Linux 6.15 released
Highlights of Linux 6.15 include Rust support for hrtimer and ARMv7, a new setcpuid= boot parameter for x86 CPUs, support for sched_ext to count and report internal events, x86 Intel and AMD PMU enhancements, nested virtualization support for VGICv3 on ARM, and support for emulating FEAT_PMUv3 on Apple Silicon. ↫ Marius Nestor at 9To5Linux On top of these highlights, there’s also a ton of other changes, from the usual additions of new drivers, to better support for RISC-V, and so much more … ⌘ Read more
next-20250526: linux-next
Version:next-20250526 (linux-next)Released:2025-05-26 ⌘ Read more
Hardkernel Introduces Low-Cost Amlogic S905X5M SBC with 4K@60Hz HDMI Output
The ODROID-C5 is a compact single-board computer designed for developers and hobbyists working with Linux or Android platforms. It features improved performance, reduced power consumption, and enhanced memory and storage interfaces over its predecessor, the ODROID-C4. The board is powered by the Amlogic S905X5M processor, which combines a quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 CPU running at 2.5GHz […] ⌘ Read more
6.15: mainline
Version:6.15 (mainline)Released:2025-05-25Source:linux-6.15.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.15.tar.signPatch:full ⌘ Read more
How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation
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Linux kernel driver plugs rotary phone dial into the kernel
A Linux kernel driver that turns a rotary phone dial into an evdev input device. ↫ Stefan Wiehler The year of Linux on the desktop is finally here. Thanks to Oleksandr Natalenko for pointing this gem out. ⌘ Read more
I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation
Article URL: https://sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-2025-37899-a-remote-zeroday-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernels-smb-implementation/
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next-20250523: linux-next
Version:next-20250523 (linux-next)Released:2025-05-23 ⌘ Read more
Linux Mint forks GNOME’s Libadwaita to add theme support
On numerous occasions, we’ve talked about the issue facing non-GNOME GTK desktops, like Xfce, MATE, and Cinnamon: the popularity of Libadwaita. With more and more application developers opting for GNOME’s Libadwaita because of the desktop environment’s popularity, many popular GTK applications now look like GNOME applications instead of GTK applications, and they just don’t mesh well with traditional GTK desktops. Since … ⌘ Read more
6.14.8: stable
Version:6.14.8 (stable)Released:2025-05-22Source:linux-6.14.8.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.14.8.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.14.8 ⌘ Read more
6.1.140: longterm
Version:6.1.140 (longterm)Released:2025-05-22Source:linux-6.1.140.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.1.140.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.140 ⌘ Read more
5.15.184: longterm
Version:5.15.184 (longterm)Released:2025-05-22Source:linux-5.15.184.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-5.15.184.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.15.184 ⌘ Read more
next-20250522: linux-next
Version:next-20250522 (linux-next)Released:2025-05-22 ⌘ Read more
It’s the Year of the Linux Desktop… IN SPACE! (And Maybe North Korea)
There is one place, in the entire Universe, where Linux has a dominant marketshare on Desktop and Laptop computers: Outer Space. ⌘ Read more
next-20250521: linux-next
Version:next-20250521 (linux-next)Released:2025-05-21 ⌘ Read more
SiFive and Red Hat Collaborate to Bring RHEL 10 to RISC-V Development
SiFive has announced a new collaboration with Red Hat to deliver a developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 for the RISC-V architecture. The initial support is available on the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 development platform, giving developers a path to build and test enterprise and cloud workloads on RISC-V hardware. The HiFive Premier […] ⌘ Read more
On the relationship between Qt and KDE
Volker Hilsheimer, chief maintainer of the Qt project, says he has learned lessons from the painful Qt 5 to Qt 6 transition, the importance of Qt Bridges for using Qt from any language, and the significance of the relationship with the Linux KDE desktop. ↫ Tim Anderson at Dev Class Qt plays a significant role in the open source desktop world in particular, because it’s the framework KDE uses. Hilsheimer notes that KDE’s role in the Qt community is actual … ⌘ Read more
Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
I recently learned something that blew my mind; you can run a full desktop Linux environment on your phone. That’s a graphical environment via X11 with real window management and compositing, Firefox comfortably playing YouTube (including working audio), and a status bar with system stats. It launches in less than a second and feels snappy. ↫ Hold the Robot In and of itself, this is a neat trick most of us are probably aware of. Running a … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft releases WSL as open source, announces CLI text editor to replace the MS-DOS Editor
Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo: Will this be Open Source? · Issue #1 · microsoft/WSL. That means that the code that powers WSL is now available … ⌘ Read more
The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
Article URL: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031385
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Render a Guitar Pro score in real time on Linux
Tuxguitar is a quite powerful application written in a mixture of Java / C. It is able to render a score in real time either via Fluidsynth or via pure MIDI. The development of Tuxguitar started in 2008 on Sourceforce and after a halt in 2022, the project restarted on Github and is still actively developed. The goal of this article is to try to render a score via Tuxguitar, and various other applications connected to Tuxguitar, via Jack … ⌘ Read more
斬獲 4-1K star，再見 tcpdump！Kyanos 這款開源神器讓網絡分析快如閃電！
Kyanos 是一款基於革命性 eBPF 技術打造的開源網絡分析工具，專爲解決現代分佈式系統中的網絡疑難雜症而生。它能像 X 光機般透視 Linux 內核的網絡活動，精準定位 HTTP、Redis、MySQL 等協議的性能瓶頸，讓 “服務爲什麼變慢” 這類世紀難題迎刃而解。與傳統抓包工具相比，Kyanos 具備三大殺手鐧：零配置開箱即用：單個二進制文件搞定所有監控需求 內核級透視能力：從 ⌘ Read more
Go 語言中字符串四種拼接方式的性能對比，哪個更勝一籌？
在 Go 語言開發中，字符串拼接是最常見的操作之一。不同的拼接方式在性能上可能有數量級的差異，特別是在高頻調用或大數據量處理的場景下。本文將使用標準基準測試，全面對比四種主流字符串拼接方式的性能表現。測試環境與方法測試環境Go 版本：1.20+ 操作系統：macOS/Windows/Linux CPU：8 核 測試方法我們創建了一個完整的基準測試文件echobenchtest.g ⌘ Read more
Go 語言中字符串四種拼接方式的性能對比，哪個更勝一籌？
在 Go 語言開發中，字符串拼接是最常見的操作之一。不同的拼接方式在性能上可能有數量級的差異，特別是在高頻調用或大數據量處理的場景下。本文將使用標準基準測試，全面對比四種主流字符串拼接方式的性能表現。測試環境與方法測試環境Go 版本：1.20+ 操作系統：macOS/Windows/Linux CPU：8 核 測試方法我們創建了一個完整的基準測試文件echobenchtest.g ⌘ Read more
6.15-rc7: mainline
Version:6.15-rc7 (mainline)Released:2025-05-18Source:linux-6.15-rc7.tar.gzPatch:full ( incremental) ⌘ Read more
5 Linux Commands You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
In this article, I will show you five Linux commands you’ve probably never heard of. They’re simple, practical, and designed to make your…
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6.1.139: longterm
Version:6.1.139 (longterm)Released:2025-05-18Source:linux-6.1.139.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.1.139.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.139 ⌘ Read more
5.15.183: longterm
Version:5.15.183 (longterm)Released:2025-05-18Source:linux-5.15.183.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-5.15.183.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.15.183 ⌘ Read more
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@lyse Nope, this is some random photo. 😅
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de you need to get a gold chain and hang this little penguin on it, so that nobody can doubt your Linux user status.
Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames: Control Characters (such as Newline), Leading Dashes, and Other Problems (2009, 2024)
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Yet Another Linux Distro Ditches Firefox for Brave
First Zorin OS, now the Fedora-based Nobara changes the default web browser. ⌘ Read more
next-20250516: linux-next
Version:next-20250516 (linux-next)Released:2025-05-16 ⌘ Read more
Accessibility on Linux sucks, but GNOME and KDE are making progress
Accessibility in the software world is a problem in general, but it’s an even bigger problem on open source desktops, as painfully highlighted by this excellent article detailing the utterly broken state of accessibility on Linux. Reading the article is soul-crushing as it starts to dawn on you just how bad the situation really is for those among us who require accessibility features, making it vir … ⌘ Read more
next-20250515: linux-next
Version:next-20250515 (linux-next)Released:2025-05-15 ⌘ Read more
Expose & Explore: Discover misconfigured service protocols and ports using Linux
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the organisation responsible for managing and assigning port number … ⌘ Read more
OH MY FUCKING GOD I’M GOING TO CRY I NEED BIG TUX SO BAD https://www.steiner-plueschshop.de/kuscheltiere/arktis-seetiere/pinguin-linux/
next-20250514: linux-next
Version:next-20250514 (linux-next)Released:2025-05-14 ⌘ Read more
How to install and run Minikube with Rootless Podman on ARM-based MacBooks
minikube provides a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows. minikube’s primary goals are to be the best tool for local Kubernetes application development and to support all Kubernetes features that fit into that environment…. ⌘ Read more
next-20250513: linux-next
Version:next-20250513 (linux-next)Released:2025-05-13 ⌘ Read more
Linux removes support for the 486, and now I’m curious what that means for Vortex86 processors
I had to dig through our extensive archive – OSNews was founded in 2007, after all – to see if we reported on it at the time, but it turns out we didn’t: in 2006, Intel announced that in 2007, it would cease production of a range of old chips, including the 386 and 486. In Product Change Notification 106013-01, Intel proclaimed these chips dead. … ⌘ Read more