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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

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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...

Linus Torvalds Removes The Bcachefs Code From The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

NVIDIA Has Been Supplying NDA'ed Docs To Red Hat For Helping NVK Driver  Phoronix

Following AMD announcing the end of the AMDVLK Vulkan driver development in favor of focusing on the Mesa RADV driver for Linux systems, Red Hat engineer David Airlie who was one of the co-lead developers of the RADV driver shared some interesting insight on NVK as the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver being developed within Mesa...

Galaxy Tab S11 Series Can Actually Run Linux Apps  SammyGuru

Linux 6.18 Updating The Baseline For Marking Intel CPU Microcode As Outdated  Phoronix

Introduced this year with the Linux 6.16 kernel was the new functionality for reporting to users when running on outdated Intel CPU microcode since it can pose security vulnerability issues and/or functionality problems. The Linux kernel support for propagating this "old_microcode" reporting via sysfs relies on a static list of microcode versions corresponding to different Intel CPU generations. For the Linux 6.18 kernel this list is being updated to reflect modern baselines for Intel recommendations on CPU microcode...

The Galaxy Tab S11's best new feature turns it into a powerful Linux computer  Android Authority

Is this Arch distro the 'ultimate' Linux? That depends on your GPU  ZDNET

Steam Autumn Sale 2025 is live now with tons of discounts  GamingOnLinux

Linux Foundation Announces Contribution of Newton by Disney Research, Google DeepMind and NVIDIA to Accelerate Open Robot Learning  The Malaysian Reserve

WineConf as the annual Wine developer conference, for this open-source software allowing Windows games and applications to run on Linux, took place this weekend in The Hague. Several interesting talks took place including the usual keynote by Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard...

How to setup OpenMW for modern Morrowind on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Android 16 QPR2 makes the Linux Terminal way more useful with expanded file access  Android Authority