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.

openSUSE Leap 16 Released - Requires x86-64-v2 CPUs, No x86 32-bit Support By Default

([SUSE] 1 October 08:43 AM EDT openSUSE Leap 16)

OpenSUSE Leap 16.0 is out today as this community Linux distributiom built from the same sources as SUSE Linux Enterprise 16.

Linus Torvalds Lashes Out At RISC-V Big Endian Plans

([RISC-V] 1 October 08:21 AM EDT RISC-V BE)

Linus Torvalds has come out strong against proposed support for RISC-V big endian capabilities within the Linux kernel.

Mesa PowerVR Driver Lands Changes For Vulkan 1.2 Support

([Mesa] 1 October 08:06 AM EDT PowerVR + Vulkan 1.2)

Changes merged this week to the Mesa PowerVR Vulkan driver now allow it to support all of the functionality required by the Vulkan 1.2 specification.

Academy Software Foundation's OpenColorIO Adds Vulkan Support

([Free Software] 1 October 08:11 AM EDT OpenColorIO + Vulkan)

The Academy Software Foundation's OpenColorIO "OCIO" project as a color management solution for motion picture production and related uses has added support for the Vulkan API.

OpenZFS 2.4-rc2 Released With Linux 6.17 Support, Bug Fixes

([Linux Storage] 1 October 08:00 AM EDT OpenZFS 2.4)

OpenZFS 2.4-rc2 was released on Tuesday as the latest stepping stone toward the big OpenZFS 2.4 feature release.

Raspberry Pi Announces Price Increases Due To Rising Memory Demand

([Raspberry Pi] 1 October 07:44 AM EDT Raspberry Pi Price Increase)

Due to rising demand around system memory being pushed up in large part by HBM for AI applications, Raspberry Pi announced price increases on select products to help offset the rising LPDDR costs.

AMD Publishes Open-Source openSIL Code For Phoenix SoCs

([AMD] 30 September 04:26 PM EDT openSIL + Phoenix)

After originally hoping to publish the open-source code last year, today AMD published the initial openSIL code for enabling Phoenix SoCs to make use of this in-development CPU silicon initialization alternative to AGESA.

Qualcomm Posts Initial Open-Source GPU Driver Patches For Adreno 800 Series

([Hardware] 30 September 11:04 AM EDT Adreno 800 Series)

Qualcomm engineers have posted the initial patches for bringing up the newest Adreno 800 series graphics IP within the open-source MSM Linux kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver.

Apple HFS/HFS+ File-System Drivers See More Fixes With Linux 6.18

([Apple] 30 September 10:09 AM EDT Apple HFS)

In addition to the IEEE-1394 Firewire support still being maintained within the Linux kernel, another Apple tech still seeing code churn within the Linux kernel years later are the HFS and HFS+ file-systems. For the Linux 6.18 kernel are more fixes to the HFS/HFS+ support.