In this article, I will give you some links and short reviews of a few of the Linux books that have been released within the last years. Many of them are literally in front of me on my shelves right now!

The upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle is set to introduce initial support for Xe3P graphics to be found initially with Nova Lake processors. While that initial support is landing for Linux 6.19, other extra Xe3P features are still to be added to the open-source kernel driver over coming release cycles. One of those extra features being currently tackled is a new element with Xe3P_LPD: the ability to use the system cache for FBC…

Canonical and AMI announced a partnership today so that there will be an Ubuntu Metbookt option added within AMI’s UEFI firmware to allow booting to the Ubuntu installer without the need for even having any install media…

KeePassXC, a cross-platform and open-source community-driven port of the Windows application “KeePass Password Safe”, has been updated today to version 2.7.11, a release that brings new features and many improvements.

The end of 2025 is quickly approaching and while there are the various end of year holidays, you can still expect to find new and original content on Phoronix each and every single day of the year just as it’s been for more than a decade of the now 21-year-old Phoronix.com. The last day without any new content on Phoronix was all the way back in May of 2012. That’s due to my passion for Linux hardware and open-source, paired in more recent years with the more grueling environment to make ends meet with the ever increasing state of the web advertising industry, rampant ad-block use, and related challenges for web publishers. If you would like to show your support for Phoronix’s Linux hardware content over the past two decades, this week is the “Cyber Week” / “Black Friday” sale to go ad-free, multi-page-articles on a single page, and other benefits at a reduced rate…

The 267th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on November 23rd, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Since the 2022 release of memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used RAM testing utility, this open-source software has continued advancing nicely after a decade hiatus. Released on Sunday night was memtest86+ 8.0 as the latest iteration of this popular RAM tester for enthusiasts…

The export command is used to create environment variables or update variable values in the current shell session by newly forked child processes without starting a new shell session.

Linus has released 6.18-rc7, probably the
last -rc before the 6.18 release.

So the rc6 kernel wasn’t great: we had a last-minute core VM
regression that caused people problems.

That’s not a great thing late in the release cycle like that, but
it was a fairly trivial fix, and the cause wasn’t some horrid bug,
just a latent gotcha that happened to then bite a late VM fix. So
while not great, it also doesn’t make me worry about the state of
6.18. We’re still on track for a final release next weekend unless
some big new problem rears its ugly head.

Linux 6.18-rc7 just arrived in the Git tree as the newest weekly test build leading up to Linux 6.18 stable hopefully debuting next Sunday, 30 November…

Wayland Protocols 1.46 released this evening with new experimental protocols for text improvements as well as refinements to the color management protocol for HDR…

This year’s Linux Foundation TAB election is in its nominating phase, with seats open to kernel developers and contributors who meet the commit?based voting requirements.

This year’s Linux Foundation TAB election is in its nominating phase, with seats open to kernel developers and contributors who meet the commit‑based voting requirements.

The post Linux Foundation Is Seeking Technical Advisory Board Candidates appeared first on FOSS Force.

The Racket programming language
project has released Racket
version 9.0. Racket is a descendant of Scheme, so it is part of the Lisp family of languages. The headline feature in the release is parallel
threads, which adds to the concurrency tools in the language: “While
Racket has had green threads for some time, and supports parallelism via
futures and places, we feel parallel threads is a major addition.”
Other new features include the black-box
wrapper to prevent the compiler from optimizing calculations away, the decompile-linklet
function to map linklets
back to an s-expression, the
addition of Weibull
distributions to the math library, and more.

The Oracle blog has a
lengthy article on enhancements to GCC to help detect overflows of
flexible array members (FAMs) in C programs.

We describe here two new GNU extensions which specify size
information for FAMs. These are a new attribute,
“counted_by” and a new builtin function,
“__builtin_counted_by_ref“. Both extensions can be used in
GNU C applications to specify size information for FAMs, improving
the buffer overflow detection for FAMs in general.

This work has been covered on LWN as well.

NVIDIA has a number of Linux kernel patches on the way to the Linux 6.19 kernel in preparing for 1.6 Tb/s networking on NVIDIA-Mellanox hardware…

The new MariaDB 12.1 update introduces a segmented key cache, MDL scalability gains, and several enhancements across the database engine.

The call for
candidates for the 2025 election for the Linux Foundation Technical
Advisory Board has been posted.

The TAB exists to provide advice from the kernel community to the
Linux Foundation and holds a seat on the LF’s board of directors;
it also serves to facilitate interactions both within the community
and with outside entities. Over the last year, the TAB has
overseen the organization of the Linux Plumbers Conference, advised
on the setup of the kernel CVE numbering authority, worked behind
the scenes to help resolve a number of contentious community
discussions, worked with the Linux Foundation on community
conference planning, and more.

Nominations close on December 13.

Recent policy updates point to a new direction for Arduino with Qualcomm at the helm. Will Arduino’s open-source legacy survive?

The post Privacy and Openness Collide as Qualcomm Reshapes Arduino’s Rules appeared first on FOSS Force.

AWS engineers have been working on Linux kernel improvements to KVM’s VMX code for enhancing the unamanged guest memory when dealing with nested virtual machines. The improved code addresses some correctness issues as well as delivering wild performance improvements within a synthetic benchmark…