📰 AMD Preps Linux For CPPC HighestFreq Feature Coming With Future ACPI Spec

An improvement on the way for the AMD P-State Linux CPU frequency scaling driver and the Linux ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) code at large is supporting a new "HighestFreq" register to be standardized by a future revision of the ACPI specification...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-CPPC-HighestFreq

#amd #linux

📰 Manjaro 26.1 Preview Released With GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6 & Xfce 4.20 Options

The preview release of the Arch Linux powered Manjaro 26.1 is now available for testing...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Manjaro-26.1-Preview

#arch #gnome #kde #linux #plasma

📰 Intel Drivers With Mesa 26.2 Ready With Xe In Linux 7.1 To Better Handle vRAM Pressure

Merged to the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver with Linux 7.1 is an addition to improve the video RAM memory pressure or out-of-memory behavior for Intel graphics with dedicated video memory. Introduced is support for purgeable buffer objects via a new user-space API to provide usage hints for enhancing what is purged under vRAM pressure. Merged this week to Mesa 26.2-devel is support for the Intel Mesa drivers to make use of this new interface...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Mesa-26.2-Memory-Pressure

#intel #kernel #linux

📰 Linux is finally ready for gamers, but gamers are still not ready for Linux

We're in a golden age of Linux gaming, but most people are not ready to switch.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-ready-for-gamers-but-gamers-not-ready-for-linux/

#linux

📰 Attackers are cashing in on fresh 'CopyFail' Linux flaw

Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn’t sit idle for long CISA is warning that a newly-disclosed Linux kernel bug dubbed "CopyFail" is already being exploited, just days after researchers dropped a working root-level exploit.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/05/05/cisa_sounds_the_alarm_on/

#kernel #linux

📰 BlueZ-powered Auracast broadcasting on Genio 700

Collabora brought Bluetooth Auracast broadcasting to MediaTek Genio 700 for Embedded World 2026. Here's the complete, fully Open Source setup featuring Debian, BlueZ, PipeWire, with all the code and configs from our live booth demo.

🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2026/05/05/bluez-powered-auracast-broadcasting-on-genio-700/

#debian #opensource

📰 Raspberry Pi Imager Now Supports Raspberry Pi Connect for Organizations

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.9 flashing tool for Raspberry Pi devices is now available for download with support for Raspberry Pi Connect for Organizations and many other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/raspberry-pi-imager-now-supports-raspberry-pi-connect-for-organizations

#raspberry

📰 Orion for Linux’s latest beta is out

A new beta build of Orion for Linux is available, with the v0.3 update described by its makers, the search company Kagi, as being “ready for broader, real-world use and feedback”. Orion for Linux is a native GTK4/libadwaita web browser powered by WebKitGTK. It launched an alpha build in early 2026 followed by early beta in March. The goal is to offer feature parity with the macOS version (platform-specific features notwithstanding).

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/orion-for-linux-public-beta

#linux

📰 KDE’s New CSS-Based Style Engine Union Is Coming to KDE Plasma 6.7

The upcoming KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment will finally introduce KDE's new CSS-based style engine called Union as a technical preview.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/kdes-new-css-based-style-engine-union-is-coming-to-kde-plasma-6-7

#kde #plasma

📰 Orion for Linux adds a content blocker and download manager

A new beta build of Orion for Linux is available, with the v0.3 update ready for ‘broader, real-world use and feedback’, according to Kagi, the company behind it. Orion for Linux is a native GTK4/libadwaita web browser powered by WebKitGTK, aiming for feature parity with established macOS version (platform-specific features notwithstanding). It launched an alpha in early 2026 and an initial beta in March.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/orion-for-linux-public-beta

#linux

📰 New stealthy Quasar Linux malware targets software developers

A previously undocumented Linux implant named Quasar Linux (QLNX) is targeting developers' systems with a mix of rootkit, backdoor, and credential-stealing capabilities.

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-stealthy-quasar-linux-malware-targets-software-developers/

#linux

📰 Flatpak 1.17.7 To Track The Age Of Configurations For Providing Much Better Performance

Flatpak 1.17.7 is now available for continuing to advance open-source app sandboxing and distribution on the Linux desktop. Some interesting new features are in tow with this Flatpak update plus there is also an updated XDG-Desktop-Portal release too...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flatpak-1.17.7-Released

#flatpak #linux #opensource

📰 AMD Geode CPU Support Being Orphaned By Linux

For those with fond memories of the AMD Geode x86 embedded processors, the Linux kernel is set to orphan these since discontinued and obsolete CPUs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Geode-Orphaned-By-Linux

#amd #kernel #linux

📰 VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 Brings More Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan

Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's Linux graphics driver team announced the release today of VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 for Direct3D 12 over the Vulkan API...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-Proton-3.0.1

#linux #proton

📰 Dell & Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service

Dell and Lenovo have stepped up to become premier sponsors for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) that provides for seamless system firmware and device/component firmware updating under Linux with the Fwupd client...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dell-Lenovo-Sponsoring-LVFS

#linux

📰 Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Now Supports Device Generated Commands "DGC"

Exciting yesterday in the land of Intel's open-source Vulkan driver "ANV" for Linux systems was introducing experimental support for descriptor heaps with the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension. Today there is another separate exciting development for this open-source Intel driver: Vulkan device generated commands are finally merged!...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Vulkan-DGC

#intel #linux #opensource

📰 Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance

When having the HP Z6 G5 A workstation in the lab for benchmarking, one of the curiosity-driven tests was seeing how well the latest open-source and upstream Nouveau driver stack is competing against the latest official NVIDIA R595 driver for workstations. The official NVIDIA Linux driver stack remains the best positioned software solution for RTX (PRO) hardware but Nouveau continues evolving while awaiting the Nova kernel driver to reach the...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-nouveau-nvk-may2026

#kernel #linux #opensource

📰 Inkscape 1.4.4 SVG Editor Released with a New Palette, Performance Improvements

Inkscape 1.4.4 open-source SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) editor is now available for download with a new palette, performance improvements,and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/inkscape-1-4-4-svg-editor-released-with-a-new-palette-performance-improvements

#opensource

📰 Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers

Eric Engestrom just announced another timely feature release of the Mesa drivers. Mesa 26.1 is out today for this collection of predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for a variety of hardware as well as the likes of Rusticl for OpenCL, Zink for OpenGL-on-Vulkan, various Windows acceleration components, and more...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.1-Released

#opensource

📰 Ubuntu’s old Unity desktop remade in Wayfire and Libadwaita

If Canonical hadn’t burned through cash and goodwill during its smartphone detour in the mid-2010s, Ubuntu would likely still ship with the Unity desktop today – albeit in an evolved form. What would that form actually look like? Well, you don’t have to shut your eyes and imagine, thanks to Ubuntu community member Muqtxdir, who’s experiment in “re-building ubuntu’s unity shell in a wayfire session through gtk4-layer-shell and libadwaita...

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/ubuntu-unity-desktop-wayfire-recreation

#ubuntu

📰 vm2 Node.js Library Vulnerabilities Enable Sandbox Escape and Arbitrary Code Execution

A dozen critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the vm2 Node.js library that could be exploited by bad actors to break out of the sandbox and execute arbitrary code on susceptible systems.vm2 is an open-source library used to run untrusted JavaScript code inside a secure sandbox by intercepting and proxying JavaScript objects to prevent sandboxed code from accessing the host.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/vm2-nodejs-library-vulnerabilities.html

#opensource