Rust lands in GRUB as an experiment—initial i386-pc support and dynamic modules, promising safer system code.

Cloudflare open-sources OPKSSH, bringing single sign-on to SSH with OpenID Connect and eliminating the need to manage long-lived SSH keys.

KDE developers propose a new Plasma Login Manager to replace SDDM, aiming for deeper integration and a more feature-rich, modern login experience.

This roundup highlights useful tools to view your fonts. We only feature free and open source software here.

“I spend 8 hours per week trying to keep up to date, it’s overwhelming!” “Integrating new libraries is difficult. They’re either poorly maintained or updated in ways that break compatibility.” “I want to be able to experiment quickly, without relying on APIs for closed-source models.” These were just a few of the challenges we heard […]

Zorin OS 17.3 rolls out with new features, enhanced privacy, and a seamless experience aimed at pleasing Windows 10 users.

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Open source in government; OSI election; Memory-management medley; Address-space isolation; CMA; 6.14 Development stats; State of the page.
• Briefs: Asahi Linux progress; Reproducible Debian; rpi-image-gen; Neovim 0.11; OpenH264; Quotes; …
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

NVIDIA has published new Vulkan beta driver builds for Windows and Linux that introduce VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for BFloat16 “BF16” support within shaders…

Thoughtful and considered … even if it is based on an American distroEU OS is a proposal for an immutable KDE-based Linux distribution with a Windows-like desktop, designed for use in European public-sector organizations.…

Ikey Doherty’s AerynOS 2025.03, previously known as Serpent OS, arrives with GNOME 48, Linux kernel 6.13, and more, but still in the Alpha stage.

Docker is an essential tool for developers and system administrators working with containerized applications. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of Docker’s basic commands on Linux, covering everything from creating and managing containers to troubleshooting common issues.

XZ Utils, an open-source complete C99 implementation of the .xz file format, has been updated today to version 5.8, a release that introduces performance improvements and new features.

Submitted today for upstreaming into the Linux 6.15 kernel is support for the Versal NET SoC, an addition to the AMD/Xilinx Versal family that doesn’t appear to have been talked about much publicly yet but should be an interesting addition to their product line-up…

The Fedora Infrastructure Team is announcing the end of OpenID in Fedora Account System (FAS). This will occur on 20th May 2025. Why the change? OpenID is being replaced by OpenIDConnect (OIDC) in most of the modern web and most of the Fedora infrastructure is already using OIDC as the default authentication method. OIDC offers better security by […]

Microsoft last year announced the open-source Hyperlight project as an embedded VMM for use as a micro-VM manager of sorts that can be run within Windows and Linux applications. This VM-based security for small embedded functions now has its scope expanded with the open-source release today of Hyperlight Wasm for bringing in WebAssembly to the party…

Earlier this month for launch-day there were NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux GPU compute benchmarks. The graphics/gaming benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 5070 on Linux were held up by waiting for a new R570 Linux driver release with proper support for this new Blackwell graphics card. Last week that new Linux driver arrived in the form of the NVIDIA 570.133.07 Linux build. That new NVIDIA Linux driver is working out great with the GeForce RTX 5070 Founder[he]#039[/he]s Edition and in this article are some initial Linux gaming/graphics performance benchmarks for that new graphics card competing with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 series.

While there is a lot of exciting new x86_64 CPU features coming with Linux 6.15, there is also some of the not so fun changes too: namely the “x86/bugs” pull request to bring the latest CPU security mitigation work to the mainline kernel…

Version
0.11 of the Neovim text editor has been released. Notable changes
in this release include simpler Language Server Protocol (LSP) client
setup, improved tree-sitter performance, better emoji support, and
enhancements for Neovim’s embedded terminal emulator. See the release notes for
a full list of changes.

As you may already know, GNU Octave is a high-level programming language and numerical computing environment designed for scientific computing, data analysis, and machine learning. It provides a powerful interactive interface with extensive support for numerical operations, matrix manipulation, data visualization, and algorithm development. Octave is widely used in academia, research, and engineering fields as a free and open-source alternative to MATLAB.

The post How To Install GNU Octave 9.4 on Ubuntu 24.10, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04 And Derivative Systems appeared first on Linux Today.

The x86 platform drivers co-maintainer Ilpo Järvinen sent out the pull request today of all the feature additions set for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel. As usual, most of the platform-drivers-x86 material is around improvements to benefit modern Intel Core and AMD Ryzen laptops…