📰 Rocky Linux Unveils Testrarc for Transparent Release Testing

Rocky Linux unveils Testrarc, a new open-source platform for tracking release testing, validation results, and community contributions.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/rocky-linux-unveils-testrarc-for-transparent-release-testing/

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📰 Sony turned the PS2 into a Linux PC 24 years ago, and it was way ahead of its time

The PlayStation 2 holds an awful lot of memories for an entire generation — I was one of the millions of kids who played their first-ever 3D GTA game on the PS2. We may remember this console as one of the greatest ever, but Sony seemed to have considerably bigger ambitions for its little black box.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/sony-turned-the-ps2-into-a-linux-pc-in-2002-and-it-was-ahead-of-its-time/

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📰 NVIDIA CUDA 13.5 Released With Production Support For Vera Rubin

Along with today's release of the NVIDIA 620.70.06 Linux driver, NVIDIA also released CUDA 13.5 that brings general availability (GA) support for Vera Rubin...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-CUDA-13.5

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📰 OpenAI AI Pipeline Generates 948 Linux Root Escalation Exploits in 30-Hour Run

OpenAI on Wednesday detailed a pipeline that employed an upcoming cyber-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model to validate and patch 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux for $1.2 million in API costs."Our prototype identified and analyzed 2,308 candidate Linux kernel findings, dynamically reproduced 1,724 vulnerabilities, and produced 948 local privilege escalation (LPE).

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/11/openai-ai-pipeline-generates-948-linux.html

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📰 Shelly 3.2 Arch Linux Package Manager Adds Multi-Package Downgrades

Shelly 3.2 introduces multi-package downgrades, fixes AUR build issues, and improves Flatpak integration and AppImage updates.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/shelly-3-2-arch-linux-package-manager-adds-multi-package-downgrades/

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📰 Omarchy 4.5 Released With Apple Silicon Support, More Desktop Customizations

Omarchy 4.5 is out today as a big feature update to this Arch Linux based operating system...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Omarchy-4.5-Released

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📰 Linux'x New Core MM Tree Ready With Numerous Fixes For "Nasty Long-Standing Bugs"

New to the Linux 7.4 kernel cycle is the Core MM tree as the route for herding some of the core memory management Linux kernel patches to the mainline kernel rather than it all going through Andrew Morton's "MM" tree. As the second pull request from this new kernel tree, a number of fixes were sent out today to address "nasty long-standing bugs" within the kernel...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Core-MM-Nasty-Fixes

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📰 This Overlooked Linux mv Option Replaces Three Commands With One

Still swapping Linux files with three commands and a temporary filename? The mv command has an option that does it in one step. It works for directories too, with one detail you need to get right.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17515859/mv-exchange

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📰 Linux Kernel Patches Posted For Review In Enabling Apple AirDrop Support

A set of Linux kernel patches have been posted for review with a hope of reaching the mainline kernel to provide Apple AirDrop support for Macs equipped with the T2 chip...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Apple-AirDrop-Code

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📰 Linux's RAID6 Check Tool Sees 3x Performance Via Batching

For those that use Linux's raid6check command for checking/repairing an MD RAID6 software RAID array's device for errors, newly-merged code is showing up to a 3x performance improvement...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-3x-Faster-raid6check

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📰 Get root on a musl Linux system by slamming it with an overly long password

Decade-old vulnerability in OpenSSH is now fixed, so get a-patchin'.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/05/get-root-on-a-musl-linux-system-by-slamming-it-with-an-overly-long-password/5307910

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📰 A new GOG Galaxy is coming in 2027 with full Linux support

GOG just held their first GOG Showcase, and in it they confirmed that in 2027 we'll see GOG Galaxy fully supported on Linux.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/a-new-gog-galaxy-is-coming-in-2027-with-full-linux-support/

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📰 Your Linux desktop has two clipboards, and the reason goes back to a 1980s design decision Wayland chose to keep

Middle click to paste is a separate clipboard from what you may normally use.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-desktop-two-clipboards-reason-1980s-decision-wayland/

#linux #wayland

📰 OpenVPN 2.7.9 Fixes Two Security Vulnerabilities, Improves Linux Networking

OpenVPN 2.7.9 patches two Windows security flaws, enables Linux TUN/TAP backpressure support, and includes multiple bug fixes.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/openvpn-2-7-9-fixes-two-security-vulnerabilities-improves-linux-networking/

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📰 OpenSSH Issues Emergency Fix for Flaw Letting Long Passwords Bypass SSH Auth on Alpine Linux

Attackers can log in to accounts that have no password, such as SSH key-only accounts, on some Alpine Linux servers running the standard openssh-server package. They need network access to the server, an account name, and a password between 257 and 1,024 bytes long.OpenSSH, which rates the flaw critical, released version 10.6p2 today to block it. Alpine has published fixed packages for every.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/11/openssh-issues-emergency-fix-for-flaw.html

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📰 AMDGPU Driver Seeing HDMI 2.2 FRL Fixes For Linux 7.4

With Linux 7.4 the AMDGPU driver enables HDMI 2.1 FRL functionality by default for driving higher refresh rate and higher resolution displays. That default enabling comes as HDMI FreeSync/VRR and ALLM features are also in place for Linux 7.4. Now coming by way of fixes for Linux 7.4 is also improving the Fixed Rate Link support with the newer HDMI 2.2 specification...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-2.2-FRL-Fixes

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📰 Meet *sshole, the vulnerability that lets hackers SSH into Linux devices

Certain configurations of Alpine are affected. Other distros may be as well.

🔗 Source: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/11/vulnerability-allows-attackers-to-log-into-some-linux-devices-sans-password/

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