📰 Ikey Doherty vs Omarchy: Why He’s Building Barney Instead of Another Distro

Ikey Doherty, the creator of Solus and AerynOS, is back with Barney, a Rust tool that builds Linux distros from source. So that you can easily create your own Omarchy.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17441870/ikey-doherty-barney

#distro #linux #rust

📰 Linux Preps For New AMD Zen 6 BTB CTX Isolation Security Feature

A recently posted Linux kernel patch has revealed a new security improvement with Zen 6 processors...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Preps-AMD-BTB-CTX

#amd #kernel #linux

📰 Bottles Pushes Windows App Support Further on ARM64 Linux

Bottles pushes its ARM64 efforts forward with Soda 11.0-10, opening the door to running Windows software on more ARM64 Linux devices.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/bottles-pushes-windows-app-support-further-on-arm64-linux/

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📰 2D souls-inspired roguelite Rogue Blight looks great and it's out now

Rogue Blight recently released with Linux support - a great looking 2D action souls-inspired side-scroller that's getting some good user reviews.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/2d-souls-inspired-roguelite-rogue-blight-looks-great-and-its-out-now/

#linux

📰 FEX 2609 Released With Speedier JIT Performance, JIT Disk Cache Option

FEX 2609 was released overnight as the newest monthly feature release for this open-source emulator that allows running Linux x86_64 binaries on AArch64, including the likes of Steam and Steam Play (Proton) for enabling Windows games to run rather well on ARM64 Linux systems...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-2609-Released

#linux #opensource #proton #steam

📰 FreeIPA Flaw Chain Lets Anonymous Clients Create Reusable Administrator Credentials

A flaw in FreeIPA lets a client that has never logged in create a Kerberos identity of its own choosing in the directory and end up in the administrators group, Red Hat says.FreeIPA is the system that determines who may log in across a Linux domain and maintains all identities in a 389 Directory Server database accessed via LDAP. The attack needs a second flaw in that database software.The.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/freeipa-flaw-chain-lets-anonymous.html

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📰 LLVM Merges Support For AMD's RMPCHKD, RMPREAD & RMPOPT Instructions

With the Linux kernel still working toward landing support for AMD's RMPOPT optimization for helping to reduce overhead on SEV-SNP enabled servers, the LLVM/Clang compiler has in turn prepped for the milestone by landing support for the RMPOPT, RMPREAD, and RMPCHKD instructions for Zen 5 and newer...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Zen5-Zen6-RMPOPT

#amd #kernel #linux

📰 New Patches Provide HDMI 1.4 3D Mode Support For AMD Radeon Graphics On Linux

It turns out one of the feature limitations of the AMDGPU Linux graphics driver is HDMI 1.4 3D output support with frame packing, top-and-bottom, and side-by-side options for transmitting simultaneous video streams. I wasn't aware of this limitation for the lack of any 3D displays and many Linux enthusiasts/gamers as well, but if you happen to have a compatible HDMI 1.4 3D display, there are pending patches to finally make this a reality...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-1.4-3D-Mode

#amd #linux

📰 CHUWI UniBook With Intel Wildcat Lake For A $449 Linux-Friendly Laptop

CHUWI recently launched the UniBook laptop powered by the Intel Core 3 304 "Wildcat Lake" SOC and priced at just $449 USD. Especially with today's high component pricing, a brand new sub-$500 laptop is extremely rare. Rather than using some dated SoC, it uses Wildcat Lake as Intel's new value option alternative to the Core 3 Series Ultra "Panther Lake" SoCs.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/chuwi-unibook-wildcat-lake

#intel #linux

📰 Open CAD Studio Is a New Rust-Based Open-Source CAD App for Linux

Open CAD Studio is a new GPL-licensed CAD app for Linux with native DWG/DXF editing, 2D drafting, 3D modeling, and a browser-based version.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/open-cad-studio-is-a-new-rust-based-open-source-cad-app-for-linux/

#linux #opensource #rust

📰 DaVinci Resolve 21.1 Released - Now With AI Assistant Integration

For those using the Linux-friendly DaVinci Resolve video editing and color correction/grading and visual effects software, DaVinci Resolve 21.1 is out today as a major update to this cross-platform solution...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/DaVinci-Resolve-21.1

#linux

📰 The Linux Kernel Planning To Remove Around ~55k Lines Of Old ARM Platform Code

For the current Linux 7.3 kernel many older 32-bit ARM platforms are deprecated and in turn orphaning hundreds of drivers only relevant to those out-of-date ARM platforms. The removal of that now deprecated code is planned for the next kernel cycle or two...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Old-ARM-Ahead

#arm #kernel #linux

📰 FreeCORE is What Your TrueNAS CORE Box Should Have

This independent fork carries FreeBSD, OpenZFS, and jails forward for users who never wanted Linux.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17442852/freecore-truenas-core-fork

#linux

📰 DLSS5VKLayer Wires Up NVIDIA DLSS 5 For Native Linux Games & Steam Play

An interesting new open-source project for those looking to make use of NVIDIA DLSS 5 on Linux is DLSS5VKLayer. The DLSS5VKLayer is a Linux Vulkan layer that works for both native Linux games as well as Steam Play (Proton) Windows games for experimental DLSS 5 support...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/DLSS5VKLayer

#linux #opensource #proton #steam

📰 Slackware 16 Alpha 1 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS, GCC 16.2, and Plasma 6

by George WhittakerOne of Linux's oldest surviving distributions is moving closer to its next major release. Slackware 16 Alpha 1 became available on September 5, 2026, marking the first formal alpha milestone on the road toward Slackware Linux 16. The release follows a major rebuild of Slackware-current using a substantially newer GNU toolchain and brings together several upgrades that have accumulated since Slackware 15.

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/slackware-16-alpha-1-released-linux-618-lts-gcc-162-and-plasma-6

#gnu #linux #plasma