📰 Fedora-based Ultramarine Linux 42 Released with WSL GPU Acceleration

The Fedora-based Ultramarine Linux 42 lands with WSL GPU support, while the Terra repo gets faster builds and improved performance.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/fedora-based-ultramarine-linux-42-released-with-wsl-gpu-acceleration/

📰 OpenBSD 7.8 Released With Raspberry Pi 5 Support, AMD SEV Enablement

Theo de Raadt released OpenBSD 7.8 today as the newest feature release to this popular BSD operating system...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBSD-7.8-Released

📰 Intel Nova Lake Support Merged For GCC 16 Compiler

Following last week LLVM/Clang 22 adding Intel Nova Lake with "-march=novalake" support, the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has now received similar treatment for the promising next-generation desktop processors...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Nova-Lake-GCC-16

📰 New Linux kernel patch lets you cancel hibernation mid-process

RFC proposes power-button interrupt – and highlights wider problems with sleep states A new Linux kernel patch lets you cancel the process of your machine going into hibernation, but the bigger context of the work may be more important.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/linux_hibernation_patch/

📰 Forking confusing: Vulnerable Rust crate exposes uv Python packager

Forks of forks of forks, but which ones are patched? A vulnerability in the popular Rust crate async-tar has affected the fast uv Python package manager, which uses a forked version that's now patched – but the most widely downloaded version remains unfixed.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/vulnerable_rust_crate/

📰 LLVM Lands Some Long Overdue Tuning Optimizations For AMD Zen 4

Merged today to the LLVM/Clang compiler codebase are some long overdue adjustments to the AMD Zen 4 "znver4" CPU model for more accurately assessing various latency timings and micro-ops. These values were initially copied over from the Zen 3 (znver3) target but never adjusted properly for Zen 4 until now when an independent contributor took to sorting it out...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Overdue-Znver4-Tuning

📰 AlmaLinux gives Btrfs a home after Red Hat kicked it out

Not the default file system, but in the installer if you want it AlmaLinux is to support the Btrfs file system in version 10.1 of its eponymous RHELative operating system.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/10/22/btrfs_almalinux/

📰 TARmageddon flaw in abandoned Rust library enables RCE attacks

A high-severity vulnerability in the now-abandoned async-tar Rust library and its forks can be exploited to gain remote code execution on systems running unpatched software.

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tarmageddon-flaw-in-abandoned-rust-library-enables-rce-attacks/

📰 Fedora Opens the Door to AI Tools, Demands Disclosure and Oversight

The Fedora Council greenlights the use of AI in open-source projects but keeps contributors fully responsible for the results.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/fedora-opens-the-door-to-ai-tools/

📰 OpenZFS 2.4-rc3 Released With New Workarounds For Linux 6.18

OpenZFS 2.4 stable should be out in the near future while out today is the third release candidate for this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD operating systems...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.4-rc3-Released

📰 DietPi 9.18 Adds NanoPi R3S, R76S, and M5 Support

DietPi 9.18 adds support for NanoPi R3S, R76S, and M5, plus a redesigned dashboard with better security and TLS enabled by default.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/dietpi-9-18-adds-nanopi-r3s-r76s-and-m5-support/

📰 Pangolin Reverse Proxy Moves to Dual Licensing With New Enterprise Edition

The open-source Pangolin tunneled reverse proxy adopts dual licensing, adding a paid Enterprise tier with premium support and features.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/pangolin-reverse-proxy-moves-to-dual-licensing-with-new-enterprise-edition/

📰 Qualcomm Plumbing "SSR" Support To Deal With Crashes On AI Accelerators

Crashes on NPUs and AI accelerators are unfortunately a thing and yet another obstacle to worry about it with modern computing. Qualcomm developers have sent out patches for Sub-System Restart "SSR" functionality for their Qualcomm AI Accelerator (QAIC) driver for Linux to handle restarts when workload crashes occur on their AI accelerator hardware...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-QAIC-SSR-Patches

📰 ESWIN Launching EBC7702 Mini-DTX RISC-V Board With Dual-Die EIC7702X SoC

For those looking for a new RISC-V desktop option, ESWIN is launching a EBC7702 mini-DTX board powered by the EIC7702X dual-die SoC. The EBC7702 Mini-DTX is aiming for developers who want RISC-V under their desk for working on AI and other development tasks...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ESWIN-EBC7702-Mini-DTX-RISC-V

📰 GTK 4.22 To Natively Support SVG - Including Animations

GTK has long supported Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for icons but with up until recently relying on the external librsvg library, the integration hasn't been perfect. But Red Hat engineer Matthias Clasen has been working on having the GTK toolkit natively support SVG...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-4.22-Native-SVG

📰 Linux's Proposed Cache Aware Scheduling Benchmarks Show Big Potential On AMD EPYC Turin

The past number of months has seen a lot of work by Intel Linux kernel engineers on cache-aware scheduling / load balancing for helping modern CPUs that have multiple caches. With cache aware scheduling, tasks that will likely share resources could be aggregated into the same cache domain to enjoy better cache locality.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/cache-aware-scheduling-amd-turin

DeepSeek and Qwen AI Models Now Available as Ubuntu Snaps
Canonical is making it easier for developers to deploy AI models on Ubuntu, with the release of new ‘optimised inference snaps’ for both Intel and ARM Ampere device.

—> https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/deepseek-qwen-ubuntu-snaps

📰 TerraMaster’s new 2 and 4-bay NAS systems have Intel N150 and 5 Gigabit LAN

The TerraMaster F2-425 Plus and TerraMaster F4-425 Plus are network-attached storage devices that combine a quad-core Intel N150 Twin Lake processor with a healthy set of I/O and connectivity features including dual 5 GbE LAN ports and four USB 3.2 ports. The F2-425 Plus is a 2-bay NAS that ships with 8GB of DDR5 memory. It has a list .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/terramasters-new-2-and-4-bay-nas-systems-have-intel-n150-and-5-gigabit-lan/

Fsearch Is An Amazing File Searcher For Linux
—> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x68o5o1l1Ms

📰 I switched from Photoshop to GIMP, but this free tool is better than both of them

GIMP was promising, until I started using this tool.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/switched-from-photoshop-to-gimp-but-this-free-tool-beats-both/