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While the Mold linker has been very impressive for its speed the past few years compared to the linkers out of the LLVM and GNU toolchain projects, there is a new high speed linker on the scene and it's written in Rust: meet Wild...

Wild: A Very Fast Linker Written In Rust, Aims To Outperform Mold Linker  Phoronix

Fedora 43 Release Date and New Features  It's FOSS News

The Intel Media Driver 2025Q3 release is available today as the quarterly update to this open-source Video Acceleration API (VA-API) driver used by Intel hardware under Linux for video encode/decode...

Intel Media Driver 2025Q3 Prepares For Panther Lake  Phoronix

Yesterday at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoCs for upcoming laptops. In addition Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile platform too. With those announcements out there, the Qualcomm open-source engineers have been busy in rolling out their latest patches for beginning to enable these new platforms with the Linux kernel...

Qualcomm Begins Posting Linux Patches For Snapdragon X2 Elite, 8 Elite Gen 5 SoCs  Phoronix

Overnight Intel released IGSC 1.0 as their library for handling graphics system firmware updates for rolling out firmware updates to Intel discrete graphics card devices...

AMD Enables PyTorch on Radeon RX 7000/9000 GPUs with Windows and Linux Preview  TechPowerUp

New LockBit 5.0 Targets Windows, Linux, ESXi  www.trendmicro.com

Linux Kernel ksmbd Vulnerability Permits Remote Attackers to Execute Arbitrary Code  Cyber Press

Kernel 6.15.4 Performance Tuned, Networking Polished, Stability Reinforced  Linux Journal

Last year Raspberry Pi launched the Raspberry Pi 500 for taking their Raspberry Pi keyboard computer into the Raspberry Pi 5 world. Today they are announcing the Raspberry Pi 500+ as an upgraded version of the device now with a mechanical keyboard, LED lighting, 16GB of RAM, and NVMe SSD storage.

Linux Kernel ksmbd Flaw Lets Remote Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code  gbhackers.com

Linux Kernel ksmbd Vulnerability Allows Remote Attackers to Execute Arbitrary Code  Cyber Security News

FOSS Weekly #25.39: Kill Switch Phones, LMDE 7, Zorin OS 18 Beta, Polybar, Apt History and More Linux Stuff  It's FOSS

New Linux Distro For Edge AI  Open Source For You

SUSE in partnership with NVIDIA today announced making the NVIDIA CUDA TOolkit officially available on all SUSE platforms...

This series takes a look at the people and planning that went into building and releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. From the earliest conceptual stages to the launch at Red Hat Summit 2025, we’ll hear firsthand accounts of how RHEL 10 came into being.Part 1In our first post looking behind the scenes of how Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10 came to be. We heard about the early stages that started right after Summit 2022 and the release of RHEL 9. This included assembling the team, setting expectations, and working with upstream communities to gather ideas. In part 2, the team behind RHEL

Android Needs to Remember Its Roots Before It Can Become a PC  Gizmodo