📰 GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu Released Following More Driver Cleaning

Following yesterday's release of the Linux 7.2 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu is now available for this kernel downstream that strips out support for drivers depending upon non-free-software microcode/firmware, the ability to load closed-source kernel modules, and other restrictions in the name of software freedom...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Linux-Libre-7.2

#gnu #kernel #linux

📰 Evooo1Bot Linux Botnet Exploits Known Flaws to Turn Edge Devices Into SOCKS5 Proxies

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Linux botnet family dubbed Evooo1Bot that derives its core functionality from the Mirai botnet source code and is equipped to turn internet-facing devices into SOCKS proxies."While the malware reuses the DDoS engine from the publicly leaked Mirai source code, it extends the original framework with numerous capabilities, including.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/evooo1bot-linux-botnet-exploits-known.html

#linux

📰 ARM64 BBML3 Feature Ready With Linux 7.3, NVIDIA Olympus Workarounds

AI/LLM patch craziness hurt ARM64 development for the Linux 7.2 cycle that no real features landed for that kernel version on AArch64. Fortunately, the ARM Linux developers are more prepared now and for Linux 7.3 are introducing some new ARM64 features...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-7.3

#arm #kernel #linux

📰 Mozilla Firefox 154 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Mozilla Firefox 154 open-source web browser is now available for download with a new “Manage AI” quick action, support for clearing and updating cached favicons, and other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-154-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new

#firefox #opensource

📰 AMD Working On A New Backend For Improving ROCm Compute In QEMU/VMs

AMD engineers are working on enhancing the open-source ROCm compute stack for better handling GPU virtualized compute under QEMU...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-Better-QEMU-VM

#amd #opensource #qemu

📰 ARCTIC Fan Controller: The Best Fan Controller For Linux Desktops, Less Than $10 USD

Back in March were patches posted by ARCTIC Cooling for an ARCTIC fan controller driver for Linux. Typically we aren't used to seeing desktop/enthusiast focused vendors providing such Linux drivers for peripherals directly but the sad fact is most often it's left up to the open-source community to reverse engineer and create such drivers for Linux.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/arctic-fan-controller

#linux #opensource

📰 AnduinOS is Windows without the frustration, and it just cracked the top 15 distros

AnduinOS has beocme a very popular Linux distro, and it's easy to see why Windows users might want to switch to it.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/anduinos-windows-without-frustration-cracked-top-15-distros/

#distro #linux

📰 FFmpeg Lands H.265 Vulkan Encode Performance Optimizations

The FFmpeg multimedia library can now enjoy faster H.265/HEVC video encoding with the Vulkan-powered encode path. With the optimizations merged today, the H.265 encode performance should be roughly at parity to the H.264 encode speed...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Faster-HEVC-Encode

#ffmpeg

📰 Aura Glass Gives the GNOME Desktop a Complete Frosted-Glass Makeover

Aura Glass gives the GNOME Desktop a polished glassmorphism makeover with dynamic blur, multiple color schemes, custom styling, and an interactive installer.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/aura-glass-gives-the-gnome-desktop-a-complete-frosted-glass-makeover/

#gnome

📰 Wordbook is a modern offline dictionary for GNOME

They say never judge a book by its cover, and few do if said book is a dictionary – but what about desktop dictionary apps? I recently discovered Wordbook, a modern English-English dictionary powered by OpenEnglish WordNet and eSpeak for pronunciations, that works entirely offline. Wordbook is in GNOME Circle; the GTK4/libadwaita UI is a good fit for the desktop.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/gnome-wordbook-dictionary-offline

#gnome

📰 EFS & FreeVxFS File-Systems Get Booted While FailFS Merged For Linux 7.3

Among the early pull requests merged today by Linus Torvalds for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle were removal of some ancient file-systems while adding in a new pseudo file-system...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-File-System-Changes-7.3

#kernel #linux

📰 Ubuntu’s App Center doesn’t know what went wrong

I recently re-encountered my favourite ‘error’ dialog in Ubuntu, which is thrown by the distro’s App Center (snap-store), which is the default GUI software management tool. I don’t see it often, but when I do it (un)helpfully informs me: “Something went wrong. We’re sorry, but we’re not sure what the error is.” While I sympathise with its honesty and the general sense of unease in imparts – I say something similar, looking at the state of the...

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-app-center-something-went-wrong

#distro #ubuntu

📰 CISA Flags Actively Exploited Ray Flaw That Can Trigger Browser-Based RCE

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical flaw impacting Ray to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.Ray is an open-source, Python-native distributed computing framework designed to scale artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. As of writing, the GitHub project has more than.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cisa-flags-actively-exploited-ray-flaw.html

#opensource #python

📰 I Found an Easy Way to Make GNOME More Colorful

Rewaita makes it easy to recolor GTK and Libadwaita apps with popular palettes, custom colors and a few extra visual effects.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17422068/rewaita

#gnome

📰 Lenovo Lands New Watchdog Driver In Linux 7.3 For Their SE30G2 + SE60 Edge AI Computers

When it comes to the watchdog driver changes for Linux 7.3, standing out is the new Lenovo driver for their upcoming ThinkEdge AI edge computing systems...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Watchdog

#linux

📰 The Xen Project is Serious About Safety, So It Formed a Committee

Founding members AMD, EPAM, and Renesas already put in the groundwork, and there's a new Premier Plus membership tier to go with it.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17422118/xen-project-safety-committee

#amd

📰 Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment

Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/18/sponsor-gives-kde-plasma-66-the-lts-treatment/5288531

#kde #plasma

📰 Rust For Linux 7.3 Begins Seeing Fixes To Prepare For Rust's GCC Backend

In addition to the POWER/PowerPC code adding Rust kernel support, the main set of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.3 kernel have now been submitted. Most notable are early fixes toward eventually allowing the experimental Rust GCC back-end to be used as an alternative to the official rustc compiler with LLVM code generation...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-For-Linux-7.3

#kernel #linux

📰 IOmap Improvement For Linux 7.3 Takes EXT4 & XFS Performance Further

As part of the VFS pull requests now merged to the Linux 7.3 development kernel was an improvement to the IOmap framework used by various file-systems for mapping logical file byte offsets in memory to their physical locations on storage. With the now-merged code, this modern block mapping framework is allowing better performance at least for the EXT4 file-system...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/IOmap-Linux-7.3-Faster

#kernel #linux

📰 This Solo Dev Already Built a Popular Distro. Now He's Trying It Again

Built on AlmaLinux with bootc, it promises atomic updates and zero manual upkeep.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17422317/stillos-review

#distro