With Linux 6.17 was the decision by Linus Torvalds to mark Bcachefs as “externally maintained” and not accept any new Bcachefs code into the mainline kernel but keeping the existing code within the tree. That was useful for those relying on Bcachefs to still boot a mainline kernel at least. Now for Linux 6.18, the Bcachefs code was removed from the mainline kernel…

Ask Brave debuts in Brave Browser, merging AI chat with traditional search to deliver faster, grounded answers with context.

Following AMD announcing the end of the AMDVLK Vulkan driver development in favor of focusing on the Mesa RADV driver for Linux systems, Red Hat engineer David Airlie who was one of the co-lead developers of the RADV driver shared some interesting insight on NVK as the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver being developed within Mesa…

Earlier this year NVIDIA announced Newton as an open-source physics engine focused on robotic simulations. This physics engine was developed by NVIDIA in cooperation with Google DeepMind and Disney Research. Today it’s been contributed to the Linux Foundation…

The 6.17 development cycle ended on September 28 with the release
of the 6.17 kernel. This cycle brought in 13,089 non-merge changesets, a
slowdown from its predecessor but still within the normal bounds for recent
kernels. The time has come for a look at where those changes came from,
with a bit of a side trip into bug statistics.

Introduced this year with the Linux 6.16 kernel was the new functionality for reporting to users when running on outdated Intel CPU microcode since it can pose security vulnerability issues and/or functionality problems. The Linux kernel support for propagating this “old_microcode” reporting via sysfs relies on a static list of microcode versions corresponding to different Intel CPU generations. For the Linux 6.18 kernel this list is being updated to reflect modern baselines for Intel recommendations on CPU microcode…

A millennial does battle with Redmond’s enterprise tools and comes away reeling Comment Probably the single most common argument against switching to Linux is the absolute non-negotiable requirement of many organizations to have Microsoft Exchange. Here’s a fascinating glimpse of the view from the other side.…

TuxCare has added Rocky Linux 9.6 to its ‘Enterprise Support’ service that had been exclusive to AlmaLinux.

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WineConf as the annual Wine developer conference, for this open-source software allowing Windows games and applications to run on Linux, took place this weekend in The Hague. Several interesting talks took place including the usual keynote by Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard…

Linux ACPI and power management maintainer Rafael Wysocki today sent out all of the feature updates and changes intended for the now-started Linux 6.18 merge window. There are some new Intel additions as well as for the growing range of different ARM-based SoCs and other hardware…

The 259th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on September 28th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Building off yesterday’s release of Linux 6.17, the GNU Linux-libre 6.17-gnu kernel is now available for this downstream kernel variant that strips away support for loading non-free microcode and other elements not aligned with the Free Software Foundation principles. This ultimately ends up limiting the hardware support available with most of today’s modern hardware requiring microcode/firmware but alas here is the latest release with a fresh round of de-blobbing…

The F-Droid project has posted an
urgent message regarding Google’s plan to require developer
registration to install apps on Android devices.

The F-Droid project cannot require that developers register their
apps through Google, but at the same time, we cannot “take over”
the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute,
as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to
those applications.

If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree
will end the F-Droid project and other free/open-source app
distribution sources as we know them today, and the world will be
deprived of the safety and security of the catalog of thousands of
apps that can be trusted and verified by any and all. F-Droid’s
myriad users will be left adrift, with no means to install — or
even update their existing installed — applications.

As a Linux user, you may eventually run into a situation where your root partition (/) runs out of space, which can cause errors, prevent software installation, or even stop your system from functioning properly.

Expanding the root partition may sound tricky, especially for beginners, but with a bit of guidance and patience, it’s absolutely doable, as explained in this article.

The post How to Extend Root Partition in Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

Discover the latest enhancements in openSUSE’s Agama Installer 17, featuring a revamped user interface for a smoother installation experience.

The post openSUSE’s Agama Installer 17 Released with UI Improvements appeared first on Linux Today.

Discover the latest Fwupd 2.0.15 update, featuring enhanced support for Jabra Evolve2. Stay updated and improve your device’s performance today.

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While the Linux 6.18 kernel merge window is just getting formally started following yesterday’s Linux 6.17 release, one thing is already quite clear: there is a a lot of new Rust programming language code set to head into Linux 6.18…

Catch up on the latest Linux news: COSMIC Desktop Beta, MX-25, Kali 2025.3, Kernel 6.17, Fish Shell 4.1, Kitty Terminal 0.43, RPM 6.0, Ladybird Browser gains Cloudflare support, and more.

Linux kernel 6.17 is now available for download, featuring enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, improvements to file systems and networking, and more.

Kitty 0.43 GPU-accelerated terminal emulator adds session management, cursor trail colors, blinking text, and improved macOS compatibility.