📰 Linux Mint 23 is No More. A New Release Takes its Place

The new one, Linux Mint 27 "Adrien," is due Christmas with an Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17497316/linux-mint-27-announced

#linux #ubuntu

📰 Epic Games Launcher preview arrives - Native Linux support, Fortnite for Linux is coming and upgraded Easy Anti-Cheat

Epic Games have announced their brand new Epic Games Launcher refresh has a Preview available, along with Native Linux support and Fortnite is coming to Linux.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/epic-games-launcher-preview-arrives-native-linux-support-fortnite-for-linux-is-coming-and-upgraded-easy-anti-cheat/

#linux

📰 New motherboards, old RAM, plenty of life left in yesterday's PCs

DDR4 makes a comeback as component costs rise, while Linux offers an escape from forced upgrades.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/14/new-motherboards-old-ram-plenty-of-life-left-in-yesterdays-pcs/5303018

#linux

📰 Epic Games To Improve Easy Anti-Cheat On Linux With Anti-Cheat Systemd Service & eBPF

In addition to Epic Games announced a preview of their new Epic Games Launcher, including Linux support, they also announced plans to improve their Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) software on Linux. Along with this improved EAC they are also working on official Linux support for the popular Fortnite game...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Easy-Anti-Cheat-Better-Linux

#linux #systemd

📰 Fastfetch 2.70 System Information Tool Released with Linux and Android Improvements

Fastfetch 2.70 arrives with better Android support, improved Linux audio detection, fewer dependencies, and bug fixes across platforms.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/fastfetch-2-70-system-information-tool-released-with-linux-and-android-improvements/

#android #linux

📰 Framework Computers Triples Their Financial Support To CachyOS

In addition to providing Framework systems to the CachyOS Linux distribution for optimizing the support, Framework Computers has also been providing monthly donations to the project. CachyOS confirmed today that Framework Computers has now tripled their monthly donations to this independent Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-More-CachyOS

#arch #linux

📰 Huawei Proposes Enabling CPU Boost By Default For ACPI CPPC Linux Driver

For those using the generic ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) CPUFreq driver such as on a number of ARM64 Linux server platforms, if the CPUs support a "boost" mode it's disabled by default. But a patch from Huawei is now looking to enable CPU boost mode by default on Linux...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Huawei-Proposes-Boost-Default

#linux

📰 Libreboot 26.10 Open-Source BIOS/UEFI Firmware Released with Full UEFI Support

Libreboot 26.10 open-source BIOS/UEFI firmware is now available for download with full UEFI support, support for over 200 Intel/AMD Chromebooks, and other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/libreboot-26-10-open-source-bios-uefi-firmware-released-with-full-uefi-support

#amd #intel #opensource

📰 GNOME Mutter Improves Damage Tracking For Secondary GPU Copy Buffers

As an early improvement to Mutter to look forward to with GNOME 52 (Update: It will first appear in GNOME 51.2), the compositor is now tracking damage for secondary GPU copy buffers. This should improve the experience for those with multi-GPU setups such as some hybrid laptops...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mutter-2nd-GPU-Damage-Track

#gnome

📰 Strata 1.0 Released, a New Linux File Manager Built for Omarchy

Strata 1.0 is a new Rust-based Linux file manager designed for Omarchy, featuring GTK4, Miller columns, keyboard navigation, and secure previews.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/strata-1-0-released-a-new-linux-file-manager-built-for-omarchy/

#linux #rust

📰 Claude Code / AI Shows Potential For Reverse-Engineering Hardware For Linux Support

AI/LLMs like Claude Code are beginning to prove capable of helping to reverse engineer hardware for Linux support, especially when it comes to the tedious reverse engineering tasks...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-Reverse-Engineer-Linux-HW

#linux

📰 Noctalia 5.3 Wayland Shell Released with Redesigned App Launcher

Noctalia 5.3 introduces a redesigned app launcher, expanded bar and dock customization, lock screen improvements, and numerous bug fixes.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/noctalia-5-3-wayland-shell-released-with-redesigned-app-launcher/

#wayland

📰 NGINX Fixes 5 Flaws, Including Possible RCE and a TLS Bug That May Skip Client-Cert Checks

NGINX released versions 1.30.6 and 1.31.7 on October 14 to fix five vulnerabilities, one of them present in every release since May 2005.There are three memory bugs that F5, the company behind NGINX, says could crash a worker process or possibly let an attacker run code, and each requires a specific configuration to exploit.A fourth lets an attacker forge a TLS session that could.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/nginx-fixes-5-flaws-including-possible.html

#nginx

📰 3mdeb Releases Updated Dasharo/Coreboot Firmware For ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T

3mdeb firmware engineers have been quite busy this year working on porting Coreboot and openSIL to an AMD Ryzen AM5 MSI motherboard and similarly getting openSIL and Coreboot up and running on a Gigabyte server motherboard for AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs. They haven't forgotten about their past projects though and today released an updated version of their Dasharo downstream firmware for the ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T motherboard supporting 4th and 5th...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dasharo-0.9-ASRock-SPC741D8

#amd

📰 Next.js Ships Out-of-Band Patch for Two Critical RCE Flaws in Caching and SVG Processing

Next.js released an out-of-band security update on October 14 that fixes two critical flaws allowing unauthenticated remote code execution, along with a high-severity denial-of-service flaw.One code-execution flaw is in React Server Components, and the other in librsvg, the open-source library Next.js uses through the sharp package to handle SVG images.The fixes are in.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/nextjs-ships-out-of-band-patch-for-two.html

#opensource

📰 KDE hits 30, decides it's time to move out of the X11 era

Wayland-only Plasma 6.8 heads for Kubuntu 'Tenacious T-Rex' early next year.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/10/15/kde-hits-30-decides-its-time-to-move-out-of-the-x11-era/5303293

#kde #plasma #wayland

📰 Memtest86+ v9.00 Released With Support For ARM64 Memory Testing

The open-source Memtest86+ program that is popular for RAM testing has expanded beyond the x86/x86_64 (and LoongArch64) world to now support memory testing on ARM64/AArch64 hardware...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/memtest86-Plus-9.0

#opensource

📰 Forgejo 17.0 Dev Platform Released with Improved Actions, Git LFS Support

Forgejo 17.0 is out with improved CI/CD workflows, enhanced Git LFS management, donation buttons, and expanded repository migration support.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/forgejo-17-0-dev-platform-released-with-improved-actions-git-lfs-support/

#git

📰 My Raspberry Pi runs my self-hosted tools 24/7 for less than the cost of a coffee subscription

A tiny Raspberry Pi sits in my network, hosting documents, passwords, and media while sipping power all day.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/raspberry-pi-hosts-tools-24-7-for-less-than-a-coffee-plan/

#raspberry

📰 Fortnite On Linux Changes Everything For Linux Gaming

Tech commentator Brodie Robertson discusses a major milestone for Linux gaming: the official release of the Epic Games Launcher for Linux, alongside Epic's plans to bring Fortnite to Linux through a major overhaul of Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC Linux v2). In this video, he explores how these changes, system security requirements (like signed kernels and secure boot), and enterprise adoption could reshape the future of gaming on the platform.

🔗 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xi7m0CYk5s

#linux #gaming #fortnite #epicgames #opensource