In addition to XFS enabling online fsck by default, Bcachefs being stripped from the mainline Linux kernel, and Btrfs improvements making for a notable first few days of the Linux 6.18 window, there’s more. The EXT4, EROFS, and NTFS3 drivers are bringing the latest batch of file-system changes for Linux 6.18…
Category Archives: Linux
[$] Fedora floats AI-assisted contributions policy
The Fedora
Council began a process to create a policy on AI-assisted
contributions in 2024, starting with a survey to ask the community
its opinions about AI and using AI technologies in Fedora. On
September 25, Jason Brooks published
a draft policy for discussion; so far, in keeping with the spirit of
compromise, it has something to make everyone unhappy. For some it is
too AI-friendly, while others have complained that it holds Fedora
back from experimenting with AI tooling.
openSUSE Leap 16 Released – Requires x86-64-v2 CPUs, No x86 32-bit Support By Default
OpenSUSE Leap 16.0 is out today as this community Linux distributiom built from the same sources as SUSE Linux Enterprise 16…
Ubuntu Touch Mobile Linux OS Is Now Finally Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
In an unexpected move, the UBports Foundation released today the first update to their Ubuntu Touch mobile OS based on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series.
Linus Torvalds Lashes Out At RISC-V Big Endian Plans
Linus Torvalds has come out strong against proposed support for RISC-V big endian capabilities within the Linux kernel…
Academy Software Foundation’s OpenColorIO Adds Vulkan Support
The Academy Software Foundation’s OpenColorIO “OCIO” project as a color management solution for motion picture production and related uses has added support for the Vulkan API…
Mesa PowerVR Driver Lands Changes For Vulkan 1.2 Support
Changes merged this week to the Mesa PowerVR Vulkan driver now allow it to support all of the functionality required by the Vulkan 1.2 specification…
OpenZFS 2.4-rc2 Released With Linux 6.17 Support, Bug Fixes
OpenZFS 2.4-rc2 was released on Tuesday as the latest stepping stone toward the big OpenZFS 2.4 feature release…
Raspberry Pi Announces Price Increases Due To Rising Memory Demand
Due to rising demand around system memory being pushed up in large part by HBM for AI applications, Raspberry Pi announced price increases on select products to help offset the rising LPDDR costs…
Open-Source Android Apps at Risk Under Google’s New Decree
F-Droid says Google’s developer registration rule could end its open-source app store and strand users. Google defends verification as a security step.
Stonkfetch: A Neofetch-like CLI Tool To Display Stock Information With ASCII Art Logos
Learn how to use Stonkfetch Python CLI tool to fetch and track real-time stock information with ASCII art logos in your Terminal.
Avoiding OSAID: Brock and Perens Reflect on a Year of Open Source AI Debate
A year after OSI debuted OSAID 1.0, critics Amanda Brock and Bruce Perens still aren’t sold — and they say the debate points to bigger questions for tech, as well as open source.
MuseScore Studio 4.6 Notation App Released with VST3 Support on Linux
MuseScore Studio 4.6 open-source notation app adds new guitar, piano, and voice features along with big workflow improvements.
The October 2025 Issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine
The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the October 2025 issue.
NVIDIA 580.95.05 Driver Adds Support for YCbCr 4:2:2 Display Modes over HDMI FRL
NVIDIA released today the NVIDIA 580.95.05 graphics drivers for NVIDIA GPUs on Linux, BSD, and Solaris systems as the second update to the latest NVIDIA 580 series.
GNU Linux-Libre 6.17 Kernel Is Now Available for Software Freedom Lovers
The GNU Linux-libre project announced today the release and general availability of the GNU Linux-libre 6.17 kernel for those who seek 100% freedom for their GNU/Linux computers and software freedom lovers.
AMD Publishes Open-Source openSIL Code For Phoenix SoCs
After originally hoping to publish the open-source code last year, today AMD published the initial openSIL code for enabling Phoenix SoCs to make use of this in-development CPU silicon initialization alternative to AGESA…
Radicle 1.5.0 released
of the Radicle peer-to-peer Git collaboration platform has been
released. This release includes better support for bare repositories,
structured logging, and improvements in the output of rad patch
show:
The previous output would differentiate “updates”, where the original
author creates a new revision, and “revisions”, where another author
creates a revision. This could be confusing since updates are also
revisions. Instead, the output shows a timeline of the root of the
patch and each new revision, without any differentiation. The revision
identifiers, head commit of the revision, and author are still printed
as per usual.
LWN covered Radicle
in March 2024.
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 Released Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
UBports releases Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 with new features, fresh logos, and support for additional mobile devices.
[$] Linting Rust code in the kernel
Klint is a Rust compiler extension
developed by Gary Guo to run some
kernel-specific lint rules, which may also be useful for embedded system
development. He spoke about his
recent work on the project at
Kangrejos 2025. The next day, Alejandra González
led a discussion about Rust’s normal linter,
Clippy. The two tools offer complementary approaches to analyzing Rust
kernel code, although both need some additional direction and support from
kernel developers to reach their full potential.