Simulating physics is central to robotics: before a robot ever moves in the real world, much of its learning, testing, and control happens in a virtual environment. But traditional simulators often struggle to match real-world physical complexity, especially where contact, friction, deformable materials, and unpredictable surfaces are involved. That discrepancy is known as the sim-to-real gap, and it’s one of the biggest hurdles in robotics and embodied AI… the Linux Foundation announced that it is contributing Newton, a next-generation, GPU-accelerated physics engine, as a fully open, community-governed project. This move aims to accelerate robotics research, reduce barriers to entry, and ensure long-term sustainability under neutral governance.

The many SoC and platform/machine DeviceTree additions have been merged for the Linux 6.18 kernel! This includes finally having mainline support for the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board and its EIC7700 SoC, Apple M2 Pro / Max / Ultra DeviceTrees added and associated Apple Mac system support, various new Snapdragon X1 laptops now being supported by the mainline kernel and much more…

The GNU Tools Cauldron is almost entirely focused on user-space tools, but
kernel developers need a solid toolchain too. In what appears to be a
developing tradition (started in 2024),
some kernel developers attended the 2025 Cauldron for the
second year in a row to discuss their needs with the assembled toolchain
developers. Topics covered in this year’s gathering include Rust, better
BPF type
format (BTF) support, SFrame, and more.

The openSUSE project announced today the release of openSUSE Leap 16 as a major update to this long-term supported, traditional, and full-featured openSUSE version derived from the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 16 operating system series.

The Kbuild changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel…

Following last month’s release of the first KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta, a second beta milestone was released today ahead of the stable release coming later in October…

So far Intel has posted very few Linux kernel driver enablement patches around Nova Lake but it looks like that is about to change…

Following the recent Raspberry Pi 500+ launch, the latest Raspberry Pi news is the release of Raspberry Pi OS now re-based against Debian 13 “Trixie” along with some additional changes…

After many months of preparations, the Alpine Linux development team announced today that they have decided to adopt a /usr-merged file system layout for future Alpine Linux releases.

The hardware monitoring “HWMON” subsystem updates have been sent out for the Linux 6.18 kernel with some notable additions…

Crowd Supply recently featured the SigCore UC, an upcoming universal industrial I/O controller that combines rugged hardware with open-source software for engineers, researchers, and educators seeking a flexible control and data acquisition platform. Unlike typical development boards or expansion modules, SigCore UC arrives as a complete, ready-to-deploy solution. It is capable of handling real-world voltages, […]

The BPF changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel…

OpenSSL 3.6 has been officially released today as a major update that introduces many new features and improvements for this open-source, cross-platform, and free software library that provides secure communications over computer networks for applications and websites.

Forlinx Embedded has introduced the OK3506-S12 Mini, a compact single board computer built around the Rockchip RK3506J processor. The board is intended for industrial applications that benefit from modest power consumption, stable operation, and long-term supply availability. The system-on-module integrates the RK3506J, which combines three Cortex-A7 cores running at up to 1.5GHz with a Cortex-M0 […]

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Fedora and AI; Linting kernel Rust; openSUSE Leap 16; mmap() file operation; 6.17 statistics; dirlock.
• Briefs: Bcachefs removal; Alpine /usr merge; F-Droid; Fedora AI policy; OpenSUSE Leap 16; PostgreSQL 18; Radicle 1.5.0; Quotes; …
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Valve just published the Steam Survey results for September with a slight increase to the Linux gaming userbase…

TrueNAS 25.10-RC1 is out today as the newest test release of this OpenZFS+Linux-based operating system for network attached storage (NAS) hardware and other storage devices…

The OpenStack cloud infrastructure project keeps on going, 15 years after it was first created as a joint effort of NASA and Rackspace.

Sent out today was the x86/mm pull request of the x86/x86_64 memory management changes destined for this next version of the Linux kernel. This pull has just one new patch but is worth mentioning…

First we setup F43 Server KVM Guest and issue `sudo dnf5 update` then reboot instance and run $ sudo dnf install @cosmic-desktop-environment . Then disable cosmic-greeter.service and enable sddm :- $ sudo systemctl disable cosmic-greeter.service ; $ sudo systemctl enable sddm. Reboot and log into Cosmic Beta DE on top of Fedora 43 Server . . . .