Open-source News

Commodore announces Linux-based flip phone with ‘no social media, no browser’ — the Callback 8020 will be available in five retro colorways starting at $499, runs 99% of Android apps  Tom's Hardware

Giada 1.5 Hardcore Loop Machine Adds New Tick-Based Audio Rendering Engine  9to5Linux

Atomic Arch Supply Chain Attack Hits 1,500 AUR Packages  SecurityWeek

The XFS file-system updates for the Linux 7.2 kernel aren't too notable with the exception of its zone allocator being promoted from behind its previously-experimental flag...

XFS Zone Allocator No Longer Experimental With Linux 7.2  Phoronix

These 6 Linux monitoring tools helped me uncover every problem on my network  How-To Geek

The power management changes merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel are aplenty as usual. New hardware support, dropping obsolete hardware support, and various bug fixes and other enhancements throughout this important area of the kernel...

Linux 7.2 Power Management Adds New Hardware Support While Dropping AMD Elan  Phoronix

Today's the day! KDE developers have just released Plasma 6.7 as the newest version of this leading open-source desktop environment...

After Linux 7.1 dropped support for old i486 CPUs and also began removing some old ISA and PCMCIA device drivers, there is some additional old hardware relics being cleared out of the in-development Linux 7.2 driver... The frame-buffer device driver for the old Hercules Monochrome ISA graphics card is now removed from the Linux kernel after decades at play...

Linux 7.2 Drops Driver For The 40+ Year Old Hercules Monochrome ISA Graphics Card  Phoronix

China-Linked SprySOCKS Backdoor Expands to Windows with Driver-Based Stealth  The Hacker News

KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

Windows version of SprySOCKS Linux malware used to attack govt orgs  BleepingComputer

Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released with New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED, and Major Code Cleanup  Linux Journal

V-Ray for Blender Update 3 now runs on Linux  CG Channel

Raven Resonance Previews Raven Prism, a Standalone Linux Computer in Eyewear, at AWE 2026  Auganix.org

Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.0 Promises Support for the Nothing Phone, Beta Out Now  9to5Linux

Someone moved three lines of code in Linux 7.2 and got a 5% storage speed boost  XDA

In addition to the surprising impact of /proc/filesystems read optimizations for Linux 7.2, another one of the VFS pull requests for this next kernel version is delivering some nice improvements for EXT4 and XFS around IOmap, the framework that maps file data offsets in memory to their physical locations on storage...