📰 EXT4 Lands Optional Buffered IOmap For Significant Performance Win With Large Writes

The EXT4 file-system changes were merged Sunday night for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window. The headline feature of EXT4 in this new kernel version is opt-in support for buffered IOmap usage that can lead to "significant" performance improvements for large writes...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-EXT4

#kernel #linux

📰 PlayStation 5 Linux project upgraded to support PS5 Pro and newer firmware

The impressive PlayStation 5 Linux project is continuing on, and recent updates to it have again expanded what it can support.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/playstation-5-linux-project-upgraded-to-support-ps5-pro-and-newer-firmware/

#linux

📰 Linux Fixes AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Regression Due To Cache Aware Scheduling

Merged for Linux 7.4 Git and marked for back-porting to Linux 7.2/7.3 stable is a regression fix affecting at least the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" laptop SoC when making use of Cache Aware Scheduling...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-CAS-Regression-AMD-HX-370

#amd #git #linux

📰 uCreator Android Spyware Can Steal Telegram 2FA Passwords and Clone WeChat Accounts

A rentable Android spyware kit called uCreator takes over Telegram and WeChat accounts by hiding its code inside working copies of the two apps, researcher Ovi found. It only reaches people who install one of these tampered copies, spread outside the official app stores, or who run WeChat inside the kit makers' own container app.The kit's Telegram part matches Baohuo, a backdoor that Doctor.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/ucreator-android-spyware-can-steal.html

#android

📰 Nouveau-DKMS Aims For Better NVIDIA Open-Source Experience On Old GPUs

Nouveau-DKMS is in development as an out-of-tree spin-off of the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver focused on providing better support for NVIDIA GeForce 400/500 "Fermi" series graphics processors and potentially other generations too pre-Turing where the modern Nova driver is in development by NVIDIA...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-DKMS

#opensource

📰 Linux 7.4 Begins Employing New "Core MM" Tree

Core memory management patches to the Linux kernel have typically been routed to mainline via Andrew Morton's "MM" branch, which is where also a variety of broader memory management related patches are also queued like all the ongoing work to DAMON/DAMOS. Kernel maintainers have now agreed to a new "Core MM" tree as the home for all of the core memory management changes moving forward...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Core-MM-Tree

#kernel #linux

📰 Snapdragon X1 Elite / Acer Swift 14 AI Performance On The Ubuntu 26.10 X1E Concept

For those curious about the Snapdragon X1 Elite performance on the recently released Ubuntu 26.10 Concept X1E ISO, here are some benchmarks showing the performance relative to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS X1E state on the same hardware.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2610-snapdragon-x1e

#ubuntu

📰 Mesa 27.0 Switching To Kraid Compiler By Default For Arm Mali GPUs

In development for a number of months now has been Kraid as a modern graphics compiler for recent Arm Mali GPUs. Kraid was merged for Mesa 26.2 back in June while in Mesa 27.0 due out in Q1 it will be switching to this new shader compiler by default...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-27.0-Goes-Kraid

#arm

📰 Noctalia 5.4 Wayland Shell Adds New Themes, Screenshot Features

Noctalia 5.4 expands desktop theming, adds JPEG XL screenshot support, introduces new visual effects, and improves widgets and plugins.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/noctalia-5-4-wayland-shell-adds-new-themes-screenshot-features/

#wayland

📰 Systemd Creator’s Startup Opens Signups for Private Preview of its Linux System

Amutable Foundations is a read-only, image-based system where every machine produces signed reports of its own state.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17506987/amutable-foundations-private-preview

#linux #systemd

📰 KWin-Type Introduced To Address KDE Wayland Usability Gap For Auto-Typing Text

Open-source developer Jason Donenfeld known for his work on WireGuard announced today the release of kwin-type. KWin-type is a new Wayland-compatible program for auto-typing text from the standard input under the KWin Wayland compositor...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Type

#kde #opensource #wayland

📰 Wine 11.21 Improves WoW64 OpenGL Performance, Fixes 20 Bugs

Wine 11.21 improves WoW64 OpenGL performance, introduces a Voice Capture DSP library, and fixes 20 bugs affecting games and applications.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/wine-11-21-improves-wow64-opengl-performance-fixes-20-bugs/

#wine

📰 Epic's Linux anti-cheat wants TPM 2.0 and a stack of settings, and you can check your own PC in about five minutes

There's a lot to go over, but it's easy to do a quick check.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/epic-linux-anti-cheat-tpm-2/

#linux

📰 DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 Brings Nice Improvements For Linux Gamers On Latest NVIDIA Drivers

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 is out this weekend as a new feature update to this NVIDIA NVAPI implementation used by Valve as part of Steam Play with Proton for nicely integrating NVIDIA technologies into various Windows games running on Linux...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-NVAPI-0.9.3

#linux #proton #steam

📰 CUDA Oxide 0.3 Vastly Improves Rust Support For NVIDIA CUDA Programming

NVIDIA software engineers released CUDA Oxide 0.3 for closing out October. CUDA Oxide as a reminder is their experimental Rust to CUDA compiler that has been seeing a lot of activity in recent months...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/CUDA-Oxide-0.3

#rust

📰 Ceph In Linux 7.4 Adds Global Mount Option For Lazy I/O

The Ceph kernel client changes have been submitted for Linux 7.4 ahead of its merge window expected to wrap up on Sunday...

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

#kernel #linux

📰 Linux Lite 8.2 Released with Linux Kernel 7.3, Gaming Optimizations

Linux Lite 8.2 is released with Linux 7.3 kernels featuring selected CachyOS patches, gaming optimizations, and system utility improvements.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/linux-lite-8-2-released-with-linux-kernel-7-3-gaming-optimizations/

#kernel #linux

📰 GNOME Now Has An Established RFC Process, GNOME OS Continues Improving

In recent weeks GNOME developers have been discussing a formal Request For Comments "RFC" process for solving major technical questions and changes to GNOME. This formalized process for succeeding their ad-hoc processes up to now has reached consensus...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Establishes-RFC

#gnome

📰 KDE Plasma 6.9 Lands Some New Performance Optimizations

I love a good performance optimization and there are several this week in the KDE space with Plasma 6.9 development heating up...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.9-More-Performance

#kde #plasma

📰 Linux Mint Previews New Terminal, System Monitor, and Hibernation Support

Linux Mint reveals plans for a new terminal, system monitor, archive manager, improved hibernation support, and Nemo file previews.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/linux-mint-previews-new-terminal-system-monitor-and-hibernation-support/

#linux

📰 I finally found an app that makes Xbox Game Pass on Steam Deck a breeze, but it's not perfect

Xodus Nexus brings Xbox games to Linux, making it way easier to play supported titles through Proton.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/i-finally-found-app-makes-playing-xbox-game-pass-games-on-steam-deck-not-perfect/

#linux #proton #steam