📰 FreeDesktop SDK 26.08 Released With Snap Support Dropped, Bootstrap Changes

The newest FreeDesktop SDK is now available for this collection of components used for Flatpak runtimes as well as for building out of containers and other software stacks...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeDesktop-SDK-26.08

#flatpak

📰 Greg KH Forewarns Of "Rough" Linux 7.3 Kernel Cycle Due To Continued AI Churn

While Linux 7.3-rc1 only released this week and there are another roughly seven weeks to go until the official kernel release, Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is already warning that it's likely to be another "rough" kernel cycle given the ongoing noise caused by AI/LLM with the increase in bug reports and kernel patches...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Rough-Cycle

#kernel #linux

📰 Debian 13 Is Taking Over 2,200+ Control Systems Across CERN

CERN is moving its industrial computers and embedded systems to Debian 13, with over 2,200 devices targeted by year’s end.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/debian-13-is-taking-over-2200-control-systems-across-cern/

#debian

📰 GNOME Mutter 51.rc Adds Cross-GPU Buffer Scan-Out Support, Other Last Minute Work

The release candidates are out today for the GNOME Shell and Mutter in preparing for the formal "GNOME 51.rc" release in the coming days...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-51-RC

#gnome

📰 Bottles 67.1 Improves Windows App Startup Performance on Linux

Bottles 67.1 makes Adaptive Launch smarter, brings OpenXR support through Linux runtimes like WiVRn and Monado, and improves UMU game handling.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/bottles-67-1-improves-windows-app-startup-performance-on-linux/

#linux

📰 AVX-512 xor_gen For Linux Updated & Looking Real Good For RAID Arrays

Being worked on the past few months for the Linux kernel has been an AVX-512 optimized version of xor_gen() that is used for generating and validating parity blocks such as with Linux's software RAID 5 and RAID 6 arrays. The latest iteration of AVX-512 xor_gen() was posted today and shows some impressive results on AMD Zen 5 hardware...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AVX-512-xor-gen-v5

#amd #kernel #linux

📰 Linux Kernel 7.1 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 7.2

Linux kernel 7.1 reached end of life and all users are now recommended to upgrade their systems to the latest Linux 7.2 kernel series as soon as possible.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-7-1-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-7-2

#kernel #linux

📰 Malicious .git Configs Can Make Claude, Codex, Cursor, and Other AI Agents Run Attacker Code

Manifold Security has disclosed eight security flaws across seven command-line AI coding agents in which a repository's own Git configuration names a command that the agent runs on the developer's machine, four of them still unpatched at publication.The command executes as the user, outside the agent's sandbox and without an approval prompt, and exploitation requires the repository to arrive.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/malicious-git-configs-can-make-claude.html

#git

📰 CERN Transitioning To Debian After Being A Longtime RHEL Institution

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, besides being well known for its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is known among longtime Linux users as a RHEL/CentOS shop. CERN formally even co-maintained the Scientific Linux RHEL derivative with other educational/research institutions in the past. So to much surprise now, CERN is transitioning to Debian Linux...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/CERN-Goes-Debian-Leaving-RHEL

#debian #linux

📰 Ubisoft banning Steam Deck users from For Honor reveals how expendable Linux gamers are

It'll continue to be a problem if Linux doesn't take off soon.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/ubisoft-banning-steam-deck-users-from-for-honor-reveals-how-expendable-linux-gamers-are/

#linux #steam

📰 KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Dwell Clicker Support To Improve Accessibility On Wayland

In preparations for Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-exclusive in abandoning the X11 session, another feature gap compared to X11 has been addressed...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Dwell-Clicker

#kde #plasma #wayland

📰 Fedora 46 Proposal Wants To Provide Official Support For Crystal Programming Language

A new change proposal that's been filed for evaluation with next year's Fedora 46 release is to provide official, native support for the Crystal programming language...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-46-Proposal-Crystal

#fedora

📰 I ditched my Raspberry Pi for an old Android phone, and my self-hosted services finally stopped throttling

When I think of cheap, tiny, and portable hardware for small homelab services, the Raspberry Pi is the first thing that comes to my mind. And if I visit a homelab thread on a tech forum, Pi comes up as a settled recommendation, not something to question again.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/ditched-raspberry-pi-for-old-android-phone-self-hosted-services-finally-stopped-throttling/

#android #raspberry

📰 Top AEO Tools for Linux and Developer Documentation Teams

by Malana VanTylerThese platforms help teams monitor how technical content appears in AI-generated answers, from brand mentions and citations to accuracy and referral traffic.Search is splitting into two experiences: one built around ranked pages and another around generated answers. As AI platforms summarize Linux tutorials, open-source project documentation, API references and technical guidance, teams need ways to measure whether their...

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/top-aeo-tools-linux-and-developer-documentation-teams

#linux #opensource

📰 Mir 2.29 Released With Additional Wayland Protocols

For those using Canonical's Mir compositor for building Wayland-based shells, Mir 2.29 is now available with various improvements and new Wayland protocol coverage...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.29-Released

#wayland

📰 Noctalia 5 Wayland Desktop Shell Is Now Officially Stable

Noctalia 5 reaches stable status with calendar sync support, improved theming, MRU window switching, and a long list of fixes.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/noctalia-5-wayland-desktop-shell-is-now-officially-stable/

#wayland

📰 Grml 2026.09 Linux Distro Is Out with Linux Kernel 7.1, Based on Debian 14 Forky

Grml 2026.09 GNU/Linux distribution is now available for download based on Debian Testing/Forky and powered by Linux kernel 7.1. Here’s what’s new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/grml-2026-09-linux-distro-is-out-with-linux-kernel-7-1-based-on-debian-14-forky

#debian #distro #gnu #kernel #linux

📰 Vulkan 1.4.362 Released With New Extension Developed By Valve

Vulkan 1.4.362 is out this morning as the newest routine spec update. Making Vulkan 1.4.362 more notable beyond a couple bug fixes are two new Vulkan API extensions, both of which were worked on by Valve's Linux graphics team and one of them being a Valve vendor extension...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.362

#linux

📰 Linux 7.4 To Improve Apple Silicon Audio Support & Its "Impossible" Power Management

The Apple Silicon audio driver code within the Linux kernel is preparing to make use of the recent shared GPIO infrastructure for allowing multiple drivers / kernel components to nicely share the same GPIO lines. This should help clean things up in the mainline kernel for the Apple Silicon audio support and with a cleaner architecture than the current downstream Asahi Linux code...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Apple-Audio-Shared-GPIO

#kernel #linux

📰 LibreOffice 26.2.6 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 30 Bug Fixes

LibreOffice 26.2.6 is now available for download as the sixth point release to the LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with 36 bug fixes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-26-2-6-open-source-office-suite-released-with-more-than-30-bug-fixes

#opensource

📰 JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up

Fully backward-compatible upgrade promises zero-friction speedup for monorepo wranglers.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/09/04/javascript-installer-pnpm-recast-in-rust-because-ecmascript-cant-keep-up/5294394

#rust