Intel Thermald 2.5.12 Released… With Initial Support For ARM
Released on Friday was the newest version of Intel Thermald, the thermal daemon developed by Intel for their processors on Linux for monitoring and helping control temperatures across modern Intel-powered laptops and desktops. Catching me immediately by surprise was Intel Thermald 2.5.12 introducing support for ARM… ⌘ Read more
Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control - More Than 1,500 Affected Packages
The day started out with Arch Linux’s AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware. Now in ending out the day they believe all affected commits have been addressed. But it ended up being more than 1,500 affected packages… ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.11 Released With Wayland Improvements
Alexandre Julliard just released Wine 11.11 as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that powers Valve’s Steam Play (Proton) and allows for running Windows games and applications under Linux as well as other platforms… ⌘ Read more
[$] An overlayfs update
In a shortened session in the filesystem track at the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Amir Goldstein gave an
update on the overlayfs\
union filesystem. There are some new features over the last few years
that he wanted to mention, along with looking at the status of nesting
overlayfs layers. The composefs use case
that was [discussed at th … ⌘ Read more
AMD Opens Pre-Orders For The Linux-Friendly Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform
AMD today announced the opening of pre-orders for their Ryzen AI Halo petite PC powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max+ “Strix Halo” and working with either Microsoft Windows or Linux… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2 Features Expected: Apple M3, Initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, USB4STREAM, Cache Aware Scheduling
Linux 7.1 stable is expected to be released this Sunday with its many new features. Immediately following the Linux v7.1 tagging, the Linux 7.2 merge window will open and a lot of new feature material is expected to be merged over the next two weeks… ⌘ Read more
Red Hat Releases Second Developer Preview Of RHEL 10 For RISC-V
Last year when releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, Red Hat announced a RHEL 10.0 developer preview for RISC-V. Since then that RISC-V developer preview hadn’t been updated but now Red Hat has published a new developer preview snapshot based on RHEL 10.2… ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, bind, expat, httpd:2.4, kernel, kernel-rt, mod_http2, openssl, poppler, redis, redis:7, samba, and unbound), Debian (ironic, kernel-wedge, libinput, linux-base, and neutron), Fedora (kernel, openssl, vaultwarden, and vaultwarden-web), Mageia (erlang-hex_core, erlang-rebar3, gnupg2, and sqlite3), Red Hat (buildah, podman, and skopeo), SUSE (flannel, gdk-pixbuf-loader-libheif, gnutls, google-cloud-sap-age … ⌘ Read more
New NTFS Linux Driver Being Improved For Windows Native Symbolic Links
One of the exciting additions to the Linux 7.1 kernel is the introduction of the new NTFS file-system kernel driver. While in good shape already and proving advantageous over other NTFS open-source driver options, one of the initial limitations on it is around Windows native symbolic link handling but that is now in the process of being resolved… ⌘ Read more
Arch Linux’s AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware
The Arch Linux User Repository “AUR” was hit by a large-scale malware campaign this week with more than 400 of these user-supplied packages being compromised… ⌘ Read more
Wine Wayland Driver Lands Alpha Modifier Support For Opacity Handling
The Wine Wayland driver continues to be improved upon for bettering the experience around Windows games/applications running natively on Wayland Linux desktops without having to go through X11/XWayland. The newest feature merged is alpha modifier support for opacity handling of surfaces… ⌘ Read more
Kernel-Bug: FreeBSD-Exploit “Bumsrakete” verleiht Root-Zugriff
Ein Exploit namens Bumsrakete gefährdet alle FreeBSD-Versionen der letzten fünf Jahre. Die Entdecker nehmen es mit reichlich Humor. ( Sicherheitslücke, Linux-Kernel)
Mesa 26.2 Preps For AMD GFX1156 For New, Post-Strix-Halo RDNA 3.5 Graphics
Being submitted on the kernel side with the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is initial support for the GFX 11.5.6 graphics IP block along with several other newer IP blocks such as SDMA 6.4, NBIO 7.11.5, IH 6.4, HDP 6.4, MMHUB 3.4.2, SMU 15.0.5, ATHUB 3.4.2, and VPE 2.2. Now in user-space for the Mesa RadeonSI Gallium3D and RADV Vulkan drivers is the GFX1156 (GFX 11.5.6) support being prepared too… ⌘ Read more
Anzeige: LPIC-1-Prüfungen 101/102: Linux-Wissen strukturiert auffrischen
LPIC-1 ist ein gängiger Nachweis für Linux-Systemadministration. Wer LPI 101 und LPI 102 bestehen will, muss Grundlagen sicher beherrschen und sauber wiederholen. Ein Online-Workshop bereitet strukturiert vor. ( Golem Karrierewelt, Server-Applikationen) , with more flexible
sizing implemented in software, has been growing. If all goes well, the
7.2 development cycle will include the addition of [a new feature](h … ⌘ Read more
Intel XPU Manager 2.0 Overhauls Windows & Linux Management For Arc Pro GPUs
Just a week after the release of Intel XPU Manager 1.3.7, Intel today released XPU Manager 2.0 as a major overhaul for this software for monitoring and management of their data center GPUs on Microsoft Windows and Linux… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2 To Enable ESWIN SoC Support By Default For RISC-V Kernel Builds
An important one-liner is set to come for Linux 7.2 to enable ESWIN SoC support by default for RISC-V kernel builds. This change will allow default RISC-V kernel builds in turn to boot on the likes of SiFive’s HiFive Premier P550 developer board… ⌘ Read more
macOS 27 Beta Boots Asahi Linux Off Apple Silicon
The Asahi Linux team is warning Apple Silicon users not to upgrade to the macOS 27 beta because Apple’s changes to the boot picker and Startup Disk app make Asahi partitions invisible, preventing Linux from booting. The Register reports: The team added: “If you insist on trying out macOS 27 as soon as possible, please ensure you install a secondary copy of macOS 26 first, or … ⌘ Read more
Intel Arc Pro B70 Showing Off Some Performance Wins With Linux 7.1
After recently noticing the Intel Arc B580 performing better on Linux 7.1 for that kernel version soon to be released as stable, I was curious if there were performance gains also to be found with the new flagship Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 workstation graphics card. Here are some benchmarks of the Intel Arc Pro B70 in relevant workloads between Linux 7.0 and the near-final Linux 7.1 kernel. ⌘ Read more
Buildroot 2026.05 released
Version\
2026.05 of the Buildroot tool
has been released. Buildroot simplifies and automates the process of
building embedded Linux systems using cross-compilation. Notable
changes in this release include support for Arm Neoverse cores,
addition of XFS rootfs generation, as well as many package updates and
bug fixes. See the CHANGES
file f … ⌘ Read more
Linux’s CrOS EC Driver To Support Custom Fan Curves - Useful For Framework Laptops
The cros_ec Linux kernel driver is used for supporting the ChromeOS Embedded Controller “EC” used by Chromebooks and various other laptops like Framework Laptops. With patches pending to cros_ec, support for custom fan curves is being introduced… ⌘ Read more
KDE KWin Patches Aiming To Optimize Gaming Latency To Better Compete With Windows
Open-source developer Jakub Okoński has been working on comparing the gaming latency between Linux and Windows and in turn working to drive some improvements into KDE’s KWin Wayland compositor so the latency is more competitive with the gaming experience under Microsoft Windows 11… ⌘ Read more
Linux Firmware Repository Preps For AI Coding Agents
The linux-firmware.git repository that serves as the de facto home of all the binary blobs used by the mainline Linux kernel open-source drivers has now introduced AGENTS.md documentation and other preparations for embracing AI coding agents… ⌘ Read more
AMDGPU Linux Driver Preps For HDMI 2.1 Compliance Testing
While not as exciting as features like HDMI 2.1 FRL and Display Stream Compression itself, as part of AMD’s efforts to provide a fully open-source HDMI 2.1 driver implementation for AMDGPU, new code is being prepped for their kernel driver to support the HDMI compliance testing efforts… ⌘ Read more
Linux’s KVM Preps For APX Support In VMs
Among the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) work being queued ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window are preparations for supporting Advanced Performance Extensions within KVM virtual machines… ⌘ Read more
Root-Zugriff möglich: Falsch gesetztes Zeichen reißt Lücke in den Linux-Kernel
Nur ein Ausrufezeichen an falscher Stelle im Code einer Komponente des Linux-Kernels hat eine gefährliche Root-Lücke zur Folge. ( Sicherheitslücke, Ubuntu)
Linux Sees Patches For “Critical” Vulnerability Affecting Many Arm CPUs
Made public today is CVE-2025-10263 as a “critical” security vulnerability affecting many different Arm CPU cores. CVE-2025-10263 could allow for privilege escalation on affected systems due to a specific timing condition during a memory permission change. Fundamentally it comes down to completion of affected memory accesses might not be guaranteed by the completion of a TLBI… ⌘ Read more
Alpine Linux 3.24 Improves Installer Experience, Adds COSMIC Desktop Option
Alpine Linux, the Linux distribution popular especially for containers / micro-services and embedded devices, is out with its newest feature release… ⌘ Read more
Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Released
Article URL: https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.24.0-released.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467570
Points: 19
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High-Severity Vulnerability In Linux Caused By a Single Errant Character
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Researchers have analyzed a high-severity vulnerability in Linux that’s able to escalate untrusted users to root by exploiting a bug you don’t often see: a single errant character inside the kernel. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-23111, is located in nf_tables, a subsyst … ⌘ Read more
The LD_DEBUG environment variable (2012)
Article URL: https://bnikolic.co.uk/blog/linux-ld-debug.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464330
Points: 3
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macOS 27 Beta Breaks The Ability To Boot Asahi Linux
Asahi Linux is warning its users from trying out the new macOS 27 “Golden Gate” beta released this week by Apple. With macOS 27 beta, the Asahi Linux partition is no longer visible and thus unable to boot to your Apple Silicon Linux installation… ⌘ Read more
Asahi Linux warns users not to upgrade to macOS 27 beta
The Asahi Linux project,
which brings Linux support to Apple Arm-based Macs, has warned\
its users not to upgrade to the macOS 27 “Golden Gate”
beta.
Apple has changed how the boot picker and Startup Disk applications
detect valid OS boot volumes. When using either from macOS 27, your
Asahi partition will not be visible! We believe this to be a bug, and
have filed a report (FB2 … ⌘ Read more
Linux App Summit 2026 (Heise)
Heise is carrying a\
report from the Linux App Summit, held in Berlin in May.
The slightly more than a dozen talks were symbolically framed
between the opening keynote by systemd creator Lennart Poettering
and the closing talk by Jorge Castro, initiator of the Universal
Blue project, from which the modern Linux systems Bluefin and
Bazzite emerged. Both Castro and Poettering ca … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2 Preparing Intel Key Protection Technology “KPT” For Next-Gen QAT
Going back to the launch of 1st Gen Xeon Scalable processors in 2017 was Intel Key Protection Technology (KPT) promoted and there have been Key Protection Technology references in QuickAssist (QAT) documentation since 2016. Surprisingly we are only now seeing Key Protection Technology references for the upstream Linux QAT driver as Intel engineers prepare for their next-gen “Gen6” QuickAssist hardware support… ⌘ Read more
Fedora 44 RISC-V Images Released, Including New “Omni” Kernel For Broader RISC-V Hardware Support
Following the official Fedora 44 images released one month ago, Fedora 44 RISC-V images were published today for those wanting to run this newest Fedora Linux on RISC-V hardware… ⌘ Read more
AMD Support Being Added To UFS Host Controller PCI Driver In Linux 7.2
Linux’s ufshcd-pci as the Universal Flash Storage host controller PCI driver has supported a variety of Intel devices to this point while for Linux 7.2 the first AMD device is set to be added… ⌘ Read more
Running CachyOS With The BORE Scheduler While Disabling Ananicy-CPP
Last week I ran benchmarks of CachyOS with the BORE scheduler using its “linux-cachyos-bore” kernel option. The results didn’t end up being as enticing as anticipated but the developer behind the BORE scheduler commented in the forums that he recently received reports from users experiencing game stuttering while using BORE that was attributed to CachyOS’ default use of Ananicy-Cpp. So over the weekend I did another CachyOS BORE run without t … ⌘ Read more
Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding
Firefox has merged initial support for Vulkan Video decoding, giving the browser a more cross-platform path for GPU-accelerated video playback beyond Linux’s long-running reliance on VA-API. Phoronix reports: Firefox on Linux has long been focused on the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) that isn’t universally supported by Linux graphics drivers. This has left to efforts like NVI … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.1 Helping Intel Arc Battlemage Graphics Achieve Better Performance
Recent testing of the Intel Arc B580 Battlemage desktop graphics card has shown that the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel release is delivering superior graphics performance over the current stable Linux 7.0 kernel. ⌘ Read more
[$] An update on fanotify
In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Amir Goldstein updated
attendees on the fanotify
filesystem-event monitoring
subsystem. He wanted to describe changes that had come in the last year or
so, as well as upcoming features and some remaining challenges in his
efforts [to use fanotify for hierarchical\
storage management](https://lwn.net/Ar … ⌘ Read more
Canonical Experimenting With x86-64-v3 Packages For Ubuntu 26.10
Canonical engineers are again evaluating the impact of building the Ubuntu Linux archive for the x86-64-v3 “amd64v3” micro-architecture feature level for its performance benefits on modern Intel and AMD systems. An amd64v3 archive is available of Ubuntu 26.10 for testing with the packages targeting this level that allows for AVX/AVX2 and other newer CPU x86_64 ISA capabilities of the past decade… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.2 To Add ACPI CPPC v4 Support Authored By NVIDIA
Ahead of NVIDIA Vera ramping up, the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is adding the ACPI CPPC v4 support authored by a NVIDIA engineer… ⌘ Read more
Linux EFS File-System May Have New Maintainer - Or It Might Just Get Removed
An interesting quandary has arose on the Linux kernel mailing list over maintainership of old, unmaintained code within the Linux kernel. Someone has stepped up to maintain an old, very rare file-system driver but admittedly doesn’t even use it and just submitted basic fixes. Or is it just better removing that old code?.. ⌘ Read more
BeagleV Ahead & Lichee Pi 4a RISC-V Boards To See Working WiFi With Linux 7.2
In addition to the SpacemiT K1 and K3 RISC-V SoC Device Tree updates sent out last week, the RISC-V T-HEAD Device Tree “DT” changes were also sent out last week ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel merge window… ⌘ Read more
Big-Tech und Open Source: Keine wirkliche Liebesheirat
Microsoft hat auf dem Open Source Summit Nordamerika 2026 überraschend eine eigene Linux-Distribution angekündigt. Doch Vorsicht ist geboten. Eine Analyse von Erik Bärwaldt ( Microsoft, Linux)
Linux 7.1-rc7 Released: Stable Hopefully Next Sunday
Last week Linux 7.1-rc6 was larger than Linus Torvalds wished for and for Linux 7.1-rc7 it has come in still heavier than typically seen this late in the cycle, but is shrinking and making Linus comfortable in hopefully releasing Linux 7.1 stable next Sunday… ⌘ Read more
Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/65697
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434436
Points: 3
# Comments: 2 ⌘ Read more