Catch up on the latest Linux news: Kernel 7.3, OBS Studio 33.0, COSMIC 1.11, KeePassXC 2.8, OpenSSL 4.1, BeamFS filesystem proposed for inclusion in the Linux kernel, and more.

The Rust-based open-source operating system Redox OS had a very eventful September as they outlined in a status update published this weekend...

qBittorrent 5.3 open-source BitTorrent client has been released today as a major update that introduces numerous new features and improvements for all supported platforms, including Linux, macOS, and Windows.

After nearly a decade in the Linux kernel's staging area and being worked on by many different kernel developer newcomers, the Realtek rtl8723bs was deleted from the staging area. This comes as Realtek rtl8723bs was added onto the more mature RTW88 driver in the Linux networking subsystem...

PipeWire 1.6.10 has been released today as the tenth maintenance update in the latest PipeWire 1.6 series of this open-source software for handling audio and video streams under Linux-based operating systems.

Following all the HID driver updates/additions in Linux 7.4, the input subsystem changes were merged this weekend for this new kernel version...

BeagleBoard.org has introduced the BeagleConnect QuadESC, an open-source four-channel brushless DC motor-control board for robotics, drones, and embedded applications. It integrates four three-phase power stages and the BeagleConnect Torque module, featuring a 200 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor, dedicated math acceleration, and a TinyEngine neural-network accelerator. The BeagleConnect QuadESC measures 60 × 48 mm and integrates […]

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE began the Linux 7.4 sound pull request by noting that "the AI flood continues" with there continuing to be a lot of new patches coming as a result of AI/LLM agents devising patches as well as uncovering new kernel bugs...

Prominent Wayland developer Simon Ser sent out a merge request today for introducing the new ext-transient-output protocol. With ext-transient-output, it's intent is for helping remoting software like VNC servers in a Wayland world...

Riff offers Linux users a native Spotify experience with GTK4, libadwaita, playlist management, playback controls, and GNOME integration.

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.2 and 24.04-1.6 are out with certificate security fixes, VoLTE improvements, and AppArmor updates.

Rockchip’s upcoming RK3668 is a 6nm octa-core processor featuring six Arm Cortex-A725 cores, two Cortex-A520 cores, and a Mali-G2 Pro MC4 GPU. The SoC integrates a 44 TOPS NPU, LPDDR6 memory support, and high-speed interfaces including PCIe 5.0, SATA 3.1, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, targeting edge AI, networking, industrial automation, and multimedia systems. According to […]

Andrew Morton sent out the big set of memory management "MM" related patches for the Linux 7.4 merge window. This cycle it topped out at 539 total patches and a reviewed rate of 76%...

systemd introduces optional Rust support for new components, using Meson instead of Cargo while keeping its existing C architecture intact.

On Friday Valve released SteamOS 3.9.5 as their first stable release in the SteamOS 3.9 series. This brings all the great improvements previously available in preview form with many package updates and other enhancements...

WireGuard Easy 15.5 adds AmneziaWG 3.1 support, security fixes, configurable WireGuard interfaces, and improved proxy handling.

The GNU Linux-libre project announced today the release and general availability of the GNU Linux-libre 7.3 kernel for those who seek 100% freedom for their GNU/Linux computers and software freedom lovers.

The Linux 7.4 block/storage and IO_uring updates were merged today for the ongoing merge window. With the breadth of Linux hardware support, the pull request varies from fixes to Linux's floppy driver to enabling support for NVMe storage on Apple M4 devices...

Mozilla released Firefox 158.0.1 today as an emergency update to the latest Firefox 158 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform web browser to address several issues.

Meet Linksy, an open-source KDE Connect alternative offering file sharing, clipboard sync, remote desktop access, and more for Linux and Android.

As of today in systemd Git it's now possible for the systemd programs to be written in the Rust programming language as an alternative to C...

fwupd 2.1.9 has been released today as a new stable update in the fwupd 2.1 series of this open-source project for updating and managing the firmware of various hardware on your Linux distribution.

The Contour 0.8 terminal emulator adds command history navigation, output folding, faster rendering, and improved shell integration.

Sent out today for the Linux 7.4 kernel were a set of memblock improvements. Most notable is a performance optimization within mm/memblock.c that implements the kernel's early boot-time physical memory allocator that is used prior to the bring-up of the full page allocator...

OBS Studio 33.0 upgrades Chromium Embedded Framework, overhauls plugin loading, improves source snapping, and fixes Linux issues.

Learn how to install DevToys on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Kali Linux, and other Debian-based distributions using the distribution package.

With the wonderful KDE Plasma 6.8 having shipped just more than one week ago, KDE developers are beginning to go heavy on new features for Plasma 6.9...

Tails 7.15.1 addresses compromised CA certificates that could allow attackers to impersonate HTTPS websites through malicious Tor exit nodes.

Converting a server (such as a high-density virtualization platform) to Thin XFS LVM Provisioning with Libvirt-Hooks solves the fundamental performance bottlenecks and management complexities inherent in running virtual machines on top of a native or hybrid Btrfs storage architecture. This post was assisted by Google AI .

HPFS is the latest file-system driver for the Linux kernel facing removal. The High Performance File-System (HPFS) was developed by IBM and Microsoft for OS/2...