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The XFS file-system updates have been merged for the Linux 6.18 merge window...

Fedora's Balancing Act: New Guidelines on Vibe Coding Contributions  It's FOSS News

Researchers Publish Technical Analysis of Linux Sudo Privilege Escalation  gbhackers.com

CISA Issues Alert on Active Exploitation of Linux and Unix Sudo Flaw  gbhackers.com

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical security flaw impacting the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence o  LinkedIn

The Linux kernel just got some important upgrades - here's what's new in 6.17  ZDNET

Antivirus for Linux: ensure comprehensive protection for your data  Kaspersky

CISA urges to patch critical sudo flaw: systems getting hacked  Cybernews

Marvelous Designer finally sews itself into Linux  Digital Production

Google Boosts Android Linux Terminal with Expanded File Access in QPR2 Beta  WebProNews

Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the Cyber Resilience Act for open source developers  theregister.com

Linux Foundation Welcomes Newton: The Next Open Physics Engine for Robotics  Linux Journal

So far on this last day of Q3'2025 we are at just over 800 original Linux news articles for the quarter on Linux hardware and open-source software. Here is a look back at what proved to be most popular for the quarter...

Linux 6.18 Continues Refining IEEE-1394 Firewire Support In 2025  Phoronix

While IEEE-1394 Firewire hardware in the wild is increasingly rare, modern Linux IEEE-1394 subsystem maintainer Takashi Sakamoto has committed to maintaining Firewire support until 2029. With the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel there are more incremental improvements to this code...

CISA Sounds Alarm on Critical Sudo Flaw Actively Exploited in Linux and Unix Systems  The Hacker News

The post How to Control Kernel Boot-Time Parameters in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Linux booting is a complex process compared to other operating systems. The Linux Kernel accepts many parameters during boot, passed

The post How to Control Kernel Boot-Time Parameters in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Intel, AMD & Arm All Have Notable EDAC Driver Additions For Linux 6.18  Phoronix

The Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" subsystem continues seeing a lot of new hardware support and code churn across AMD, Intel, and Arm hardware platforms for the Linux kernel. With Linux 6.18 there are several notable additions...

With Linux 6.17 was the decision by Linus Torvalds to mark Bcachefs as "externally maintained" and not accept any new Bcachefs code into the mainline kernel but keeping the existing code within the tree. That was useful for those relying on Bcachefs to still boot a mainline kernel at least. Now for Linux 6.18, the Bcachefs code was removed from the mainline kernel...