Open-source News

Sent out on Sunday to the Linux kernel mailing list was a proposal for a new Direct rendering Manager (DRM) client for providing "splash screen" type functionality such as for embedded systems and more. But with Plymouth in user-space already being the dominant solution here and upstream developers tending to prefer such functionality in user-space instead, its future remains uncertain with some developers already questioning the value of this proposed solution...

The PanVK driver for modern Arm Mali Vulkan driver support within Mesa has tapped into Mesa's on-disk shader cache functionality as well as an in-memory cache to provide for a better experience with this open-source driver...

In addition to the patches sent out this weekend by Intel for Xe driver preparations for multi-device Shared Virtual Machine (multi-device SVM), another notable patch series making it out this weekend for the Intel Xe open-source kernel graphics driver is support for mapping DMA-BUFs via IOV interconnects...

Qilin Ransomware Combines Linux Payload With BYOVD Exploit in Hybrid Attack  The Hacker News

Ready to ditch Windows? I found a powerful mini PC that's optimized for Linux  ZDNET

Community Strikes Back: 12 Open Source Projects Born from Resistance  It's FOSS

MX Linux 25 Release Candidate Arrives with Various Improvements and Changes  9to5Linux

Linux 6.18-rc3 Released With Latest Fixes  Phoronix

The Linux 6.18-rc3 kernel is now available for testing in working toward the Linux 6.18 stable kernel release in just about one month. Linux 6.18 is expected to become this year's Long Term Support "LTS" kernel...

SysLinuxOS is an underrated distro for managing home labs  XDA

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 26th, 2025  9to5Linux

Forget Linux Mint — this is the Windows alternative you need  MakeUseOf

Ghostty Terminal: Never Understood the Hype Until I tried it  It's FOSS

Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille announced today that their "FTP Master" team is being disbanded and instead establishing the Debian Archive Operations Team "Archive Team" and DFSG, Licensing and New Packages Team "DFSG Team" in its place...

Want to use local accounts? Just switch to Linux  XDA

The talented FFmpeg developers continue to be quite innovative with their performance optimizations and other features for this widely-used, open-source multimedia library. The latest addition to FFmpeg this weekend is introducing Vulkan accelerated video decoding for Apple ProRes content...

Following the initial VFS changes last year for supporting block sizes larger than the kernel's page size along with the initial XFS file-system patches, Btrfs recently landed its support for block sizes greater than the page size. Now EXT4 is preparing to join the party too for allowing larger block sizes...

EXT4 Patches Enable Block Size Greater Than Page Size Support  Phoronix

As part of their Project Battlematrix effort, Intel has been working on enhancing their Linux graphics driver support for multi-device usage scenarios with wanting to support up to eight Intel Arc Pro graphics cards per system to help with AI LLMs and other larger use-cases. The latest code posted from Intel engineers is their initial implementation of multi-device Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support...

Intel Sends Out Initial Graphics Driver Patches For Multi-Device SVM  Phoronix