#linux
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Nova Driver Keeps Advancing: A Rust-Based NVIDIA Kernel Driver Aiming for Official Use
At the LPC2026 conference in Prague, engineers from NVIDIA and Red Hat shared the progress on Nova — an open-source Linux kernel driver for NVIDIA GPUs written in Rust.
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Steam Beta Now Runs Non-Steam Windows Binaries Through Proton by Default
Valve has shipped a new Steam client beta in which non-Steam Windows applications now default to running through Proton.
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Microsoft Ships First Release of Its LiteBox Sandboxing Library OS
Microsoft has tagged the first release of LiteBox, an open-source, Rust-based library operating system built for sandboxing applications.
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Raspberry Pi Desktop returns for PC and Mac — now on Debian Trixie
After a long pause, Raspberry Pi has refreshed its desktop environment for ordinary computers: the new build runs on 64-bit Debian Trixie and ships with the Raspberry Pi Connect client.
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Another Dozen Vulnerabilities Turn Up in X.Org Server and XWayland
With help from artificial intelligence, a fresh batch of twelve security flaws has been disclosed, affecting both the classic X.Org Server and XWayland.
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Linux Backdoors Pose as Email Security Tools to Hide in Korean and Taiwanese Networks
Rapid7 has detailed a family of Linux implants that disguise their traffic as email services and name their processes after SpamSniper and ShareTech, two email-security products popular across the region.
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TrueNAS 27 RC.1: Linux 6.18 LTS Kernel and OpenZFS 2.4
iXsystems has released the first release candidate of TrueNAS 27, the next major version of its Linux-based storage OS. The stable release is expected in December.
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Linux 7.4 Brings AMD Zen 6 BTB Context Isolation
The Linux 7.4 kernel is picking up support for a new AMD Zen 6 security feature — Branch Target Buffer Context Isolation (BTB CTX Isolation).
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Sashiko: how a language model helps review Linux kernel patches
At Kernel Recipes 2026, Roman Gushchin described Sashiko, a system that automatically generates reviews of kernel patches using a large language model.
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Mold 3.0 Linker Released After C++-to-Rust Rewrite
The high-speed Mold linker has reached version 3.0 — the first release rewritten entirely from C++ to Rust. The developers aim to make Mold the default linker on Linux systems.
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NVIDIA Measures X.Org vs. Wayland Latency: No Clear Winner
At XDC 2026 in Toronto, an NVIDIA engineer presented objective measurements of input latency in X.Org and Wayland. The difference turned out to be minimal.
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openSUSE Adopts ZUPT for Post-Quantum Backups
openSUSE developers have integrated ZUPT into the distribution — a single utility that combines backup creation, compression, integrity verification, and encryption built to withstand future quantum threats.
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Arm Brings TLBID to Linux to Boost High-Core-Count CPUs
Arm has posted an initial set of Linux kernel patches for TLBI Domains, a feature meant to cut overhead on server CPUs packed with cores.
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How a Valve Engineer Breathed New Life Into Old AMD GPUs on Linux
Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team has improved support for AMD's decade-old GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs in the AMDGPU driver. He recounted the work at the XDC2026 conference in Toronto.
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System76 bans AI-generated code across much of the Pop!_OS codebase
The developers of Pop!_OS at System76 have barred AI-generated code from many of the repositories tied to their COSMIC desktop environment.
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Google Hands gVisor Over to the CNCF
The container sandboxing runtime its own authors jokingly call "the second most mature Linux after Linux" is moving under the governance of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
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Qubes OS 4.3.2 bundles up the accumulated security fixes
The Qubes team has released 4.3.2, a patch build that consolidates every security update and bug fix since the last stable release. The default Fedora template moves to version 44 and the kernel-latest package to Linux 7.2.
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Debian ships a record-long list of Linux kernel fixes
Advisory DSA-6528-1 patches hundreds of kernel vulnerabilities that could lead to privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. In Debian stable they are fixed in version 6.12.111-1.
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Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" Beta Is Out
The Ubuntu Release team has published the beta of Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed "Stonking Stingray," covering the Desktop, Server, WSL and Cloud products.
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Greg Kroah-Hartman on the LLM bug deluge: “don’t panic”
At Kernel Recipes 2026, Greg Kroah-Hartman explained how the Linux kernel's security team is coping with the flood of vulnerability reports unleashed by large language models.
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