The next release of systemd has been percolating for an unusually
long time. Systemd releases are usually about six months apart, but
v257 came out in
December 2024, and v258 just now seems to be nearing the finish
line; the third release candidate for v258 was published on
August 20 (release
notes). Now is a good time to dig in and take a look at some of
the new features, enhancements, and removals coming soon to
systemd. These include new workload-management features, a concept for
multiple home-directory environments, and the final, once-and-for-all
removal of support for control
groups version 1.

Armbian 25.8.1 brings Linux kernel 6.16, Debian Trixie support, new SBC boards, and updated drivers.

Going on for several months now has been an effort to wire up cache-aware scheduling / load balancing for the Linux kernel for helping out task placement for processors with multiple cache domains such as modern AMD Ryzen/EPYC and Intel Xeon platforms. This cache-aware scheduling has shown much potential for Linux with further enhancing performance on today’s interesting CPUs. Out today is the third iteration of cache-aware scheduling with an important rework…

The Zed Editor remains a popular code editor written in the Rust programming language and providing modern features for this project started by former Atom developers. One of the long sought features for Zed has been having built-in debugger capabilities and that work has finally been merged to the project’s codebase…

In this explainer, Jack Wallen will not only explain Ollama, he’ll walk you through getting it running on your Linux box.

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Released yesterday were X.Org Server 21.1.17 and XWayland 24.1.7 to address another batch of six security vulnerabilities reported by security researchers. Out today is X.Org Server 21.1.18 and XWayland 24.1.8 in order to further button up one of the security issues reported yesterday…

The POSIX
realtime model, which is implemented in the Linux kernel, can ensure
that a realtime process obtains the CPU time it needs to get its job done.
It can be less effective, though, when there are multiple realtime
processes competing for the available CPU resources. The hierarchical
constant bandwidth server patch series, posted by Yuri Andriaccio with
work by Luca Abeni, Alessio Balsini, and Andrea Parri, is a modification to
the Linux scheduler intended to make it possible to configure systems with
multiple realtime tasks in a deterministic and correct manner.

This is the first article in a new series looking at both the Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Orange Pi 5 Max single board computers (SBCs) running Linux. These two SBCs are identical in almost all respects with the exception of their HDMI ports.

The post Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Max Single Board Computers Running Linux: Introduction appeared first on Linux Today.

OWASP Nettacker is a free, open-source tool designed for network scanning, information gathering, and basic vulnerability assessment. Built and maintained by the OWASP community, Nettacker helps security pros automate common tasks like port scanning, service detection, and brute-force attacks. It offers a controlled and extensible framework for running these tests.

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KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop introduces better visuals, smart widgets, a redesigned Spectacle, and adaptive tiling per virtual desktop.

The latest Linux kernel updates deliver groundbreaking performance, security, and hardware support enhancements that benefit enterprise users, developers, and everyday enthusiasts alike.

AMD engineers today posted the second iteration of their AMD ISP4 Linux kernel driver, which is for supporting the web-camera with the high-end Strix Halo powered HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptop and presumably many AMD Ryzen laptops in the future…

Maxlab launched the Tokay Lite in 2023, an open-source ESP32 camera with 2MP video at 15 FPS and edge AI features like facial recognition. The new Tokay Pro upgrades to an NXP i.MX 8M Plus for real-time detection, modular sensors, and high-res video in industrial applications. Tokay Pro integrates the DART-MX8M-PLUS System-on-Module from Variscite, featuring […]

Broadcom has been working on a new Linux Ethernet networking driver dubbed “BNGE” for supporting their new high-end BCM5770X chipset family…

The Arch Linux project announced this week they are working to transition their Wine and Wine-Staging packages over to pure WoW64 builds. This “Windows on Windows 64-bit” allows for 32-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Linux platforms without needing 32-bit software libraries/prefixes present and overall a big architectural win…

Alienware G-Mode / Game Shift is a feature designed to “enhance gaming performance” on select Dell/Alienware laptops with the press of a key. But at least under Linux with select laptop models it can actually regress performance compared to just running the laptop in the “performance” platform profile…

The Qt Creator 17 integrated development environment released today with a variety of improvements for this primarily C++/Qt focused developer IDE…

Mesa’s Rusticl OpenCL driver has supported various elements of 2D image handling while the latest addition in enhancing this open-source driver’s support is for sRGB images…

China’s ‘little dragons’ pose big challenge to US AI firmsMiniMax, an AI firm based in Shanghai, has released an open-source reasoning model that challenges Chinese rival DeepSeek and US-based Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google in terms of performance and cost.…

Prior to the AMD Advancing AI 2025 event last week, AMD shared additional details on their forthcoming Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series processors.