#linux
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Linux Has Been Booted on the Atari Jaguar Game Console
A write-up describing a project to port Linux to the Atari Jaguar — an early-1990s console — has surfaced online. The publication drew considerable interest on Hacker News.
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OpenWrt One: an open-source router from the OpenWrt developers
The OpenWrt project has unveiled OpenWrt One — a router with an open hardware architecture. The news drew a notable response in the Hacker News community.
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OpenSSH 10.4 Released with Experimental Post-Quantum Signature Support
The new version of OpenSSH adds an experimental composite signature scheme based on ML-DSA 44 and Ed25519, and it also tightens the sandbox requirements for sshd on Linux.
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Canonical Aims to Make ARM64 a First-Class Ubuntu Architecture
Canonical has shared its plans to bring ARM64 support in Ubuntu up to the level of x86_64. The announcement came from Ravi Kant Sharma, engineering manager of the Ubuntu Foundations team.
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Phosh 0.56.0 Released — a Shell for Mobile Linux
The developers have unveiled a new version of Phosh, a graphical shell for mobile Linux devices. The release drew notable attention from the Hacker News community.
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A loader has appeared for running Linux on the PlayStation 5
The ps5-linux-loader project has been published on GitHub — a payload that uses hypervisor exploits to launch a custom loader on the PlayStation 5. This opens the way to installing Linux on the console.
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How to Call Native Linux Code from a Wine Process
The site arcanenibble.com has published an article on a technique for calling native Linux code directly from a process running under Wine.
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Information Published on the Bad Epoll Vulnerability (CVE-2026-46242)
A repository dedicated to a vulnerability named Bad Epoll, with the identifier CVE-2026-46242, has appeared in the public domain. Details remain extremely scarce for now.
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Stable Linux kernel updates close two critical vulnerabilities
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of seven stable Linux kernels at once, fixing two significant security vulnerabilities. Users are advised to update as soon as possible.
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KWin in KDE Plasma 6.8 to drop support for classic OpenGL
KDE developers are preparing to drop desktop OpenGL from the KWin compositor in Plasma 6.8. In parallel, a corrective release, Plasma 6.7.2, shipped this week.
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GNOME 51 Alpha Released
The GNOME developers have unveiled the alpha release of GNOME 51 — the first step toward the stable version, whose release is scheduled for September.
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UPower 1.91.3 fixes a bug that was accelerating laptop battery wear
UPower 1.91.3 has been released, fixing behavior that on some laptops could cause the service to unintentionally enable a “fast” charging mode that speeds up battery degradation.
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Four vulnerabilities found in GNU Guix, including remote privilege escalation
The GNU Guix project has reported three vulnerabilities in the guix substitute utility and one more affecting the guix pull and guix time-machine commands. Users are advised to update guix and guix-daemon immediately.
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Linux 7.2-rc2 hardens BPF against JIT-spraying attacks
Linux kernel developers have landed changes aimed at protecting the BPF subsystem from JIT spraying attacks. The fixes made it into the codebase ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc2 release.