Made public and mitigated within the mainline Linux kernel last month was the VMSCAPE vulnerability affecting both AMD and Intel CPUs. Now merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel is adding VMSCAPE to the recently-introduced Attack Vector Controls functionality…

Some think that Bazaar is on its way to being the go-to Flatpak app store in the Linux world — often preferable to standard app stores. It’s certainly worth trying, whether you’re a new or experienced user.

The post Why Bazaar Is the Best Flatpak App Store You’re Not Using appeared first on FOSS Force.

During the month of September on Phoronix were 271 original Linux/open-source news articles and another 19 featured Linux hardware reviews and benchmark articles, all written by your’s truly. Here is a look back at what excited Linux enthusiasts the most on Phoronix during September…

In addition to XFS enabling online fsck by default, Bcachefs being stripped from the mainline Linux kernel, and Btrfs improvements making for a notable first few days of the Linux 6.18 window, there’s more. The EXT4, EROFS, and NTFS3 drivers are bringing the latest batch of file-system changes for Linux 6.18…

The Fedora
Council began a process to create a policy on AI-assisted
contributions in 2024, starting with a survey to ask the community
its opinions about AI and using AI technologies in Fedora. On
September 25, Jason Brooks published
a draft policy for discussion; so far, in keeping with the spirit of
compromise, it has something to make everyone unhappy. For some it is
too AI-friendly, while others have complained that it holds Fedora
back from experimenting with AI tooling.

OpenSUSE Leap 16.0 is out today as this community Linux distributiom built from the same sources as SUSE Linux Enterprise 16…

In an unexpected move, the UBports Foundation released today the first update to their Ubuntu Touch mobile OS based on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series.

Linus Torvalds has come out strong against proposed support for RISC-V big endian capabilities within the Linux kernel…

The Academy Software Foundation’s OpenColorIO “OCIO” project as a color management solution for motion picture production and related uses has added support for the Vulkan API…

Changes merged this week to the Mesa PowerVR Vulkan driver now allow it to support all of the functionality required by the Vulkan 1.2 specification…

OpenZFS 2.4-rc2 was released on Tuesday as the latest stepping stone toward the big OpenZFS 2.4 feature release…

Due to rising demand around system memory being pushed up in large part by HBM for AI applications, Raspberry Pi announced price increases on select products to help offset the rising LPDDR costs…

F-Droid says Google’s developer registration rule could end its open-source app store and strand users. Google defends verification as a security step.

Learn how to use Stonkfetch Python CLI tool to fetch and track real-time stock information with ASCII art logos in your Terminal.

A year after OSI debuted OSAID 1.0, critics Amanda Brock and Bruce Perens still aren’t sold — and they say the debate points to bigger questions for tech, as well as open source.

MuseScore Studio 4.6 open-source notation app adds new guitar, piano, and voice features along with big workflow improvements.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the October 2025 issue.

NVIDIA released today the NVIDIA 580.95.05 graphics drivers for NVIDIA GPUs on Linux, BSD, and Solaris systems as the second update to the latest NVIDIA 580 series.

The GNU Linux-libre project announced today the release and general availability of the GNU Linux-libre 6.17 kernel for those who seek 100% freedom for their GNU/Linux computers and software freedom lovers.

After originally hoping to publish the open-source code last year, today AMD published the initial openSIL code for enabling Phoenix SoCs to make use of this in-development CPU silicon initialization alternative to AGESA…