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EXT4 Deprecates Its Journaled "data=journal" Mode
The EXT4 file-system today deprecated its journaled mode of the "data=journal" mount option. Following its deprecation, this mode is planned for removal in the year 2028...
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XMFS: Experimental File-System Being Worked On By Huawei For Modern Linux Servers
Huawei engineers are experimenting with a new file-system called XMFS. XMFS was presented this week at LPC 2026 in Czechia as a file-system for modern Linux servers with CXL 3.0 or Huawei United Bus connectivity...
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Podman Test Week: Help test the Rust-based conmon v3
The Podman and Fedora Quality teams are organizing a test week from Monday, October 12, through Sunday, October 18, 2026. We want your help testing conmon v3, the Rust-based container monitor used with Podman. If you use Podman, try the same containers and commands with conmon v3 and report any differences. Why we’re testing conmon
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NVIDIA 615.78.08 Linux Driver Adds VK_NV_low_latency2 r3 For Improved VKD3D-Proton
NVIDIA today released their 615.78.08 Linux driver build with a useful improvement for gamers using Steam Play (Proton) with Direct3D 12 games via VKD3D-Proton along with a variety of other fixes...
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OpenVPN 2.7.8 Released with Security and Bug Fixes, Various Improvements
The OpenVPN project released OpenVPN 2.7.8 today as the eighth maintenance update to the latest OpenVPN 2.7 series of this open-source software for connecting to virtual private networks (VPN).
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Steam Beta Now Defaults Non-Steam Windows Binaries To Using Proton
Valve released tonight a new Steam client beta that includes some notable improvements for Linux users...
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Lightwell Finds and Fixes 400+ Previously Unknown Java Vulnerabilities as Clearinghouse Goes GA
IBM and Red Hat are expanding access to their AI-driven remediation platform, helping enterprises secure existing software without disrupting production.
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Ubuntu Summit for Ubuntu 26.10 Takes Place on November 12-13, 2026
Canonical and the hard-working people behind the Ubuntu distribution announced the dates of the upcoming Ubuntu Summit for Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray), due for release in October 2026.
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AI Makes "Open-Source, Clean Room" Implementations Of Adobe Photoshop & Premier In Rust
As an interesting demonstrator for the power of AI and potentially pressing legal challenges, Claude Code and AI agents have created "open-source, clean-room reimplementation" versions of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, and Adobe Lightroom. These new creations from the ArtCraft project are implemented in the Rust programming language...
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Raspberry Pi OS Updated with Battery and Squeekboard Dock Widgets
Today, the Raspberry Pi project released today an updated version of its Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS distribution for Raspberry Pi single-board computers with new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
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Canonical Reaffirms Plans For Ubuntu 27.04 To Use ntpd-rs By Default
Back in March Canonical announced switching to ntpd-rs was its next target as part of transitioning more Ubuntu Linux system components to Rust-based implementations. This time synchronization package is available for testing in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release while it aims to be the default for Ubuntu 27.04...
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OpenSSH 10.6 Released with Security Hardening, Post-Quantum Support
OpenSSH 10.6 is out with security fixes, the new hybrid post-quantum ssh-mldsa44-ed25519 algorithm, and several new SSH and SFTP features.
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Debian Trixie-Based Raspberry Pi Desktop Is Now Available for PC and Mac
The Raspberry Pi project has finally updated the Raspberry Pi Desktop variant of its Debian-based distribution for PC and Mac systems on the latest Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series, and it includes all the new features from the latest Raspberry Pi OS release.
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New Patches For Linux's Zswap Show Major Improvements
Amid multiple ongoing innovations being pursued in the Linux memory management space amid sky high RAM prices, a new patch series posted on Monday aim to enhance the Zswap performance for this compressed RAM cache for swap pages...
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RTIPC Brings Near-Zero-Overhead Inter-Process Communication to Linux
RTIPC is a new Linux IPC library combining shared memory with wait-free queues for deterministic, near-zero-overhead communication in hard real-time workloads.
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Another Dozen Vulnerabilities Found In The X.Org Server & XWayland
With the assistance of AI, another dozen security vulnerabilities affecting both the conventional X.Org Server as well as XWayland were made public this evening...
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Canonical Beefs Up Security for Ubuntu 26.10 with Slimmed-Down GRUB, Linux 7.3
Canonical is about to release its interim version of Ubuntu, the Stonking Stingray, a.k.a. Ubuntu 26.10, and they are doubling down on security with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel series, a slimmed-down GRUB bootloader, and more.
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IBM & Red Hat Find More Than 400 New Vulnerabilities In Popular Java Code
IBM and Red Hat announced today they have identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities across popular Java libraries...
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Fedora Spins Comparison: Every Official Spin, What It’s For, and Which One to Pick
Xfce, Cinnamon, COSMIC, Sway, i3 and more. See all 12 Fedora Spins side by side, with pros, cons, and a comparison table to help you pick fast.
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Raspberry Pi OS October 2026 Update Gets Better Dock Handling and Many Fixes
Raspberry Pi OS receives a broad desktop-focused update with Linux 6.18.50, Control Centre improvements, refreshed icons, and numerous stability fixes.
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Mount and Unmount File Systems in Linux
In this article, you will learn how to use the mount and umount commands in Linux to mount different file systems and then unmount them.
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Ubuntu 26.10 Beta Released with Linux Kernel 7.3 and GNOME 51
Canonical released today the beta version of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) distribution ahead of the final release on October 15th, 2026, for public testing, application developers, and early adopters.
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AMD ROCm vs. Vulkan Performance For Lemonade Local AI Server With Llama.cpp
A Phoronix Premium reader recently inquired about seeing some new benchmarks of AI performance between Vulkan and AMD ROCm back-ends to see how the situation plays out today. Here are some fresh benchmarks on two separate systems with AMD Radeon graphics and using the Lemonade local AI server while exploring the difference between the ROCm and Vulkan…
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MAKERphone 2.0 Is an Open, Hackable 4G Phone You Build Yourself
CircuitMess launches MAKERphone 2.0, a solder-free ESP32-S3 phone with 4G, MicroPython and C++ support, plus modular hardware expansion.
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TechNexion TELOS-AI4000 delivers 40 TOPS in compact form factor
TELOS-AI4000 by TechNexion is a compact edge-AI accelerator module based on NXP’s Ara240 discrete neural processing unit. The module delivers up to 40 TOPS of AI performance, supports up to 16GB of LPDDR4 memory and is intended for vision, generative AI and other embedded inference workloads. The Ara240 has appeared in several accelerators covered by
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mold 3.0 High-Speed Linker Rewritten in Rust
The mold linker reaches version 3.0 with a Rust rewrite, Cargo-based builds, improved safety, and no expected performance regressions.
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Shotcut 26.9 Video Editor Improves the VA-API HEVC Hardware Encoder on Linux
Shotcut 26.9 is out today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform video editing software written in Qt and using the MLT multimedia authoring framework.
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TrueNAS 27 RC.1 Released: LInux 6.18 LTS + OpenZFS 2.4
TrueNAS 27 RC.1 released today in working toward the next major release of this Linux-based storage/NAS operating system from iXsystems...
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Mozilla Thunderbird 157 Email Client Released with New Enterprise Policies
Following the release of the Mozilla Firefox 157 web browser today, Mozilla also released the Mozilla Thunderbird 157 open-source email, chat, address book, news, and calendar client for all supported platforms.
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AMD ROCm 10.1 Released With Many Improvements
Following the ROCm 10.0 release from late August, ROCm 10.1 is now available in continuing with the ROCm six week release cycle...