Open-source News

Want to try the original KDE desktop from 1996? I did, and it took me back - here's how  ZDNET

GoBruteforcer Botnet brute-forces Passwords for FTP, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin on Linux Servers  CybersecurityNews

TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 16 Gen10 Linux Laptop Unveiled with New OLED Display  9to5Linux

TUXEDO Launches InfinityBook Max 16 With OLED Display and RTX Graphics  Linuxiac

PoC Exploit Released for Android/Linux Kernel Vulnerability CVE-2025-38352  CybersecurityNews

IPFire Linux Firewall Distro Adds Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 6 Support, LLDP and CDPv2  9to5Linux

PoC Exploit Released for Android and Linux Kernel Vulnerability CVE-2025-38352  Cyber Press

GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger  theregister.com

Linux gains native NVIDIA GeForce NOW support  Windows Central

UNIX V4 is back: I booted into the 1973 OS and it made me weirdly happy  How-To Geek

Natalie Vock as one of the open-source developers on Valve's Linux graphics team has been spearheading another big ray-tracing performance improvement for the AMD Radeon Vulkan driver. RADV ray-tracing performance improved a lot in 2025 but it's looking like 2026 could be even more exciting...

A new feature in the queue for likely introduction with the next version of the Linux kernel (Linux 6.20~7.0) is compiler-based context and locking analysis. This kernel code depends on the yet-to-be-released LLVM Clang 22 compiler but can provide some powerful insights to kernel developers...

Compiler-Based Context & Locking Analysis On Deck For Linux 7.0 Paired With Clang 22+  Phoronix

For those with Acer laptops running Linux on GitHub there has been an out-of-tree driver providing an experimental "acer-wmi-battery" kernel module to allow controlling battery-related features. Now a cleaned-up version of that driver is working on getting into the mainline Linux kernel...

Acer Laptop Battery Control Driver Looks Toward The Upstream Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Back in October was an initial proposal for a DRM splash screen client for the Linux kernel that would be primarily useful for embedded systems for rendering a simple "splash screen" when updating the system firmware/software, early display activation at boot, during system recovery, or similar processes. Sent out today was a second revision to the DRM splash screen code...

Someone made a sticky notes app within the Linux terminal, and you can download it right now  XDA

ZAWYA-PRESSR: Red Hat expands collaboration with NVIDIA to pair enterprise open source with rack-scale AI  TradingView — Track All Markets

Linux Foundation Growth Statistics  commandlinux.com

Nitrux 5.1 Drops Virtual Machine Support and Shifts Fully to Bare Metal  Linuxiac