
6.6.105,
6.1.151,
5.15.192,
5.10.243,
and 5.4.299
stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of
important fixes.

One of the AMD software initiatives we have been most excited about in recent times has been openSIL. AMD openSIL is working toward open-source CPU silicon initialization that will jive better with the likes of Coreboot and ultimately replace their existing AGESA implementation. AMD openSIL is expected to span AMD’s wide gamut of processors from client/embedded through server offerings. It’s still looking to be on track for production readiness in 2026…

Fedora’s Community Blog has a short
update on the progress of Fedora’s new installer with a web-based
interface. The new installer was introduced for the Workstation
edition in Fedora Linux 42, it is now approved to be
included in all Fedora spins and the KDE edition for
Fedora 43. Final deprecation of the GTK-based installer is set
for Fedora 45. LWN covered the installer
changes in April.

A new project, targeting Linux for the proverbial final frontier—outer
space—was the subject of a talk (YouTube video) at
the Embedded Linux Conference, which was held as part of Open
Source Summit Europe in Amsterdam in late August. Ramón Roche
introduced Space Grade
Linux (SGL), which is currently incubating as a special interest group
(SIG) of the Embedding Linux in Safety
Applications (ELISA) project. The idea is to create a distribution
with a base layer that can be used for off-planet missions of various
sorts, along with other layers that can be used to customize it for
different space-based use cases.