📰 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

📰 AMD HIPRT 3.2 Released With Medusa APU Support

AMD HIPRT 3.2 released today as the first update to this HIP ray-tracing library since the beginning of 2026...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-HIPRT-3.2

#amd

📰 XFS Sees Small Performance Optimizations & Bug Fixes For Linux 7.4

The XFS file-system updates have landed for the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel...

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

#kernel #linux

📰 THE FINALS gets a huge update with enhanced destruction and a free for all mode

One of the few competitive online first-person shooters that works on SteamOS / Linux, THE FINALS just had a massive upgrade.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/the-finals-gets-a-huge-update-with-enhanced-destruction-and-a-free-for-all-mode/

#linux

📰 Fwupd Working Toward Proper Android Integration

Google Chromebooks already have a mandate for nice Fwupd support with the Linux Vendor Firmware (LVFS) while now there is work on improving the Android integration for Fwupd/LVFS...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-To-Android-Integration

#android #linux

📰 DankMaterialShell Becomes Dux Shell as Dank Linux Rebrands to Dux Labs

The new name covers the shell, greeter, search, system monitor, calendar, and file manager, all released as part of DMS 2.0.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17501957/dank-linux-dux-labs-rebrand

#linux

📰 Debian-Based siduction 2026.1 “Big Crime” Released with Linux 7.2, KDE Plasma 6.7

siduction Linux 2026.1.0 distribution is now available for download featuring the Xfce 4.20 and KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environments, based on Debian Unstable.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/debian-based-siduction-2026-1-big-crime-released-with-linux-7-2-kde-plasma-6-7

#debian #kde #linux #plasma

📰 AMD Working On Ryzen Overclocking Driver For Linux

AMD recently published patches for the Linux kernel to implement AOD, an AMD Overclocking driver for Ryzen processors. Linux enthusiasts have long sought an official AMD Ryzen CPU overclocking driver for Linux akin to Ryzen Master on Windows and it's finally coming, at least from the kernel driver perspective...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AOD-Overclocking-Linux

#amd #kernel #linux

📰 Upstreaming Tyr: Rust, DRM, and the Linux Kernel

Tyr has reached a major milestone by booting the Arm Mali-G610 GPU’s MCU using upstream Rust DRM memory-management abstractions, while helping shape the kernel infrastructure future Rust GPU drivers will rely on.

🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2026/10/21/upstreaming-tyr-rust-drm-and-the-linux-kernel/

#arm #kernel #linux #rust

📰 LiteLLM Compromised in Supply Chain Attack Delivering Credential Stealer and Backdoor

The popular LiteLLM Python package has been compromised as part of a software supply chain attack that delivered a credential stealer and a backdoor, according to reports from SafeDep, Socket, StepSecurity, and Upwind.The compromise affects LiteLLM 1.107.0, distributed through PyPI wheels and Docker images. The Python package has since been quarantined on Python Package Index (PyPI), and the.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/litellm-compromised-in-supply-chain.html

#python

📰 Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List

Seemingly as an accident, overnight several new Linux kernel vulnerability reports were posted to the public Linux kernel mailing list rather than the private security mailing list. The vulnerabilities have yet to be patched on mainline but at least in some cases there are patches undergoing testing or queued in "-next" branches. The CVSS scores are as high as 9.0...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LKML-New-Trend-Vulnerabilities

#kernel #linux