📰 qBittorrent 5.3 BitTorrent Client Is Out as a Major Update, Here’s What’s New

qBittorrent 5.3 open-source BitTorrent client is now available for download with many new features, improvements, bug fixes, and many other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/qbittorrent-5-3-bittorrent-client-is-out-as-a-major-update-heres-whats-new

#opensource

📰 Intel Core Ultra 9 Arrow Lake On Star Labs StarFighter Shows Nice Gains On Ubuntu 26.10

For those running a Star Labs StarFighter Ultra or other Intel Core Ultra Arrow Lake laptop, the recent Ubuntu 26.10 release is providing some nice performance gains over the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. Here is a look at how Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 26.10 performs with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H over dozens of different benchmarks.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2610-arrow-lake

#intel #ubuntu

📰 Firefox 158.0.1 Is Out to Block Compromised eMudhra Intermediate Certificates

Mozilla Firefox 158.0.1 is now available for download with updated OneCRL block list to block compromised eMudhra intermediate certificates via OneCRL and other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/firefox-158-0-1-is-out-to-block-compromised-emudhra-intermediate-certificates

#firefox

📰 openEuler brings China's enterprise Linux ambitions to the desktop

CentOS roots give way to homegrown containers, AI tools, and a workstation edition we took for a spin.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/20/openeuler-brings-chinas-enterprise-linux-ambitions-to-the-desktop/5304145

#linux

📰 SparkyOS Unveiled as a Portable Arch Linux-Based SparkyLinux Flavor

SparkyOS distribution is now available for download as a new flavor of SparkyLinux based on Arch Linux and designed to run directly from a USB flash drive.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/sparkyos-unveiled-as-a-portable-arch-linux-based-sparkylinux-flavor

#arch #linux #linuxbased

📰 AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 expands support to older Desktops, Laptops, Handhelds, Consoles and Vulkan

Many asked for this and AMD have finally delivered - today they announced AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 support has expanded to older hardware.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/amd-fsr-upscaling-4-1-expands-support-to-older-desktops-laptops-handhelds-consoles-and-vulkan/

#amd

📰 Improved Performance & Resource Usage For XFS Checksumming With Linux 7.4

Among the many VFS pull requests merged as the initial material for the in-development Linux 7.4, the VFS IOmap pull introduced lazy bounce buffering for checksummed reads. This improvement is benefiting checksumming on XFS with improved performance and lower resource usage...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-XFS-Checksumming

#linux

📰 Wine on OpenBSD? Yes, and It Can Already Run The Witcher 3

An experimental Wine port brings Windows app and gaming support to OpenBSD, with 64-bit applications and even The Witcher 3 running successfully.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/wine-on-openbsd-yes-and-it-can-already-run-the-witcher-3/

#wine

📰 COSMIC Epoch 1.11 Released With Wayland xdg-dialog-v1, Better Multi-GPU Handling

System76 developers just released COSMIC Epoch 1.11 as the newest point release to their Rust-written open-source desktop environment catering to their in-house Pop!_OS Linux distribution...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.11

#linux #opensource #rust #wayland

📰 Dynamic PAMT Merged For Linux 7.4 To Help Intel Servers Save Precious RAM

Dynamic PAMT has made it for Linux 7.4! Dynamic PAMT is a new feature for reducing memory overhead on Intel TDX servers where there may not be many concurrent virtual machines occupying a majority of the system. In today's world with high memory prices and tight availability, Dymanic PAMT provides nice memory overhead reduction for modern Intel Xeon servers...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-74-Intel-TDX-Dynamic-PAMT

#intel #linux

📰 GNU Nano 9.3 CLI Text Editor Released with Two Minor Fixes

GNU nano 9.3 is out, fixing long filename clipping in the mini bar and restoring the expected behavior of numeric keypad operator keys.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/gnu-nano-9-3-cli-text-editor-released-with-two-minor-fixes/

#gnu

📰 Save Upto 40% on Kubernetes Security Certifications From the Linux Foundation

Planning to get certified? You can get CKS and KCSA for 40% less and 35% off most other Linux Foundation certifications. Offer ends October 23.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17501903/lf-cyber-security-26

#linux

📰 Snapdragon X2 Linux Laptop Support: What Works, What Doesn’t

Linux support is progressing for Snapdragon X2 laptops, but missing drivers and hardware limitations mean buyers should check exact models before switching...

🔗 Source: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-snapdragon-x2-linux-laptop-support/

#linux

📰 Meta Makes Improvements To Kernfs Scalability With Linux 7.4

Kernfs as the functions/frameworks used for creating pseudo file-systems on Linux like sysfs and configfs have seen some nice scalability work carried out by Meta. After Meta engineers discovered some system daemons getting stuck for minutes on their massive fleet of servers, they uncovered some scalability bottlenecks within Kernfs that now look to be resolved for Linux 7.4...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Kernfs-Scalability

#linux