Linus Torvalds Vents Over "Completely Crazy Rust Format Checking"

([Linux Kernel] 2 October 04:14 PM EDT Crazy Rust Format Checking)

After Linus Torvalds yesterday shot down RISC-V big endian prospects for the Linux kernel, today he has used his authority to wage a war on "crazy" Rust code formatting as well as to critique poor text formatting.

ZLUDA 5 Released With An Offline Compiler For CUDA On Non-NVIDIA GPUs

([Programming] 2 October 02:32 PM EDT ZLUDA 5)

ZLUDA 5 is out today as the newest version of this open-source software for running CUDA software on non-NVIDIA GPUs.

SiFive Premier P550, Apple M2 Pro/Max/Ultra DTs & Other SoC Changes For Linux 6.18

([Hardware] 2 October 11:16 AM EDT Linux 6.18 SoC)

The many SoC and platform/machine DeviceTree additions have been merged for the Linux 6.18 kernel! This includes finally having mainline support for the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board and its EIC7700 SoC, Apple M2 Pro / Max / Ultra DeviceTrees added and associated Apple Mac system support, various new Snapdragon X1 laptops now being supported by the mainline kernel and much more.

Linux 6.18 Kbuild Brings An Optimization For gen_init_cpio On Btrfs Or XFS

([Linux Kernel] 2 October 09:17 AM EDT Kernel Build)

The Kbuild changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel.

Second Beta Of KDE Plasma 6.5 Released For Testing

([KDE] 2 October 08:53 AM EDT Plasma 6.5)

Following last month's release of the first KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta, a second beta milestone was released today ahead of the stable release coming later in October.

Intel Posts Linux Driver Patches For Nova Lake Audio Support

([Intel] 2 October 08:16 AM EDT Nova Lake Audio)

So far Intel has posted very few Linux kernel driver enablement patches around Nova Lake but it looks like that is about to change.

Raspberry Pi OS Updated Against Debian 13 Trixie

([Raspberry Pi] 2 October 08:01 AM EDT Raspberry Pi OS + Debian 13)

Following the recent Raspberry Pi 500+ launch, the latest Raspberry Pi news is the release of Raspberry Pi OS now re-based against Debian 13 "Trixie" along with some additional changes.

Signed Programs & Other BPF Changes Merged For Linux 6.18

([Linux Kernel] 2 October 02:00 AM EDT Linux 6.18 BPF)

The BPF changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel.

Steam On Linux Use Up 1% From Last September

([Valve] 1 October 08:10 PM EDT Steam Linux Marketshare)

Valve just published the Steam Survey results for September with a slight increase to the Linux gaming userbase.

TrueNAS 25.10-RC1 Brings Better Disk Import/Export, ZFS Rewrite Improvements

([Operating Systems] 1 October 07:09 PM EDT TrueNAS 25.10)

TrueNAS 25.10-RC1 is out today as the newest test release of this OpenZFS+Linux-based operating system for network attached storage (NAS) hardware and other storage devices.

A Minor Optimization Comes For x86 Memory Management In Linux 6.18

([Linux Kernel] 1 October 06:36 PM EDT x86/mm)

Sent out today was the x86/mm pull request of the x86/x86_64 memory management changes destined for this next version of the Linux kernel. This pull has just one new patch but is worth mentioning.

Attack Vector Controls Can Now Manage VMSCAPE Mitigation

([Linux Security] 1 October 04:51 PM EDT Attack Vector Controls + VMSCAPE)

Made public and mitigated within the mainline Linux kernel last month was the VMSCAPE vulnerability affecting both AMD and Intel CPUs. Now merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel is adding VMSCAPE to the recently-introduced Attack Vector Controls functionality.

More ASUS Motherboards Will Have Working Sensor Monitoring With Linux 6.18

([Intel] 1 October 02:00 PM EDT Linux 6.18 HWMON)

The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates have been sent out for the Linux 6.18 kernel with some notable additions.

Intel Arc Pro B50, Raspberry Pi 500+, Strix Halo & Other September Highlights

([Phoronix] 1 October 01:00 PM EDT September Highlights)

During the month of September on Phoronix were 271 original Linux/open-source news articles and another 19 featured Linux hardware reviews and benchmark articles, all written by your's truly. Here is a look back at what excited Linux enthusiasts the most on Phoronix during September.

EXT4, EROFS & NTFS3 File-System Drivers Ready With Improvements For Linux 6.18

([Linux Storage] 1 October 10:51 AM EDT Linux 6.18 File-Systems)

In addition to XFS enabling online fsck by default, Bcachefs being stripped from the mainline Linux kernel, and Btrfs improvements making for a notable first few days of the Linux 6.18 window, there's more. The EXT4, EROFS, and NTFS3 drivers are bringing the latest batch of file-system changes for Linux 6.18.