Systemd 260 drops SysV scripts, raises kernel and dependency requirements, and brings key internal changes across the stack.

Google engineers have been spending the past number of months developing Sashiko as an agentic AI code review system for the Linux kernel. It’s now open-source and publicly available and will continue to do upstream Linux kernel code review thanks to funding from Google…

A newly disclosed set of vulnerabilities has sent shockwaves through the Linux security community. Dubbed “CrackArmor,” these flaws affect AppArmor, one of the most widely used security modules in Linux, potentially exposing millions of systems to serious compromise.

The widely-used GRUB bootloader is now being developed on FreeDesktop.org with a modern GitLab-based workflow…

A new platform feature being worked on by Arm engineers for the Linux kernel is Live Firmware Activation to allow for updated firmware components to be deployed without requiring a system reboot…

For those that happen to have the Logitech MX Master 4 wireless mouse or are considering this high-end ~$120 USD Bluetooth mouse, better support for it was merged yesterday to Linux 7.0…

Big Tech donates $12.5 million to get things rollingHalf a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers of open source projects to cope with AI slop bug reports.…

System76 has introduced an updated version of its Thelio Mira desktop, featuring AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors, revised thermal design, and improved serviceability. The system targets workstation, development, and compute-heavy workloads, including data processing and machine learning. The refreshed Thelio Mira is offered as a configurable system alongside preconfigured Premium and Elite variants. System76 states […]

Version 4.3 of the CMake software development tool / build system was released today. Notable with CMake 4.3 is support for importing and exporting packages described using the Common Package Specification (CPS) for greater interoperability in the ecosystem…

ASRock Industrial has announced the AI BOX-A395, a compact system based on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 platform. The system integrates CPU, GPU, and NPU resources within a single enclosure and is intended for local inference, content creation, and engineering workloads. The platform combines a Zen 5-based CPU with up to 16 cores and […]

Introduction Writing a real-time audio plugin on Linux often conjures up images of a complex environment: C++, toolchains, CMake, CLAP / VST3 / LV2 SDK, ABI… However, there is a much simpler approach : JSFX This article offers a practical introduction to JSFX and YSFX on Fedora Linux: we’ll write some small examples, add a graphical […]

Systemd 260 was just released as the newest stable version of this widely-used Linux init system and service manager. Systemd 260 brings yet more features to this critical open-source project and to be incorporated into H1’2026 Linux distributions…

The KDE Project released KDE Plasma 6.6.3 today as the third maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.6 series of this popular desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions.

AMD Ryzen AI NPUs are now running LLMs on Linux with the recently debuted Lemonade 10.0 server and FastFlowLM 0.9.35 adding Linux support. In addition to those software components, AMD engineers have also been developing MLIR-AIE as a compiler toolchain for AMD AI Engine devices such as Ryzen AI NPUs in leveraging LLVM-based code generation with the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR). Out today is MLIR-AIE v1.3 with some notable new features…

OpenJDK 26 is out today as the newest GA reference version for the Java SE platform. With Java 26, it’s finally time to say a goodbye to the Java Applet API…

IceWhale has opened pre-orders for the ZimaCube 2, a compact NAS and mini server platform designed for storage, media processing, and self-hosted applications. The system is based on 12th Gen Intel processors and adds updated connectivity, expansion options, and storage flexibility compared to earlier ZimaCube systems. The platform is offered in multiple configurations, including a […]

The community-focused, RHEL/CentOS-derived AlmaLinux distribution announced its support today for the RISC-V CPU ISA with AlmaLinux Kitten 10 builds being made available…

A rebellion inside the Manjaro project, a community strike, and a threatened fork raise a hard question for users and contributors alike: is it time to rescue Manjaro, or walk away?

Roman Gushchin has announced the
existence of an LLM-driven patch-review system named Sashiko. It automatically creates reviews
for all patches sent to the linux-kernel mailing list (and some others).

In my measurement, Sashiko was able to find 53% of bugs based on a
completely unfiltered set of 1,000 recent upstream issues using
“Fixes:” tags (using Gemini 3.1 Pro). Some might say that 53% is
not that impressive, but 100% of these issues were missed by human
reviewers.

Sashiko is built on Chris Mason’s review prompts (covered here in October 2025), but the
implementation has evolved considerably.

The Linux Foundation announced today that $12.5 million USD in grants from the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, GitHub, Google, and Microsoft have been collected to invest in strengthening the security of the open-source software ecosystem…