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Barring any issues from coming up in the near future, it looks like DM-PCACHE will be submitted for the Linux 6.18 cycle later in the year as a high throughput, low latency cache for DAX-capable persistent memory devices...

THE FINALS broken on Linux - again  GamingOnLinux

Some old and unmaintained drivers for Linux's Virtual Function I/O (VFIO) support are being marked as deprecated for eventual removal, including the generic VFIO platform driver...

Generic VFIO Platform Driver To Be Marked As Deprecated For Removal  Phoronix

One of the Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) patch series that has long been in the works is on a standardized Color Pipeline API. This is for improving advanced color management handling on Linux and aligns with what Valve and Igalia engineers have been doing with AMD-specific color management implementation on the Steam Deck and their Gamescope compositor. Sent out today by AMD was the 11th iteration of these Color Pipeline API patches...

AMD Posts 11th Iteration Of Color Pipeline API For Advanced Color Management On Linux  Phoronix

As of today the Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" is now under a feature freeze ahead of the stable release due out in October...

Cobalt Strike for everyone with CrossC2! We're paying attention to Linux servers without EDR.  Red Hot Cyber

Want to Improve Your Linux Skills? Try This  It's FOSS News

Embedded Device Security: Protecting Linux Systems with Modern Tools  CNX Software

The folks at iXsystems announced this afternoon that nightly builds of TrueNAS 25.10 are now available for testing of this Linux-based network attached storage (NAS) operating system. With TrueNAS 25.10 there are more performance improvements, improved installation process, initial support for 400GbE networking, and other enhancements to this ZFS-focused platform...

TrueNAS 25.10 Begins Testing With Faster Performance, 400GbE Networking  Phoronix

New FireWood Malware Attacking Linux Systems to Execute Commands and Exfiltrate Sensitive Data  CyberSecurityNews

Linux at risk – recent Intel layoffs threaten key projects, experts warn  MSN

The Hidden Truth: Why Linux Gaming Isn't Ready Yet  How-To Geek

The open-source Valkey key-value database that is forked from Redis is preparing for the big Valkey 9.0 feature release. Valkey 9.0-rc1 was issued today and comes with some exciting performance optimizations and other enhancements for this in-memory KV database...

How Linux's unforgiving nature can actually make you a better user  xda-developers.com

Threat Actors Leverage CrossC2 to Extend Cobalt Strike to Linux and macOS  GBHackers News

Threat Actors Leverage CrossC2 to Extend Cobalt Strike to Linux and macOS  GBHackers News

Canonical is pursuing a rather ambitious baseline of Ubuntu 25.10 RISC-V too require the RVA23 profile that will leave most existing RISC-V developer boards to using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or Ubuntu 25.04. They continue to pursue this RISC-V baseline and with more of the necessary alterations for it being prepped for landing into the Ubuntu 25.10 archive...