📰 Google's "Painful To Maintain" Binder C Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Rust

Google's Binder driver written in the C programming language has long been part of the mainline kernel as the inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism used on Android. The past few years the Binder driver was rewritten in Rust as one of the first "real" drivers in the Rust programming language. The Rust Binder driver was upstreamed in Linux 6.18 and now for the upcoming Linux 7.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Binder-C-Goodbye

#android #kernel #linux #rust

📰 Public Exploits Released for Four Linux Kernel Flaws That Enable Local Root

A security researcher has released working exploit code for four Linux kernel flaws that each let a local user gain root, the highest level of access on a machine.Kernel maintainers have fixed all four over the past few weeks, so a system running an up-to-date kernel is not affected. But the exploit code is now public, and any machine still running an older kernel should be updated.The flaws.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/public-exploits-released-for-four-linux.html

#kernel #linux

📰 Wine 11.18 Continues Building Out Its NTOSKRNL Implementation

Wine 11.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and apps on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.18-Released

#linux #opensource #wine

📰 KDE Plasma 6.8 goes into maintenance mode as an October release seems highly likely

Well, it's almost time. The good folks over at KDE are dotting the i's and crossing the t's as they're getting ready for the big Plasma 6.8 launch. The bad news is, the developers don't often have time to code fully fleshed-out features, so we're in bug-fixing mode right now. The good news is...well, we're getting KDE Plasma 6.8 on October 14th, which is a huge plus. Regardless, the KDE community has published patch notes detailing all the fixes...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/kde-plasma-68-goes-into-maintenance-mode-as-an-october-release-seems-highly-likely/

#kde #plasma

📰 CISA Flags Three Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added three security flaws impacting the Linux kernel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2025-39682 (CVSS score: 9.8) - An improper check for unusual or exceptional conditions vulnerability in the TLS receive path.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/cisa-flags-three-linux-kernel.html

#kernel #linux

📰 GNOME OS Turns To Zswap To Deal With OOM Issues, Progress On Geary Email Client Fork

In addition to this week's GNOME 51 release were several other exciting developments in the GNOME desktop space...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-OS-Goes-Zswap

#gnome

📰 Wine-Staging 11.18 Adds New Patches To Further Improve WoW64

Building off yesterday's Wine 11.18 bi-weekly development release is now Wine-Staging 11.18. This experimental flavor of Wine is presently carrying 273 extra patches over that upstream Git state, including some new patches for helping enhance the WoW64 support...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-11.18

#git #wine

📰 I ditched Synology's apps for open-source alternatives, and my NAS finally became useful

My Synology NAS runs Immich, Navidrome, and Jellyfin now — Synology's own apps don't stand a chance.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/i-ditched-synologys-apps-for-open-source-alternatives-and-my-nas-finally-became-useful/

#immich #opensource

📰 Simple Optimization For Linux 7.4 Can Open Files For Reading ~39% Faster

More than two years in the making, Linux 7.4 is poised to introduce a patch that amounts to a rather simple optimization to avoid unnecessary/duplicative work that can net some nice gains when opening files for reading...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Faster-Do-Open

#linux

📰 You, too, can turn your spare Raspberry Pi 5 into a Proxmox virtualization host

It's always good to find a new way to put your unused hardware to use, and turning one into a Proxmox virtualisation host is definitely one of the more useful ways. If you have a Raspberry Pi 5 that isn't earning its rent, someone on Reddit has devised a way to turn it into a handy Proxmox tool, although it comes with a handful of downsides.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/you-too-can-turn-your-spare-raspberry-pi-5-into-a-proxmox-virtualization-host/

#raspberry

📰 Ubuntu's snap obsession and GNOME pushed me to Fedora, and I'm not going back

Ubuntu may have been king of the hill for a long time, but I've finally made the switch, and I have no regrets.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/ubuntu-snap-obsession-gnome-pushed-me-fedora-not-going-back/

#fedora #gnome #ubuntu

📰 RustFS 1.0 S3-Compatible Object Storage Reaches GA

RustFS 1.0 is now generally available, bringing the Rust-based, S3-compatible distributed object storage platform to production readiness.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/rustfs-1-0-s3-compatible-object-storage-reaches-ga/

#rust

📰 Vulkan 1.4.363 Released With New VK_INTEL_device_info Extension

Vulkan 1.4.363 is out as the latest routine update to the Vulkan API specification and also introduces a new Intel vendor extension...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.363

#intel

📰 Clonezilla Live 3.3.3-37 Disk Imaging Tool Released with Linux Kernel 7.1

Clonezilla Live 3.3.3-37 disk imaging/cloning tool is now available for download with Linux kernel 7.1, LUKS2 repository support, and support for PXEBoot and HTTPBoot network boot clients.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/clonezilla-live-3-3-3-37-disk-imaging-tool-released-with-linux-kernel-7-1

#kernel #linux

📰 KDE To Focus On Next-Gen Styling, Better Documentation & KDE For Enterprise

At the KDE Akademy 2026 conference going on right now in Graze, Austria the three KDE goals for the next two years were unveiled...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Goals-To-2028

#kde