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The Ubuntu 25.10 transition to using some Rust system utilities continues proving quite rocky. Beyond some early performance issues with Rust Coreutils, breakage for some executables, and broken unattended upgrades due to a Rust Coreutils bug, it's also sudo-rs now causing Ubuntu developers some headaches. There are two moderate security issues affecting sudo-rs, the Rust version of sudo being used by Ubuntu 25.10...

Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab announced that it's bringing its flagship Kaspersky anti-virus software for home users over to Linux. Kaspersky software was previously available for Linux just for business/enterprise deployments...

Kaspersky Brings Its Anti-Virus Software To Linux For Home Users  Phoronix

Plasma Mobile 6.5 brings big updates to this platform for small Linux devices (like phones)  Liliputing

I replaced my Linux desktop with Fedora Silverblue, and it feels futuristic  XDA

Want to try Linux but prefer the Windows UI? This distro is for you  ZDNET

Sent out today and already merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel is the latest batch of 64-bit ARM "ARM64" architecture fixes. Most notable is a fix for addressing a "catastrophic performance issue" that was uncovered...

Debian Mandates Rust for APT, Reshaping Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros  The New Stack

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 and 9.7: An ‘evolving foundation’ for the stack  Computer Weekly

It's "Patch Tuesday" and Intel is out with new CPU microcode for Linux users in addition to making public 30 new security advisories that affect a range of Intel products...

Intel Releases New CPU Microcode, Publishes 30 New Security Advisories  Phoronix

This free Linux distro replaced 5 of my most-used networking tools  XDA

The Linux kernel's Human Interface Devices (HID) subsystem has an existing architectural limitation that there is just up to one battery per HID device. But with modern devices -- especially among various gaming peripherals -- there can be more than one battery when considering earbuds with a battery for each earbud, multi-device wireless receivers, etc. A proposal was raised today to address this limitation...

Linux Proposal Aims To Overcome Kernel Limitation Affecting Various Gaming Peripherals  Phoronix

You Can Play Classic D3D7 Games on Linux With This New Project, But Don’t Expect Perfection  It's FOSS

This Linux distro will help you finally say goodbye to Windows - here's how  ZDNET

I automated my Proxmox VM deployment with Cloud-Init  XDA

qBittorrent 5.1.3 Adds Native Wayland Support to the AppImage, Fixes More Bugs  9to5Linux

KDE Plasma 6.6 to get a great new feature - limit virtual desktops to the primary screen  GamingOnLinux

MangoHud performance overlay for Linux gets a first v0.8.2 release candidate  GamingOnLinux