openSUSE’s new Agama installer v13 is here, bringing hostname configuration, LVM support, and more.

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is a type of software that enables individuals to design electronic systems. We pick the best open source tools for Linux.

Linux Mint project leader Clement Lefebvre published today a new edition of their monthly newsletter talking about some of the new features and improvements coming to Liinux Mint, LMDE 7, and related components.

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Debian project leader election; 6.15 Merge window; Lots of LSFMM coverage; Joplin.
• Briefs: Firefox hardening; OpenSSH 10.0; Supply chain security; FreeDOS 1.4; OpenSSL 3.5.0; Rust 1.86.0; Quotes; …
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Submitted today via DRM-Misc-Next for queuing in DRM-Next until the Linux 6.16 merge window in June is the Asahi driver user-space API “UAPI” header. This is the user-space API intended for the Asahi kernel graphics driver for supporting the Apple M-Series graphics hardware under Linux. But due to being written in the Rust programming language and various kernel abstractions not yet ready among other obstacles, only the user-space API header is set to be added and not yet introducing the actual Direct Rendering Manager driver…

AMD announced today they will be hosting a virtual “Advancing AI 2025” event in mid-June where they will talk about their next-gen AMD Instinct accelerators while of much interest to many Phoronix readers is an update on the ROCm open-source software…

Not to be confused with the AMDXDNA accelerator driver that was mainlined just with the Linux 6.14 kernel, AMD Linux engineers are now working on “AMDPK” as a new accelerator driver for their upcoming PKI Accelerator engines…

Tom Schuster, Frederik Braun, and Christoph Kerschbaumer have
published an article
on the Firefox Security team’s Attack & Defense
blog that explains recent work to harden Firefox’s frontend code.

We have rewritten over 600 JavaScript event handlers to mitigate XSS
and other injection attacks in the main Firefox user interface. This
mitigation will ship in Firefox 138. However, blocking the execution
of scripts in the parent process is not the end – we will expand this
technique to other contexts in the near future. There is still more
work to do as the UI requires JavaScript APIs with a high level of
privileges. However: We still eliminated a whole class of attacks,
significantly raising the bar for attackers to exploit Firefox.

The Topaz Tz170 J484 Development Kit is a compact platform for evaluating and prototyping with the Efinix Tz170 FPGA. It integrates onboard memory, configurable I/O, and a preloaded reference design, providing a practical setup for testing and demonstration across a range of FPGA applications. The development kit is built around the Tz170 FPGA, which uses […]

Cisco Jabber is a communication tool that allows users to send instant messages, make phone calls, join meetings, and manage contacts. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

OpenSSH 10 is out now, featuring stronger cryptographic defaults, new post-quantum key exchange, and key security improvements across the board.

Last year TUXEDO Computers shared that they were developing an ARM Linux notebook powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite. They hoped to have the Snapdragon X Elite Linux laptop shipping by Christmas 2024, but that didn’t pan out. TUXEDO Computers has now provided a status update regarding this ARM Linux notebook effort…

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 193 has been released today for this powerful, open-source, and secure Linux-based firewall distribution designed to protect networks against evolving cyber threats introducing post-quantum cryptography.

Framework Computer has been working on bringing the Framework 12 to market as a new, smaller and convertible laptop while retaining the upgradeable aspects that users have come to love from the company. Today the company announced the pre-orders are open and the first Framework Laptop 12 devices will be shipping in June…

Tiered-memory systems feature multiple types of memory with varying
performance characteristics; on such systems, good performance depends on
keeping the most frequently used data in the fastest memory. Identifying
that data and placing it properly is a challenge that has kept developers
busy for years. Bharata Rao, presenting remotely during a
memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, led a discussion on a potential solution he has recently
posted; Raghavendra K T was also named on the
session proposal. It seems likely, based on the discussion, that
developers working in this area will not run out of problems anytime soon.

The kernel
samepage merging (KSM) subsystem works by finding pages in memory with
the same contents, then replacing the duplicated copies with a single,
shared copy. KSM can improve memory utilization in a system, but has some
problems as well. In two memory-management-track sessions at the 2025
Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, Mathieu
Desnoyers and Sourav Panda proposed improvements to KSM to
make it work better for specific use cases.

Former CEO I worked under used to love saying: “Be fast or be perfect. And since no one’s perfect, you better be fast.” Sounds cool until you realize it was just a free pass to skip code reviews, bypass security controls, and YOLO prod deployments. “Speed” became a shield to ignore due diligence. PRs got rushed, on-call was a tire fire, and postmortems turned into recurring meetings with new names.

My favorite part was engineers asking for admin access “to move faster.” (Spoiler: they didn’t need it)

The real issue was that we weren’t a scrappy startup anymore. We were playing enterprise dress-up with a startup mindset. Speed was costing us everything from tech debt to fragility, rework, and burnout. Then I changed jobs and landed back in actual startup mode. Heard the same “move fast” mantra again. But this time, it clicked differently. Because here’s the thing: you can move fast without lighting your future self on fire. Good teams know when to slam the brakes, take a breath, and make decisions that won’t age like milk. Move fast, sure—but maybe don’t bulldoze the foundation while you’re at it.

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OpenSSL 3.5 introduces major crypto updates, including PQC support, server-side QUIC, and new TLS defaults.

A novel way to encourage upgrades? Microsoft would never stoop so lowPatch Tuesday Patch Tuesday has arrived, and Microsoft has revealed one flaw in its products under active exploitation and 11 critical issues in its code to fix.…

Cardo is a Linux podcast client for the desktop, seeking inspiration from Antennapod, a podcast aggregator for Android.