Increasingly complex RISC-V cores aren't magically immune to the speculative execution / side-channel vulnerabilities that have rattled the x86_64 and ARM64 landscape for years. Following recent work on Spectre V1 handling for RISC-V in the Linux kernel, merged this weekend for Linux 6.19-rc5 is another RISC-V attack vector safeguard...

Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” is now available for download based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, introducing Cinnamon 6.6 desktop with a redesigned app menu, new system tools, and more.

Parrot Linux plans versions 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 throughout 2026, shifting its security research toward AI systems and real-world attack surfaces.

The Linux kernel development cycle continues with the release of Linux 6.19-rc4, the fourth release candidate in the lead-up to the final 6.19 stable kernel. As with previous RC builds, this release is aimed squarely at developers, testers, and early adopters who help identify bugs and regressions before the kernel is finalized.

Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” is here, and the upgrade path from Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” is now open for those who want to upgrade their installations to the latest release of this popular GNU/Linux distribution.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Linux Mint 22.3, Debian 13.3, Nitrux 5.1, Budgie 10.10, Debian faces Data Protection gap, Orion Browser takes first step toward Linux availability, and more.

In addition to Linus Torvalds' recent comments around AI tooling documentation, it turns out in fact that Linus Torvalds has been using vibe coding himself. Over the holidays Linus Torvalds has been working on a new open-source project called AudioNoise that was started with the help of AI vibe coding...

Delayed a bit due to the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, but Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” is now available for download as the Linux Mint team has just started publishing the final ISO images on the official mirrors.

RAKwireless has released the WisMesh RAK3312 Starter Kit, a modular LoRa mesh communication kit based on the company’s WisBlock ecosystem. The kit is intended for building private, off-grid communication networks using the open-source Meshtastic firmware, without requiring manual firmware flashing or custom hardware assembly. The kit uses the RAK3312 WisBlock Core, which combines an Espressif […]

Linus Torvalds has published AudioNoise, a personal GitHub project focused on experimenting with digital audio effects and signal processing.

Ahead of the imminent Linux 6.19-rc5 release, the char/misc pull request was merged earlier today with a notable fix to the Rust Binder driver as well as adding the Intel Nova Lake Point S device ID to the MEI driver...

Want to give your terminal a personal touch? This tutorial shows you how to replace the default Fastfetch logo with a PNG image. Quick, safe, and perfect for any Linux setup!

Pangolin 1.13, an open-source, zero-trust VPN, introduces Private Resources, user devices, and a new WireGuard-based networking model.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS launches with COSMIC 1.0, Kali Linux 2025.4, Manjaro 25.1 Preview, Cinnamon 6.6, Plasma 6.5.4, Firefox 146, GNOME to reject AI-generated Shell extensions, and more.

Diptyx launches on Crowd Supply as an open-source, repairable, dual-screen e-reader with e-ink displays, physical buttons, and weeks of battery life.

Rust Coreutils 0.5 is now available as the latest milestone for this Rust-based alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.5 continues moving closer to "full GNU compatibility" with nearly a 90% pass rate on the GNU test suite...

Several times schema proposed in https://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/358937/index.html has been run with no issues on bare metal . Re-sync provided by function u() embedded in /.bashrc was tested successfully on bare metal multiple times

The Linux 6.19-rc1 kernel is out to cap off the Linux 6.19 merge window. The kernel release is coming the better part of a day earlier due to Linus Torvalds being in Japan for this past week's Linux Plumbers Conference and Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit...

FORECR has introduced the DSBOX-THRMAX, an industrial box PC based on NVIDIA’s Jetson Thor (T5000) module, targeting robotics, autonomous machines, and edge deployments that require high compute density, real-time processing, and multi-sensor support. The platform is based on the NVIDIA Jetson T5000 module, which is specified to deliver up to 2070 TFLOPS of AI performance […]

The past few years Oracle has been working on bpftune as a solution for BPF-based, automatic tuning of Linux systems. Bpftune has been available via Oracle Linux and GitHub while finally their open-source GitHub code has seen the first new tagged release in a while...