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  Linux 7.4 Sound Changes Merged: "The AI Flood Continues" 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. Takashi went on to explain that it was another busy cycle with changes in the sound subsystem from lots of core code hardening to new platforms and codecs a...

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  systemd Officially Adds Rust Support for New Components EEE The systemd project has officially introduced support for developing programs in Rust, following the merger of a pull request submitted by Linux kernel developer Christian Brauner. The change, merged into the project’s main branch, establishes a new development option for systemd while keeping its existing C-based architecture intact. And before anyone assumes systemd is preparing a complete rewrite in Rust, that’s not the case....

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  What is happening to the Linux kernel, Bitwarden and Epic Games? - Linux Weekly News Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:50 Sponsor: Internxt 02:24 Kernel devs agree to remove Al disclosure, Torvalds goes off on A.I. 04:54 Kernel 7.3 released 06:24 Big influx of Rust code in Kernel 7.4 07:40 Bitwarden moves to a commercial license, mostly 10:06 KeePassXC supports auto-type on Wayland now 11:12 Mint shows more of their new apps 13:01 LibreOffice is getting record download numbers 14:4...

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  Canonical engineer mocks up an Ubuntu launcher that uses AI What would deeper AI integration on the Ubuntu desktop look like? Well, you don’t need to think too hard to find out. A Canonical engineer has published a prototype launcher that simulates how on-device AI could be used to enhance and aid users of the Ubuntu desktop. But the warty-prototype1 snap by Didier Roche-Tolomelli (aka didrocks) is not a real launcher. It’s a semi-interactive, automated mockup. It simulates things a user co...

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  17k Lines Of New Rust Kernel Code Heading Into Linux 7.4 Miguel Ojeda sent out his pull request of the new Rust kernel code slated for introduction in Linux 7.4. It’s a big one this round due to updating the Zerocopy vendored library plus updating other Rust crates for the kernel. The Zerocopy crate update is a big one in jumping eight versions ahead. This is the code providing traits and macros to safely convert between raw byte sequences and structured types. Rust for Linux 7.4 also has oth...

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  Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List Seemingly as an accident, overnight several new Linux kernel vulnerability reports were posted to the public Linux kernel mailing list rather than the private security mailing list. The vulnerabilities have yet to be patched on mainline but at least in some cases there are patches undergoing testing or queued in “-next” branches. The CVSS scores are as high as 9.0. Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative sent out...

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  openSUSE Releases Agama 25 Installer with Web-Based Terminal, Exit Option Today, the openSUSE project released version 25 of its Agama web-based installer for Tumbleweed, Slowroll, and MicroOS distributions with a web-based terminal, an option to exit the installer, and enhanced port selection. While openSUSE continues to work on adopting Agama as the default installer for Tumbleweed, they updated the web-based installer with a web-based terminal so you can access the shell without leaving th...

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  Red Hat Funded a Report That Estimates 25% of PRs Are AI Slop LF Research is the Linux Foundation’s research arm. It was set up in 2021 and publishes studies on how open source is built and used, drawing on surveys and project data. Its latest report, Navigating Open Source Software Development in the Generative AI Era, surveyed 234 contributors and maintainers on how generative AI is affecting the way open source gets made. The survey estimates that about 25% of incoming pull requests are...

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  The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs Security personnel around the world are on high alert Tuesday following the discovery of eight TLS certificates with private keys so weak they could allow anyone to mint trusted browser and app credentials for any site on the Internet. As of late morning Tuesday, browser makers and some major apps and programming languages had blocked all eight of the intermediate certificates. There are no reports of certificate trans...

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  SparkyOS 2026.10 Debuts as an Arch-Based Portable Linux Distro The team behind the Debian-based SparkyLinux distribution has introduced a new project called SparkyOS, with its first release, version 2026.10, now available. Unlike the familiar SparkyLinux, the new system is based on Arch Linux and is designed to run entirely from a USB drive. The idea is that, instead of installing Linux on internal storage, users can carry a fully functional operating system on a USB drive and boot it on any...

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  Linux Foundation Estimates 25% Of New Pull Requests To Be Low-Quality AI Slop Well, well, well… The Linux Foundation published a new study today around the impact of generative AI on open-source software development. One key takeaway is that ~25% of new open-source software pull requests amount to AI slop. The new Linux Foundation research study found that GenAI has the potential of cutting open-source coding time in half for increased productivity. They also found 59% of project maintai...

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  GNU Linux-Libre 7.3 Kernel Released for Those Seeking 100% Freedom for Their PCs 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. Based on the recently released Linux 7.3 kernel series, the GNU Linux-libre 7.3 kernel is here to clean up blob names in new drivers for the Tyr Mali GPU, Morse Micro mm81x wifi, NXP wifi, and Realtek PHY, as w...

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  BeamFS Sent Out As Newest File-System Proposal For Linux There is yet-another-Linux-file-system attempt… An initial request for comments (RFC) patch series was sent out this morning for BeamFS. The proposed BeamFS is a Reed-Solomon protected file-system. BeamFS was born out of the stalled FTRFS proposal earlier this year as a fault-tolerant file-system. FTRFS was short for the Fault-Tolerant Radiation-Robust Filesystem. BeamFS is described in today’s RFC patch series as: "beamfs is...

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  GNOME Mutter Lands Improvement For Reducing GPU Work While In Power Savings Mode Stemming from a bug report one month ago with GNOME 51 over high GPU usage while the monitor is sleeping, a set of 17 patches were merged today for addressing this issue. The bug report noted clients still rendering while the monitor is sleeping and thus high GPU usage.The issue was tracked down to un-throttled repainting of the CRTC back-end stage views even when in power savings mode The now merged code addre...

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  Munich dumps proprietary for open source (again) - but no Linux desktop - ZDNET PRAGUE — At Open Source Summit Europe, Dr. Laura Dornheim, Munich’s chief digital officer, said in her keynote speech that Munich abandoned its LiMux Linux desktop deployment for Windows over a decade ago because of politics, but now it’s returning to open-source software. It’s not returning to the Linux desktop, however — not yet, anyway. Instead, it’s switching its infrastructure programs from proprietary softwa...

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  I tried CachyOS, but here's why Bazzite is still my go-to Linux gaming distro CachyOS has taken the Linux world by storm lately. It’s currently one of the most popular Linux distros, and for good reason — it’s fast, polished, and, most importantly, reliable. I’ve used it myself, and I can see why so many people, especially Linux gamers, are fans of it. That said, if I were building a Linux gaming system, I’d choose Bazzite over CachyOS, and it boils down to one key reason. CachyOS is a so...

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  Microsoft Wants to Protect Your Linux Desktop with Defender Yes, you read that correctly. Microsoft is bringing its Defender security software to Linux desktops. The company has announced that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now officially supports Linux desktop environments, with the feature currently available in public preview. And before anyone starts wondering whether Microsoft has suddenly decided that every Linux user needs antivirus software, there’s an important distinction. This isn...

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  Ubuntu 26.10 Has Come Out as a Rust-Packed Interim Release Do you feel safe with all the entRUSTing they’re putting on non GNUnsoftware? The title says that because, until now, the core utilities in Ubuntu were not fully Rust. cp, mv, and⁣ rm had stayed on the GNU versions over compatibility issues. They have since moved to the Rust-based uutils implementation, taking the distro even further in its oxidation process. Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed “Stonking Stingray”, is an interim release, whi...

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  KDE Plasma 6.8: No More X11, Union theming, and a TON of changes! - The Linux Experiment Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:32 Wayland-only 02:59 Kde theming 09:33 Plasma-desktop 12:42 Window management 15:09 Performance improvements & wayland 17:28 Misc. changes to the desktop 18:27 Settings 20:58 Application changes 25:13 Conclusion 27:55 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

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  Framework Laptop 12 (2026) Review: The Linux MacBook Neo alternative? Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:53 What changed 02:35 What’s in the box 04:27 Design & build quality 06:52 Slap a Linux on it 07:52 Display & touchscreen 09:25 The good touch 12:33 Keyboard & touchpad 14:57 Webcam & mic 16:25 Performance 18:25 Conclusion Links guides.frame.work/Guide/ Display+Replacement+on+Framework+Laptop+12/428?lang=en www.figma.com/proto/…/Review-guides?node-id=619...

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  GNOME OS Preview, Epic supports Linux, Linux kernel set to go all in on AI - Linux Weekly News Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:49 Sponsor: Hostinger 02:02 GNOME OS released in Preview 06:03 Epic Games Store has a Linux client, EAC will support Linux too 10:01 Torvalds builds branch for kernel using Al 13:42 Kernel devs ponder removing mandatory Al use disclosure 15:32 KDE Plasma 6.8 is released 17:13 Ubuntu 26.10 released 19:16 Mint 27 looks like a big release 21:27 Steam Client...

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  Linux Mint 23 is No More. A New Release Takes its Place I feel dejected they didn’t go with Aaron or Abdul. In the project’s September monthly update, Linux Mint lead, Clement Lefebvre (clem), says that the distro’s version number now reflects the upcoming year and that point releases aren’t a thing anymore. Releases will come once a year, so 28 follows this one, and users upgrade from the current year’s to the next. This ought to make it simpler for the many beginners who use Linux Mint...

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  Mozilla Firefox 159 Enters Public Beta Testing with Wayland Improvements Following the release of Firefox 158, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 159, to the beta channel for public testing, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements. Firefox 159 promises easier access to saved passwords from the sidebar by default, the ability to search open tabs with a keyboard shortcut, support for importing bookmarks from Google Chrome profiles that are signed in to a G...

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  Linux May Get a New Home for AI Agent Skills We soon will have a /slop dir in distros. A Fixes tag in a kernel patch points to the commit that introduced the bug, but the last commit to touch a buggy line may only have moved the code to a new file. Sasha Levin, who co-maintains the stable and long-term support kernel trees, wants AI coding assistants to verify which commit introduced a bug before assigning it a Fixes: tag. His two-patch series went to the workflows and ksummit mailin...

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  Ranking Web Browsers for 2026! Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:48 Sponsor: Proton VPN 01:59 Criteria for ranking 03:42 Chrome 05:56 Ungoogled Chromium 07:17 Microsoft Edge 08:26 Brave 10:17 Vivaldi 11:50 Opera 12:31 Firefox 15:22 Floorp 16:29 Librewolf and Waterfox 18:05 Zen Browser 19:43 GNOME Web 21:03 Orion 21:36 Falkon 22:29 Conclusion 23:44 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers Links: Report on Opera and their owner: hindenburgresearch.com/opera-phantom-of-the-turn...

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  Adobe suite on Linux (twice), Flathub says yes to AI - Linux Weekly News Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:38 Sponsor: Internxt 02:12 Entire Adobe Suite supported with custom Wine now 03:53 Open source clean room implementations of the entire Adobe Suite 07:35 Flathub now accepts apps that used Al, with disclosure 10:18 Cosmic will reject LLM generated submissions 11:35 Steam Frame now has 200 verified games 13:03 More Kernel and AMD performance improvements 15:43 Digital Ocean stops...

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  Canonical Announces Official Ubuntu Desktop Images for RISC-V Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today the general availability of Ubuntu Desktop images for the RISC-V architecture, along with unofficial and unsupported Xubuntu Minimal images for RISC-V. As I reported back in June, when the first daily build images for Ubuntu 26.10 were made available to download, there was a new RISC-V desktop image available too, but now Canonical is making everything official: Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray...

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  Want to try Ubuntu’s new AI dictation tool, Myna? Here's how Canonical recently added the Myna orchestrator snap and speech-recognition AI models to the Snap Store, and made a new desktop Myna Settings tool available to install from a PPA. Ubuntu 26.10 also comes with another component preinstalled, as the gnome-shell-ubuntu-extensions package has a GNOME Shell extension that triggers an on-screen HUD when the Myna local AI speech-to-text tech is listening or transcribing. While a forma...

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  Patches Updated To Begin Removing The Linux x32 ABI Linux developers are once again considering the removal of the Linux x32 ABI. Not to be confused with the i386 ABI, the Linux x32 ABI is the little adopted model of using 32-bit integers, long, and pointers on Intel/AMD CPUs but making use of the larger set of CPU registers and other benefits of x86_64. Linux x32 came too late and hasn’t seen much industry interest or adoption. With Linux x86_64 going comfortably, Linux kernel developers hav...

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  Ubuntu Currently Suffering From Sustained DDoS Attack Those trying to access the Ubuntu website, ISO downloads, and similar Ubuntu resources today are finding the site inoperable amid what’s now confirmed as an ongoing distributed denial of service attack. Unfortunately, Ubuntu is once again facing a distributed denial of service “DDoS” attack against its web infrastructure. This isn’t the first time they have experienced this issue and Canonical’s IT team is currently working to mitigate the...